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27 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Oliver Eagleton published this in Novara Media today about the EHRC report, and it is quite remarkable for being factually wrong on quite literally every line. There's a reason no other media outlet would touch this garbage.
The report found failures throughout the period of investigation, Matthews and McNicol had both already left in 2018. The report found political interference from LOTO throughout the period of investigation, including clear cases where the leadership intervened to dismiss cases.
The revisionism is absurd. We literally have to pretend a Corbyn ally, who was *HEAD OF THE DISPUTES PANEL* didn't have to resign for trying to dismiss a case against *A HOLOCAUST DENIER*, to believe the lie that Matthews & McNicol were the real problem.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
The report does state that in *some* cases LOTO intervened to speed them up. It also published this as the very first example of political interference from LOTO. So the claim that the EHRC report "conceded ..interference was to speed up processing times" is a flat out lie.
There's an entire chapter of the EHRC report called "A Failure of Leadership". This is what it concludes. It's clear why a Novara Media whitewash doesn't want you to actually read the EHRC report in full.
Even the very premise of the article dismisses the notion that Corbyn's response to the EHRC report was problematic. It's a genuinely insulting claim.

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26 Jun
As an LGBT Muslim, all I feel right now over Batley and Spen is a crushing, hopeless sense of despair. This hell doesn’t end once the by-election is over and the cameras have gone home.
It’s hard enough being LGBT in this country without also dealing with aggression from within our own community. There are so very few of us out and open in public. This clown parade is ultimately putting the lives of young queer Muslims in danger.
I can’t see any silver linings here, even if Labour hold the seat. The hatred that is being stoked won’t even be visible to most of the country, but Gay Muslims will feel every painful moment of this. I am standing proud & in solidarity with my brothers and sisters today. 🏳️‍🌈❤️
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It should come as no surprise to people that Aaron Bastani is trying to launder Galloway’s racism - that’s because Aaron Bastani agrees with Galloway on much of these issues, and he always has done. Galloway will find a home on the left for as long as Bastani does.
The fact that Bastani is still tolerated by his allies after multiple horrific statements on Syria, China, Iran, antisemitism etc is precisely why he is acting as a Galloway apologist now. He doesn’t care and knows nobody is going to do anything about it.
Every time war crimes apologism is tolerated on the left, this is the end result. When Bastani was putting out videos glorifying the mass murderer Qassem Soleimani nobody even cared, so don’t act surprised to see him whitewashing Galloway, his ideological ally on these issues.
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I feel like if you’re a political journalist covering the Batley and Spen by-election with regards to George Galloway and the local Muslim community, it really is quite disgraceful to not mention his record of extremist genocidal anti-Muslim bigotry & war crimes revisionism.
It is simply not good enough to find a few of the most reactionary voices in the Muslim community campaigning for Galloway and hold them up as representative of the community’s feeling towards the current Labour leader while not interrogating Galloway’s dictator apologism.
George Galloway is a virulent antisemite and someone who has also repeatedly smeared Muslim communities under fire in countries like Syria and China as being terrorists. His position on Palestine is motivated by racial and religious hatred, not social justice.
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3 Jun
I'm sorry, & I say this with love in my heart for my friends at The Intercept - but Greenwald was always this way. He was always a racist, always held authoritarian sympathies, and always acted as a boot polisher for Putin & pals. You just refused to see it till it was too late.
When Greenwald was endorsing chemical weapons denial conspiracy theories in Syria, publishing articles with Assad defenders, raising money for pro-Assad bloggers - people just acted like it wasn't happening, even though it very clearly was.
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Iran basically threatened the Iraqi state with a full blown coup d’etat, sent troops and heavy armour in to occupy central Baghdad until one of their proxies was released from custody, and there’s barely been a ripple in the West over what just happened.
Iran is shooting civilians dead in the streets, blowing passenger planes out of the sky, running a multi-billion dollar terrorist network that operates in at least 5 different states, is propping up war criminals using chemical weapons and is carrying out ethnic cleansing.
Meanwhile, the predominant response from Western powers is to find ways to ignore all of this to remove sanctions & placate the theocratic dictatorship, even as it kidnaps our citizens, all in order to stop them from one day building a nuclear bomb.
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Hey remember when Mark Ruffalo shared that article calling the Assad regime's conquest of Aleppo a "glimmer of hope" and nobody said shit, nobody cared, and nobody complained?
My point is mostly that nobody should really be looking to Mark Ruffalo for political insight into the Middle East, any more than they should look to me to play The Incredible Hulk.
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