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Sep 27, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
A Saudi-coalition airstrike on a family home in Yemen murdered women & children in the latest evidence of potential war crimes (Sky)

Yet the UK gvt continues to provide arms & support Saudi's campaign in Yemen, the world's *largest* humanitarian disaster!
news.sky.com/story/yemen-ev…
As @AlexCrawfordSky reported last week, Yemen children's hospitals are the 'closest thing to hell on Earth'.

Our UK government continues its weapon sales and support for the Saudi regime and its allies, whilst 80% of the population are reliant on aid

ICYMI: The United Nations (via the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen) called out the UK as one of the countries perpetuating the conflict due to its weapon sales to the Saudi regime & its allies (Page 5)

ohchr.org/Documents/HRBo…
This report highlighted fresh war crimes fears its Yemen report - this is how bad it is...

news.un.org/en/story/2020/…
The scale is unimaginable:

“Four people out of every five, 24 million people in all, need lifesaving aid in what remains the world’s largest humanitarian crisis”, said UN SG.

“Two million Yemeni children are suffering from acute malnutrition"

news.un.org/en/story/2020/…
Another example: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) deployed cluster bombs against a residential neighborhood in the country’s coastal western province of Hudaydah, a United Nations official said.

tasnimnews.com/en/news/2020/0…
This is just not new:

Saudi Airstrike Targets Wedding Ceremony in Yemen Killing 11

mintpressnews.com/saudi-airstrik…
It happens again and again:

Saudi Arabia admits Yemen air strike that killed 6 children was a ‘mistake’

independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…
Yet our government is complicit

Let's not forget that a UN panel of experts uncovered fragments of British-made laser guidance missile systems at an air raid site in Yemen in a strike that it concluded breached international humanitarian law.

theguardian.com/world/2019/aug…
The reality (as seen in this important long-read) is that 'The Saudis couldn’t do it without us’

Britain does not merely supply the bombs that fall on Yemen – it provides the personnel and expertise that keep the war going.

theguardian.com/world/2019/jun…

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Oct 16, 2023
The Home Secretary is treading on dangerous ground here.

A peaceful demonstration is being slurred as "an intimidating mob" and a chant heard at the rally is being mischaracterised.

This is not okay. Thread.
This protest was almost entirely peaceful with minimal arrests.

With a protest of this size, there are always a handful of idiots, but from the reporting it seems there were far less than for example at this pro-Israel rally a couple of years ago.

The idea that those exercising their democratic right to protest it show solidarity to Palestinians, are somehow an "intimidating mob" is just not okay.

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Sep 29, 2023
After her racist smear was forcibly corrected (ht @cfmmuk), a source close to Braverman admits:

When referring to the 'grooming gangs phenomenon', she only meant high profile cases where Pakistani men were involved & not all group-based child sexual abuse
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Whilst this source calls the ruling "perverse", they are clearly wrong:

Only calling high-profile group-based child sexual abuse done by Pakistani men as "grooming gangs" is an astonishing admission, unjustifiable and incorrect Image
The IPSO ruling makes it clear how it is inaccurate. It is not a "political attack" - merely the correction of a false racist smear.

ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-re…
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Sep 7, 2023
Outrageous the Home Secretary defends Douglas Murray as "mainstream"

She is *actively* promoting a man who said objectively racist & extreme things such as “Conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board" & who has defended Tommy Robinson

But there's more



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Douglas Murray says London has become "foreign" because "in 23 of London's 33 boroughs "white Britons" are now in a minority" i.e. being non-white, means you are foreign and can't be British

Is the government view *really* that this is a mainstream view? @Tories4Equality Image
@Tories4Equality Murray said "less Islam" is a solution to terrorism (whilst talking about Muslims).

Is it *really* a government position that this is a "mainstream" view and not extreme?


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Dec 28, 2022
Disgusting

Shawcross, Gove & The Times appear to want to publish names of who they consider to be "extreme" Muslims/Muslim groups as part of their attempt to refocus Prevent on Muslims & not the far right

This is after a far-right terror attack against a migrant centre

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ICYMI Shawcross said "..Islam is one of the greatest, most terrifying problems of our future"

He targeted Muslim charities. He defended torture. He seems to even have wanted Foreign Office officials to mock Islam

Much more - see 👇🏽
ICYMI Baroness Warsi said she was genuinely "fearful of the idea of Michael Gove becoming prime minister" due to "his views on British Muslims"

Gove promoted Douglas Murray, pushed the Trojan Horse story & was a fan of people like Maajid Nawaz

For more👇🏽
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Dec 26, 2022
Hundreds of thousands of people have seen this far-right Islamophobic conspiracy theory on GB News go unchallenged

It is appalling, unacceptable & downright dangerous

One has to wonder where @KeithPrinceAM & so many others with such views get their news from...scary
Whilst @KeithPrinceAM has now apologised and a few thousand have seen the apology, the GB News tweet with the conspiracy theory remains up with no clarifying tweet from @GBNEWS.

It'd almost as if they want the conspiracy theory to be shared. Image
Does anyone know if they apologised on-air and just didn't clip it up?
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Aug 20, 2022
Many are heaping praise on Michael Gove today, but few (in their praise) seem to even mention his "crazy" anti-Muslim views & policy positions (see link below)

Why?

Because views about Muslims seem to be irrelevant to many commentators.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Few seem to care that the first Muslim woman to serve in Cabinet and former Chair of the Party (who knew Gove well) was genuinely "fearful of the idea of Michael Gove becoming prime minister" because of "his views on British Muslims"

theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
It seems some of these hostile views are because he falsely believed that most Muslims hold "rejectionist Islamist views" in his famous Celsius 7/7

Why do I say falsely?

Because the basis was 2 polls that were insufficient to reach that conclusion.

theguardian.com/politics/2014/…
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