isis did not commit a terrorist attack because people criticized israel or chanted "globalize the intifada" — isis committed a terrorist attack because isis is a murderous ideological movement

Now the boss owns 177 homes, and workers still can't pay rent.

⚠️ In November 2025, the #EUSEE programme recorded many deterioration alerts globally, as the enabling environment for civil society continues to be eroded. Some of the trends include election violence and crackdowns on dissent. Read more ➡️ eusee.hivos.org/overview-of-...

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

the bondi beach attack was not inspired by anti-genocide protesters, as many have breathlessly claimed, but by isis

‘Don’t Talk About Politics’ @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social Recently I’ve ruminated on my social media rhetoric & what is personally meaningful, and her book is the perfect food for thought. Written in layman’s language. #booksky Available at ThriftBooks now.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Very good from @emhilton.bsky.social www.972mag.com/bondi-massac...

Hong Kong’s High Court has convicted Jimmy Lai on bogus charges of “foreign collusion” and “sedition." His conviction after five years of solitary confinement is both cruel and a travesty of justice. Learn more: https://bit.ly/48Z78W5

The UK is being sued by a billionaire Russian oligarch in a secret court - and taxpayers are on the hook for costs. Why? Because of Investor State Dispute Settlement, written into the UK's trade and investment deals. It's time we get rid of ISDS - for good. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

15 December 1860 | A Jewish woman, Charlotte Ellenbogen, was born in a village of Dezser near Trenčín (then Austro-Hungary, today Slovakia). During the war she lived in Nove Zamky. In June 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber at the #Auschwitz camp.

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

Ahmed al Ahmed's mum and dad speaking about their son.

Rishi Sunak, who I criticised for many, many, many things, kicked Lee Anderson out of his party. We cannot say what his Downing Street would have done in a hypothetical 2024-5. We can, and should judge this government for what it has overseen.

I am genuinely blaming the incumbent government for its failure to enforce the law! I *also* blame the right for the failure to police itself. Both are a problem, obviously.

Gareth's posts are a really good example of how 'treating racism as some weird magic thing' is a good way to make silly points. When someone steals your bike and the police do nothing, he understands that both the thief and the police are the problem!

There's a lot I miss by not being on Twitter but "Michael Gove and Katherine Birbalsingh debating if Jews are fifth columnists with an Internet Nazi, for the Spectator" is definitely a new one...

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Would it have been helpful if e.g. the press had responded to that Trojan Horse school incident by investigating what had happened, rather than by stampeding whatever wildly inflammatory bullshit Gove came up with onto front pages and news broadcasts? Might that have mitigated whatever this is.

“[Farage] draws his power not from the force of his arguments and personality, but how recklessly the immigration issue has been handled by the political establishment. If he survives, it will be a tragic let-down to [his victims]. And because there is now a little bit of his poison everywhere.”

lost in time of course, but when Labour basically kicked their own candidate out of Clacton because he was showing some promise of winning, should that not have had a bit more discussion

As @nesrinemalik.bsky.social states, we know what to do, we choose not to: "He draws his power not from the sheer force of his arguments and personality, but increasingly just how recklessly the immigration issue has been handled by the political establishment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Legal adviser to Rachel Reeves quits after advising plans to rip up planning laws could jeopardise trade with the EU and lead to widespread habitat destruction The laws derive from EU Habitats Regulations, and non-regression forms part of the trade deal with EU www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I feel particularly affected when other Jewish people across the world are massacred, as they were yesterday. It’s normal and reasonable. It’s equally normal and reasonable for the Palestinian diaspora to have felt similarly in the last 2 years when so many Palestinians have been massacred in Gaza.

"It was now certain that Moscow had attempted to 'influence and destabilise both the last federal election and the ongoing internal affairs of Germany' through a disinformation campaign called Storm 1516." ~AA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3/3 We need a better approach that makes judicial review fair, accessible, and workable for everyone: claimants, public bodies, and interveners alike. Read our article on @legalactiongroup.bsky.social: hub51.community.librios.com/article/2175...

2/3 Despite judicial review’s importance for accountability and the rule of law, the government has reportedly been looking for ways to limit UK obligations, for example via the Aarhus Convention — a treaty designed to protect environmental claimants from crushing legal costs.

1/3 Judicial review is meant to help people challenge unlawful decisions by public bodies. But today, it’s simply too expensive for most. PLP research from 2019 found that an average case can cost £30,000+. Today it is likely to be more costly. This puts justice out of reach for many.

Whenever I see a minister (or backbench Labour MP) give some weak response, I just want to scream the following at them: YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY WITH AN ENTIRE COMMS APPARATUS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS - USE THE BULLY PULPIT TO SAY “RACISM BAD.“ ALL DAY, EVERYDAY, ON EVERY AVAILABLE OUTLET

Good, decent people love all humankind. It's called "grace" and believe it or not, it resides within all humankind. Hatred, racism, and bigotry is something that is learned. The question y'all have to ask yourself is who taught it to you? 2/2

Let me explain something to white Christian MAGA bigots. For the same reason a Muslim gentleman disarmed a terrorist in Bondi Beach, Australia, a massive amount of Jewish people support Palestinians. 1/2

Undercover officers secretly monitored Hackney Community Defence Association, a community organisation that sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police, the spycops public inquiry has heard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... @robevansgdn.bsky.social

Surprised* that the guy who was ok with publishing an apologia for Greek neo-Nazis would defend Farage *not surprised at all

His opportunism is bad enough. But never forget that this is the same Nigel Farage who allegedly made hissing noises and whispered "Hitler was right" to a Jewish contemporary at school. Things he has NEVER apologised for.

There are MPs still interacting with the far right on X. A platform designed and run to undermine the UK and to shatter its values with hatred and violence. They're talking to people who want to deport them and who despise every word they say - and let's face it, don't believe they have any rights.

An ordinary person saving lives without a weapon. We must continue to keep each other safe.

Scenes from today’s terror attack on Bondi Beach are truly heartbreaking. We must stand united against antisemitism and all forms of hatred and division. Solidarity with the victims and their loved ones.

Why are mainstream journalists platforming these racists ? 20 years ago it would have never been entertained

Worrying number of people online claiming that the Australia attack was carried out by Mossad / was a false flag op. Exactly the same logic as people denying the death toll in Gaza or saying they were killed by Hamas. An attempt to deny the veracity of deaths caused by the people you support.

Especially since their response to the 2024 race riots was generally exactly what we had a right to expect - they were condemned as thugs and the government was eager for criminal action to be taken against them. The decision to stand down afterwards was not necessary and not excusable.

Not really sure why "the government cannot simply end racism" should be considered a defence of the government refusing to do *anything* about racism.

I know it's hard for a lot of Labour supporters to accept but it's true: silence and equivocation in the face of racism, failure to employ all legal means to defeat it, is de facto collusion. It just is. And it has to be condemned, not denied or excused.

No, the problem is both. The racist fringe has always existed - but until this year, we haven't had since the 1950s at the latest a government that has been unwilling to enforce the law or to condemn racism.

Maybe, maybe not. But seems a price worth paying as part of an attempt to make racism shameful again and show the one in four people who live in the UK while not being white British that he's on their side, not the racists'

Am old enough to remember how in the *pre social media era*, Tony Blair - who I think we would agree was quite good at politics - issued statements about Dierdre being jailed on Coronation Street. I do think the current PM could say something about the Sun’s ex-political editor mainstreaming racism

I always reflect on the response to the 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Powell expelled from the Tories, Wilson calling him evil. And yet Powells views were popular. His speech at the time was popular. Where is that spine now when these views have massively decreased in popularity?

You don’t actually have to share whatever nonsense Elon Musk is saying on any given day. You can of course but you don’t have to. The people what want to know what he is up to follow him. The rest of us don’t.

If Nigel Farage was really concerned with the hatred and violence against Jewish people, he would not send his supporters out to accuse Jewish people who remember him being antisemitic at school of being liars.