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Wellthis aged well. Leave aside the complete misreading of the result from someone posting this morning- not last night- the wilful mischaracterisation of the political realities is shocking if not surprising. I say not surprising because I once had the experience of @EmilyThornberry berating me in her office for talking about "Israel". She was insistent ... the Problem is this particular Government... this was many Governments ago. She is seeking to sustain the liberal zionist myth of a progressive body of opinion in Israel, reflected in opposition parties who oppose the oppression of Palestinians and will act to end it. It means she wilfully ignores the fact that every one of the Zionist parties support the genocide in Gaza, support the occupation and would never allow a Palestinian state. She ignores what creates this reality- the support for these policies across the Israeli public - 82% believe every Palestinian should be ethnically cleansed from Gaza and 56% support the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel. Maybe Emily doesn't think these views are " cruel, dystopic and authoritarian". If she did she'd had to accept the problem is Israel as an apartheid state enacting a genocide supported by its people , not Netanyahu. And if she accepted that she might have to support comprehensive sanctions and we can't have that can we?
Israeli Exit Polls show Netanyahu's been defeated.
Israel has rejected his dark vision, forever war & cruel, dystopic, authoritarian policies.
But to succeed, the anti Netanyahu block needs to work with the Israeli Arab parties.
I dearly hope this great chance isn't wasted
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Exit polls showed neither Netanyahu's bloc nor the opposition reaching the 61 seats needed for a majority, resulting in a deadlock rather than a clear defeat.
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Kneecap and Bob Vylan are banned from the US for criticism of Israel
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I am also tired of people calling it just “colorism” sure it’s is but that would mean light skinned fully black women are casted instead. Telling black women they need to look mixed because of their hair,skin tone and also most likely features, isn’t just colorism, it’s racist.
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The problem with the UK media bubble is that it’s so used to setting the narrative and having minions play along that it can’t handle an actual disruptor who exists outside the bubble. They had no counter just the same tired narrative everyone knows and nobody believes
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Read Them Down! THANK YOU 🙏🏻 @theonlyjasonlee 💐 the truth always rattles those racist.
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The Food Warehouse
Farmfoods
Savers
Home bargains
B & M
Poundstretcher
Poundland
Great British institutions and nobody can ever make me feel embarrassed about spending my money in them.🇬🇧
(RIP Wilkinson I'll always miss you)
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I apologize for the antisemitism of resharing this video where an Israeli makes it clear she wants to kill every gazan if necessary and to steal their land as well as the land of neighboring Arab countries. Again, I’m very sorry for spreading the blood libel of an Israelis own words.
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Haley Steven’s: DONT UNFAIRLY DEMONIZE ISRAEL
Israelis:
This type of fearmongering about Israel is wrong. It is not a winning strategy for any state. It does nothing to help Michigan Democrats win up and down the ballot in eight days. Do we need to lower costs by building more homes, securing people’s health care, and creating a fairer federal tax code? Yes, we do!! How we do so is not by blaming the high costs of our goods on the only Jewish homeland in the world. I want to see Democrats succeed at every level, and that means keeping our focus on lowering costs for Michigan families and reining in this out-of-control President.
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Steve Bell was sacked by The Guardian over this cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Just in: IPSO has refused to investigate the Telegraph cartoon of Mothin Ali, the Green Party's Muslim deputy leader, grinning over a knife and fork at the severed head of Zack Polanski, its Jewish leader, who is drawn with a hooked nose. Nearly 1,200 of you complained.
IPSO's reason: the cartoon is about two individuals, so only Mothin and Zack can complain. How racist the drawing is doesn't come into it.
IPSO did not have to do this, and it has done the opposite before.
IPSO's rules let it take up a complaint from people other than the person written about, when the breach is significant, and there is a substantial public interest in looking at it.
In July 2023 it used that power. It ruled that Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column about the Duchess of Sussex was sexist, after complaints from two women's charities, the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation. The Duchess did not complain.
The Telegraph's editor, Chris Evans, chairs the committee that writes the Editors' Code, which is the rulebook IPSO enforces.
The Telegraph is still selling prints of the cartoon today.
IPSO's rule says it may take up a complaint like this, not that it must. So this was a choice.
Picture a school. One boy draws two classmates, a Muslim boy and a Jewish boy. He gives the Jewish boy a hooked nose and puts his head on a plate, and draws the Muslim boy about to eat it. He pins the picture to the noticeboard and sells copies at the gate.
A thousand pupils go to the head teacher. She tells them she can only act if the two boys in the picture come to her themselves.
So the picture stays on the board, and every Muslim and Jewish child in the school walks past it each morning. The boy who drew it learns he can do it again.
And the rulebook the head teacher is reading from was written by a committee his dad chairs.
Nobody would say that head teacher is protecting the children. She is protecting the boy who drew it.
That is what IPSO has done. It says it regulates the Telegraph, and it has just told nearly 1,200 people that a racist cartoon in a paper it regulates is not its business unless the two men drawn in it come and ask.
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Just in: IPSO has refused to investigate the Telegraph cartoon of Mothin Ali, the Green Party's Muslim deputy leader, grinning over a knife and fork at the severed head of Zack Polanski, its Jewish leader, who is drawn with a hooked nose. Nearly 1,200 of you complained.
IPSO's reason: the cartoon is about two individuals, so only Mothin and Zack can complain. How racist the drawing is doesn't come into it.
IPSO did not have to do this, and it has done the opposite before.
IPSO's rules let it take up a complaint from people other than the person written about, when the breach is significant, and there is a substantial public interest in looking at it.
In July 2023 it used that power. It ruled that Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column about the Duchess of Sussex was sexist, after complaints from two women's charities, the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation. The Duchess did not complain.
The Telegraph's editor, Chris Evans, chairs the committee that writes the Editors' Code, which is the rulebook IPSO enforces.
The Telegraph is still selling prints of the cartoon today.
IPSO's rule says it may take up a complaint like this, not that it must. So this was a choice.
Picture a school. One boy draws two classmates, a Muslim boy and a Jewish boy. He gives the Jewish boy a hooked nose and puts his head on a plate, and draws the Muslim boy about to eat it. He pins the picture to the noticeboard and sells copies at the gate.
A thousand pupils go to the head teacher. She tells them she can only act if the two boys in the picture come to her themselves.
So the picture stays on the board, and every Muslim and Jewish child in the school walks past it each morning. The boy who drew it learns he can do it again.
And the rulebook the head teacher is reading from was written by a committee his dad chairs.
Nobody would say that head teacher is protecting the children. She is protecting the boy who drew it.
That is what IPSO has done. It says it regulates the Telegraph, and it has just told nearly 1,200 people that a racist cartoon in a paper it regulates is not its business unless the two men drawn in it come and ask.
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You are assuming that their ambition is motivated by reason or rational thought. It is not.
The moral corruption of greed, and its attendant lust for domination, are unconscious, irrational impulses with their own depraved logic. And they can never be satiated.
I cannot wrap my head around the endgame here. If you destroy the planet, crash the global economy, and leave ordinary people too broke to buy anything, what exactly are billionaires planning to do with all that money? Sit in underground bunkers staring at bank balances while the world falls apart? Wealth is only valuable when there's a functioning society around it. So what exactly are they trying to win?
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We defo have distinguishable accents. You can tell when someone is Black on the phone. You can more than likely tell if they have a Caribbean or African background too imo from certain words and twangs used (especially in London) probably true for other major cities too.
