Professor of Sociology, Politics, Pub Policy. RTs are not endorsements and I may RT if something looks interesting but before I have sat down and read it fully.
Bristol, England
Joined April 2011
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Imagine if a sitting Republican senator said voters should reject Jon Ossoff or Josh Shapiro because they reject Jesus. That would be a big story. This won't be because Islamophobia from powerful Republicans is simply the norm. It's why there's no comparison between the level of Islamophobia and the level of antisemitism in America today. Only one is actively promoted by the state. peterbeinart.substack.com/p/…
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Leaked Israeli documents reveal how Benjamin Netanyahu's government waged a secret campaign to stop boycotts of Israel in Britain.
That included a "sensitive" meeting with Michael Gove -- when he was justice secretary in 2015 -- about countering the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement.
Israel’s lobbying campaign was led by its justice minister Ayelet Shaked, who met Gove in London in November 2015.
Shaked, from the far-right Jewish Home party, was alarmed by a European Commission plan to label goods produced on illegally occupied Palestinian land as originating from an “Israeli settlement”.
The issue was consequently high on Shaked’s agenda, with the Israeli government fearing that the labels would help pro-Palestine boycott campaigns.
Gove “enjoyed” meeting Shaked and specifically requested “more information” from the Israeli embassy on the labelling issue, the leaked emails show.
Israel’s foreign ministry then arranged for an analysis to be prepared for Gove “as soon as possible” on the imminent EU measures.
“I am aware of the workload, but there is an unusual window of opportunity here”, noted one Israeli official, apparently referring to Gove’s openness to guidance.
declassifieduk.org/israels-s…
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Veteran Israeli actress Chelli Goldenberg was left shocked after she was caught ripping into Israel's policies towards Palestinians on air. Goldenberg was a guest on Channel 13 and did not realise the segment was being broadcast live.
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US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has fired back at Donald Trump over his suggestion that he should go through a metal detector, challenging the president to take a lie detector test instead.
El-Sayed says he'll happily go through a metal detector every day if Trump agrees to one lie detector test.
He says his first questions would concern Jeffrey Epstein and then whether Trump actually won the 2020 election.
“I've got nothing to hide. You've got so much to hide,” El-Sayed declared.
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Doctors speaking out on Gaza punished by the GMC. Palestine Action still proscribed. @ShabanaMahmood sees Sally Rooney as a terrorist threat. Pro Palestinian Protest overpoliced. Those who defend Palestine blocked by TV channels. But support swells.
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Important article on the radicalisation of Jewish kids into genocide supporters being undertaken by Jewish schools in the UK.
Please share.
Over half of Jewish schools in the UK are teaching children to "love Israel." Many have invited occupation soldiers into classrooms while others make young children write thank you letters to Israeli troops. Investigation and details here
donotpanic.news/p/majority-o…
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Stunning piece about yet another old-guard, high-level, billionaire supporter of Israel who has lost faith in it - and in Netanyahu.
"Ronald Lauder has never lived in Israel. But in the past year the Jewish billionaire, who serves as president of the World Jewish Congress, has given up his remaining properties in the country, a sign of the deep shift in his views of its future. A deep sense of disgust appears on his face as he recounts this. "I've sold my apartment in Tel Aviv, I gave my home in Be'er Sheva to the Jewish National Fund, of which I'm also the chairman. I basically cut my ties there. Because it has become so…," Lauder grimaces, making a gesture of vomiting.
He goes on to blame Israel for failing to make peace, explaining that Israel actually didn't want peace:
"I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance. And I walked away from it."
"You've lost the Democratic Party, and you're losing the Republican Party. And it's all because of foolishness on your part. I want to tell Israelis, 'Shame on you! Shame on all of you. Your fathers and your grandfathers fought for this place, and you're losing it because of foolishness. Period.'"
I think this reflects the view of many who fought to establish Israel/supported its creation, but at the same time believed in peace. Perhaps an unjust peace, clearly a peace on Israel's terms - but a peace nonetheless.
But Israel has long swapped dominance and control for peace, and it has taken quite some time for many of its original supporters and champions to realize it - and admit to themselves the direction Israel actually is going in.
haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
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New online: "UnChartered territory: The unprecedented recognition of two previously dead languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages" by Dave Sayers and Christopher Lewin. Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/146879682614… @TariqModood
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New online: "Media representations of Chinese migrants in the Spanish press: A critical discourse analysis of El País and El Mundo (2020-2025)" by Sun Meijiao. Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/146879682614… @TariqModood
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New online: "Enumerating race and ethnicity in post-colonial Africa, 1955–2024" by Yao Lu. Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/146879682614… @TariqModood
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What utter BS and the way he speaks about our armed forces is appalling and insulting. Denigrates our brave men and women for pathetic political point scoring.
And how low have the Spectator sunk that they now regularly platform this divisive nonsense.
And Michael just listens and nods along 🙄
Is joining a jihadist group the best way to fit into Britain? Douglas Murray claims that Islamist extremists are treated better than members of our armed services, by being put up in hotels and being allowed to the break the law.
Watch in full | youtu.be/5NFXPs4Maos
@DouglasKMurray @michaelgove
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A devastating summary in this interview with @OborneTweets, who has just returned from East Jerusalem, of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians—and the uselessness of Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband, only six weeks after their ‘reset’.
The Butcher of Beirut – Israel’s alternative to Netanyahu.
Peter Oborne – just returned from almost a month in the Occupied Territories – came into the Double Down Newswatch studio to talk about the Israeli election, Britain’s feeble surrender to the Israelis over the consulate in East Jerusalem and the ongoing horror in the West Bank and Israeli prisons.
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📰 My new report “Truth under the Rubble: Media in the Time of Genocide” is out
🔗 Available in all official UN Languages: ohchr.org/en/documents/count…
🇺🇳 FOLLOW THE PRESENTATION
@ the UN General Assembly, New York
>Monday 26 October
2pm EST/ 7pm CET
Livestream details will follow.
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‼️An ‘Aliyah Day’ event is taking place today at @JW3London, a registered charity and venue that markets itself as liberal.
‘Aliyah Days’ help Jews move to Israel, while Palestinian refugees can’t return home.
Take action here to hold JW3 accountable: headless.newscord.org/jewish…
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Perhaps the most stark and revealing (accidental?) admission in the David Bell 'antisemitism in UK schools report. Antisemitic attitudes aren't increasing, only anti-Israel ones are. That's what most of this is about.
From the horse's mouth:
assets.publishing.service.go…
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Genocide is still on.
Principled action - from states, companies, institutions and people - is needed to stop it.
Worldwide strike- Oct 30.
100+ PORTS. WORLDWIDE. NO MORE WEAPONS.
On October 30th, dockworkers, seafarers, students and communities in more than 100 ports around the world are standing together to say one thing: NO MORE WEAPONS.
War doesn’t run itself. It runs on our hands loading the cargo, and on our silence when blockades are enforced. Governments and corporations that profit from it have counted on both for too long. From now on, they get neither.
NO TO THE WAR MACHINERY.
We take the ports. We take the streets. We shut it down. Oct 30th
Action map link: gsumud.link/OCT30
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Forget the euphoria of Britain's change of policy on settlements. Palestinians, totally abandoned by the international community, are being ethnically cleansed in occupied east Jerusalem. I report for Middle East Eye on house demolitions in Al Bustan:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/we…
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Around 3% of Muslim children attend full-time Islamic schools. Roughly 70% of Jewish children attend Jewish schools.
Yet only Muslims are constantly lectured about “integration”.
Funny that.
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