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Gary Spedding
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Rugby Union 🏉 grassroots player & supporter of Palestinian human rights/liberation. Can also be found fighting antisemitism. Contact: Gary@gary-spedding.com
In my newest piece of analysis for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social I have delved into Israel's outrageous detention and refusal of entry for two British members of Parliament: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-i...
By deporting British MPs, Israel has exposed its brutal border policies to the world
Two Labour parliamentarians were denied entry at Ben Gurion Airport, as Israel works to sever all ties between Palestinians and the outside world
www.middleeasteye.net
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Friends in the UK, please help this petition on anti-Palestinian racism go viral so we can get as many signatures as possible.

It is a really crucial issue, and I refuse to believe that so few people are engaged on the matter or simply don't care.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Define Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) & launch an inquiry into APR
We urge the Government to adopt a definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) that is based on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), & to launc...
petition.parliament.uk
March 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In less than 24 hours, this petition seeking to force the UK government to define & launch a full inquiry into anti-Palestinian racism has achieved 1,350 signatures.

It is such an important issue in UK politics and society at large.

Please sign & share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
March 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Please sign & share this petition on anti-Palestinian racism and join the demand to hold an inquiry in the UK Parliament: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Define Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) & launch an inquiry into APR
We urge the Government to adopt a definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR) that is based on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), & to launc...
petition.parliament.uk
March 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In my latest for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social, I have laid out clearly that the UK government must immediately prohibit all trade and investment with Israel's illegal settlement enterprise: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-m...
The UK's failure to enforce a ban on trade with Israel's illegal settlements must end
A failure to act on its legal obligations deepens our government's complicity in Israel's violent oppression of the Palestinian people
www.middleeasteye.net
March 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Palestinian actions, while exploited and used by Israel as attempted justification for its own horrific actions and policies, are not really a factor in determining or causing said actions and policies. It is the mere existence of Palestinians that is the issue for Israel.
March 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I'm going to make a real effort to move over to this platform and phase out twitter (X) altogether as it is simply unconscionable to continue utilising a social media space owned and operated by Elon Musk.

Twitter has become even more of a cesspit of racism, antisemitism & islamophobia & fascism.
January 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
For @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social I have written about the UK's deliberate avoidance of its obligations under international law and complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people:

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-d...
November 27, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Absolutely appalling response to question asked by Chris Law MP - it doesn't even address the point raised in the question about the UKs OBLIGATIONS under the Genocide Convention, repeating same rhetoric about merits of the Genocide case at the ICJ. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
November 19, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Gary Spedding
This is astonishing, sickening stuff. People in the most horrifying position imaginable, starving, terrified and fleeing for their lives. And he mocks and gloats at them. He doesn't see them as people. A society high on genocide and impunity.
#Israel: Channel 12's "Palestinian Affairs Correspondent" Ohad Hemo 'interviews' genocide survivors in northern #Gaza. Older women and children, and he is following them and mocking them as they cry. Full vid www.youtube.com/watch?v=07bQ...
November 15, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Gary Spedding
What I would ask:

Is the PM implying that Oct 7 justifies any subsequent atrocity?
That the UK doesn't even have to look at Israel's conduct, because Oct 7?
That the UK now violates its own obligations under int. law, because Oct 7?
Has the PM abandoned legal reasoning?
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Reposted by Gary Spedding
At the International Development Committee this week, we had a message for the UK Government: The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is no accident, but part of Israel's war on Palestinians.

Aid without accountability has failed. The UK must not be an ally to atrocities.
November 13, 2024 at 9:23 PM
BREAKING: Green Party MPs have written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy on the UK government's position on the risk of genocide in Gaza. In the letter, the MPs highlight the obligation to prevent and duty to act, where there is a plausible and serious risk of genocide.
November 13, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Making my first post here to express my solidarity with the #Palestinian people in support of human rights and justice for all and to call for a #CeasefireNowinGaza.

Not sure how this app works in comparison to twitter but hopefully it can be a platform for promoting change!
November 19, 2023 at 11:34 PM