Author: Mick Hartley

hire Palestine Collective, Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign and others, features a speech by a UK-based Palestinian-Jordanian doctor, Rahmeh Aladwan, that talks about holding Jewish communities in Britain to account for what is happening in Gaza; and when the video of her speech was posted on X, Aladwan replied with the slogan: “FREE BRITAIN FROM JEWISH SUPREMACY.”

It’s almost identical language, 63 years apart, one from neo-Nazis and the other from an anti-Zionist. The meaning is clear: Britain is unfree because it is dominated by the Jews. It’s hard to think of a simpler example of antisemitism than this.

From the hard right to the new hard left-Islamist alliance in two generations.

The use of “Zionist” as a euphemism for “Jewish” in this conspiracy theory is very familiar, and has been around for longer than you might think. Early promoters of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the bible of modern antisemitism, claimed that the meetings of these fictional Elders of Zion happened on the sidelines of the first Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897 – making the Zionist movement a supposed front from the global Jewish conspiracy from the start. There’s a reason why the Hamas Charter quotes from the Protocols and claims that the Zionist movement was behind the French Revolution, even though modern Zionism did not take shape until a century after the fall of the Bastille. This conspiracist antisemitism might dress up as anti-Zionism but it’s the same old hatred in new clothes.

Except now, people are increasingly willing to say openly that it is Jews, not Zionists, who are the problem. In her speech in Leeds, Aladwan said that “Western governments” are “occupied by Zionism, which is Jewish supremacy, OK, that’s the definition of Zionism.”

The next day, CAGE International tweeted: “The DeZionization of British society is now an urgent priority. The genocide has exposed jewish supremacist led destruction of the most basic human values that even German Nazis were too ashamed to publicise.”

This is all clearly beyond any concern with Palestine. This is that old obsessional hatred rising again. And it's not a million miles from the new Labour breakaway party, with leader Zarah Sultana – a "loud and proud" anti-Zionist – which it's claimed could capture 10% of Labour voters.

Scary times.

ess in view of a 6ft straight cross-dresser in the nurses' changing room; of Marion Millar, dragged into court because she tweeted a picture of suffragette ribbons; of the Scottish rape crisis centres reliant on government funding who were pressured to admit trans-identified males into their services if they wanted funding to continue.

When Sturgeon refers to an 'elevated debate', she means a discussion that takes place within a tiny, smug bubble from which regular women suffering real life consequences of her policies are firmly excluded. These faceless ants are loftily dismissed as bigots, or, to be more precise: 'transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, maybe racist as well.'

Nicola, you hated the T-shirt picture because you couldn't ignore it, as you'd ignored so many other women trying to make you understand their concerns. Appeals to your empathy, your intelligence and your compassion all failed. Apparently the only way to get through to you is through your vanity.

it's still a little chilling to see it set out so bluntly.

The message also emphasized that police officers need to fully grasp this situation, closely monitor public sentiment, and work hand-in-hand with inminban (neighborhood watch unit) leaders to ensure this position is explained to all citizens, both adults and children.

In the message, Kim offered modest praise for South Korea’s current administration under President Lee Jae-myung, noting that “not all South Korean officials are the same.”

The message explained that South Korea’s current president belongs to the Democratic Party, just like former president Moon Jae-in, who once addressed Pyongyang citizens at the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium, and former presidents Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun, who reached significant agreements with North Korea. The Democratic Party, the message stated, has always worked for friendship, unity, and peace since the era of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

That's new. Previously abuse has been showered equally on all South Korean presidents, whether from the left or the right. Perhaps now that the "two hostile states" narrative is firmly established, some distinction between the South Korean parties can be permitted.

If indeed the "two hostile states" narrative is firmly established…

However, the message warned that whitewashing North-South relations simply because South Korea’s current president is from the Democratic Party would constitute an anti-state action that goes against the party’s fundamental line. Any comments that misrepresent the nature of North-South relations will not be tolerated.

“The message sternly warned that those who don’t understand the ever-changing nature of North-South relations must not create discord with the Central Committee, as that could create an opening for enemies hidden within our midst. In the lecture, beat police officers were instructed to relay this message to all citizens, without exception, by the end of the month,” the source said.

After the lecture, a heavy silence filled the room, with some senior ministry officials present cautiously admitting to feelings of “ideological confusion.”

“People yearned for reunification during the rule of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and their hearts overflowed with the ambition of passing down a single united fatherland to future generations. That’s why they’ve been so puzzled by these orders to treat South Korea like a foreign country. Many officers hinted at their own sadness when talking about how ordinary citizens must find the current situation heartbreaking,” the source said.

"Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians."

So, wait, we're assuming that 83% of the casualties reported by the Gaza Health Ministry are civilians because only 17% are… pic.twitter.com/PhymVxYvDb

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So, wait, we're assuming that 83% of the casualties reported by the Gaza Health Ministry are civilians because only 17% are named in Israeli military intelligence databases?

Wouldn't it make more sense that Israel simply doesn't know the names of every Hamas militant? And unlike the Guardian, they don’t say things before verification.

Or that the records kept by a terror organization currently at war with Israel might be…inaccurate?

Recognizing October 7th as a genocide has advantages beyond the fact that it plainly meets the legal criteria, as Avraham Shalev has shown with precision. It also addresses a deeper ideological distortion. Antizionists often argue that Holocaust memory has overdetermined the…

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Recognizing October 7th as a genocide has advantages beyond the fact that it plainly meets the legal criteria, as Avraham Shalev has shown with precision. It also addresses a deeper ideological distortion. Antizionists often argue that Holocaust memory has overdetermined the concept of genocide, such that all genocides must resemble it—ignoring the basic legal principle that case law develops from paradigmatic precedents. In many ways, October 7th was a genocide that didn’t look like the Holocaust, but it was still a genocide, and the victims were still Jews.

Hamas lacked the power, control, and industrial methods of their Nazi predecessors. But their intent—racialized, delusional, and exterminatory—was no less extreme. Their hatred of Jews reached levels of dehumanization and genocidal fantasy fully comparable to Nazi ideology. That this occurred within the context of a “political conflict” does not mitigate it. It simply makes the genocidal nature of their actions more ideologically inconvenient for those who seek to justify anti-Jewish violence. And this time, Jews were able to defend themselves against annihilation (to antizionists’ chagrin).

At this level, the link claimed by scholars like Dirk Moses—between the Holocaust as paradigm and Jews as exceptionalized victims—breaks down. Jews were the victims of a second genocide. Not because the Holocaust was exceptional, but because it helped found a universal legal and moral framework—developed through case law—in which the genocide of any people is condemned, including Jews.

What antizionists ultimately cannot accept is not Jewish exceptionalism, but a universal moral principle: that racial hatred of Jews, like the racial hatred of any people, is wrong. That principle does not single Jews out but includes them. And in denying that inclusion, it is antizionists who reveal themselves as the true exceptionalists: insisting that Jews alone must be excluded from the protections afforded to all other peoples. They project the charge of exceptionalism onto Jews, when in fact it is their own discriminatory framework that treats Jews as the one people unworthy of universal norms.

At The Conversation ("Academic rigour, journalistic flair") – Period pain and heavy bleeding linked with lower school attendance and GCSE results – new study:

Menstrual cycles are experienced by roughly half of the population for half of their lives. The experiences of menstruation on teenagers are incredibly important, especially as young people are starting periods earlier. Our research shows that this impact extends to their school attendance – and GCSE results.

Previous studies have reported that many young people take time off school and struggle to concentrate in school because of difficult experiences related to menstruation…

Any clue as to who these unfortunate young people – these teenagers, roughly half the population -  could be? What distinguishes them?

No.

It's a major problem, as the study clearly shows, but you'll search the article in vain for any mention of girls, or women. 

Co-author Gemma Sharp is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Exeter, and "researches patterns and determinants of women's health", so she knows that women have particular health issues – but she clearly doesn't want to advertise the fact. Certain people might get upset.

When this madness ends, which it will, one of the ugliest things to look back on will be how women weren't even allowed to the dignity of owning their sex-specific trauma. The misogyny is simply breathtaking. pic.twitter.com/sCe8YP5cVw

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Obeisance must always be paid to the ruling ideology.

im at a women’s prison was based on his registered gender, not his biological sex.

If you give men a legal loophole into women's spaces, then of course the worst men will exploit it. What did they expect?

Liebich, who now appears in public wearing women’s clothing and a moustache – based on recent pictures circulated by FAZ – goes by the new name of Marla-Svenja on official documents.

Earlier this year, he explained that he had changed his gender and requested a sentence in a female prison to avoid “discrimination” from male inmates.

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The BBC calls a male neo-Nazi ‘she’, because their absolutist belief in gender identity ideology means any man – rapist, voyeur, terrorist, murderer or paedophile – must be described as a woman the moment he says he’s one. https://t.co/NfTKo5PkSJ

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“I have nothing against diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as Voltaire said about the Holy Roman Empire: it was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.” pic.twitter.com/BDq5zp7fts

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cide in Gaza and that Palestine should be recognised as a state.

Protected philosophical beliefs??

The letter states that Weller’s “deeply held and non-negotiable belief that the State of Israel was committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza” was a “central part” of his moral and philosophical worldview.

What a conceited idiot. Why can't he just accept the parting of the ways and find other accountants?

And good for Harris & Trotter for speaking out.