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"Coronavirus & Global Politics" - This online #iq2 event has just started, with Ritula Shah, Anne Applebaum, David Goodheart, and Paul Mason
Initial audience responses at #iq2:
Governments have done the right thing "to shut down the global economy" and "countries are too reliant on global supply chains"
Governments have done the right thing "to shut down the global economy" and "countries are too reliant on global supply chains"
"Beware coronavirus confirmation bias" - wise advice from @David_Goodhart at #iq2
THREAD of clips from the 'Antisemitism' debate held in London where the 'battle of ideas' was convincingly and easily won by @mehdirhasan and @pappe54.
This first clip was Mehdi's summing up against the 'ludicrous, offensive and dishonest motion'
This first clip was Mehdi's summing up against the 'ludicrous, offensive and dishonest motion'
@mehdirhasan @pappe54 This second clip is Ilan Pappe's summing up :
"Think of how it would be if someone came to you in the dead of night in London and said I used to live in your house 2000 years ago and so it belongs to me." Zionism was a settler-colonialist project in the 19th Century and today.
"Think of how it would be if someone came to you in the dead of night in London and said I used to live in your house 2000 years ago and so it belongs to me." Zionism was a settler-colonialist project in the 19th Century and today.
@mehdirhasan @pappe54 Israeli historian Ilan Pappe tells the audience historically Jews were treated far better in the Arab world than they were in the Christian world ...until the rise of Zionist ideology
'Identity politics is tearing society apart' - looking forward to this debate tonight w/ Lionel Shriver, Trevor Phillips, David Lammy & Dawn Foster @intelligence2 #iq2
What do you think? "Is identity politics tearing society apart?"
Shriver: "Without victimhood, they have no idea who they are".
