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By this standard which nobody actually adheres to Jews would be precluded from identifying as Zionist because of what Zionism means to every Palestinian on the planet. Is this standard reciprocal or do are there competing claims on the basis of standpoint which need to be independently interrogated?
I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology.
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
And that's without a mass terror event four days ago
December 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
By this standard which nobody actually adheres to Jews would be precluded from identifying as Zionist because of what Zionism means to every Palestinian on the planet. Is this standard reciprocal or do are there competing claims on the basis of standpoint which need to be independently interrogated?
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Colleague sends me this from the partner leave to remain application they are completing... I had not seen this before. Ask yourself, why would the Home Office need to know how your partner became British?
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Colleague sends me this from the partner leave to remain application they are completing... I had not seen this before. Ask yourself, why would the Home Office need to know how your partner became British?
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Super interesting how he has more energy for this than for those far-right marches where people were calling for his government to be overthrown.
Starmer calls for police crackdown on pro-Palestine marches
Starmer calls for police crackdown on pro-Palestine marches
Starmer calls for police crackdown on pro-Palestine marches
www.independent.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Super interesting how he has more energy for this than for those far-right marches where people were calling for his government to be overthrown.
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The biggest piece of evidence is that he is implacably anti immigration, something only racists do. But the British news media has an ongoing active project to deny that there are any links between these two things, to render it politically incorrect to state the connection.
Fraser Nelson is the latest Farage apologist to dismiss the racism allegations against him, saying that there's never been any evidence of him ever being racist as an adult.
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Just completely untrue. There is extensive undeniable evidence of it www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The biggest piece of evidence is that he is implacably anti immigration, something only racists do. But the British news media has an ongoing active project to deny that there are any links between these two things, to render it politically incorrect to state the connection.
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ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive PM Netanyahu, who has presided over a 2+ year, daily live-streamed slaughter of 70,000+ Palestinian men, women & children—while claiming it’s done in the name of Jews worldwide—today blamed Australia’s recognition of Palestine for encouraging antisemitism & causing...
December 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive PM Netanyahu, who has presided over a 2+ year, daily live-streamed slaughter of 70,000+ Palestinian men, women & children—while claiming it’s done in the name of Jews worldwide—today blamed Australia’s recognition of Palestine for encouraging antisemitism & causing...
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This is from a BBC article by Kuenssberg - now I know these pieces are meant to be more opinionated, but still. It was studiously neutral on Reform but frames this fight as straightforwardly "Labour leadership wanted to do a good thing but Labour MPs were opposed to doing this good thing". Wild.
December 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
This is from a BBC article by Kuenssberg - now I know these pieces are meant to be more opinionated, but still. It was studiously neutral on Reform but frames this fight as straightforwardly "Labour leadership wanted to do a good thing but Labour MPs were opposed to doing this good thing". Wild.
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once again asking what would be different if we had a Reform government
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
once again asking what would be different if we had a Reform government
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Falkner is spectacularly dim
falkner argues the bathroom ban will be self-enforcing
just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
just like *checks notes* . . . traffic laws
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Falkner is spectacularly dim
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Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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Predictably the post has now been deleted, it was this.
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Predictably the post has now been deleted, it was this.
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God you can see how much he winds the fuck out of legacy journalists when he gets applause for this stuff, can't you? Genuinely love to see how mad he makes the fucking bastards.
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
God you can see how much he winds the fuck out of legacy journalists when he gets applause for this stuff, can't you? Genuinely love to see how mad he makes the fucking bastards.
Starmer leading a fascism speedrun while issuing warnings about the threat of Reform. Gaslighting prick
Starmer says Britain may not survive as 'tolerant, diverse country' if Reform UK takes power - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Keir Starmer says deportation policies touted by Reform UK ‘would tear our country apart’ – UK politics live
Prime minister says Britain may not survive as ‘tolerant, diverse country’ if Nigel Farage takes power
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Starmer leading a fascism speedrun while issuing warnings about the threat of Reform. Gaslighting prick
Is that the sound of huge vats of centrist urine reaching boiling point
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 31% (=)
CON: 20% (+2)
GRN: 18% (+1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 3 Dec.
Changes w/ 26 Nov.
RFM: 31% (=)
CON: 20% (+2)
GRN: 18% (+1)
LAB: 14% (-1)
LDM: 11% (-1)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 3 Dec.
Changes w/ 26 Nov.
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Is that the sound of huge vats of centrist urine reaching boiling point
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Heard part of a Guardian podcast this morning talking to Zack Polanksi, and they posed this question to him about the 'unifit to lead' left, how that's the majority view of lots of the British press, and therefore, 'by default' the British public, which is quite an interesting way of phrasing it.
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Heard part of a Guardian podcast this morning talking to Zack Polanksi, and they posed this question to him about the 'unifit to lead' left, how that's the majority view of lots of the British press, and therefore, 'by default' the British public, which is quite an interesting way of phrasing it.
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This is basically going to be "Get off your phone and into work" isn't it?
December 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is basically going to be "Get off your phone and into work" isn't it?
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Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
The health secretary said the aim was to tackle a rising demand for services and the increased pressure on the NHS.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.
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Sounds pretty antisemitic to me.
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sounds pretty antisemitic to me.
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Obama's former speechwriter blamed Holocaust education for making young Jews too sympathetic to Palestinians. She thinks teaching kids "Nazis bad" is backfiring because now they see Israel killing people and get confused about who the good guys are. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sara...
Sarah Hurwitz and liberal Zionism’s hail mary
Sarah Hurwitz’s now-viral appearance at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly has exposed the crisis of Zionism in the U.S. and Jewish leaders’ desperation to confront it.
mondoweiss.net
December 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Obama's former speechwriter blamed Holocaust education for making young Jews too sympathetic to Palestinians. She thinks teaching kids "Nazis bad" is backfiring because now they see Israel killing people and get confused about who the good guys are. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sara...