To all my progressive and socialist followers who live in London. The Mayoral electoral system is First Past The Post. A vote for anyone but Sadiq Khan is a vote for a hard right nutter.

Let me be clear: Antisemitism is horrific and vile and has no place in this country.

But it is not antisemitic to want to stop an illegal war.

Netanyahu is trying to deflect attention away from the horrendous situation his right-wing, extremist government has created in Gaza.

An Israeli retaliation to the Iranian regime’s attack serves one person only: Benjamin Netanyahu. It distracts from Gaza and the West Bank, endangers Israelis, Palestinians and Iranians, and further inflames the entire region. He must be stopped.

The Israeli government is establishing a police unit to prevent human rights activists entering the West Bank. But you can't hide the reality of occupation: settler violence, pogroms, and apartheid.

Listen to Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 of עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣.

Our hearts are with all those in fear tonight.

Israelis and Palestinians deserve better, they deserve lives free from terror and loss, lives of safety and dignity. They deserve leadership working for a better future, not endless war.

Be safe, friends.

What עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣 are doing is incredible.

Highlighting the need to get hostages back home whilst showing that 6 months of military action have failed to get them home and only an immediate ceasefire with a negotiated release will get them home and start the road to peace.

And today on the West Bank, settlers + Israeli soldiers raided Palestinian villages for hours. Riots & pogroms! Burning every house & car they see. Attacking the innocent because they’re Palestinians. There is no justification for a pogrom!

הגוש הסגול צועד בתל אביב נגד ממשלת המוות שמפקירה את החטופים ומבטיחה לכולנו עתיד של מלחמת נצח.

צאו מהבית, חייבים דרך אחרת 🟣✊🏼

This is what Standing Together & thousands of demonstrators were calling for on the streets of Tel Aviv tonight: Netanyahu must go! The kidnapped must be returned. We choose life not death! Stop the killing & destruction in Gaza. End the occupation. We need peace!

קוראים לזה טרור. טרור יהודי. והוא מגובה גם על ידי חיילים וגם על ידי הזרוע המדינית של גדודי הטרור המתנחלי: עוצמה יהודית והציונות הדתית.

The kidnapped must return, the government must go - and we all deserve a different way, of peace and security for all who live in Palestine and Israel 🟣

Standing Together isn’t only fighting for a ceasefire, but building social and political power to demand an agreement that ends the occupation and guarantees independence, peace, freedom, and equality for both Palestinians and Israeli Jews.

Read more: ukfost.co.uk/rula-daood-and…

I'm not sure this police investigation into whether Angela Rayner broke electoral law will get very far. When we found on C4 News in Stoke by-election that Ukip leader was registered at address he'd told me he'd never yet visited, Staffs police investigated & dropped the case.

And in a 1991 BBC Panorama programme we showed how PM John Major had been registered in 1968 at a house in Lambeth which the owner told me he'd never lived at - not even for one night. That qualified him to stand for Lambeth Council, and he duly won a seat. The Mail splash…

Excellent article from Simon Fletcher who I honestly think is one of very few commentators in the country to fully understand what the Labour Party is, what it isn't, and how it works. He should always be paid attention to.
bylinetimes.com/2024/04/02/a-k…

Now 32 days since Labour admitted 'some of the personal details of Labour members in the Croydon East constituency were altered on the Labour Party membership database without authorisation'. Despite questions from me & others they still won't say if anyone suspended or punished

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Unless Labour's soft left can overcome its aversion to political and intellectual organisation it is likely to remain marginalised in future debates.