@writtenbylaurie Not just the Republic of Ireland.
I just saw this article:
Israeli triathletes barred from race in Northern Ireland after organizer objects | The Times of Israel https://t.co/sWFfdN3Pvw
The Royal Holloway Palestine Society investigation is over. The Students’ Union found they broke fundraising rules. Money was moved outside agreed procedures.
Now the SU is demanding every donation back.
Fundraising will stay frozen until the new committee is trained.This was never just campus politics.
It’s student money, extremism, and whether British universities will look the other way.
#extremism #radicalisation #britain
🇮🇱 ISRAELI TRIATHLETES BARRED FROM NORTHERN IRELAND RACE
Four Israeli athletes will not compete in Saturday’s Europe Triathlon Cup in Londonderry after the North West Triathlon Club objected to their participation.
DUP assembly member Julie Middleton condemned the decision as “an awful reflection on Londonderry,” adding: “An international sporting event that should showcase our city’s hospitality and openness has instead become associated with the exclusion of athletes because they are Israeli.”
Organizers confirmed: “There will be no Israeli representation competing at this event.”
I reckon I know where we could find most of the £30m needed to keep the British Army’s training going. Let’s just not give £23m to the Hamas-infiltrated UNRWA.
Priorities…
Nadia Sawalha is targeting a disabled Israeli man now who lost his leg in a Hamas attack in 2021. She doesn’t like him working for Adidas to promote a disability product INSIDE ISRAEL. The way she rubs her fingers together and says “MONEY” is creepy.
What kind of deterrence is this?
A man has been handed a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to sending offensive messages threatening synagogues and Jewish businesses earlier this summer.
Michael Brown, 45, was arrested after posting a since-deleted comment beneath a Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign Facebook post stating: “It’s about time to target local synagogues and Jewish businesses with over ripe fruit and stink bombs.” He published the post on 28th February, the day that the United States and Israel launched an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
He also asked, “Does anyone have a good recipe for roasted synagogue?” and said “Let’s all buy a pack of 6 eggs and pelt the local synagogues.”
Mr Brown reportedly referred to his comments as a “joke” in a police interview.
The judge presiding over the case at Westminster Magistrates’ Court said that the offence was aggravated by racial hostility, and that it would be “inevitable” that a member of the Jewish community would be “alarmed” by his post.
Nevertheless, he was handed only an eight week prison sentence that is suspended for one year.
Mr Brown was also issued fifteen rehabilitation activity days and 80 hours of unpaid work.
There is nothing funny about threatening synagogues and Jewish businesses. Offenders inciting anti-Jewish hate must receive harsher sentences in order to establish deterrence.
https://t.co/9qNEDC0FSK
“A strategic consensus between Zionist groups and fascist groups.”
According to @Telegraph, The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) @RGS_IBG has published a so-called academic paper which attributes the riots following the 2024 Southport attack to “Zionist financiers”.
The paper, entitled “The United Kingdom’s first anti-Muslim pogroms in a context of genocidal Islamophobia in Gaza”, was authored by Dr Kawtar Najib, a lecturer in human geography at @LivUni.
It apparently speculates over a “strategic consensus between Zionist groups and fascist groups”, and suggests that the “white supremacist ideology” of far-right protests is “at the heart of the Zionist project”.
Astonishingly, the paper underwent a double-blind peer review process which involved two reviewers and was overseen by a journal editor, before publication.
Senior academics have rightly condemned the paper for peddling “age-old, notorious racist ideas”, and have called for the resignation of the Chairman of an upcoming RGS international conference, Professor Hopkins, for his involvement in its editorial process.
We echo those calls.
Let’s be clear: Zionism is the belief that Jews have the same right to self-determination afforded to all other peoples of the world under Article 1 of the UN Charter. 80% of British Jews consider themselves to be Zionists; only 6% do not, according to our polling.
The idea that Zionism could be conflated with white supremacy is an insulting distortion of its true meaning. The notion that Zionist ‘finance’ – another trope – was behind the riots is a ludicrous and racist conspiracy theory that one would expect to find in the dark corners of the internet, not in what was once a prestigious academic journal.
It says much about the state of academia – its biases and poor standards – that such a paper could be written, reviewed by peers and approved by editors.
Irresponsible publications like these inflame hostilities towards British Jews, and bring the academic sector into disrepute.
https://t.co/ZzTWcvYjAg
Bill Clinton: “I killed myself trying to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza and 97% of the West Bank. You name it. They turned it all down.”
The Palestinians never wanted peace.
The threat level against the country continues to grow yet the Burnham government has told the British Army to cease major exercises with Challenger 2 tanks and Apache gunships to save money.
Our Bus-Conductor-in-Chief can find money for all sorts of gimmicks that allow him to play to the gallery. But not for essential defence spending. Unforgivable.
Just watched The Runner with @GalGadot She was the best I’ve seen her, and Amazon are making movies that are trying to look big budget, but I is clear that they aren’t, based on good ideas. 7/10.
I’m amused that people got themselves arrested and nearly tried for trying to interfere with the production. Their failure was absolute.
https://t.co/M1XfKK7feP
BREAKING: The IDF has full control of the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah terrorists have been killed, and the underground strongholds will be destroyed.
The Islamic regime of Iran spent decades building this.
Major win for Israel.
Step into the mad and ugly world of “Palestine Action” with Emma Kamio. She's the mother of one of four convicted of serious vandalism at a defence plant, in the attack where a female police officer was assaulted with a sledgehammer.
Today, backed by the terrorist support group Cage, a bid for an appeal of the convictions was launched. Kamio started with a lie. 1/7
Nitzan Rahoum was only 28 and four months pregnant when she was brutally murdered by Hamas while fleeing the music festival on October 7.
Don’t forget her.
Polanski's @TheGreenParty is a rerun of Corbyn's Labour - a couple of hundred thousand antisemitic entryists, the myopic obsession with Israel and the inevitable unpopularity. The silent majority don't like antisemitic extremism and the Greens will crash and burn at the next GE.
“Israel murdered this school doctor! He was an innocent civilian!” 😢
And just like a clock: the “innocent doctor” turned out to be yet another Nazi terrorist eliminated by the IDF. Israel is being vindicated like never seen before. 🇮🇱
ONE. BY. ONE. 💥