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@DavidAllenEN4
Posts mostly about UK/ London politics; Sex and Gender, Anti-semitism, Israel, Iran, Islamism. Conservative councillor. LGB Alliance member.
@CF_Farrow @WingsScotland The Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales is on the list! Wow!
So the @churchofengland Synod has failed to decide whether or not to pass an antisemitic motion: they ran out of time tonight and they will have to decide whether to debate it again at their next synod. Some good debate, many church figures recognising the motion as it stands is pure antisemitism but you’ll see in the first clip that some Bishops - as well as other members of the clergy - are fine with that. The second clip is from the excellent @Psephizo who has also written a brilliant blog on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent trip to Israel where she appears to have met with some questionable people.
Manslaughter plea accepted in dog walker killing bbc.in/4vZp5hc
Drop Site: “An innocent Palestinian nurse was killed by Israel.” Palestinian Islamic Jihad: “He was our best terrorist.”
It is shameful that the Church of England General Synod has recommended engagement with Kairos II. This is a document full of falsehood, which openly rejects dialogue, uses extreme rhetoric to challenge the very existence of Israel and objects to existing peace agreements in the region. Though it poses as a route to understanding, Kairos II in fact functions as an egregious barrier to it, reducing one of the world's most complex conflicts to a single, warped narrative, which can only harm the cause of peace. This is a sad day for Jewish-Christian relations.
A lot of people wonder how the pro-Palestine/Anti-Israel protests started within hours of the Hamas terror attack and often included preprinted posters and ready made "genocide" chants. How was it so organized and "spontaneous"? I, and other journalists, are chasing the 'follow the money' story behind the movement that appeared "out of nowhere" on October 8. This past week, an @NGOmonitor report provided the data inside the UK experience. It maps 40 major post-October 7 protest and mobilization campaigns in the UK — and it undercuts the "spontaneous grassroots reaction" narrative that took hold right after Hamas's October 7 massacre. The findings: At least 11 of the 40 organizations mapped have links to extremist actors — the Iranian regime and IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, the PFLP, or the Muslim Brotherhood — either directly or through officials who met or cooperated with them. Leadership overlaps heavily across the six primary coordinating groups. Jeremy Corbyn—the antisemitism former Labour Party leader— alone holds posts in three of them simultaneously. The funding for Corbyn's own group, the People's Forum UK, is undisclosed. Youth recruitment is a high priority — Amnesty International UK is cited for running an activism-training program aimed at UK youth; Friends of Al-Aqsa for youth-mobilization messaging. —Of the 40 groups, only 10 are registered charities. —Thirteen operate completely outside any formal UK regulatory framework — while still soliciting public donations. —Nineteen receive UK government funding via the FCDO or Gift Aid. At least 11 draw taxpayer money from other governments too, including the US and several EU states. —Funding also flows from major US progressive foundations — Open Society, Rockefeller Brothers Fund among them — plus, per the report, cryptocurrency channels used by CAGE and Palestine Action, the latter now a proscribed organization under UK law as of a June 2026 Court of Appeal ruling. What the NGO Monitor report shows is a well-funded, coordinated infrastructure that existed before October 7 and moved fast because it was already built — organizationally, financially, and rhetorically — around "genocide" messaging with no space made for Israeli victims. Here is the full report: ngo-monitor.org/pdf/Imported_I…
@COLRICHARDKEMP There is very little international aid allowed in it all has to be bought at astronomical prices.
