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Britain should look at and take steps to follow Israel

People's Israelophobia might range from 'anti-'the state of Israel' though anti-Zionism (whatever that might mean) to anti-Judaism and even to antisemitism.However they cannot deny that Israel is a unique sovereign state of which its citizens are united and proud to be a part, albeit, taking advantage of its freedoms, they might disagree on many political issues.Unfortunately we cannot say the same of the UK where Pakistanis in Birmingham and Bangladeshis in Tower Hamlets take delight in demonstrating there desire, even achievement, of separatism from British norms and culture. In a counter to an anti-immigration march by Reform supporters in Whitehall (its original route in East London having been banned by Police) in Tower Hamlets, lefties and masked young Muslims gathered to gloat over UKIP’s banishment from their borough.And there were also columns of young men in black barking religious slogans from behind their masks. These are ‘our streets’, they roared, and then ‘Allahu Akbar’.  It was the anti-Zionist chanting that was most unnerving. The black-clad mob denounced ‘Zionist scum’ (Jews) and promised to drive them ‘off our streets’. The mob waved the Palestine flag, chanted ‘From the river to sea!’, and promised to honour ‘all our martyrs’.We live in a divided and unsettled state becoming more and more riven by religious sectarian violence."The Islamo-left is on the march across Britain"https://www.spiked-online.com/?%2Fsite%2FI doubt if Starmer and the Labour Party have any plans to remedy this.They might however look to Israel for guidance as described below."What the West could learn from Israel"'The Jewish State stands as a glorious rebuke to the frailty of the 21st-century West'.https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/26/what-the-west-could-learn-from-israel/

John Hawkes ● 31d10 Comments ● 20d

Lammy, the Labour Party, crime, illegal immigration, two tier policing

The state of the country in terms of crime - committed and prevented - seems to be in major decline and David Lammy, the Labour Party Deputy Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor must surely acknowledge a major responsibility for this state of affairs.Recently two Jewish people were killed and three left in a serious condition after a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester.The suspect, who was shot dead at the scene, has been named as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent.At the time of the deadly attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Al-Shamie was on bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape.A post on Faraj Al-Shamie's Facebook page, which had been verified by the BBC but has since been removed, appeared to praise the 7 October attack by Hamas.Who authorised his citizenship ?Why was he not on the Prevent list ?We are now reading how prisoners seem to have been given the key to the door of Wandsworth Prison and some have gone missing.Police are continuing their manhunt to relocate Algerian national Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, a sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison on Wednesday 29 October.And finally the 'boat people'.The cumulative number of arrivals this year is 36,954.Where are they ?Over the last six days four serious crimes were carried out by illegal migrants have been reported.Safi Dawood, 22, is accused of one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, and possession of an offensive weapon.Somalian national Haybe Cabdiraxmaan Nur, 47, who entered the UK illegally, knifed father-of-three Gurvinder Singh Johal, 37 at a Lloyds Bank in Derby shortly after complaining about his asylum application being rejected. Deng Chol Majek, was found guilty of the unprovoked murder of Rhiannon Whyte, a British mother who worked at the asylum hotel where he was staying. Shafiullah Rasooli, 29 - remains in custody awaiting sentencing for sexually assaulting two women while he delivered takeaways to their homes in Maidstone, Kent. Finally we have a situation in Birmingham where Muslim protesters, likely of Pakistani origin, have forced the obviously weak hand of the West Midlands police to enforce the banning of Tel Aviv Maccabi fans attending the EUFA Europa League match against Aston Villa because the Aston Villa Safety Advisory Group, a multi-agency group led by Birmingham City Council, recently reviewed its original decision to ban away fans and upheld it.None the less, protests are planned at nearby Aston Pavilion on the night by the Birmingham Palestine Coalition, who want Israeli teams out of UEFA and FIFA competitions.How soon will it be before Millwall supporters are banned from games against West Ham and Leeds expelled from the Premiership because of its Jewish associations ?When are Lammy and the Labour Party going to step up to the plate and get a grip on crime, and illegal immigration and two-tier policing ?

John Hawkes ● 21d0 Comments ● 21d

Brandlehow School

I wonder if the school has tried crowdfunding?For instance there is this group who are crowdfunding right now to raise enough money to keep on showing the film they have made of turning their street into a Power Station.  Their street is in Walthamstow and the film is now being shown not just all over London but in this country and abroad.  There have been several articles in the national press.Their current crowdfunder donations are being matched by Aviva and this particular crowdfunder runs out tonight or tomorrow - can't remember which.There are quite a few companies that do this.  With energy costs the way they are crowdfunding for solar panels etc should or could help them to bring their costs down.  Brandlehow is a Grade II listed property but there are churches which have installed solar panels to reduce their energy costs (including Salisbury Cathedral) so it can be possible on buildings where you just might not expect to find them...However there are also communities raising money for other projects.  Of course you'd need to check and know that you meet the guidelines.But maybe they don't need to do that and they have some past pupils or their parents who would love to help out?There is masses of infrastructure in this country that has not had as much TLC as it could have done with and should have had - including Hammersmith Bridge of course - and with climate change with the sudden heavier cloudbursts and high winds it brings there will be an even greater number of buildings that will need to pay more attention to their roofs - and gutters etc (ie making sure the gutters are big enough to take the extra water).  This is why you also see rain gardens and other methods nowadays of slowing rainwater down on its way to the drains.

Philippa Bond ● 34d11 Comments ● 26d

Antisemitism Rife In Universities

Oxford suspends student who chanted 'put the Zios in the ground' at pro-Palestine protest. The university is understood to have taken the action after the Daily Mail named Samuel Williams as the student leading the vile anti-Israeli chants.Zio' is an offensive reference to Zionists, and some have interpreted the words as calling for death to Jews.The suspension will continue while the university conducts an investigation.Mr Williams, a philosophy, politics and economics student at Balliol College, is also under investigation by the Metropolitan Policeover the incident.The chants were filmed last Saturday in central London, the day after the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza.Speaking through a microphone at the march, Mr Williams told the crowd: 'A steadfast and noble resistance in Palestine and in Gaza to look to, to be inspired by and – I don't want to yap for too long – but a chant that we've been workshopping in Oxford that maybe you guys want to join in.'It goes 'Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zios in the ground'.'Other online footage from the rally showed Mr Williams near the front of a group of protesters who were holding signs bearing messages including 'Oxford University pick a side, justice or genocide'.A spokesman for the university said: 'The University of Oxford condemns, in the strongest possible terms, any language urging violence against groups of people or expressing any form of racial hatred.https://mol.im/a/15194291I hope this vile individual is not only suspended but kicked out of Oxford.   Followed by a 6 month hate-speech jail sentence for inciting violence.  This hateful moron, sporting the obligatory black and white tea-towel, has ruined his future employment chances so I hope he thinks it was worth it.  

Sue Hammond ● 43d5 Comments ● 41d

Peace In The Middle East?

Hamas AGREES to hand over all hostages under Trump peace plan for Gaza: Rejects Tony BlairHamas says it has agreed to release all hostages and return the remains of the deceased under Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza.The announcement comes just hours after the US president threatened to unleash 'all hell' on the jihadists if they did not agree to his peace proposal which was backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.'The movement announces its approval to release all occupation prisoners, alive and dead, according to the exchange formula mentioned in President Trump's proposal,' Hamas said in a statement. The terrorists also agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza to an independent body of Palestinian technocrats. It claimed those technocrats will be 'based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support.'Trump responded on his Truth Social platform that he believes Hamas are acting in good faith and demanded that Israel 'immediately stop the bombing of Gaza so that we can get the hostages out.''Based on the Statement just issued by Hamas, I believe they are ready for a lasting PEACE,' the president said. The terror group rejected Trump's proposed chairmanship of a 'Board of Peace' that would rule over Gaza, with other leaders such as ex-British prime minister Tony Blair suggested as members. It also refused to completely disarm. Hamas chief Mousa Abu Marzouk told Al Jazeera: 'We will never accept anyone who is not Palestinian to control the Palestinians. We can't bring someone like Tony Blair to be governor in be governor in Gaza because this man, he destroyed Iraq'.https://mol.im/a/15160665

Sue Hammond ● 54d10 Comments ● 48d

Antisemitic fascism: 1936 to 2025. Plus ca change...

BBC News reports -'Yesterday police arrested 40 people after clashes with officers at a pro-Palestine protest near Downing Street.Six arrests were “for assaults on police officers” and the majority were for "breaching conditions”, the Metropolitan Police announced in a statement on Thursday night.The demonstration of up to 300 people was organised by Global Movement for Gaza UK to demand protection for Greta Thunberg’s Gaza-bound flotilla and to protest the proscription of Palestine Action'.This protest march came two days after two Jewish people were killed and three left in a serious condition after a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.The suspect, who was shot dead at the scene, has been named as 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent (sic) who had also been accused of rape.The far-Left pro-Palestinian march, ironically fell on the 89th anniversary of the 4th October 1936 Cable Street March but its political intention was the reverse of the earlier one.Then the radical left rallied to the defence of London’s Jews from the menace of fascism, then of the European rather than Islamist variety.They stood with Jewish EastEnders against the threat of Oswald Mosley and his blackshirts. Fast forward 89 years and now the left responds to violent Jew hatred not by siding with Jewish people but by raging against the Jewish nation. Anyone with a single brain cell of course knows that 'anti-Israelism' is a proxy for antisemitism.To put it plainly, in the wake of the terroristic murder of Jews on English soil in 2025, the left hit the streets to echo the vile prejudices of the Oswald Mosley in this situation . They have officially crossed the barricade of Cable Street. They are now on the other side.The rest of us have to choose who we side with.A Jewish nation under existential attack or an Islamic political movement that has ambitions for global domination.

John Hawkes ● 53d4 Comments ● 51d