I find it disappointing that so many of my medical colleagues who are so vocal on this platform, about matters that concern their personal and professional interests, can not dedicate even one post to condemning the atrocities unfolding in Gaza 🇵🇸 (1/3)
6 weeks ago, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green. @Keir_Starmer convened an emergency Cobra meeting the same day, gave a national Ted Talk about "Jewish Pain", omitted any mention of the Muslim victim of the same attacker earlier the same day, and the Home Office increased the national terrorism threat level.
today, we have now seen two days of racist pogroms beginning in Belfast and large groups of white supremacists terrorizing entire communities across multiple cities in the UK, with families being firebombed in their homes, people calling in sick to work because they're too afraid to step outside, and Black and brown people literally sheltering and hiding in their white friends homes - and @Keir_Starmer has issued a few twitter condemnations.
right.
This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.
I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.
From Southport to Belfast, we keep seeing the same pattern: a terrible crime, followed by racist mobs attacking black and brown people who had nothing to do with it.
These are pogroms.
The politicians and media figures who spent years demonising migrants and inflaming racial hatred have blood on their hands.
We must stand together against this hatred and organise against this fascism.
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.
They burned down the house of African student nurses who are there for their NHS placement. The only things one of them could grab were her uniform, her laptop, & passport. She had to leave the letters her children wrote for her & their photos behind
And she still has to work
Just in case you’re wondering what kind of place the UK is, a few jewish ambulances being set on fire will bring about more COBRA meetings and hysterical mass media coverage than actual people being burned out of their homes by masked gangs rampaging through the streets.
I'm just trying to understand when does the organised violence against & terrorising of working class black & brown people get a Cobra meeting ? Or are we all supposed to be Far Right now & indulge their expression of ' legitimate concerns ' ?
You were part of a cabinet that armed and supported a genocidal apartheid Israeli state.
Spare us the crocodile tears.
No amount of revisionism erases your role in that. You’re complicit, whether you like it or not.
The gall is incredible. We must never let Thornberry, or anybody else who ran cover for Israel, wriggle out of it. They defended what many people, most particularly Palestinians, told them would be a genocide. Now, with Gaza destroyed, they speak up. Too fucking late.
remember like a month ago when zach polanski retweeted a member of the public's concerns about police conduct and all of politics came screeching to a halt for the day to condemn such a wholly inappropriate political interference into operational policing?
Streeting felt such ‘moral urgency’ that he kept quiet and stayed in the government, only resigning when he saw a career opportunity. Beneath contempt.
Not that anybody should believe a thing this lifetime bullshitter says, but if "young farmers" genuinely are backing the party who are going to turbocharge climate change - the number one threat to the farming profession - then that is suicidal levels of stupidity.
There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.
In what lexicon is ethnically cleansing one quarter of a neighbouring state "taking a much tougher stance". Shameful complicity in war crimes by @SkyNews@adamparsons
When Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens kidnapped and murdered Sarah Everard, Nigel Farage released a five-minute video urging people not to attack men or the police.
Today, in response to the murder of Henry Nowak, he called for "pure cold rage."