Owen Jones
@owenjonesjourno · High-reach critics & hostile narrative — US/West
Owen Jones is a British columnist, author, and left-wing political commentator.
Here's the insane thing about Israel's crimes. Israel's apologists deny the very crimes which Israeli leaders literally boast to the world about doing! https://t.co/9jvHugGBjS
Why are Israel's cheerleaders descending into so much hysteria? Because they know they're going to lose. https://t.co/pakPxLtF5h
Brits opposed to sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements are a tiny fringe minority. Even Tory voters are more supportive than opposed. @afneil wants to put Israel ahead of what the British people want - and what international law demands https://t.co/ERj0oxf0pT
Sanctions on Israel will backfire, we are told. This argument is total, raging, ridiculous bullshit. Israel has been given total impunity. It thinks it can get away with anything. That is what needs to change. https://t.co/T4kU7c8FFn
Israel’s cheerleaders are fringe extremists. They have completely lost Western public opinion. They are going to lose - and they know it
Time for the West to take proper action against Israeli crimes. Debating that on @PiersUncensored from 8pm! https://t.co/AQGrbTheht
Hasan Piker is saying that the conflation of Jews with Israel is putting Jews at risk. That is in inarguable fact. Both Israel's cheerleaders and antisemites are promoting this conflation. Rather than demonise Piker for stating the truth - oppose this dangerous conflation. https://t.co/F9V9CeqnT1
The British government is beginning to officially recognise the scale of the crime committed by Israel. It’s not nearly enough - but it’s a start. Israel’s cheerleaders are losing their shit for a reason. This only happened because people campaigned - and voted Green.
This is the closest the government has come to accepting undeniable reality: Israel is committing war crimes on an industrial scale. This welcome shift was only made possible by activism. Is it anywhere near enough? No, So we keep on fighting.
This conflation of Jews with literally every crime Israel does is INSANE. We are talking about sanctions on completely illegal settlements in illegally occupied land! This doesn’t persuade a single person. It just promotes an utterly dangerous conflation
The people who will face eternal shame are the apologists for Israel's genocide. Not those of us who opposed wiping Gaza from the face of the earth, bombing hospitals, slaughtering children and raping detainees to death.
It is this conflation of Jewish people and Israel which is driving antisemitism. That is screamingly obvious. It is the settled will of the British people that Israel is committing heinous crimes and action must be taken against it. The target is a genocidal foreign state.
British diplomats are briefing that sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements are "largely symbolic". Britain has £6bn worth of annual trade with Israel. The sanctions are a tiny proportion. It's a state committing genocide which needs to be hit with direct sweeping sanctions
Israel and its crimes - and the conflation with Jewish people - is driving antisemitism. That is just an obvious, straightforward fact. https://t.co/nXC8UJdUxp
A little girl blown apart by an Israeli attack. This has happened thousands And thousands And thousands of times Israel’s cheerleaders must never get away with what they have justified and normalised. They must become pariahs, driven from public life forever
Ed Miliband is the Jewish son of Holocaust survivors. Mick Huckabee is a Christian fundamentalist who serves a far-right, antisemitic US President. Israel is preventing crucial medical supplies from entering Gaza. That statement isn't "Jew hate". It is a fact.
Palestinians won an Oscar. And then Israel took revenge. https://t.co/WzxppDUb5X
Israel's National Security Minister posted this Nazi death camp-type video. Yes, this is real. https://t.co/tNAM94Cy8u
Who pioneered many of Israel’s atrocities? It was Britain. New post for @zeteouk 👇 https://t.co/wmxoUhO0RS https://t.co/khDW0KpY3P
This was one of the polls commissioned by JL Partners. This was despite other polls showing overwhelming support for a Palestinian state. An investigation into this particular poll would be welcome https://t.co/NFRTlRa7EL
“I’m the biggest critic of the Israeli government!” So you agree they’ve committed genocide? “How dare you!!! What an outrageous smear against them!! Disgusting!”
Well he isn’t the biggest critic of the Israeli government, is he? He defends them from the charge of genocide for a start. I’d say people who think Israel has committed genocide are rather bigger critics!
1) Israel had killed thousands of Palestinians before a single IDF soldier entered Gaza. 2) Israel had destroyed or damaged NEARLY HALF of Gaza's homes before the IDF invasion. 3) Israeli leaders and officials had issued dozens of statements of genocidal intent.
Israel's cheerleaders: "Any comparison between Israel's behaviour and the Nazis is outrageous antisemitism!" Israel's National Security Minister:
Yes, Abdul El-Sayed’s tweet is outrageous! 1 million dead is a huge underestimate. The post-9/11 wars waged by the US killed up to 4.7 million people. That’s according to Brown University’s Costs of War project