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Aug 21, 2019 • 2 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
As Abu Dhabi owned club finds itself promoting Pride in Manchester, worth re-reading @Brian_Whit article from 2016 on what it means to be gay in Muslim countries theguardian.com/world/2016/jun…
@Brian_Whit And a fantastic piece by an anonymous Qatari dohanews.co/what-its-like-… "I don’t want to raise the rainbow flag from the roof. But we need to find our own way. I want people to accept us. Live and let live – you don’t have to like me but you don’t have to persecute me."

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Nov 28, 2023
Compare Keir Starmer's statements on the siege of Gaza with his arguments at the International Court of Justice in 2014, where he argued that the Serb siege of Vukovar was a case of genocide.
A thread on Starmer, international law and Gaza.

2/ It is evident from videos and transcripts that Starmer not only understands the international law on this issue, but has a profound understanding of a Gaza-like siege situation, its illegality in international law and the relevance of the international crime of genocide.
3/ Here Starmer argues against representations of the siege of Vukovar as a conflict situation. He has never mentioned the asymmetry of the warfare in Gaza.
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Nov 14, 2022
A short (slightly weary) 🧵 about the media coverage on Qatar 2022 and specious claims of orientalism.
Here goes. Qatar is getting a lot of media coverage right now because Qatar is hosting the World Cup, which is the most watched event on earth.
2/ A lot of that coverage is critical of Qatar's treatment of migrant workers and LGBT+. This is entirely normal and correct. Migrant workers built the infrastructure required for Qatar 2022 and the country would collapse without them. They suffer dreadful abuse and exploitation.
3/ Football is hardly LGBT+ friendly (on the face of it maybe but how many gay players are out?) but it has made a great deal of the importance of tolerance and diversity and Qatar's prohibition of homosexuality and repression of LGBT+ Qataris is distinctly at odds with this.
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Oct 20, 2022
Instead of talking about xenophobia, let's talk about kleptocracy. Because the only states that can own football clubs are not only autocratic (abusive), they are also kleptocratic (using stolen money). 👇
2/ @ChathamHouse explainer: "a ‘well-functioning’ kleptocracy maintains the system by controlling the money-making enterprises and natural resources, with the head of state attempting to avoid intra-elite conflict by dividing the spoils between various groups or family members."
3/ This is a very accurate description of the Gulf states. Maybe we tend not to characterise them as kleptocracies because their misappropriation of state resources doesn't visibly impoverish their citizens, who are "wealthy" by most metrics.
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Oct 19, 2022
A short thread on the Klopp xenophobia nonsense. Abu Dhabi has its senior guys in place at Manchester City. City director Simon Pearce was director of strategic communications for Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority and is now a senior advisor.
2/ Here in a 2008 Wikileaks cable, Pearce meets US treasury officials and "described a process of designing and implementing detailed strategic political outreach and public relations plans for every U.S. deal to manage the risk of possible blowback" wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…
3/ As the cable notes, Pearce "is paid to worry" about such issues. So he's a very senior member of the ruling elite and his job is to protect and burnish the UAE's reputation. How does that play out when the UAE is criticised?
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Oct 17, 2022
An interesting thread on The Guardian reporting of migrant worker deaths in Qatar from disinformation expert @marcowenjones. I've been working on migrant worker deaths in Qatar and the Gulf since 2016, currently working on my fourth report on the issue. A 🧵 on a 🧵
2/ Marc's point is that the headline of the article was designed to create the false impression that 6500 migrant workers died building the stadiums for the Qatar 2022 World Cup. This false narrative certainly took hold, and Marc provides the evidence to show its spread.
3/ But I disagree with Marc's argument. Yes, there has been a disinformation campaign on migrant worker deaths, but it has been from the Qatar authorities. There is critical context missing from Marc's analysis. For a start, this was a valid and important news story.
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Nov 7, 2017
1. A thread about cronyism in #Manchester
2. In 2014 Sir Howard Bernstein was chief exec of Manchester City Council which did large commercial property deal with Abu Dhabi govt
3. Manchester City Council wrote an internal report which set out “the detailed commercial arrangements” of the deal with Abu Dhabi
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