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For those learning about Nigel Farage’s former chief of staff @RaheemKassam, here’s a short history:
2014
The National Union of Students condemned his Student Rights organisation for demonising Muslim students and creating a climate of suspicion.
2015
Clashed with senior UKIP figures over his influence on Nigel Farage and the party’s increasingly confrontational political strategy.
2016
Published derogatory social media comments about transgender people and mocked Labour MP Angela Eagle using special educational needs terminology.
2016
Suggested taping Nicola Sturgeon’s mouth and legs shut so she could not reproduce.
2016
Proposed reviewing UKIP’s ban on former members of the British National Party, National Front and English Defence League.
2017
Published a book promoting claims about areas supposedly governed by Islamic rules, a narrative challenged by independent investigations.
2018
Helped organise rallies supporting Tommy Robinson and campaigned internationally following his imprisonment for contempt of court.
2018
Published Enoch Was Right, arguing that Powell’s controversial warnings about immigration had been vindicated.
2018
Described the Quran as “fundamentally evil” and Islam as a “fascistic and totalitarian ideology”.
2019
Spread false claims about George Soros, stating he collaborated with the Nazis, prompting condemnation from the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
2020
His publication The National Pulse circulated unsupported claims about electoral manipulation during the US presidential election.
2021
He shared a viral video containing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines and masks, reaching millions of viewers.
2026
Called the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer” and questioned her immigration status.
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Steve Bell was sacked by The Guardian over this cartoon of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Just in: IPSO has refused to investigate the Telegraph cartoon of Mothin Ali, the Green Party's Muslim deputy leader, grinning over a knife and fork at the severed head of Zack Polanski, its Jewish leader, who is drawn with a hooked nose. Nearly 1,200 of you complained.
IPSO's reason: the cartoon is about two individuals, so only Mothin and Zack can complain. How racist the drawing is doesn't come into it.
IPSO did not have to do this, and it has done the opposite before.
IPSO's rules let it take up a complaint from people other than the person written about, when the breach is significant, and there is a substantial public interest in looking at it.
In July 2023 it used that power. It ruled that Jeremy Clarkson's Sun column about the Duchess of Sussex was sexist, after complaints from two women's charities, the Fawcett Society and the WILDE Foundation. The Duchess did not complain.
The Telegraph's editor, Chris Evans, chairs the committee that writes the Editors' Code, which is the rulebook IPSO enforces.
The Telegraph is still selling prints of the cartoon today.
IPSO's rule says it may take up a complaint like this, not that it must. So this was a choice.
Picture a school. One boy draws two classmates, a Muslim boy and a Jewish boy. He gives the Jewish boy a hooked nose and puts his head on a plate, and draws the Muslim boy about to eat it. He pins the picture to the noticeboard and sells copies at the gate.
A thousand pupils go to the head teacher. She tells them she can only act if the two boys in the picture come to her themselves.
So the picture stays on the board, and every Muslim and Jewish child in the school walks past it each morning. The boy who drew it learns he can do it again.
And the rulebook the head teacher is reading from was written by a committee his dad chairs.
Nobody would say that head teacher is protecting the children. She is protecting the boy who drew it.
That is what IPSO has done. It says it regulates the Telegraph, and it has just told nearly 1,200 people that a racist cartoon in a paper it regulates is not its business unless the two men drawn in it come and ask.
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🚨🇨🇳 A Chinese glass company just turned the RIOTS in France into FREE advertising!
Hengxinfeng filmed NOTHING, just posted a video of its unbreakable windows on social media, and went VIRAL.
EPIC TROLLING!
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No one takes seriously the words of US- and Saudi-linked enemies of Iran-Pakistani relations. With oil wealth collapsing, the days of US-controlled, Saudi-funded takfiri terror are darkening too. The Yemeni armed forces stood by Gaza; the Saudis stood by Trump. Choose your side.
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پاکستان مقبوضہ کشمیر کے علاقہ باغ میں قاتل پاکستانی فورسز کے بنائے ہوئے مورچے۔
اس وقت چترہ ٹوپی پاکستانی فورسز کے کنٹرول میں ہے، گھروں میں چیکنگ اور خوف و ہراس کا ماحول ہے۔
#VoicesFromPOJK
#RightsMovementAJK
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Green MSP Kate Nevens and SNP MP Lara Bird have been kidnapped by Israel for trying to enter Palestine.
The Prime Minister should be demanding their immediate release.
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New report and campaign: UK Lawyers for Israel cries wolf, and it has no credibility left. Of the 14 complaints it made about charities where we could find the outcome, the Charity Commission found nothing against the charity in 11.
UKLFI showed its inhumanity when its chief executive suggested Israel's starvation of Gaza could help reduce obesity there.
Now it keeps reporting the charities trying to feed and treat Palestinians in Gaza. Every complaint has to be answered, often by volunteers. Most then come to nothing.
UKLFI's credibility is so bad, the press often buries who is behind the complaints. When the Charity Commission opened its case into MSF, none of the five reports we read put UKLFI in the headline. The Telegraph first named it in paragraph five. None of the reports on the MSF case we read told readers how UKLFI's earlier complaints had ended.
Now look at UKLFI's ties to the Israeli occupation:
- Its home page carries a thank-you from a "senior Israeli intelligence officer": "Thanks to your continuous efforts you have achieved the goal that the State of Israel was trying to get since 1997." The goal was a British aid charity for Palestinians, which UKLFI says lost its banking after UKLFI wrote to its banks.
- On 6 May 2021 Israel's Foreign Ministry accused a Palestinian health provider of sending donors' money to the PFLP. The same day UKLFI sent the allegation to the provider's British funder, which stopped the funding that day.
- A leaked Israeli Ministry of Justice note, reported by Middle East Eye, says the Turners who run UKLFI asked a senior ministry official for "assistance in finding or validating evidence that will help them" while a British aid charity was taking legal action against UKLFI. Jonathan Turner said he could not recall the meeting.
- A month into Israel's total block on aid to Gaza, UKLFI's own charity hosted an official of COGAT, the Israeli Ministry of Defence unit that controls that aid, for a webinar called "Did Israel Starve Gaza Civilians?".
- An Israeli minister says its legal director "successfully represents Israel". UKLFI says it is "not linked to the Israeli government".
Its MSF dossier, sent to the Home Secretary "for consideration under the Terrorism Act", rests on staff "identified by the Israeli authorities".
The Charity Commission has three inquiries open into charities over alleged links to Iran. It has not said whether a charity that gave Israel's Ministry of Defence its platform raises the same concern, and it keeps opening cases on UKLFI's complaints.
It seems there is one standard for Iran and another for the Israeli occupation.
We set out every complaint, every outcome and every link to the Israeli occupation, each with its source: newscord.org/editorials/uk-l…
Also, in under a minute, you can ask for an update on the Charity Commission investigation into UKLFI, which launched last year: newscord.org/action/uklfi-ch…
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Le commandant de réserve israélien, Avdar Shailovski, a rédigé un article — publié sur sa page Facebook — dans lequel il relate sa désertion de l'armée israélienne et son émigration d'Israël vers la Pologne, la terre de ses ancêtres.
L'article est intitulé : « Je ne peux plus supporter le silence ».
Voici le texte intégral de l'article :
Je suis Avdar Shailovski, le commandant qui a déserté l'armée israélienne. Je déclare, en pleine possession de mes facultés mentales, avoir quitté l'armée israélienne car je ne pouvais plus supporter de rester un témoin silencieux — trahissant ainsi ma propre humanité — face à tous les crimes dont j'ai été témoin durant les cinq années que j'ai passées au sein de cette armée.
Les événements auxquels j'ai assisté m'étouffent ; il faut que je vous les raconte.
Je pourrais mourir à tout instant, tant mon chagrin est immense. C'est pourquoi je me dois de contribuer à faire éclater la vérité, dans l'espoir d'alléger le poids de ma culpabilité. Peut-être Dieu atténuera-t-Il le tourment qui m'attend, compte tenu de l'horreur des actes que j'ai commis, simplement parce que je faisais partie des rangs de l'armée israélienne.
Puis, j'ai reçu un signe : « Abandonne tout et va-t'en. »
Merci, mon Dieu, de m'avoir guidé.
Dès que l'avion de la compagnie israélienne El Al a atterri à l'aéroport de Varsovie, je me suis senti en sécurité, loin de cette terre d'Israël qui ne signifie plus rien pour moi.
On nous a enseigné que c'était la terre promise par Dieu ; or, c'est le plus grand mensonge utilisé pour tromper le peuple juif.
C'est un mensonge perpétuel, qui perdure sans relâche, et qui a conduit, il y a quatre-vingts ans, au déplacement du peuple palestinien — un peuple sans défense — hors de sa propre terre. Pire encore : ce peuple continue, jusqu'à ce jour, de subir des souffrances atroces. Qui a inventé ce mensonge ? Et quel peuple « idiot » a bien pu y croire ?
Ce dont j'ai été témoin durant mes cinq années de service au sein de l'armée israélienne est difficile à décrire avec des mots...
Quels mots pourraient décrire la cruauté, l'ignominie et l'horreur des actes commis par l'armée israélienne à l'encontre des Palestiniens ?
Ne croyez pas un mot de ce que raconte ce « sale type » — ce fils de « sale type ». C'est un menteur abject, surtout lorsqu'il qualifie l'armée israélienne d'« armée la plus morale au monde ». Quelle absurdité ! En réalité, c'est l'armée la plus dépravée, la plus cruelle et la plus sauvage qui soit.
Oui, messieurs, je ne supporte plus de voir la ruine et la dévastation à Gaza.
J'ai été témoin de ce qui s'est passé dans la nuit du 7 octobre 2023. Les services de renseignement israéliens, ce « sale type » et sa bande étaient au courant ; ils ont attendu que cela se produise pour justifier la destruction de Gaza et tenter de déplacer sa population...
J'ai servi à Gaza et j'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un commandant de char s'amuser avec son canon, tirant des obus sur des Palestiniens entassés dans leurs tentes, ou sur des groupes faisant la queue devant des boulangeries, des véhicules de distribution alimentaire ou des convois d'aide humanitaire.
J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, des avions tirer des projectiles sur des immeubles résidentiels habités, les transformant en amas de décombres sur la tête de leurs occupants...
J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, des tireurs d'élite de l'armée d'occupation s'amuser à abattre des enfants, des adultes et des femmes qui faisaient la queue pour recevoir de l'aide humanitaire...
C'est de la folie...
De tels crimes, dont j'ai été témoin, ne pourraient se produire nulle part ailleurs dans le monde, si ce n'est sur la terre de Palestine...
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Read this
In this picture, you see a Palestinian woman named Hadeel Al-Dahdouh. Her home was raided while she was safe with her husband and her child, who was only two years old.
They removed her hijab, placed her among men wearing only their underwear, and subjected them to severe beatings. They then dug a large pit and began burying the men alive.
When the sand reached her husband's face and he began to suffocate, she tried to remove the sand from his face to save him. They beat her so brutally that even men would struggle to endure such violence.
After that, they fired shots into the air, told her that her husband had been killed, and then released her. Today, she lives in Gaza, suffering from severe psychological trauma as a result of what she endured.
As for her husband, he was released after three months, having endured a journey of torment inside the prisons. Throughout that entire period, Hadeel lived with the agonizing belief that her husband had been killed, unaware that he was still alive.
Israel has committed filthy and savage crimes against Palestinians unlike anything the world has ever witnessed in the entire history of humanity.
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Mark Wahlberg was taking a lie detector test when he was asked if he was an Israeli agent.
His response: “I have affiliates with Mossad, yes.”
WTF?
Then they claim he was supposed to be on one of the planes that struck the World Trade Center, but claims he was so hungover that he missed the flight.
Not sure about you all, but I don’t believe in coincidences to that extreme.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Mark Wahlberg's "Mossad" response was from a 2018 Vanity Fair comedic lie detector test, treated as a joke by the interviewer. He changed his Flight 11 booking in advance for Toronto, unlike Seth MacFarlane who missed it hungover.
vanityfair.com/video/watch/ma…
bostonherald.com/2011/09/11/day…
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A plane takes off from Jordan and instead of hitting Tel Aviv, it strikes the Daraa countryside, Syria.
A plane takes off from Saudi Arabia and instead of hitting Tel Aviv, it strikes Sanaa, Yemen.
A plane takes off from Pakistan and instead of hitting Tel Aviv, it strikes Afghanistan.
What a disgrace.
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"The woman who wants to be the next head of the UN is on record, on video, “absolutely” and “categorically” rejecting the findings of UN experts" on Sudan and the UAE
Perhaps the UAE's candidate for UN Secretary-General Lana Nusseibeh "could begin by explaining why her own government has been repeatedly implicated in helping fuel the genocidal catastrophe in Sudan."
My latest piece for Zeteo on a big scandal at the UN:
zeteo.com/p/the-uae-helped-f…
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اپنے ہی لوگوں کا قتل، اپنے ہی لوگوں کو گھروں سے بے دخل کرنا، اور ان کے گھروں میں مورچے بنانا. یہ آخر کیسی محافظ فورس ہے؟ یہ تو یزیدی فورس ہے، جو اپنے ہی لوگوں کے لیے عذاب بن چکی ہے۔ 💔
#RightsMovementAJK #StandWithKashmir #humanrights #StopKillingChildren
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اب مجھے یہاں کوئی بتا دے کہ یہاں پہ تارا اور ستارہ دونوں ملے ہیں تو اس میں سے دہشت گرد کون ہے اور ہماری جو نمبر ون ہے اور نامعلوم ہے وہ کون ہے
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The @BoardofDeputies has now published an updated Employer's Guide to Jews and Judaism.
Needless to say, if you want to read the detail, feel free, but I'll save you the time.
This is NOT about tackling antisemitism at work. It's about protecting the genocidal actions of the Israeli government.
To quote directly:
"Anti-Israel activists have continuously sought to falsely portray Zionism as a genocidal movement intent on destroying the Palestinian people.”
There's nothing more to say.
Actually, I will say one more thing. The report also encourages employers to abopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which includes:
“Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
I'll agree to that. The Nazis never managed to infiltrate the British government.
WE ARE FUCKING OCCUPIED!
@andyburnham @UKLabour @ZackPolanski @jeremycorbyn
#GazaGenocide #FreePalestine
Government welcomes Board of Deputies Employer's Guide to Jews and Judaism as new edition is launched at national antisemitism conference.
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The quote attributed directly to the Board of Deputies Employer's Guide does not appear in the document. bod.org.uk/wp-content/upl… bod.org.uk/bod-news/board…
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Leaked comments reveal Mossad provoked mass Iranian arrests to protect covert agents
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Former Mossad director David Barnea claims that Israeli intelligence deliberately publicized video footage of covert operations inside Iran to trigger mass arrests, using Iranian citizens to shield its actual operational network.
According to leaked comments published by The Jerusalem Post and video footage verified by Yedioth Ahronoth, Barnea admitted during a closed-door address at the Priority Summit that the Israeli spy agency intentionally released real-time footage during the June 2025 military confrontation to overwhelm Iranian security forces.
Barnea explained that Mossad sought to provoke sweeping detentions so that Iranian counterintelligence "wouldn't be able to distinguish the wheat from the chaff.".
The former intelligence chief claims that a vast majority of those swept up by Iranian authorities under espionage charges had no operational connection to Mossad.
This claims mean that Israel intentionally manufactured conditions designed to spark systemic panic within Iran, and that Israeli intelligence calculatedly exposed ordinary Iranian citizens to potential detention to preserve its own intelligence assets working covertly within Iran.
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Apparently ports all around the world are refusing to load Israeli goods to be exported, what makes me sick it takes a load of wonderful workers called dockers to put the screws on this genocidal race of crazies instead of politicians, hold your fucking heads in shame
