Visibility in the press and that politicians and media who are Islamophobic should be censured, *and* that terror attacks on synagogues & ambulances should be reported on & ppl be free to talk about the fear it inculcates. You seem to believe in zero sum games. I do not.
BBC ≠ LBC. And again, other minorities are allowed to be reported on, & many (including my own: Roma) are underreported to a more extreme degree whilst hate speech is mainstream. You do not need to reduce it to Jews VS Muslims. Jews ≠ BoD/ Israel/ LFI. It can both be true that Muslims deserve more
I’m so sorry. I literally don’t have enough to buy myself a loaf of bread or I would help.
In Europe www.romasupportgroup.org.uk/uploads/9/3/.... Never reported on. You didn’t mention them in your point about erasure.
You chose Muslims for a reason - which ironically feeds into the very war that Israeli politicians would love to see extend as far as possible.
Make the other a “weapon.” You’re just feeding a false dichotomy. AS has definitely been weaponised by eg the BoD to silence criticism of Israel. But reporting on actual real terrorism is not that. Two things can exist: weaponisation & actual AS.
You know, Roma are one of the most persecuted races
I think most ppl would agree that when there’s been terror attacks on Jewish ambulances & synagogues because of a foreign state’s actions, that’s newsworthy. You’ve made it about Jews vs Muslims. But Islamophobia is a separate but still highly important issue. The erasure of one doesn’t …
Your respose was to a BBC article about AS. There’s a BBC news page dedicated to multiple stories re Islamophobia. But my question is, if there’s an article about attacks on filipino nurses do you call that weaponisation or is this just a false Jews vs Muslims argument? www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/...
That’s not AS being weaponised. That’s Islamophobia being erased & systemic. And there’s not necessarily a link between the two. Linking the two is part of the problem I’m talking about. We’re being made to choose in a dichotomy. It’s absurd.
I sometimes worry the weaponisation of antisemitism allegations during the Corbyn years, and again against any criticism of Israel after Oct 7, desensitised parts of the left to genuine antisemitism when it rose- including attacks on UK synagogues.
If we can’t speak honestly and precisely about antisemitism, Islamophobia, Gaza, Hamas, and the Israeli far right, resentment goes underground. Silence doesn’t prevent violence; it feeds stochastic violence
It’s time to disentangle the two, protect Britain’s Jewish population, and continue to legitimately criticise Israel’s aggressive actions.
The entanglement of Jewish people with an aggressive far-right ethnonationalist state is something happening across the political spectrum - whether it’s blaming all Jewish ppl for Israel’s actions, calling legit criticism of Israel inherently AS, or old fascistic AS - & even w/in Jewish communities
There’s a possible reality in which we protect Britain’s Jewish population from rising AS & protect Palestinians in the West Bank & Gaza, & oppose Israel’s actions in places like Iran, Lebanon, Iraq & Syria. But first we must disentangle Jewish ppl & the Israeli state.
Encouraging aliyah as the answer only deepens the same cycle by strengthening an increasingly hard-right colonial reality rather than addressing the causes. Safety won’t be built through more dispossession. The more who immigrate to Israel, the greater the settler violence
Israel’s escalating collective punishment of Palestinians, relentless settler colonial expansion, and extreme settler violence are fuelling anger worldwide. Conflating Jews with that state project harms Jews worldwide. It’s intellectually dishonest to suggest that it’s unsayable or defending AS.
Antisemitism is indefensible. Full stop. Jews in Britain deserve safety, dignity and freedom from fear. This is simply unacceptable in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But if you care about reducing it, honesty matters too:
Despite his tumultuous tenure, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told the Atlantic in the latest report that since Trump took office, “Crime across the country has plummeted to the lowest level in more than 100 years and many high-profile criminals have been put behind bars. Director Patel remains a critical player on the administration’s law and order team.”
In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors. In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.
Washington, DC — In the Washington Times article, “ICE sets 1 million deportation target for 2026, 2027,” Stephen Dinan reports: “It has long been rumored and denied, but ICE has now made it official: a goal of 1 million deportations a year. The agency quietly included the number in its budget explanation to Congress several weeks ago. It told lawmakers that it has the ‘capacity’ and ‘commitment’ to deport more illegal immigrants.”
Elderly Frenchwoman held by ICE has returned to France, foreign ministry says FRANCE An 85-year-old Frenchwoman who was arrested by ICE after her American veteran husband died has returned to France, the French foreign ministry announced Friday. The detention of Marie-Thérèse Ross – who had moved to the US to marry her long-lost love and was still waiting for her Green Card application to be approved – has caused an uproar in France.
Easy to say you’ve made crime drop to record lows when you’ve dropped a record number of criminal - especially for business & crypto fraud - in order to redirect funding to ICE to lock up the elderly & children
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And someone was kicked out of rehab for mentioning her name, but she does something more personal & invasive, & with a far larger audience. She changes their names but uses their pain & stories, expressed in medical groups, as literary fodder
Dunham centres herself so much, others become props. She can’t grasp ppl have inner lives beyond how they affect her.
Even her bros’ transition is about her & consistently tied to a past he rejected www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/11/lena-dunham-on-going-to-rehab-memoir-famesick
The best jokes are the ones no one understands.Eg my name here, which I also had on X, has pulled in so much transphobia because they think it means they’ve cleverly cracked it & stone phallus= trans woman. I get C5th BC plays aren’t in everyone’s frame of reference, but how do they get *there*? 😵💫
When I was 42, whenever people asked me my age, I told them, “I am the meaning of life, the universe and everything.” Now I'm 43, my answer is, “too old for that question to be polite.” People keep apologising and I have to explain to them that I’m joking.
He’s said he might “stop the war” due to US public opinion, so ppl who were MAGA speaking out might be a way he leaves the corner he’s painted himself into so that he doesn’t bomb the bridges and power stations. I’m so worried about Iranians
He’s gone too far for the worst people in the US. Will congress and the senate show themselves to be worse than the worst?
TBC, she got bucked off the MAGA horse for speaking out against the sex trafficking of minors. She was against America’s foreign wars before that & that’s why the Nazi chose Trump & not a different Nazi. She didn’t know he was going to create enough personal incentives for himself to start a war.
She says she is, doesn’t she? I don’t think that makes her forgivable. I’m just wondering if I’d been misinformed about this whole apology tour stuff
I don’t think many ppl are offering it, but the other terrible people might listen to her and not us
I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.
The president earlier claimed Iranians “want to hear bombs because they want to be free” in his latest bizarre rant as he stood next to the Easter Bunny at the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday morning.
Yes, on the one hand, it is bizarre. But, on the other, this paragraph is the most succinct example of American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War
