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UK antisemitism ‘allowed to grow’ by politicians and wider society, Jewish security group says Head of policy at Community Security Trust calls Saturday’s planned protest against ban on Palestine Action ‘self absorbed and insensitive’

Can't help thinking that if politicians had all along distinguished between the currently brutal State of Israel on the one hand and Jewish people in general on the other, there'd have been less risk of such a rise in anti-semitism.
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Police make arrests at Palestine Action protest as demo goes ahead despite PM’s pleas Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation

Defend Our Juries supporter Zoe Cohen said if the protest had been cancelled, it would have been “letting terror win”.

“When I was brought up learning about the Holocaust and we said ‘never again’, I learned that this means ‘never again’ for anyone.”

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What exactly is the Jewish ‘majority’ view on Israel? In truth, most people are struggling. To some degree. But it’s not as simple a calculation as 36 out of 300, or the ‘10% vs the 90%’. It’s rather more complicated than that. I’m talking about that let...

IJPR on why British Jewish opinion on Israel now involves being torn by pain and conflict. Israel making common cause with Tommy Robinson adds more salt in the wounds
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This is ridiculous. Police need to get their priorities right. Nothing is going to happen at the PA demo except people holding cardboard signs in silence. Police need to be outside synagogues protecting our Jewish community.

Thanks for posting this. It's high time Glasman were exposed for the right-wing useful idiot he is - how else can we explain his closeness to Vance etc?

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

Something pleasant because we all need it - Good Morning everyone from my quiet garden in Sussex! This is a begonia that came with me from Catford a couple of years ago. Had it for years and this is the first year it's flowered properly; the blue pot it's in came from a skip.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced.

The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵

Thanks for this, Naadir. I'd long thought Glasman dodgy - didn't suspect quite how much 'useful idiocy' though.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

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So, to be clear, Reform UK want a state strong enough to carry out mass deportations but identity cards would be a step too far in terms of state power?

No. I think it's giving Corbyn a bad name. That's different!

Andrea Jenkyns has awarded herself an increase of £150K to “run her office” as Mayor of Lincolnshire. Council taxpayers will now have to fork out £262K per annum for her immense talent and expertise.

Reform U.K. Ltd, always knowingly grifting.

Trump says he didn't want London Mayor Sadiq Khan at state banquet The mayor of London did not seek or expect an invite to the state banquet, the BBC understands.

Trump can fuck the fuck off for insulting our Mayor Sadiq Khan.

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US prisons are appalling; brutal, inhumane, primitive, and completely outdated. In a recent photo, Luigi’s wrists are raw and red from the cruel grip of tight handcuffs. This kind of treatment is utterly unacceptable, abusive, and should outrage anyone who values human dignity.

Not known as Prince of Darkness for nothing!

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tip for the Mail, Telegraph, etc - imagine how you’d report this if this was Angela Rayner

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

The BBC's Plan to Appease Nigel Farage News that BBC executives plan to alter their programming in order to win over Reform voters is the latest sign of a corporation that has become dangerously cowed by the right

“I don’t remember anyone ever saying to us ‘Oh I just don't think we're properly reflecting the Green Party view, or the liberal-left view on this story’,” one former BBC journalist told me.

“It was always just slanted in one direction – which was basically the nativist, authoritarian direction.”

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

White British, I thought we were reporting the ethnicity of sex offenders now?

It's going to be wild trying to describe the generation of British people who were the first in the family to go to university and also the last in their family to go to university.

Just as it's wild trying to explain the generation who were the first to own their own homes and the last, too.

My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.

As we watch Keir Starmer and his team expand NHS privatisation, please remember that he was elected to become Labour leader saying specifically that he would remove NHS private outsourcing. He then quietly dropped this pledge in Summer 2022.

This isn’t OK 🚨

David Dinsmore, the Murdoch exec who ran an aggressively hostile campaign against "Red Ed" Miliband's Labour party and denigrated Keir Starmer following the phone-hacking scandal, is now in charge of the Labour government’s comms, leaving both No. 10 and News UK baffled.

I agree. And thanks for reminder - I need to write to mine about why he didn't vote against proscribing Palestine Action.