Marl Karx

Typos increase 300% after 8pm.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

@MikeTappTweets Mike Twatt

[Marianne Sunshine @MissMaSunshine]

I haven’t seen anything near this scrutiny for Michael Gove & his paedo girlfriend

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Gaza has no schools left.
Israel bombed them all.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

The explanation I've always heard is that it's about safety, but I'm unwilling to buy that anymore, knowing that these schools are basically brainwashing factories for Zionism.

Another grim example of how a manufactured culture of fear is used to control people in this country.

[gato fumante @KweenInYellow]

So does no one think it's strange that 70% of Jewish children in the UK attend Jewish-only schools? Does any other demographic in the country do this? Why has the UK government even facilitated such a system? Isn't integration supposed to be the goal of a pluralist democracy? 🤨

[☭ King of Jannies, hands off the Global South @ACleverNickname]

Reminder that the person that turned in Luigi got fired and never got the reward

[James Wilson @per_incuriam2]

To be fair to Morgan McSweeney, he has managed to fill the Labour benches with sub-idiot-drone MPs who are going to pollute the discourse with total inanity for years to come. @JeevunSandher

[Jade @JadeEckhaus]

I was there last night when 20 masked fascists tried to attack a socialist meeting in Glasgow.

These aren’t concerned citizens. They’re thugs trying to silence political opposition through violence and intimidation.

Unity on the left is essential to defeat the far right.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

There ares no "illegal Arab structures" in the West Bank.

There are, however, thousands of illegal Israeli structures.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

Every day this unjust law continues more damage is done. It is not enough just to wait for the courts to overturn it, Burnham could end this now if he wanted to.

[Jonathan Shainin @jonathanshainin]

They're doing "go woke go broke" on the Telegraph now

[KPMG dad @jenuflexion]

I love how this is framed as "mickey mouse degrees lol" and not that thatcherite faux-marketisation of student finance, lumping students with unpayable debt has been a massive failure.

[Fergus Navaratnam-Blair @Fergus_NBlair]

If anyone wants to know the actual reason Goldsmiths pulled out of this deal, it’s because they are in dire financial straits - as has been widely reported.

The Green administration in Lewisham was fully supportive of the Catford campus plans, and Goldsmiths has made no suggestion that our policies played any role in this decision.

Lewisham Labour should be ashamed of themselves for suggesting otherwise.

[Donahue Rogers @DonahueRogers]

BBC news leading with the two Israeli soldiers shot on West Bank

No mention of the 25 Palestinians murdered in Gaza just this week

[Rob @robrousseau]

So if/when anti-government protests kick off in Cuba can we all just skip the part where we pretend not to understand what's going on?

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

West Bank just got locked down, four days before Israeli elections. Hundreds of checkpoints and gates are now shut. Almost 3.5 million Palestinians are stranded right now. This is collective punishment of an entire population under military occupation.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The reality of the "independent" review telling every school in England to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism: its author, Sir David Bell, was being paid by a government agency while he wrote it, and a pro-Israel charity has listed him on its council for ten years.

The government told the public he was "independent of Government" and had "no conflict of interest". Neither is true.

What we found:

- Bell was paid £20,000 a year as vice-chair of Skills England, a government agency, in a seat the Department for Education gave him. He held it until August, through most of the review.

- The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East has listed him on its council since at least 2016. Its website says its one firm policy is opposing boycotts of Israel. It gives talks on Israel in schools, which is exactly what his review was asked to judge.

- In 2005, as chief inspector of schools, he singled out Muslim schools as a challenge to "our coherence as a nation". The chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools called it Islamophobia, and his own inspectors said he had presented a personal view as inspection evidence.

Then we followed the money:

- The department's £1.3 million antisemitism training contract had one bidder, according to the tender record. It went to Palace Yard, a company set up in 2022 by the former Labour MP Natascha Engel.

- That contract says all its training must use the IHRA definition "as a foundation". It was signed eight months before Bell was appointed. His review then recommended IHRA.

- Two of the people who advised Bell, from Partnerships for Jewish Schools and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, now sit on the group putting his recommendations into practice.

- The Union of Jewish Students, also on that group, holds a contract worth almost £1 million to train universities. Its own policies include "UJS to advocate for Israel within UK Policy and International Law".

- UK Lawyers for Israel* (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism* (CAA) both say the review adopted their recommendations.

*For context, UKLFI once justified the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupation as "good for obesity". Both these groups have staunchly defended Israel throughout its perpetration of a genocide in Gaza, and regularly conflate Jewish people with the apartheid state.

This matters because the review decides how every school treats what pupils and teachers say about Israel, and the IHRA definition it recommends treats some criticism of Israel as antisemitic. A review with that power should come from someone with no pay from government and no tie to a pro-Israel charity. Bell had both. The government put one in a footnote and left the other out.

We mapped every link, each with its source, explaining just how far this review is from "independent": https://t.co/bPsbRjZNaN

[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

You might think that founding the NHS would class you as a friend to the British people.

But British security services treated Nye Bevan as an enemy.

Please remember this next time you are being fed crap by MI5 on your telly. They are not on our side.

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Forget Iran for now: he means they’re strangling 11 million civilians because toppling their government would make him personally look good.

[Chris Nineham @ChrisNineham]

Omg! A militant working class voice on Question Time. Look at Stephanie Flanders reaction. Speaks volumes.