Proud dual citizen of Canada 🇨🇦 and the UK 🇬🇧 but my heart resides in Israel 🇮🇱. Jewish Mother. Descendent of Holocaust Survivor. Pet parent 🐈⬛ 🐕.
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Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Today’s Guardian finds it "astonishing" that Russell Brand, convicted of one count of rape and three sexual assaults yesterday, was “embraced as a serious social commentator” when he returned to Britain in 2013. Embraced by whom, sorry?
The paper gives its own role in promoting brand Brand one single line, noting he had already written columns for it. Yesterday’s big Guardian piece on TV insiders said "Brand’s case has led to difficult questions for the BBC, Channel 4 and the production companies that worked with him." Hilarious...
On an unrelated note Russell Brand's 137 written contributions to the Guardian are still online - 17 of which are after 2013 and which concluded in February 2015.
Long after the Andrew Sachs voicemails, the paper ran his opinion on Thatcher the day after she died, ran a GQ awards column over a large chunk of the front page in September 2013, and ran his column blaming Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death on “extremely stupid drug laws.” Not to mention the fawning praise from Owen Jones and the entire Labour establishment, including the now-Prime Minister...
Today’s piece also sniffs that critics lavished praise on his memoir, quoting its tale of Brand trailing a classmate 200 miles to Wigan as an early warning sign.
That particular book was serialised in the Guardian.
In October 2014 the paper put on a ticketed Guardian Live event, with Owen Jones interviewing Brand. It was broadcast live from the Emmanuel Centre.
That day Jones penned a piece in the Guardian attacking the “all-too-smug, seen-it-all-before snottiness” aimed at Brand. Two months later George Monbiot named him a hero of 2014, calling him “the best thing that has happened to the left in years”.
Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor from 1995 to 2015, claimed in Prospect Magazine in 2023: "I only met him once, when he was writing a popular football column for the Guardian, along with the occasional commentary piece." Funny, seeing as the football column was pre-2010 and there is a photo of them snugly on the sofa together at the Guardian’s morning conference in August 2013...
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Owen Jones has a habit of re-writing history
He was just as despicable on the rape gangs
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Owen Jones has posted that he *thinks* he only met Russell Brand twice. Did he fall in love with Brand the first or second time?
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
The irony of Owen Jones saying people “spread conspiratorial nonsense”
I've met Russell Brand twice (I think):
Once when I hosted a Guardian Live event about his book in 2014.
Another time I interviewed him for The Big Issue when I was guest editing in 2015.
He also gave my publishers an endorsement for my book The Establishment, which I was mortified about at the time mostly because I thought it was so OTT it would obviously invite ridicule (which it did).
At the time I saw him as a crude means to reach disillusioned younger people with left-wing politics - the sort of people who wouldn't be reached by conventional left-wing journalists and politicians.
As a result I was willing to overlook, or just not look into, his history of problematic behaviour / statements, including sexism.
I convinced myself that he was on some sort of journey and that was a good thing. That was an obvious misjudgement.
I did think he was a bit of a chancer / had a messianic complex, but overlooked that too as a necessary evil in reaching disengaged people.
But that was clearly his main driving force and he clearly ended up concluding that right-wing politics was a better vehicle to satisfy it.
It's an important lesson in not stupidly engaging clearly problematic figures, however charismatic or however much mass appeal they have, in the service of a cause.
What I would say is that right now we should be centring the survivors of a rapist and sexual predator.
I personally don't really think those trying to point score have his survivors' interests at heart.
I would also argue that those with the big questions to answer are the right-wing figures who continue to stand by him and spread conspiratorial nonsense in his defence.
Finally, let's hope that other possible survivors of Russell Brand feel able to come forward.
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Jones also provided a blurb for Brand's book Revolution ("Funny, full of charm, and engaging") and wrote 2015 Guardian columns praising Brand's Labour endorsement and defending engagement with him.
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Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Remember when Russell Brand bewitched the entire left-wing establishment? These people are so fantastically gullible, says Brendan O’Neill
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Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Russell Brand once called Owen Jones ‘our generation’s Orwell’. Can we add this to his list of crimes?, asks Brendan O’Neill
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Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Owen Jones doesn’t half pick ‘em.
From furiously insisting Huw Edwards was the victim of a media witch-hunt, to cuddling Russell Brand on stage. One’s now a convicted ped°phile, the other’s just been found guilty of rape.
You really can judge a man by the company he keeps.
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
“How did a monster like Russell Brand manage to capture a whole younger generation?”
Uhm have you heard of Free Palestine?
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Sky News is reporting that several members of Kneecap have allegedly been using SLAPPs to silence accusations of sexual violence.
So now we have Kneecap, Russel Brand, and Lizzo. All celebrities accused of misconduct, all celebrities who thought using Palestine as a shield would silence their accusers.
This is the sick consequence of the West turning a conflict in the Middle East into a moral superiority contest.
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
Leftist media once totally fawned at the feet of Russell Brand, taken in by his charisma and schoolboy chants of revolution.
We don’t need to look far to see how ideological blindness still has a ridiculous hold on some parts of leftist media.
For years it refused to countenance the idea that self identification of sex could be dangerous to women. Trans women are women! Russell Brand is the new messiah!
Today we also see that ideological blindness in favour of Islamism and anti Western violence. This fawning over Palestine Action, a poem that revoltingly apes the ‘first they came for the…’ anti Nazi tract because Irish author Sally Rooney says she wants to fund a group that fractured the back of a British police officer and is attacking our arms industry, is their new stupidity.
And no, for those at the back - this is nothing like the Salmon Rushdie Fatwa - it’s the exact opposite, in fact.
You might think I’m reaching here, linking these three things. But I just see a part of my industry desperate to make heroes and victims out of completely the wrong people.
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
El-Sayed: ‘Blue Lives Matter is a white supremacist movement’
Ever notice how the people who promote Islamist supremacy are the same ones endlessly accusing others of white supremacy?
Or the ones screaming like banshees about “genocide in Gaza” are the same ones who want to commit a genocide against Jews?
Or the ones who are lecturing about “corporate money” from AIPAC are the same ones taking in fat checks from Big Tech?
Or the ones who defame and libel Israel with accusations of “apartheid” have no problem with racist and discriminatory laws against non-Muslims in 22 other countries?
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
This is who attacked me btw
Great job @camhigby
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Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
I have seen many stories of cruelty on October 7th, but nothing as heartbreaking as this.
This is the Goldstein-Almog family from Kfar Aza.
On October 7th, the men of Gaza entered the family home, broke into the safe room where the family was hiding, and murdered the father, Nadav Goldstein, in front of his whole family. ,
The men of Gaza forced Chen, the mother of this family, and the children to step over Nadav's body as they left the safe room.
Yam Goldstein, their 20-year-old daughter, fainted after seeing her murdered father, and as the mother Chen was trying to help her daughter Yam, the men of Gaza shot 20-year-old Yam in the face and killed her in her mother's arms.
Chen was forced to leave her daughter's body behind and was kidnapped along with her three younger children.
Agam, the eldest of the three, witnessed the murders of her father and sister and tried to help Yam when she collapsed. Tal and Gal, the two younger boys, were also forced from their home into captivity in Gaza.
They were held in the most cruel and abusive conditions possible, and were returned in a hostage deal 51 days later.
How can a human live with such trauma???
What kind of society carries out horrors like this???
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
The cult of Palestinianism will be studied in years to come.
A collective madness.
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
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Well done @SwordOfSalomon
Let’s make Patrick O’Brien, the antisemite POS, famous.
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🚨📹MISE À JOUR : Le lieu de travail de Patrick O’Brien, l’antisémite irlandais 🇮🇪 qui a menacé de mort un couple de touristes juifs australiens 🇦🇺 et leur a lancé : « Dommage qu’Hitler n’ait pas fini le travail », a été identifié.
Il travaille actuellement comme voiturier dans un hôtel MGallery du groupe @Accor, dans le sud de la 🇫🇷.
⚠️Un antisémite virulent ne devrait pas être au contact de la clientèle d’un hôtel MGallery. Des clients juifs pourraient ainsi se retrouver face à un homme qui a regretté qu’Hitler n’ait pas achevé l’extermination de leur peuple.
cc @JJMorin_Accor
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
🇬🇧 Meanwhile in the Sleepy Somerset Town of Bridgwater
Local Residents who have lived in this town all their lives, now have to deal with Hordes of Foreign Men hanging around the streets, playing loud music and drinking because they have been out in local HMO’s
This is a literal act of War by the UK Government upon its Citizens - Local people scared to even leave their homes
Coming to a Town near you
Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
This is an utterly horrifying story about antisemitism at the @bbc. Well done to @HadleyFreeman for writing it!
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Suzy Goodwin🎗️ retweeted
She 100% meant it when she said she wanted to kill the other girl.
The majority of leftists support political violence and are perfectly comfortable with killing innocent people simply because they disagree with them.
Seeing so many of them celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the murder of the Israeli embassy staffers in DC last year was a real eye-opener.
There’s a reason why they all support and glorify Islamic terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.
It’s actually terrifying how these monsters live among us.
🚨🚨 JUST NOW: Deranged Abdul Supporter tackled a Jewish girl (@basedinmalibu) at free speech event.
She was SWIFTLY arrested, resisted and then said “I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER!!” As she was loaded into the police vehicle.