The Other Samara
@theothersamara.bsky.social
She/her. MTL/GLA, Jewish queer immigrant, eng/fr/עברית/יידיש. Activities: death/funeral work, drawing, snacking. Likes: spooky things, sea creatures, Murder She Wrote.
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Labour has to go. Immediately.
"Outside of the most exceptional circumstances family reunion, will not be possible [for refugees]" Shabana Mahmood tells MPs
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Labour has to go. Immediately.
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Labour leaders seem perfectly capable of creativity as long as it involves cruelty. Ask them to adopt a fraction of this to help fix this country and they are suddenly out of ideas.
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Labour leaders seem perfectly capable of creativity as long as it involves cruelty. Ask them to adopt a fraction of this to help fix this country and they are suddenly out of ideas.
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Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Hey the Nazis did this to my grandparents so this sounds cool @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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The resonances of this are almost too dark to be accidental.
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The resonances of this are almost too dark to be accidental.
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in the production of Western ideologies & systems of dominance. I appreciated the way Hebh Jamal frames ‘Jewish supremacy’ within these broader Western systems open.substack.com/pub/hebhjama...
Zionism, Jewish Supremacy, Imperialism in the German context
The threat of our movement inching to the right means we must have solid framing and understandings of anti-colonial struggles.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
in the production of Western ideologies & systems of dominance. I appreciated the way Hebh Jamal frames ‘Jewish supremacy’ within these broader Western systems open.substack.com/pub/hebhjama...
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it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them
They must be proud with this endorsement, they worked hard for it.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them
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To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.
Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans
Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.
www.independent.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
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It’s old hat by now but it needs reiterating that the fact that so much of the internationalist fascist resurgence specifically targets immigrants and trans people because their very existence is a threat to the fascist ontology of imposed ‘natural’ categories of sex and nation
November 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It’s old hat by now but it needs reiterating that the fact that so much of the internationalist fascist resurgence specifically targets immigrants and trans people because their very existence is a threat to the fascist ontology of imposed ‘natural’ categories of sex and nation
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An important report at @972mag.com, highlighting the consequences of state-backed, settler violence.
projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
The lives and bodies forever scarred by Israeli state-backed settler violence
Attacks on Palestinians across the West Bank have surged to record levels, with Israeli settlers and soldiers operating in near-total symbiosis. Victims of shootings, beatings, and stonings reveal the...
projects.972mag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An important report at @972mag.com, highlighting the consequences of state-backed, settler violence.
projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
projects.972mag.com/portraits-se...
Good stuff in here, apart from the wrong declaration that Benjamin Disraeli was "openly Jewish", which undercuts its point. (Disraeli was in fact Anglican and had been since childhood, he just faced racism for his entire career due to his Jewish ancestry, and he occasionally addressed it.)
In this week's Pickle, editor Alexandra Diamond-Rivlin considers what's in a name – and the link between Greens leader Zack Polanski's Jewishness, progressive policies, and the antisemitism he has received from the British press. www.vashtimedia.com/greens-zack-...
A Green by any other name
Zack Polanski couldn't have foreseen the antisemitism he'd experience in politics. But his name change at 18 shows his lifelong commitment to standing as himself, and with minorities everywhere.
www.vashtimedia.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Good stuff in here, apart from the wrong declaration that Benjamin Disraeli was "openly Jewish", which undercuts its point. (Disraeli was in fact Anglican and had been since childhood, he just faced racism for his entire career due to his Jewish ancestry, and he occasionally addressed it.)
As someone who'd been through it, I can confirm this.
We are one of the most petty, miserable, mean-spirited, spiteful little islands in the world. The process we force these people through is already dehumanising and a stain on the moral character of us all.
And this ghoul thinks it is too generous.
I'm gonna lose it.
news.sky.com/story/home-s...
And this ghoul thinks it is too generous.
I'm gonna lose it.
news.sky.com/story/home-s...
Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms
In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.
news.sky.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
As someone who'd been through it, I can confirm this.
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www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p... C’est odieux. La CAQ fait du chantage en menaçant les plus vulnérables des vulnérables. Soit, le fédéral doit rembourser Québec, mais couper l’aide sociale, c’est condamner ces personnes à l’itinérance ou au travail au noir. #réfugiés #polcan @npd.ca
Demandeurs d’asile | Québec veut couper l’aide sociale à ceux qui ne trouvent pas d’emploi
Le gouvernement caquiste veut couper le chèque d’aide sociale des demandeurs d’asile qui ne trouvent pas d’emploi pour qu’ils quittent le Québec. S’il n’en tient qu’au ministre Jean-François Roberge, ...
www.lapresse.ca
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p... C’est odieux. La CAQ fait du chantage en menaçant les plus vulnérables des vulnérables. Soit, le fédéral doit rembourser Québec, mais couper l’aide sociale, c’est condamner ces personnes à l’itinérance ou au travail au noir. #réfugiés #polcan @npd.ca
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Oh yeah dude it would be terrible if Israel started colonising the West Bank, something that thankfully has not already been happening for several decades
As Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visits Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron warns that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would constitute a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction.
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rfi.my/CB1F.BS
Macron warns Israel over West Bank annexation during Abbas Paris visit
French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Tuesday that any Israeli plans for annexation in the West Bank would constitute a “red line” and would provoke a European reaction. He spoke as Palestinian…
rfi.my
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Oh yeah dude it would be terrible if Israel started colonising the West Bank, something that thankfully has not already been happening for several decades
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After two years of complicity, Labour wants to be a peace-maker in Gaza. The British people won’t forget its crimes and see right through its performative concern for Palestinian prosperity, writes Vashti contributing writer Hamza Yusuf. www.vashtimedia.com/labour-sinis...
Labour's sinister double game
The government wants us to forget its crimes as it plays peace-maker in Gaza.
www.vashtimedia.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
After two years of complicity, Labour wants to be a peace-maker in Gaza. The British people won’t forget its crimes and see right through its performative concern for Palestinian prosperity, writes Vashti contributing writer Hamza Yusuf. www.vashtimedia.com/labour-sinis...
Good thing Prime Minister Hot Dog Guy is on the case.
@athenakugblenu.bsky.social @marcusjdl.bsky.social shared without comment! 😭 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Good thing Prime Minister Hot Dog Guy is on the case.
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"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"The soldiers who agreed to talk confirmed the IDF’s routine use of human shields, contradicting official denials, and gave details of Israeli troops opening fire unprovoked on civilians racing to reach food handouts..." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Eleven THOUSAND disappeared
Over 11,000 Palestinians from Gaza, mostly women and children, have disappeared since October 7. Their relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, trapped under rubble or detained in Israeli prisons — but they’re desperate to find answers.
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/search-gaza-...
The search for Gaza's missing
Over 11,000 Palestinians have disappeared since Oct. 7. Relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, under rubble or in prison.
www.972mag.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Eleven THOUSAND disappeared
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The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The ability of the far right to insist that their views - trans people are lying perverts, climate change is a hoax, immigrants are all thieving, raping scum - are necessarily legitimate & must be given a hearing is already a vast victory for forms of extremism beyond the pale not long ago.
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Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Scrap the Bathroom Ban
🚨This is urgent🚨
Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...
actionnetwork.org
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Heads up 😅
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc
📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++
Template here!
If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗
actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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I personally don’t think the state should intrude into the provide decision to fire workers on the side of anti-trans bigots in ways that naturally open the floodgates to the state protecting anti-Muslim bigots, etc. especially in a way that inverts the Equality Act 2010
This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men.
This will be used to abuse.
This will be used to abuse.
November 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I personally don’t think the state should intrude into the provide decision to fire workers on the side of anti-trans bigots in ways that naturally open the floodgates to the state protecting anti-Muslim bigots, etc. especially in a way that inverts the Equality Act 2010
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Olive Harvest - Israeli settlers, protected by the IDF attacked Palestinian journalists and international activists today in #Beita near #Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
There are reports of multiple injuries, some serious. Vicious settler attacks are taking place all across the West Bank.
There are reports of multiple injuries, some serious. Vicious settler attacks are taking place all across the West Bank.
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Donate directly to the residents of Umm Al-Khair:
chuffed.org/project/fund...
chuffed.org/project/fund...
Fundraiser for the Palestinian community of Umm Al-Khair
The financial situation in the West Bank is dire, especially for small communities who have for decades relied on shepherding and agriculture for a living but trying to do so today poses a direct life...
chuffed.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Donate directly to the residents of Umm Al-Khair:
chuffed.org/project/fund...
chuffed.org/project/fund...
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As is usual in the UK, it is considered worse to *call* someone racist than to be racist.
I have fallen out with MANY people (friends!) over the years about this.
Folk who consider themselves unimpeachable, and go ballistic when you point out that something they did or said was kind of shitty.
I have fallen out with MANY people (friends!) over the years about this.
Folk who consider themselves unimpeachable, and go ballistic when you point out that something they did or said was kind of shitty.
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
As is usual in the UK, it is considered worse to *call* someone racist than to be racist.
I have fallen out with MANY people (friends!) over the years about this.
Folk who consider themselves unimpeachable, and go ballistic when you point out that something they did or said was kind of shitty.
I have fallen out with MANY people (friends!) over the years about this.
Folk who consider themselves unimpeachable, and go ballistic when you point out that something they did or said was kind of shitty.
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Imagine a country where hundreds of thousands of legal permanent residents find stripped of their status and forced to reapply for their right to remain. Many no longer meet the criteria, plunged into illegality, subject to deportation.
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
Britain Is Having the World’s Most Extreme Immigration Debate
The British discourse makes even the Trump administration look moderate.
foreignpolicy.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Imagine a country where hundreds of thousands of legal permanent residents find stripped of their status and forced to reapply for their right to remain. Many no longer meet the criteria, plunged into illegality, subject to deportation.
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/05/b...
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Oh well what do they know
“The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,”
Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Oh well what do they know