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26 Oct, 11 tweets, 4 min read
*Thread* MEND is a nasty Islamist pressure group. It has a long record of antisemitism, promotion of some of the UK's worst hate preachers, and entirely unprincipled opposition to Prevent.

It remains true to form, as you will see with its invite to Gareth Bryant this week. 1/11
Bryant is a self-styled "chaplain" from New York City. So, what does he make of the American troubles? Attack the police, maybe? Hell yes! "Let it burn!" 2/11
What about sprinting over one of the IHRA antisemitism definition red lines? Yes!

"..the Palestinians have been made to take the place of the Jews & other oppressed Peoples of the era, while the Zionists have taken the place of the Nazis & Fascists." 3/11
garethbryant.wordpress.com/tag/holoacaust/
Naturally New York City is best dubbed "Jew York City". It's one of the oldest slurs of all and hardly original, but hey, let's run with it! 4/11
garethbryant.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/nyp…
Is it OK to call people "coons"? Yes, even the preacher Assim al-Hakeem is one of those. He has also spoken against jihad. Bad boy! 5/11
Anyone for gross and crude homophobia? Feast your eyes. Remember, kids: "Male-Male Sexual-Intercourse is automatically Punishable via Death-Penalty". 6/11
garethbryant.wordpress.com/tag/gay/
And what about the terrorists of Islamic State? Oh come on, you know the score. An American invention, of course. 7/11
garethbryant.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/isi…
Mind the Covid conspiracies too! Bryant sussed them back in March of this year. 8/11
No one in mainstream politics should lend any legitimacy to MEND, ever. The same goes for anyone dealing with extremism.

Yet here is a West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) candidate scheduled to speak at a MEND event in November. 9/11
Here's another featuring the West Yorkshire PCC, a Labour candidate for West Yorkshire Mayor, and two Labour councillors. 10/11
mend.org.uk/event/islamoph…
Many public figures "got" MEND years ago and shun it, as they should. It is long past time that their fellows followed. Especially if they are in Labour, a party that professes to oppose antisemitism. 11/11

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28 Oct
*Thread* On the eve of the EHRC report on antisemitism in the Labour party, reform and action are urgently needed.

One place where Labour can start is Mend. Some of its people still lend this reprehensible Islamist group legitimacy. Kirk Master of Leicester, for example. 1/17 Image
Mend has an awful record on antisemitism. The latest ugly episode - just this week - is typical. 2/17
thejc.com/news/uk/mend-i…
Important as it is, there is more to this than antisemitism.

Since Kirk Master is Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner, perhaps he would listen to seasoned officers who know just what Mend is?

That goes for scheduled speaker Isla Dixon of Leicestershire Police too. 3/17
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27 Oct
*Thread* The Islamic Centre of England is a Khomeinist lair in Maida Vale. Its mission is to promote vicious hatred.

This was made coldly clear earlier this year, when it saluted the Iranian mass murderer Qassem Soleimani. 1/9
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
The events prompted the Charity Commission to issue an official warning to the Centre, which is a registered charity. This included "a review of its speaker policy". 2/9
apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/schemes/512449…
Here's the speech at the heart of the story. It is a paean to Soleimani by Massoud Shadjareh of the self-styled Islamic Human Rights Commission, another Khomeinist outfit in London. "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" chants followed. 3/9
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23 Oct
*Thread* Thanks to the determination of independent councillor Dany Louise, Hastings council has adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism by 27 votes against one abstention.

The abstention is no surprise - it's Leah Levane. 1/11
thejc.com/news/uk/hastin…
Levane is co-chair of "Jewish Voice for Labour", a group dedicated to protecting antisemites in the party and attacking their opponents. In fact, this is what attracted her to Labour in 2015 after an absence stretching all the way back to the miners' strike of the 1980s. 2/11
It's in the open. Here she takes Corbyn’s side squarely, claiming the party had been “vilified as rife with anti-semitism” when the numbers were “tiny”. Antisemitism was ”also being used as a weapon by more right-wing parts of the Labour Party”. 3/11
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16 Oct
*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.

"Inappropriate interference", "extremist speakers", "promotiong intolerance", "unacceptable teaching materials", "financial mismanagement"... 3/13
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13 Oct
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 Image
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
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9 Oct
*Thread* Miqdaad Versi is a sort of Mary Whitehouse for our times. He is a bully, hassling media outlets day in and day out on behalf of the "Centre for Media Monitoring", a venture of the Muslim Council of Britain, an Islamist pressure group. 1/10 ImageImage
But his goal is not quaintly prim propriety. No, one of his key targets is people who work against extremists. He will muzzle them if he can.

Consider Interpal. Here he crows about it hassling the Jewish Chronicle (on a technicality, actually). 2/10
Interpal was named as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" by the USA in 2003. The US Treasury called it "a principal charity utilized to hide the flow of money to Hamas". 3/10
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