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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

I made pretty much the same point in a GE2024 hustings. Don't advocate destruction of Israel *as it now exists*, ffs. That's genocidal.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

The USA was created, in part, due to genocide. The UK was created, in part, due to genocide. We do not demand expulsions of all those born on those lands, though. But you do, for the one Jewish state.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

Agree. Everyone should have the right to reside where they live. Even more so if they are living where they were born. Not sure how that helps you solve the Israel/Palestine situation, and not sure why you equated 'English' with a religious identity.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

When your policy explains what happens to everyone else now living there (and their parents and grandparents, all born there) it might be coherent.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed. Step back a moment. Do a little bit of reading about what you're suggesting.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

People who get on a train with a big suitcase and behave like it's their service animal deserve a circle in hell.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

Spoken like a true Nazi. Seriously.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3h

In my view, it is far more useful and urgent to get people to recognise the profound injustice caused by Zionism, than to argue whether the original ideology had any redeeming or liberatory aspects. Does arguing about 19th century Jewish politics helps us to stop genocide? I don't think so. 4/

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3h

Saying that Zionism is racism is like saying Communism is totalitarianism. Both are 19th century ideologies that generated wide sympathy and were seen as progressive, and when put to practice to create and reshape states, created enormous injustice. 1/

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

How many generations should be blamed for the actions of a (Jewish) thief? Two, three, four?

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

Is there a particular reason you use the more-awkward-to-type style of "anti-Semitism" rather than "antisemitism"?

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

If you actually want to expel Jewish people from within Israel, you're advocating a new genocide.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

People don't choose where they are born. This is really basic stuff about Green Party principles, that ZIR has ridden roughshod over.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

What UK fash really looks like.

Restore MP Rupert Lowe and a pack of pink and white generally older supporters holding signs

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

That's not how any of this works.

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 3h

Not one person born THIS CENTURY voted for Brexit.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

Excluding many millions of people from a 'self-determination' of where they were born and have always lived is not self-determination.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 2h

Crappy AI (look at the place names in the west in particular) used to produce a stupid nationalist map. Welcome to 2026.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 7h

BlueSky being what it is, an actual professor of medieval studies has got involved

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 1h

Apparently that antisemitic caricature not eating any part of a pig is supposed to be John Healey. The claim is that depicting the *Chancellor* in this way isn't at all antisemitic, because Healey isn't Jewish.

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Matt Severn @mattsevern.bsky.social · 2h

They seem strangely incurious as to where all the Jews from the huge and ancient communities of Iraq and Iran went or why they had to flee

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 10h

re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4h

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 3h

To Jewish members of the Green Party: Assurances, from the motion proposers, that they had no intention for Jewish members to feel targeted for their beliefs or associations have been clear. And if anyone else does try to use it in this way, I will be there for you with my solidarity and support.

Statement reads: As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights.

We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation.

We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.

And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way.

We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 3h

Re. the Zionism is Racism motion passing Any legal challenge might look at the motion potentially making Jewish members going to Zionist synogogues - i.e. the majority - feel they have to choose between their place of worship and the Greens

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 4h

Anyway. I set out my stall this morning.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 3h

400 online attendees left immediately after that vote. Twice the majority by which it passed. Entryism at its finest.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 3h

And up they pop, straight away, unwittingly parroting Stalinist lines.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 3h

Requires a member to know another member who is (a) attending conference, and (b) has enough trust to use the proxy in the way specified. Quite a high barrier for the average member sat at home.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 3h

This all, probably, makes legal action inevitable and I think there's a good chance GPEW loses bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 3h

Dual loyalty, huh? Lots of dogs barking at that one.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 4h

This was the breaking point for me. This is a perfectly reasonable and empathetic amendment that respects family ties and Jewish community institutions. It in no way undermined the purpose of the emotion as sold. To vote against it is absolutely unhinged and, in my opinion, openly antisemitic.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 3h

Our most prominent members could have shown real leadership on this, much earlier on. (*Especially* Caroline, given that she's now just a rank-and-file member with no elected role internal or publicly.)

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 3h

It's also pseudi-intellectualism. Because they know *slightly* more about the history of Israel and Palestine since 1948, they argue over the average person. Despite being totally ignorant of the long history of antisemitism (and of the antisemitic origin of "Zionism is racism").

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 4h

‘I saw Goody Proctor dancing with the Zionist’. I overheard one man on the conference floor when amendment 3 was being debated ‘why can’t they go to non Zionist synagogues’? Why do you care? Get a fucking grip

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 4h

People on the left who’s primary focus in politics is to root out ‘Zionists’ (which often seems to include anyone who disagrees with their methods even if they’re not Zionist) as well as being often antisemitic are just completely toxic and draining.

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Owain Sutton @owainsutton.bsky.social · 4h

To leave or not to leave. I'll sleep on it, but I really don't see how I can stay in a party that's both voted against some of its own core principles, and (more importantly) has clearly been overtaken by a concerted effort driven by antisemitism.

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The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social · 11h

The images in this looks quite car-centric.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 8h

"Oh just go in the women's, who's gonna police it" Last time I did that a year ago I got a screaming idiot aiming their vitriol at me. If security or police are called who will they side with! My GP says they can give me free swimming sessions. I can't go due to segregation.

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 8h

My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society.

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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 7h

Well said. I worry that this motion, if passed, will not only serve to push Jewish members of the Green Party out and deter Jewish folk from joining, but also that it would hand journalists already hostile to us a ready-made stick with which to beat us. [Me? A white English ex-Quaker, a humanist.]

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 9h

My statement on the "Zionism is Racism" motion.

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Cassia Rowland @cassiarowland.bsky.social · 9h

Starmer gov’s original plans included 4 key changes: 1) judge-only trials 2) increasing magistrates’ sentencing powers 3) restricting right of appeal from magistrates’ courts 4) removing the right for defendants to choose a trial by jury in the crown court. Only 1) has definitely been scrapped.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11h

"The council’s named contact in the 2015 contract — the existence of which was revealed by The Mill — was Sir Howard Bernstein, its chief executive." "After leaving his role in 2017, Bernstein became a strategic development adviser for the parent company of Manchester City."

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11h

"A ten-year contract signed in 2015 gave the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) preferential access to land identified for development by Manchester city council.""

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026

The Orange Order, and the police, have got this all so badly wrong and every person in the country could have told then that before it had to happen

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 22h

Impressive to pull this one off, although it's possible Betty wasn't being entirely honest (1938)

4 YEARS "WIFE" OF A WOMAN
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, Sunday.
"MARRIED" four years, a woman fainted to-day when Los Angeles police informed her that her young "husband" was a woman.
The "husband," who is twenty-three and known to friends and neighbours as Michael Higgins, was arrested concerning the dis-appearance of £3,000 from the garage where "he" was a clerk.
On being taken to prison "he" was un-masked as a masquerader.
"Even now I can't believe Michael is a woman," his wife, Betty, told me, "for he always seemed so manly.
"We eloped four years ago and our married life has been very happy."
Mrs. Della Harvey, Michael's mother-in-law, with whom the couple lived, is equally astonished.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 21h

With love and respect to every colleague and fellow member, here is my personal view on motion E02, which Greens are set to debate tomorrow as part of our afternoon plenary.

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