Steve Cooke

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Today, April 24, marks the 110th anniversary of the start of the #ArmenianGenocide, a brutal, racist campaign by the Ottoman Empire's Turkish nationalist government in which 1.5m Armenians and hundreds of thousands of Assyrians and Greeks were murdered.

Yarden, Shiri, Kfir and Ariel Bibas, before they were taken hostage by Hamas; and before Shiri, Kfir and Ariel were killed.

Trump’s dirty deals on foreign policy are usually disastrous. He lauded Kim Jong-Un and got nothing. He handed Afghanistan back to the Taliban. He betrayed Kurdish allies to please Erdoğan. His #Ukraine and #Gaza “peace” initiatives will turn out just as badly and even more deadly.

Ahsan Ullah, CEO of the Ullcom Group of Companies, has just been elected as Deputy Leader of George Galloway's Workers Party of Britain.

According to Companies House, the comrade is director of 13 businesses.

It makes it a comment expressing concern about racism rather than a comment expressing racism.

Except that she was referring to brown as a political colour code rather than ethnicity. Brown is associated with antisemitic authoritarianism.

Have fun.

We can’t be certain about what would’ve happened had that parliamentary decision gone the other way.

I hope these positive early signs reflect reality.

🌹 Labour NEC Report - November 2024

- In July, Labour won 92% of the battleground seats
- BAME Labour and Socialist Societies
- Women's conference
- Diary dates
- Devolution
- Members

You can also read the full report here: www.annblack.co.uk/nec-meeting-...

But of course.

Watching #PenguinCafe play at #StocktonGlobe.

#PenguinCafeOrchestra #AvantPop

Because he admitted to contempt of court after repeating false claims about a Syrian refugee who had been attacked at school. Hope that's clear.

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Jo “Jew process” Bird was expelled from the Labour Party. She was a member of a group who denied antisemitism.

Now she is giving antisemitism training to The Green Party, involving “dealing with accusations of antisemitism.” No prizes for guessing the content.
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Lots of discussion on what Trump's administration would do and how far they'd go.
But equally important question is what radical right wing actors, groups and people think they can get away with under a Trump presidency. What will be supported or at least tolerated.

We tend to think of mass murder events when the word “pogrom” is used, but presumably there were many such attacks initiated that didn’t result in deaths. See also the Limerick Pogrom from 1904.

OK. Whether you want to call it a pogrom or not, Israelis/Jews were clearly targeted for attacks and harassment in Amsterdam. Yes, some of Maccabi Tel Aviv’s ultras behaved disgracefully the day before, but that’s no excuse for going after people who had nothing to do with those incidents.

“They”?

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You didn’t miss anything worth reading. It’s an appalling article.

Thinking about the terrible events of #October7th and remembering the victims, bereaved, survivors and hostages. Hamas are terrorists driven by Jew-hatred not freedom fighters or anti-imperialists. Anyone who supports them or excuses their actions should be ashamed.

Awkward if the pager belonged to a pilot. Mind you, airlines probably wouldn’t want militia members on their staff.

#C4News accounts of IDF and IPS torture of Palestinian detainees seem credible. Not because it’s #Israel but because similar abuses happen under all armies, including UK/US. It’s never acceptable. No atrocity - 10/7, 9/11, Christchurch, Beslan, whatever - can justify or excuse it.

Tweet by Workers Party parliamentary candidate Hoz Shafiei complaining that the Board of Deputies of British Jews wouldn’t let him into general election hustings event.

Examples of antisemitic statements made by Hoz Shafiei.

Yet more antisemitic statements made by Hoz Shafiei.

Poor “totally deflated” @WorkersPartyGB #LondonWestminster candidate Hoz Shafiei accuses the Board of Deputies of racism for not letting him into their election hustings. He’s only repeatedly called them “Zionist c***s” and claimed “they just want all Goyim as slaves”. Diddums.

Is it true that George Galloway’s “Workers Party is full of #antismites, #racists and #conspiracytheorists”?

I’ve compiled some of the evidence …

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A friend recently shared this letter to The Independent newspaper from 24 March 2002.

It’s a fair summary of the position. The unhyphenated version is used by virtually all Jewish community advocacy organisations and anti-antisemitism campaigners in the UK, but some of the mainstream media outlets still favour the hyphen.