The SWP front "Stand Up To Racism" would have you believe that it fights Islamophobia. Why, then, is it so keen to hear from Danny Haiphong at its conference this weekend? 1/9
Just two lines from this hideous article say it all:
"I didn’t see concentration camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang. In fact, it is difficult to walk more than a mile without running into a mosque." 2/9 blackagendareport.com/my-trip-china-…
You see, all is well in the Middle Kingdom.
"China is a land of bullet trains and rising standards of living, in contrast to the decay of the imperial center, the United States."
Haiphong made this amazing discovery on a visit with the conspiracy theorist Cynthia McKinney. 3/9
Ürümqi too is in fine form. "Every street sign in the city is translated in both Mandarin and Uyghur languages." Isn't that wonderful!
There are a few problems, mind. "Security is more plentiful in Ürümqi than in Beijing or Xi'an, and for good reason." 4/9
Ah! "...the founder of the broader Uyghur independence movement, Anwar Yusef Turani, operates his “government in exile” in Washington D.C and that the World Uyghur Congress is funded heavily by the National Endowment for Democracy, a virtual branch of the CIA. There is... 5/9
...thus nothing progressive about Uyghur independence and nothing about Ürümqi indicated otherwise."
China only wants the best for Xinjiang: "...it is clear from the vibrant economy in Ürümqi that China’s model of economic development is reducing poverty and providing... 6/9
...opportunities for the people of the region to improve their standard of living."
The real problem is America: "As more progress is made in Xinjiang, the more sinister and numerous the American Empire’s lies become." 7/9
Haiphong is befuddled by reactions to his position. CIA! CIA! CIA! 8/9
Labour has a few days left to tell four of its MPs not to attend this disgusting assembly of haters and liars. They are Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Kate Osamor, and Bell Ribeiro-Addy. 9/9
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*Thread* If there is someone who should have no influence in education, it is Kevin Courtney.
Unfortunately, he is the joint general secretary of the National Education Union.
Just one episode from the "Trojan Horse" schools scandal illustrates the story. 1/13
In 2015, a government enquiry found "sustained action carried out by a number of associated individuals to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into a few schools in Birmingham". 2/13 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
Tahir Alam, a man at the heart of the story, was banned from any involvement in schools at the time.
"Truth Defence" is Justin Schlosberg's silly new venture. The name is amusing - its aim is actually to attack people who tell the truth about the Labour party's foul antisemitism crisis. So it is entirely appropriate that it has Tim Llewellyn on board. 1/4 truthdefence.org/about
Llewellyn is a crank's crank. His pearls of wisdom on "the Zionists" bring a grumpy old KKK man to mind. Here are some fine samples on the devious and "influential" "alien polity" and more. 2/4 hurryupharry.org/2011/05/16/the…
This one too is fun. What do "Zionists" do with books they don't like? They steal them from libraries! Don't tell anyone where they are if there might be Zionists about! 3/4
*Thread* Jeremy Corbyn would like you to think that he finds Israelis-are-Nazis abuse unacceptable.
Here he is in 2018, for example, ever so sorry about his platform sharing in this context, don't you know. 1/4
What about the Islamist agitator Salma Yaqoob, then? Here she is calling Gaza a "concentration camp" at one of the countless Israel hatred demonstrations she has attended. 2/4
Ah, that will be, er, different, I suppose. Corbyn is due to share a platform with Yaqoob this Saturday, alongside ever faithful Diane Abbott and Claudia Webbe. 3/4
*Thread* Since John McDonnell is being discussed today, don't forget his take on Maxine Peake saying US police forces learned to lean on necks "from seminars with Israeli secret services". This led to Rebecca Long-Bailey's sacking from the front bench. John had another view. 1/4
Not antisemitic, oh no, not at all. Solidarity! Indeed, as Starmer decried "antisemitic conspiracy theories", John's view was "bring RLB back". Sign the petition! 2/4
There is nothing of any real substance that is "sensible" about McDonnell when it comes to antisemitism. At times, he's more tactically crafty than Corbyn, that is all. The truth is that he is intensely comfortable with people being filthy antisemites, to nick a Labour line. 3/4
*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
*Thread* What do Jewish groups make of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), a far-left outfit with John McDonnell as President?
The Board of Deputies of British Jews has frank words: the LRC champions some of the worst figures in the Labour party's antisemitism crisis. 1/6
The Jewish Labour Movement (JLM) has said the LRC "are feeding the problem" by "condoning and nurturing this racism in our party". 2/6 jewishlabour.uk/johnmcdonnell
In another statement earlier this year, the JLM was forthright: “It is evident that the LRC should not be tolerated any longer by honest Labour Party members and yes be expelled from the party." 3/6 jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/labour-pressur…