Lil Waz V

My life: TL, DR

[Eloise… dynamite with a laser beam! @WorldWearyWoman]

When passing the GRA, ministers were explicit that on issuing a GRC someone’s sex was considered “changed” for the purpose of equality legislation.

During the committee stage of the Equality Act, it was made explicit that single-sex services should ordinarily be trans inclusive.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

It should never be forgotten that the "Gender Critical" movement is full of people who seem desperate to harm children and anyone who seeks to protect them.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Find time to read this quite astonishingly good piece by
@ArwaM Mahdawi. Brilliant on our government's appalling moral confusion over Gaza

"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"

https://t.co/lxF64weMUN

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

I call BS.

The facts are these:
Henry Nowak told officers he'd been stabbed. He told them he couldn't breathe. An officer replied, “I don't think you have, mate”. They dragged him along the ground and handcuffed him. He died before anyone called an ambulance.

No DEI course teaches you to ignore a dying man. Officers have a duty to assess injured persons, call for medical assistance, and not take one party's word as gospel. They failed on all three.

This is incompetence repackaged as ideological victimhood. “DEI made us feel certain ways” shifts anger from officers who let a teenager die onto a culture-war target. That's their defence strategy.

Henry told them he was dying. They didn't listen. They didn't follow protocol. That's a conduct and skill problem, not a DEI problem.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I still cannot get over the evil of the Israeli "double tap" strike

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's easy to point at Jillian Segal and make fun of how crazy and stupid she is, but the Albanese government is the only reason her craziness and stupidity is a problem.

The thing about Segal and all these "antisemitism advisors" they're setting up in western governments is that they're just random people with strong political opinions who are being elevated to ridiculous levels of influence. They're not experts, they're just people who happen to hold the political opinion that it should be illegal to criticize the state of Israel.

Which wouldn't normally be an issue; our society is full of individuals with terrible political opinions. The problem is that our government has selected these cartoonishly ridiculous Zionists to help shape policy in immensely consequential ways that erode the civil liberties of our nation. Our leaders are the ones to blame for these inept lunatics wielding absurd levels of influence; left to their own devices they'd just be harmless idiots. They're only harmful because they're being given the power to do harm.

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[HutchOnline @Hutch_Online]

Has a single word that has ever come out of Starmer's mouth been true?

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"Let me read the @guardian's analysis directly:

1,100 Palestinian civilians. Over 275 children. Murdered executed, shot, beaten, run over & not a single Israeli, not 1 soldier, not 1 settler, not 1 police officer, has been prosecuted. 0. Nothing.

This is not a failure of the justice system. This is the justice system.

Because when Palestinians submit complaints, and they do, they file thousands of them, less than 1% end in indictments.

Let me put that in perspective. If you are a Palestinian in the West Bank and an Israeli settler shoots your father in front of you, you have a 1% chance of even seeing an investigation. You have a 0% chance of seeing a conviction.

Now, imagine the opposite. If a Palestinian throws a stone at an Israeli soldier, military court, indefinite detention, possibly death, that is not a conflict. That is a racial hierarchy. That is aparthied."

This is what the genocide apologists were so proud about yesterday in New York. Apartheid.

Full video: https://t.co/V801ZEL2ZA via @TGYKOfficial

[The Millennial Snowflake 🇵🇸 @Teh_Snowflake]

FIFY.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

It's a myth Germans didn't know the Holocaust was happening. They may have not known the details, but they knew Jews were being sent to their death

Likewise, decades from now you'll hear people say that Israelis "didn't know" about the genocide in Gaza. That is also a lie

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

It’s begun: The Great Rewriting of History by the politicians, journalists, media commentators who stayed quiet over Gaza to keep climbing the greasy pole - while a handful of us who spoke-up were smeared, abused, or fired.

As @Hamza_a96 says, don’t let them do it:

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

sxsw was a minor part of my trip to the uk, they totally didn’t defend me or cenk at all, they’re actual fucking losers and i will never work with them for the rest of my life. if you bought a ticket expecting to see me you should demand a refund.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

[Gemma @windupgemma]

I don't need to "speak for all women" to declare a fact Karen.

Slurs aren't word that you do not like. They're words that are used to oppress groups

You aren't being oppressed because you're cis.

Stop cosplaying oppression

[The National @ScotNational]

Tomorrow's front page 📰

Labour condemned over "attack on freedom to criticise Israel" after banning pro-Palestine commentators from entering UK

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

1. The U.K. Government should reverse its ban on Cenk Uygur from speaking at Oxford. I’ve followed Cenk for sometime. He is an influential American critic of Israel’s war on Gaza. He’s also a strong voice calling out antisemitism. To try to paint @cenkuygur as an extremist is wrong and a serious infringement of free speech.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Last year, my friend Hasan Piker addressed the Oxford Union. He spoke cogently (https://t.co/UQCKLCjKpH) on the rise of antisemitism, fascism and the dangerous conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.

This coming Friday, The Econoclasts (that is, Wolfgang Munchau and I) were to host him at a live event at the Kings Cross Town Hall.

Alas, the Starmer government decided to ban Hasan from entering the UK. Why? Without even saying so explicitly, they hinted at Hasan's... antisemitism!

Join the club Hasan - your ban brings back memories of two years ago when I was banned from entering Germany for the hideous crime of organising, alongside German Jews, a conference on the ultra-subversive topic of the 'A Just Peace in the Middle East'.

These days, it seems, you are banned as an antisemite if you oppose the Palestinian genocide and the ideology that drives it.

And, as Freddie tweeted just now, your being silenced leaves those who purport to value free speech above all else utterly unperturbed.

Such are the 'interesting' times we are enduring...