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24 Apr, 11 tweets, 7 min read
[THREAD] About six weeks ago I stumbled across a whole load of COVID denialist and anti-vans accounts pumping out gross antisemitism. I reported all the tweets captured here to @Twitter. I’m pleased to see today this account’s been suspended...
However, this one, whose pinned tweet is obviously antisemitic, is still going...
So is this one, which has 2.6K followers...
And this one, which has 10K followers...
And Know_More_News, which has 21K followers. And HighImpactFlix, which has a whopping 23K followers.

Note the tactics for avoiding machine detection (“J’ish” for Jewish, “cohencidental”, putting the antisemitic words in the pics not text, etc) but once reported surely obvious?
PS See my earlier thread on how antisemitism seeps into the anti-vaxx/anti-lockdown scenes. Events like today’s #LondonProtest provide space where internet-radicalised COVID skeptics come into contact with actual fascists and this stuff multiplies. Cc @DrMatthewSweet @JoeMulhall_
Not gonna link to this video, as it’s from Anna Brees, the UK’s wannabe version of QAnon, but she asks a former Times reader what media brands brought him to the streets today. He says UnHerd, Spectator, Telegraph, her. That’s the pipeline to the sort of accounts up this thread.
You’ve probably already seen these yellow star wearing anti-vaxxers from the #londonprotest (via @chloe_adlestone & @Baddiel). This is what @deborahlipstadt rightly calls softcore Holocaust denialism. It’s antisemitic, even if not intended as such.
The yellow star thing as an anti-vaxx symbol, by the way, is pre-COVID. I think one of the originations is Del Bigtree, whose conspiracy nonsense has been promoted by Tory MP Desmond Swayne & Max Blumenthal’s Grayzone. #londonprotest
Mega thread on misuses of the Holocaust by anti-vaxxers and others:
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15 Apr
Report by the UN's chemical weapon watchdog, the @OPCW, came out this week, on one of the Syrian civil war's many, many lesser-known chemical attacks: in Saraqeb in 2018.

In this thread, I'll collect some of the threads about it which are useful...
1/ Here's @bellingcat's @N_Waters89 who has done important open source investigations on war crimes by Syrian regime, US & other states.
2/ Nick notes a shocking detail buried in the report: the town had been hit by chemical weapons so many times over so many years that previous chemical attacks left traces that potentially contaminated samples - the horrific residue of multiple war crimes.
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17 Mar
Darren Conway on #r4today talking about his journey back to the school he filmed in 2013 after its bombing by the Syrian government for “Saving Syria’s Children” — very harrowing. This is an incident regime-supporting conspiracy theorists claim was staged.
bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
The very week the Panorama in the tweet above is screened: The same hospital is struck by a precision missile, in an area with no rebel military presence, no strategic importance, whose coordinates were shared with Russia as part of deconfliction deal to avoid civilian casualties
The layers of brutality here are mind-boggling: first they bomb civilian facilities (schools, clinics), then they lie about it, then when the stories are told they punish them again with "smart" missiles.
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9 Feb
So many bad “anti-imperialist” takes on here on Ecuador’s elections, esp’y on indigenous anti-extractivist Yaku Peréz. For good English-language counterpoints try: @triofrancos @neogaia @lilithxrmx @Itmechr3 @db_beaulieu @pauloCanning @InvisiblesMuros @anarchist_h0e @BrazilBrian
This tweet is the clearest summary of the faultlines:
Apparently, the accounts I recommend should be judged in the basis of breast size
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29 Jan
One thing about COVID is that it's brought to view the growing culture of denialism & conspiracism in the social media age. Again & again, COVID "skepticism" links to other denialisms, e.g. Holocaust negation, 9/11 Truth & Syrian chemical weapons denialism.

Two new examples:
1/ Desmond Swayne is the "COVID-skeptic" Tory MP in the news this week for telling anti-vaxx activists to persist and for associating with Del Bigtree and Richie Allen. Bigtree & Allen are both major figures in a range of conspiracy theory scenes...
inews.co.uk/news/uk/sir-de…
Del Bigtree was producer of Andrew "MMR" Wakefield's anti-vaccine film," Vaxxed", & dabbled in softcore Holocaust negation with his yellow star stunt. He's a good example of how the anti-vaxx movement formed the foundation for the COVID denial scene.

jta.org/quick-reads/an…
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28 Jan
I see Angry Twitter Male is piling into @AngelaRayner because of her insistence teachers are at high risk of Covid, a claim the government denies based on data from September & early October. If you’re interested in the actual facts this is useful: schoolsweek.co.uk/fact-check-are…
The fact that these people are more angry about Angela Rayner’s accent than at the issue she was asked to talk about – the fact that a government MP encouraged anti-vaxx activists and lied about death stats — speaks volumes news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
This is who Sir Desmond Swayne is, by the way:
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20 Jan
As Trump time comes to an end, a disturbing section of the left is thinking about reaching out to the hard right to try and make itself relevant with his angry, bigoted followers... [a short thread]
...Some of the Extremely Online Left in the US has deluded itself into thinking that the far right insurgency is a bluecollar movement (a bit like how both Blue Labour centrists and the Trot/Stalinist left in the UK persuaded itself Brexit is a working class victory)...
(of course, we know now the 6 January rioters were CEOs, lawyers, cops and whitecollar GOP activists refinery29.com/en-us/2021/01/… HT @FFRAFAction )
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