Mas’ūd

Jack of all trades. Master of none.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Rogers called AES a terrorist. Then went on TV and denied he'd called him a terrorist.

Meanwhile, Haley Stevens' partner is voting for Rogers and Stevens isn't asking him to denounce Rogers' vile Islamophobia but is asking AES to denounce and 'take down' an ad he didn't make.

[5Pillars @5Pillarsuk]

A video circulating on X, shared by far-right accounts, shows a niqab-wearing Muslim bus driver in London attempting to shield herself from being filmed by what appears to be a troll.

Islamophobic accounts are mocking the driver's appearance and using the footage to fuel anti-Muslim rhetoric and complaints about Muslim immigration.

Concerns have been raised with 5Pillars that online trolls may be attempting to identify the woman. Anyone engaging in doxxing, threats, abuse or harassment should be reported to the police.

No one should have to face intimidation or public humiliation simply for doing their job while visibly Muslim.

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

This is an amazing clip. The terror once she realizes she was live.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ambassador Huckabee, this is unreleased video of an American who was beaten almost to death last week by Israeli settlers. You know his name because he came to you for help, but you blew him off. That’s disgraceful. Do your job.

@GovMikeHuckabee
@SecRubio
@davidamilstein
@WhiteHouse

[Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko]

🚨 TODAY: Settler-terrorists attacked Andrey, Jasper and me. This video shows the assault.

Andrey was severely beaten and lost consciousness several times in front of police. Despite this, he was denied hospital treatment. He was put in an ambulance—but instead of being taken to hospital, he was taken to a police station.

He is still there, arrested and being denied medical care.

Jasper and I were also beaten. Jasper was then pepper-sprayed and arrested.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

Settler Terrorism Reaches the Polling Stations: Israeli terrorist Settlers Attack Arab Voters to Prevent Them from Casting Their Ballots during Israeli elections.

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

Just in: IPSO has refused to investigate the Telegraph cartoon of Mothin Ali, the Green Party's Muslim deputy leader, grinning over a knife and fork at the severed head of Zack Polanski, its Jewish leader, who is drawn with a hooked nose. Nearly 1,200 of you complained.

IPSO's reason: the cartoon is about two individuals, so only Mothin and Zack can complain. How racist the drawing is doesn't come into it.

IPSO did not have to do this, and it has done the opposite before.

IPSO's rules let it take up a complaint from people other than the person written about, when the breach is significant, and there is a substantial public interest in looking at it.

In July 2023 it used that power. It ruled that Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column about the Duchess of Sussex was sexist, after complaints from two women's charities, the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation. The Duchess did not complain.

The Telegraph's editor, Chris Evans, chairs the committee that writes the Editors' Code, which is the rulebook IPSO enforces.

The Telegraph is still selling prints of the cartoon today.

IPSO's rule says it may take up a complaint like this, not that it must. So this was a choice.

Picture a school. One boy draws two classmates, a Muslim boy and a Jewish boy. He gives the Jewish boy a hooked nose and puts his head on a plate, and draws the Muslim boy about to eat it. He pins the picture to the noticeboard and sells copies at the gate.

A thousand pupils go to the head teacher. She tells them she can only act if the two boys in the picture come to her themselves.

So the picture stays on the board, and every Muslim and Jewish child in the school walks past it each morning. The boy who drew it learns he can do it again.

And the rulebook the head teacher is reading from was written by a committee his dad chairs.

Nobody would say that head teacher is protecting the children. She is protecting the boy who drew it.

That is what IPSO has done. It says it regulates the Telegraph, and it has just told nearly 1,200 people that a racist cartoon in a paper it regulates is not its business unless the two men drawn in it come and ask.

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

UN Commission of Inquiry:

"Israel has committed war crimes & the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape & other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians."

https://t.co/T62n3Xn7sY

[LBC @LBC]

Family of British national arrested while 'protecting Palestinian farmers' in Israel slam 'shameful' response of UK authorities

https://t.co/lJUtE2bzoQ

[Ali Harb @Harbpeace]

I asked Melanie Rutherford, of Democrats for Rogers, about the issues that drove her to campaign against Abdul El-Sayed, she brought up "the disconnect between the Black and the Muslim community."
I also asked about the $30k she received from a Republican-funded PAC.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

A war is coming to the West Bank

Yesterday Palestinian resistance fighters conducted a surgical strike against Israeli occupation soldiers, fully in accordance with international law.

In response, Israeli government immediately announced that they will do war crimes and started doing war crimes.

All the Palestinian villages in the West Bank are under siege, the city of Hebron is under siege. IDF is demolishing house after house, raiding family after family. They said they want to turn Hebron into Rafah.

More than 250 families were kicked out into the streets with nothing. People slept on the street last night.

The Israeli election is in 3 days, and the Netanyahu-Smotrich government is going to use this to start a war in the West Bank.

The only way to stop this is pressure from all directions. We know it works. International pressure worked for the besieged house in Qusra, which still belongs to the Palestinians because of the all-around attention. It can work for Hebron too.

But it will require EVERYONE reading this doing everything they can to stop this. Call your representative, hold a demonstration, organise direct action against the occupation’s assets abroad. Keep attention on the West Bank.

ACT NOW.

[Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman]

While Trump vilifies Somali Americans and dehumanizes an entire community, a young man in Minnesota risked his life to save a school bus full of children. You'd be honored to have a Somali family as neighbors. Thank you Ebro Ahmed. May Allah bless and protect you.

[IslamophobiaUK @uk_islamophobia]

We've read the 27 recommendations on antisemitism in schools given to the government, which the government has just accepted.

The Education Secretary says antisemitism "demands a unique response."

Antisemitism is wrong and should be challenged.
But two of the 27 decide what counts: the IHRA definition, and Palestine badges.

Seven of its 11 examples relate to Israel.
Schools are asked to reconsider political symbols, watermelon badges included.
Teachers' talk on geopolitical issues gets greater scrutiny.

Adopt those, and the rest follows.
The training. The reporting. The inspections.

The National Education Union says IHRA risks blurring antisemitism and criticism of the Israeli government.

One of the 27 brings in Prevent.
Children who criticise Israel or support Palestine risk being referred.

The Islamophobia Response Unit received 146 reports from students of schools shutting down support for Palestine.
We know who that lands on.

Now look at what they already face.

Politicians talk about us. Newspapers talk about us. Online, they hate on us.
MPs found that role "should not be understated."

Then it follows them to school.

Glasgow. A Muslim schoolgirl's hijab ripped off, reportedly by another pupil's dad.
He called her the P-word. It was filmed. The video is going round her school.

Kids dragged off and punched in the chest.
Kids thrown to the ground, knocked unconscious.
Kids thrown into moving traffic.

Three schoolgirls. A public bus. Broad daylight.

Kids attacked on the way to school.
Kids afraid to wear their headscarf.

Baroness Gohir told MPs of a GCSE student bullied on her way to school.
She took her headscarf off for her exams.

A mother told MPs she now pays for private transport since her daughters started wearing the hijab.

The government knows. Its own response says younger Muslims "bear the brunt."

It isn't only Muslim children.

95% of young Black people have heard or witnessed racist language at school.
Suspensions for racist abuse in England doubled in three years, from 7,403 to 15,191.

The National Education Union warns of a "hierarchy of racism."
65% of teachers have had no anti-racism training in the past year.

So where are their recommendations? Where is the help for schools?

While everyone looks after that community's children, who is looking after all the others?

Will @SpeechUnion challenge this stifling of free speech in schools?

Report: https://t.co/NTLpXVTNS2
Keep us alive: https://t.co/9HaERxxR3V

[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

The U.K. twice suspended a Black politician because she said there's a hierarchy of racism with antisemitism at the top and anti-Blackness at the bottom. Today, the U.K. made antisemitism a distinct form of racism and came out with a 27-point plan!

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

If a Somali commits a crime in Minnesota he’s Somali but if he saves 20 kids on a runaway school bus he’s a Minnesota Man

[𝖢𝖨𝖣𝖤𝖱 @ciderbae]

subhanallah, make dua and spread awareness. theres some speculation she was trafficked or detained by police

[NewsCord @newscord_org]

The past 20 days have marked one of the most monolithic pushes by British media to vilify the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion.

Imbalanced coverage would be an understatement.

The papers wrote 447 articles on the Greens' Zionism vote. Israel, pro-Israel groups and the Chief Rabbi got 12,133 words. Palestinians got 3,173.

Any institution that parades as a "news outlet" can no longer be taken seriously if it covers this motion without also covering the people, Palestinians, who have endured, suffered and been oppressed the most by the ideology in action.

What the figures show:

• Israel's government alone got 3,904 words. More than every Palestinian put together.

• 2,422 of the 3,173 Palestinian words came in stories tying Lubna Speitan, the Palestinian who proposed the motion, to al-Qaeda.

• Apart from Lubna, two Palestinians were quoted across 436 articles, for 76 words between them. Nobody in Gaza, the occupied West Bank or Lebanon was quoted at all.

• Lubna told the Telegraph that 56 members of her family had been killed in Gaza. One article mentioned it: the Telegraph's own al-Qaeda story, in paragraph 44 of 51.

• Lubna has received death and rape threats since the vote. Al Jazeera reported it. None of the 447 British articles did.

• 43 articles said, in the paper's own voice, that the motion meant the destruction or abolition of Israel. The motion calls for one state with "equal rights for all".

• 36 headlines said antisemitism. Not one of 447 said genocide.

• 304 of the 436 articles we read in full never mentioned the genocide at all.

• 0 of 89 comment pieces backed the motion.

• The Daily Mail ran 38 articles on the motion, and in that time, just 2 on Israel's ongoing attacks across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

Full report: https://t.co/4liNwhBG2g

[Bulwark Clips @BulwarkClips]

Trump: "African American poverty, Hispanic American poverty, and Native American poverty rates are the highest and the best numbers ever recorded by far."

[Duel Benimo @BenimoDuel]

@OmarBlooshiAE Why are you using photoge from a demonstration from 2023??