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Chris
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🐝 Manchester, UK. Gamer, Geek, Socialist ✊🏼
#FreePalestine
Around a thousand actually took part today, the police were overwhelmed and couldn't arrest everyone before the scheduled end of the protest 😅

It's a shambles, the UN is condemning Britain as undemocratic, it's all a huge waste of taxpayer money and police resources, Yvette Cooper needs to resign
August 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I think we can both agree that hate crimes are bad and that Jews shouldn't face antisemitic attacks, but I don't see how that justifies or is linked in any way to the violence inflicted by Israeli forces on Palestinian children.
August 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The vast majority of Palestinians I talk to advocate for a single secular state, where people should be free to practice any (or no) religion.

Partition, with Jews having one state & Muslims/Christians having another has lead to 77 years of war.

A single state seems the only route to peace
August 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The United Nations report on sexual violence committed by Israeli forces dated 22nd April 2025 details the evidence.

A report from Save the Children dated 10th July 2023 also documents sexual violence faced by Palestinian children in Israeli jails.
August 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
How many had their villages torched? How many families displaced to refugee camps? How many fled Palestine never to be allowed back by the Israeli occupation? How many Palestinian children have been raped or beaten in Israeli custody?

'Catastrophe' doesn't always mean death
August 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I agree that people have the freedom to believe what they want, I just don't agree that beliefs give them a right to occupy someone else's land.

Zionism as a concept of a Jewish homeland isn't an issue, it's the reality that it's manifested into which is occupation, apartheid, and genocide
August 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Should someone have a right to believe that God promised them an area of land inhabited by others and that they have a right to occupy that land and ethnically cleanse those who are not "God's chosen people"?

Most would disagree that religion should grant that right to anyone
August 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I can't spot the "New World Order" text you mention, which I think is the point I'm making here, at first glance, it doesn't look antisemitic - even if after a deeper look it is
August 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The pyramid with an eye on it appears on US bank notes so that's what I immediately thought of. The scene to me looks to represent capitalists playing a game, being held up by those they oppress. That's my first impression, so I could forgive anyone else coming to the same conclusion.
August 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As I remember it, he made a very brief comment saying he couldn't see anything offensive when shown a photo of the mural, and later rolled back those comments after taking a closer look.

On first glance I think that's understandable? What immediately stands out as antisemitic?
August 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Corbyn was one of the first MPs to really push for LGBTQ+ rights, and you'd struggle to find many in parliament who have campaigned so hard for trans rights, so I can't really take that interpretation seriously.

I think also the world has caught up with regards to antizionism not being antisemitism
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I think you'd struggle to find a political party in the UK where none of their members had at some point expressed a view that could be interpreted as homophobic/transphobic.

Jeremy & Zarah have always been very outspoken on supporting LGBTQ+ rights (Jeremy was doing it long before it was popular)
August 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I tried not to get too hyped about this game, but it is literally so good!!
July 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Democracy is being rapidly eroded in the UK. Amnesty International, Save the Children, even the ICJ have declared that what is happening in Gaza could plausibly be called a genocide, but if you say it on the streets of Britain you face arrest under the terrorism act and up to 14 years in prison!
July 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM