RT: @implausibleblog Zack Polanski, “Secondly, I think it's undoubtedly true that the conversation around Israel is so obviously toxic"
"And I say that as a Jewish person, it is so vital, as you were saying, that we separate antisemitism from criticism of the Israeli government"
"Now, it won't surprise you to hear me say this, I imagine as a Jewish person, antisemitism exists in our society"
"It's a real problem in the same way that Islamophobia is a real problem and all forms of racism"
"And I would say, as workers, as socialists, as progressives, as people on the left, it's really important that we collectively show solidarity to racism in all of its forms"
"That is a different conversation from recognising that there has been an ongoing genocide in Palestine, but also in the West Bank, where the settlers are as well, that there's been an illegal occupation that has been going on for decades and decades now, for an entire generation"
"And from the absolute complicity, in fact, more than complicity, from the active enabling of the British government, who are still sharing arms or selling arms licences, sharing intelligence"
"And it is so important, I think it's really revealed the gap between where Westminster establishment politicians are and where the public are"
"Because I've been saying this for a while, and I hope people in the room would know I would say this even if it was an unpopular thing to say"
"But actually, we're in the place where public sentiment so strongly shows that people are undoubtedly and unsurprisingly concerned about an ongoing genocide, yet we still have establishment politicians continuing to support it"
"We've got Wes Streeting, who suddenly seems to have woken up and noticed what's going on just in time for a leadership election, talking about a genocide"
"And then we've got Andy Burnham, who says that he can't judge or make a comment on it"
"And that seems odd to me when we've seen four years now of horrendous and brutal and horrific livestreamed attacks on our TVs and our phone screens"
"And I think every single politician needs to recognise right now what's going on, to speak with clarity, to speak with transparency, and call out what's going on"




