Matt Zarb-Cousin
@mattzarb
Co founder @gambanapp. Director @cleanupgambling. #BackZack 🟢
So pleased it’s helped @PaulMerse 👏🏼
Paul Merson: 'Gambling addiction is like diarrhoea - try stopping that with willpower' inews.co.uk/news/paul-mers…
Politics at its most cynical. Cabinet ministers spinning their own handwringing as courage to avoid the rap… This isn’t moral conviction, it’s performative angst from a cabinet putting their jobs first.
EXCL: Keir Starmer under pressure from cabinet ministers to immediately recognise Palestinian statehood, as global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza. “We say that recognising Palestinian statehood is a really important symbol that you can only do…
Today’s announcement solidifies the need for @ZackPolanski’s leadership. The fact so many people have chosen to support a new left wing party, that still doesn’t even have a name, rather than support the Greens, despite our shared values, shows a huge failing on our part.
So Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana are indeed starting a new party. This blows Zack Polanski's leadership pitch out of the water. It's crucial now more than ever that we maintain a distinct Green Party identity as Ellie and me are arguing. Let's not become the support act.
Decades of experience of the Labour Party distilled into 11 seconds.
If affordability checks worked, there wouldn't be a single immigrant/asylum seeker having a bet, they officially cannot afford it, so wtf is going on there?
Smartphones bring porn & gambling to teens 24/7. Today we have our first post on what sports betting is doing to boys & young men (who are 98% of those with addiction). By Jonathan Cohen and Isaac Rose-Berman. Part of our growing collab with @aibm_org afterbabel.com/p/smartphone-g…
Appalling situation……. meanwhile Labour government advisors are handing memos to @lisanandy describing the BBC as “institutionally antisemitic”
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
Most people are angered, horrified by Israel's actions in Gaza. So, as you suggest, tying Israel to British Jews, as for example the chief Rabbi has done describing the IDF as "Our soldiers" is putting them in danger.
Zack is Jewish, you’re gonna need to try harder
More antisemitism on @LBC with 2 Green Party leaders including @ZackPolanski interviewed about becoming Green Party leader. It’s like listening to a couple of Hitlers with their blood libel Gaza genocide shtick
These schools have been indoctrinating children into a belief system premised on ethno-supremacy & colonial erasure. They’ve raised generations of Jews on the propaganda of a foreign apartheid state, now committing genocide. They’ve normalized dehumanizing & devaluing Arab lives.
Everyone on the Labour Left warned from their own experience of undemocratic stitch-ups what these ghouls would do given state power, the Labour Right only believe in power of elites buttressed by rampant authoritarianism. It’s good eyes are opening now but it was clear years ago
I will never vote Labour again. Not in my lifetime. I will never forget the skeletal faces of starving children—cut off from food just beyond a sealed border. A border kept closed by choice. I will never forget the silence bought by political donations—or blind loyalty that bind…
They are constantly conflating the far-right/fascist Israeli regime, which is very openly and visibly committing war crimes & genocide, with Judaism and UK Jews. They’re engaged in a smear campaign of the UK Jewish community - many of whom oppose these crimes against humanity
"Can you believe that a Jew, a human being, an American can be PROUD of mass murder?" Gideon Levy expresses his dismay at the attitudes of some of those defending his native country. 📺 youtu.be/hFnJ68L2Qu4 @piersmorgan | @gideonle | @ShabbosK
UPDATE: 2 activists have been arrested and removed by police
Time to reflect on whether the obviously regrettable rise in antisemitic incidents that you’re citing is at least in part a result of communal organisations like yours persistently tying Jewish identity to Israel and the actions of the Israeli government and by extension the IDF
Our response to the Mayor of London's call for the UK to unilaterally recognise a Palestinian state
Probably because the IDF keeps shooting people while they’re queuing up for it
BREAKING: The IDF offered to escort UN aid trucks in Gaza— The UN said no. They preferred to be escorted by Hamas instead.
I'd like to speak to Chris, caller to @mrjamesob's @LBC show. RT and help me find him 🙏🏻
At my Jewish primary school & cheder, we were taught not only that Arab lives were worth less than Jewish ones, but that "Palestinians" didn't exist. Anyone who denies this is commonplace within Jewish communities is lying. Watch the film 'Israelism'.
This is disgraceful from @mrjamesob – platforming a modern blood libel against Jews live on national radio. There’s no such thing as “Shabbat school”. No Jewish child in the UK is taught that vile, racist nonsense. This is a stain on @LBC and its producers.
Why are you unable to even consider Israel might be in the wrong? Does it go against your entrenched core beliefs? In any case this is where you’ve ended up — denying a genocide. Refusing to condemn the Israeli government as well as implying that it’s somehow a proxy for all Jews
It does not matter how many people scream about famine and forced starvation in Gaza... It still won't be true. So the Jews have a lot of enemies willing to demonise them, accuse them of the vilest deeds, and spread blood libels about them.. Tell me something I do not know.
this video is what won it for me. ive joined the greens to back @ZackPolanski because we need politicians + leaders willing and able to counter racist narratives whilst meeting people where they are. to spell out a vision that brings everyone along with us. that’s why i #backzack
⏳ Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.