Father of Ol, Dom, Al & Freddie, grandfather of Sophia, Zadie, Robin & Sammy. Green Party councillor, West Berkshire Council. 100% Blade. Edited @guardianstyle
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David Marsh retweeted
Shabana Mahmood disgracefully equates neo-Nazi skinheads with pensioners protesting against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
She claims to be part of the pro-Palestinian movement. She is nothing of the sort. She is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
Shame on her. Hope the ministerial car was worth it.
David Marsh retweeted
If Palestinians took their children to the motorways and roads to block aid trucks and food to reach Israelis, Palestinians would be painted as far worse than the Nazis by every mainstream media outlet and politician.
Haven’t seen a single story about this today. Not one.
David Marsh retweeted
29 students.
That's the total number of Jewish students in the Bell report who said they've experienced antisemitism.
29.
Meanwhile, 30 Palestinians have been reported murdered by Israel in the past 10 days.
The Govt has allocated £7 million to tackle antisemitism across education
In England there are approx 14K Jewish students in non-Jewish schools
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David Marsh retweeted
Another British Prime Minister bending over backwards to appease a climate denying authoritarian President.
We deserve so much better than this.
David Marsh retweeted
I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.
Here's the rub, though.
The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.
It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.
Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.
But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?
And here's the staggering hypocrisy.
We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.
Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.
And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.
Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.
@NEUnion @educationgovuk
David Marsh retweeted
The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.
My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
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David Marsh retweeted
27 jobs.
£0 off your energy bill.
£billions for fossil fuel companies.
Sophy Ridge: "@ZackPolanski's also said [going ahead with Jackdaw], its only going to create 27 jobs. Is that right?"
The energy secretary confirms that is correct
David Marsh retweeted
Guys, the government found "vast antisemitism in schools" before it found genocide in Gaza
David Marsh retweeted
The more children Israel kills, the more the official discourse is dominated by the complete fiction that “antisemitism” is a major problem in Israel’s allied countries.
David Marsh retweeted
Not an ounce of contrition.
No apology, no guilt, no remorse.
Covid inquiry?
Tens of thousands of needless deaths?
Water off a duck's back.
It was only the little people anyway.
@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @griffitha @alexburghart @Jeremy_Hunt @michaelgove @BorisJohnson
David Marsh retweeted
The past 20 days have marked one of the most monolithic pushes by British media to vilify the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion.
Imbalanced coverage would be an understatement.
The papers wrote 447 articles on the Greens' Zionism vote. Israel, pro-Israel groups and the Chief Rabbi got 12,133 words. Palestinians got 3,173.
Any institution that parades as a "news outlet" can no longer be taken seriously if it covers this motion without also covering the people, Palestinians, who have endured, suffered and been oppressed the most by the ideology in action.
What the figures show:
• Israel's government alone got 3,904 words. More than every Palestinian put together.
• 2,422 of the 3,173 Palestinian words came in stories tying Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian who proposed the motion, to al-Qaeda.
• Apart from Lubna, two Palestinians were quoted across 436 articles, for 76 words between them. Nobody in Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Lebanon was quoted at all.
• Lubna told the Telegraph that 56 members of her family had been killed in Gaza. One article mentioned it: the Telegraph's own al-Qaeda story, in paragraph 44 of 51.
• Lubna has received death and rape threats since the vote. Al Jazeera reported it. None of the 447 British articles did.
• 43 articles said, in the paper's own voice, that the motion meant the destruction or abolition of Israel. The motion calls for one state with "equal rights for all".
• 36 headlines said antisemitism. Not one of 447 said genocide.
• 304 of the 436 articles we read in full never mentioned the genocide at all.
• 0 of 89 comment pieces backed the motion.
• The Daily Mail ran 38 articles on the motion, and in that time, just 2 on Israel's ongoing attacks across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.
Full report: newscord.org/editorials/zion…
David Marsh retweeted
Again @mhclg @andyburnham where is the water 💦 supply coming from for the hundreds of AI data centres and 1.5m extra homes? How can the chalk aquifers recharge when they’re covered in concrete? Where are the new reservoirs? Where is the common sense? It’s time your brains engage, get a handle on what’s getting built, and how you can deliver water for a fast growing population!!
It’s quite simple..no rain means no water 💦 supply…how does this government intend to supply water to 1.5m extra homes and god knows how many AI data centres? Especially in the highly populated and already severely water stressed south east and east of England?
@AngelaRayner @KanishkaNarayan
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David Marsh retweeted
Why does the Greens' "Zionism is racism" policy provoke such fear from the UK's political and media class?
Because it collapses their key script – by emphasising that the struggle to end Palestinian oppression is against a racist political movement, Zionism, not against Jews.
The political and media class are so desperate to keep advancing this script that they're now forced to defame the UK's only Jewish party leader as an antisemite to make it make sense.
It doesn't make sense – can never make sense – because it's a lie.
David Marsh retweeted
Isn't it funny how you recall things when you get older. When I was younger the Labour Party stood for vulnerable people, social justice, international justice, fair distribution of wealth, homes, education and healthcare for all.
Now?
You're describing the Green Party.
David Marsh retweeted
A majority of the 635 children held in Israeli prisons in 2025 were put in solitary confinement, usually for between one and two weeks – some up to eight times.
92 per cent of those children had not been sentenced.
A third had not even been charged with an offence.
The world's highest court says Israel is an apartheid state. Its decades-long occupation is illegal.
David Marsh retweeted
On 19 July 2024, I published two posts on my X account in which I made allegations about Mr Mothin Ali being involved in the Harehills riots. I have accepted these were incorrect and I have jointly made a statement in open Court in order to apologise to Mr Ali and correct the record which is below.
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David Marsh retweeted
Andy Burnham deliberately conflating Anti-Semtism with Anti-Zionism makes Jewish people like myself, less safe.
Andy Burnham rules out any partnership between Labour and the Green Party due to their controversial motion declaring "Zionism is racism".
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David Marsh retweeted
It hadn’t taken much for Burnham to revert from ‘we got Gaza wrong’ to heavy-handed Starmer-style repression of pro-Palestinian sentiment. Whether Zionism is Racism is right or wrong, it is *not* antisemitic. Burnham is wrecking sensible cooperation in local authorities in a crude attempt to crush the Greens as Starmer crushed Corbynism.
BREAKING: The Labour Party has said that power-sharing agreements with the Green Party will end unless local Greens explicitly reject their party's "Zionism is racism" policy
The Labour Party has asked all Labour groups in power-sharing agreements with the Green Party to review their arrangements in local government after the prime minister's words at PMQs yesterday.
Bridget Phillipson MP, Chair of the Labour Party, said:
“The Prime Minister has been completely clear: this policy is wrong and antisemitic, and has no place in British politics.
“Where local Labour Parties currently have an arrangement with the Greens in local government, we expect their Green counterparts to make clear that they reject this position and to call on their national leadership to reconsider the policy.
“We have asked local Green groups to respond as a matter of urgency. Where they are unable to provide that assurance, Labour will bring any such local arrangement to an end. This isn’t an issue of party politics; it’s about doing what is right and upholding the values anyone holding public office should share.
“The Labour Party fought hard to address antisemitism within our own party and ensure it had no place in our politics. We have a responsibility to uphold those same standards in our relationships with other parties.”