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Psych Graduate and Proud Neurodivergent👩‍🎓. The poet who’s work is never “quite ready” 🤷🏼‍♀️ Local Pansexual 🌈 #Blacklivesmatter #Freepalestine

[Gary Spedding @GarySpedding]

Tali Smus is not some ordinary student who has been targeted for being Jewish; she is a very active and vocal advocate for Israel.

Her social media posts include videos of herself ripping off pro-Palestine stickers on campus, engaging with anti-Palestinian organisations such as StandwithUs and Conservative Friends of Israel, and promoting anti-Palestinian racism.

She has marketed herself online since before going to university as the 'British Zioness'.

Tali Smus is affiliated with several right-wing Israel advocacy organisations including CAMERA, StandwithUs, Students Supporting Israel (SSI), and is a participant in the Nitzavim Fellowship.

Her article below tells us of her claimed experiences as a supporter of Israel at a UK university. She readily conflates political criticism of Israeli government policy & anti-Zionism with racial or religious antisemitism.

The Israel advocacy organisations to which she is affiliated have been founted to implement strategies whereby conversations are entirely centred on the emotional distress or perceived unsafety of pro-Israel students, these strategies often successfully divert public attention away from the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the reality on the ground in Palestine, or various other human rights and international law concerns.

Important to note that the police reviewed the conversation logs but concluded they were unable to legally prove specific criminal offenses, such as racially aggravated harassment, alarm, or distress based on the messages they were provided. I also note that the full transcripts of the message exchanges, including what Tali Smus herself wrote, have not been revealed publicly.

The full, unedited transcripts of the group chat messages have not been published online by Tali Smus or any third party. The public record consists entirely of specific, curated excerpts and quotes that Smus and various media outlets have chosen to share as part of a concerted and highly selective public discourse initiative.

In her speeches for the Campaign Against Antisemitism and her firsthand op-ed in The Daily Telegraph, Smus provided only selective quotes such as "We've fished out a Zionist" and "The Zionists are actually everywhere". Neither she nor the publishers have uploaded the complete, raw chat file or full screenshots.

We consequently have no way of knowing whether the comments that were made came in response to something pro-Israel that Tali Smus herself had posted or stated within the chats. It is extremely important to understand and have this information as it impacts the entire context.

If Tali Smus simply joined a group chat and was immediately targeted for having been recognised as pro-Israel and a Zionist then it makes the messaging far more alarming, intimidating, and sinister. However, if the messaging came in response to Tali promoting pro-Israel and Zionist talking points then the comments made become a reaction/response to political points. Such comments can be seen as unpleasant but they are not remotely the same as a concerted campaign of targeted harassment and intimidation.

Similarly, the messaging regarding her presence in lectures appears to focus on her alleged interruption of the lecturer - this begs a question surrounding her own conduct in lectures and on campus. Did she interrupt a lecturer with pro-Israel talking points? Again, students that are disruptive in lectures are routinely asked to leave the lecture theatre... it is not unreasonable for her fellow students to want her thrown out if she was being disruptive.

Overall, my biggest issue here is that once again the Telegraph is publishing an article from a now prominent pro-Israel student influencer who is affiliated to some rather nasty anti-Palestinian organisations... meanwhile Jewish students facing very real antisemitism that is unrelated to Israel-Palestine are totally ignored by our media & politicians.

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

The @Telegraph won't disclose this, but Tali Smus worked for a Zionist propaganda organization.

The Telegraph wants you to believe Tali Smus is just a college student facing antisemitism. It's a lie.

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

#ZionistTears

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "The hoarding of assets is causing inequality in the country"

"If you're the poorest billionaire in the country with £1 billion, you're making £1 million passive income every week"

"That's unsustainable when we have nurses queuing up at food banks"

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

LAndy Burnham says a wealth tax would be ‘creating new divisions’

He’s not even on the pitch.

The super rich have taken our assets for decades and we want them back.

That fight isn’t going to come from Andy Burnham.

[Angela Dunning @AngelaKDunning]

Gaza
Mandelson
Palantir
NHS Trump deal
Winter fuel allowance
Child benefit cap
Cost of living crisis
Grotesque inequality
0 climate action
Jailing peaceful protesters
Sewage scandal
High energy bills
Soaring rents & mortgages
I could go on.
What the FUCK is the applause for?

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

So a man walked up to a Muslim employee at a kiosk in a mall yesterday, asked for water, and as the employee turned he stabbed him 15 times, saying he “intends to kill Muslims” and is planning mass casualty events.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes keep happening and no one even blinks.

[Bruce @FireNewz]

“We start wars then send our Christian slaves to clean our mess”

- a Jew, our ally 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Good morning. Is there any update on the soiled mattresses and baby high chairs found in the tunnel beneath the Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn, where orthodox jews violently attacked police to prevent them from uncovering it?

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Fun Fact: The President of the goddam United States paid nearly $6 million in damages today to a woman he raped. Once upon a time, this would have been the only news you heard.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

700,000 dead in Gaza..

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

This is the first time I've heard about this. No wall-to-wall media coverage

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Left: Michael Gove on BBC News, "Some of the PPE we ordered was deficient, that's because we were maintaining high standards"

Right: Nurses wearing bin bags for PPE

[Lien @Jacksonsrule]

In Finland, charging fees for tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids. That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

We are living through a "Cost of Living Crisis" while corporations are reporting "Record Breaking Profits." These two things are not happening at the same time by accident. One is literally causing the other.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Mientras Mark Zuckerberg navega con su yate, su empresa Meta, dueña de Facebook e Instagram, utilizó Inteligencia Artificial para identificar a trabajadores con problemas médicos para despedirlos y ahorrarse futuras bajas.

26 trabajadores fueron despedidos por la IA de Meta, por lo que los trabajadores presentaron una demanda acusando a Zuckerberg y a su IA de Meta de mobbing contra personas con discapacidades y trabajadores que se tomaron una baja médica.

El capitalismo no usará la tecnología para hacerte la vida más facil, la utilizará para aumentar sus beneficios a toda costa.

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

OMG

Trump just paid E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million

Because he raped her

Because he's a rapist

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

While the world was distracted with the World Cup….

Israel bombed the shit out of Gaza!!!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Has @elonmusk tweeted about this? Tommy Robinson? Rupert Lowe?