Kate Middleton

Journalist/Filmaker/ Trainer. Lives in Greenwich. From up North. Biological Scientist. Trees, Birds and averting climate crisis my thing. Ebike on quiet roads.

[Mark Seddon @MarkSeddon1962]

Just like the old East India Company, these robber baron companies, presided over as they are by unaccountable oligarchs, are more powerful than Sovereign states. They have contempt for us.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

The BBC have not reported this from Bell's Report.

Please RT this until they do inform the public of this.

"Anti-Jewish attitudes are typically less prevalent and have remained more stable, whereas anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent and have been increasing'

Thank you.

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

🚨 UPDATE: The hypocrisy gets even worse.

"Sir" David Bell, the very man behind the government's antisemitism in schools report, was accused of Islamophobia back in 2005 for singling out Muslim faith schools.

As the then head of Ofsted, he warned that religious segregation could threaten social cohesion and questioned whether Muslim schools were adequately preparing children to respect other cultures.

Fast-forward 21 years...

We're now discussing a Jewish school's published commitment to preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel", while Bell's new report goes far beyond political impartiality, proposing measures to silence legitimate criticism of Israel, presenting genocide as a matter of competing political perspectives, and sanitising the actions of the Israeli state under the guise of tackling antisemitism.

If Muslim schools teaching a particular worldview raised concerns about social cohesion, why shouldn't schools explicitly preparing children to advocate for the State of Israel face the same scrutiny?

Especially when Israel are carrying out a genocide in Gaza!!

This isn't about Jewish or Muslim children. It's about the political indoctrination of ANY child, and the equally dangerous prospect of using education as a vehicle for state propaganda, suppressing legitimate criticism and sanitising atrocities.

It has absolutely NO place in our children's education, no matter which religion, ideology or state it seeks to serve.

If this is seriously where we're at, we may as well stop calling it the Department of Education, and call it what it is: the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine

@NEUnion @educationgovuk @andyburnham

https://t.co/k6vJMiUuG1…

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.

Here's the rub, though.

The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.

It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.

Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.

But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?

And here's the staggering hypocrisy.

We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.

Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.

And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.

Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.

@NEUnion @educationgovuk

[Jon Wiltshire @JonWiltshire_]

@mehdirhasan 👇

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

@mehdirhasan and the report's recommendations are about suppressing pro-Palestinian sentiment and boosting pro-Israel sentiment

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Always stroke a cat when given the chance

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Perhaps the most stark and revealing (accidental?) admission in the David Bell 'antisemitism in UK schools report. Antisemitic attitudes aren't increasing, only anti-Israel ones are. That's what most of this is about.
From the horse's mouth:
https://t.co/uxpNPelsEy

[Ionised Media @IonisedMedia]

@Concreteisland2 Richard Sanders investigation link https://t.co/42HHLkJ46d

[Robina Merakech @RobinaMerakech]

@Concreteisland2

[AnnaChetConcreteisland @Concreteisland2]

The more you learn about this the more terrifying and disgraceful it is.
All to protect the Zionist Israeli genocide of non “Jews” in Palestine.

[Bob From Accounts 🚲 @BobFromAccounts]

Hi Peter

The root cause of congestion in London is the excessive number of private cars + the inefficiency of travelling in a vehicle that is, on average, 1.8 m wide x 4 m long, statistically transporting 1 adult 60% of the time

It's nothing to do with cycle lanes. HTH

[Francesca 🚲💕 @francesca_kms]

This is Clerkenwell Road, one of London’s busiest cycling routes, yet there’s no safe cycling infrastructure.

Cyclists forced to squeeze between pedestrians & traffic, with no dedicated space.

The demand to cycle is there. Now we need streets that make it safe to do so. 🚲

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Deniers: "Climate change isn't real."

The heat: kills more than 50,000 people in Europe in a single summer.

The study: blames human-caused climate change for most of it.

The politicians: "Let's drill more gas!"

Deniers, fossil fuel profiteers, the politicians who sold us out, and the media that keeps burying it....

This one's on you 🤬

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Of all the lies told in this history of the world, this might be the biggest

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Respect. Enough is enough.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Shameful. Countryside vandalism for big tech greed.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

The next time Nick Clegg in invited onto BBC to pontificate as an independent tech expert…please note that here he is, named in the $27bn New Mexico judgment as one of execs engaged in a systematic cover-up of Facebook’s deceptive consumer practices.

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

I’m so disappointed.

Last year, Andy Burnham stood alongside Massive Attack and called the #FossilFuelTreaty a “lifeline.”

He urged governments to end coal, oil and gas expansion and hold polluters accountable.

Yesterday, his government approved a new North Sea gas field. 🧵

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

🤬 Finland: Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares at Muhos for a data centre before the required environmental assessment was completed, The Guardian reports.

Police are investigating suspected illegal logging.

Google told the BBC it had “fallen short of our own high standards in this instance”.