Author: Mick Hartley

is trans nonbinary". Who claims to be trans nonbinary. Who is a ten-foot-tall rabbit called Hector. Who claims to be a ten-foot-tall rabbit called Hector. But this is the NYT. 

Anyway – people get killed. It's a cult.

A very American tale.

t said, ‘Isn’t it marvelous now we can finally use Israel and genocide in the same sentence, and nobody can tell us otherwise?’.

The word ‘genocide’ was coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish and Jewish jurist, to provide legal terminology around the Holocaust. But now the term is being inverted, and Jewish Israelis are being accused of the very crimes that were committed against them – not only during the Holocaust, but also on 7 October. Indeed, these were real acts of genocide that were committed against Jews and Israelis, by terrorists who celebrated their crimes on GoPro footage and spread it around the world via social media. Hamas were very clear about their intent: they were targeting Jews because they were Jews.

On schools:

I taught in 2008, and would set up societies for young people in inner city schools. At a school in Bethnal Green, in conversations about current affairs, the students were coming out with things like ‘McDonald’s pays the Jews to kill all the Arabs’. One teacher told me she couldn’t study set texts with the children at this school for GCSE, which included The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, because she said they kept coming out with things like, ‘If only Hitler were here today, he’d sort out the Jews once and for all’. It was becoming a breeding ground for extremism. From that school, three girls left to join ISIS. So when I talk about education, I’m not just talking about the moral rot that is taking hold at universities. I’m talking about the hotbeds of radicalisation that have been at play in city-centre schools. Unfortunately, when these individuals grow up, their opinions also shape political discourse.

No prizes for guessing what the dominant religion at that particular school would have been.

Full interview here.

From MEMRI TV:

Sometimes the level of idiocy is almost beyond belief. Almost.

"The U.S. wanting to wage war on Iran is not new. Something else that has been painfully consistent is the Western media's non-stop demonization of Iran. The ruling class is desperate to convince us that their war is our war. For example, they are trying to convince us that attacking the people of Iran is somehow helpful for women's rights.

"They want us to believe that sanctioning Iran for decades, assassinating its leaders, and possibly exposing Iranian civilians to nuclear radiation is about saving women. This is the disgusting way that they try to appeal to us. We have some twisted forms of feminism in this country which asks us to bomb Iranians while admiring women such as Hillary Clinton and Amy Klobuchar.  […]

"We look up to women like Sahar Emami, the Iranian news anchor who was delivering a report when her building was bombed on live television by the Israeli regime.  […]

"These are the kinds of women we look up to, that we admire. We know that we are on the side that stands with women. […]

"The imperialist media also wants to claim that war with Iran is about protecting gay rights. We are supposed to believe that regime change in Iran – potentially causing millions of deaths in the process – would be just wonderful for the LGBT community. These people think we are stupid!"

And they're quite right.

"We say: No war on Iran!"

Crowd: "No war on Iran!"

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Twenty years ago today, I left work early and hurried home to be with my husband as it became clear that London had been attacked by members of a murdered Islamist death cult. In the days that followed, a formula that would become all too familiar after many further atrocities…

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Twenty years ago today, I left work early and hurried home to be with my husband as it became clear that London had been attacked by members of a murdered Islamist death cult. In the days that followed, a formula that would become all too familiar after many further atrocities was deployed: keep calm, carry on, don't let the terrorists divide us and let's do everything we can to avert the tsunami of Islamophobia these events would undoubtedly unleash among the lower orders.
The tsunami never came; in all of the 20 intervening years, it's never happened, even in spite of there having been so many Islamist attacks, I've lost track.
And yet, now we have a government trying to create a new definition of Islamophobia while allowing rampant Jew-hatred to be paraded through the streets of London every week. We have a man convicted of burning a Koran as if blasphemy laws existed in this country. We have ministers so in thrall to the Muslim vote, they had to be dragged kicking and screaming into setting up a national inquiry into Pakistani-dominated grooming gangs. We may be safer, on the whole, than we were on 7/7/2005, but we seem to have learned little else.

hero. We were rewarded with blistering, impactful and unusually short and direct sets from such metal monsters as Pantera, Slayer and Tool, rock giants Guns ‘N Roses, and a brutally brilliant Metallica, with everybody adding Black Sabbath covers to their sets.

There were slickly rehearsed supergroup sets featuring members of Rage Against The Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Living Colour, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aerosmith and a sprightly appearance by Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones, who has never knowingly missed an opportunity to whip out his slide guitar. An energetic Steve Tyler ripping through Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love with Chad Smith on drums and Tom Morello on guitar was phenomenally good fun.

And then there was Ozzy as heavy metal’s mad King Lear, raging against the inevitable end. It was sad. It was glorious. We really will not see his like again.

Compare and contrast with Glastonbury. No Palestine flags, no Israel death chants, no Palestine Action speakers. Just people at a music festival having a great time.

And – ooh yes – class. It's not so easy nowadays to talk about class in Britain, but here we are. Glastonbury is defiantly, stereotypically, middle class, while heavy metal has always been a working class genre – here in the UK, at least. And, as Villa Park shows, the fans, despite the image, have always been the best.

as terrorists? What about the factual inaccuracies? Do you understand what your bias and prejudice does to us?

Having been asked to chair the event I watched the executives closely as they nodded, listened, and gave carefully worded answers to make their case. But when I asked for a show of hands from those who still didn’t trust the BBC, 500 arms spiked in the air.

After the event, three more intimate roundtable discussions followed, giving community members the chance to air further grievances with senior BBC figures. The process stretched out over a year. It ended last March. And still after listening to the Jewish people make their unsparing case, the BBC insisted it had found no evidence of institutional bias.

The experience surely lifts the bonnet on why accusations of anti-Israel bias – and, at times, naked antisemitism – continue to dog the BBC. Namely a culture of weakness that runs right to the top. A spineless, craven unwillingness to offer a concrete and consequential response in the face of first-hand testimony – whether from anguished Northern licence payers or, in the case of Glastonbury, unequivocal death chants.

issues at the time of his sentencing, but none of them attended his trial. One was there for the inquest into why a drag queen had died. It’s worth noting that BBC News has now covered the death of The Vivienne nearly 30 times since January, and when Ireland was convicted in March, BBC South East Today ignored the story and instead ran a piece about … a different drag queen who’d died. The other was for the attendance in court of a man accused of spreading slurry on the street a few hours before a Pride march was due to take place.

BBC News waited more than five hours to report on the story, didn’t put it on its homepage and didn’t tag it into any section other than ‘Addlestone’ and ‘Guildford’. The article, bizarrely, ended with a comment from Ireland’s lawyer that Ireland did not abuse his position at Pride in Surrey in order to commit the offences, which is at odds with what the judge said when summing up.

The lack of tagging meant that, for example, while the BBC News’ Pride section ran 50 stories in June (a tiny fraction of the total output about Pride produced that month by the corporation) none of them mentioned that two Pride organisers had been jailed for nearly 35 years for child sexual abuse offences. Stories it did cover included that a banner had been torn….

Have lessons been learnt from the Jimmy Savile affair? In short, no. No lessons have been learnt.

d before now. But most victims were “permanently silenced”, either murdered during the assaults or left too traumatised to talk. About 1,200 people were killed in the attack.

The Dinah Project’s report, which will be published in Jerusalem on Tuesday, is based on first-hand testimony from 15 of the returned hostages from Gaza (only one of whom has spoken previously) and a survivor of attempted rape at the Nova music festival, as well as interviews with 17 people who saw or heard the attacks and with therapists working with traumatised survivors.

In the 20 months since the attacks, little has aroused more controversy than the issue of sexual violence, with claims and counterclaims leaving victims and their families feeling forgotten.

The aim of this report, put together by Israeli gender and legal experts and partly funded by the British government, is “to counter denial, misinformation and global silence” in what it says is “one of the most under-reported dimensions of the attacks” and “to set the historical record straight: Hamas used sexual violence as a tactical weapon of war”.

“Clear patterns emerged in how the sexual violence was perpetrated,” it states, “including victims found partially or fully naked with their hands tied, often to trees or poles; evidence of gang rapes followed by execution; and genital mutilation.”

The attacks took place at the Nova music festival, Route 232, the military base at Nahal Oz, and three kibbutzim: Re’im, Nir Oz and Kfar Aza. Those taken hostage were also abused.

But every excuse has been used to diminish the absolute horror of what Hamas did, from the UN on down. Meanwhile we watch the surge of antisemitic rhetoric and violence across the world, while mindless talk of a genocide in Gaza becomes part of everyday discourse.

It is a response to anger at the inadequate response from international organisations such as UN Women in the light of reports of sexual violence by The Sunday Times and others; questions raised by false claims from first responders and from those who insist that, as an Islamic organisation, Hamas would not rape women (despite examples such as Islamic State and Boko Haram); and arguments that the issue had been “weaponised” by the Israeli government to justify its own atrocities in Gaza.

As we've seen, sexual violence has been, and still is, a feature of many Islamic organisations.

Wait. Listen to this kid! He has single-handedly restored my faith in Gen Z. pic.twitter.com/65ENk6qtEL

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