The Home Office seems to believe that asylum seekers bring their children with them to the UK do so only in order to "exploit" them as a means to avoid being removed.

Apparently in the eyes of Mahmood et al, asylum seekers are not simply people who love their kids and want them to be safe.

"One should take this will seriously."

Translation: the former vice president of the Bundestag, (from the 'liberal' FDP), is insinuating that, if at all possible, hanging a banner in support of Palestine on the Brandenburg Gate should be a deportable offence.

Esther Perel with a surprise intervention into the Lampard-Gerrard debate

Omar El Akkad never heard of Die Zeit

It’s striking that when students chant “From the river to the sea” professor of semiotics Jon Lovett says it’s definitively an antisemitic call to kill and/or expel Jewish Israelis, but when a bloke has a Totenkopf tattoo its 🤷🏼‍♂️

Even fucking Germany doesn’t have a rule like this. Things like volunteering (or other indicators of exceptional ‘integration’) are positive criteria which allows an accelerated track for citizenship. Starmer’s Labour are surely the most right wing legacy soc-dem party in the whole of Europe

here is my proposed border:

Jiminy Bollock and some other unnamed British journalist straining to understand the concept of a cooked up weak attack on a left wing politician is it

Nothing to stop him being just as confrontational as Tucker Carlson next time he interviews a Democratic politician with the exact same views on Israel and Iran as Ted Cruz

Mason has absolutely lost it

Great illustration of how German racism and hatred of migrants is intertwined with its unconditional support of Israeli genocide and other crimes.(And the Palestine issue is also a vehicle for the right’s assault on civil rights generally.)

A popular comment underneath a Zeit article on Greta Thunberg speaking at a Palestine protest in Mannheim.

Mainstream German media and politics need to take a long hard look at themselves and ask who radicalised this bloodthirsty racist extremist.

From the thread on hooliganism in the 1980s/90s on Man City fans forum.

Pep: can't relegate us if we relegate ourselves

According to the head of the Berlin police, "a majority of antisemitic violence is directed at the police" - a perfect encapsulation of the dangerous and dishonest emptying of meaning from the concept, which is now widespread in Germany
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