@ronandsarah@xMaccabix@YisraelChaiAdam@Kokothecat2 Do you subscribe to the newsletter of UK Lawyers for Israel. Hackney Greens are trying to get the pension scheme to disinvest from Israeli investments. They're annoyed because it's not that simple as the pension scheme is collective
EXCL: As Keir Starmer struggles to keep his crown, another leadership battle is raging. Away from the media spotlight, there is a struggle for the future of the Green party between its various official ‘Special Interest Groups’ and its leader, Zack Polanski.
On one side, Polanski and his officials are at least trying to appear to be dealing with allegations of anti-Semitism and extremism within the party. On the other, a powerful affiliate group, the Global Majority Greens (GMG), is accusing its leader of creating a ‘hierarchy of racism’, with allegations of anti-Semitism taken more seriously than other complaints.
Polanski, it claims, has failed to be truly anti-racist because he has not backed the ethnic-minority Greens who have been suspended over alleged anti-Jewish rhetoric. Most extraordinarily of all, it believes the Greens – yes, the Greens – are too pro-Zionist.
Crucially, the group is formally backed by Mothin Ali, who serves both as deputy leader of the party and GMG treasurer. Ali has endorsed official reports compiled by the GMG accusing Polanski of a litany of crimes against racial justice. In private WhatsApp groups, documents and Zoom calls leaked to The Spectator, Ali’s disdain for his boss’s conduct is plain.
Included in the leaks is a scathing draft GMG report that will be presented at the Green party AGM later this month. It accuses Polanski and his team of ‘performing anti-racism’ without putting it into practice. The report, which covers the first year of Polanski’s leadership, condemns a ‘serious governance problem inseparable from institutional racism’. Specifically, it criticises the party for suspending members accused of anti-Semitism – even though in most cases the evidence of anti-Semitism is clear-cut.
@robinlustig@Misanfrog I recall TWT reporting on The Monica Lewinsky Scandal in 1997 when the presenter commented that the good people of Washington feel that the story leaves a nasty taste in the mouth.
@AceRatzon The story is told of how President Nixon asked Golda Meir for advice on how to win in Vietnam. GM told him that he should have two of her Generals. Nixon pounced on the offer and agreed to a swap of two generals. Thanks, said GM, I'll take General Foods and General Motors
@BettingSitesCom Before the legalisation of Betting Shops, the cameras would pan to the approximate odds board - very useful for those who had telephone accounts
Classic joke:
An antisemitic millionaire goes to eat in a fancy restaurant. A Jewish man with a kippah sits down next to him. When the millionaire sees him, he says to the waiter, "On me, serve the most expensive meal to everyone in the restaurant except the Jew." The waiter does so, and everyone, even the Jew, gets up to thank the antisemite.
The millionaire then asks the waiter which dessert is the most expensive, and asks that be served to everyone but the Jewish man. With that done, everyone thanks him again, including the Jew.
The antisemite, bursting with rage, asks the waiter to serve the most expensive wine to everyone but the Jew. Again everyone thanks him, including the Jew.
Finally, the antisemite explodes and asks, “Why do you keep thanking me if you are the only one who received nothing?!”
The Jewish man replies, "I am the owner of this restaurant. Thank you very much!”
@AddictScrabble@JoosyJew The Mail was tipping Oundle a few weeks ago. Security would have been impossible, given the spread of school buildings across the town
@YisraelChaiAdam I spent five miserable years at Oundle. The headmaster was educated at UCS in Hampstead, and at some time converted to become a lay preacher in the CofE.