S Hassan

The Greens who gagged the voices of Palestine should hang their head in shame. What they did is not just unacceptable it’s unforgivable

There has been no evidence provided by the Israeli military for any of these claims. Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun and the Lebanese Minister of Information Paul Morcos denounced the killing of the journalists, with President Aoun calling the attack ‘a blatant crime that violates all the norms and treaties under which journalists enjoy international protection in wars’

Tony Blair with a young Pete Doherty

Let me tell you about Jessie Ware. She’s a British Jewish artist. She built part of her brand on being Jewish. And for a moment after October 7th — when Jews were being massacred, taken hostage, burned alive in the worst attack on our people since the Holocaust— she spoke up. She acknowledged that her people were being slaughtered. But then the blowback came, and she went quiet. In that moment, she made a choice. A very calculated choice. Keep the Jewish aesthetic. Lose the Jewish spine. Use the identity when it’s cool, when it adds a layer to an interview, when it helps you access celebrities in America, when it makes you interesting at a dinner party in Shoreditch, but the moment it requires actual courage, the moment standing with your people costs you a booking or a follower or a room full of people who find Zionists acceptable targets? Drop it. Fast. I know this personally. We were supposed to meet for coffee a few years ago in Dalston, East London. I used to love that neighborhood so much, but I had to leave when the antisemitism became too bad. She and I spoke. And then one day, I noticed she’d unfollowed me. No message. No “I disagree with something you said.” Just gone. That’s who she is. And now she’s performing at “House Against Hate.” I want you to sit with that name for a second. House. Against. Hate. I almost laughed when I saw it. Almost. An event headlined alongside some of the most anti-Israel, antisemitic voices operating in London right now. Hatred, it turns out, is absolutely welcome as long as it’s directed at Jews who refuse to publicly disown the majority of our own community. You can be Jewish, but you have to be the right kind. The kind that performs self-flagellation for an audience. The kind that calls Zionism — the belief that Jews deserve a homeland— a hate movement. Do that, and the rooms stay full. Don’t, and you’re cancelled. Jessie Ware chose the rooms. I moved out of East London because the neighborhood I loved became somewhere I didn’t feel safe as a Jew. She’s still playing its stages. There’s a word for performing Jewish identity while abandoning Jewish people. I’ll let you find it yourself.

I was on this demo and it was not "for Palestine" - it was for a Britain free of hate

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This is why Daily Mail journalists are going after my family now. The right wing propaganda machine will not work on the Green Party. We're ready to end Rip Off Britain, end the cost of living crisis and make hope normal again.

Blair: ‘I know some say that defending the State of Israel is not the way to defeat antisemitism. But there is more at stake than simply defending Israel. It’s about defending reason. Defending facts. Standing up to the noise and intimidation to assert the truth.’

Greater Manchester Police say they have no evidence of family voting after an extensive investigation, including speaking to Democracy Volunteers and seizing CCTV: We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting. Our investigation into alleged influencing of voters at a polling booth (under Section 62C Representation of the People Act 1983 (Ballot Secrecy Act 2023)) began after a criminal report from the Reform UK party following a public statement made by independent electoral observers at Democracy Volunteers. We have spoken to the four Democracy Volunteers observers present at polling stations on the day of the by-election (26 February) who have shared with us their eyewitness account. This includes some instances of more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, and instances of people looking over the shoulder of voters. The information they have provided to us estimates this may have happened on 32 occasions across 15 polling stations. The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote. This is a crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed. Our investigation team, led by an experienced senior investigating officer, spoke to all four volunteers from Democracy Volunteers as part of our enquiries – obtaining a copy of their observations. We also spoke to the Presiding Officers at 15 stations as well as the Acting Returning Officer, none of whom received any reports other than from Democracy Volunteers. We have received no further criminal reports. For us to investigate allegations, we require an understanding of who the potential suspects may be, and evidence that may corroborate eyewitness accounts. For an investigation to meet the criminal threshold for prosecution, we require admissible evidence of intent or action aimed at influencing the vote. We have asked Democracy Volunteers for descriptions of those alleged to be involved, and timings on when these are believed to have occurred. These details were not documented by observers or the complainant, and we have not been provided with any identities or descriptions to pursue. The absence of this information means there is no remaining reasonable line of enquiry. This also includes limitations with CCTV as an absence of descriptions, and votes not being time-stamped, meaning we are not able to identify individuals from footage. We have approached all 45 polling stations in the Gorton and Denton constituency to ask for CCTV from the day. Forty-one of those polling stations told us they did not have CCTV activated in the building as it would have compromised the secrecy of the vote during polling day, in line with advice given. We have seized and viewed CCTV from three of the remaining four polling stations. These are three polling station that Democracy Volunteers visited. We have spoken to the Presiding Officer from each one. However, these stations do not show any evidence of anyone directing or coercing another regarding how to vote – the crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed. There is no evidence to suggest any intent to influence or refrain a person from voting as stated in the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023. We have been liaising with the Electoral Commission, who we have shared our findings with. We have also shared our findings with the Returning Officer. We have updated the complainant about the work of our investigation and the conclusion we have reached.