Arshad Ali is the organiser of this Friday’s Israel hatred rally in Bradford, featuring Jeremy Corbyn, Richard Burgon and Labour councillor Jennifer Lynn.
He is an excellent man for the “Stop the War Coalition” job. So excellent that it is difficult to count the ways. 1/11
Here he is promoting a crazed tirade against America and Israel by Leo Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. Hatred takes Muhammad so far that he salutes the tyrant Saddam Hussein, a “strong man for his people”, and backs Iraqis cutting Western forces “into tiny little pieces”. 2/11
Speaking of the indefatigable Saddam, Ali is a big fan of George Galloway. He chaired the Bradford “Respect” party and was a leading organiser for Viva Palestina, Galloway’s Hamas support operation. 3/11
Here he is behind Galloway at a Viva Palestina meeting in Syria, where the tyrannical regime aided the convoy. The man at the microphone is the Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzook. On the wings are Hamas UK operatives Mohammed Sawalha (left end of table) and Zaher Birawi (right). 4/11
Onwards! How about top rank crank Norman Finkelstein abusing a young woman who is already visibly upset by Nazi comparisons? Brought to you by a Russian propaganda platform? “Shut up!” says Finkelstein. "No more crocodile tears!" Yay! 5/11
More horrid abuse, this time of Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States. It was orchestrated by Muslim students at the University of California at Irvine. Hurrah! They were suspended, the brave souls. 6/11
And more Nazis. TruNews is a far-right American conspiracy and hatred outfit. Here is its founder, Rick Wiles, saying Israelis act like Nazis. Brilliant!
Wiles has been permanently banned from YouTube. 7/11
And more! Erdogan is of course a hero to arch haters. 8/11
Ah, inspiration! Moroccans calling on Arabs to fight “the greedy Jews”! 9/11
Ali certainly does like posting pretty pictures on social media. 10/11
Labour treated us to a great big song and dance about how awful George Galloway is during the Batley campaign. I couldn't agree more.
But the truth is that some of its people are perfectly willing to work with one of his biggest fanboys, all for the cause of Israel hatred. 11/11
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This is good news. Congratulations to the Labour legal team. And who else figures in all this? Go on, hazard a wild guess. 1/4 thejc.com/news/uk/activi…
A "crowd fund" backed the miscreants. This update appeared earlier this year. The "Left Legal Fighting Fund" was originally set up to support Chris Williamson. 2/4
A proper Israel hatred rally will feature dirty lies.
Step forward Claudia Webbe MP in Leicester on 30 May. She accuses Israel of nothing less than "genocide" and "elimination". 1/6
Nasty "direct action" needs a push too.
Oh yes, Webbe is "proud" of "direct action" against the defence firm Elbit in Leicester. "Solidarity!" 2/6
She is "proud" of conspiracy to commit criminal damage, aggravated trespass, and violent disorder. "Palestine Action" are nothing but a band of racist vandals. 3/6 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
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?
“Victory to the intifada!” over ”the few” from the swuppie and former Preston councillor Michael Lavalette.
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
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
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
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
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