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Put another way, it’s easier for people to envision the death of the IDF than a world in which our leaders intervene to stop the slaughter. And that is what the conversation should actually be about.
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This is always what Glastonbury has been for my entire life, and it’s only in the past few years that that’s become an unacceptable menace, and all of the people who think so have arrived at this conclusion organically through their own deductive faculties.
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Episodes of The Archers booming over the tannoys 24/7 while attendees march in lockstep between tents to sign petitions condemning things like fucking Jonestown.
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Turns out the people trying to push cultural expression forward in 2025 have different opinions to the people who want Britain to be a sterile snow globe where it’s permanently 1955. Who knew? Better elevate the latter, that’ll definitely do wonders for this rapidly cratering island nation.
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It’s a tradition that has spanned centuries and treated Jewish people as special cases in both admiring and hateful ways – mostly the latter – but it has always been predicated on viewing Jews and their treatment as secondary to, and contingent upon, the imperatives of white European goys.
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If anything, it shows that what the Democrats are trying to pull now is even *less* subtle than Atwater.
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vaxxed?
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Odd!
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Meanwhile, I haven't been able to find any statement by Eric Swalwell, who does not associate with this type of behaviour, on the same matter 🙃
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Not in the least bit surprised, personally!
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A shift is taking place under the surface of US politics right now with regards to discourse and rhetoric around Jewish people, Jewishness and Israel, and part of that will requires grabbing people like this by the collar and making them own what their words actually mean. And I say good.
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Yes, they're like that, see. They'll act like they want to have an open, respectful dialogue, but it's all just a ploy so they can attack and malign you. Not like me. I operate entirely in good faith. Or at least I would if I didn't have to have my guard up the whole time. Which I do. And will.
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He has done nothing to meet me where I am as someone who is ideologically opposed to everything he stands for and so perceives the simple fact of his public existence as an existential threat.
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Up with Bob Vylan, with Kneecap, and with every attendee proudly waving their flag. Down with Zionism, with occupation, with settlers, with land theft, with the IDF, with complicity, with averted gazes, and with the institutional silence of cowards. Palestine will be free in our lifetimes. 🇵🇸
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This is why arguments about our state broadcaster’s brilliant output of wonderful documentaries, cracking dramas and original programming ring completely hollow for me. If the price of that is being partner to a war of annihilation proudly advertised as such, you can keep it. I’ll read a book.
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Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, who made the remarks below, was invited onto one of the BBC’s flagship news programmes lest than a fortnight ago. This is a woman who made the following remarks early on in Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza.
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Sorry
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Supermian
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But why let something like widely-reported recent history get in the way of being a smug and condescending contrarian?
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Babe wake up they made a human groyper
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Like Meta or Alphabet threatening to pull out of the US economy. Okay? Do it. Keep us updated.
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As with the USA, I simply do not believe these ultra-wealthy businesspeople would ever voluntarily extricate themselves, wholesale, from one of the most developed economies in the world, and if they ever did, the situation would be one with much more pressing concerns than tax brackets.
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It just hit me what all of these hand-wringing tear jerker pieces about how bloody difficult it all is for Starmer remind me of: Chris Addison in In The Loop on the phone to his girlfriend saying he shagged that girl to maybe try and stop the war
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Turns out a politician’s private relationships or acts of compassion have no bearing on their implication in the commission of crimes against humanity. So – jot that down.