*Thread* If you are a true Israel hater, you will look on the distressing events in America and your thoughts will turn to, um, Israel. The most tangential and circumstantial of connections will do.
Step forward Newport Labour councillor Miqdad al-Nuaimi. 1/8
Rebecca Long-Bailey spread this poison too. There was a party price to pay, as there should be.
This is no one-off. Al-Nuaimi rails against Israel in tweet after tweet after tweet. Newport, by contrast, gets relatively little attention. Bins? Parks? Roads? Nah. Israel!! 2/8
Did you know, for example, that Israel is committing "genocide"? This is one for the far fringe, as ridiculous as it is offensive. Yet al-Nuami is fond of it. Very fond. He even resorts to "Final Solution" abuse. 3/8
Al-Nuaimi also routinely promotes some of the worst voices out there. Kerry-Anne Mendoza of The Canary, a notorious hate site. Electronic Intifada, home to Asa Winstanley, who quit Labour before he was pushed. Jewish Voice for Labour, the champion of the party's antisemites. 4/8
And the Holocaust denier Sarah Wilkinson, heaping high praise on the putrid antisemite Roger Waters. 5/8
There’s more. Al-Nuaimi was suspended from Labour in 2016 for comparing the Israeli government to the Nazis and writing "ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi dies in Israeli hospital…If confirmed, the #Israeli connection is very interesting." 6/8 bbc.co.uk/news/election-…
Incredibly, Labour let him off. Since then he has fantasised about the Prime Minster’s head on a plate, pushed a lie that Mossad did Corbyn in, scorned a “witch hunt” and “smears” as Labour antisemites were brought to book, and attacked anti-racists. 7/8
On Monday, Ricky Southall and Umza Bashir were charged with malicious mischief at Ayr Sheriff Court. They were allegedly among the attackers of a golf course owned by Donald Trump.
Admire their "Palestine Action" eloquence.
But where do they come from, what's their story? 1/5
Both are "Palestine Solidarity Campaign" Leeds hate marchers.
Meet snarling Ricky. He is at the forefront of a rabble abusing people on a march against antisemitism last June. Yes, you read that correctly.
"You're all Nazis!" "Scum!" 2/5
h/t @NewsNowYorks
It was a hideous day. A heavy police presence was needed to contain the haters. A number of CST guards were also active. You can read more about it here. This is the Leeds where burning hatred flourishes. 3/5
"Israeli products are being sold openly in our stores!" Oh, the horror!
Hassling businesses is the big new thing for the haters of the "Palestine Solidarity Campaign". Armbands next time?
After their pathetic Ilford escapade, low-paid workers will clean up, of course.
Can't spell. Can hate.
These creeps went on a little tour yesterday, taking in Lidl, Tesco, Starbucks, and local businesses.
"Any Jew stuff in here?"
One of the problems is that some companies seem to think that if they just let the creeps have their tantrums everything will be fine. It's craven and stupid.
Recently, a Barclays branch in Cambridge took that to a whole new level.
The battle of Khaybar is a touchstone for Islamist extremists. They celebrate the prophet and his army defeating and subjugating Jews. “Khaybar, oh Jews” is a notorious call to lethal hatred.
Now the battle is being whitewashed at King’s College London.
The Jews – cowards. 1/6
But they had wealth for Muslims to plunder, Abutorab Islam of “Muslims Reconnect” goes on to say.
Note the present tense. "The Jews, everybody knows, they have a lot of money. They have completely mastered the skill of making money." Oh, and cutting off water is fine in war. 2/6
The Jews were “absolutely demolished”, he then exults, thanking Allah.
Later, Abutorab Islam concludes with a death cult message.
“Anyone who fights in the way of Allah, whether you get killed or whether you win, for you it’s a great reward. As Muslims, we can never lose.” 3/6
Sophisticated academic discourse at the University of Glasgow. Isn't it just so admirable.
Such magnificent debating skills. Could the university give them some kind of special prize, please?
A hallmark of British extremism. More Hamas than Hamas. This ranting creep raises the already dodgy Hamas casualty statistics by a factor of seven. Universities that don't fight back hard against abusive extremists wrecking academic freedom don't deserve much respect, I'm afraid.
The joys of returning to your constituency. Adnan Hussain MP gets to join yet another anti-Israel rally in Blackburn last weekend.
But wait, who is he with? 1/3
Ah, "Blackburn 4 Palestine", the people who want to “shut down” BAE. They protest often at a key site of Britain’s top defence company near Blackburn. 2/3
“Globalise the intifada!”
Above all, this is a bid to disrupt the F-35 programme. The plant serves a score of Western countries buying the fighter jet, not just the UK.
Does Adnan Hussain MP want our country and our allies to be less secure? 3/3