If you want to understand why our universities have become breeding grounds for antisemitism and extremism, take a minute to listen to this Leeds University student.
Rosey, the famous Gazan influencer, planned to head to the beach in Gaza. Unfortunately, she wasn’t allowed to enter the sea even though she was already dressed modestly. The locals insisted she wear a full-body covering resembling a prayer dress that would also cover her head.
Later, poor Rosey found herself stuck outside one of Gaza’s typical “men-only” parties (thousands of well-fed men packed tightly together, dancing), forced to wait for a ride while eating shawarma.
Pro-Pal activists loved every moment of the Israel/Gaza war as it enabled them to cynically use Palestinian casualties to validate their real motivation - antisemitism. Like the terrorists they support, they don't want peace, just the destruction of the world's only Jewish state.
Pro-Pals in Germany jumped on top of an old tank at a show and accused the country of “genocide”. Members of the public grabbed the banner while a soldier laughs at them. That’s how seriously they’re taken.
Here's my @Telegraph column, 'Zack Polanski wants a Jew register. What could be more sinister than that?'
https://t.co/l1z6YW44ez
I’ll say one thing for Zack Polanski: he knows a winning strategy when he sees one. When he became leader of the Greens last September, he spotted straight away that the secret to boosting the party’s poll ratings – and thus electoral success – was straightforward. Dump the green stuff and focus on Gaza.
There was a ready-made group of voters for whom Gaza is the only issue that really matters, waiting to be courted by any party which turned itself into the anti-Israel train. That group fell into the Greens’ arms when Polanski arrived on the scene.
He has been masterly in his care of them, not least in his skilful elision of being anti-Israel with being Jewish himself. It provides a much-used “get out of jail free card” when the Greens’ professed anti-Zionism slips into accusations of barely disguised anti-Semitism.
But even by Polanski’s standards, his demand that any dual British-Israeli citizen who has fought for Israel against Hamas in Gaza has their name listed on a database – a list, in other words, of bad Jews – is breathtakingly blatant.
The Green leader has signed an open letter sent to Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, which calls on the Government to act in the name of “public safety and justice” to “track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF” and “subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry”. Britons, that is, who just happen to be Jews.
Israel has national service, and all Israeli citizens (with the exception – which is deeply controversial in Israel – of some religious groups) are conscripted to the IDF at 18. Many have been called up as reservists when they are older.
Polanski is thus calling for a large proportion of British-Israeli dual citizens to be listed on a database. “Nobody wants to live next to a potential war criminal,” the letter organised by campaign group Declassified UK states. Presumably then, Polanski wishes to refuse entry to or deport any British-Israeli who has served in the IDF.
You will notice one obvious element to this demand. There are wars on every continent. There are accusations of war crimes in all those conflicts. But Polanski has said not a word about British dual citizens – or even those of sole UK nationality – who have fought in any of those wars, either ongoing or historic.
I wait, for example, for Polanski to demand a list of dual-nationality Britons who fought in one of the most brutal post-1945 conflicts, the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence. The nine-month conflict led to the death of up to three million Bengalis and the displacement of 10 million refugees into India.
This is not merely historic. War crime investigations are still going on. But no Israelis were involved (let’s be honest: no Jews). So Polanski is silent – not least because many new Green voters are drawn from those communities.
By signing the letter, Polanski doesn’t only demand that Britons who have fought in Gaza be put on a database. He goes far beyond that. The letter calls says “travellers with Israeli travel documents or arriving from an origin of Tel Aviv airport” should be subject to “potential secondary screenings at ports of entry”. For Polanski then, any Israeli should be marked out for special screening.
As for the allegation of genocide against Israel, it is, at the very least, hotly contested. But there is a well-founded allegation of genocide against the Chinese in its treatment of the Uyghurs. Does Polanski demand that any Chinese national arriving in the UK is deemed a suspected war criminal? Of course he doesn’t.
If Jews aren’t involved, neither Polanski nor any of his fellow Greens could give a damn. Polanski may be Jewish, but his party’s strategy could hardly be clearer.
I took some film of @metpoliceuk officers walking *away* from a small group of women who violent trans activists had kettled against some railings in Hyde Park.
Visibly Jewish guests in a @TravelodgeUK hotel get the welcome message “Free Palestine” on their TV set. Why is this politically divisive slogan programmed in and if it’s targeted at Jews then it’s deeply antisemitic.
Streeting pressured Starmer to recognise Palestine after Palestinians murdered, raped and kidnapped thousands of Israelis. It wasn't a moral issue, he was, and still is pandering to the 'Gaza' vote in his constituency.
Lebanese Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist organisation, has caused harm to the Lebanese people, undermined the Lebanese government, continued to threaten Israel, and is part of a terrorist network that threatens the United Kingdom and our allies.
Hezbollah continues to undermine peace efforts in the Middle East and continues to fail to comply with the Lebanon-Israel 2024 ceasefire.
It is in the interests of peace in the region that Hezbollah must be permanently disarmed.
ITV must investigate.
A letter signed by nearly twenty Jewish working professionals in the arts and media has urged ITV to respond to the allegations presented in a fifteen page dossier, which details concerning statements made by the TV personality Nadia Sawalha.
We had previously raised concerns over Ms Sawalha’s claim that “dark forces” were at work in the wake of her husband’s suspension from the Green Party, for which he was running as a candidate.
The letter, signed by key Jewish industry figures, claims that her comments show a “repeated promotion, legitimisation and endorsement of antisemitic conspiracy narrative” and a “mocking, dismissive, or trivialising treatment of antisemitism allegations and concerns”.
At a time of unprecedented hatred and incitement, much of which is going unchecked and unresolved, ITV must look into these concerning allegations at once.
https://t.co/IpTjigzmO3
On 7 October 2023, Eliya Cohen came to the dance at the Nova music festival with the woman he loved.
He was dragged out of a bomb shelter, bloodied, wounded, and loaded onto a Hamas pickup truck into Gaza.
Tickets for this event: https://t.co/O4XC8hsMjF
It's an honor to have made Israel's enemies list. I'm very proud to have fought against their genocide.
The mighty United Kingdom is afraid of speech that shows you who's responsible for those war crimes. But no amount of censorship will get us to stop telling the truth.
Again the meaning of “Zionist” is the Jewish State of Israel.
It’s not a bad word. Zion comes from the bible.
But this latest threatening graffiti was discovers in Hackney, North London, which incidentally is now a Green Party controlled local council.
Last night PSG fans rioted when their team won the Champions League. So what's going to happen if PSG are drawn against Aston Villa next season? Will @BhamCityCouncil ban their fans from attending the match, or will it be a case of no Jews, no news?
🚨 At the Arsenal celebration a Jewish man told this pro-Pal politely that his T-shirt was offensive and the guy picked up his kid’s scooter and threatened him with it. Do something about this abuse @metpoliceuk
Last week I was sent an image of a pro-Palestine stall at Cambridge Market Square.
Not angry students. Not masked radicals. Rather elderly white women encouraging strangers to boycott Israel.
So yesterday I went to Cambridge to hear what they were selling.
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