Dr. Haroon Rafique

(he/him)
⚛️Accelerator Physicist
⛹️Basketball Coach
🏴‍☠️Probably not what you assume

🏳️‍⚧️ Any injustice is a threat to all justice 🏳️‍🌈

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

Demand a Statutory Public Inquiry into the Issy Vine Met Police Whistleblower Case - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/XlupEslc5q via @UKChange

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

The terrorist colony of Isreal is the greatest threat to all life on Earth. Their pitiful efforts at propaganda fool no one. Palestine is occupied, and
@GaryLineker
will remain a hero for opposing this oppression, apartheid, and genocide. #ZionistScum = #NaziScum

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

After a week of public outcry and over 10,000 signatures on our petition in only a few days, calling on Gary Lineker and the BBC to part ways, the message has finally been received.

His departure from the BBC was long overdue. This latest incident comes after years of us pointing out his descent. He became a symbol of the rot at the heart of our national broadcaster: a man repeatedly allowed to flout the BBC’s own rules on impartiality, abusing his position to promote his increasingly propagandist politics, vilifying those he disagrees with, and even promoting dehumanising and extreme messages.

The BBC tolerated this for years despite our growing calls and in spite of its supposed values, because it no longer lives by them. Impartiality at the BBC is dead, and Mr Lineker has been Exhibit A.

Gary Lineker could have been the Des Lynam of our generation. Instead, he transformed in front of the nation’s eyes into Mr Not So Nice Guy, an egotist who mistook celebrity for moral authority, a divisive figure who used his fame to inflame.

At last, the final whistle has been blown on his tenure at the BBC, and now it is time to ask how and why management allowed him to play on until now, foul after foul.

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

@antisemitism The terrorist colony of Isreal is the greatest threat to all life on Earth. You are fooling no one. The entire population of the Earth knows that Palestine is occupied, and @GaryLineker will remain a hero for opposing your oppression. #ZionistScum = #NaziScum

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

The only thing that AI is generating is carbon dioxide #shame

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

@Keir_Starmer @realDonaldTrump #disgusting #shame

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

@LTC_Shoshani #ZionistScum #PalestineWillBeFree

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

@paulwaugh Disgusting behaviour as expected from the oppressors of the people. The new Tories are no different from the old so I don't expect any systemic change. Disgraceful. This pig should be behind bars already. #ACAB

[Dr. Haroon Rafique @coachrafique]

I just signed a petition: No prison for protest. Sign here: https://t.co/vG1Yc6bWTN

[International Union of Scientists (IUS) @iuscientist]

The IUS is the result of the 'International Convention Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation and Genocide in Gaza' held on 9th Dec 2023. See https://t.co/0ZAoH3mRhj

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Israel 🇮🇱 has:

•Blocked aid entering Gaza 🇵🇸
•Massacred Palestinians 🇵🇸 waiting for flour
•Defamed the UN
•Targeted & murdered international aid workers.

All to stop UNRWA, ANERA and the World Central Kitchen providing food.

Starvation is Israel’s 🇮🇱 weapon of genocide.

[Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis @DrLoupis]

Are they “antisemites”?

[Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason @KadiatuKM]

Replying to the barrage of racism against my son @ShekuKM this week. So many feel it’s ok to call for deportation, flogging, sending him ‘back to Africa’ and to use ‘Ni**er’ against someone trying to engage in a conversation about music and inclusion. Horror, rage, heartbreak.

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Journalists are reporting northern Gaza to be in a state of famine with charities unable to supply rice over the last three days.

Starvation is Israel’s most cruel weapon of war.

It is not defence.
It is a war on children.
It is genocide.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

Deeply depressing interview just now between @SophyRidgeSky and @SteveReedMP on the sewage crisis. Reed said he is very happy to work with the Tories, but he won’t nationalise water claiming it will cost £90billion. It would actually cost nothing: the payment due would be no more than the sum the industry could service as debt. When will Labour learn some basic corporate finance?

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I don't understand how you can look at the wanton and gleeful destruction of Gaza by the Israeli army, and feel anything other than disgust.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Everyone keeps saying what about October 7?

What about;
Jerusalem Massacre 1937
Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939
Haifa Massacre 1947
Jaffa Massacre 1948
Khan Yunis Massacre 1956
Jerusalem Massacre 1967
Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982
Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990
Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002
Gaza Massacre 2008-09
Gaza Massacre 2012
Gaza Massacre 2014
Gaza Massacre 2018-19
Gaza Massacre 2021
Gaza Genocide 2023 still ongoing

[Dr Heather Williams MBE @alrightPET]

There is always going to be a market for private schools, but private schools are by definition a business - they charge for a service. They should be taxed accordingly. Why is this controversial?

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Mizzy pranks people and is jailed for 18 weeks but when 13yr-old Christopher Kapessa dies after deliberately being pushed into a river as a 'prank' the CPS dismisses it saying it’s not in the public interest and doesn’t bring any criminal charges. We need answers.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Thank you Dublin Ladies.

Don’t stop talking about Gaza.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is not a war. This is a genocide.

Post about Palestine like your life depends on it, because their lives depends on it.

Don't stop talking about Gaza. Push for a permanent ceasefire.