Zoe Gardner Profile picture
Shadow Home Secretary. UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBT+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. I do research & campaigns.

May 2, 7 tweets

The racist double standards of our media & political ruling class laid bare this week like never before:

A hysterical response to a frightening crime where Muslim victim is ignored to allow Jewish victims to be used to justify attacks on the Greens & anti-genocide protesters.

Zack’s Jewishness maligned & even weaponised against him in shameful attacks by often non-Jews dedicated to defending a foreign state from accountability for war crimes over community cohesion in the uk.

Even when Reform supporters aim Nazi salutes at him he gets no words of support.

And while the front pages of our media use this moment to attack the Green Party, we all see how Tommy Robinson’s marches aren’t branded “hate marches”

We all saw the recent disorder in Epsom studiously ignored.

Clearly actually racist thugs have “legitimate concerns” of course

The fact is, Reform & “hitler was right” Farage get a pass the Greens don’t as they’re no threat to power & privilege.

The Greens represent a real threat: they want to make the rich pay up so the rest can have a decent life. That’s the threat that requires such transparent double standards.

This story shows it all up. A dangerous willingness of our rulers to use any means, crush all our rights, to maintain their wealth & power.

The clear double standards & political interventions from senior police officers is maybe the most obvious, & most dangerous part of it.

And what’s fascinating is how the narrative that’s been concocted has spread around the world media - all the way to Australia where the apparently false terror attack framing has dominated news.

The global rich & billionaire international media owners have each other’s backs.

Within all this, just like when women’s safety is cynically used to promote racism against immigrants, the actual victims become a footnote to the story.

The traumatised folks left in the wake of a whirlwind of political posturing & vested interests.
My thoughts are with them.

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