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9 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
This, from the Home Office, can only be described as a Crime Against Humanity, because that is precisely what this is. Vile, unspeakable evil.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
“It is not accepted that you will face a risk of persecution or real risk of serious harm on return to the Syrian Arab Republic due to your imputed political opinion as a draft evader.”

This statement is as good as a death sentence from @ukhomeoffice.
As a journalist with over a decade's experience covering Syria, I have managed to gain many Twitter followers, some of them Tory MPs, some of them cabinet ministers. Your government is currently signing a man's death sentence, you are in a position to act. Do it now.
I make no apologies for the furious letters I am about to send to all of you.

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11 Jan
The problem I have with this and the wider social democratic attitude to foreign policy is that these guys are patting themselves on the back for solidarity and condemning their Tankie comrades. They have no approach to policy that differs from the campists.
This element of the left is not, at any point, paralysed by policy inaction on issues such as Yemen or Palestine. In fact, they feel very confident in expressing support for radical policy proposals.
But in the face of the systematic extermination of the population of Syria or East Turkestan the very best they can come up with is a policy vacuum and maybe potentially calling Max Blumenthal a dick on Twitter.
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22 Dec 21
Every couple months Tony Blair trends on Twitter after saying something that isn’t even remotely wrong or controversial and the whole site just erupts with “shut up Tony we don’t want to hear anything from you”
Don’t get me wrong I’m very much in the “Blair is bad and should please stop doing so many interviews” camp but I don’t quite see the point in the constant rage, particularly when he’s saying something the vast majority of people criticising him agree with 🤷🏽‍♂️
I remember he said something pretty sensible about the vaccines once and people dragged him for like 48 hours and then 2 weeks later SAGE agreed with him and everyone just memory holed it like they always do.
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22 Dec 21
This alliance is frankly negligible. The wider organised elements of the western left have no interest in confronting these elements from within. The vast majority are not only willing to ignore the campists, many are more than happy to continue to organise alongside their allies
Speaking from experience, even people I have known for a decade on the left can’t be bothered to disinvite full blown war crimes revisionists as podcast guests, people I know disagree on these topics in private.
In public thought it’s all fart noises, shitposts and pretending that these people either don’t exist or exist so far on the peripheries that nobody considers them relevant. 5 minutes later they’ll retweet someone whose main sidegig is calling dead Syrian kids crisis actors.
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22 Dec 21
He wrote a blog complaining about liberal media, that's all he ever does. That's all they ever do. Often while half the people they complain about spend a significant amount of their wages on humanitarian efforts & use their platform for political pressure
Liberal media figures aren't perfect and certainly aren't free from criticism, but many of them have actually been on the ground in the places these bloggers would never even bother to visit. Many of them are involved in serious aid efforts outside of their careers.
Witnessing human suffering on that scale first hand changes you forever, none of us walk away from this without lasting and permanent damage. Most of us owe our lives to a local fixer at least once in our career. Believe me, we never forget that.
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7 Dec 21
Here is how Britain’s head of state marked the funeral of the man she had been married to for 73 years. It might not seem immediately obvious in the reaction to news that the Prime Minister was throwing parties at Number 10 during that period, but I have a feeling this matters.
It’s one rule for them, and another for everyone else. This government is not only inhumane, incompetent and corrupt, they are also laughing at you while doing all this. They aren’t even laughing behind your back, they are doing it in your face.
When this photo was taken, it sent a powerful message to the country. We were all in this together. In reality, the government were breaking their own laws and then laughing about it. Many of you couldn’t even attend funerals of loved ones. You are right to be angry.
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7 Dec 21
This is a common tactic, because “actually our critics are the racist ones” was the one of the most common responses to Labour’s antisemitism crisis. When it could no longer be denied by reasonable people, this was the only option left for these cranks to assert authority.
I was repeatedly subjected to vile Islamophobic harassment by pro-Corbyn trolls throughout 2015-2019. If I hadn’t blocked over 20,000 accounts over those years I would likely still be subjected to it on a daily basis.
They weren’t just satisfied smearing me as racist, they wanted people to believe I was an Islamist fundamentalist and a terrorist. This eventually culminated with me receiving a phone call from British anti-terrorism police.
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