Hamid

A proud Palestinian-Briton

[Hamid @hamid]

I think I'm going to keep a thread open with examples of open, coded or unconscious UK media and political racism and Islamophobia in words and statements:

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

“Journalist” believes you should uncritically accept something before actually reading it — naturally.

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

A murder has occurred

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Hey @robertshrimsley here’s a Jew who has actually read the report which states that while anti-Jewish attitudes (abhorrent as they are) ‘are less prevalent & have remained stable’ anti-Israel sentiments ‘are more prevalent & have been increasing.’
The methodological weaknesses of some aspects of the report are also indisputable, as anyone who has done any meaningful research would attest. But we won’t let this reality mitigate your & the establishment’s hysteria & your shameful attacks on @owenjonesjourno & others.
We live in a world of lies constructed by our mendacious politicians, corporate leaders & facilitated by the woeful mainstream media, which has long abandoned its crucial role in holding power to account.

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Kristallnacht, but without the broken glass.

[Hamid @hamid]

This is Zionism

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Omg. OMG. I THOUGHT THIS WAS SATIRICAL BUT HE IS LITERALLY THIS EVIL OMG
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[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

So let me get this right. The Bell Review says that attitudes in Britain to Jewish people have *not changed* but there is increasing hostility to Israel.

And that translates to 'antisemitism is increasing'?

[Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies @CeilNoyle]

Oh, he’s heard about it, but has only ever mentioned it once, and even then only in a mocking tone

[Hamid @hamid]

What report Robert? That’s the whole point. There *aren’t* such reports commissioned about black students or Muslim/asian students, whose wide ranging recommendations are pre-briefed by government to media and then immediately adopted. Why is that?

[robert shrimsley @robertshrimsley]

@owenjonesjourno I don’t have to “engage” with antisemitism Owen. I see it all around me. & I see people like you who would never rubbish a report on the prejudice faced by any other minority, going out of your way to do it to Jews because your political agenda demands it. You used to be better.

[Hamid @hamid]

@Dannythefink @pauleholden @robertshrimsley control speech and action at the tangential hints that black students might feel victimised? No? Why do you think, given the decades of this, that racism that black students suffer isn’t treated in this way?

[Hamid @hamid]

@Dannythefink @pauleholden @robertshrimsley Hi Daniel. Black students face appalling and widespread racism in schools. Both from fellow pupils and often structurally from teachers or the system as a whole. Can you indicate any time the government has commissioned a report like the recent one, let alone sought to tightly

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

This whole exchange with Owen Jones really is very poor considering that this is the Chief Political commentator in the FT.

Its particularly insulting if you know the context of how the phrase "hierarchy of racism" gained currency on the broader Labour-ish left in the UK. I think it betrays a real ignorance of a long and storied topic.

So some history...

The term "hierarchy of racism" was most prominently included in the Forde Report. The Report was the result of an investigation headed by Martin Forde KC, a well-respected black barrister with a long history in tackling issues like the Windrush scandal. Forde'sc investigation was supported by a panel of grandee appointed by the Labour Party NEC - the likes of Baroness Ruth Lister, so hardly a bevy of radicals.

Forde was tasked with investigating a series of issues filtering the released of the "Leaked Report." Very very very long story short, Forde was asked to investigate how issues of racism, antisemitism, hyper-factionalism and misconduct intertwined in the vicious battle for the Labour Party in the Corbyn years.

Forde ended his report (endorsed by all the other members of the Forde Committee) by noting that some staff believed that there was a "perception" of a "hierarchy of racism" in the Labour Party, with antisemitism treated more seriously and given more time than other forms of discrimination.

The Party's own response to Forde confirmed, over and over, that Forde was right. Indeed, the Party treated Forde disgracefully.

He was briefed against in the media.

He was blocked from speaking to the Committee convened to consider the report and its recommendations.

When he became concerned his report was not being taken seriously, he gave an interview to the media - and the Party, outrageously, tried to gag him with legal threats.

There are many ugly stories in The Fraud, but it still fills me with fury to think about how atrociously the Starmer and the McSweeney project treated Forde.

Most people think Forde was thrown under the bus because he called out right-wing factionalism. But the real "sin" of the Forde Report was that it criticised the Party's antisemitism training delivered by the (pro-Israel) Jewish Labour Movement for being top-down, didactic and limited (a comment made by another member of his committee who insisted it be included - not Forde himself, although most people don't know that). The Report suggested that an anti-Zionist group, JVL, be allowed to deliver training to complement the JLM training.

And for this Forde was ridiculed. Numerous commentators, including one from JLM, wrote articles attacking the Forde Report, accusing Forde straying into places he was not supposed to go.

By 2025, Forde had changed his tune. He said the there wasn't a "perception" of a hierarchy of racism in Labour - it simply just did operate a hierarchy of racism in how seriously it treated different types of discrimination, and had disgraced itself by how often it had mistreated prominent black and brown politicians like Diane Abbott and Apsama Begum.

Really, the examples of the hierarchy are overwhelming.

I write in the Fraud of how Starmer's team directly intervened in antisemitism complaints handling to kick out members accused - often wrongly - of antisemitism. It brought in new, deeply unfair rules like retrospective proscription as a mechanism to expel individuals like Ken Loach who could never be found guilty of antisemitism but were still unpalatable to Jewish communal organisations. It was through this mechanism that huge numbers of Jewish members were eventually expelled.

Compare that to when the conflict in Gaza begins. Dozens of Muslim councillors resign in fury. An unnamed senior source says Labour is "shaking off the fleas." The Labour Muslim Network (LMN) writes to the leadership asking for a meeting and a way forward to address wide-spread anger. The response? Morgan McSweeney texts a WhatsApp group that LMN are not good faith actors. /1

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

He just referred to a Black man in the USA as a slave.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Tedious little racist to do whingefest with another bunch of tedious little racists to explain why they have no scholarly achievements of their own.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Revoke the peerages

[Hamid @hamid]

This is Zionism

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Refeef Lubbad, a 17-year-old 11th grader, was shot and killed by Israeli forces Thursday as she walked home from school in the al-Faluja area of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

[ᴅʀ. ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️ @hahellyer]

Repugnant, outrageous, disgusting. Shame on whomever is responsible for this outrage against Jordanian Christians in Karak. May the perpetrators be brought swiftly to justice

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Psychopaths

[Hamid @hamid]

This is Zionism

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

How does Israel get away with just ordering over 400 families to leave their homes on foot overnight? Absolute scum of Earth.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

What is stunning again is the open contempt for the British public--rigged 'inquiries' with prefabricated conclusions faithfully disseminated by a compliant media.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Radwan Mortada’s new documentary on Israel’s pager attacks went viral. So they responded exactly how you’d expect:

By invading his lovingly-constructed family home, sacking the place, and rigging it with explosives.

A new chapter in the never ending book of Israeli depravity: