Gavin Simms

@ggreenwald Go ask Hezbollah

Does Lebanon have the right to exist?

@zarahsultana Did you even once talk about the suffering of Muslims caused by khamenei or Hamas or the Taliban or Assad or Saddam Hussein? It’s unreal how you run cover for some of the worst people on the planet.

*except Palestinian, Iranian and Lebanese Muslims whose suffering you’re directly complicit in

@rivkahbrown … to say anything about what’s antisemitic or antizionist.

@rivkahbrown What an embarrassment you are to your family. Straining to see a tenuous link (founded by an Israel, owned by a PE firm that also invests in Israeli weapons maybe). Utterly pathetic. Someone who cheered on October 7 *while it was happening* doesn’t have the moral standing …

Gails is not some Jewish family bakery. It's a national chain with a turnover of £278m, owned by a private equity firm that invests in Israeli weapons. Pointing that out is not antisemitic. In fact, to suggest it is, to read "Israeli" as "Jewish", is what's antisemitic.

@HadleyFreeman @RachelMoiselle @simonmontefiore He’s wrong as well as antisemitic. Palestinian activism is a big part of the reason Palestinians don’t have a state. Decades of wanting no Jewish state more than wanting any kind of Palestinian state.

@simonmontefiore Kristallnacht, but make it woke

@briebriejoy We’ve been through this before. It’s Hamas above all, and Iran, and Hizbollah, who believes thousands of Palestinians children in Gaza are acceptable collateral damage as they planned rape and torture and murder and hostage taking on October 7. But nowhere do you acknowledge this

For two years we’ve been told tens of thousands of Palestinian kids were acceptable collateral damage.

@ggreenwald @daveweigel You don’t get to attack a church or synagogue or mosque just because you’re mad at something happening in the world. Should be easy for you to say this rather than just one sided excusing a Muslim because his relatives (in hezbollah) were killed.

@ggreenwald @daveweigel Well you may want to conflate a sovereign nation responding to an attack with people here in the US attacking Jews or Muslims, but I don’t. Some random kids in a synagogue have nothing to do with Israel’s response to October 7.

The enraged reaction to this NYT article about the synagogue attack is just lunacy. Even for common crimes, news outlets include the perpetrator's likely motives (he was distraught over being fired; his wife left him; he got radicalized online, etc.). Nobody rational thinks that's designed to justify the crime: just to explain it. Yet when a terrorist act happens, some try to erect a taboo around any reporting on the political motives. Many if not most of the terror attacks on US soil have been carried out as explicit retaliation for US bombings, invasions, civilian killings, coups, other interference in that region. It's vital that public know that why such attacks (like the one in Austin, that left 3 Americans dead) happen. Including this explanation of motive obviously doesn't justify those attacks, nor is it intended to do so. What it does is let Americans understand that if we want to bring violence around the world, one expected consequence is that some will bring violence back to us (CIA calls it "blowback"). It's a serious cost to consider when determining the US role in the world and whether we should start new wars. And such reporting on these motives is also vital to prevent crude USG propaganda like "they hate us for our freedoms" or whatever.

@brhodes What about Iran’s forever war? Did you ever criticize their unrelenting anti Israel and anti American ventures? The wall of fire? The desire for nuclear weapons? The ballistic missiles?

US and Israel hawks: If Iran hits back we must escalate bc they're strong. If Iran doesn't hit back, we must finish the job bc they're weak. The only constant is more bombs, more killing, more money on their forever war.

@SangitaMyska Did you ever stand up for the women of Gaza living under the brutality of Hamas?

Unless you stood-up for the women of Gaza?

@briebriejoy Your hatred for Jews makes you deny the undeniable.

There was no mass rape on October 7th. This isn’t even controversial.

@BriannaWu I so sorry for your loss. Sending you love and comfort.

My biological mom is dead. Breast cancer. She was 59. I’m mourning someone I didn’t ever get a chance to know. Why did I wait so long to do this?

@zarahsultana Hateful horrific antisemite you are. You were silent when Hamas slaughtered a music festival of kids on October 7. You don’t care about kids. You just hate Jews. You certainly don’t care about kids having to live under the brutality of the ayatollahs or Hamas.

They love killing kids.

@SenSanders Mostly women and children? What is wrong with you? How many were Hamas fighters. Pathetic.

Israel & Saudi Arabia pushed the U.S. to attack Iran. Netanyahu killed 72,000 people in Gaza, mostly women & children. Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship that allows no opposition. These are the leaders who want to bring “freedom” to Iran? Does anyone really believe that?

@RichardBurgon You were not deeply alarmed when Iran was building a ring of fire, or on October 7. You hate the west. You aren’t progressive. You are pro tyranny wherever you find it.

I am deeply alarmed that British military bases will be used in Trump's bombing of Iran - these attacks violate international law. The UK government should be focused on de-escalation, diplomacy and a ceasefire - that's the best way of keeping people safe, not following Trump.

@DrJillStein Go fuck yourself you evil person

Myth of Israeli invulnerability going up in smoke. Another reason this genocidal project's days are numbered.

@jeremycorbyn Your anti west friends had invaded Kuwait (Saddam) and then 9/11 (Al Qaeda) so something had to be done. You only have one note. West bad. Anti imperialists good. Which leads you to side with the absolute worst people on the planet.

In 2003, we warned against the catastrophic consequences of US-led regime change in Iraq. We were ignored — and hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. Political leaders should learn the lessons of history, and stand up for international law, sovereignty and peace.

@MothinAli When did you ever call on Iran to cease its nuclear and ballistic programs? You’re not anti war. You’re anti west. Those are too different things. You were joyful on October 7. Did you insist Sinwar and Deif pursue diplomatic solutions? Of course not. What a fraud you are.

I'm proudly anti-war. And to be anti-war that means looking to explore all possible diplomatic solutions. The US and Israel took a unilateral decision in the midst of negotiations to kill the Iranian leader, and opted for war. This is deplorable.

@jeremycorbyn Was it? Why was Iran building a nuclear and ballistic missile program for decades and funding proxies like Hamas and Hizbollah and the Houthis? You’re a sad joke.

Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, a catastrophic war has been ignited by two rogue nuclear powers, Israel and the United States.