Sam JB

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[Sam JB @SamJB95]

I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on Xinjiang 10 years ago now. Never understood the lack of global outrage and particularly from the Muslim world. A horrific cultural genocide

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

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[☈ッ @TheFergusonWay]

THIS LOVE >>>>>

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Another transfer window like last year and we’re 100% going for the title #MUFC

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Tuchel out. Bring back Southgate

[Liban @LibanLDN]

Thomas Tuchel is either about to look like a football genius or become the most wanted man in England and have the tabloids calling for deportation by July. No middle ground.

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Leaving Maguire at home is a joke. Never had a good feeling for this World Cup and it’s getting worse

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

City losing the league 2 years in a row, Guardiola leaving, 115 charges looming, football is healing

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Guardiola’s legacy at City will be rewritten like Lance Armstrong’s one day. Blatant cheating from a club which was nothing before it became the plaything of a petrostate. Good riddance to a fraud who made English football worse #Guardiola

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Another very impressive showing by #Israel at #Eurovision. How would the antisemites like to change the rules for next year?

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

The “nakba” is one of the greatest marketing gimmicks today. Arab leaders were offered a state… they rejected it because the Jews also got one. They then launched an explicitly genocidal war to slaughter the Jews. They lost. Now they claim it’s a “catastrophe” for a nation that didn’t exist at the time.

At the same time, many Arab countries expelled or forced out over 800k Jews who lived in their countries in a campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Show me what you accuse the Jews of, and I’ll show you what you’re guilty of yourselves.

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Hearts robbed. Celtic fans embarrassing themselves once again

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

1000 times this. Ditto the Jew haters playing their pathetic little word games about conflating Jews and Zionists. It doesn’t matter. Apart from the kind of incidents that happen in every war ever, overall Israel has NOTHING to apologise for. Our own government has arguably a worse record in less difficult circumstances and in wars not directly impacting the UK population, and if we were put in similar circumstances and our government didn’t take similar or even more extreme actions, then they’d be failing this country. In fact, I can’t think of any country in the world that would’ve been able to achieve what Israel achieved in similar circumstances in a more ‘moral’ way.

So let me repeat. Only Jew haters think British Jews have anything to answer for regards the Gaza war. And only Jew haters think Israel has anything to answer for regards the Gaza war.

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Kemi it is. Labour have let the Palestinian mob and their idiot supporters run riot far too long

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Torn over my vote. This local election has a greater national impact than ever. Things will get worse before they get better if Starmer goes, but Kemi has done the best standing up for Jewish people - and the country needs the Tories to defeat Reform in the battle for the right

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

The job is Carrick’s. Can’t do anymore than that. Another transfer window like last and we have a very bright season ahead. Amorim should stand trial for what he did to Mainoo #MUFC

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Zack Polanski grew up as a loser. Struggled to make friends so ended up in the arms of fringe groups - all he had to do to fit in was betray his own people. He’s a dangerous fool in bed with Islamists, a fig leave for their Jew hatred

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

The Prime Minister's Office:

Weakness gaslights one antisemitic attack after another in London.

Words are not enough to confront this scourge.

We demand and expect action by the British Government to protect the Jews of England and bring antisemites to justice.

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

Following the antisemitic stabbing of two Jewish people on the streets of Golders Green this morning, words of condemnation are no longer sufficient. This must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader, and every decent person in our country. This is a hatred that we must face down together.

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

Great news for the Champions League. United are on their way back

[Sam JB @SamJB95]

What the fuck has football become if you get sent off for that. Those who make the rules should hang their heads in shame