Leigh Fox

Strategic ICT Manager in a Multi Academy Trust, EdTech geek, chocolate lover

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

It's important this performative video is met with the scorn that it deserves.

Silence would be unacceptable.

But it's actually worse to have Labour making sad videos whilst continuing to arm a genocide and arrest those who protest. It should be beneath contempt.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The more children Israel kills, the more unpopular it becomes. The more unpopular Israel becomes, the more violently we are throat-fucked with the narrative that "antisemitism" is a major problem in our society.

The UK's Department for Education has released a 107-page review which asserts that much more needs to be done to protect Jewish students in England from discrimination. Which in and of itself sounds reasonable, until you look at the actual document.

The review, led by Sir David Bell, mentions the word "political" or "geopolitical" no fewer than 125 times. It mentions the word "Israel" or "Israeli" 60 times and the word "Palestine" or "Palestinian" 35 times.

So, as always, it is clear that this isn't actually about protecting a religious minority from persecution.

The Bell review lists 27 recommendations for dealing with "antisemitism" in English schools, which the government has reportedly accepted in their entirety. The first recommendation is adopting the hotly disputed International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism which lists common criticisms of the state of Israel as hateful toward Jews.

Under the IHRA definition, you are guilty of antisemitism if you compare the modern state of Israel to Nazi Germany, or if you say that Israel exists as a racist endeavor. This framing effectively brands anyone a hateful bigot who agrees with the unanimous consensus of international human rights groups that Israel is a genocidal apartheid state.

"Anti-Israel attitudes have distinctly increased over time," the review says. "In 2020, 23% agreed with the statement 'Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews', which increased to 45% in 2025. The prevalence of beliefs such as these, which could be regarded as antisemitic according to the IHRA definition, demonstrate the difficulty faced by schools and colleges in tackling antisemitism."

Under the section titled "Political expression and pupil wellbeing in schools," the review scorned the use of "political identifiers" in schools such as "badges, flags, or other political symbols and slogans such as ‘Free Palestine’, including staff displaying Palestinian flags in their classrooms without relevance to the lesson."

"It is the view of this review that political identifiers do not have a place in our schools," the report reads, while stopping short of saying such expression should be banned in all instances.

"Political expression by staff can create a learning environment in which some learners feel distressed, excluded, or unable to engage fully with their education," the review asserts. "In such circumstances, colleges may be justified in placing proportionate restrictions on lawful political expression where this is necessary to ensure learners' education and fulfil the college’s wider duties."

"In practice, antisemitism is frequently intertwined with political views about a nation state or political ideology. This means that challenging antisemitism often requires teachers to address or correct political claims or misinformation, which can appear to conflict with impartiality duties," the review says.

This uncritical assertion that "antisemitism is frequently intertwined with political views about a nation state or political ideology" tells you everything you need to know about what this review is really designed to accomplish. This is about stomping out political speech that is critical of Israel, and nothing else.

The review of course also attempts to conflate antizionism with antisemitism, saying, "Antizionists can express views that include a deep hatred for the existence of Israel and of those who believe in its right to exist as a Jewish homeland. Such views may be antisemitic, in certain contexts. There are also examples where Zionism is used as a synonym for ‘Jewish’ to hide antiJewish hatred within lawful political expression."

I am so fucking sick of this shit. People who live in Israel's western allied states are getting bludgeoned and bludgeoned and bludgeoned by these ham-fisted psychological operations by state and non-state actors with more and more aggression the more Israel's popularity rating goes down the tubes, and it's not even working. The way these freaks keep trying to stick their rapey fingers into our minds and manipulate the thoughts we think about a genocidal apartheid state is fucking disgusting. It's only making everyone hate Israel more.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Very important. The National Education Union effectively rejects the key recommendations of the new Independent Antisemitism Review, rejecting the IHRA Definition and suggesting current approaches create a hierarchy of racism. Directly says the report "will not tackle antisemitism."

This review looks like yet another Labour Together Project disgrace - the long tail of McSweeney-Starmerism - that will likely inflame rather than reduce tensions in schools.

Exasperating, infuriating stuff. Imagine telling teachers - teachers! In it for the kids! - that they can't talk about or show opposition Israel's genocide against Palestinian children.

Here's what NEU's Daniel Kebede says:

"However, recommending the IHRA definition for schools risks deepening the problem rather than tackling it, and actively undermining efforts to confront antisemitism. It is the wrong approach. The IHRA’s contested framing risks blurring the line between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and the genocide in Gaza, leaving teachers with uncertainty when they need clarity. A young person’s opposition to the Gaza genocide and scrutiny of the Israeli government are not, in themselves, antisemitic. Young people must have the space to understand and discuss world events. Schools must enable young people to confront difficult issues openly and develop empathy, not drive teachers into silence or leave pupils afraid to express their views. Recommending the IHRA definition risks tightening the chilling grip already stifling classroom discussion of the Gaza genocide. Schools need practical support to confront antisemitism, not a contested framework that risks shutting down legitimate discussion. The very real risk is that children who cannot critically explore issues through classroom discussion will instead seek their answers in online and unsafe groups.

“This report will not tackle antisemitism. It wrongly calls into question the professionalism of teachers. The existing rules on impartiality in the classroom are very clear and teachers take that responsibility very seriously. For three years, teachers have been responding to concerned pupils’ questions about this conflict. These classroom discussions are familiar territory, not uncharted ground. In that time there have been vanishingly few examples of the Teacher Regulation Agency holding up a complaint of lack of impartiality in the classroom.

"The NEU welcomes a strengthened focus on antisemitism in the statutory safeguarding guidance and we would encourage the Department for Education to go a step further by strengthening the guidance on all forms of racism. We are concerned that addressing antisemitism without an equally clear commitment to tackling all forms of racism risks creating a hierarchy of racism. No form of racism should be minimised, and no pupil or member of staff should receive less protection. Similarly, the NEU welcomes training for staff on recognising and challenging antisemitism, but we would like to see this in the context of wider antiracism training. The lack of training and time for staff development is a real barrier and almost two thirds of teachers (65 per cent) report that they have not received any antiracism training of any kind within the past year."

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.

My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
https://t.co/Dhy7QRCvW9

[HonestWelshmen @WakeUpWales777]

Lucy Powell was appointed Secretary of State for Education on 20 July 2026.

Lucy Powell has received support and travel sponsorship from pro-Israel groups
though direct financial cash donations paid into her personal bank accounts.

2 months later she implements Antisemitism Education onto our children.

She accepted 27 recommendations

including trips to synagogues . The Same ones who follow the Babylonian Talmud that thinks Jesus is burning in hell.

The same rabbis who believe you can have sex with 3 year olds can now have direct contact with your kid through these new education programs in schools.

Lucy Powell also did not sign the letter to Uphold ICC arrest warrants against Israeli war criminals on 22nd May 2024.

Lucy Powell also did not sign the letter to suspend Suspend Arms Sales to Israel
On 27th March 2024

Lucy Powell also did not sign the letter to Enforce sanctions on Israel , 24th July 2025.

Lucy Powell is bought and paid for by the labour friends of Israel group.

Lucy Powell is a traitor to this country , make sure you add her to the list.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇪🇺 Reports are emerging of an attack by a group of masked Israeli settlers on a convoy of European diplomats from France, Belgium, and Poland who were visiting the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh, near Ramallah, to participate in the olive harvest.

7 settlers in all-terrain vehicles reportedly surrounded the vehicles, demanded documents, threw stones, and smashed the window of a vehicle belonging to the Belgian consulate.

Several diplomats are injured

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

Meanwhile her new house just closed a children’s environmental centre and fenced off 150 acres of public parkland so she can play outdoors in peace.

Groundbreaking advice from someone who just made nature less accessible for actual kids.

[Nina @ShakeLS]

So let's start talking about how the British press is covering for Pedophiles in all upper class establishment. After finding 10000 excuses for Prince Andrew, and the Royal family knowingly covering him, notice how they hardly are covering Lola Salem. The Cambridge university professor who had child porn on her phone and computer. She conviently happened to just break up with her boyfriend, Michael Gove a member of the British parliament. An avid supporter of thr British Royal family, who was on shows all week attacking Charles Spencer. Can someone tell me why far right sites?? X accounts?? Newspaper articles?? The spectator, the guardian aren't posting numerous articles and thesis about these Pedophiles???? Lola Salem had child porn. Why nobody is asking if her Boyfriend was aware of that?? Why the British press and establishment are protecting them??

They had no issue to attack James Arday who wasn't a pedophile, everyday all day. As i said again and again. Disgusting vultures.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

My @LloydsBank accounts have been closed down after 15 years without a single issue. No warning. No notice.

Since advocating for Palestine, I have:

- Lost my job
- Had my medical licence suspended
- Been arrested 5 times and charged

And now debanked.

Thank God for everything.

[G.T @gingerrtom]

Michael Gove’s former partner,
Oxford professor Dr Lola Salem, has been charged with possessing indecent images of children.

The mainstream media are conveniently choosing to ignore this story.

Repost to raise awareness.

[Ravious101 🦅🇺🇸 @Ravious101]

People will tell you it’s “just a dog.” They are wrong in the way that only people who have never shared a house with one can be wrong.

A dog learns the exact sound of your car, the exact hour you usually stand up, the exact tone that means you are about to leave. They rearrange their entire day around yours without ever being asked. Over years that stops being a pet relationship and becomes the same quiet dependence you have on the other people who live under your roof. When they are gone, the house does not simply feel emptier. It keeps offering the routines they used to answer, and nothing answers back.

That is why the loss lands harder than most outsiders expect. You are not mourning an animal you fed. You are mourning a family member who never learned how to be anywhere else but next to you, and who spent the last of their strength still trying to do exactly that.

[🇬🇧King 🇬🇧 @King0243_PJC]

You exposed yourself. 5 unnamed British men were arrested on suspicion and released on conditional bail while the investigation is still live.

You decided they were “Muslim terrorists,” decided the case was over, and decided a centuries old alliance was finished because the Met didn’t keep five uncharged suspects in a cell for your engagement.

Americans deserve the idiots like you. You are congressman who can’t tell the difference between a police update and a sermon, so you write the ending yourself and calls it facts.

[ADAM @adamemedia]

These privileged frat bros gang graped a girl and invited others to join in.

The story was buried, only two were expelled (Cornell suspensions are for genocide protestors) and we are only hearing about it now because the victim is suing.

Cornell protected them, the police protected them, the system protected them.

This the Epstein class. This is how it’s bred.

[G.T @gingerrtom]

The protesters have started chanting “FREE DT” outside Basingstoke police station, where Danny Tommo is currently in custody.

This is genuinely some of the most fucking cringeworthy shit I’ve ever seen.

[kb @ojvhteuhyhes]

i will never understand how americans aren’t embarrassed to admit they can’t find good food in london. you flew to a different continent and couldn’t research restaurants? we all see you getting rickshaws around leicester square and eating in tourist pubs. you look like FOOLS

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

They just rescued 163 kidnapped kids in underground cages with duct tape over their mouths from a human trafficking ring in Florida and it hasn’t been on the news once because it’s 3 white maga Christian dudes that ran it. Take all the time you need with that one

[John Kirby @csljohnkirby]

Sharron, this is simply not an accurate description of what is happening.

Nobody is being threatened with two years in prison simply for flying the Union Flag or St George’s Cross.

Fly either flag lawfully in your own garden, from your home, or on private land with the landowner’s permission, and this injunction has nothing to do with you.

And since you mention the United States, that is exactly how Americans commonly display their flag, from their homes, porches, gardens and other private property.

The issue here is people attaching flags without permission to lampposts and other public highway infrastructure, and then potentially breaching a High Court injunction prohibiting them from doing so.

If somebody is ultimately imprisoned, it would be for contempt of court by knowingly breaching a legal injunction, not for displaying the national flag.

There is an enormous difference between “you can be jailed for flying an England flag” and “you can be jailed for deliberately defying a High Court order”.

Patriotism does not place anybody above the law.