Edwin Notman

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah but only because the Arabs did A." But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

Just imagine the reaction from Western politicians if Iran or Lebanon did this. They would be bombing Tehran or Beirut faster than you can say "corrupt, amoral hypocrites".

Helen Whately shows the whole game when she wants Pro-Palestine marches banned for wanting to get of Israel. But is perfectly fine with Tommy Robinson marches where Elon Musk gave a speech saying the UK Government should be overthrown.

The 'centre ground' position amongst the political class is to condemn protests against the actions of the Israeli state (that the UK are complicit in) whilst equivocating on a far-right racist march led by Tommy Robinson held on the same day. Astonishing.

She's right!

Dinner and drinks tonight with two surgeon friends 😋 Both heard about the attack on two Jewish men in Golders Green, but neither had heard that the attacker Essa Suleiman stabbed a Muslim man two hours earlier in Southwark, London How can anyone support Starmer's Labour which has spoken non stop about the two Jewish victims but is completely silent over the Muslim victim? We need to provide safe environments for everyone to live in society, and ignoring the Muslim victim suggests neither Starmer nor Mahmood care as much for the Muslim community as they do about the Jewish community, when all communities must be safe

A country engaging in routine sexual violence against illegally detained hostages has no place in a civilised world. Why do I even have to say that? Why are so many Western politicians still supporting Israel, even against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Western people?

Trying to imagine a universe in which a pro-Israel guest invokes personal Jewish identity as important to the conversation and is met with "don't try that on me!" by Trevor Phillips, or indeed literally any other figure in British media or politics.

🇺🇸 Donald Trump did not include military aid for Ukraine in the U.S. budget for 2027. During the hearings, senators directly asked Pentagon officials whether they understood correctly that the 2027 budget request contains no funding for the USAI program (Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative). “Yes, that’s correct. There is no funding for USAI in this budget,” said Acting Comptroller of the U.S. Department of Defense, Jules Hurst. At the same time, the U.S. defense budget is proposed to increase to a record $1.5 trillion.

On Sky News, John Rees from Stop the War Coalition just completely dismantled the ridiculous claim that the pro-Palestine peace marches have anything whatsoever to do with the Golders Green attack.

See now why they committed genocide in Gaza? Why they replaced the govt in Damascus, and want to destroy Hezbollah? The money that Congress give Israel to act as their private mercenaries is peanuts compared to the $3 trillion prize Chevron just unlocked. The Levantine basin alone is worth half a trillion — more money than the top 5 energy giants made from the entire Ukraine war put together.

In 1290 all Jews were driven out of England. In 1306 they were expelled from France. In 1430 exiled from Germany, followed by Spain and Portugal. Boycotted in Italy, and time after time tossed out of every major European city. After the centuries of expulsions, in 1492, Muslims (The Ottoman Empire) opened their doors for the Jewish. in the late 17th and 18th centuries, as the Ottoman Empire became less stable, Jews were finally allowed back into England after 366 years of total banishment. After 1848, hundreds of thousands of Jews left Central Europe to escape rising nationalism and "pogroms" (anti-Jewish riots). After WWI, Britain took control of Palestine from the Ottomans. From 1917 to 1939, Muslims (Palestine) opened their doors for the Jewish as usual. In 2026, some Western politicians lecturing us (Muslims) on how to live peacefully with Jews! Read some history.

He knows he will be punished. He knows his livelihood could be taken away. He knows he’ll be harassed and hounded by the parasites, whose money, power, and control over society dwarfs entire nations. But he spoke truth to power anyway. He deserves the applause. And the world deserves and needs more people to do the same.

Here you go MAGA 👇

They want to re-write history!! DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES! DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES! DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES! DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TRUMP/EPSTEIN PEDOFILES!

“They can tolerate mild criticism of Zionism. But they can’t tolerate us saying that the Jewish State must be ended!” And let’s remember that Jewish supremacist ideas have a much longer history than the formal Zionist movement. The oldest continuously existing ‘charity’ in occupied Palestine, is Colel Chabad, a genocidal Zionist grouping created in 1788!

Before Pope Francis died in 2025, one of last wishes was for his popemobile to be converted into a mobile clinic for Palestinian kids in Gaza. One year after his death, Israel has still blocked the popemobile from reaching the Strip.

Don’t vote for anyone who says what is happening, in Gaza, is not a genocide…

Famous singer Dua Lipa: ​"I am willing to risk backlash for my support of the Palestinian cause. ​I don't care about being harassed, blacklisted, or having job opportunities taken away from me. ​Because this cause is bigger than me."