NEW RELEASE!
It's been a while coming, but our next 'grooming gang' piece is here. In our latest, we've tried to find some context to cut through the media hysteria.
'Muslim grooming gangs': imminent threat or just another superpredator?
https://t.co/7kiiOAXjSi
News Flash: Terrorist Attack Foiled!
Israel just dropped a two-ton bomb on the Hague during the ICJ hearing on Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Israeli government stated: "There was a Hamas command-and-control center in a Hamas tunnel beneath the Court chamber. Two top Hamas terrorists were ensconced in the tunnel. The six members of the South African delegation and seven judges killed in the pinpoint Israeli strike were also Hamas." The New York Times' Isabel Kershner and Ronen Bergman confirmed the existence of the tunnel. "We even saw a flush toilet!" Patrick Kingsley expressed some skepticism: "I should think only five of the judges were Hamas." In an interview with Piers Morgan, noted philosopher Jordan Peterson stated that Iran built the tunnel, while Sam Harris warned the Dutch to beware of Muslim babies strapped with explosives.
I received this powerful statement from Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford) in defence of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who is currently 'under savage attack in the Israeli press and in social media for alleged antisemitism' – please read and share
the great crisis of our time isn’t inequality, institutional racism, or climate but “the woke mind virus” which is extremely convenient for billionaires since this is the one option that doesn’t require them to change anything other than getting mad at random editors at Buzzfeed
What leaps out of the AJ docs is that it’s just Trojan Horse, austerity and Iraq all over again: deeply cynical political swine making up any old shit out of convenience, for an audience of hacks who say “wow!” and “gosh!” then stampede it into print, whether it’s true or not.
@AyoCaesar@DarrenJM73@RCLabour It was a Russian hack and leak operation that produced content that may be edited, distorted or fake. I was the victim of a serous crime. You are the victim of Russian disinformation. Read more about "tainted leak" operations here: https://t.co/mqMTlJ40Fz
"It's really important you get politicians to come out and support you... I'm very proud to do that, running as leader of the Labour Party because my leadership will be standing with you and other campaigns like you" - Starmer, picket line, two years ago.
https://t.co/PytjBbwmzd
Just out: I wrote about the social construction of the “Muslim grooming gangs” crisis for @The_NewArab . The underlying crimes are horrendous, but the spin is dangerous and destructive. https://t.co/PzfcyUrlKC
Well, that's interesting because I seem to remember Brendan opposed all policies designed to tackle COVID and insisted the public do the same. Same with net-zero policies.
As B'Tselem has stated again and again: no one should wait for Israel's "investigations" nor expect that they will deliver justice for Palestinians. It is time for the world to finally wake up to this reality and take action. Anything else simply enables Israel's impunity.
An American citizen was just shot in the head and murdered while working as a journalist, her home was then invaded by Israeli police, and all the United States can do is to call for an investigation. No condemnation of the ethnostate they call a democracy.
Turns out doing an interview with ITV News that tops the broadcast in which you intentionally compare your own political party to the Third Reich is a hindrance to effecting positive change.
The point being made here - that intentionally continuing to divide into armed camps of mutual suspicion that is bad and practically guarantees further conflict - should I hope be uncontroversial at this point. Didn’t prevent World War I, hasn’t prevented this one.