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[Johnsond]

Opinion | I left the Tommy Robinson rally with the worrying realisation: this movement is only going to get bigger

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Some in Whitehall were aggressive, some openly racist – but more still felt this far-right gathering was the...

100% Correct. 
From the Guardian of all outlets. 

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[Capetown]

7 hours ago, BillQ said:

The name might but iirc Islam's roots are 7th C? Or are you meaning just "Arabs" in general, just for clarity's sake?

Not all Arabs are Muslims and not all Muslims are Arabs.  Muhammad born 570 died 632. 😊

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[Stubby]

Starmer escorted out of the house by security under the orders of the speaker for loosing his shit with Nigel ! Made I larf ! 

[sime42]

That's highly unusual, he's normally such a cold fish. 

[sime42]

On 16/09/2025 at 20:28, Squaredy said:

Mmmm well the people of the Gaza Strip are in a pickle then.  Maybe they should have considered this before they slaughtered Jews two years ago and plastered it all over social media.
 

OK, I know there are innocent people caught up in all this, but we should all be wary of blindly accepting what Hamas tell us.  When they state that the majority of the casualties are women and children it reminds me of that stupid British politician who said that most of the small boat crossings from France to the UK are women and children.

 

And don’t get me started on the Hamas offshoot called UNRWA.

 

Indeed, they're in "a pickle". Quite a serious pickle I'd say, and not of their own making. 

The UN commission of inquiry has laid out in detail it's evidence, referenced to the relevant conventions. Much of it is in the public domain, appears irrefutable and crucially, doesn't eminate from Hamas. I agree, we shouldn't blindly trust what a terrorist organisation says, we shouldn't trust it at all.  
To suggest that the immense death and destruction that we see/read/hear about every day on the news is Hamas propaganda is misguided. That narrative is in fact just Netanyahu and IDF propaganda. 

A relevant aside: the commission has previously concluded that Hamas committed war crimes and other grave violations of international law on 07/10/23. The three-member expert panel is made up of a South African, an Australian and an Indian; so no dogs in the fight there.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf

I obviously wouldn't expect you to read and digest all of that, but at least consider it.

 

Netanyahu and Trump need to challenge those findings quickly, it's not enough to say it's just another "distorted and false" report, and it's all the fault of Hamas.

 

[Johnsond]

A relevant aside: the commission has previously concluded that Hamas committed war crimes and other grave violations of international law on 07/10/23
 

 

No shit Sherlock