Zack Polanski didn’t say ‘thank you’ to the person in front of him at the checkout when they put the shopping divider down on the conveyor belt so he could start loading his own items at a branch of Lidl in South London in 2005.
Source: Daily Mail
'I have pleaded not guilty. In Great Britain, accurately describing an ideology as supremacist is not a crime.'
'The prosecution calls my speech "terrorism". I call it solidarity and principle.'
Free Palestine. Free Britain.
Central Criminal Court.
24 March 2026.
****Statement from Mosab Abu Toha in response to LeMoyne College's President's email to students today*****
This is deeply shameful. I cannot believe what I am reading.
How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?
On April 15, I had the honor of visiting and speaking at Le Moyne College. I spoke about my lived experience in Gaza, shared the family trees of those killed by Israel, and read my poems. I also played the actual recordings of Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling that I documented myself while on the ground in Gaza.
This morning, the President of the college sent out an email condemning my use of the word GENOCIDE when describing these crimes. She claimed that using that word is "antisemitic." She stated that she recognized the "real hurt" that the word caused to Jewish students.
Seriously? Are the crimes of the Israeli state representative of all Jewish people? I personally refuse to believe that is the case.
It is utterly ridiculous to begin a letter by stating that your institution welcomes the "free exchange of ideas," only to immediately condemn a speaker, not for sharing abstract ideas, but for sharing his own life. I still carry the physical wounds of a 2009 airstrike on my neck, my forehead, and my cheek. My wife and I have lost over one hundred relatives, most of them children. Some of them have still not been buried.
Who are these students you are talking about? Not a single person who identified themselves as Jewish approached me after my talk to offer condolences or acknowledge the actual crimes committed against me and my family. I never once used the word "Jewish" during the entire event; I refuse to conflate the faith of Judaism with the actions of the state of Israel.
Yet, you suggest my language caused "hurt." Whoever went to your office to complain about my words should have been the first to approach the stage to show humanity and support for a survivor.
It may surprise you to know that I used the word GENOCIDE to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza long before most human rights organizations, including prominent Israeli organizations, and leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars arrived at the same conclusion. I hope this fact does not "hurt" anyone even more.
If anyone told you they felt "hurt" because I used the word GENOCIDE, then I ask you: how should I feel? How should my wife feel after losing her father? How should my three children feel after losing their grandfather?
At a time when a GENOCIDE should be condemned, it is the survivors and those who speak out against it who are being targeted instead.
SHAME!!!!!
@jonnyrotten430@PhilipProudfoot The foolishness of someone who thinks Starmer is a lefty is revealed.
Economically - where it counts - Starmer is a Thatcherite neoliberal. There's nothing remotely left about him.