The Daily Politik

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[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"Too much of our public funding is going to private companies to make massive profits to give to their shareholders"

Spot on @KimJohnsonMP

Keir Starmer promised that Labour would launch the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation. But like with everything else, he was lying.

[LBC @LBC]

‘No one in this country thinks you can’t criticise Israel.’
‘Well I just got banned for it.’

@cenkuygur who was blocked from entering the UK by the Home Office, believes he should have used 'tougher' language to criticise the Israeli government.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

We're all going to ask ourselves - what did we do to stop a genocide?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Human Rights Watch has concluded that Israel's denial of water to Gaza amounts to an act of genocide.

In October 2023, Keir Starmer said "Israel does have that right" to cut off water and power from Gaza. This is what complicity in genocide looks like👇

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Why is this Reform UK “official account” based in Israel?

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

The key driver of “social disorder [and] violent crime in particular is inequality.”

After the rioting in Southampton, investigative journalist Paul Holden argues on Novara Live that police forces are having to deal with “a social fabric that is in serious strain after 40 years of Thatcherism.”

Meanwhile, the political right is extremely skilful at creating narratives of “white grievance” out of isolated incidents, in order to serve “the most extractive forms of capitalism”.

[Kim Johnson @KimJohnsonMP]

Palantir has no place in our NHS.

Patient safety is paramount. We must end all ties with Palantir and remove it from our NHS well before the 2027 break clause.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Emily Thornberry has today said the government has let down the Palestinian people, and allowed Israel to act with impunity.

The audacity.

Here she is in October 2023 refusing to condemn Israel cutting off power and supplies to Gaza.

Don’t let these people rewrite history.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Banning Cenk Uyghur and Hasan Piker from entering the UK is an absurd and cowardly decision from an increasingly authoritarian government.

Let us call this what it is: an attack on the freedom to criticise Israel, as well as the UK government’s own complicity in genocide.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I pulled out of SXSW London, and I hope other speakers and chairs do too.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

sxsw was a minor part of my trip to the uk, they totally didn’t defend me or cenk at all, they’re actual fucking losers and i will never work with them for the rest of my life. if you bought a ticket expecting to see me you should demand a refund.

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

The UK banning Hasan Piker for criticizing Israel:

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

the uk has revoked my visa as well. all at the behest of israel. the west is betraying "liberal values" for a genocidal fascist foreign government. soon we will all become israel.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

This is such a wild violation of free speech and a tacit admission that Israel has an outsized influence on the west, ironically proving Hasan correct

[Popstonox @Popstonox]

Hasan Piker confirms his UK visa has been revoked after pressure from pro-Israel groups

He was scheduled to speak at the Oxford Union, SXSW London, and to interview Yanis Varoufakis

[Oxford Union @OxfordUnion]

A statement from the President, Arwa Elrayess:

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Absolutely ridiculous. Zionist Labour is banning international journalists who have criticised the secular, terrorist state of Israel from entering the United Kingdom.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

“The West”, whatever the fuck that means, is not free. Revoking the visa of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur over criticism of Israel is one of the most brazen and pathetic attacks on free speech I’ve ever seen. The same idiots celebrating this authoritarianism will turn around and call you antisemitic for even pointing out that perhaps the Israel lobby has too much power. Good luck moving forward because the entire younger generation hates you, as they should.