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Only 5,000 kids were surveyed, only 92 were Jewish, only 70 of 92 responded, and 29 said they had faced antisemitism at school. Only 2% said antisemitism was a big problem at their school and we're reclassifying it as a more serious form of racism based on that? Is this a joke?
Another perfectly unbiased report comes out of government.
In a short while, Secretary of State for Education, @LucyMPowell will present the Sir David Bell review into antisemitism in schools and colleges.
This review is billed as the 'Independent review into antisemitism in schools and colleges'.
I've spoken to a number of individuals and organisations that submitted evidence to the Bell Review when the call for views from people with relevant lived experience, knowledge or expertise of antisemitism in schools and colleges went out earlier this year.
A number of them have gotten back to me to relay their horror and dismay that the review seems overly focussed on issues such as the presence of Palestine solidarity badges and other imagery in schools rather than the multitude of clear examples where Jewish students have been targeted with antisemitic abuse, discrimination and hatred.
It appears that the review is coming down hard on expressions of Palestine solidarity while being rather light on pupils who do Hitler salutes or make jokes about Jews and money.
Having done a little research I do also have some serious concerns as to the impartiality of this review and also the recommendation that schools adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism despite it not being possible to make this compulsory, nor is it legally actionable.
If we care about tackling antisemitism in society, ensuring we get to it where it manifests in our schools and among young people, then we need to put a stop to the weaponisation of antisemitism and its use for political football where Israel-Palestine is concerned.
This review is fundamentally biased, ideological, and linked to efforts to tie Jewish identity with support for Israel while suppressing pro-Palestine expression as 'antisemitic' and intimidating for Jews.
The reality of course is that young Jews in the UK are way more intimidated and frightened by their classmates doing Hitler salutes, making jokes about the Holocaust, doing gas sounds towards them because they're Jewish, being physically assaulted for being Jewish, being bullied and isolated for being Jewish, being sexually assaulted (reports of kids demanding to see the circumcised penis of a Jewish school child in year 8), and all the other antisemitic shit that is happening in our schools.
I'm also reminded of what we learned from the documentary film @IsraelismFilm about the efforts to indoctrinate young Jews into seeing Israel as integral to their identity as Jews, that when Israel is criticised they are being personally attacked as Jews, and that they can only see themselves as Jewish if they support and love Israel.
Anyway, below are some very serious issues relating to Sir David Bell, his lack of impartiality, and the failure to declare vested interests of himself and a number of those on the reference group:
- David Bell's role as a permanent secretary at the department of education was not disclosed as a conflict of interest.
- David Bell is named on the national council of the 'National Study Group', an educational charity, that in its mission statement says that its goal is to "initiate or expand active links and research collaboration between academics, specialists and centres-of-excellence in the UK and their counterparts in Israel." The ASG is "primarily a UK-Israel operation" and rather worryingly the "only issue on which ASG has firm policy is opposition to BDS. The Charity is totally committed to the universality of knowledge and rejects any disruption to cross-national co-operation."
- The ASG, of which Sir David Bell is named as a member of national council, provides educational talks about Israel to schools.
- Executive director of the ASG, John D.A. Levy, is on the advisory board of Academic Friends of Israel and a separate charity, the friends of Israel educational foundation.
- The Friends of Israel Educational Foundation carries out hundreds of school talks in the UK.
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Holy fuck. Every one of the political parties. #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine
Israeli TV brings together a host of different candidates "from across the political spectrum" and asks them if they support the establishment of a Palestinian state.
They uniformly declare "No!"
"We'll fight it tooth and nail! … It's against God!"
By Israeli standards, Netanyahu is a moderate who is not genocidal enough.
Dear @FrenchTeam and @England you have the opportunity Saturday to do something funny. The Americans always whine there’s not enough goals. Play a nice open 26-26 draw, letting Kane and Mbappe get 9 each, and put this useless 3rd place playoff into the dustbin of history.
Farage is doing a Johnson, and running away, knowing he’s about to be suspended from Parliament, isn’t he? #Farage
Please can Starmer turn up to this expected resignation speech in the salmon jacket… #StarmerResignation #KeithHeelTurn #Starmer
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SMTV Live today in 1999, the day before Father's Day, takes correspondence from kids on the subject of things dads do. Enter Sophie from Durham with almost certainly not what was expected.
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On Friday night, we got a bizarre legal threat from Shabana Mahmood's special advisor: if we didn't agree to pull our planned story by 9pm, we would face a high court injunction.
I suspect he thought he could bully @brumdispatch because it's a local publication. He was wrong!
So let's get this straight... two sitting black councillors are deselected in Croydon. The Party's bureaucrats enforce a mandatory shortlist... and the result is KEIR STARMER'S MID-20s NIECE gets picked to stand for the 2nd safest ward?
She might be very smart and capable, and might eventually be a credit to the role, but this sort of mad top-down management invites scepticism. If I was a local resident, I'd be pretty miffed.
insidecroydon.com/2026/04/30…
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El 11 de abril de 1945, el ejército imperialista estadounidense entraba en el campo de concentración nazi de Buchenwald... sin embargo, pocos saben que los yankis no liberaron a todos los prisioneros.
Los prisioneros homosexuales condenados por los nazis, identificados con un triángulo rosa, permanecieron encarcelados en Alemania Occidental y fueron obligados por EEUU a cumplir toda la sentencia a la que le condenaron los nazis por su orientación sexual.
En la Alemania occidental, EEUU siguió con los mismos códigos penales de la Alemania nazi, incluyendo el artículo 175, que penalizaba la homosexualidad con prisión, por lo que miles de prisioneros homosexuales que llevaban el triángulo rosa en los campos de concentración nazis, tras la llegada de EEUU, fueron sacados de los campos para meterlos en una cárcel.
Solo entre 1945 y 1949, EEUU condenó a más de 1.500 homosexuales a prisión con las leyes homófobas nazis, entre ellos el artículo 175, que solo fue completamente abolido hasta 1994... hasta ese año, entraron más de 100.000 homosexuales presos en Alemania Occidental.
Los sobrevivientes homosexuales del Holocausto además fueron vetados de las reparaciones económicas por EEUU y su gobierno títere de Alemania Occidental, siendo clasificados como "delincuentes comunes".
La historia que no te cuentan en sus documentales de propaganda, donde te pintan que el imperio occidental era el paraíso de los derechos humanos.
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A convicted Labour 'friend of Israel' has avoided jail for child sex offences — the latest in a string of similar cases
Via @skwawkbox
thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/…
Another child sex offender gets off with a jail free sentence. What the actual fuck?
Labour Together’s backers really are the turd that will not flush. Is this why Rayner has suddenly re-emerged? In readiness for Starmer’s defenestration after the inevitable May election kicking? #RedTories #SameShitDifferentFace
Oh look; it’s @michaelgove pick for the Nobel Peace Prize, the most moral army in the world… #FuckIsrael
Israel has decided to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers after they were accused of brutally gang raping Palestinian prisoners, leaving one prisoner with a hole in his rectum.
The crimes were caught on camera, and the lawyer who exposed the footage was arrested and forced to resign.
Israel effectively had what many call "Right to rape" protests, supporting the soldiers against what the Israelis claimed were "smears" against the "noble IDF."
There have been numerous allegations against the Sde Teiman reservists.
Follow: @AFpost
😳🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #FuckIsrael
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Reform UK have manufactured an argument with a Welsh university.
They contacted a student group at Bangor University (who are separate to the Uni) asking them to hold an event for them.
When the group said "no" Reform threatened to cut their funding.
This is totally manufactured faux outrage.
It is the equivalent of me going up to someone and saying: “please can you host a party and can I come?”
Them saying “no I don’t like you” and me saying that I am going to take their money away.
Reform have repeatedly dodged interviews with journalists in Wales. They banned certain journalists from councils they run in England.
I would suggest this makes this sudden desire to protect free speech nothing more than hypocritical opportunism.
#FuckIsrael #FreePalestine Where’s all our so called patriots’ outrage now?
🚨🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF has bulldozed part of a Gaza cemetery which contained the war graves of British soldiers who died in WWI and WWII
[@guardian]
