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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some of the smug both-sidesism on this platform honestly makes me miss the other place.

Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Zionism, as experienced by Palestinians, not to mention all the people around the world surveilled and murdered by tech provided by the Israeli State, is much closer to Taliban ideology than you seem to realise. And unlike jihad, it is not an old idea violently coopted.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

P.s. Holding people to account for their active participation in harmful institutions is what an abolitionist and BDS-compliant position demands. Maybe not everyone holds these positions, but if not then I don't really see how you can describe yourself as an anti-racist.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And finally, to be very clear, I think electoral politics is mainly a disappointment. I don't care whether this is a Green own-goal or not. What I do care about is trying to have a consistent pro-Palestine position, and the state of what passes for "the discourse" about Palestine and antisemitism.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And if the motion means that ppl who id as anti-racist are held accountable, then good, but I don't even think the motion does that. All this pearl clutching about whether Jews in the Green Party will be able to go to shul or not is a total mis-direction.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Attending synagogues where at best the 1948 Nakba is taken as a given (and it's normally a lot worse) OR standing by your principles and leaving. Imagine the furore there would be if Mothin Ali had a Taliban-supporting Imam. And if he did, then I'd expect him to answer questions about it.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not that this amendment was responding to anything in the actual motion, but this is what is being missed by nearly everyone. Most UK synagogues have real, material and financial relationships to the Israeli State. If you are pro-Palestine, then you need to decide what's more important...

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As far as I understand it the answer to this is no. Green Party motions come in a series of categories, one of which is disciplinary. The Anti-Zionism motion was not a disciplinary motion and therefore cannot be used in this way. Again, this is only as far as I understand it.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Um you picked the German example. And there are in fact German Jews. In Germany. Today.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reply-guy thinks the Nazis were right actually

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I must have forgotten my own family history. But that's not my question. You clearly want to lock Jews in a Holocaust-coloured picture frame. We don't get to have other histories, other choices, other lives. Thanks so much.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So you are saying that Jews are not also Germans, Mexicans, Americans, Dutch? Got it.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If we want to talk about Jewish self-determination, then we need to talk about the more than 50% of the global Jewish population that self determines to not live in the Israeli ethno-state.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 1948 there were 100s of 1000s of Jewish refugees who rejected the chance to settle in Historic Palestine. So Zionism is many things, but it is *not* straightforwardly Jewish self-determination.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To suggest that Zionism equates with Jewish self-determination is actually what might be considered antisemitic. It flattens diverse Jewish lived and historical experiences and suggests that Jews everywhere have some kind of dual loyalty.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Green Party successfully getting liberals more angry than ooh, I don't know, an actual genocide, far right oligarchs taking over the world's democracies, impending climate collapse...

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

99.9% of the people discoursing on here about the Greens have clearly never been in a synagogue.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At some point, as a person of conscience, you have to decide whether you can tolerate that or not. And if you can tolerate a financial and propagandistic relationship to genocide, then yes, I think that makes you worthy of being held to account.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The thing is, most zionist synagogues (i.e. most synagogues) are in a material relationship with a genocidal state. Sometimes they might b3 midly critical, but they all raise money for it, they normalise it via public events, platforming ex soldiers, etc.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of those rare discourses where Martin Buber is guaranteed to appear before Hitler.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My version of Godwin's Law: the longer a liberal Zionist spends obfuscating around the racism inherent to Zionism, the more likely it is they will say the words "Martin Buber".

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That bloke who wrote 'Jerusalem'? Zionist. If you disagree you're an antisemite.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I beg you to listen to people, Jews, but especially Palestinians, who can explain to you why Freedland's article is ahistorical and grossly inaccurate. The Jewish historical experience cannot be reduced to the Holocaust, and Jews have meant myriad things by 'Jerusalem' over the centuries.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The 'White supremacism is racism' motion will not advance the cause of racialised people one bit. There are powerful ways to confront white supremacism, but calling it racism is toxic gesture politics. Welcoming white supremacists into our movement won't make a difference to our overall aims."

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Like, if your big beef with a bar against Zionists is that it would make it impossible to be a synagogue member, because all synagogues are Zionist, then maybe you should be pissed at racist synagogues, rather than anti-racist Greens? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland

The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In latest news from the world of Jonathan Freedland, anti Zionist members of the Green Party are like the Spanish inquistors. Yep.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The @brismes.bsky.social 2026 annual lecture is coming soon! 12 November, 17:30-19:00 GMT (online) with the amazing and insightful @rafeefz.bsky.social Free to attend but registration is essential - book here: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annua...

brismes.ac.uk

2026 Annual Lecture

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tell me your university is about to go bust without etc.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tfw when Obama-era official grasps the boomerang theory of colonial violence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A fitting end to a night out on Kingsland Road last night. A reminder that all the right people are losing their shit over some milquetoast sanctioning of the genocidal settler colony.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the 1990s murdering 8000 people was also considered a genocide.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tldr: It's never about academic freedom, despite what the freezepeach brigade say.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I guess it's a necessary part of the white grievance economy :(

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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."

law.berkeley.edu

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Lots of people celebrating this, but Cofnas would have priced this in. It's the whole point. Get cancelled, move on, make a buck on the grift economy. Don't get me wrong, he should lose his job and whole lot else, but Cofnas won't be crying about this.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is a major issue that the right so far have been winning the debate on. Academic freedom ≠ being tolerated for making shit up. In academic terms, you're not being cancelled if a university doesn't give you a job or a journal doesn't publish you because you're pushing discredited nonsense.

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.

soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.

I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unit

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We have just witnessed an incredible A/B test showing how plagiarism allegations at Cambridge University play out depending on how racialized the subject of the allegations are and it says nothing good about our society or the state of "race relations". O'Reilly is still in post.

varsity.co.uk

Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists

More than twelve pages of an article published under O’Reilly's name had been lifted almost word for word from two essays by one of his students

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Watch them circle the wagons, again.

Lukas Degutis C @LukasDegutis
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Exposing lies and fraud should carry no guilt, no matter how anyone reacts to the truth, no less when they were happy to twist it. It's tragic and sad, but the media didn't hound him to this.
Believing that might feel better in the moment, for you, but isn't healthy.

Andrew Neil *
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RIP Jason Arday. I never met you, never knew you and what I read of your work I found unimpressive. And yet I feel a sadness and loss at your death. You never deserved for it to end this way. You were used and even abused by others for their own ends. I do not believe you were in any way a bad person. Indeed there are many reasons to believe you were a good person. You needed help. Yet when you needed help it never came. Despite the huge pile on, nobody seemed to be there for you. You were left to die on your own, which only adds to the sadness. RIP Jason Arday. You were failed by those who had a duty of care towards you.

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I'm not in the game of blaming other people for someone taking their own life. It's too easy and likely to be wrong. let's just be sad
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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

People who take money to write for the media platforms that hounded Jason Arday to death should stfu

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Nick Gould @profng.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The VC of the Uni of Greater Manchester has just been sacked for misuse of over £1m of university funds. Hardly a mention in the media. Not black so not newsworthy.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Do not let Katharine Viner get away with this one. Yes the Comment desk have been publishing anti racist columns but Viner's been green-lighting so-called investigative journalism into the man's childhood relationships. RIP Jason Arday.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Plus one (good) opinion piece by @afuahirsch.bsky.social and a letter

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today: three stories coming in above yesterday's eclipse

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At this rate the Jason Arday (not-much-of-a) story will stay up on the Guardian landing page longer than Liz Truss was Prime Minister. Tells you a lot about race in Britain, and how the Guardian is talking out of both sides of its mouth on this story.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The merry-go-round of columnists who have never seemingly heard of national socialism.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Before pointing out how Israel is a colonial project, Europeans should reflect on their own colonial projects" is not the own Zionists think it is, and yet they always fail to see it.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Senator Mark Warner has called what has happened in Myanmar, Sudan and Xinjiang genocides. But not Gaza. Watch the absolute word salad he delivers when @mehdirhasan.bsky.social confronts him with that basic hypocrisy. Liberalism in a nutshell. fb.watch/IzunJufVD1/

fb.watch

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