David Allen - STILL BentButUnbowed🇮🇱🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈

Posts mostly about UK/ London politics; Sex and Gender, Anti-semitism, Israel, Iran, Islamism. Conservative councillor. LGB Alliance member.

[David Allen - STILL BentButUnbowed🇮🇱🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 @DavidAllenEN4]

Sales of my book have really picked up this month, especially in the US and Canada—it must be the power of the Shir-o-Khorshid! “In akharin nabardeh! Pahlavi bar migardeh!” Tehran Times: A Cold War tale from hot places https://t.co/LM232npb29 #Amazon

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, believes that Patriot Platform should be proscribed, even though no arrests were made or property destroyed.

She previously argued against proscribing Palestine Action even though they broke a female officer’s spine & damaged 2 planes at an RAF base.

[Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed]

I Would Not Say the Shahada

When I came to Christ, I hid it. Only a handful of people I trusted knew.
Then a cousin I trusted sold me.
They went to my mother first. She cried from shame. She thought they were lying, jealous, she said, because I was doing well at school. She wanted to prove them wrong.
They gathered at my aunt’s house. Family gatherings were normal. I walked in thinking it was just another day.
The air was wrong. Every face in the room was on me.
“Are you still a Muslim or did you become a Nasrani?”
I laughed. Tried to turn it into a joke. It died in the room.
My mother was holding back tears. “Just say the Shahada. Prove them wrong.”
A few seconds. They felt like a year. On one side: my mother’s face. On the other: the truth.
I chose the truth.
“Mom, I can’t.”
Then the room broke.
See? We told you.
Yelling. Spitting.
Go to those Christians. Let them feed you.
You are a shame to your father.
My mother sobbing.
I went numb. The noise fell behind me like a film I was no longer in. I walked out with nowhere to go. The world I knew had collapsed, not because I had become a criminal, but because I had left Islam.
That is what apostasy is in that world. Not a change of mind. A public execution of your name. In some places a physical execution as well, thankfully mine was not the case.
Leaving Islam is a rebirth. You get your lungs back. You get your mind back. You get your humanity back.
If I had said the Shahada that day, I would have bought peace with a lie. I would have stayed a slave to the crowd, safe, loved, and dead inside.
I remembered the words of Jesus:
“What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?”
I lost the room.
I kept myself.

[Kirstie Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp]

There is no reliable way to accurately value a property unless it changes hands. The idea that this Government thinks it can judge whether a home is worth £1,499,000 or £1,500,000 and that it has the ability to fix that judgement is delusional in the extreme.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

The last IDF soldier left Gaza on September 12, 2005. The keys went to the PA.

The crossings were open. That blockade everyone complained about? It didn’t exist yet.

Rockets were already hitting Israeli towns that same day. Greenhouses bought so Palestinians could farm were looted and smashed. By night, synagogues were on fire and crowds were celebrating. Here’s what came next:

January 2006: Hamas wins the election.

June 2006: Hamas kidnaps Gilad Shalit — they would hold him for five years.

June 2007: Hamas throws Fatah off the roofs and drags them through the streets. They take the Strip.

That is when Egypt shut the border at Rafah. Israel shut what the PA no longer staffed.

“Open-air prison from the day they left” requires you first delete 2005–2007.

[Jesse Brown @JesseBrown]

Millions are now addicted to hating Israel. They get daily dopamine hits from graphic content fuelling their need to be outraged. It's a compulsion & a community. No ceasefire will end it. If there are no Israelis to hate, any Jew will do. It has nothing to do with Palestinians.

[SK Tedeschi @skedeschi]

Sudan has an estimated death toll of 150k to 400k, with 14 million people displaced and only 6% of the population getting aid. Palestine gets 30x more news coverage and 9x more humanitarian funding per person.

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

Over the next few days, world leaders will gather in New York for UNGA. Millions will be spent, and the same promises we have heard for more than four decades will be made again. Yet little will change.

Women and girls will continue to be failed, with Jewish women carrying the additional burden of rising antisemitism.

So, love and solidarity to African women, Indigenous South American women and Jewish women. We will be discussed, but rarely invited into the rooms where decisions are made. We will be spoken for, but not protected by the very leaders who will fly home and allow the abuse to continue.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

A thousand times this. @chiefrabbi is really stepping up.

[Katie Lam @Katie_Lam_MP]

We must ban parties from campaigning in foreign languages. It's both divisive and dishonest.

It fuels group-based grievance politics.

And it prevents people from understanding what their would-be representatives are saying.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

To demand reparations, not from the African countries that took the slaves, but from the nation that ended slavery at immense cost, is not just ungrateful. It is an aggressive act, and we should treat it as such by denying visas to any citizens from the countries involved.

[Pete North @FUDdaily]

It bores me (as much as it bores you) to have to write about the Israeli conflict, but I am sick to death of the "Free Palestine" death cult. The reason you can tell Palestine supporters are antisemitic, is because they can muster obscure details about what happened in the region in 1916, 1949 and 1967, but couldn't tell you the first thing about any other regional war or post-imperial injustice - of which there are many. They are simply opposed to Jews having a homeland.

What you also notice is that they tend to be far leftists who don't even believe in borders and dispute anybody's right to a homeland (unless they fit the preferred victim criteria). It enrages them that Arabs were driven out (after the war they started), but don't care if Brits are made a minority in Britain. They are as much anti-civilisation and anti-West as they are anti-Israel.

I'm not interested in protracted debates about how Israel came about. Most of it was decided and pretty much settled before I was even born. What exists now is a functioning first world democratic state. The troubles there now are the same ones that have been bubbling throughout my lifetime, over what should be done about the Arab enclaves.

There are been several opportunities to formalise a state, but each time the hand of compromise has been slapped away by Palestinians, preferring instead to wage a pointless genocidal war of terror on the Jews. Consequently, I have no sympathy for their plight. Gaza could have thrived as a city sate - but they chose death instead.

I sometimes think people don't really know what war is. It's that thing when you set out to destroy your enemies. There are several ways of prosecuting a war, but it's usually inadvisable to start one unless you can win it.

On that basis, you might think Hamas was pretty dumb to provoke one of the most effective armies in the world, but Hamas aren't stupid. They understand that propaganda is also a weapon of war, by which you can leverage the gullibility and idiocy of people against your enemy.

This is quite a costly strategy in that provoking Israel to such an extent was always going to result in a sustained and uncompromising reply. Hamas, of course, knew this but they simply didn't care. They were prepared to sacrifice tens of thousands of their own people, playing the long game, in the somewhat plausible belief that they could turn international opinion against Israel.

That has worked a number of times in several wars, and its part of the reason the West could not sustain wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel is different though, because for Israel, it is not a war of choice. It is a fight or die equation where the opinions of others don't come into it.

For a time, though, Israel had reason for concern. International public opinion was turning sour - which is still dangerous for them. But I think that's probably over now because we can see Palestine supporters for who and what they are. Every single one of them has outed themselves as a first order moronic bigot who latches on to every other moronic cause.

We also see, in Britain particularly, supporters of this cause are also people who would do to us what Hamas did to Jews on 7/10 if they could - and have a track record of trying. It's the same people who've been grooming and raping teenage girls across England.

While pro-Palestine demonstrations have been large - often comprised of foreigners and subversives, they are still a minority. Most are just gullible students who will grow out of it eventually when they learn how the real world works. The vast majority of people in the UK don't care all that much. I certainly don't.

What Gazans are living through is exactly what they asked for, and far less than they deserve - especially after cheering on the psychopaths who paraded the corpses of the women they raped. One can only admire Israel's restraint. In the end, the war is one of civilisation versus Stone Age barbarism.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Guess which country was just elected onto the steering committee of UN nuclear watchdog IAEA.

Go on...guess

The Islamic Republic of Iran

Really

This is why the UN is a completely unserious travesty of an organisation at this point

[Sarah Vine @WestminsterWAG]

Speaking as a woman and a member of the Church of England, I find it infuriating that the first female Archbishop of Canterbury has turned out to be so spectacularly useless.

[spiked @spikedonline]

The hounding of Ed Sheeran is all the proof we need: the Palestine cult is McCarthyism in a keffiyeh. If you refuse to bow down to their cultish loathing of the Jewish State, they will destroy you. This is the tyranny of Israelophobia, says Brendan O’Neill
https://t.co/TIEaeurEAx

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

HORRIFYING: Hackers have breached the IRGC’s network and found out what we already knew.

It is now CONFIRMED that at least 100,000 Iranians were murdered by the Islamic regime during the January protests.

One of the deadliest massacres in history.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Thousands of beautiful souls gathered at Dam Square in Amsterdam yesterday for a massive rally in support of Israel, Organized by Christians for Israel.

I can't even explain in words how much this means to us.

Thank you. 🙏💙

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

🚨 Canon Paul Maybury won’t condemn the Bibas children’s murder at a Leeds church.

Calling it “complex history” while hanging a tapestry of Hamas terrorists in church.

The Church of England has lost its moral compass @LeedsMinster

#BibasChildren #October7

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

So in a matter of days, Ed Sheeran has lost all his support acts, he's lost his house band, he's been banned from various commercial radio stations, Ireland's press has stated he's never welcome to return to the country, organized protests are being formed to take place in the grounds outside upcoming concert dates, he's been accused of having links to Jeffrey Epstein, and Goebbels-style cartoons have been pushed everywhere of his likeness.

And the left think this is progress?

[David @4AugustWest]

@Eve_Barlow

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."