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Phillips' interview with @ZackPolanski is problematic on its own terms but absolutely 🤯 if you know the full, ugly story of @TrevorPTweets and the Labour Party.
Buckle up, this is a long and depressing story.
Phillips was suspended and put under investigation for alleged Islamophobia by the Labour Party. His suspension was lifted out of the blue - a week before he got his Sunday Politics gig where he would be interviewing Labour pols. Later disclosures show that @ABarrosCurtis played a central role in revisiting the investigation under pressure from unnamed "stakeholders."
The story of his suspension being lifted soon leaks to the Guardian. The Labour Party goes mad trying to find the leaker. They end up blaming and suspending two BAME members of staff, neither of whom the Party, in the end, can prove leaked the story. One of the people suspended is the only Muslim person in the Labour Party's disciplinary unit. It is effectively the end of their Labour Party careers.
Now the kicker: the Guardian had been leaked the story during the Batley & Spen by-election, which, if Starmer loses, is predicted to led to a leadership challenge. Starmer is under threat in Batley because large numbers of Muslim voters are abandoning the Labour Party. Labour ends up winning by tiny margin, saving Starmer's leadership.
But the Guardian holds the story for three weeks. The Guardian only publishes the story two days AFTER the by-election. Would the result have been different if this story was published during a by-election where Islamophobia was a key concern? I don't know. I am absolutely certain that voters in Batley & Spen should have known about this at the time.
Now five years later: Alex Barros-Curtis is an MP after a ham-fisted "selection" during 2024 General Election. Trevor Phillips is batting away Polanski talking about his own perspective as a Jewish person. And Starmer and his Party respond to a horrific antisemitic attack by claiming its catalysed by marches against Israeli war crimes, decaying language even as they continue to supply weapons and F-35 parts to Israel even as its killed 800 Gazans since the "ceasefire" and annexing large parts of Lebanon.
This whole political and media class needs to get in the bin.
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed? And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic. youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?si…
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When Jewish people speak out against genocide, why are our voices dismissed?
And smirking while I describe someone Nazi-saluting at me isn’t just disrespectful - it feels deeply antisemitic.
youtu.be/7VkfYJgLljE?si…

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At what point is it ok to say there is a real problem with the establishment being too comfortable with weaponizing antisemitic tropes against @ZackPolanski bc they don’t want to engage him on the merits?



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We need radical solutions to tackle food poverty including price caps on essential items.
#RightToFoodCommission
#HungerIsAPoliticalChoice
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
"UK food price are on track to be 50% higher than they were at the start of the cost of living crisis 5 years ago"
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BBC headline cheats an excellent piece of old school investigative journalism on a shocking story 👏
Sadly the Government, MSM & the Met leadership have been preoccupied & it’s going under the radar.
Read 🙏
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Video that police denied existed shows woman pinned down bbc.in/3QCrpew
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Horrible hook-nose caricature of Polanski in The Times today on the same day they feature @SteveReedMP accusing Polanski of being indifferent to antisemitism. Solid work lads, good stuff all round. Really showing your full arse.
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@StarmertheFraud @SteveReedMP The Guardian sacked the country's best cartoonist for supposedly producing an antisemitic caricature of Netanyahu so I imagine they'll be on this one big time
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There is no threat whatsoever to the Jewish community from these marches and in fact they are attended by thousands of Jewish people often in a Jewish bloc and are completely safe – which they wouldn't be if these were antisemitic marches
Watch our @JohnWRees on @SkyNews
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The fire was at a residential house next to the synagogue.
Assistant Commissioner Andy Pennick, speaking from the incident said: "At this stage, we do not believe that the fire was started deliberately, however, investigations are ongoing by our Fire Investigation Team to determine the cause of the fire."
Remember when Zack Polanski talked about the “perception of unsafety” for Jewish people?
It’s headlines like these that contribute to that
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ALARM!
How on earth is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe? Besides what you can think of Apartheid Israel and its genocidal leaders, this should send shock waves across Europe.
Apartheid without borders.
Yanis Varoufakis@yanisvaroufakis
Just spoke to friends on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israeli vessels & drones are harassing them off the coast of Crete. The Greek gvt is either complicit or incapable of defending our seas from Israel. So much for Freedom of Navigation & Int. Law
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They were not intercepted. They were abducted in international waters.
This is piracy - and is a flagrant violation of international law.
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Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla near Crete and detains 175 activists bbc.in/3OCO1Lj
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Last night, Israeli forces intercepted and boarded a humanitarian aid flotilla bound for Gaza in international waters off the coast of Greece — unlawfully detaining more than 175 people, including several New Yorkers.
My team has been in direct contact with State and Federal partners as we work to confirm the whereabouts and conditions of these New Yorkers.
This is a brazen violation of international law. Those detained must be released.
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Israel vuelve a violar la legalidad internacional al asaltar una flotilla civil en aguas que no le pertenecen.
Nuestro Gobierno está haciendo todo lo necesario para proteger y asistir a los españoles retenidos.
Pero con eso no basta. La UE tiene que suspender el acuerdo de asociación YA y exigir a Netanyahu que cumpla la ley de nuestros mares.
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Last night, Israel's navy committed an act of armed piracy in international waters, threatening unarmed civilians aboard @gbsumudflotilla.
Our government must condemn this attack, extend diplomatic protection to British participants and work to ensure safe passage.
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A man just released from a psychiatric hospital, previously referred to Prevent, attacks Jewish people in London. The Guardian immediately carries an article blaming pro-Palestinian protest marches, despite a complete lack of evidence of any connection. theguardian.com/uk-news/commen…
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