Luke Tebbs

Zionist lies are pretty obvious if you know where to look. They follow much the same strategy used by Holocaust deniers. Whatever the despicable atrocity they're accused of, they say it never happened, but also say it was justified if it did.

@LondonLabour Keir Starmer said Israel had a right to cut off food and electricity to a civilian population. What's worse? a) retweeting someone questioning if curb-stomping is a legitimate policing practice; or b) the PM endorsing and encouraging crimes against humanity?

His apologies only last as long as it takes to say them.

@LondonLabour @ZackPolanski Labour thinks its job is to police Jewishness on behalf of the Israeli state. jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/statement/how-…

.@ZackPolanski says antisemitic candidates aren’t fit for office on camera, then lets them campaign anyway.

Phillips' interview with @ZackPolanski is problematic on its own terms but absolutely 🤯 if you know the full, ugly story of @TrevorPTweets and the Labour Party. Buckle up, this is a long and depressing story. Phillips was suspended and put under investigation for alleged Islamophobia by the Labour Party. His suspension was lifted out of the blue - a week before he got his Sunday Politics gig where he would be interviewing Labour pols. Later disclosures show that @ABarrosCurtis played a central role in revisiting the investigation under pressure from unnamed "stakeholders." The story of his suspension being lifted soon leaks to the Guardian. The Labour Party goes mad trying to find the leaker. They end up blaming and suspending two BAME members of staff, neither of whom the Party, in the end, can prove leaked the story. One of the people suspended is the only Muslim person in the Labour Party's disciplinary unit. It is effectively the end of their Labour Party careers. Now the kicker: the Guardian had been leaked the story during the Batley & Spen by-election, which, if Starmer loses, is predicted to led to a leadership challenge. Starmer is under threat in Batley because large numbers of Muslim voters are abandoning the Labour Party. Labour ends up winning by tiny margin, saving Starmer's leadership. But the Guardian holds the story for three weeks. The Guardian only publishes the story two days AFTER the by-election. Would the result have been different if this story was published during a by-election where Islamophobia was a key concern? I don't know. I am absolutely certain that voters in Batley & Spen should have known about this at the time. Now five years later: Alex Barros-Curtis is an MP after a ham-fisted "selection" during 2024 General Election. Trevor Phillips is batting away Polanski talking about his own perspective as a Jewish person. And Starmer and his Party respond to a horrific antisemitic attack by claiming its catalysed by marches against Israeli war crimes, decaying language even as they continue to supply weapons and F-35 parts to Israel even as its killed 800 Gazans since the "ceasefire" and annexing large parts of Lebanon. This whole political and media class needs to get in the bin.

1. Antisemitism is real and revolting 2. To march against UK government support of genocide is to march *against* hate 3. There is nothing Jewish about Netanyahu's crimes 4. We stand against hate in all its forms. Including antisemitic cartoons of @ZackPolanski in The Times

The level of complicity of the @BBC in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon is shocking. I am listening to their Jerusalem correspondent report that the ‘IDF are striking Hezbollah targets’ while I’m on the ground in the middle of it watching men, women and children being killed on a daily basis. My colleagues are being executed. Paramedics are being systematically murdered. All of this is happening in plain sight and the BBC correspondent here in Lebanon knows it. May you all be put on trial for your deadly propaganda when the time comes. Shame on all of you, especially those on the ground who are too cowardly to speak out.

I can imagine the next round of TV interviews. Philips: Are you still beating your wife? Polanski: I'm gay. Philips: So is that a yes then? Polanski: No, I don't have a wife. Philips: How can you claim to be fit to be PM when you openly admit you're a misogynist?

@dailybritainonx @ZackPolanski @TrevorPTweets It sounds like what @TrevorPTweets is saying is that there is in fact no objective definition of a hate crime, only for someone, not necessarily even the victim, to consider something as such?! Did I understand that correctly?

"Why is my Jewish identity being erased from this conversation?" asked @ZackPolanski "No.. don't try that one on me!" responded @TrevorPTweets

@FarrahWright666 @Hussssayn @ExposedGreens When is it you think they stopped killing innocent people?

@luketebbs @Hussssayn @ExposedGreens How many years ago was that? 1920’s?

🚨WOW: Meet Philip Notley, the Green Party candidate for St Nicholas in Stevenage. Two Jews were stabbed in London yesterday, and this morning Philip was on the doorstep telling voters that Israel shouldn’t exist. More “respect and tolerance” from the party that never stops lecturing everyone else about it. Will you suspended this vile disgusting man @ZackPolanski?

@JonathanWiltsh7 @Keir_Starmer 👆👏

YOU are tearing this country apart. A majority (62%) of the British public, oppose Israel’s "military action" in Gaza, yet you have smeared that opposition as antisemitism. That criminalises legitimate dissent, undermines the right to protest, and places Jewish communities in greater danger by conflating them with the actions of the Israeli government. More policing and protest bans will only escalate tensions. De-escalation starts with truth: opposing a government is not opposing a people. The British public have a right to protest. We are calling not just for adherence to international law, but for accountability, protection of civilian life, and meaningful justice for Palestinians. That's not antisemitic. It's pro-humanity.

We must build a stronger country if we are to build a fairer country. That is the mission of my government and the promise of change that we will deliver. observer.co.uk/news/opinion-a…

@Unionbuster @human_frozen_ @peterkyle Apparently Heidi Bachram was also involved in the case against Reginald Hunter, which the judge deemed vexatious and dishonest. Were you shocked when the Prime Minister said Israel had a right to cut off water and electricity to a civilian population, which is a war crime BTW?

@luketebbs @human_frozen_ @peterkyle They have lots more

We’re called the party of working people for a reason.

@Unionbuster @human_frozen_ @peterkyle Zionism is a genocidal political ideology of racial supremacy, not a protected category, and not Judaism. Nobody would say it's anti-Christian to call for the death of all neo-Nazis. Even so, the Greens withdrew their support for Ion, whereas Labour are fine with mass murder.

The greens are now an antisemitic party On Thursday, two Green candidates standing for Lambeth council in south London, one of the party’s targets next week, were arrested for allegedly stirring up racial hatred online with antisemitic posts. ​Another Green candidate to be accused of antisemitism was Tina Ion, who is standing for Newcastle city council. She said this week that posts, including a call for “every single Zionist” to be killed, were “isolated fragments” of her statements.

@Unionbuster @human_frozen_ @peterkyle So? "The paper's former editor CP Scott was an important influence in securing the Balfour Declaration by the British Government ... The Guardian's subsequent editor WP Crozier turned the paper into a tool of Zionist advocacy" From the horses mouth - theguardian.com/values/sociala…

Come on then, put up or shut up. Sue me. You are a coward and Hamas supporter. Even the Guardian sees an issue, which shows it must be large. On Thursday, two Green candidates standing for Lambeth council in south London, one of the party’s targets next week, were arrested for allegedly stirring up racial hatred online with antisemitic posts. ​Another Green candidate to be accused of antisemitism was Tina Ion, who is standing for Newcastle city council. She said this week that posts, including a call for “every single Zionist” to be killed, were “isolated fragments” of her statements. Then Polanski himself became embroiled in a public spat with the head of the Metropolitan police after sharing an online post that questioned the level of force used by officers who tackled the Golders Green suspect. On Friday afternoon he apologised, saying he has “a responsibility for lowering the temperature at a time of such tension”. As with some other parties on the left, notably Labour, this in part reflects a longstanding debate about the definition of Zionism, the political movement whose supporters see it as the necessary struggle for a Jewish homeland, and whose critics see it as a colonial project that has inevitably led to the dispossession of Palestinians. But following the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel, and Israel’s near-levelling of Gaza in response, arguments within the Greens about the subject have played out publicly and privately in branch meetings, Zoom calls and other gatherings – reflecting a wider social tension over how Jewish people in the UK have experienced the fallout from Israel’s assault. Elise Benjamin, former Oxford lord mayor and Green councillor View image in fullscreen Elise Benjamin, former Green councillor: ‘I’ve had experiences where someone has been telling me where my family are from.’ Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian Benjamin said: “It’s wonderful for me as an older person to see the Greens enjoying the electoral success that we have all worked towards for so long but I also feel very conflicted. “What we have is a small but noisy core of people who are very, very loud on just one issue and not interested in, for example, our policies on transport.” Thousands of new members have joined the party since Polanski became leader on an “eco populism” platform, one that particularly attracted many who had been in Labour under Jeremy Corbyn. Membership in England and Wales passed 200,000 in March after the Greens overturned a huge Labour majority in the Gorton and Denton byelection, and is now beyond 220,000. With that growth has come a repetition of the dynamic that vexed Corbyn’s Labour party. To critics in both eras, support for Palestinian rights has sometimes been thoughtlessly muddled with generalised attacks that seem to apply to Jews writ large – or, worse, have acted as a disguise for straightforwardly bigoted views. Against that argument is the view of many of those whose support has shifted from Corbyn to Polanski: that the problem of antisemitism in their movements has been deliberately exaggerated by their enemies for political gain. They may point, for example, to news coverage such as a story in the Daily Mail quoting members of Polanski’s extended family saying he is “the leader of the future Islamic party of Britain” and warning that the Greens are “the most antisemitic party in British history”. Polanski said the people quoted in the piece were “random ‘anon’ relatives”, and that those to whom he was closehad refused to talk to the newspaper. Polanski said in 2018 that he could not vote for Labour under Corbyn because of concerns about antisemitism as a Jewish voter. But in a recent interview he said he had been deceived by “the cynical and systemic deliberate obfuscation of a really serious issue like antisemitism,” adding: “I think we need to take antisemitism really seriously, and I don’t believe political weaponisation of it is the way to do it.” He has also complained that some allegations of antisemitism have themselves presumed that Jewish people are bound to support Israel. Last year he accused the Campaign Against Antisemitism of “conflating being Jewish with the Israeli government”. Long before this week, a series of cases had led to party suspensions. Mothin Ali, a Leeds councillor who last year became one of the party’s two deputy leaders, and who symbolises the desertion of Labour by many Muslim voters since the conflict in Gaza, has been caught up in the controversy. On the day of the 7 October attack, he had said in remarks on social media that Palestinians had the right to “fight back”. In a separate video, a rabbi who went into hiding after receiving online threats because he had served with the Israel Defense Forces was described by Ali as a “creep”. Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Greens View image in fullscreen Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Greens, speaking at last autumn’s party conference. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Ali later apologised “for the upset caused” by his remarks, adding: “I do not support violence on either side: violence leads to more violence and this is what I have tried to convey.” But he also criticised what he called Islamophobic attacks against him. Since then, Ali has been associated with a more defiant reaction against what some in the Greens describe as a witch-hunt, reportedly telling a private meeting of the Greens for Palestine group that they needed to seek “serious legal advice” and put the “party on notice straight away” over the handling of candidate suspensions. Among those claiming an unfair targeting of legitimate criticism of Israel is Lubna Speitan, a London-based British-Palestinian contemporary artist who was the co-author of a motion which she and others attempted to bring before the Greens’ spring conference and would have designated Zionism as racism. Though it was kicked into touch by what Speitan regarded as filibustering, the motion could yet return at the Greens’ autumn conference and looms in the background of the party’s near-continual and often tortuously decentralised process of developing policy. Polanksi has expressed his support for the motion. “This was one for the Palestinians, by the Palestinians, who are denied a voice in their own home,” said Speitan, who had originally signed up to join Corbyn’s Your Party after an exodus of leftwingers from Labour. “We had the input and support from Jewish, Christian and Muslim allies, and legal input, so that it became a united effort to call for liberation and equality.” Since the motion was proposed, Speitan says it has come under attack by what she describes as “a small but vocal group of Zionists in the party”, a reference to the Jewish Greens. Critics of the motion say its logical consequence would be the proscription of those in the party who described themselves as Zionist, which Speitan does not push back on. “No form of racism should be tolerated,” she said. “In the same way as I oppose antisemitism, I also oppose anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Muslim racism.” The Jewish Greens say they have about 170 members, adding that there are Jewish people in the Greens who are not in its group. They claim that repeated attempts to engage with the proposers of the motion have been rebuffed. This is rejected by Speitan, who cited full compliance with requirements to consult. Green MPs have been keeping their heads down on the issue, partly out of loyalty to a new leader but also because Polanski’s mandate from members was so clear when he defeated Adrian Ramsay and Ellie Chowns – two of the party’s four MPs – by 20,411 to 3,705 votes in a ballot of party members. MPs contacted by the Guardian about the debate over antisemitism declined to respond or cited busy schedules. Most senior Greens, even those who had initial doubts about Polanski, are known to be largely supportive of him, acknowledging the surge in attention, membership and poll numbers that his media-friendly approach has brought. Some feel the party’s willingness to describe Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide has opened a space for bad-faith attacks from opponents, and believe voters will be sceptical about criticisms that they see as eliding the two subjects. But there have been some glimpses of dissent, albeit cryptic. After a long-serving Norfolk Green councillor quit in March – launching an attack on Polanski’s focus on issues including Palestine, and claiming he was speaking as one of “a very significant number of older, deeper Greens who are looking on in horror” – Ramsay ventured on X that he was “deeply sorry”. “As a party we must adopt a strategy which unites long-term members & new supporters behind our core values,” he added.

@Unionbuster @human_frozen_ @peterkyle So you make an unevidenced unfalsifiable accusation, and I have to prove you wrong? Is that how you think the values of the Enlightenment, such as empiricism work? You don't really have any beliefs or principles, do you? That's why you support the atrocities Israel does.

@luketebbs @human_frozen_ @peterkyle Come on put up, or shut up. You are all talk! Here you go, the Greens are engaging in antisemitism. Prove me wrong?

@HipsterUnionRep I think if you tried to do what they do you'd get banged up quicker than you can say "Police impersonation". My guess is this is a byproduct of the unhealthy relationship between the security services and the Israeli military industrial complex.

Not against tactical formation of community militias btw. I think we're going to need them in the years ahead, to defend people against fascists and their political wing, Reform.

Must admit, hadn't properly clocked "shomrim" before the Golders Green attacks. Basically a community militia that looks like the police. When did this become a thing? Wow

Even if a majority of British Jews were in favour of genocide, it still wouldn't make it right. It's telling that so many Jews also oppose what is being done by Israel in their name, but the primary and immediate victims here are the Palestinians.

@CabreiroFilipe @cezthesocialist You've never had someone online accuse you of being a "left wing fascist"?

@cezthesocialist I am hoping tha even the most ignorant os people know that Nazis are on the far right spectrum of politics, not the left. But with so much misinformation by mainstream media, this is no longer taken for granted

If you don’t see what’s happening here, if you still think there is zero media bias against the Left, and no smear campaign going on against the Greens, you are completely deluded. The man arrested was a Reform voter.

@cezthesocialist Given the Independent is editorially hostile to the Greens this is clearly not an accidental omission. @IpsoNews should stop this kind of thing.

@LondonLabour Would it be worse than this "housing crisis", that you helped enable?

Thousands of people in Lambeth are stuck on the housing waiting list, waiting for a home. The Greens protested people moving into new council homes. Imagine what they’d do in power.

@Unionbuster @human_frozen_ @peterkyle So you claim to care about human rights while supporting Israel. And you also claim to care about freedom of speech, and the values of the Enlightenment, but really you just want to be able to scream slander then demand anyone shut up if they challenge you on your obvious BS.

@luketebbs @human_frozen_ @peterkyle Sue away then. Put up, or shut up!

@PeterStefanovi2 Classic moral panic instrumentalisation. Nothing to do, I'm sure, with a desperately unpopular PM trying to distract from his own complicity in war crimes, endless U-turns and broken promises, clampdown on civil liberties and sleaze that would make Johnson blush.

“Too many people I think either don’t see antisemitism or don’t want to see antisemitism.. this has to be our fight as well.. it’s a fight for all of us” Prime minister Keir Starmer