Gary Spedding

By deporting British MPs, Israel has exposed its brutal border policies to the world Two Labour parliamentarians were denied entry at Ben Gurion Airport, as Israel works to sever all ties between Palestinians and the outside world

In my newest piece of analysis for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social I have delved into Israel's outrageous detention and refusal of entry for two British members of Parliament: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-i...

By deporting British MPs, Israel has exposed its brutal border policies to the world Two Labour parliamentarians were denied entry at Ben Gurion Airport, as Israel works to sever all ties between Palestinians and the outside world

By deporting British MPs, Israel has exposed its brutal border policies to the world - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-israel-deporting-british-mps-aims-tighten-noose-around-palestinians

Petition: Define Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) & launch an inquiry into APR We urge the Government to adopt a definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) that is based on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), & to launc...

Friends in the UK, please help this petition on anti-Palestinian racism go viral so we can get as many signatures as possible.

It is a really crucial issue, and I refuse to believe that so few people are engaged on the matter or simply don't care.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

In less than 24 hours, this petition seeking to force the UK government to define & launch a full inquiry into anti-Palestinian racism has achieved 1,350 signatures.

It is such an important issue in UK politics and society at large.

Please sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Define Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) & launch an inquiry into APR We urge the Government to adopt a definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) that is based on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), & to launc...

Please sign & share this petition on anti-Palestinian racism and join the demand to hold an inquiry in the UK Parliament: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

The UK's failure to enforce a ban on trade with Israel's illegal settlements must end A failure to act on its legal obligations deepens our government's complicity in Israel's violent oppression of the Palestinian people

In my latest for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social, I have laid out clearly that the UK government must immediately prohibit all trade and investment with Israel's illegal settlement enterprise: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...

This has always been the goal of Zionism. To acquire maximum amounts of the territory of Palestine with as few Arabs on said territory as possible.

'Minimum Aravim maximum yehudim'

No State in the world can claim legitimacy while the population it rules & governs rejects it.

This is then also combined with economic considerations and factors, destruction of healthcare, destruction of education... all with the goal of making life impossible for Palestinians in order to pressure them into giving up & leaving to go elsewhere in pursuit of a better life free of oppression

Israel combines these strategies of delegitimisation, dehumanisation, erasure, and fragmentation with its violent & oppressive policies that include home demolitions, ethnic cleansing, mass murder, forcible transfer, wholesale destruction in Gaza, and much more.

Israel also created an entirely new identity, 'Israeli Arab', in order to eradicate Palestinian identity.

All of these aspects are sociological, psychological, and cultural.

Genocide isn't just about the numbers of people physically killed. It's about erasure, too.

Israel attempts to erase Palestinian culture, history, food and identity.

Israel has, to varying degrees of success, fragmented the Palestinian people (Gaza, Jerusalem, West Bank, 1948, diaspora).

Israel created new categories of Palestinian dependent on their ID cards.

If you think about it carefully, it becomes quite obvious that Israel has perfected multiple overlapping strategies and tactics for destroying the Palestinian people. It isn't just about the physical destruction of Palestinians through the use of armed violence... it's everything else, too.

Palestinian actions, while exploited and used by Israel as attempted justification for its own horrific actions and policies, are not really a factor in determining or causing said actions and policies. It is the mere existence of Palestinians that is the issue for Israel.

I'm going to make a real effort to move over to this platform and phase out twitter (X) altogether as it is simply unconscionable to continue utilising a social media space owned and operated by Elon Musk.

Twitter has become even more of a cesspit of racism, antisemitism & islamophobia & fascism.

For @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social I have written about the UK's deliberate avoidance of its obligations under international law and complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people:

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-d...

Absolutely appalling response to question asked by Chris Law MP - it doesn't even address the point raised in the question about the UKs OBLIGATIONS under the Genocide Convention, repeating same rhetoric about merits of the Genocide case at the ICJ. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

This is astonishing, sickening stuff. People in the most horrifying position imaginable, starving, terrified and fleeing for their lives. And he mocks and gloats at them. He doesn't see them as people. A society high on genocide and impunity.

What I would ask:

Is the PM implying that Oct 7 justifies any subsequent atrocity?
That the UK doesn't even have to look at Israel's conduct, because Oct 7?
That the UK now violates its own obligations under int. law, because Oct 7?
Has the PM abandoned legal reasoning?

At the International Development Committee this week, we had a message for the UK Government: The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is no accident, but part of Israel's war on Palestinians.

Aid without accountability has failed. The UK must not be an ally to atrocities.

BREAKING: Green Party MPs have written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy on the UK government's position on the risk of genocide in Gaza. In the letter, the MPs highlight the obligation to prevent and duty to act, where there is a plausible and serious risk of genocide.

Making my first post here to express my solidarity with the #Palestinian people in support of human rights and justice for all and to call for a #CeasefireNowinGaza.

Not sure how this app works in comparison to twitter but hopefully it can be a platform for promoting change!