Btw, I received much unsolicited advice along these lines from random accounts, some with real names. I’m grateful but my doubtless eccentric practice is always to ignore such counsel & pay commercial rates to solicitors qualified in the field. I find it more cost-effective.
9/9 Ms Sultana’s views are ignorant but that isn’t impeachable. I hence drew attention to their connotations. I’m glad to have done so, and not backed down. The cause of liberalism, pluralism & secularism - of which the Jewish national ideal is part - is not one I’ll ever betray.
8/9 If Hamas prevailed, the oppression of Palestinians would not end but radically intensify, while a new dark age for the Jews would begin. A ‘left’ that fails to see the evils of theocratic absolutism is no instrument for human liberation, but its enemy.
1/9 In August 2025 Zarah Sultana MP tweeted she was ‘loudly & proudly’ anti-Zionist. I commented that she was, rather, an ‘evasive antisemite’. She replied: ‘Delete and apologise, otherwise you better lawyer up. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. The smears won’t work this time.’