Max Watson

There I was, playing a friendly game of pool up north somewhere, when some bloke claiming he was Ronnie O'Sullivan @ronnieo147 turns up and challenges me to a match. 'Not bad, but you need to practice your doubles', is what I say to him 😍 @faizashaheen youtu.be/FzyNbco3xHg?si…

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“No one wants to take strike action, but of course as a trade union, we do stand ready to act industrially if we need to.” @DanielKebedeNEU @NEUnion

"There are other options available to the government other than cutting health and education". General Secretary of the National Education Union @DanielKebedeNEU tells @SophyRidgeSky why the government can afford to increase public sector pay. trib.al/ftpea6d

COME ON RONNIE! The people's champion...

@johnsteele83 @NEUnion OK, sure, but how does it feel to be labelled, 'probable spam'?

@NEUnion Anyone not on the left is a racist to your evil union.

Today marks 46 years since NUT member Blair Peach was killed by the police while protesting against the far right in Southall. Blair was our brother, a great trade unionist, teacher and anti-racist activist. Now, just as he did then, our union will continue to stand firm against racism and the far right.

@BooleanBlue @DerbyChrisW @Tracking_Power @PSCupdates If you can't read the original post I replied to, then I'm sorry I can't help you. You mentioned g-d, not me Ken. I'm a practicing atheist, so er, have a look at my posts and show me a single one that mentions an almighty being. Best of luck in all your endeavors elsewhere...

@salaam_max @DerbyChrisW @Tracking_Power @PSCupdates Annd... you still haven't specified what you mean by "tropes", and you haven't specified what Miller says in his post that you consider to be antisemitic. "You can't see them because you're not touched by god" or whatever nonsense you're peddling... is a non-answer from a fraud.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign shills for the Zionists. 🧵 The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has taken it upon itself to try and ban me - and other anti-Zionists -  from speaking at public meetings up and down the country. In aid of this absurd campaign of censorship it has taken to pressuring and threatening its local groups. I am aware of several attempts to do this. First was the Hastings and Rye group who - to their credit - did not buckle under the pressure to disinvite me and to avoid and then remove posting a copy of my speech on the local group website. Next there was Bristol where the local group (and the local Stop the War group) unilaterally withdrew from the Bristol Palestine Alliance in a row in part over whether I should be allowed to speak at a demo in Bristol.  Other elements of the dispute involved objecting to Huda Ammori (@HudaAmmori) from Palestine Action (@Pal_action ) and Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) as speakers. No doubt there have been other incidents, but the most recent was Chelmsford where the pressure was so bad that the group unilaterally decided to resign from PSC.  The PSC in London attempted to enforce the no platform position by circulating a briefing they had compiled on things I had said.  This was then developed and circulated to all branches and was discussed at a national branch meeting a couple of weeks ago, taking up most of the time allocated for the meeting, by all accounts. The document was four pages long and the purpose of this piece is to respond to the claims made in it. More in next post...

National Demonstration &#8211; Nakba 77 < Palestine Solidarity Campaign palestinecampaign.org/events/nationa…

@BooleanBlue @DerbyChrisW @Tracking_Power @PSCupdates See above, 👆 the antisemitism disguised as ‘anti-Zionism’ is fairly transparent actually, and now I’ve read Mr Miller’s defence / doubling down, I can seen it clearly. Sorry Ken, that you can’t. Perhaps try reading the thread again? Yours faithfully, This Person Max

@DerbyChrisW @salaam_max @Tracking_Power @PSCupdates I think you'll be waiting some time for this person Max to actually specify what he means by "tropes", Chris. Resorting to vague accusations of "tropes" is, after all, the last refuge of any intellectual scoundrel on this issue particularly.

@DerbyChrisW @Tracking_Power @PSCupdates They’re in his post. And if you can’t recognise them, that’s on you not me, ‘comrade’

@salaam_max @Tracking_Power @PSCupdates Racist tropes? Can you identify them? I think you may have misread or misunderstood what he said.

Our indicative ballot on Pay/Funding is closed 93.7% REJECT the Govts 2.8% pay recomendation with 83.4% willing to take strike action A huge well done to our reps and members The message to government is clear: To save our schools & address the R&R crisis - fund fair pay!

Please read the following attempts to justify racist tropes in the pro-Palestine movement by 'not an antisemite'. If it makes your blood boil too, patiently explain why it's counter-productive for the Palestinian pple to have white folk support them by using racist tropes. Ta

@Tracking_Power Yes. You clearly did cross a line. I'm not reading any further; this post standing by your racism by attempting to change Jews to Zionists is an insult to my Jewish anti-fascist ancestry, and I won't allow such a gross rewriting of history on my feed without it being challenged.

1. Did I 'cross a line' in saying that in general Jews are not discriminated against? The following article is part one of a series of articles by David Miller entitled: Are the Jews discriminated against? Wherein Miller tackles the issue of whether or not there is truth to claim of institutional anti-semitism in Britain, drawing from his detailed analysis. english.almayadeen.net/articles/opini…

@Tracking_Power Thanks for clarifying the 2 positions on this. I'm with the @PSCupdates here. I've been a paid up member for over 20yrs and don't want any of my subs to be supporting someone who uses racist tropes like these, and is also an antisemitism-denier. It's a slippery slope from there.

The PSC makes four explicit points in its briefing. Which I will deal with in turn. The first point: 'In August 2023, Miller wrote that Jews are “over-represented” with the “power to make economic, political and cultural decisions,” implying a collective Jewish control over “all areas of British public life.” This line of thinking invites the question, what should be the policy response to ‘solve’ such “over-representation”?' The answer to the question posed here is that anti-racists want to abolish inequality - to dismantle racism. Surely any anti-racist group wants to do the same unless they want Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians always to be second class citizens? Do I imply a ‘collective Jewish control’?  No, I say that Zionist power and influence is obviously enhanced by the fact that Jews are, on average, relatively privileged in society.  It’s notable that the briefing cites a few words from one or two tweets on this topic.  Some months ago I wrote a five part series of articles debunking the various arguments made against my discussion of factual data about the social location of the Jews and how this might relate to the power of Zionism. Not a single line from any of those articles is cited in the PSC briefing.   For the record, below is a summary of each article and a link to the original.

Over 75 years now...

I watched @johnpilger's Palestine is still the Issue in '02, went there to bear witness myself, became a journalist, went back to work for a year, & never looked back. @AsaWinstanley fills John's boots admirably - subscribe 2 Palestine is Still the Issue asawinstanley.substack.com/?utm_campaign=…

How to write a winning press release, and why bother? @NEUnion's conf Activist Zone, Tues lunch. See you there? Am also keen to see results of news releases you're proud of in comments. Eg here's one I was pleased with, from my UNISON days in 2015: bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Our strikers are still standing strong on the picket line! We believe that no one should have to deal with a toxic working environment and we'll say that loud and clear till we get out message across. theboltonnews.co.uk/news/25056863.… @NEUNW_Region @strike_map @NEUnion