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Happy New Year, everyone!
2024 marks the 30th anniversary of our landmark Welsh Cup Final win over Cardiff City in Cardiff.
It also marks the 25th anniversary of our milestone Premier Cup Final win over Wrexham in Wrexham.
More to follow on both in 2024...
#EmbraceYourHistory
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I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.
Here's the rub, though.
The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.
It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.
Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.
But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?
And here's the staggering hypocrisy.
We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.
Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.
And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.
Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.
@NEUnion @educationgovuk
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
Miliband and Burnham so scared of the Board of Deputies that they'll take tougher action on a a teacher wearing a Palestine flag badge than they will on a genocide
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
Why haven't you introduced similar measures for other forms of racism? 95% of black kids suffer racism in schools, so why are you treating antisemitism as a more serious form of racism? Why do these measures--from proscribing Palestine Action to banning kids from social media to sacking BBC stars for lack of neutrality--always favour Israel? This strongly looks like it's nothing to do with antisemitism and everything to do with killing solidarity with Palestine--and frankly it's disgusting.
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
The idea that antisemitism is a huge issue in schools that don’t even have Jewish students is fucking hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
When I got beat up as a child because I’m brown, that was just ‘general racism’ guys, not your special aunty semiconductor racism, my bad.
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9 million families will access food banks this winter. @RoyalFamily
Basically forcing Zionist supremacy into our schools, like it's been forced into our media and politics.
The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.
My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
youtube.com/watch?v=6pEiZYoR…
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
The U.K. twice suspended a Black politician because she said there's a hierarchy of racism with antisemitism at the top and anti-Blackness at the bottom. Today, the U.K. made antisemitism a distinct form of racism and came out with a 27-point plan!
🚨 NEW: The Government has accepted all 27 recommendations from the report to end antisemitism in schools and colleges
1. Recognise antisemitism as a distinct form of hatred, not just general racism
2. Strengthen political impartiality guidance, including limits on teachers wearing pro-Palestine badges
3. Establish a national hotline for school leaders dealing with antisemitism
4. Improve teaching about contemporary antisemitism and modern Jewish life
5. Teach pupils to recognise and challenge antisemitic conspiracy theories
6. Include antisemitism explicitly in school safeguarding policies
7. Train teachers to recognise and tackle antisemitism
8. Work with the Home Office and the Prevent programme to help schools identify when antisemitism may be linked to radicalisation
9. Encourage schools to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism
10. Improve procedures for reporting antisemitic incidents, including signposting
11. Ensure antisemitic bullying and complaints are investigated and acted on consistently
12. Make clear in staff conduct policies that antisemitism is unacceptable
13. Strengthen Holocaust education, including antisemitism's role in the Holocaust, and encourage schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
14. Create more opportunities for pupils to engage with Jewish communities, including visits to synagogues
15. Make sure Judaism and modern Jewish life are properly represented in religious education
16. Improve media literacy so pupils can also identify online antisemitism
17. Provide better resources for teaching the Israel-Palestine conflict fairly and sensitively
18. Ensure schools have clear policies for dealing with antisemitism involving external speakers
19. Ensure education unions have clear antisemitism policies
20. Establish a dedicated support service to help schools, colleges and councils deal with antisemitism
21. Use some of the Government's security funding to help Jewish schools and colleges undertake educational visits safely
22. Run a campaign to tackle antisemitic behaviour at transport hubs near Jewish schools and colleges
23. Provide Jewish school and college leaders with mentoring and more security advice
24. Strengthen accountability for schools that fail to deal properly with antisemitism
25. Enable Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate to assess how schools tackle antisemitism
26. Make local councils identify local patterns of antisemitism and help schools respond
27. Share effective practice and guidance between schools and colleges
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
The claim in Sir David Bell's report that 3 in 5 Jewish students have experienced antisemitism was based on just 29 people - and was untrue.
My latest for Double Down Newswatch.
youtube.com/watch?v=6pEiZYoR…
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
So the Department of Education promotes schools waving Ukrainian flags, but Palestinian symbols are banned.
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This story gets more disgusting and infuriating the more you analyse it.
1. It’s a shameless lie. 3 in 5 Jewish students go to JEWISH SCHOOLS.
2. It’s racist. Palestinian students are being told their identity and story is “antisemtic.” Zionism lS racism.
3. It’s fascist. You will be expelled or fired for saying “Israel kills Palestinian children” or some other simple fact that paints Israel in a bad light.
It’s terrifying that this is what our government focuses on and pulls out all the stops for, not the cost of living crisis, not the MASSIVE child poverty. This. God help us.
Teachers to be banned from wearing Palestine badges as review finds 3 in 5 Jewish pupils have faced antisemitism at school trib.al/00Lztkq
So the latest con is telling you there's racism against Jews in schools (they don't need their own special word) and using that to suppress criticism of Israel's international lawbreaking.
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
hang on i thought this was about antisemitism - what have Palestine badges got to do with that?
Teachers to be banned from wearing Palestine badges as review finds 3 in 5 Jewish pupils have faced antisemitism at school trib.al/00Lztkq
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
🚨 PLEASE SHARE!
I've written to both my children's schools following the Government's antisemitism review.
I WILL NOT accept genocide being presented as a two-sided political debate, or Palestinian history and suffering being erased from their education.
I've drafted a template which I'm sharing for other parents to use or adapt.
Political impartiality must NEVER become historical dishonesty.
Please use them. Challenge your schools. Demand answers.
#GazaGenocide
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Stand Up For Barry retweeted
There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.




























