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22 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
It is sad, if not surprising, to see an avowed anti-racist group team up with Afzal Khan MP, especially on the topic of extremism.

Khan's Manchester has been disgraced by awful hatred rallies for weeks on end now. And what has he done? Join in. 1/7 Image
And note that he is "proud".

Even when this rally he attended featured blood and "from the river to the sea" chants, comparisons of Israel to "the virus", an invocation of Khomeini, a call for "solidarity with the resistance” (i.e. Hamas), and more. 2/7
While it appears he has nothing to say about the depredations.

And what horrors they are.

Crazed fury in Manchester. "With our soul, with our blood, we will redeem you, al-Aqsa!” "Allahu akbar!" 3/7
"Netanyahu, we know you, Hitler was a killer too." The crowd joins in. No objections. 4/7
"13 Jews control the BBC." The crowd listens dutifully and then starts the chanting again. 5/7
Condemning Hamas rockets is "absolutely disgusting".

"They have the right to fire as many rockets into Israel as they wish."

"We want to march to Marks & Spencers" (evil Zionists, you see). 6/7
Then again, this makes sense. It seems Hope not Hate haven't condemned any of the hatred rallies either.

It is best to know just where we stand. Especially, actually, if it is a dark place. 7/7 ImageImageImageImage

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24 Jun
At an Israel hatred rally in Preston on 22 May, the Labour council leader Matthew Brown was very keen to show his support.

Note the ugly and divisive framing: “an attack on all of us, an attack on humanity”. He followed up with “solidarity from the Preston Labour party!”
A statement of support was also read out to the rally from the local Labour MP Mark Hendick. “Make no mistake, I stand with you on the issue of Palestine.”

So, solidarity with what, exactly? Image
“Victory to the intifada!” over ”the few” from the swuppie and former Preston councillor Michael Lavalette.
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23 Jun
Labour might as well trash what's left of its reputation on Prevent, the counter-extremist policy programme designed to keep us all safe.

Teaming up with the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is a very good way to do that.

Zara Mohammed's story shows why. 1/15 Image
Prevent is complex by nature. Practitioners have time for constructive criticism.

The problem is that some criticism is ridiculous. Saying Prevent is an "abuse of Muslims", for example. This is just what Mohammed did in her campaign to become Secretary General of the MCB. 2/15
Indeed, Mohammed and the MCB line up with some of the most dubious opponents of Prevent.

Here she is speaking alongside the Islamist pressure group MEND, the terrorist support group Cage, the far-left NEU leader Kevin Courtney, the extremist imam Suleiman Ghani,... 3/15 Image
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22 Jun
Assassination - assassination! - must be a red line for all politicians. No one in decent politics should have anything to do with the chancer Mohammed Shafiq.

Yet the Bradford Labour MPs Imran Hussain and Naz Shah spoke at an anti-Israel rally he led in Bradford on 30 May. 1/11
Shafiq likes to tour hate preachers around the country. Here is one of his favourites from Pakistan.

This is dire. Ur-Rehman supported Mumtaz Qadri, the religious fanatic who assassinated the Pakistani politician Salman Taseer in 2011 for "blasphemy". No "love" for him. 2/11
You don't need to speak Urdu to sense Ur-Rehman's sickening fervour in this tirade for Qadri, with a big picture of the assassin hanging on the wall behind him. 3/11
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21 Jun
As a Labour councillor, what do you do if the crowd starts chanting "down with Zionism!"?

After hearing "Nazi Israel" abuse and the ritual “from the river to the sea” calls for Israel’s annihilation? Oh, and support for stone throwers?

Why, ask to speak, of course! 1/4
Meet Wolverhampton councillor Qaiser Azeem. He goes for the “we stand for humanity” pitch seen so often at these awful rallies, including from other speakers at this one. No prizes for guessing what that makes the other side. 2/4
And he is rewarded with - yes, naturally - more “from the river to the sea” annihilation chants.

He also calls his fellow Wolverhampton Labour councillor Obaida Ahmed “sister”. After she led “from the river to the sea” chants herself. 3/4
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19 Jun
Kim Leadbeater's judgment on Islamist extremism is open to question.

Islamists crave access and legitimacy. It's foolish for mainstream figures to grant it to them.

It seems that this is just what Leadbeater did with Sulaiman Ghani in Batley in 2017. 1/4
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"Shared values"? Oh please.

Ghani's profile was already well-known back then. The London imam was prepared to go to bat for terrorists. Even rank antisemites close to al-Qaeda, convicted of attempted murder in open court with full due process. 2/4
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In these circles, "freeing the prisoners" is seen as a divine obligation. If they're terrorists, mind. Common criminals don't make the grade.

Then, when they are free, join them, all smiles. 3/4 ImageImage
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5 Jun
This is a rotten statement by Naz Shah.

First, note the use of "infiltrate". No, antisemites have been at the heart of the demonstrations. They are very welcome and sometimes on the stage itself, raging.

As we saw here. - do not let "infiltrate" distract you for a second. 1/5
In this video, you will see a man holding the megaphone for the woman shouting her violent racist prayers. The crowd back her. There are no objections.

Naz Shah reduces this to "not a speaker but gained access to a microphone" - how dishonest. 2/5
That man was a rally organiser. You'll see him holding the megaphone for Naz Shah herself in this clip.

The way to "never tolerate" antisemitism, as Shah assures us she does, is never to attend ugly rallies where antisemitic fury is very likely. 3/5
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