Social work professor at Royal Holloway University of London - equality, social justice, human rights- Views all my own ☮️🕊️🇵🇸🍉💚
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Anna Gupta retweeted
He sounds like a neo-Nazi @piersmorgan, not sure how you can continue to feign outrage over that description. What else would you call your pal’s rhetoric here? It’s pure white supremacist, Neo-Nazi racism.
Anna Gupta retweeted
Robert I am interested to know if you think accusations of anti semitism thrown at me over my support for Palestine Action are justified or abuse aimed at silencing a voice raised in support of Palestine?
Anna Gupta retweeted
A devastating summary in this interview with @OborneTweets, who has just returned from East Jerusalem, of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians—and the uselessness of Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, only six weeks after their ‘reset’.
The Butcher of Beirut – Israel’s alternative to Netanyahu.
Peter Oborne – just returned from almost a month in the Occupied Territories – came into the Double Down Newswatch studio to talk about the Israeli election, Britain’s feeble surrender to the Israelis over the consulate in East Jerusalem and the ongoing horror in the West Bank and Israeli prisons.
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Anna Gupta retweeted
Professor Jason Arday CLEARED of plagiarism again.
They terrorized him and contributed to his death. I hope every single entity is held accountable.
And remember that whilst all this was going on, there was a white female Professor in court for indecent images of children writing for the publications that vilified Arday to his death.
And worse - Cofnas gets to speak at Oxford University arguing against DEI.
Diabolical disgusting disgraceful #ripjasonarday
Anna Gupta retweeted
Tedious little racist to do whingefest with another bunch of tedious little racists to explain why they have no scholarly achievements of their own.
Anna Gupta retweeted
The report on antisemitism in schools provides a fascinating study in the parallel universes independent and mainstream media occupy.
Indie media has done it's job, scrutinised the report and highlighted its glaring inadequacies. The entire mainstream has simply reported it uncritically. /1
The Bell report finds that anti-Jewish attitudes are "less prevalent", while "anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent" More here ⤵️
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Anna Gupta retweeted
We spent a week in the Occupied West Bank:
We saw bloody settler attacks, Palestinian homes demolished & tense interactions with Israeli soldiers
Here's a short clip ⬇️
Including our attempt to reach a Palestinian family besieged by "hilltop youth" settlers - before we were violently stopped
With @MillyTeasdale @MackesonPaul Ayman Abu Ramouz & Nava Mizrahi
Anna Gupta retweeted
Barely two months ago, we lost Professor Jason Arday. Thousands grieved. Institutions across higher education spoke about inclusion and belonging.
Now Nathan Cofnas is being given a room at Oriel College, Oxford, to ask whether DEI is undermining higher education.
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Anna Gupta retweeted
“It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men … went in front of me to protect … me and my rescuers from being attacked again,” Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.
Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.
“Let me die,” American photojournalist Heidi Levine repeats to journalists Jasper Nathaniel as they try to outrun masked Israeli settlers who attacked her on Friday while she covered the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Abu Falah, near Ramallah.
Around 80 settlers attacked Palestinian olive harvesters in the village, AP reported. The Palestinian Red Crescent said it treated six people injured in two attacks in Abu Falah.
Levine, a freelancer for the Washington Post, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the settlers knocked her down and kicked her for at least 10 minutes, even after she identified herself as an American journalist. They stole her camera, phone and bag. She was eventually taken to a hospital in Ramallah.
"The IDF provided cover, with tear gas and machine guns, while the settlers beat" Levine "nearly to death," Nathaniel wrote, adding that soldiers then shot a Palestinian bystander and aimed their guns at and shoved paramedics trying to treat him. AP photos and circulating videos show Israeli soldiers standing over a wounded Palestinian man after they shot him.
Andrey X, an activist also at the scene, said a Palestinian man "saved our lives from the settler-terrorists who attacked the olive harvesters and journalists” armed only with a slingshot.
Anna Gupta retweeted
Forget the euphoria of Britain's change of policy on settlements. Palestinians, totally abandoned by the international community, are being ethnically cleansed in occupied east Jerusalem. I report for Middle East Eye on house demolitions in Al Bustan:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/we…
Anna Gupta retweeted
Miatta can clearly see right from wrong but she's now rowed into line twice with a Labour government siding with Shell & Donald Trump on oil and gas & now on cruel immigration reforms.
What is the point of Labour if they don't even do the basics to protect people & the planet?
Today I made what was meant to be a light-hearted self-deprecating remark. I didn’t get it right and it hasn’t come off as I intended.
I fully support our Home Secretary and the government’s position on migration reform.
As I said earlier this week, it’s absolutely right that people should have to make a contribution to this country in order to earn citizenship.
Anna Gupta retweeted
Basic education piece:
Not all Jewish people are Zionists.
Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.
The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.
The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.
Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName
Anna Gupta retweeted
First of all credit to @ShehabKhan for asking the question. Now consider how grotesque it is that I need to say that but you all know most journalists would never consider asking someone when the context is the meaning of zionism , " have you spoken to Palestinians" .Then consider that @MikeTappTweets thinks saying he doesn't know any Palestinians neutralises the question.He doesn't think showing utter contempt for an entire community carries any political cost. He won't feel the need to apologise or retract or God forbid reach out to any Palestinian group.
“Have you spoken to any Palestinian organizations before you wrote your letter?”
@ShehabKhan presses Labour MP Mike Tapp who reported the Green Party over its Zionism motion about whether he’s ever spoken to any Palestinians.
Tapp: “I don’t know any Palestinian people.”
Anna Gupta retweeted
You can't make it up.
Sir David Bell was asked to lead the antisemitism review that was just published.
But he faced severe criticism for alleged Islamophobia for attacking faith schools when he was head of Ofsted twenty years ago.
And his new report now blithely says that Muslims disproportionately express anti-semitic views...
Anna Gupta retweeted
There was a deeper reason why the film NAZA left the entire audience speechless.
This film isn’t about the tangible, visible horror of Gaza. It was about something more hidden, something far closer to home.
This was about the horror lurking within each of us. What the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt called “the banality of evil”.
We were stunned, I think, by the realisation that the 24 Israelis up on the screen – each of whom admitted, often dispassionately, sometimes a little proudly, carrying out the most monstrous of crimes – could have been our son or daughter, our brother or sister.
The only reason to applaud, as happened at the Venice Film Festival, it seemed to me, was to drown out the still, small voice of one’s conscience asking, “Might I have done as they did? Might my children?”
NAZA is a gut punch not because it tells us anything we did not already know or suspect about Israel and Gaza.
The enclave’s Palestinian journalists showed us daily the evidence of the genocide, before each was picked off by Israel’s AI machinery – in the largest slaughter of media personnel ever recorded.
No, the film tells us something far more shaming. It tells us who we are. It tells us exactly what the pillars of our western “civilisation” stand on.
Today’s western privileges were built on a long history of naked, racist colonialism – of greed, of pillage, of slavery, of genocide – that we have never truly renounced or forsaken.
Israel continues that tradition for us, both in sharpening colonialism’s technical efficiency with endless, murderous experimentation on a captive Palestinian population and in obscuring our own complicity in this barbarity.
That is the reason why it was so effortless for our leaders to collude in Israel’s genocide: to supply the bombs, to pass on the intelligence, to provide the diplomatic cover, to excuse the “excesses”, to crush the protests.
NAZA silences us not because of the monstrosity of what Israel did but because it serves as irrefutable proof of our own monstrosity. Our societies watched it all and did nothing. We are all guilty.
This is an extract from my latest article NAZA is not just about Israel and Gaza. It’s about the evil lurking in us all. Find a link to the rest in the reply post below ⬇️
Anna Gupta retweeted
People have always have had to make a contribution to earn citizenship.
That you as a refugee, and Mahmood as the daughter of immigrants are pulling up the ladder behind you, to appease the populist far right, is sad.
The most disappointing thing is to see politicians tow a line against their own standards and expectations. It's soul destroying.
Anna Gupta retweeted
We have published an open letter against the removal of Sally Rooney’s books from sale in Britain.
Between them, the signatories to the New Statesman open letter have won every major literary prize, from the Booker to the Pulitzer. They include Nobel laureates: Anne Carson, the most recent winner of the literature award; Annie Ernaux, and JM Coetzee. These are voices from all over the world, including pre-eminent novelists: Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, George Saunders, Ben Lerner and many more. Key figures in the wider Rooneyverse are signed up: Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Alison Oliver, Fionn O’Shea and Lenny Abrahamson. Among the award-winning actors, filmmakers, and screenwriters who have signed include: Tilda Swinton, Susan Sarandon, Jessie Buckley, Jonathan Glazer, Armando Iannucci and Sharon Horgan. In total, over 150 major figures have signed.
Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist.
Anna Gupta retweeted
Boom. Spot on as always from Dalia.
And worth mentioning, because the government continues to hide behind the Supreme Court review, that the home secretary has the power to begin the process of deproscribing Palestine Action at any point.
"anyone who the govt has reasonable suspicion to believe is sympathetic to or supports that group.. faces severe punishment.. it was an intended consequence to create an air of stigma & suspicion around Palestine.."
@daliagebrial on the proscription of Palestine Action 🎯
Anna Gupta retweeted
My mum has been a teacher for over 25 years.
Her school regularly raises money for Ukraine through school events, and teachers wear Ukrainian flag pins in solidarity.
She wears a Palestine badge.
She refuses to take it off while the school applies different standards to different conflicts and different civilian populations.
Supporting Palestinian civilians is not antisemitism, and expressing concern for their safety should not be dismissed or silenced.
Consistency is not extremism. It is a basic principle of fairness.
