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25 May, 8 tweets, 4 min read
Denial of the scale of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party is no longer acceptable

Will @BrandonLewis, Chair of @Conservatives, now apologise after he said: "I would dispute that [Islamophobia in the party] is an issue that exists in the first place"?
Will former Deputy Chairman @JamesCleverly apologise, after he had said he didn't agree with @SayeedaWarsi assessment of "almost weekly occurrences of Islamophobic incidents".

Will Minister @KemiBadenoch (former Vice-Chair) apologise for claiming that calls to tackle Islamophobia had a "political motive"?

news.sky.com/story/tory-vic…
Will @TomTugendhat & @Jacob_Rees_Mogg apologise for the claim that the Party acted swiftly on complaints on Islamophobia?

Will @OwenPaterson apologise for dismissing the issue of Islamophobia in the Party?

Will @HenrySmithUK apologise for denying the Islamophobia in the Party?

Many of the denials were pernicious attacks on the messenger (inc. attacking @MuslimCouncil) rather than acknowledging the issue

Let's hope these individuals acknowledge the reality, apologise, and work together with Muslim communities, to root out racism, wherever it resides
And these are senior members of the Party who denied there was even a problem.

Is that not undeniable evidence supporting how the racism was institutional?

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25 May
The Investigation into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party has been published today.

Our response (@MuslimCouncil) highlights how it acknowledges the scale of Islamophobia, but fails to address its root causes.

Report here: singhinvestigation.co.uk/wp-content/upl…

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There are some very important recommendations laid out in the Investigation, which the Party must take on board.
In many ways these recommendations reflect some of the concerns laid out by the @MuslimCouncil in our previous submission to the EHRC & to the Singh Review itself (see Appendix 3)
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23 May
The pro-Israel rally had 1% (?) of the attendance of yesterday, yet had:

1. Tommy Robinson attending (plus fans)
2. Tzipi Hovotely on stage speaking
3. One participant screaming: "there will never be Palestine. It's our country. My f***ing country"

Let's see how it's covered
The way that yesterday's pro-Palestine protests were reported on by sections of the media (especially the right wing), shows the double standards at play.
This man was cheered on by so many of the crowd.

And even Tommy Robinson - watch how he is hugged by one of the crowd..

This was a protest of only c.1500 people...

Yet this was what we saw.
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23 May
The presence of a small number of individuals who espoused awful views in a demonstration of 200,000 people was used to undermine yesterday's pro-Palestine protests in many newspapers and amongst many people

Will the same be done here?

Or can we focus on the issues?
Let's not pretend this is a one-off.

Israeli flags are common at far-right protests as has been noticed for a long time.

haaretz.com/opinion/why-th…
There are many articles (albeit rarely in UK press) covering this phenomenon.

972mag.com/israeli-flag-w…
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21 May
This is not okay.

It is the latest in a long list of examples where young children with Palestinian flags, saying "Free Palestine" or expressing pro-Palestinian views are being censured by schools

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Of course, shouting "Free Palestine" to another Jewish child, in any way that holds them responsible for Israel's conduct, or expecting them to condemn Israel because they are Jews, would not be okay.

But that's not what seems to be happening here

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Look at what Zoya reports for example.

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27 Apr
This is the response of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the careful new report by the internationally renowned and respected human rights organisation @hrw calling out the apartheid of the Israeli regime

See here for more:
Here is when the respected Israeli human rights group @btselem reached a similar conclusion

Here is when human rights group @YeshDin reached a similar conclusion about the West Bank in particular

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12 Apr
The beginning of of Ramadan (Tues/Wed) is based on the moon

Most Muslims will follow their local mosque & those mosques often follow another country (Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Pakistan), or a specific ruling.

This thread aims to explain the variation

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Why have some already chosen Tuesday as 1st Ramadan?

Option 1: Assume birth of the moon (on Monday night) is sufficient, even if is not visible in your locality / anywhere in the world

Option 2: Rely on sightability of the moon on Monday night in e.g. Hawaii/S America
See the colours in the moonsighting graphs -> the more to the left you go, the more likely the moon is to be seen in those areas on Monday night; note the latitudinal difference too

The key explains at the bottom
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