Funny how descendants of the slave trade who demonstrably suffer everyday & institutional anti black racism in their lives don't get "special protection' in schools. Their feelings don't matter It fucking stinks

It is clear that the IDF should be proscribed in the UK as a terrorist group It is also clear that Palestine Action should be deproscribed

I used to volunteer as a reading helper at a school in London. I saw Ukraine flags there. This policy has only come about because of one particular geopolitical event. People are smart enough to see through this stuff now.

A load of old racist men voting on whether an anti-racist party is racist. Absolutely wild

Two weeks ago you were saying the Labour Party got it wrong on Gaza. Now you're accepting a report that will effectively ban meaningful and robust criticism of Israel in schools - and which plainly amounts to discrimination against any person expressing anti-Zionist views, despite it being a protected belief. It candidly and despicably says Muslims disproportionately express antisemitic views, because they hold anti-Israel views. It says 45% of all British people are antisemitic because they believe Israel treats Palestinians like Nazis treated the Jews - such would make NAZA antisemitic too. It recommends schools more actively involve Prevent - PREVENT! - where students express anti-Zionist or anti-Israel views. Appallung, gutless, reckless and inflammatory stuff, none of which will withstand even cursory legal scrutiny. The Labour Together Project lives on in the muscle memory of this genocide-complicit Labour administration.

Very important. The National Education Union effectively rejects the key recommendations of the new Independent Antisemitism Review, rejecting the IHRA Definition and suggesting current approaches create a hierarchy of racism. Directly says the report "will not tackle antisemitism." This review looks like yet another Labour Together Project disgrace - the long tail of McSweeney-Starmerism - that will likely inflame rather than reduce tensions in schools. Exasperating, infuriating stuff. Imagine telling teachers - teachers! In it for the kids! - that they can't talk about or show opposition Israel's genocide against Palestinian children. Here's what NEU's Daniel Kebede says: "However, recommending the IHRA definition for schools risks deepening the problem rather than tackling it, and actively undermining efforts to confront antisemitism. It is the wrong approach. The IHRA’s contested framing risks blurring the line between antisemitism and legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and the genocide in Gaza, leaving teachers with uncertainty when they need clarity. A young person’s opposition to the Gaza genocide and scrutiny of the Israeli government are not, in themselves, antisemitic. Young people must have the space to understand and discuss world events. Schools must enable young people to confront difficult issues openly and develop empathy, not drive teachers into silence or leave pupils afraid to express their views. Recommending the IHRA definition risks tightening the chilling grip already stifling classroom discussion of the Gaza genocide. Schools need practical support to confront antisemitism, not a contested framework that risks shutting down legitimate discussion. The very real risk is that children who cannot critically explore issues through classroom discussion will instead seek their answers in online and unsafe groups. “This report will not tackle antisemitism. It wrongly calls into question the professionalism of teachers. The existing rules on impartiality in the classroom are very clear and teachers take that responsibility very seriously. For three years, teachers have been responding to concerned pupils’ questions about this conflict. These classroom discussions are familiar territory, not uncharted ground. In that time there have been vanishingly few examples of the Teacher Regulation Agency holding up a complaint of lack of impartiality in the classroom. "The NEU welcomes a strengthened focus on antisemitism in the statutory safeguarding guidance and we would encourage the Department for Education to go a step further by strengthening the guidance on all forms of racism. We are concerned that addressing antisemitism without an equally clear commitment to tackling all forms of racism risks creating a hierarchy of racism. No form of racism should be minimised, and no pupil or member of staff should receive less protection. Similarly, the NEU welcomes training for staff on recognising and challenging antisemitism, but we would like to see this in the context of wider antiracism training. The lack of training and time for staff development is a real barrier and almost two thirds of teachers (65 per cent) report that they have not received any antiracism training of any kind within the past year."

This isn't over. One day, there will be an inquiry into Britain's complicity in genocide - and we will remember those who tried to get in the way of the truth. newarab.com/news/exclusive-c…

If there was a General Election in the UK tomorrow who would you vote for?

If there was a General Election in the UK tomorrow who would you vote for?

RT @PaperWhispers: 95%* of Black children in the UK have heard or directly experienced racist abuse at school. It is interesting that ther…

Nope. There are a whole host of Palestinians and British Palestinians in London who could be in-studio, let alone the many remote options. It's a glaring and incredibly unprofessional omission. But professional journalistic standards are abandoned when the story is Palestine.

If there was a General Election in the UK tomorrow who would you vote for?

If there was a General Election in the UK tomorrow who would you vote for?

If there was a General Election in the UK tomorrow who would you vote for?

They’re a little busy in the West Bank.

He has state that no country has a RIGHT to exist. Stop being so childish.

If it makes you feel better to frame it that way Jake but it is in fact a picture I took of poppies blooming on top of a massacre site at the erased Palestinian village of Burayr about ten miles east of the Gaza Strip fence. You can find it on pre 1948 maps if you want to check and you can find Burayr survivors/descendants in Jabaliya refugee camp, tho it will be hard as that too is now erased.

The most notable thing about this is how the old talking points just don't work anymore. For the first time in decades, they are being openly and effectively contested. And it's not just Ashok or the Greens. Many people have seen through them. That doesn't go back together.

It’s not complicated: if the government has nothing to hide, then why block our efforts to expose the truth?

This is a masterclass. They have no answers to his calm logical exposition. Makes them look like pathetic bullying cry babies. Exactly whay Corbyn should have done in response to the absurd antisemitism scam way back when.