For the ‘Maccabi fans are thugs so that’s why they are banned’ brigade: have you ever seen the aftermath of an Aldershot V Millwall game back in the day?
I have. I’ve had to barricade the doors of the pub I worked at, provide emergency first aid to victims & one nasty night…
….the police made it clear that no pub on the Aldershot high street could even open.
It’s why I hate (men’s) football.
Thuggery is a horrible part of football & every single club has their group of shitty violent fans. There’s literally a documentary on Netflix…
…showing the racist, xenophobic, misogynistic violence of England fans that took over London not so long ago.
Every tournament English football fans get stuck into hateful violence. Are they all banned from attending games? Every last one of them?
There was a literal…
…Jew hunt in Amsterdam. Proven. Organised in advance of the fans even arriving on Dutch soil. No one checked if they were ‘thugs’ - they only cared if they were Jews. Or Jew-adjacent by supporting the team.
And thanks to rampant Jew hate that has been allowed to infect…
…our streets for the last 2 years now we cannot, as a country, say that Jews are safe on our streets. Because Islamist MP’s are in league with hate preachers who are behind these threats of violence.
I cannot believe the state of my country & the useful idiots who nod along
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Had an interesting encounter in the library yesterday. I was studying there with a friend on our laptops sat next to some computers. A woman comes in loudly saying ‘you should be in the VIP section’ to which we both, rather perplexed said ‘sorry, what?’
Cue a tirade of abuse…
…and insults for the fact we owned our own laptops. A barrage of anger against us for being ‘rich, white and entitled’ and basically implying that we shouldn’t be in the library as it’s not meant for people ‘like you’.
She then spent an hour ranting about how awful…
…rich white people are and how we should all move out of London because we don’t belong here.
The only other person in our area of the library - a black woman - packed up & left as it was impossible to work. We felt intimated to leave but stood our ground because - why…
Yesterday I heard of the suicide of a woman I met some years ago. She transitioned to male and had been taken testosterone for years. She was young, disabled, autistic.
She unexpectedly fell pregnant & lost the baby. The information we have…
…at this point is that she was told the years of testosterone had a big part to play in why she lost the baby.
She blamed herself, and so this week she ended her life.
I am heartbroken at a medical ideology that tells young women & men that these hormones are life saving…
That the side effects are at least ‘better than a dead daughter/son’. That nothing but invasive & harmful medical experiments will allow these vulnerable young people to be their ‘authentic’ selves.
That’s two women I now know who transitioned, fell pregnant unexpectedly…
To make it clear to begin with: I abhor violence on all sides.
A few years back now I would have been on the Free Palestine marches thinking that it was the ‘right side’.
Then I had the ‘wrong thoughts’ for a leftie which opened my eyes to the lies my ‘side’ told as well👇
I read books by ex Muslims and by Jewish authors.
I watched what happened to Isreal last month.
I do not condone the killing of civilians in retribution.
But I can see the antisemitism that is being widely espoused under the banner of progressive politics & am horrified
Solidarity with my Jewish friends who are scared and hurting & realising just how easily society can go along with the dehumanisation & blaming of their community.
And my heart hearts for those trapped inbetween, in Gaza and the outer edges, who have grown up learning to…
Why are all women controlled by the threat of male violence, and even if it’s #NotAllMen it’s enough to make all women act differently? A thread 🧵 👇
My 17 yr old niece gets the bus to work, college & the gym. She is young, blonde, pretty & kind. She has become a target…
…for predatory men. From comments, staring, ‘jokes’ & now the inevitable & classic ‘creepy man on bus’. It started as soon as she hit puberty & it’s only getting worse.
The other day a man sat next to her on an otherwise empty bus. This is not a neutral act. It is an act of…
…dominance & aggression. It is a man trapping a young woman for his own gratification. He demanded her attention. The bus driver did nothing. She was too scared to say anything & the bus driver didn’t seem to notice/care.
Happy Halloween! Normally every year I use this day to remind you all that this is Samhain - A night to remember the dead. But this year, let me take you on a little history lesson about witches.
The majority of women targeted & murdered were not witches 🧵👇
Witchcraft absolutely was a form of paganism & practiced well before Christianity came to our shores. But mostly this was using herbal medicines alongside the odd bit of praying/worshipping the goddess.
Women were the healers & historians & if they were good at their job…
…they earned respect and power.
Take one guess who hated that?
The Witch trials followed years of unrest - political, economic, and moral. Society was looking for someone to blame & rather than look at those ruling them, who they felt unable to hold accountable…