Communitarian social democrat. Roman Catholic. Interests in literature, history, philosophy and collecting vinyl records.

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  • Streamwave@feddit.uktoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism ActEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group

    No, it’s when you commit terrorist acts that you become a terrorist group. Like the PLO did, repeatedly, over many many years, and bragged about.

    Terrorists are by definition non-state actors.

    And yes I’ve seen the Pallywood stuff coming out of Gaza just like everyone else has. It’s the same bullshit they pull every time they cross a line and find their shit getting pushed in by Israel like in Lebanon in 1982.

    receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK

    In 2023 total UK arms exports to Israel totalled £18.2 million. We do not provide them with foreign financial assistance.

    So you were only off by a little bit.

    In 2023 Israel received approx. £3.3 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, the large majority loaned to purchase US supplies of both defensive and offensive munitions. That same year, Egypt also received about £1.5 bn in foreign assistance from the USA, Jordan £1.7 bn, etc.

    As I said it is a form of political repression.

    Yes, that’s why it’s good

  • Streamwave@feddit.uktoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism ActEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Good, for months now he’s openly expressed his support and encouragement for a proscribed terrorist organisation, i.e. Hamas. He’s not ambiguous about this: he thinks October 7th was great and that Hamas should do it again. He literally travelled to Iran and posted photos next to IRGC rockets and missiles with the caption “Long live the resistance”.

    He’s not a journalist. He’s a vicious antisemite who takes pleasure in attacking Jews and is a proud and unrepentant promoter and supporter of terrorism.

    Throw away the key. I don’t know why he’s allowed into the country at all.

  • Streamwave@feddit.uktoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•The trouble with England – why rioting in the UK has not spread to Scotland and WalesEnglish
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    3 months ago

    One obvious reason the author doesn’t explore is that neither Wales nor Scotland has ever experienced mass immigration nor profound demographic changes in their population.

    Scotland remains 92.87% white (2022), Wales 94.2% (2021), compared to England at 81% (2021).

    In Scotland, 2.2% identity as Muslim, 0.4% as Hindu, 0.1% as Jewish.

    In England, 6.7% identify as Muslim, 1.8% as Hindu, 0.5% as Jewish.

    Scotland and Wales are therefore much more homogenous as populations. They’re whiter, less religious, and from similar backgrounds. They’re not as diverse as England is and therefore don’t have the challenges of community cohesion and social solidarity that England does.

    It therefore doesn’t have the levels of intra- and inter-communal diversity which can provoke the kinds of tensions we’ve seen playing out in the streets of England over recent years, whether in Hindutva-Muslim ethnoreligious violence in Leicester or these anti-Islam and racist riots in recent weeks.

    Scotland’s sense of its national identity has also not been challenged to the same extent as in England. Nor has a patriotic attitude towards Scottishness been derided as hateful, bigoted or xenophobic, as it has in England. (This sometimes leads to highly funny events, though, like when ScotNats try to claim they were victims of the British Empire.)

  • Streamwave@feddit.uktoUnited Kingdom@feddit.uk•Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’English
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    3 months ago

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