Secular Jewish Londoner, West Ham fan. CEO @fsu_world, international adviser at https://xitter.cf/t.co/W0S9vpqLah. Ex British Ambassador to Chile, Ghana and Mexico.

London, England
Joined November 2010
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Under capitalism, you can spend your entire life publicly criticizing capitalism, writing books against it, and selling anti-capitalist merch for a profit. Under communism, writing a single private pamphlet criticizing the party gets you sent to a forced labor camp or put against a wall. The sheer tolerance of freedom vs. the fragile cowardice of tyranny.
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You know that old joke where the far left thinks Jews are fascists and the far right thinks Jews are communists? Well, they did the meme.
Replying to @ACPMain
Communism is a jewish invention, yet you think itโ€™ll destroy another jewish invention in Zionism?
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This 260-year demographic timeline of Polandโ€™s Jewish population reveals the devastating scale of the Holocaust. Source: buff.ly/MEHJWla
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United should sack Carrick and then immediately appoint him as interim manager to sort this mess out
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Iโ€™d like to apologise. The last week has finally made me understand that the real victims of the shocking rise in antisemitism are not Jewish people (and Jewish school children in particular) but Owen Jones, Sarah Helm and Sally Rooney. I hope theyโ€™re ok and Iโ€™m very sorry for having got this wrong.
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Islamo-Leftism Is Not a Conspiracy Theory Itโ€™s an unrequited love affair โ€œThe Red-Green alliance does not rest on covert coordination behind the scenes, but on ideological kinship, a shared enemy (Western civilization, modernity and capitalism) and a hefty dose of naivety on one side.โ€ โ€œThe bargain is straightforward: leftists coddle Muslims and give them preferential treatment, while Muslims respond by voting for left-wing parties.โ€ โ€œWhat makes this love affair tragic is that it is mostly unrequited.โ€ โ€œThere may be โ€˜Queers for Palestineโ€™, but there are no โ€˜Queers in Palestineโ€™.โ€
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The idea that Pinochet, Mussolini, and Franco, who killed under 1% of their countrymen after they took power, were worse than Pol Pot, who murdered about 25% of his, is beyond absurd. And Pinochet probably did more good than harm overall. Pol Pot, on the other hand, destroyed almost everything he touched. His per capita domestic civilian death toll was higher than everyone on this list.
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Locations of Uganda and Ethiopia are switched even though the leaders are correct share.google/bTcu2SAk3Z5NYLโ€ฆ
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Since 1948, the population of Jews in Muslim countries has gone from approximately 1,000,000 to around 30,000. Since 1948, the population of Muslims in Jewish countries has gone from about 156,000 to around 2,000,000. Whoโ€™s guilty of apartheid and ethnic cleansing?
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Letโ€™s stop sanitizing mass murder with clean economic terms like "collectivization" and "five-year plans." Call it what it actually was: state-sponsored theft, engineered starvation, and industrial-scale slaughter designed to break the human spirit. History doesn't forgive, and it shouldn't forget.
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Not once, but twice. Preston Fearon, that is outrageous.
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Ilhan Omar Starting To Regret Hiring Immigration Attorney From Quality Citizeship Center
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No es Gaza, es Cuba. No fue un terremoto, fue 67 aรฑos de comunismo.
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Our era has produced so many insane headlines that will baffle future historians. Hereโ€™s anotherโ€ฆ
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Central planning is what happens when arrogance meets absolute ignorance. A room full of mid-level bureaucrats who couldn't manage a lemonade stand genuinely believe they have the divine right to dictate the survival of 300 million human beings. The result is always a total, catastrophic collapse.
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Owen Jones came on Triggernometry. After being given lots of speaking time, he was asked a few probing questions and immediately turned the conversation into a gotcha style debate. This naturally resulted in him being destroyed with facts and lots of people on the internet laughing at him. Now he is so butthurt, he spends his days posting videos no one watches about how he was right about everything. While having me and Francis blocked. Loser energy.
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"O Allah, count them, kill them one by one, and leave none of them." Here are 44 clips of imams from the Islamic Center of Detroit โ€” where Abdul El-Sayed worships โ€” promoting murder. The federal government has given the mosque over $45 million since 2017
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The massive, independent review into antisemitism in UK schools and colleges has come out today. There are a lot of statistics given by the study that I could throw at you, but I think I'll highlight one particularly horrific one. Amongst secondary teachers who teach about the Holocaust, 40% reported encountering antisemitism among their students, usually in the form of mocking the way Jews look and our "greed." So, as students were learning about the Holocaust, seeing the pictures of dead Jews in piles on the ground, they would make these kinds of comments. Not only that, but a main part of the survey is investigating how antisemitism is not widely understood by teachers and how it often goes greatly underreported because incidents will, more often than not, be downplayed or not understood as antisemitism. So 40% is probably not even the accurate number. With the study comes 27 recommendations to reform the education system in the UK. These recommendations include adopting a clear definition of antisemitism, editing the Teacher's Standards to include antisemitism as a kind of hatred and prejudice that teachers must confront, training teachers in identifying antisemitism, and more. I really hope these recommendations are implemented, because antisemitism is awful enough for an adult to deal with, children shouldn't be facing it on their own.
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Such a great journalistic instinct.
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