'A lot of damage has been done'
Adam Dickson says confidence in both police and government has collapsed, after the banning of Maccabi fans last year.
He warns that new ministerial powers to sack chief constables risk further politicising already fragile community trust.
Disastrous.
Absolutely disastrous.
We will all rue the day this decision was made.
Rewarding terrorism with no conditions whatsoever put in place for Hamas.
It leaves hostages languishing in Gaza and does nothing to stop the suffering of innocent people caught in this war.
It is because Labour cannot fix the big problems in our society that they focus on discredited student union campaigns to appease the hard left.
- They cannot fix the NHS, so they push assisted suicide.
- They cannot create jobs for young people so they give them votes at 16.
- They cannot sort out immigration but they will recognise Palestine instead.
And so on.
This is the same man who paid ยฃ35bn of reparations to Mauritius along with the surrender of the Chagos islands.
Everything we are seeing is a consequence of a Prime Minister has no plan for the country and no judgement.
He will spend the next four years delivering the hobby horses of the Labour left to stay in power and leave a HUGE mess for us to clean up.
Keir Starmer's decision to recognise Palestine does nothing to stop the suffering of the innocent people caught in this war.
It makes freeing the hostages even harder than it was before.
The only people this benefits? Hamas.
The Chief Rabbi is right.
The BBC has woefully failed to deal with antisemitism. Too many incidents, too many apologies. These are not โone-offsโ. This is a cultural and institutional problem at the BBC.
Something needs to change.
The Director General needs to go.
๐-๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ก-๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐ข๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐-๐ฒ๐๐๐ซ-๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ข๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐:
Following the completion of the identification process by the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in collaboration with the Israel Police, IDF representatives informed the Bibas family that their loved ones, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, have been identified.
According to the assessment of professional officials, based on the intelligence available to us and forensic findings from the identification process, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were brutally murdered by terrorists in captivity in November 2023.
During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was found for any other hostage. This is an anonymous, unidentified body.
This is a violation of utmost severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obligated under the agreement to return four deceased hostages. We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages.
Ariel Bibas was four years old at the time of his death, and Kfir Bibas was ten months old at the time of his death. They were abducted with their mother, Shiri Bibas, from their home in Nir Oz. Yarden Bibas, Ariel and Kfir's father, went out to protect them and was abducted prior to the abduction of Shiri and the children. Yarden returned as part of the agreement for the return of the hostages on February 1, 2025.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to the Bibas family during this incredibly difficult time and remain committed to doing everything possible to ensure Shiri and all the hostages are brought home at the earliest opportunity.
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