Mick Hartley

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  • Reporting from Gaza

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  • Counterrevolutionary Elements in the Defense-Industry Sector

    “If this climate of fear continues, chronic shortages of skilled workers could seriously undermine our defense production targets.”

    Factory managers and technicians say the brutal punishments have created a chilling atmosphere on the shop floor. One technician said, “These days, avoiding trouble with the security bureau matters more than showing any technical creativity.”

  • At Goldsmiths

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  • Fuelled by Islamic extremists in the UK

    p style=”padding-left: 40px”>Blunkett, who served as home secretary at the time of the September 11 terror attacks, said the threat of Islamic extremism globally had returned to a similar scale and nature as 25 years ago and said the report was vital in order to understand the nature of the Islamist threat in the UK.

    He wrote: “24 years later, the Taliban, who had been removed by international intervention in Afghanistan, are back in charge of that country. Divisions and conflict in the Middle East are commanding the attention of the world for all the wrong reasons.

    “So, whilst it might seem counterintuitive to publish a report concentrating on Islamic terrorism, the truth is that understanding the enormous and ongoing threat to our wellbeing, as Tony Blair did in his Chicago speech of 1999, requires both analysis and ongoing vigilance.”

    He added: “Chronicling the genuine danger of allowing antisemitism to emerge wherever and whenever the historic roots of hatred show themselves is a valuable contribution to warnings for the future by reflecting on the past.”

    Not to worry. The government is busy preparing sterner new laws against Islamophobia.

  • In Muswell Hill

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    But something happened today that I can’t stay silent about.

    I was out walking in Muswell Hill with my daughter when we saw a friend of mine’s daughter crying.

    She had just witnessed a group of people cutting down the yellow ribbons — put up with consent from the community — that symbolise the hostages still held in Gaza.

    I went over to speak to them.

    They were all wearing keffiyehs. And they immediately launched into abuse — calling me a “murdering bitch,” saying I was “complicit in genocide,” and that “Jews deserve to die.”

    I asked if they understood what the yellow ribbons were for. They didn’t care. I suggested we put up more — with pictures of Palestinians held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, alongside the ribbons — to create something humanitarian, something that acknowledged everyone’s suffering.

    They laughed in my face.
    Said they didn’t want peace with ‘Jews’.
    They didn’t want understanding ‘with Jews’.

    They wanted to dehumanise anything ‘Jewish/ related to Israel and the genocide’.

    When someone looks you in the eye and says “no one wants to exist with Jews — you are all filth,” it stays with you.

    That hate, that poison, it didn’t come from nowhere.

    And it’s being legitimised, fed, and spread. And it’s getting bolder.

    I know some people will say “don’t give them attention” — but that’s not an option anymore.

    Silence isn’t safety.

    This is the reality some of us are living with right now. And it needs to be called out.

    Continuously associating the Palestinian narrative with violent slogans/ rhetoric does a major disservice to the just and urgent aspirations of the Palestinian people for freedom, self-determination, and independence.

    STOP. THE.HATE

  • The permitted racism

    Dave Rich:

    378 people were murdered at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on 7 October: 378 young people who just wanted to dance, let loose and party, as young people all over the world do at music festivals. They were murdered by Hamas, in cold blood and in a murderous frenzy, filmed by Hamas themselves as they did it. Some were raped, others tortured, others still kidnapped and taken as hostages back to Gaza where some still suffer unimaginable atrocities in their underground dungeons.

    Today, tens of thousands of their festival-going counterparts at Glastonbury, led from the stage by Bob Vylan, chanted “Death, death to the IDF”. They, too, were just young people at a music festival, and the ease with which they went along with a call for Israelis to be killed reveals a deep sickness at the heart of our culture.

    Something broke at Glastonbury today. I can’t remember any other single occasion when a crowd of that size chanted for anyone to be killed. It’s the kind of mass hatred that belongs at a Blood & Honour neo-Nazi gig, not at Britain’s biggest music festival, broadcast live on the BBC. But it happened, and it lays bare the sheer permissibility of hating Israelis even to the point of wishing them dead. This is the racism that is not just allowed but actively celebrated in progressive circles…..

    But read it all.

  • Babies’ health a non-existent consideration

    The Queer Birth Club that provides training sessions for NHS midwives…Joan Smith at UnHerd has some questions, like Why is the NHS running male breastfeeding workshops?

    How could the NHS be so gullible? How could midwives, of all people, fall for this nonsense? Their prime responsibility is to women and children, yet it’s striking that infants barely feature on the club’s pastel-themed website, which claims to be “amplifying the voices of the often overlooked and invisible minorities in the birthing world”. The most invisible minority in its pitch, however, is babies.

    That’s because male breastfeeding is an adult predilection, in which infants are co-opted to affirm the lie that men can become women. It’s a “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist, evidenced by the fact that human beings were born and breastfed by women for thousands of years. No one suggested that men being unable to produce breast milk was an issue until about a decade ago, when the demands of trans-identified males began to distort just about every aspect of human life.

    Babies’ health appears to be a non-existent consideration when a man wants to preen about his ability to breastfeed, even though he can only do it by taking an anti-nausea drug called domperidone. It is not approved to encourage lactation anywhere in the world, and the US Food and Drug Administration warns that it “is excreted in breast milk and could expose a breastfeeding infant to unknown risks”.

    The NHS is in the middle of a financial crisis, leaving patients stuck on waiting lists for months if not years. The Queer Birth Club’s workshops are not free: it offers “tiered pricing for anybody working in the NHS, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those from historically excluded communities and more”. Health Secretary Wes Streeting needs to ask urgent questions about whether the NHS is funding participation in what is effectively “queer” propaganda — and whether health professionals are encouraging “off-label” prescriptions of lactation-inducing drugs as a result.

    Politicians have become so used to appeasing the trans lobby that they rarely ask how trans women can simultaneously be the most oppressed demographic and one that gets everything it wants. But using newborn infants to satisfy a male fetish is surely a line that should not be crossed.

  • The washing of the hands

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  • Embedding diversity and inclusion

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    "The festival is proactive in embedding diversity and inclusion in all that we do, and discrimination of any sort – whether it be on the grounds of race, gender, ethnicity, visible or invisible disabilities, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, age, family status, social class or education – is not tolerated."

    Except for Jews of course. "Fucking Zionists".

  • Overshadowing Kneecap

    oked noses.

    This appeared to reference a leaked list of 30 music insiders who had urged Glastonbury organisers to drop Kneecap from the lineup.

    Referring to working in bars and “for f***ing Zionists,” he told the crowd: “If we can do this, I promise you lot you can do anything that you put your mind to.”

    Yes them. The fucking Zionists.

    I imagine Kneecap are quietly seething after Bob Vylan stole their thunder. They were supposed to be the outrageous anti-Zionist nasty lads, and here come these Bob Vylan upstarts getting all the headlines. 

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