In August 2019, Interpal received an apology & damages of £50,000 after The Jewish Chronicle implied that the charity had links to terrorist activity.

On 23 August, the paper published the apology in full.

Truth, decency & facts don't matter to ideologically driven neocons.
In November 2019, The Jewish Chronicle published a ruling by IPSO that it had breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in relation to a number of claims over four articles about a @UKLabour member published in February and March 2019...
IPSO also expressed significant concerns about the JC's handling of this complaint in that it had failed repeatedly to answer questions put to it by IPSO & considered that the publication's conduct during IPSO's investigation was unacceptable.
In February 2020, The Jewish Chronicle acknowledged that they had made untrue and distressing allegations, for which they apologised, and agreed to pay damages and legal costs.
In December 2019, The JC published an article by Melanie Phillips which asserted that Islamophobia was a bogus term which provided cover for antisemites. The Board of Deputies of British Jews described its publication as an error..
...and editor Stephen Pollard acknowledged that "A number of people within the Jewish community, and friends of the community, have expressed their dismay – and anger – at its content."

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8 Sep
Today's word in the everlasting war against the rise of the far-right at home & abroad, is 'retrotopia', the title of Zygmunt Bauman's last book.

'People who feel ignored or left behind become more tribal & develop a retrospective, nostalgic gaze.'

radicalrightanalysis.com/2019/01/04/doe…
Bauman argues that many share a sense of being left behind, abandoned, ignored (not ‘listened to’) & made redundant. This demise is blamed on traditional political elites, the MSM, foreign foes, & narratives frequently saturated with elaborate theories of conspiracy & treason.
It's also the outcome of a dramatic U-turn in the public mindset: “from investing public hopes of improvement in the uncertain and ever-too-obviously untrustworthy future, to re-investing them in the vaguely remembered past, valued for its assumed stability & so trustworthiness”.
Read 4 tweets
5 Sep
Ruth Wodak is a brilliant linguist who has been analysing far-right populist discourse for decades.

In the context of the latest "migrant crisis" & the demonization of refugees by those on the Right, everyone would benefit from her analysis & insights.

eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/1402…
Many of the issue-related arguments, metaphors and other rhetorical tropes as well as discursive strategies of exclusion from around 1989 can be discerned once more in the discourses surrounding the refugee movement (the so-called ‘refugee crisis’).
Such discourses and argumentation schemes are implemented by the respective far-right populist parties and their politicians, including Donald Trump, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party & Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz.

What kinds of strategies are we dealing with here?
Read 64 tweets
29 Aug
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Despite @BBCNews & @BBCPolitics being full of right-wing editors & presenters who worked tirelessly to stop Corbyn, right-wingers have relentlessly attacked the @BBC for being left-wing, paving the way for two new Fox News style TV channels.

theguardian.com/media/2020/aug…
One group is promising a news channel “distinctly different from the out-of-touch incumbents” & has already been awarded a licence to broadcast by Ofcom, under the name “GB News”.

Its founder has said the @BBC is a “disgrace” that “is bad for Britain on so many levels".
'GB News' is the work of company All Perspectives, controlled by two British-American executives associated with the US billionaire John Malone - yet another libertarian billionaire, seemingly intent on replacing governments with 'more efficient' (& profitable) corporations.
Read 16 tweets
28 Aug
Read this, & then try to deny the terrifying parallels between many of the techniques, policies & especially the rhetoric deployed by Boris Johnson's @Conservatives, Trump's Republicans & the Bolsanaro, Oban & other right wing regimes, & Hitler's Govt.

thenation.com/article/archiv…
I'll list a few of the more obvious parallels.

Hitler:

Won mass support on the back of a major economic crisis

Offered voters a vision of a better future, one he contrasted with the policies of the parties that had plunged the country into crisis in the first place. Image
Hitler:

Initially attracted the poorest people to vote for him by demonising opponents.

Emphasised a nationalistic moral restoration of the nation.

Projected purpose and dynamism in contrast to dithering or acting as mere administrators. Image
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24 Aug
Just try listening to the rambling incoherent bullshit-waffle tumbling out of Spaffer's mouth when confronted with a half decent question about the outrageously corrupt 'fact-checking' debacle just before the 2019 General Election.

He's our PM FFS!

We already knew the @Conservatives used disinformation tactics with a “new level of impunity” during #GE2019, and so we now have the most shamelessly corrupt Govt in UK history, & sadly, most pundits, journalists, voters & politicians don't seem to mind.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
And here's Winston Chuchill's wartime secretary, Lady Williams, who in 2019 told voters:

“Boris Johnson is not remotely like Winston Churchill... Churchill was meticulous about truthfulness & straightforward talk. There’s no similarity there at all.”

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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24 Aug
In 2018, Steve Bannon was in contact with Boris Johnson, Michael Gove & Jacob Rees Mogg, & announced he intended to 'unite the European far right & undermine & ultimately paralyse the #EU'. He now faces up to 20 years in jail if convicted of embezzlement.

theguardian.com/us-news/2020/a…
Bannon gets around. 'Emails from a Cambridge Analytica employee revealed that Arron Banks had sought Bannon’s help in soliciting campaign donations from US funders. We have no idea if Banks went ahead, but it would have been illegal for him if he had.'

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Here's Boris Johnson going FULL TRUMP by accusing a #PulitzerPrize nominated journalist of writing 'complete codswallop', ironically after being asked about his PROVEN links with Trump's ex-campaign manager & ex-Cambridge Analytica co-founder Steve Bannon.
buzzfeednews.com/article/lester…
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