Mark Wallace

Ludlow Castle is a classic - and Ludlow itself is a lovely place overall. Stokesay Castle is good too (though a fortified Manor House rather than a castle castle).

Mere days after a fatal terrorist attack, this is being paraded in Trafalgar Square today. For shame.

Yet oddly you won’t answer the question.

I know the answers, Lucy. I've been to both Israel and the West Bank, and met people of various communities in each. I'm interested to see if you know the facts, and to discover how your dogma sits when compared with them.

You appear to be saying you support the universal right to self-determination, except for Israelis whom you exempt on vague grounds of "colonialism".

Tell me, how many Arab Muslims are there in peaceful co-existence in Israel? And how many Jews are allowed to live in the West Bank and Gaza?

Oh sod off

So you support Israel’s right to exist and are therefore a Zionist? Make your mind up…

If you are “anti-Zionist” then you oppose Israel’s right to exist, and thereby the application of the universal human right of self-determination for its people. As you’ve said, cutting one group of people out of a right is explicitly racist. Look in the mirror.

Oregon, 1939. “Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note Social Security nr. tattooed on arm.”
Nr. 535-07-5248 belonged to one Thomas Cave, born July 1912, died in 1980 in Portland, OR. Which would make him 27 years old when this picture was taken.

You really are struggling this much with the concept of universal fundamental rights being universal?

Oddly what’s not being seen is the straightforward and honest answer to your question written down in black and white. Once more for the hard of thinking: “fundamental…right…to…” bsky.app/profile/wall...

Weirder and weirderer. It’s here in black and white, Lucy: bsky.app/profile/wall...

Are you genuinely unable to spot the words “fundamental right to” and then read the words they relate to here? bsky.app/profile/wall...

You both sound a bit unhinged now. And all because you seemingly can’t or won’t read a sentence: bsky.app/profile/wall...

Is comprehension not a strong point? bsky.app/profile/wall...

The answer is literally in the quoted post I just gave you.

I did already tell you this, Lucy… bsky.app/profile/wall...

It would be traditional to reply to the things I’ve said to you in response to your comment.

I haven’t given you advice, I’ve stated straightforward facts. As it happens, most Jewish people do consider themselves Zionists - but even if they didn’t, singling out Jewish people to be denied a fundamental right would still be antisemitic. It isn’t hard to understand if you try.

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So you’ll baselessly claim I say things I don’t, justify it by baselessly inventing motives I do not hold, and baselessly call me a liar for objecting to you doing so. Got it.

I grew up not knowing anyone Jewish and when I made Jewish friends at uni I was so surprised at first at just the amount of security they had to have even for low key events. I think at some point in the last ten years I stopped being surprised.

I mean the words that I say. I don’t mean words that I haven’t said. You evidently have an argument you’d like to pick with someone - the customary thing to do is to do so if and when that person appears and does the thing you object to, not make up things about somebody else. TTFN.

In this very thread you have falsely claimed that words mean something they explicitly do not mean. It’s a bit weird. bsky.app/profile/wall...

Conference attendee posts that this misinformation even spread to taxi drivers in Liverpool

This has very, very real consequences!!!

You’re intent on making up what you’d like to imagine I’m doing, even to the point of claiming words mean things that they quite evidently don’t. This is a You problem.

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Our editor @emmaburnell.bsky.social has a must read reflection on conference. A good reset - but the start - not the end - of what's needed

I think a lot of this is primarily about what many of us in the media now rewards. I chaired quite a few fringes at Labour conference, and at all of them I walked away impressed by the quality of all the MPs and their contributions.

By contrast, claiming the sentence means the opposite of the words in it, and that that makes me like Tommy Robinson, is both twisting and pretending.

No “twisting” or “pretending” involved. Here’s the sentence:

“People on our cities’ streets chant “globalise the intifada””.

This sentence refers to people who chant this slogan. It doesn’t refer to people who don’t chant it, which would be an objectively insane reading. This is what words mean.