Nicholas Guyatt
@NicholasGuyatt
I teach American history at Cambridge. Opinions strictly personal; for sober & authoritative tweeting consult @Cambridge_Uni, @CamHistory & @JesusCollegeCam
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Malthouse *was* right to personalise it. Lammy has been the chief spokesman for British complicity. We need to personalise it with *every* MP who is not up in arms about Gaza, especially those who voted to criminalise direct action protests: the starving are their responsibility
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Break *all* collaboration with Israel, impose draconian sanctions, expel all its ambassadors - otherwise this appeal is window dressing.
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK: "the war in Gaza must end now."
In the week that Lammy approved this statement, the RAF welcomed the head of the Israeli air force, primarily responsible for the genocide, to an air tattoo in England. The message that is clear is hypocrisy.
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
To not put nationalisation as an option in the Cunliffe Review will be seen as ideological.
“I'm not going to focus on ideology." It would cost £100bn to nationalise water companies and the government would have to take that money from the NHS and education, Environment Secretary Steve Reed tells @krishgm
It's the epitome of Starmerism that a review into the UK's rapacious water industry was explicitly told NOT to consider bringing water companies into public ownership (which of course was one of Starmer's ten pledges to secure the Labour leadership)
Twitter news feed makes it sound as if Gazans tragically died in a house fire instead of being massacred in cold blood by the IDF and US mercenaries
Speaking on US podcaster Theo Von's show, Joaquin Phoenix spoke out against Israel's war on Gaza, saying "there's no justification for children fucking starving to death". Phoenix said he'd been "afraid to talk about it", but Von's own comments had given him courage to do so.
And Starmer is spending a billion pounds on twelve more of these just to curry favour with Trump bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
It is illegal to condition humanitarian access on an adversary accepting your preferred ceasefire terms.
"It's really problematic to hear this idea that aid flows if there is a ceasefire" @SkyYaldaHakim speaks with UNICEF Spokesperson @1james_elder on the possibility of a ceasefire 📱 trib.al/zff6Z7W 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
A lawless regime doing everything in its power to protect a genocidal regime bbc.com/news/articles/…
Crimes against humanity are just casually trailed by Israeli ministers these days, safe in the knowledge that Western governments won't do anything to halt the genocide. Every single one of our leaders should be in the dock for their complicity bbc.com/news/articles/…
More than 20 years ago Ilan Pape commented, "Putting Tony Blair in charge of the Quartet's Palestine Peace Process is like putting Dracula in charge of a blood bank." How right he was...
Shameful, but no surprise. Blair was always pig-ignorant about the Middle East, dismissive of the human and political rights of Palestinians and always acted in the interests of Israel Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG - on.ft.com/3If9Cpx via…
The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”.
Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG on.ft.com/402zbjD
This is horrific shit, and Tony Blair's staff were working with Israeli genocidaire capitalists to ethnically cleanse and fully colonise Gaza:
He's genuinely demonic ft.com/content/0b1bc7…
Crazy that this barely registers as news in Western media.