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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 2d

This selective outrage is conditioned by racism. Jewish life is held to be more valuable than other racialised forms of life. This isn't the fault of the Jewish victims of racist violence, but the broader structures of euro-Christian white supremacy that has rendered Jewish life as less expendable.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 2d

No, these events aren't the same, but a woman was raped 2 weeks ago in a racist attack and there were no newspaper columns or flags at half mast. This isn't to suggest that there shouldn't be national outrage at racist violence, but to point to the highly selective nature of the outrage expressed.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 2d

The selective and racialised empathy which sees stories like this prompt zero national outrage, compared to the events in Manchester last week.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Suspected arson attack at East Sussex mosque investigated as hate crime

Fire at mosque in Peacehaven on Saturday night left front entrance damaged and a car burnt out

www.theguardian.com

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Netpol @netpol.org · 3d

A force once infamous for collaborating with loyalist terrorists in the north of Ireland, today out on the streets of London arresting sign holders for "terrorism"

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) arrest protestors in Trafalgar Square, London, for holding signs which say they oppose genocide and support Palestine Action.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 4d

Read the interview in this piece with Hamas’s head of international and legal relations Mousa Abu Marzouq, and tell me again that Hamas is an irrational, nihilistic terror organisation with which no negotiation is possible.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 4d

Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn't accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...

#Palestine #Israel

Hamas just accepted Trump’s ‘peace’ plan. Here’s what it didn’t accept.

Hamas just accepted Donald Trump’s “peace” plan. Here’s what Hamas didn’t accept, how Trump reacted, and why Netanyahu was blindsided.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 4d

The people heckling David Lammy in Manchester today to "go back to Palestine" are not some kind of 'gotcha'. Lammy wouldn't have been able to speak without the community's consent. It's also highly likely that the event was crashed by EDL-adjacent Zionists.

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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 5d

Statement from Syrian NGOs on yesterday’s attack, including Manchester-based Rethink Rebuild Society.

www.rrsoc.org/node/1746

syrianbritish.org/statement-fr...

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Statement from the Syrian Community in the UK on the Tragic Attack in Crumpsall
3rd October 2025

The Syrian community in the United Kingdom extends its deepest condolences to the Jewish community in Manchester and across the UK following today's tragic stabbing at a synagogue in Crumpsall. We are horrified by this attack, and we stand in full solidarity with our Jewish neighbours as they grieve. That such violence was carried out in a sacred place of worship, and on Yom Kippur-the holiest day of the Jewish year—makes this tragedy all the more painful.
We stress unequivocally that houses of worship must remain places of peace, safety, and sanctity, never targets of hate or violence. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the Jewish community during this most difficult time.
As Syrians, we know this pain all too well. For over 15 years, Syrians of all faiths have endured devastating attacks on mosques, churches, and sacred spaces. We have buried loved ones, mourned in silence, and lived with the scars. Violence against innocent people especially in places of worship—is something we stand firmly against, wherever it happens.
At this stage, no one within our Syrian community networks—neither within nor beyond Manchester-has been able to identify the individual involved in this attack or confirm knowing him personally.
We appeal to our wider society not to allow this tragedy to give rise to racist incidents directed at Syrians, Muslims, or migrants. Violence must not be met with further division or hatred. At the same time, we hope this incident will not be misused to impose restrictions on freedom of expression—particularly the right to peacefully protest and speak out against the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The Syrian community stands alongside the Jewish community in rejecting violence, and we recommit ourselves to building a society where every community can live in dignity, security, and mutual trust.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 5d

One of the two Jewish victims who died yesterday was killed by police fire.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5d

Two victims in Manchester attack were shot by police on.ft.com/42KdNBd

Two victims in Manchester attack were shot by police

Greater Manchester police say one of those shot by officers has died

on.ft.com

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 5d

We've been watching the live-streamed destruction of whole families for 2 years. Palestinians have all lost people/know people who have lost people. Disgraceful but predictable of the British State to use one outrage to suppress dissent against another. The hierarchy of human life on full show.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Home secretary Shabana Mahmood urges pro-Palestine protesters to consider not taking part in marches this weekend.

"Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country ... sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love to other people is required"

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 5d

The UK has trained 28 Israeli military personnel at the Royal College of Defence Studies since 2000, the government admits.

#DCUKparliament

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 5d

As Yom Kippur ends, two Jews in Manchester join 12 Palestinians murdered at a food distribution centre in Gaza as victims of this genocide. May all their memories be a blessing.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 12d

It's incredible how far gone these loons are. No appreciation for the antisemitic traditions they are reproducing.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 12d

Last year Rabbi Ammi Hirsch, pro-Israel mouthpiece & head of a storied Reform shul in Manhattan, called anti-Zionist Jews like myself 'emotionally damaged' in his Yom Kippur sermon. This Rosh Hashanah he railed against the mouthy, weak-kneed morally depraved “diaspora Jew”. Goebbels would be proud

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 12d

Zohran Mamdani showing again that it is possible to be ahead in the polls and talk like a human being at the same time.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

This morning, Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations — an institution which has concluded his government is committing a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He arrived in New York after a flight that added hours to its path to circumvent the airspace of countries which might enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for his arrest. During the course of his speech, another Palestinian child will undoubtedly be killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, as they have been every single hour for nearly two years.

Eric Adams will greet Netanyahu as a friend. Andrew Cuomo proudly served on his legal defense team. Both have jockeyed for the approval of Donald Trump, who has sent billions of our taxpayer dollars to support these war crimes.

A Mayor cannot end these atrocities. But they can speak for the values of this city: a commitment to human rights for all people, including Palestinians, and a yearning for peace and justice. Even if those values are anathema to those in power now, they will endure.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 12d

Colonial Governor Blair at your service

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule

www.theguardian.com

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13d

Both Italy and Spain are sending ships on support & rescue missions for the Sumud Flotilla. Ambiguity about what will happen if the flotilla is attacked. Will the Sp&It ships sit back and only intervene if necessary to carry out a rescue? Or will they neutralise threats? BIIIIIG difference.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13d

Ofc it's not just Netanyahu. No one demands the demilitarisation of the IDF. No one suggests fulfilling the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu & Gallant, or expelling fascists from the Knesset. The list could go on. Only Palestinians must pay a price for peace, not Israelis, as it has ever been.

Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13d

I find it interesting that all the 'peace' plans being touted involve demilitarising & disbanding Hamas. And yet even when world leaders explicitly cite Netanyahu as a violent obstacle to peace, not one of them suggests the necessity of his political exile.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13d

Ofc it's not just Netanyahu. No one demands the demilitarisation of the IDF. No one suggests fulfilling the ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu & Gallant, or expelling fascists from the Knesset. The list could go on. Only Palestinians must pay a price for peace, not Israelis, as it has ever been.

Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13d

I find it interesting that all the 'peace' plans being touted involve demilitarising & disbanding Hamas. And yet even when world leaders explicitly cite Netanyahu as a violent obstacle to peace, not one of them suggests the necessity of his political exile.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 13d

I find it interesting that all the 'peace' plans being touted involve demilitarising & disbanding Hamas. And yet even when world leaders explicitly cite Netanyahu as a violent obstacle to peace, not one of them suggests the necessity of his political exile.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14d

The Israeli political system is extensively proportional. Israel's leaders reflect huge swathes of Israeli Jewish opinion. As Orly Noy has written, the only effective solution is a process similar to de-Nazification www.972mag.com/israel-holoc... End.

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is the remedy

The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.

www.972mag.com

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14d

Palestinians in Israel have every right to be wary of the UN, but overall it would be great if people stopped claiming that the problem in Israel is one of 'leadership'. /1

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14d

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14d

Aaaaah, makes sense! And I can't deny that there's a slither of self-righteous joy that accompanies this role...

Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14d

I mean, I seem to have developed a reputation as a journal review-shitposter, because I get quite a few of these things.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 14d

Repost with the politically most awful thing you've ever been asked to review: Mine was a journal submission in which the author argued that because he used to employ a gardener from Gaza this made him a good Zionist and Dubois would have been a Zionist actually.

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