Zadie Stan

Lib left not hard left; Green w/o the woo (rewilding now); Atheist not anti-theist; Science not scientism; Gender dysphoria exists, gender ID is ??;

[Zadie Stan @bab_dewey]

If you can redefine language to make it impossible for your opponents to express perfectly reasonable concerns without being accused of hate speech, you never need to engage with what they're saying and you can prevent massive numbers of other people from listening to them.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Yesterday the Telegraph reported on my comments about air conditioning.

The comment section is quite something. I have apparently become a hero of the anti net zero crowd by saying something what I think is sensible about air con.

Allow me to point out three ironies in this 🧵

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

As a former major fund-raiser for Amnesty - I produced the first five 'Secret Policeman's Balls' - I renounce the mob who have taken over Amnesty

Amnesty used to be about trying to do something about TORTURE

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

Finally, some real sentencing.

Shafiq Rahman, 48, was sentenced today at Reading Crown Court to sixteen months in prison in relation to an incident in April 2026, in which he called an Orthodox Jewish man a “dirty motherf***ing Jew” and threatened to break his jaw.

The sentence reflects numerous offences which Mr Rahman admitted in court, including racially aggravated common assault, fear or provocation of violence by words.

This is the sort of deterrence that we need to see against antisemitic criminals. If you engage in unprovoked, aggressive abuse of someone because they are Jewish, you have a speedy trial and you go to prison.

That is the only way to start to turn the tide of the worst levels of antisemitic hate crime in our lifetimes.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

If nothing else, I suppose it’s reassuring that @AmnestyUK etc remain implacably opposed to understanding their enemy. It’s such an Achilles heel for them, being incapable of deviating from the truly wild idea that gender critical activists are right-wing Christian conservatives

[Tomos Doran 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🕊️ 🇵🇸 @portraitinflesh]

If Tommy Robinson means what he says, when he categorizes his ideological opponents as "a disease" and "not even human", then what's to stop him locking them - us - up in camps, or worse, if he ever wins power? You can't just write this stuff off as meaningless rhetorical excess.

[Nina Welsch @CleverclogsNina]

A potentially overlooked point about @amnesty labeling Beira’s Place an “anti-rights group” is that it stigmatises the women who *use* it. It implicitly frames traumatised rape victims doing nothing but seeking solace and support as deserving of shunning in “polite society”.

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

If you want to complain to Amnesty international for branding a bunch of civil society organisations "anti-rights" this how to do it.

email to: [email protected]

https://t.co/LOBWuc4Z6o

[Colin Wynter KC @QcWynter]

I used to donate to Amnesty back in the day when its focus was on people suffering state assisted disappearances & death in places like Chile.
In those days, human rights meant human rights.
Does it still cover that sort of stuff or is it now solely "obsessed with gender"?

[Jasmin Mujanović @JasminMuj]

12:00.

The piercing sound of sirens rings throughout Sarajevo as the capital and its inhabitants come to a stand still to remember the victims of the Srebrenica Genocide, and the broader Bosnian Genocide.

Today, we grieve the dead.

Tomorrow, we organize for the living.

[Michael Button @MichaelButtonX]

In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.

He was 81 years old. He refused.

Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.

He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.

Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.

They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.

Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

Dear 20-something Amnesty activist me: “as you approach 60, one day you’ll wake up to find that Amnesty is campaigning for you to suffer something between pariah status and criminal sanction, because you still don’t believe that people can change sex and sometimes that matters.”

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

“FWS is only ‘anti-rights’ if you don’t consider women to be entitled to any rights in law or public life. It’s a sad state of affairs that Amnesty has sunk so low as to defame prominent women’s organisations, including a rape crisis centre and support networks for abused wives and children."
https://t.co/fSi4Tonk1i

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Through the 1970s she was received in East Germany by Erich Honecker and given an honorary doctorate at Leipzig. In 1979 she flew to Moscow to accept the Lenin Peace Prize from the government that ran the Gulag.

Rudolf Bahro, the East German dissident socialist held in a GDR prison, never got a public word from her.

[Kim Willsher @kimwillsher1]

@HadleyFreeman Beira's Place, the Edinburgh trauma centre that exists to help girls and women survivors of rape and sexual abuse, is also on Amnesty's ridiculous "anti-rights" list. (Presumably because it was founded and funded by she-who-cannot-be-named.)

[Martin Cleaver - 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @MCleaver]

@HadleyFreeman Is there no one at @Amnesty International questioning their ridiculous aggression against people who don't believe in gender? This has done more to damage Amnesty than anything in decades!

[Hadley Freeman @HadleyFreeman]

Amnesty has managed to discredit itself over gender insanity even more than the ACLU and Stonewall, and that really is saying something

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Angela Davis is the most famous prison abolitionist of the last fifty years.

She built her name on one rule: no one should be caged for their beliefs.

Then political prisoners in communist regimes wrote to her. 🧵

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

I can't stand the way organisations such as Amnesty tell women that any right to abortion depends on agreeing with the misogyny of trans activism. I don't believe the people who do this care about reproductive choice. They just want it as a weapon.

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

No, I am fully aware of what total assholes some of the identitarian left are. I’ve been arguing with them since 2013.

It doesn’t magically make fascists ‘not assholes.’

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The reason Hothersall, and people like him, can't abide women and gay people who say 'no' to the removal of rights from female rape victims and the chemical castration of gender-confused children is that they're completely insulated from the harms they're cheering on.