The recent stabbing incident involving three girls in Southport has once again ignited the flames of misguided hatred and bigotry, particularly among members of the National Front (NF) and English Defence League (EDL). These groups, known for their far-right ideologies and xenophobic agendas, have been quick to exploit the tragedy, targeting Muslims and mosques despite the clear facts about the perpetrator. It is crucial to address the baseless and misplaced nature of their protests, highlighting the irrationality and ignorance that fuels such actions. Firstly, let's set the record straight: the man responsible for the attack is not Asian, Muslim, or an immigrant. He is black, born in Cardiff, and raised as a Christian. This crucial information alone dismantles the narrative being pushed by the NF and EDL, who seem determined to blame the Muslim community for any violent incident, regardless of the actual facts. The NF and EDL have long history of targeting Muslims and other minority groups, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and inciting violence based on racial and religious prejudices. Their protests and actions are often based on misinformation or outright lies, serving to spread fear and division within communities. The recent Southport incident is no exception. Instead of addressing the real issues, these groups are leveraging the tragedy to further their own discriminatory The repercussions of these protests are deeply felt within the Muslim community. Mosques become targets for vandalism and violence, and innocent people are harassed and intimidated. This not only fosters a climate of fear but also undermines social cohesion, making it harder for communities to live together peacefully. The actions of the NF and EDL do not contribute to the safety or well-being of society; rather, they perpetuate cycles of hatred and violence. It is imperative for the public to engage in rational and informed discourse, basing opinions and actions on facts rather than fearmongering. Communities must come together to condemn not only the violence but also the hatred and bigotry that follow in its wake. By doing so, we can work towards a more inclusive and understanding society, where individuals are judged by their actions and character rather than their race or religion. The NF and EDL's protests in response to the Southport stabbing are a clear example of misplaced and irrational hatred. The perpetrator's background as a black Christian man from Cardiff makes it evident that targeting Muslims and mosques is both unfounded and unjust. It is time to move beyond the divisive and destructive rhetoric of these far-right groups and focus on building a society based on facts, empathy, and mutual respect. Only then can we hope to prevent further violence and bring together true community cohesion.
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.This movement is calling for attention and action on a critical issue: the plight of Palestine and the ongoing struggle for freedom and justice. Here's how we can support and amplify it: Share the Link Widely: Spread the word about Hind's Hall and the powerful message it conveys. Share the link on social media platforms, through email, or in group chats to reach as many people as possible. Engage with the Song: Listen to the song, absorb its lyrics, and reflect on its meaning. Encourage others to do the same. Engage in discussions about the themes presented in the song to raise awareness and understanding. Encourage Donations: Encourage those who resonate with the cause to donate to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). Financial support is crucial for providing essential services to Palestinian refugees and supporting their rights. Utilize Social Media: Utilize hashtags and social media campaigns to make the movement go viral. Share personal reflections, stories, and reasons for supporting the cause to inspire others to join the movement. Organize Virtual Protests: Use online platforms to organize virtual protests, gatherings, or events to further amplify the message of Hind's Hall and the broader movement for Palestinian liberation. Educate and Raise Awareness: Take the opportunity to educate yourself and others about the historical context, ongoing struggles, and human rights violations in Palestine. Use your voice to raise awareness and challenge misinformation. Support Artists and Activists: Show support for artists like Macklemore who use their platform to speak out on social justice issues. Encourage other artists and influencers to do the same. By coming together and amplifying our voices, we can make a difference and stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Let's make this movement go viral and create meaningful change. If you want to stay up-to-date with us, follow our Page. https://lnkd.in/dx2ZNpHR
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Make it go viral! 👉🍉 https://lnkd.in/gJU-nmuj Send the link to everyone you know to raise more funds for UNRWA. 📣 Let this song be our virtual protest, showing those who seek to silence us just how powerful our voices can be. HIND'S HALL 👇🍉 Written and Produced by Macklemore Lyrics: The people they won’t leave What is threatening about divesting and wanting peace? The problem isn’t the protests it’s what they’re protesting Cause it goes against what our country is funding Block the barricade until Palestine is free Block the barricade until Palestine is free When I was 7 I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy E What was it again? oh yea fuck the police Actors in badges protecting property And a system that was designed by white supremacy But the people are in the streets You can pay off meta you can’t pay off me Politicians who serve by any means AIPAC, CUFI and all the companies You see we sell fear around the land of the free But this generation here is about to cut the strings You can ban tik Tok take us out the algothim But it’s too late we’ve seen the truth we bare witness We’ve seen the ruble the buildings the mothers the children And all the men that you murdered and then we see how they spin it Who gets to the right to defend and who gets the right of resistance Has always been about dollars and the color of your pigment But White supremacy is finally on blast Screaming free Palestine until they’re home at last We see the lies in them Claiming it’s anti-semetic to be anti-zionist I’ve seen jewish brothers and sisters out there and riding In solidarity and screaming free Palestine with em Organizing, unlearning and finally cutting ties with a State that’s gotta rely on an apartheid system To uphold an occupying violent History been repeating for the last 75 The Nakba never ended, the colonizer lied If some kids in tents, posted on the lawn occupying the quad is really against the law And a reason to call in the police and their squad where does genocide land in your definition huh? destroying every college in Gaza and every mosque pushing everyone into rafah and dropping bombs The blood is on your hands Biden, we can see it all And fuck no I’m not voting for you in the fall Undecided, you can’t twist the truth The people out here united never be defeated when Freedom’s on the horizon Yet the music industry’s quiet complicit in their platform of silence What happened to the artist what do you got to say? If I was on a label, you could drop me today And be fine with it cause the heart fed my page I want a ceasefire fuck a response from drake What you willing to risk? What you willing to give? What if you were Gaza? what if those were your kids? If the west was pretending that you didn’t exist You’d want the world to stand up And the students finally did Let’s get it
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"The mobs increasingly filling our public spaces are teaching Jews to be afraid and defensive, antisemites that their aggression will go unchecked and the rest of Canadians to accept this state of affairs as the new normal. And they are succeeding. But they should not be, as popular sentiment increasingly has turned against them as they wreak havoc on their victims and our collective sensibilities. Just this past Saturday, a motley crew of pro-Palestinian protesters forced the cancellation of a gala dinner for Justin Trudeau and Italian President Giorgia Meloni at the Art Gallery of Ontario, calling for 'revolution' and reportedly hurling projectiles at a federal cabinet minister. What kind of country permits this? On Tuesday, a reception in Toronto’s Yorkville neighbourhood between Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and fellow cabinet minister Ya’ara Saks was similarly disrupted. In both cases, police failed to remove or arrest the protesters. On that same day, protesters in Montreal...harassed Jewish residents and shut down access to a Jewish community centre, blocking occupants inside for a considerable period. The police did nothing until Jewish community organizations went to court the next day to obtain an injunction, something I anticipate will have to be done shortly everywhere. That should be unnecessary, since police already have adequate power, without any court order, to enforce the peace and ensure our citizens have access to their places of worship and public facilities...The government must require the police to do their jobs and begin making regular arrests. And if they do not, the Jews of North America must emulate the Jews in Israel and not cower in fear, but demand that action be taken and use the courts and other applications to force action to be taken and publicly expose, by name, the miscreants in our midst so that they will become pariahs and their numbers will dwindle until this scourge too passes." https://lnkd.in/gEHe7HWX
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From Avi Abraham BENLOLO: "In the Greater Toronto Area, it’s becoming clearer that Hamas sympathizers are living next door or sitting on the subway next to you. They are living among us, propagating their hate and promoting their violence. Police have already cited hundreds of rallies and protests which have cost the city some $12 million, in addition to the growth in arson, targeting of Jewish communities and businesses. Last week, six Toronto city councillors endorsed these pro-Hamas rallies...It’s this lax attitude that has given rise to pro-Palestinian groups crossing the line between free speech and hate speech and between peaceful assembly and violent assembly. Scuffles with police officers who are striving to maintain peace have become commonplace, as political leaders are taking up the Palestinian cause...It’s not just a municipal problem, however. Commiserating with Hamas instead of an allied democracy (Israel) is par for the course federally in Ottawa. By announcing the re-funding of the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) after its staff allegedly participated in terrorism, our own government is looking the other way when it comes to terrorizing Jews in the Middle East. It sends the wrong message: why should terrorizing them at home be any different? The government is on our side, say the Hamas activists...But there’s a subtle yet significant shift happening in Canada. Ordinary people are awakening and actively seeking to counter the increasing divisiveness, hatred, and violence on our streets through civil and political action. They reject the erosion of our core values rooted in civil discourse and decorum. Canadians are becoming more aware, and for those attempting to undermine our moral principles, this serves as a clear warning that we will not be silenced." https://lnkd.in/e8cZi_pc
Avi Benlolo: Hatred on our streets abetted by Hamas terrorist-supporting politicians
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Greens are truly a disgusting party with a conflicted grab bag of irreconcilable minority interest. They say one thing to one group, and a contradictory different thing when it suits them, and go dumb when the virtue signalling threatens to turn into real damage to their electoral prospects. Such a disingenuous mob, yet people in Shire councils allow their people to run as candidates without realvealing their extreme comitymrnt to minority activism issues above and out of proportion to the rest of the electorate. Without doubt minorities and mainstream have HEAPS of needs in common, but Greens pro(re)gressive methodology is to amplify division and hate because that is how they create their well meaning perhaps but gullible voter market. Michael Webster the actions of these people desecrating memorials are desecrating memories unrelated to their activism object - and by desecrating memory’s held dear by mainstream Australians, they are inciting violence and hatred against themselves. THEY are inciting violence. THEY are inciting hatred. They should be arrested and charged under the laws that replaced treason/sedition. It’s utterly repugnant
So The Australian Greens believe that desecration of our war memorials is a legitimate form of protest. To them, war memorials are "not politically neutral spaces". In their distorted minds, those who died defending our freedoms were engaged in political acts; thus, it justifies political acts against the memorials to them. That such acts are criminal is irrelevant for the Greens. This is why Palestinian activists continue to attack our monuments and memorials, our libraries and institutions. The Greens licence and cheer attacks on our society. .:. Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt has refused to answer whether vandalising the Australian War Memorial is a legitimate form of protest. The Australian National Korean War Memorial, Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial, and the Australian Army National Memorial were graffitied with pro-Palestine messages on Saturday night. On Monday Greens senator Jordon Steele-John refused to support a motion from Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie to condemn those who desecrated the memorials. Senator Steele-John said the Greens would not support Senator Lambie's motion, saying war memorials were "not politically neutral spaces". "The Australian Constitution contains no explicit commitment to freedom of speech," he said. "If we are to believe that the men and women of the ADF gave their lives in wars and conflicts to defend such freedoms, then you have to engage with the reality that protesting, that painting is a form of speech." Asked by 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson if Mr Bandt agreed with Senator Steele-John that it was a form of free speech, the Greens leader refused to answer the question. .:.
Bandt fails to condemn Greens senator's remarks about vandalised War Memorial
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As we celebrate Passover tonight, commemorating the Jews’ exodus from slavery into freedom, Jewish students all over the world, and markedly Columbia University, are facing tragic manifestations of antisemitism. Jews are experiencing over and over the hidden truth behind “anti-Zionism” and “anti-Israelism”. This is nothing new for us, but every once in a while it comes out of the shadows in destructive, dangerous, and painful ways. My grandparents survived the Holocaust in the 1940s, though with unfathomable trauma and loss. My parents were pushed out of Poland in the 1960s for being Jews, ironically told to “go back to Palestine”. Today, Jewish organizations are urging Jewish students to leave campus and go home, away from the mobs, because their safety cannot be guaranteed by those who are supposed to protect them. When Jewish students are no longer safe on their own university campuses; when Jews have to question their safety in their work places and communities, face harassment— manifest and veiled under socially acceptable terms— society has really been turned upside down once again. As an educator, a college professor of students who will go out into the field as professional counselors, I am scared of where academia is going, the mob mentality, the destruction of independent critical analysis and thought. I worry about students and professionals who ignorantly hitch a ride on a bandwagon that hails a convoluted definition of Zionism; that equate anti-Zionism and anti-Israelism with a social justice mindset, in par with what is acceptable by those around them, without any regard of its dire consequences. I worry for the world my children will grow up in, but I also know we will persevere. Tonight we will have an empty seat at our Passover table for the hostages remaining in captivity. We will sing songs and say prayers for our people’s freedom and safety, for the young soldiers protecting our homeland, and for all of us who are living in today’s uncertain reality. Chag Pesach Sameach. Am Israel Chai. https://lnkd.in/gsfegt8P
At Columbia I Am Told: ‘Go Back to Poland’
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You may have heard on Fox News that of the 100 or so pro-Palestinian protesters arrested the other day who had set up an encampment at Columbia University, the average age of those arrested was around 27. A little old for an undergraduate or even a graduate student. So, what are people in their late 20's doing camped out on Columbia University's grounds protesting for Hamas? Don't these people have jobs to go to? According to an Op-ed in today's WSJ by Ira Stoll. Protesting against Israel may be these people's jobs. And yes, it is George Soros yet again. I know the left hates hearing about how George Soros is singlehandedly destroying the country, but frankly his name and money do seem to pop up continuously when anarchy is loose in our cities. Soros never funds individuals directly, either in campaign donations or to protesters. He merely funnels money to groups who then fund these activities. In the case of anti-Israel protests, the funding to pay protesters goes to something called The U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights." This organization is recruiting "campus based fellows" who receive stipends of $2,880 to $3,360 for three month terms for work to aid campaigns that "demand federal or state politicians cut U.S. military financial, or diplomatic ties with Israel." Another group receiving Soros money is "Education for Just Peace in the Middle East. It gets $700,000 in funding that is being used to advocate for Hamas's war aims. So, when you see all those fresh brand new tents at Columbia, you can bet they are being donated. As no doubt is food and incidentals to keep the protesters comfy.
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Make no mistake. #antisemitism and #radicalislam join forces to attack both Jews as well as all Western societies. The terror waves sweeping across Europe is what seems to be coming our way. Calling for the destruction of #israel ("From the River to the sea" is exactly what that means - just look at a map) and for the killing of Jews is NOT free speech. Neither is the intimidation and harassment of Jewish students. It's pure hate speech - which is exactly what "prestigious" #academia establishments allow, tolerate, and embrace through the lack of indecisive action. Previously known as #ivyleague, these institutions should be grouped under #poisonivyleague. The Poison Ivy League members spectacularly FAIL their number one mission, priority & reason for existence: to educate younger generations to critical thinking, communications and proper dialogue, especially with people you may disagree with. They, in effect, help create the next generation of anarchists, terror supporters and racist leaders and operators, our future clear and present danger to #publicsafety. https://lnkd.in/e35CBeGb
New anti-Israel tent city takes over Columbia University lawn days after NYPD raid as activists vow to stay ‘forever’
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Wondering why all those pro-Hamas protesters are so well organized? They are being paid to protest. Read Warren Kinsella's exposé in the Toronto Sun. And if you don't believe him, then see for yourself on the "Solidarity Fund" website - link in the comments. #istandwithisrael #israelhamaswar #bringthemhome #bringthemhomenow
KINSELLA: Protesters paid to take part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
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Ijeoma Oluo with the #realtalk and real questions... "do not have to tell you that it was not very revolutionary - at least not politically. By the end of the summer, protestors had gone home, COVID restrictions had relaxed, sports were back on television, promises made by besieged politicians and CEOs were already beginning to be rolled back, and many in white America set out to make sure that such a widespread protest would never be quite so effective again. And here we are in 2024, with Cop Cities being built all over the country, with police budgets restored and even increased, with Democratic political candidates promising more “law and order”, with protestors met with pepper spray, handcuffs and even bullets this time instead of empty promises. And now, even as our “left” political party is in power and actively funding a genocide, pulling millions of us to the streets once again - this time for Palestinian lives - it doesn’t seem to be enough to really make a difference. Not even a difference in us. For those wondering why, why we seem to be forever on this rollercoaster of horror-protest-promise-relief-betrayal, I invite us to investigate the difference between activation and radicalization. Activation is the process of making something (or someone) active or operative. We have experienced many politically activating moments in our lives. These moments drive us to, well, act. They have us calling our representatives, sharing posts, donating money, making signs, going to protests. These moments make us want to do something. And it is vital that we do something. Right now, as people are being slaughtered with our tax dollars, it is vital that we march, call, write, disrupt. It is vital that we do what we can to stop the killing. But I’m going to say something that is a really shitty truth: we can organize and march and get a ceasefire, we can get a peace deal - and this genocide, and so many others, will continue long after our social media feeds stop paying attention. It will continue until we are radicalized." There's more and if you're truly interested in equity and justice you'd do well to give it a read. I promise it's time very well spent!
Did This Radicalize You? Really??
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"At the May 2024 "People's Conference for Palestine" in Detroit, featuring US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, among many others, the People's Forum's executive director Manolo De Los Santos, to great applause, called for the complete destruction of the United States." "The protesters are being generously funded and expertly coached by the same anti-U.S., anti-capitalist, anti-West puppet-masters who sprang Black Lives Matter on us a decade ago... It's all part of a giant web, a revolutionary ecosystem, that spans the globe from Havana to Shanghai and coordinates and sustains these often-violent, always-threatening protests." — Mike Gonzales, Heritage Foundation, June 27, 2024." "One protester said: "The actual conversation is getting rid of this country, getting rid of America, getting rid of the West. This is what this [the protest] is for. Everyone here understands that at some level we need to get rid of America completely." "The Communist protesters evidently do not want to just "Free Palestine" by "genociding" the Jews; they want to get rid of everyone that stands in the way of their revolution, which is why fighting this "revolutionary ecosystem" is not only about antisemitism and the Jews but an issue for everyone who wants to preserve Western civilization." "Several of the tax-exempt groups inside this revolutionary ecosystem... apparently have links to terrorist organizations, about which the US Treasury Department, while targeting allegedly "conservative organizations," seems to have done exactly nothing." "[US Rep. Jim] Banks, in his letter to the IRS, pointed out that tax-exempt organizations that incite civil unrest do not qualify for exemption." https://lnkd.in/e669456Z
'Palestine': Just The Latest Pretext for Bringing Down Western Civilization
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