Darrell (Daz) Croston

Do you realise that everyone you know someday will die. #MUFC

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

So I listened again to a conversation Sam Harris had with Eiynah (aka Nicemangos) of Polite Conversations back in Nov 2016. Eiynah now spends most of her time criticising Sam Harris usually taking his words out of context or interpreting them with a distinct lack of charity.

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@RachelMoiselle Here's the link to his recent substack article. Well worth a read.

https://t.co/pPN345ECf8

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

This obsession with Israel, and the double standards to which its people are held, now forms the center of mass of that shapeshifting moral affliction widely known as “antisemitism.”

https://t.co/BNNJLY21f2

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Ukraine is not losing. And for Russia, that's a major defeat.
https://t.co/O9he74xiEL

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

Please can this judges’ remarks be watched as part of the training of his colleagues. I am writing an article about the awful judgement of Judge Nicholas Rowland, who presided over the rape cases in Fordingbridge. 😡

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

This is great of example of how you deal with a bully like Trump.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Here's the full chain of events that led to Trump storming out of his interview with Kristin Welker, beginning with her pressing him on the weaponization fund, continuing with her pointing out the baselessness of his "rigged election" lies, and concluding with him calling her "crooked or stupid" and leaving

[DogsTrust West Calder (Edinburgh) and Dundee @DT_WestCalder]

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[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Incredible stuff @MrNishKumar. I was on the EHRC Board working group that supervised the production of the Code. I’ve been an equality law specialist for 26 years. We scrutinised every line exhaustively, following detailed, highly specialist legal advice and a huge consultation.>

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@usrnmtaken_ @MakingSenseHQ "You started by claiming the malnutrition shows no correlation with starvation"

Please link me to the post were instated this?

I have never claimed this, in fact quite the opposite.

I have stated that if someone is suffering from starvation then they are malnourished.

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@usrnmtaken_ @MakingSenseHQ * 3. 1 and 2 are not the same.

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@usrnmtaken_ @MakingSenseHQ There you go again arguing in bad faith. I haven't changed my argument.

1. Not a famine, people are not starving. 2. They may have suffered malnutrition and hunger for a period of time. 3. 1 and 3 are not the same.

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@usrnmtaken_ @MakingSenseHQ You have 'rational, atheist, philosopher' in your bio & you posted a pointless graphic to support your unfounded argument. You've resorted to strawmanning, arguing in bad faith & now name calling. If you want to tell my how you know Palestinians are starving to death, all ears.

[Caroline Goode 💚🤍💜 adult human female @CarolinejGoode]

Wow, what an incredible DDay story 🫡

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@usrnmtaken_ @MakingSenseHQ You decided to post a stupid graphic about malnutrition to support your argument that Palestinians are suffering a famine and starving to death. If you want to argue your point reasonably then great but NOT interested if strawman or in argue in bad faith.

[James Richardson, MD, MPH @DocRock54]

My God! He is an ahistorical narcissist!

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@usrnmtaken_ @MakingSenseHQ It's a horrible war, Alex.

A war which Israel defeated Hamas, the currently elected government of Palestine. Let that sink in for a second.

I challenge you to study any other war that's ever been and tell me that no civilians of the defeated side didn't suffer malnourishment.

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

Women who've asked for women-only spaces haven't turned the conversation into some massive, ludicrous derail about "but how do you even tell who's a woman?" People who don't want women to have women-only spaces have

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Here's my @Telegraph column, 'Zack Polanski wants a Jew register. What could be more sinister than that?'

https://t.co/l1z6YW44ez

I’ll say one thing for Zack Polanski: he knows a winning strategy when he sees one. When he became leader of the Greens last September, he spotted straight away that the secret to boosting the party’s poll ratings – and thus electoral success – was straightforward. Dump the green stuff and focus on Gaza.

There was a ready-made group of voters for whom Gaza is the only issue that really matters, waiting to be courted by any party which turned itself into the anti-Israel train. That group fell into the Greens’ arms when Polanski arrived on the scene.

He has been masterly in his care of them, not least in his skilful elision of being anti-Israel with being Jewish himself. It provides a much-used “get out of jail free card” when the Greens’ professed anti-Zionism slips into accusations of barely disguised anti-Semitism.

But even by Polanski’s standards, his demand that any dual British-Israeli citizen who has fought for Israel against Hamas in Gaza has their name listed on a database – a list, in other words, of bad Jews – is breathtakingly blatant.

The Green leader has signed an open letter sent to Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, which calls on the Government to act in the name of “public safety and justice” to “track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF” and “subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry”. Britons, that is, who just happen to be Jews.

Israel has national service, and all Israeli citizens (with the exception – which is deeply controversial in Israel – of some religious groups) are conscripted to the IDF at 18. Many have been called up as reservists when they are older.

Polanski is thus calling for a large proportion of British-Israeli dual citizens to be listed on a database. “Nobody wants to live next to a potential war criminal,” the letter organised by campaign group Declassified UK states. Presumably then, Polanski wishes to refuse entry to or deport any British-Israeli who has served in the IDF.

You will notice one obvious element to this demand. There are wars on every continent. There are accusations of war crimes in all those conflicts. But Polanski has said not a word about British dual citizens – or even those of sole UK nationality – who have fought in any of those wars, either ongoing or historic.

I wait, for example, for Polanski to demand a list of dual-nationality Britons who fought in one of the most brutal post-1945 conflicts, the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence. The nine-month conflict led to the death of up to three million Bengalis and the displacement of 10 million refugees into India.

This is not merely historic. War crime investigations are still going on. But no Israelis were involved (let’s be honest: no Jews). So Polanski is silent – not least because many new Green voters are drawn from those communities.

By signing the letter, Polanski doesn’t only demand that Britons who have fought in Gaza be put on a database. He goes far beyond that. The letter calls says “travellers with Israeli travel documents or arriving from an origin of Tel Aviv airport” should be subject to “potential secondary screenings at ports of entry”. For Polanski then, any Israeli should be marked out for special screening.

As for the allegation of genocide against Israel, it is, at the very least, hotly contested. But there is a well-founded allegation of genocide against the Chinese in its treatment of the Uyghurs. Does Polanski demand that any Chinese national arriving in the UK is deemed a suspected war criminal? Of course he doesn’t.

If Jews aren’t involved, neither Polanski nor any of his fellow Greens could give a damn. Polanski may be Jewish, but his party’s strategy could hardly be clearer.

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

Our tolerance as a country and the fear of offending those that are intolerant of their religion being criticised or mocked has gotten us here, without question.

[Connie Shaw @_ConnieShaw]

In 2006, polling showed that 68% of Muslims in Britain think it should be a criminal offence to insult Islam.

So far, Britain has chosen a path of appeasement and capitulation to Islamic blasphemy laws.

Since Starmer came to power, cases received by the Free Speech Union of people being penalised for criticising Islam or Muslim cultural practices have increased by a multiple of 4.

This was before the 'anti Muslim hostility definition' was introduced by Labour. All 5 members, hand picked by Labour, of the working group that came up with the definition have links to Islamist organisations.

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

This obsession with Israel, and the double standards to which its people are held, now forms the center of mass of that shapeshifting moral affliction widely known as “antisemitism.”

https://t.co/BNNJLY21f2

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

@Leonardaisfunny @MakingSenseHQ You can read Sam's thoughts here if you are genuinely interested.

https://t.co/VIpSnEJOjo

[Darrell (Daz) Croston @dpxton]

I don't doubt that Palestinians went hungry and they may have been temporarily malnourished. I do doubt that there was a famine and people starved to death.

But like Sam, I would change my mind if new evidence supported a famine unlike the crazies in the comments.

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

There Was No Famine in Gaza