tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101310502024-03-15T10:17:32.612+00:00BobFromBrockleySolidarity with democratic revolutions worldwide | South London subcultural arcana | unearthing political confusionism | triangulating two-state, one-state and no-state solutions | critical diaspora culture | anti-antisemitism | Sylvia Pankhurst, Hannah Arendt, Bayard Rustin and W.E.B. Du Bois | dub, grime, country, soul and blues.bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger2406125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-67239413853464035592024-03-15T10:17:00.010+00:002024-03-15T10:17:00.131+00:00From Bob's archive: Three notes on the 2008 financial crisis<p> <i>A long time ago, I used to regularly schedule reposts of some of the better old content on my blog whenever I was switching off for a couple of weeks. Nowadays, I've more or less switched off for several months, but in 2024 I'm trying to schedule at least one post from the archive a month. When I did it before, I had reached 2008 in my archive, so I've decided to pick up again there. </i></p><p><i>This is an extract from <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2008/10/blogging-credit-crunch.html" target="_blank">an October 2008 post on the credit crunch</a>. I've edited it slightly to bring out some of the key points, as I think that what happened in 2008 helps explain the victories of the right in the US and the UK in 2016, at a time when </i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i2.wp.com/blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/files/2018/02/bankers.jpg?ssl=1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="750" height="241" src="https://i2.wp.com/blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/files/2018/02/bankers.jpg?ssl=1" width="400" /></a></div><b>1. </b>Most British commentators blame the credit crunch on the American sub-prime mortgage market. This in turn implies blame on either (or both of) the banks for profligate lending and the "delinquent" poorer householders who really oughtn't to be homeowners. The reality, however, is that people get mortgages on the assumption of a steady increase in their earnings over time, so that paying out the same amount month by month will get easier, which had been a fairly reliable assumption for some time.<p></p><div><b>In Bush's America, however, there has been a dramatic drop in wages, in both absolute and relative terms, for a huge proportion of citizens</b>, and it is this that has made sub-prime mortgages problematic. Even more striking - as <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5303590.stm#graph">this grap</a>h shows - is the growing gap between wages and productivity in America in the 2000s (especially for non-college graduates), an indicator of massive intensification of exploitation and elite abandonment of working people, who have fallen out of a zone of basic security, where even a roof over your head is no longer a reasonable expectation. Harnessing the anger and dispossession of the formerly secure waged sections of the workforce will be key to the politics of the coming period.<br /><br /><b>2. </b>The financial crisis makes clearer <b>the nature of neo-liberal globalisation</b>. To quote an <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2008/04/bird-in-hand-is-worth-two-in-bush.html">old blog post of mine</a>: contemporary forms of economic inequality are driven by what <a href="http://fatmanonakeyboard.blogspot.com/2008/04/pro-and-anti.html">Peter Ryley calls</a> "a specific model of global capitalism that was <i>not </i>based on free markets, as often stated, but on markets fixed and governed by powerful multi-lateral institutions, which were rapidly transforming societies and destroying communities". The idea, the <i>ideology</i>, of the "free market" has been powerful in the long Thatcherite years we've been going through. This has seduced some leftists into imagining we live in a world in which the nation-state is increasingly irrelevant. In fact, the financial crisis shows how dependent the corporations are on the nation-states, and on the multi-lateral institutions which the states anchor. Neo-liberal states don't just provide security for their "free" competition, but bail them out when it goes wrong. <i>Risks are socialised while gains are privatised. </i>The propping up of big finance by states and multi-lateral institutions will lead to distrust of these institutions among those affected that might benefit a populist backlash - but will this distrust be channelled into false "libertarian" narratives that will ultimately benefit capitalism, or into social democratic forms of intervention that provide a safety net for people instead of corporations?<br /> <br /><b>3.</b> The crisis shows that <b>Marxism remains a useful - indeed essential - tool for understanding the world</b>. I don't fully understand Marx's theory of the <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1894-c3/ch13.htm">falling rate of profit</a>, which he took from Adam Smith and other classical economists, and I know that most mainstream economists and many Marxists no longer fully accept it. It is nicely summarised <a href="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2008/10/system-tendencies.html">here</a>:<br /><br /><i>firms are required to maximize profits; they have the opportunity of introducing capital-intensive technologies that lower costs, thereby increasing profits in the short run; competition with other profit-maximizing firms pushes prices down to the new cost of production; the rising capital-labor ratio in industry creates a falling rate of profit.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://thenextrecession.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/rate-of-profit.png?w=768&h=469" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="767" height="195" src="https://thenextrecession.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/rate-of-profit.png?w=768&h=469" width="320" /></a></div><br />For Marx, this was not a "law" but a tendency: there are countervailing tendencies which offset it, like increased rates of exploitation, the globalisation of capital and the shift of money out of industry into finance. The play of these tendencies is precisely what put us where we are today. </div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-11325838552390688562024-02-20T10:07:00.003+00:002024-02-20T10:07:55.484+00:00From Bob's archive: The Miner's strike at 40<p><i>I've not managed to keep this blog going lately, so I'm going to try to schedule post from the archive once a month, so it stays warm even if I don't get back to it. The original post here <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2009/03/miners-strike.html" target="_blank">was published in 2009</a>, towards the end of our last Labour government, on the 25th anniversary of the Miner's Strike. I brought it out again <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2014/03/from-bobs-archive-miners-strike-at-30.html" target="_blank">a decade ago</a>, on the 30th anniversary of the strike, towards the end of the first Cameron government. I've dusted it off a little bit, but it feels more relevant than ever now, after a decade and half of renewed Tory destruction of post-industrial communities and the right's cynical weaponisation of the "left behind" - people who were left behind, first and foremost, by capitalism and by Thatcherite economics. </i></p><p><b>2014</b></p><p>Yesterday was Budget Day, and our <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/ToryWatch" target="_blank">Tory </a>government gave us a penny of a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584700/Let-play-bingo-Tories-fire-condescending-advert-highlighting-Budget-beer-bingo-tax-cuts-things-enjoy.html" target="_blank">pint of beer and reduced tax on Bingo</a>, claiming this was "to help hardworking people [note how "hardworking" has become a single word under the Tories, their austerity policy even extending to dashes and spaces] do more of the things they enjoy", the keyword being "they". Meanwhile, in London, <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/BorisWatch" target="_blank">Mayor Boris Johnson</a> approved the use of <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-mayor-boris-johnson-backs-met-in-bid-for-water-cannon-9201618.html" target="_blank">watercannon against disorder</a> in the capital, presumably for when us hardworking people are no longer sufficiently distracted by beer and bingo. </p><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">In the morning of budget day, <a href="https://audioboo.fm/boos/2002626-the-easington-miners-strike-30-years-on" target="_blank">BBC Radio 4 were in Easington</a>, County Durham, talking to ex-miners in a place where there have been three decades of job losses, a place where people are not feeling the economic "recovery" the Cameron government has promised us. It was heart-breaking listening. My comrade Harry Barnes <a href="http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=Easington" target="_blank">has written about</a> Easington colliery; <a href="http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/in-memory-of-my-father.html" target="_blank">his father </a>moved there in 1912 and when he died there 84 years later when the pit had been three years closed. Here's an extract from Harry's post:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Although Easington went through some tough pioneering years, by the time the 1931 economic depression broke and my father was 22 the population (of Easington Colliery and adjoining Easington Village combined) had reached 12,000. This meant that even with relative impoverishment it established a range of shops, cinemas, clubs, pubs, churches, chapels, schools and Miners' Welfare facilities. The Miners' Federation was committed to building Aged Miners' Homes and providing medical facilities, whilst the Labour Council embarked upon Council House building. It meant that although my father did not have an easy life, he had a full life. These fulfilments need to be appreciated if we are to put the harsh aspects of his life in perspective.</blockquote>The songs below are by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/folksinger43" target="_blank">Ed Pickford</a>, also from County Durham, who turned seventy [in 2013. I think he's still alive now in 2024, and you can read a wonderful post about him by Colin Randall <a href="https://www.salutlive.com/2022/12/song-of-the-year-pitmen-poets-and-ed-pickfords-workers-song.html" target="_blank">here</a>.]</div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><b>2009</b></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/uWltt97n9Xk?si=EX_Y8gHiiME5gDra" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uWltt97n9Xk/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe> </div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on">It’s Monday night, and I’ve been watching <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078ntp" style="color: #193964; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">BBC4’s documentary on the Miners’ Strike</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.2px;">. The documentary, focusing on a small group of </span><a href="http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/hatfieldmain.htm" style="color: #193964; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Hatfield </a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.2px;">strikers, is a well made piece, and a powerful experience. Most affecting are the men, the strikers – </span><a href="http://www.minersadvice.co.uk/dave.htm" style="color: #193964; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Dave Douglass</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.2px;">, </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3414723.stm" style="color: #193964; line-height: 18.2px; text-decoration-line: none;">Dave Nixon</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.2px;">, Harry Harle, Tony Clegg, Mick Mulligan: incredibly articulate, intelligent, reflective. They relate the stories with a vividness as if they are talking about yesterday, but you do not have the sense that these are stories they have told again and again. And they have an extraordinary nobility about them. It is palpable the extent to which the experience transformed them completely, how the hatred tempered them, how much courage it took to get through it, particularly as the strike came to an end and defeat became inevitable, a shameful, humiliating defeat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.2px;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"></div>Also clear is the level of solidarity and community that was present in the pit villages before the strike, and which also strengthened by the strike. As two of the men suggest, Thatcher’s victory over the miners was partly a victory for individualism over community. Thatcher’s successors like to point to our working class communities and the social fragmentation there – “Broken Britain”; but what broke these places? Thatcher’s war on the unions, with the confrontation with the miners as the central theatre of battle,<a href="http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/in-memory-of-my-father.html"> broke the institutions of self-help and mutual aid</a>, destroyed <a href="http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/in-memory-of-my-father.html">the culture of solidarity that bound such villages</a>, devastated a working class moral economy which sustained these communities.<div><br />The fact that this was a <a href="http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2009/03/06/enemy-within/">war </a>is also brought home by the film. I don’t think that people younger than me can really appreciate how clearly the lines were drawn, how divided Britain was. The picket lines were incredibly violent, with most of the violence coming from the police, especially the Metropolitan police, who acted as an occupying military force in communities such as Hatfield.<br /><br />And this violence was linked to the way the police protected the fascist National Front in confrontations such as <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/search/label/Battle%20of%20Lewisham">Lewisham ’77</a>; it was connected to the troubles in Northern Ireland, to the uprisings in many of Britain’s inner cities, to the violence on other picketlines (most notably at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute">Wapping</a>), to the clampdown on travelling and festival cultures (most importantly at the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OOew1UAT3k">Battle of the Beanfield</a>). Britain was essentially in a state of civil war.<br /><br />Although I am at the younger end of the Miners’ Strike generation, it was that moment which shaped me politically, which therefore made me who I am today. This is brought home to me by the visceral way, a quarter century on, that I find myself responding to this documentary. It strikes me now that – with the signal exception of the part we played in defeating the poll tax and getting Thatcher deposed at the end of the decade – all of the battles I’ve been heavily involved in have been defeated: the campaigns against the next round of pit closures in 1992, against student loans, against successive immigration and asylum bills, against the Criminal Justice Act, and so on. At the turn of the century, before I started blogging, I was a fan of the now defunct blog <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/socialism-in-age-of-waiting-i.html">Socialism in an Age of Waiting</a>. The title, taken from Victor Serge, captured my imagination. Thatcher's revolution was almost total. The working class movement that fought so hard in 1984 barely staggers on. What does radical politics mean in such a time?<div><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/B99IOWBUtHg?si=NRxLl3yb5DBkUfLS" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B99IOWBUtHg/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div></div><div><br /></div><div>***</div><div><br /></div><div>Recommended watching [2024]: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wm1x/miners-strike-a-frontline-story" target="_blank">The Miner's Strike, a frontline story</a>.</div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-29753002540699677772024-01-31T12:30:00.125+00:002024-01-31T12:30:00.130+00:00It's my 19th birthday<p><i>Or, more precisely, it's the 19th birthday of this blog. Maybe next year I'll write some kind of reflection on this wild two decade ride (<a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2015/01/10th-bloggiversary.html" target="_blank">here </a>was what I wrote on the 10th birthday) but for now, some of the reviews I've had over the years. Some of my favourites are in bold.</i></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;">a slight whiff of Spartishness - <a href="https://christianaidwatch.blogspot.com/2007/12/did-you-hear-one-about-archbishop.html" target="_blank">Mr Grumpy, 2007</a></span></p><p>has index carded his record collection. Back in the day he was more of a Charlie Gillett groupie than a John Peel groupie. Been known to not only buy CDs that have been reviewed in the New Internationalist, but he's also been known to listen said CDs voluntarily. - <a href="https://invereskstreet.blogspot.com/2008/06/7-bloggers-7-songs-7-links.html" target="_blank">Inveresk Street Ingrate, 2008</a><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Bob From Brockley </span><b>should have his ankles severed</b><span style="background-color: white;">. - </span><a href="https://archive.ph/XBeGQ#selection-343.18-343.67" target="_blank">Richard Seymour, 2009</a></p><p>his blog ranks as OK rather than outstanding although we're not quite able to put our finger on why. - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100116072633/http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/bobfrombrockley-$1324417.htm" target="_blank">politics.co.uk, 2009</a></p><p>has apparent sympathies for Antifa... identifies himself as a Marxist and states on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bobfrombrockley">his profile page</a> that he “supports antifa in combating fascism in both word and action.”- Breitbart, 2017</p><div><p><b> lynchpin of the principled left blogosphere </b>- Matt Bolton and Harry Pitts, <i><a href="https://www.frederickharrypitts.com/corbynism-a-critical-approach" target="_blank">Corbynism: A crtitical approach</a>, </i>2018<br /><br />a <b>relatively influential blogger and tweeter among liberal interventionist types</b> - <a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/45023" target="_blank">Ian Sinclair, <i>Morning Star</i>, 2018</a></p><p>Ms Ali-Khan breached the Warby Undertaking and Eady Undertakings by:- 16.1. On 9 December 2017 publishing or causing to be published online, by way of retweeting a tweet from the Twitter user “Bob from Brockley”, a tweet entitled “NEW POST: Eight reasons Galloway shouldn’t be allowed back into Labour” which linked to a blog which contained various allegations against Mr Galloway, including that he “belonged on the far right”, was “a rape apologist”, a “bully” and a “shill for dictators”. - <a href="https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/coc-ali-khan.pdf" target="_blank">George Galloway's lawyer, 2018</a></p><p>has the patience of a saint - <a href="https://archive.ph/MOkfq" target="_blank">Josie Ensor, 2019</a></p><p>The <i>Telegraph’s </i>[Josie] Ensor has also suggested in a tweet that her followers should follow “Bob from Brockley” who is a fervent supporter of the ‘opposition’ to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and strong opponent of those journalists and antiwar activists who dare to reveal the deliberate regime change nature of the conflict in Syria.- Sheila Combes, 21st Century Wire, 2019</p>a supporter of the Syrian opposition in the Syrian conflict and refers to militant groups in the Idlib province, all of which are now affiliated with the terror group al-Nusra Front (now Hayat Tahrir al-Sham), as “moderate Islamist” groups - Whitney Webb, MintPress, 2019<p><b>advances an anarcho-neoconservative ideology</b>, obsessively attacking left-wing anti-war journalists and scholars as “Stalinists” while aggressively supporting Western regime-change efforts in China, Russia, Syria, Libya, and beyond. BobfromBrockley even defends US-backed Venezuelan coup leader <a href="http://archive.vn/OZao8">Juan Guaidó</a>, while echoing right-wing propaganda demonizing elected President <a href="http://archive.vn/9QoC0">Nicolás Maduro</a>. - Ben Norton, The Grayzone/GlobalResearch, 2020</p><p>promotes political violence, so long as it is only used against “fascists” and “Nazis” (oh, and anyone against the Israeli state…like many Jews, he is a fervent supporter of Israel). - Ian R Millard, <a href="https://antisemitism.org/neo-nazi-barrister-ian-millard-is-disbarred-by-tribunal-for-antisemitic-tweets/" target="_blank">former barrister</a>, 2020<br /><br />hails from Lewisham, has an iPhone, likes obscure music and Marxist authors, listens to Resonance FM and eats bagels with cream chees. - Philip Watson, 2020 <br /></p><p>that <b>irritating and unpleasant Jew</b>... basically a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish account on Twitter, though posing as “socialist” and pro-Labour Party, specializing in the pathetic and outworn slogans of the “socialist” past: “<i>non pasaran!</i>”, “<i>Never Again!</i>“, “<i>Venceremos!</i>” etc. - Ian R Millard, 2021</p><p><b>Full-time neocon online troll</b>..., pro-Israel advocate and regime-change lobbyist - Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton, The Grayzone, 2021</p><p><b>notorious Jew Twitter-troll... with a fake “socialist” tinge</b>. - Ian R Millard, 2023</p><div><b>Jew-Zionist fanatic </b>[who] seems to spend much of his time “reporting” or denouncing non-Jews (almost exclusively) to anyone who might listen. - Ian R Millard, 2023</div></div><div><br /></div><div>far-right Svoboda-linked activist - Ivan Katchanovski, 2023<br /></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-56784749767515340562023-11-12T00:11:00.007+00:002023-11-12T10:44:31.982+00:00October to November: Israel/Gaza readings III<p><i>In this third edition, we get a little deeper than previous editions, pushing in to some key controversies, such as around terms like "genocide", "pogrom", "settler colonialism", and "ceasefire" and on the nature of Hamas. For the whole series, click <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/search/label/Gaza%202023" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFb7ulqeYEGDnDPzD4fiHQNViacrbLYn-iX0mSuibcMXIa78q1aCRLF-SNAUmrbhlrCrgbOAt4DYOXIhj5OvtV-sywzrzFeOyOXLRuiuGD9FlgGL5P1jJSbgvdVsqV7gZVLWc9GixcMWLQ_fgwWNvtriiwJPrOYHtEyQwc0eZQa6nTLpyghKw/s750/750px-Israel-Palestine_button.svg.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaFb7ulqeYEGDnDPzD4fiHQNViacrbLYn-iX0mSuibcMXIa78q1aCRLF-SNAUmrbhlrCrgbOAt4DYOXIhj5OvtV-sywzrzFeOyOXLRuiuGD9FlgGL5P1jJSbgvdVsqV7gZVLWc9GixcMWLQ_fgwWNvtriiwJPrOYHtEyQwc0eZQa6nTLpyghKw/w200-h200/750px-Israel-Palestine_button.svg.png" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Statements</b></h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.ourjewishvalues.org.uk/" target="_blank">Our Jewish Values </a>- important and wise statement by UK Jewish rabbis and communal leaders for peace and a two-state solution</li><li>Ukrainian left <a href="https://commons.com.ua/en/ukrayinskij-list-solidarnosti/" target="_blank">statement of solidarity with the people of Palestine</a></li><li>Israeli sociologists and their allies <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDcAdTIB2Fz6RdyX0_S-qdq_Jv0wVDyZTWZCo8blvhbO3C2A/viewform" target="_blank">respond to a sociologists' open letter for Gaza </a> </li><li>One month after October 7: <a href="https://jstreet.org/one-month-since-october-7/" target="_blank">J-Street statement</a></li><li>A letter from Berlin: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sZ5Nt0-VoCFwOKauIJQxks7XWLcEAMQ5s-X8JnnmqUQ/edit" target="_blank">critical scholars address the German public sphere</a></li><li>Leaving letter to DSA <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/176781/open-letter-why-leaving-democratic-socialists-america?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR" target="_blank">by 24 long-time members</a></li></ul><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Analysis and terminology</b></h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Martin Shaw on <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-uses-and-abuses-of-the-term-genocide-in-gaza/" target="_blank">the uses and abuses of the term genocide in relation to Gaza </a>(6 November)</li><li>Genocide scholar Omer Bartov argues <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html" target="_blank">against the claim that what is happening in Gaza is genocide but warns of potential for genocide and that it might be a war crime)</a> (10 November) [<a href="https://archive.is/XNrpa" target="_blank">archived</a>]</li><li>Dov Waxman <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/letters/on-a-textbook-case-of-genocide" target="_blank">responds to Raz Segal's "Textbook case of Genocide" in <i>Jewish Currents</i></a></li><li>Maxim Pensky on <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-settlers-can-do-whatever-they-want-with-us" target="_blank">who is committing genocide in the Middle East</a> (17 October)</li><li>Uriel Abulof: <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4288925-colonialism-apartheid-interrogating-the-language-of-israel-palestine/#:~:text=Interrogating%20the%20language%20of%20Israel%2DPalestine,-by%20Uriel%20Abulof&text=The%20first%20casualty%20of%20war,much%20truth%20do%20they%20hold%3F" target="_blank">‘Colonialism’? ‘Apartheid’? Interrogating the language of Israel-Palestine </a>(2 November)</li><li>Alan Johnson on <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1723029073151049856.html">the term "settler colonialism"</a> (10 November)</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Reportage</b></h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/author/mohammad-matar">Mohammad Matar</a> on <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-settlers-can-do-whatever-they-want-with-us" target="_blank">settler violence in the West Bank</a> (25 October)</li><li>If it's not helping, then shut the F up: <a href="https://theconnector.substack.com/p/if-its-not-helping-then-shut-the" target="_blank">Micah L Sifry on Standing Together</a> (8 November)</li><li>Arwa Damon on <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-gaza-war-is-traumatizing-a-whole-new-generation-on-both-sides/" target="_blank">how the conflict is traumatising a whole new generation, on both sides </a>(3 November)</li><li>Testimonies from Gaza <a href="https://k-larevue.com/en/living-in-gaza-under-the-rule-of-hamas/" target="_blank">of life under Hamas rule</a> (3 November)</li></ul><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Responding to right-wing instrumentalisation of the conflict</b></h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Jonathan Freedland <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/10/suella-braverman-jewish-muslim-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank">on Suella Braverman and the others who seek to exploit Jewish and Muslim pain </a>(10 November)</li><li>Dimi Reider on <a href="https://thelead.uk/douglas-murray-co-are-no-allies-jews" target="_blank">why Douglas Murray and his ilk are no allies to Jews </a>(10 November)</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;"><b>Responding to left-wing ta</b></span><b style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">kes</b></h4><div><ul><li>Mitchell Abidor on <a href="https://k-larevue.com/en/about-the-reaction-of-the-american-left/" target="_blank">US left responses</a> (9 November) [<a href="https://k-larevue.com/la-faillite-morale-de-ma-gauche-une-vue-des-etats-unis/" target="_blank">FR</a>]</li><li>Martin Thomas <a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-11-07/against-bans-against-slippery-slogans" target="_blank">against bans, but against slippery slogans </a>(7 November)</li><li>David Schraub on <a href="https://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2023/11/when-good-slogans-go-bad-or-legitimate.html?m=1" target="_blank">legitimate slogans used to taunt</a> (10 November) (actually, browse David's <a href="https://dsadevil.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">entire blog</a>)</li><li>Jon Lansman on <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics-interview/2023/11/jon-lansman-what-the-left-gets-wrong-about-israel" target="_blank">what the left gets wrong about Israel</a> (8 November) </li><li>Ni patries, ni frontieres: <a href="https://npnf.eu/spip.php?article1095" target="_blank">three texts in English on the French left and Hamas</a> (10-29 October)</li><li>Carly Pildis on <a href="https://jstreet.org/one-month-since-october-7/" target="_blank">left-wing calls for ceasefire </a>(2 November)</li></ul></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;"><b>Responding to far right entrism in the anti-Israel movement</b></span></h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Kiera Butler on <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/stew-peters-far-right-support-palestine/" target="_blank">the far right's big lie of Palestine support </a>(25 October)</li><li>It's Going Down on <a href="https://itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazi-groups-are-attempting-to-worm-their-way-into-rallies-against-the-war-on-gaza/" target="_blank">neo-Nazi infiltration of marches </a>(30 October)</li><li>Ben Lorber on <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/2023/10/20/advisory-no-nazis-our-streets" target="_blank">combating far-right entryism in Palestine solidarity protests </a>(20 October)</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;"><b>On antisemitism</b></span></h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Historian David Feldman on <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/where-does-antisemitism-come-from" target="_blank">antisemitism and the current crisis</a> (7 November) [<a href="https://archive.is/Ju8ww" target="_blank">archive</a>]</li><li>Brendan McGeever and David Feldman on <a href="https://vashtimedia.com/2023/11/09/issues/antisemitism/hamas-israel-pogrom-antisemitism/" target="_blank">slaughter and solidarity </a>(9 November)</li><li>Sina Arnold on <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/sina-arnold-ueber-antisemitismus-debatte-ich-bin-extrem-pessimistisch-a-55423574-6537-4a47-bf9f-51dca1024591" target="_blank">antisemitism and projection in Germany</a> (28 October)</li></ul></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Personal reflection</b></h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Linda Grant on <a href="https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/63899/my-people-are-once-again-at-the-sharp-end-of-history" target="_blank">being a British Jew in 2023 </a>(10 November)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Dana El Kurd on <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/memory-voids-and-role-reversals/" target="_blank">memory voids and role reversals </a>- reflecting from the Jewish Museum in Berlin (1 November)</span></li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Geopolitics</span></h4><b><a href="https://links.org.au/author/saladdin-ahmed"></a></b><ul style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://links.org.au/author/saladdin-ahmed"></a></b><li><a href="https://links.org.au/author/saladdin-ahmed"></a><a href="https://links.org.au/author/saladdin-ahmed">Saladdin Ahmed</a> on <a href="https://links.org.au/turkey-erdogans-2023-neo-ottoman-imperialist-agenda-caucasus-mediterranean" target="_blank">Erdogan’s 2023 neo-Ottoman imperialist agenda, from the Caucasus to the Mediterranean</a> (19 October)</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span>Class analysis</span></h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://leserpentdemer.wordpress.com/2023/10/30/gaza-une-militarisation-extreme-de-la-guerre-de-classe-en-israel-palestine/" target="_blank">Interview with Emilio Minassian</a> (30 October) [in French]</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Audio and video</span></h4></div></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Haymarket Books webinar <a href="ana El-Kurd is a non resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington. Daria Saburova is a PhD candidate at Paris Nanterre University and is a member of the European Network of Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU). Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian left-wing activist and author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God. Ramah Kudaimi" target="_blank">"</a></span><a href="ana El-Kurd is a non resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington. Daria Saburova is a PhD candidate at Paris Nanterre University and is a member of the European Network of Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU). Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian left-wing activist and author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God. Ramah Kudaimi" target="_blank">From Ukraine to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime", with Dana El-Kurd, Daria Saburova, Joseph Daher and Ramah Kudaimi </a>(2 November)</li></ul></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Truth wars</span></h4><div><ul><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;"><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Airwars <a href="https://airwars.org/conflict/israel-and-gaza-2023/" target="_blank">assessments of civilian harm incidents in Gaza</a> </li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Euronews: <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2023/10/25/how-china-russia-and-iran-are-profiting-from-the-information-chaos-around-the-israel-hamas" target="_blank">How China, Russia and Iran are profiting from the information chaos around the Israel-Hamas war</a> (25 October)</li></span><li><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">NPR: </span></span><a href="Video game clips and old videos are flooding social media about Israel and Gaza" target="_blank">Video game clips and old videos are flooding social media about Israel and Gaza</a></li></ul></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Canela, Georgia, serif;">Resources</span></h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>An e<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18u9KYo3MvRpyI0SDqD2AzseTvuSn3S8T?fbclid=IwAR1Gkkxhmit_NRjJ3sX_GhihPDvEKIfATK-P4T4D83bbZzRCQwYLOotFEwo" target="_blank">xtraordinary massive dump of free whole books on Israel/Palestine</a> (leans anti-Zionist, but some great books here nonetheless</li></ul></div><p></p></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-33297810964407939092023-10-28T23:42:00.005+01:002023-11-11T22:35:23.338+00:00Reading/listening on Israel/Gaza, second edition<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5-y_DPXj_ZVuhvyu6BUHd_ynAsjZJPCtts4oz3aPjN0n90_p0QqsO32EGSwLmTd5koe_hwo8rb5tDjif76UC0tpZ0Qotm_DTPKZQ-dJAB8tn_X0FXqORfKE2jpn4wyrpTmkCsfMDM6GJjU7XlIJdnfMN-LLoafUWCqxSZ06z4cvCxQ7FDShh/s3377/Israel_palestine_flag_crop.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2555" data-original-width="3377" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5-y_DPXj_ZVuhvyu6BUHd_ynAsjZJPCtts4oz3aPjN0n90_p0QqsO32EGSwLmTd5koe_hwo8rb5tDjif76UC0tpZ0Qotm_DTPKZQ-dJAB8tn_X0FXqORfKE2jpn4wyrpTmkCsfMDM6GJjU7XlIJdnfMN-LLoafUWCqxSZ06z4cvCxQ7FDShh/w200-h151/Israel_palestine_flag_crop.jpg" width="200" /></a></i></div><i>Last week, I <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2023/10/reading-on-current-tragedy-in.html" target="_blank">collected together several links</a> </i><i>about <a href="https://yachad.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/October-7th-pdf-post.pdf" target="_blank">the current tragedy</a>, including statements by various left, anarchist, trade union and human rights groups, as well as personal reflections, some more detached analysis, and some useful calls to action. I started to update it, and have added some links in particular to the list of statements so they are all collected there.</i><p></p><p><i>However, I decided I have so many new ones to share that it would be good to start a new post. </i></p><p><i>Thanks as ever to those who passed these on to me, including Yves C, Jane Austen Marxist, glykosymoritis, and Roger McC. As with last time, the <b>bold </b>links are especially recommended. UPDATE: Podcast links added, thanks to Daniel M.</i></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Statements</b></h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="https://www.allmep.org/news/our-members-are-speaking-loudly-and-clearly-about-their-values/" target="_blank">Collection of statements by Alliance for Middle East Peace members</a></b></li></ul><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Personal reflections</b> </h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>"<a href="https://www.972mag.com/writer/orlyn/">Listen to Israeli survivors: They don’t want revenge</a>", by Orly Noy, 28 October (<a href="https://npnf.eu/spip.php?article1091" target="_blank">en Francais ici</a>)</li><li>"<a href="https://thebaffler.com/latest/doomsday-diaries-aziza" target="_blank">Doomsday Diaries</a>", by Sarah Aziza, 18 October</li><li><b>"<a href="https://archive.ph/MWiaW" target="_blank">What It Takes to Choose Life Over Revenge</a>", by Ayman Odeh, 19 October </b></li><li>"‘<a href="https://forward.com/opinion/565319/rabbi-angela-buchdahl-sermon-israel-hamas-war/" target="_blank">There are no words’: When what’s not said is what hurts the most</a>", by Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, 16 October </li><li><b>"<a href="https://eladnehorai.substack.com/p/this-war-isnt-inevitable" target="_blank">This war isn't inevitable</a>", by Elad Nehorai, 11 October</b></li></ul><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Thought pieces</b> </h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>"<a href="https://archive.ph/sSz07" target="_blank">Vengeful pathologies</a>", by Adam Schatz, 2 November</li><li><b>"<a href="https://www.jamesbloodworth.com/p/for-palestine-but-against-rationalisation" target="_blank">For Palestine, but against rationalisation</a>", by James Bloodworth, 26 October</b></li><li><b>"<a href="https://workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-21/us-leftist-responses-simchat-torah-massacre" target="_blank">US leftist responses to the Simchat Torah massacre</a>", by Viktor Medem, 21 October</b></li><li>"<a href="https://npnf.eu/spip.php?article1085" target="_blank">L’Holocauste comme injonction morale ? La survie et la mémoire de l’Holocauste dans le sionisme et l’antisionisme</a>", by Daniel Randall, 21 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/20/opinion/israel-hamas-911-apartheid-comparison/" target="_blank">9/11, apartheid, and other metaphors that make people misunderstand Israel and Palestine</a>", by Susie Linfield, 20 October</li><li>"<a href="https://jewishnews.co.uk/we-must-stand-with-israel-and-stand-for-justice/" target="_blank">Stand with Israel, but stand for justice</a>", by David Davidi-Brown, 20 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.ukfost.co.uk/organising-in-times-of-war" target="_blank">Organising in times of war</a>", a report from Uri Weltmann, National Field Organiser for Standing Together, 19 October</li><li>"<a href="https://npnf.eu/spip.php?article1084" target="_blank">Deux semaines de désolation</a>", by Stéphane J., 19 octobre</li><li>"‘<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-why-wont-you-condemn-hamas-why-your-allies-are-silent-and-what-to-do-about-it/" target="_blank">Why won’t you condemn Hamas?’ Why your allies are silent – and what to do about it</a>", by Deepak Malhotra, 16 October</li><li>"<a href="https://unherd.com/thepost/hamas-apologists-have-misunderstood-frantz-fanon/">Hamas apologists have misunderstood Fanon</a>", by Ralph Leonard, 15 October<br />"'<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/examples-jewish-arab-solidarity-offer-hope-israel" target="_blank">I hope it can endure’: examples of Jewish-Arab solidarity offer hope in Israel</a>", by Beth McKernan, 15 October</li><li>"<a href="https://time.com/6323730/hamas-attack-left-response/">How the activist left turned on Israel</a>", by Charlotte Alter, 14 October<br />"<a href="https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-israel-must-defeat-hamas-then-perhaps-we-can-finally-overcome-this-hate/" target="_blank">Israel must defeat Hamas, then perhaps we can learn to conquer hate</a>", by David Davidi-Brown and Hannah Weisfeld, 10 October</li></ul><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Webinars/podcasts </b></h4><div><a class="astro-HUXYRZVI" href="https://www.ukfost.co.uk/watch-webinar-with-standing-together-leaders-and-others-24-october"></a></div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.ukfost.co.uk/watch-webinar-with-standing-together-leaders-and-others-24-october">Standing Together leaders Sally Abed and Uri Weltmann participated in an online panel, along with Palestinian educator and activist Kefah Abukhdeir and Israeli teacher and activist Yael Berda (A Land for All</a>), 24 October</li><li>"<a href="https://thefirethesetimes.com/2023/10/28/special-episode-roundtable-on-israel-palestine-w-dana-el-kurd-orly-noy-and-yair-wallach/">There is Another Way</a>," with Joey Ayoub, Dana El Kurd, Orly Noy, and Yair Wallach, hosted by Daniel Voskoboyni, 28 October</li><li>"<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-loneliness-of-the-israeli-left">The Loneliness of the Israeli Left</a>", with Michael Sfard, Sally Abed and Yair Wallach, hosted by Arielle Angel, 26 October</li><li>"<a href="https://newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-geopolitics-of-the-gaza-war-with-ali-hashem-mairav-zonszein-and-aziz-alghashian/">The Geopolitics of the Gaza War</a>", with Ali Hashem, Mairav Zonszein and Aziz Alghashian, 20 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/war-in-gaza">War in Gaza</a>", with Amjad Iraqi, Michael Sfard and Adam Shatz, 17 October</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;">Practical action</h4><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.ukfost.co.uk/how-you-can-support-standing-together" target="_blank">Support Standing Together</a></li><li><a href="https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donation-details/488?gclid=Cj0KCQjw4vKpBhCZARIsAOKHoWSUjggviwJpCHw3u2DHAyXfgifdVI4eEKKsBLVvWyWEwYGI6u5jSpAaAmq5EALw_wcB" target="_blank">Medical Aid to Palestinians emergency appeal</a></li><li><a href="https://solutionsnotsides.co.uk/" target="_blank">Solutions Not Sides</a></li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Further reading</b></h4></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/14TBYSuGU5bUS2QbrOsFYfhgbjjqAeUN5DRHN5vWEjQk/edit" target="_blank">Excellent collection of resources from Yachad</a></li><li><a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2023/10/reading-on-current-tragedy-in.html" target="_blank">Previous round-up, 20 October</a></li></ul></div><p></p>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-27710128834360353132023-10-20T15:56:00.010+01:002023-11-11T22:34:19.419+00:00Reading on the current tragedy in Israel/Palestine<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJf73IfeEPYdOcqtKNMqhLOlMGxfcXgxX8zSlWytNNTwnv5s66hv-EwqMowSp23Iem5OtiBdiZ71UVpLkLREML-tb-u4BDwR3lJ_l4GPP0MasqBoxLKdulUx2AmbWe3ndPdlfLFDfKUmkWVbV35esT6SHJXsm29uvX6kXw93WW9AknieLRSXB/s2121/ispa.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="2121" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfJf73IfeEPYdOcqtKNMqhLOlMGxfcXgxX8zSlWytNNTwnv5s66hv-EwqMowSp23Iem5OtiBdiZ71UVpLkLREML-tb-u4BDwR3lJ_l4GPP0MasqBoxLKdulUx2AmbWe3ndPdlfLFDfKUmkWVbV35esT6SHJXsm29uvX6kXw93WW9AknieLRSXB/w200-h133/ispa.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div>In this post, some links relating to Hamas' Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Israeli response. Needless to say, the material linked here comes from a range of perspectives and is contradictory, so I do not endorse the content of every link. It is material that I found thought-provoking, illuminating, salutary, inspiring or otherwise useful. <p></p><p>I start with position statements by left groups and others, which may be useful if you are looking for a way of articulating a general position. All of them are flawed, but in different ways. Then there are personal reflection, some more analytical and some more emotional. Below that a little bit of analysis. And at the end some calls to action. Within each section, they're reverse chronological, so new material will start at the top of each section. I've bolded the pieces that are most worth your time.</p><p><i>Thanks to Daniel Randall whose collation for AWL of some of them (linked below) was the starting point for this post. I may update with more material. </i></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Position statements</b></h4><div><ul><li>ADDED: <a href="https://iibsa.org/statement-of-the-european-research-network-ethnic-relations-racism-and-antisemitism-against-hamas-and-in-solidarity-with-jews/" target="_blank">European Sociological Association Research Network 31 statement</a>, 27 October</li><li><b>ADDED: <a href="https://twitter.com/fguesnet/status/1716377057251205546" target="_blank">Statement by UCU union members in UCL's Jewish Studies department</a>, 23 October</b></li><li><b><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1715084452634726465.html" target="_blank">Yachad UK statement on UK protests</a>, 19 October</b></li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/statement-daam-workers-party">Statement by Da'am Workers Party, Israel</a>, 18 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-16/palestinian-trade-unions-say-stop-arming-israel">Statement of Palestinian trade unions: stop arming Israel</a>, 16 October</li><li><b><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-16/israeli-activists-call-return-politics-based-humanistic-and-universal-principles">Israeli activists call for a "return to politics based on humanistic and universal principles"</a>, 16 October</b></li><li><b><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-16/threatening-horrifying-reality-statement-women-wage-peace">"A threatening, horrifying reality": statement from Women Wage Peace</a>, 15 October</b></li><li>ADDED: "<a href="https://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2023/10/14/the-modern-leftists-must-abandon-unconditional-support-for-one-side-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/" target="_blank">Side with progressive forces in Israel and Palestine for a lasting peace</a>", by Oleksandr Bulin of SD Platform, Ukraine’s social democratic organisation, 15 October</li><li>ADDED: <a href="https://www.sfcg.org/statement-israel-gaza/" target="_blank">Statement by Search for Common Ground</a>, 14 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-13/statement-association-iranian-studies-war-israelpalestine">Statement by the Association for Iranian Studies</a>, 13 October</li><li><b><a href="https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/inside/a-joint-statement/" target="_blank">Joint statement by Mothers Against Violence, Breaking the Silence and other Israeli human rights organisations</a>, 12 October </b>(<a href="https://npnf.eu/spip.php?article1089" target="_blank">en Francais ici</a>)</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-13/statement-marksist-tutum-palestinian-people-grip-imperialist-war">"Palestinian people in the grip of imperialist war"</a>, statement by Marksist Tutum (Turkey), 12 October</li><li><a href="https://ukblm.org/news/statement-on-palestine/" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter UK statement</a>, 12 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-12/democracy-and-workers-rights-centre-palestine">From the Democracy and Workers Rights Centre, Palestine</a>, 11 October</li><li><a href="https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-statement-on-continuing-violence-in-israel-and-gaza/" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders' statement on the violence</a>, 11 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/statement-tekosina-anarsist">Statement by Têkoşîna Anarşist, Rojava (NE Syria)</a>, 11 October</li><li><b><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714317660752683282.html" target="_blank">Atlanta Antifascists statement</a>, 10 October</b></li><li><b>ADDED: "<a href="https://juivesetjuifsrevolutionnaires.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/jjr-pleure-les-mort%C2%B7es-israelien%C2%B7nes-massacre%C2%B7es-par-le-hamas-ainsi-que-les-palestinien%C2%B7nes-tue%C2%B7es-par-larmee-israelienne/" target="_blank">JJR pleure les victimes des massacres en Israël et en Palestine</a>"<b>/"<a href="https://juivesetjuifsrevolutionnaires.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/we-mourn-the-victims-of-the-massacres-in-israel-and-palestine/" target="_blank">We mourn the victims of the massacres in Israel and Palestine</a>"/"</b><a href="https://bonustracks.blackblogs.org/2023/10/12/wir-trauern-um-die-opfer-der-massaker-in-israel-und-palastina/" target="_blank">Wir Trauern Um Die Opfer Der Massaker In Israel UndPalästina</a>", by Juives et Juifs Révolutionnaires, 10 October</b></li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-10/days-grief-our-government-beats-drums-war">"Days of grief, as our government beats the drums of war"</a>, Uri Weltmann, Standing Together, 10 October</li><li><b><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-08/war-israelpalestine" target="_blank">AWL statement</a>, 10 October</b></li><li>"<a href="https://libcom.org/discussion/solidarity-proletariat-abolish-israel-and-palestine" target="_blank">Solidarity with the proletariat. Abolish Israel and Palestine</a>", Craftwork, 10 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/we-should-end-cycle-crime-israel-palestine-war-statement-worker-communist-party">"We should end this cycle of crime! (On the Israel-Palestine war)", statement from the Hekmatist Party (Official Line)</a>, 10 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-13/worker-communist-party-iran-hekmatist-statement-war-israelpalestine">Statement from the Worker-communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist</a>, 10 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-12/maan-workers-association-statement-war-israelpalestine">Statement from Ma'an Workers Association</a>, 10 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/statement-anarchist-union-afghanistan-and-iran">Statement by the Anarchist Union of Afghanistan and Iran</a>, 9 October</li><li>"<a href="https://barbaria.net/2023/10/10/against-israeli-and-palestinian-nationalism/" target="_blank">Against Israeli and Palestinian nationalism</a>," Malcontent/Barbaria, 9 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.autistici.org/tridnivalka/from-gaza-to-tel-aviv-and-to-the-whole-world-no-war-but-class-war/" target="_blank">From Gaza to Tel-Aviv and to the whole World… No War But Class War</a>!", CGI-ICG, 8 October</li><li><b>ADDED: <a href="https://solutionsnotsides.co.uk/blog/2023/solutions-not-sides-statement-october-23" target="_blank">Solutions Not Sides statement</a>, 8 October</b></li></ul></div><div><h4 style="line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, Garamond, Baskerville, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">Personal reflections</b></h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><a href="https://www.jewthink.org/2023/10/20/the-holocaust-as-moral-instruction-holocaust-survival-and-memory-in-zionism-and-anti-zionism/" target="_blank">"The Holocaust as moral instruction", by Daniel Randall</a>, 20 October</b></li><li><a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/jews-of-the-left" target="_blank">"Jews of the Left: You’re in an abusive relationship. It’s time to speak out", by Boaz Munro in Tablet, 20 October</a></li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/i-want-our-lives-be-protected-and-our-humanity-be-acknowledged">"I want our lives to be protected and our humanity to be acknowledged", article by İyad el-Baghdadi, Palestinian-Norwegian human rights activist</a>, 19 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n20/judith-butler/the-compass-of-mourning" target="_blank">The Compass of Mourning</a>", by <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/judith-butler">Judith Butler</a>, 19 October </li><li>"<a href="https://newlinesmag.com/argument/bassem-youssefs-darkest-act/" target="_blank">Bassem Youssef’s Darkest Act: A TV interview with the Egyptian satirist highlights the absurdity of the media’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza war</a>", by <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/writers/kareem-shaheen/">Kareem Shaheen</a>, 18 October </li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/most-horrifying-times-and-what-can-we-still-do-report-adam-keller-gush-shalom">"The Most Horrifying of Times - And What Can We Still Do?", a report from Adam Keller, Gush Shalom</a>, 18 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-16/ill-write-while-i-can-still-breathe-article-ameer-fakhoury-land-all">"I'll write while I can still breathe", article by Ameer Fakhoury, Palestinian activist and council member of A Land for All - Two States, One Homeland</a>, 16 October</li><li>"<a href="https://unherd.com/thepost/hamas-apologists-have-misunderstood-frantz-fanon/" target="_blank">Hamas apologists have misunderstood Fanon</a>", by Ralph Leonard, 15 October</li><li><a href="https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-10-19/barbarity-hamas-and-israeli-government-will-make-future-bleak-article-aso-kamal">"The barbarity of Hamas and the Israeli government will make the future of humanity bleak", article by Kurdish socialist and human rights activist Aso Kamal</a>, 14 October</li><li><b><a href="https://lifeisasacredtext.substack.com/p/a-lot-of-things-are-true" target="_blank">"A lot of things are true. The refusal to grasp this is a non-trivial amount of the problem", by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg</a>, 13 October</b></li><li><b>“<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other" target="_blank">We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other</a>”, by <a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/author/arielle-angel">Arielle Angel</a> 12 October</b></li><li><a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/toward-a-humane-left/" target="_blank">"Toward a Humane Left", </a>by <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/author/joshua-leifer/">Joshua Leifer</a> 12 October</li><li><a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/my-visit-to-israel-by-nira-yuval-davis/" target="_blank">"My visit to Israel", by Nira Yuval-Davis</a>, 12 October</li><li>"<a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/a-left-that-refuses-to-condemn-mass-murder-is-doomed.html" target="_blank">A Left That Refuses to Condemn Mass Murder Is Doomed</a>", by <a href="https://nymag.com/author/eric-levitz/">Eric Levitz</a>, 11 October</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/11/why-are-some-of-the-left-celebrating-the-killings-of-israeli-jews" target="_blank">"In Gaza and Israel, side with the child over the gun", </a>by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/naomiklein">Naomi Klein</a>, 11 October</li><li><b><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1711378898301108500.html" target="_blank">Jordan Osserman on returning from the carnage</a>, 9 October</b></li><li>"<a href="https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/as-gaza-braces-for-a-ground-invasion-the-circle-of-violence-continues/" target="_blank">As Gaza Braces for a Ground Invasion, the Circle of Violence Continues</a>", by Arwa Damon, 9 October</li><li><a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1464389870">"Is history repeating itself?", by Adam Keller, Gush Shalom</a>, 8 October</li></ul></div><div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Analysis</b> </h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>ADDED: "<span face=""Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"></span><a href="https://jungle.world/artikel/2023/43/usa-linker-antisemitismus-neue-kluft" target="_blank">Neue Kluft innerhalb der Linken: In den USA reagieren viele Linke auf den brutalen Terror gegen israelische Zivilisten und die militärische Reaktion Israels mit viel Verständnis – für die Hamas</a>"/"<a href="https://npnf.eu/spip.php?article1082" target="_blank">A propos des réactions de la gauche américaine face au massacre du Hamas</a>", by Spencer Sunshine, 26 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/20/geolocating-hamas-led-attacks-on-israeli-civilians/" target="_blank">Geolocating Hamas-Led Attacks on Israeli Civilians</a>", Bellingcat, October 20</li><li>"<a href="https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/c204ogm0" target="_blank">Social media overwhelmed by Israel-Hamas misinformation</a>", by Shayan Sardarizadeh</li><li>"<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/18/identifying-possible-crater-from-gaza-hospital-blast/" target="_blank">Identifying Possible Crater from Gaza Hospital Blast</a>", Bellingcat, October 18, 2023</li><li><a href="https://www.tarb.co.il/the-war-against-cliche/">"The war against cliche", by Arie Dubnov</a>, 18 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-13/ty-article/.premium/israels-new-concept-of-hamas-and-gaza-is-doomed-to-fail-just-like-the-last-one/0000018b-27bb-d1bc-a58b-6fbf9edf0000" target="_blank">Israel's New Hamas-Gaza Concept Is Doomed to Fail Just Like the Last One</a>", by Zvi Bar'el, 13 October</li><li>"<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/10/11/hamas-attacks-israel-bombs-gaza-and-misinformation-surges-online/" target="_blank">Hamas Attacks, Israel Bombs Gaza and Misinformation Surges Online</a>", Bellingcat, October 11, 2023<br /></li></ul></div><div><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b>Calls to action</b></h4><p></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://yachad.e-activist.com/page/137335/action/1?locale=en-GB" target="_blank">Yachad MP letter writing campaign </a></li><li><a href="https://voicesforhostages.org/" target="_blank">Voices for Hostages open letter</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theparentscircle.org/en/contribution_eng/" target="_blank">Donate to The Parents
Circle – Families Forum, a joint
Israeli-Palestinian organization of over 600 families, all of whom have lost an
immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. </a></li><li><a href="https://www.wfp.org/support-us/stories/palestine-appeal?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=14484934461&utm_content=128338538564&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI38i7va76gQMVl_ftCh0NMgOEEAAYASABEgJ-ZPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank">Donate to the World Food Programme emergency appeal</a></li><li><a href="https://cfpeace.org/donate/" target="_blank">Donate to Combatants for Peace</a></li><li><a href="https://cst.org.uk/report-incident" target="_blank">Report an antisemitic incident to CST </a>(UK only)</li><li><a href="https://tellmamauk.org/submit-a-report-to-us/" target="_blank">Report an anti-Muslim incident to TellMAMA </a>(UK only)</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><b>UPDATE: I've done a second edition of links (including several podcasts and webinars) <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2023/10/reading-on-israelgaza-second-edition.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and will continue the series regularly <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/search/label/Gaza%202023" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></div><p></p></div></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-23189515497931940082023-09-24T10:29:00.006+01:002023-11-07T10:40:40.674+00:00Why are Syria and Ukraine conspiracy theorists defending Russell Brand?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/news/russell-brand-slammed-by-antisemitism-campaigners-for-platforming-corbyn-apologist-7K4Tc6c5zGyTEbRhlK4s3g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1045" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEisBjN-iLuLukDFnO-R0GX95hibmMsuYebpzHYbxhsVQxYDPj48pZm-yjFn7NGNy7mU7EB-vDyST0HTpG5-lWqK4V75SYVdRDiag7L5L0GODI1DsaKUVDzhKPtXYww_f5jQwTaNyOgGaSyMn8ecrq5YWIjUgMuxyagyGv-yW8DY3ZWM4_gBQ2Uy" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/why-are-syria-conspiracy-theorists-defending-russell-brand" target="_blank">Tamara Himani in The New Arab</a><p></p><p>Extract:<br /></p><blockquote>Among Brand’s defenders are figures often associated with the Alt-Right - such as Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/andrew-tate-quotes-quran-claim-plot-against-him">Andrew Tate</a>, <a href="https://www.newarab.com/opinion/jordan-petersons-message-muslims-about-israel">Jordan Peterson</a>, Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones and several journalists from GB News, a right-wing British news channel. Alongside them are commentators linked to the left, such as Glenn Greenwald, <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/galloway-enraged-over-russia-state-affiliated-media-label">George Galloway</a> and Anya Parampil (who have segments on Russian Television International and Grayzone, respectively - both channels accused of being Russian-backed). Russell Brand has engaged extensively with both groups, including discussions with Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Grayzone journalist Aaron Maté. <br /><br />Many of these figures have suggested that they (and their followers) are victims to powerful, malign forces working through the Western government and media establishment. According to them, the hostility of ‘the deep state’ is active at home and abroad - against anti-Western governments like Russia, Iran and Syria, against whom the state seeks to wage forever wars. These commentators are often accused of softening or denying the wrongdoing of such governments purely owing to their anti-Western orientation. <br /><br />For example, Parampil reposted a tweet claiming there was ‘zero evidence’ Mahsa Amini - a Kurdish-Iranian woman killed while in Iranian police custody last year for improperly wearing her hijab - had been tortured by Iranian officials on the anniversary of her death. Galloway suggested Israel could have given chemical arms to al-Qaeda following the Assad regime’s infamous chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria; the former MP also told Cambridge students at a speaker’s event that Uighur Muslims faced no discrimination in Xinjiang and the only Muslims incarcerated were “Al-Qaeda and ISIS fanatics”, despite a 2021 Amnesty Report to the contrary.<br /><br />Meanwhile, right-wing figures such as Peterson, Carlson and Jones have intimated sympathy for Russia during its war against Ukraine, characterised as a proxy war provoked by a malignant West. At the same time, Maté has attempted to downplay President Assad’s culpability <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/19/russia-backed-network-of-syria-conspiracy-theorists-identified">for chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians</a>, notably in Ghouta and Douma. Brand has made a name for himself among such figures, collectively self-identifying as the ‘independent media’ or voices of truth.</blockquote><p><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1703191546516869326.html" target="_blank">My thread on this</a>.</p><p><a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Grayzone">More on Grayzone</a>.</p><p> </p><p></p>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-35889977610489857882023-08-24T12:24:00.031+01:002023-08-24T16:49:30.309+01:00Anti-government protests in southern Syria<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZTtxenQ7PnDNLlyWGTL0PSa_VP2G8gXPej-BvBPWNwZlzP_IdoFFkcuTiHMG_lztumwH3jDoRvxanlhC2mY8cOgGt4B8aYH7IZu6Tj7oovx94Jhmm0130nD5NFtuZ3g6w654epHWHQpfkZoUlqEdjH3YNCcojQpYSb5tBI4a-1B3K4mCo4Ko/s2560/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AB-scaled.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1707" data-original-width="2560" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNZTtxenQ7PnDNLlyWGTL0PSa_VP2G8gXPej-BvBPWNwZlzP_IdoFFkcuTiHMG_lztumwH3jDoRvxanlhC2mY8cOgGt4B8aYH7IZu6Tj7oovx94Jhmm0130nD5NFtuZ3g6w654epHWHQpfkZoUlqEdjH3YNCcojQpYSb5tBI4a-1B3K4mCo4Ko/s320/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%AB-scaled.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://syrianobserver.com/news/84726/state-media-accuses-druze-uprising-of-foreign-influence-and-conspiracies.html" target="_blank">Druze protestors, via Syria Observer</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Syrian revolution is not dead. This week regime-controlled parts of southern Syria have exploded with protests: men and women, religious and secular, Sunni and Druze, merchants and public sector workers, bearded clerics and girls in jeans. 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Slogans call for dignity and reject the house of Assad.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1692098384096535033" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1692098384096535033&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1692166276318368089.html&sessionId=42f8caec6b6f3094cb57500976ff87fac9b5b8db&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 672px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1692167923480367566" dir="auto" id="tweet_2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In an effort to contain protest, yesterday Syria’s dictator Assad doubled state salaries (they’re now just 8% of an average family’s cost of living). Seven minutes later he raised the price of diesel by 300% and gasoline by 170%. <span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1692820876004114733" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b>18/08</b></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1692820876004114733" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mass protests across southern Syria, especially Daraa, after Friday prayers last night, demanding the fall of the House of Assad and decent living conditions. 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Regime control is weak; some of the protests are armed.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Protests today inc towns Da’el, Tasil, al-Sanamayn & Saham al-Jawlan, among first places to rise up in 2011.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1693339371049513179" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-5" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-5&features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1693339371049513179&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1692166276318368089.html&sessionId=42f8caec6b6f3094cb57500976ff87fac9b5b8db&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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It is one of the many Assadist lies (which too many westerners have bought) that the revolution is Islamist and the regime represents minorities.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1693543858179543061" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-9" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-9&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1693543858179543061&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1692166276318368089.html&sessionId=42f8caec6b6f3094cb57500976ff87fac9b5b8db&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Footage from today’s protest. #Suwayda<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="entity-video" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><video controls="" poster="https://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1694622881739665408/pu/img/vOtaYjSFuraaQOvb.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 100%; width: 700px;"></video></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694654044172673228" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="background: rgb(245, 248, 250); border-radius: 15px; box-sizing: border-box; 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The Ba’athist divide to conquer strategy is crumbling again.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1694651578173592048" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-15" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-15&features=eyJ0ZndfdGltZWxpbmVfbGlzdCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOltdLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2ZvbGxvd2VyX2NvdW50X3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9iYWNrZW5kIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19yZWZzcmNfc2Vzc2lvbiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZm9zbnJfc29mdF9pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zX2VuYWJsZWQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib24iLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X21peGVkX21lZGlhXzE1ODk3Ijp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRyZWF0bWVudCIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3Nob3dfYmlyZHdhdGNoX3Bpdm90c19lbmFibGVkIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6Im9uIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH0sInRmd19kdXBsaWNhdGVfc2NyaWJlc190b19zZXR0aW5ncyI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdXNlX3Byb2ZpbGVfaW1hZ2Vfc2hhcGVfZW5hYmxlZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdmlkZW9faGxzX2R5bmFtaWNfbWFuaWZlc3RzXzE1MDgyIjp7ImJ1Y2tldCI6InRydWVfYml0cmF0ZSIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfbGVnYWN5X3RpbWVsaW5lX3N1bnNldCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOnRydWUsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9LCJ0ZndfdHdlZXRfZWRpdF9mcm9udGVuZCI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOm51bGx9fQ%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1694651578173592048&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1692166276318368089.html&sessionId=42f8caec6b6f3094cb57500976ff87fac9b5b8db&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 654px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-38467352520693203972023-08-23T12:38:00.023+01:002023-08-24T13:09:50.020+01:00Travis Ikeguchi's journey to murder<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7izY6_K5VO3-MilaL3CLsTKe_2EXZ-2H5pngrgceZK8gkOMux6xgTvzV8TriOWynkOS1JxnXL2LGqJ79jJ4uhKGMyV6VgsWUQ_86TZ6KfvK7hqvWy92-_HL5r9e1PA-2Z2Ug8ujAlCDSu2jJk9po_qNkMn_feiGIEZG1Enykig1JOU3NaOCaM/s1200/travis.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7izY6_K5VO3-MilaL3CLsTKe_2EXZ-2H5pngrgceZK8gkOMux6xgTvzV8TriOWynkOS1JxnXL2LGqJ79jJ4uhKGMyV6VgsWUQ_86TZ6KfvK7hqvWy92-_HL5r9e1PA-2Z2Ug8ujAlCDSu2jJk9po_qNkMn_feiGIEZG1Enykig1JOU3NaOCaM/s320/travis.jpeg" width="320" /></a></i></div><i><br />Watching radicalisation in real time: how conservative culture wars and fringe conspiracy theories led to the killing of a California storekeeper. </i><p></p><p>This is a Twitter thread I wrote today. 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The killer has been named as Travis Ikeguchi. The son of a Florida state trooper, he was a Christian fascist radicalised online...<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a class="entity-url" data-preview="true" href="https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/22/man-shot-california-store-owner-tore-down-pride-flag-shouted-slurs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/a…</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxZgDWMAAbO7u.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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As well as Christian fundamentalism and a tsunami of homophobia + transphobia, there’s a wide range of conspiracy theories, linking mainstream conservative anti-LGBT culture wars with fascist terror…<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1693993734495785234" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1693993734495785234&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1694252204851343759.html&sessionId=2a0ff1db4f1616ed13307624870926d112483966&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 671px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252213021896768" dir="auto" id="tweet_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">At the heart of his cosmology is a set of hate figures he identified as the globalist elite or the Illuminati — Gates, Soros, Schwab, Fauci, the World Economic Forum. These are shared obsessions with QAnon, anti-vaxxers and those who follow the “Great Reset” conspiracy theory.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; letter-spacing: -0.057px; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxaFhW8AAaWjs.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252220617830608" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Many of the influencers Ikeguchi amplified – such as Dinesh D’Souza, Jordan Peterson, or Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe – are major entrepreneurs of hate selling to the mainstream American conservative base. A lot of these accounts get reposted by Elon Musk for example.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="col-md-6" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; letter-spacing: -0.057px; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxafRXYAEpfc_.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxafRXYAEpfc_.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><br style="background-color: #f5f8fa; 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color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252225650938366" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">One example: The UK’s Daily Telegraph published a completely fake story about a kid who identified as a cat, taken up by US right-wing influencers such as Peterson, thus helping to radicalise this guy who shot someone for flying a Pride flag. <a class="entity-url" data-preview="true" href="https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/20/fake-cats-and-the-legitimisation-of-hate/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">bylinetimes.com/2023/06/20/fak…</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxa4aWYAAtnKV.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxa4aWYAAtnKV.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a></span><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="entity-url-preview" style="border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 700px;"><div class="d-flex justify-content-between align-items-center" style="align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: space-between;"><div class="border-right align-self-center" style="align-self: center; border-right: 1px solid rgb(222, 226, 230); box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="img-cover" href="https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/20/fake-cats-and-the-legitimisation-of-hate/" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("/images/loading.gif"); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #63615f; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 130px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img loading="lazy" src="https://bylinetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2J3HG3F-600x314.jpg" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 8px 0px 0px 8px; border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; height: 130px; object-fit: cover; vertical-align: middle; width: 8rem;" /></a></div><div class="flex-grow-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-grow: 1; min-width: 0px;"><div class="paragraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "lucida grande", "lucida sans unicode", "lucida sans", Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 0px 1rem;"><a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/20/fake-cats-and-the-legitimisation-of-hate/" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #63615f; cursor: pointer; display: -webkit-box; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2e2c2d; display: block; font-size: 0.85rem; font-weight: bolder; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;">Fake Cats and the Legitimisation of Hate – Byline Times</span>The tale of a schoolgirl identifying as a cat has become catnip to the anti-trans media machine, including the BBC and ITV. But the real story is of weaponised bigotry</a><a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/20/fake-cats-and-the-legitimisation-of-hate/" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; box-sizing: border-box; color: #63615f; cursor: pointer; display: -webkit-box; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><small class="pre-url" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; display: block; font-size: 0.75rem; margin-top: 5px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-wrap: nowrap;">https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/20/fake-cats-and-the-legitimisation-of-hate/</small></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252231552364784" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhI8YhJW65dVudmRpNI1PQhDagNo8Pd0CGkrSCb8HdGLCCAWJ-tELn3jZMAyfjKLY0jUuJupUSFWbOe_aLIW5G2llb9pqJ8XJKt1VMVV3eV4n4vxOxaSPGM0z-5TVzEfxuIn1vqUDo-Nhy7qrX93sNszvWcxkFOzpIoBG4Wsq64MDbL0zRYGT2d" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhI8YhJW65dVudmRpNI1PQhDagNo8Pd0CGkrSCb8HdGLCCAWJ-tELn3jZMAyfjKLY0jUuJupUSFWbOe_aLIW5G2llb9pqJ8XJKt1VMVV3eV4n4vxOxaSPGM0z-5TVzEfxuIn1vqUDo-Nhy7qrX93sNszvWcxkFOzpIoBG4Wsq64MDbL0zRYGT2d" width="246" /></a></div><br />We’ve also got anti-migrant fake news from Britain First’s Paul Golding, and Kanye West’s comments helping to normalise antisemitism on Twitter.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a></span></span></span><span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252237617262870" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Conspiracy theory always leads to antisemitism. Whether you hate Zionists or Communists or both, you can blame Jews. Antisemitism often binds disparate ideological elements together, making a coherent package where you wouldn’t expect one, an explanation for every setback.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxbiGXUAA7Pmw.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxbiGXUAA7Pmw.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252239819362583" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This is exactly it. When bigotries intersect they multiply, and a cosmology based on absolute demons calls for radical action.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1693824411877753219" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-1" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-1&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1693824411877753219&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1694252204851343759.html&sessionId=2a0ff1db4f1616ed13307624870926d112483966&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 671px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252246026916217" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Unsurprisingly, Ikeguchi supported Russia and opposed US support for Ukraine. Russia has completely captured this conspiracist scene.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; letter-spacing: -0.057px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxb_sXsAA17qP.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">For example, Ukraine is often identified as “Nazi” (a trope which comes from Russian media).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />This post (claiming Ukrainian Nazis harvest kids for adrenochrome labs for pedophile elites) combines several QAnon, anti-globalist and anti-vaxx themes with demonisation of Ukraine.</div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252251827642695" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; 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border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252258190348325" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">There’s also a lot of intense anti-Zionist content, sometimes from Israel-focused influencers and sometimes from right-wing sites (such as TruNews) that on this issue at first glance look left-wing. (Anti-Zionism isn’t itself antisemitic, but it can be a vector for antisemitism.)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; letter-spacing: -0.057px; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxcs8XEAAtUbM.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxcs8XEAAtUbM.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxdFIWoAAVooP.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0056b3; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.057px; opacity: 0.8;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class=" b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxdFIWoAAVooP.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></div><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252271146549392" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">(Although feminism also shared the blame for him being an involuntary celibate, of course.)<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxdbZWkAE1AKW.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0056b3; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.057px; opacity: 0.8;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class=" b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxdbZWkAE1AKW.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></div><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxdbZWkAE1AKW.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><br /><span style="color: #1da1f2;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial; border-radius: 15px; border-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 0.8rem; width: 2.33333px;"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxdbZWkAE1AKW.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></span></span></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252637640708453" dir="auto" id="tweet_14" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Ukraine and Israel are two of the topics where we can see some convergence between the far right + a fringe part of the left. Lots of his content wouldn’t look out of place on some “anti-imperialist” timelines: a Cornel West supporter praising Assange, RFK promoting antiwar[.]com<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-undefined" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; letter-spacing: -0.057px; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0jWUAANhEk.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class=" b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0jWUAANhEk.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><br style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: -0.057px;" /><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0oWgAA-p_8.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0056b3; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.057px; opacity: 0.8;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class=" b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0oWgAA-p_8.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0jWUAANhEk.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0jWUAANhEk.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a></span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0oWgAA-p_8.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4Mxd0oWgAA-p_8.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a></span></span></span><span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252640090091726" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Final point: social media companies need to take responsibility for this. Musk’s site (then still called Twitter) judged that Ikeguchi’s bigoted threats were legitimate and not hate speech.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1693878122569978359" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1693878122569978359&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1694252204851343759.html&sessionId=2a0ff1db4f1616ed13307624870926d112483966&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 671px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1694252646067065320" dir="auto" id="tweet_16" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">In conclusion, while we can laugh at someone who believes insane conspiracy theories (he thought Michelle Obama is secretly male) these theories – and the grifters mainstreaming them – are ultimately deadly.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In memory of Laura Ann Carleton, we need to resist this poison.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxzWgWYAA5xN2.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" data-src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxzWgWYAA5xN2.jpg" src="https://threadreaderapp.com/images/1px.png" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 2.33333px;" /></a><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxzWgWYAA5xN2.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f8fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0056b3; cursor: pointer; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.057px; opacity: 0.8;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class=" b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4MxzWgWYAA5xN2.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 285.333px;" /></a></span></div><p class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">• • •</p><div class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><span class="small" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12.8px;">Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to <a class="gaClickEvent" data-action="1694252204851343759" data-category="refresh" href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1694252204851343759.html#" id="force-click" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">force a refresh</a></span></div> </div></div></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-49871540773571276072023-07-02T11:26:00.011+01:002023-11-07T11:31:08.246+00:00The Truth About the Far Right Attack on Honor Oak, June<p> <a href="https://transsafety.network/posts/far-right-attack-on-honour-oak/" target="_blank">By Jess O'Thomson, Trans Safety Network</a> [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230821155513/https://transsafety.network/posts/far-right-attack-on-honour-oak/" target="_blank">archived</a>]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>UPDATE </b>on the August demonstration:</p><a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/26/honor-oak-drag-protest-concerned-parents-uk/" target="_blank">Far-right anti-drag protesters fail to intimidate LGBTQ+ community in Honor Oak, by Sian Bradley, Pink News</a>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-29422272401771857802023-05-20T16:27:00.005+01:002023-05-20T17:13:46.060+01:00False flags in Detroit: On the multipolar grift and the disinformation ecosystem <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9daKT4R4LXRUpi-7dA9xsF6YDM-7BlIuVr55gczEPrzP1hgHGsJk2B3Psl5XX35pK2BT4JCywMvoEjOgxEWho42EOqho4oGnVrywXjmOaHqSvpMGy-aqavLTUOO3IBzvwtNamBoE_zQnnz-_ue5NhKgfiIzziY3liRwQrr9Z3kKLisMWtw/s803/NORD.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="803" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR9daKT4R4LXRUpi-7dA9xsF6YDM-7BlIuVr55gczEPrzP1hgHGsJk2B3Psl5XX35pK2BT4JCywMvoEjOgxEWho42EOqho4oGnVrywXjmOaHqSvpMGy-aqavLTUOO3IBzvwtNamBoE_zQnnz-_ue5NhKgfiIzziY3liRwQrr9Z3kKLisMWtw/w640-h277/NORD.png" width="640" /></a></div><br />A 35 year old woman, Randi Nord, was <a href="https://www.dailytribune.com/2023/05/03/woman-charged-in-anti-semitic-graffiti-at-royal-oak-synagogue-facing-felonies-in-other-cities/" target="_blank">arrested in Detroit for an attack on a synagogue and on a Scientology church</a>. She was charged with "ethnic intimidation and vandalism" she spray painted antisemitic graffiti on the front of a Royal Oak Synagogue in April. <br /><br />Nord also has made threats to airports in Oakland County and Wayne County. Around the time of the incident in Royal Oak, Nord told police she also painted a swastika on a child’s stroller and on a car at a synagogue in Oak Park.<div><br /></div><div>So far, the sort of antisemitic desecration that occurs across the US any given week... But <a href="https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2023/05/12/synagogue-vandalism-suspect-wanted-to-blame-ukraine-mpolice-reveal-twisted-motivations-of-suspect-in/70206978007/" target="_blank">it gets stranger</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>She spray painted a swastika and the word “AZOV” on the Jewish cultural community building. “She said she planned to do as many hate crimes as possible and blame them on Azov,” said Royal Oak Detective Dan Pelletier. She told police she wanted to show people Azov was in the U.S. and to instill fear against the nation’s support for Ukraine.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Azov, as you know, is the right-wing Ukrainian militia that has become <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-there-any-truth-to-russias-ukrainian-nazis-propaganda/a-63970461" target="_blank">the focus </a>of Russian attempts to portray Ukraine as "Nazi". </div><div><br /></div><div>So, who is Randi Nord, and where did she get these ideas? </div><div><br /></div><div>Well, it turns out that she <a href="https://muckrack.com/randi-nord/articles" target="_blank">was </a>a minor celebrity in a particular alternative media sphere. </div><div><b><br />MintPress</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijfZVjqHtTBVxYYo6j6XQX6ApfCxU6JBBFz7CUTcOE3Z-w3x-kWRVGAD54dYxGDoY_465PmokHHpRWipoic3LuMJH8n_yW9reky6CHgTF5AlzuXl3qfchPGZG5lJ19-FZ61SjR_SjVQtWKbZ6-ccO2RA1akLBJ6gSYIL3ZqCaAvzzHqxb8GA" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="606" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEijfZVjqHtTBVxYYo6j6XQX6ApfCxU6JBBFz7CUTcOE3Z-w3x-kWRVGAD54dYxGDoY_465PmokHHpRWipoic3LuMJH8n_yW9reky6CHgTF5AlzuXl3qfchPGZG5lJ19-FZ61SjR_SjVQtWKbZ6-ccO2RA1akLBJ6gSYIL3ZqCaAvzzHqxb8GA" width="212" /></a></div>Nord was a <a href="https://twitter.com/Vorkoz/status/1659222582049095681" target="_blank">staff writer</a> for <a href="https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2023/05/12/synagogue-vandalism-suspect-wanted-to-blame-ukraine-mpolice-reveal-twisted-motivations-of-suspect-in/70206978007/" target="_blank">MintPress News</a>, a pro-Iranian disinformation outlet based in the Midwest. MintPress is mainly known <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/the-inside-story-of-one-websites-defense-of-assad" target="_blank">for making stuff up</a>. As my comrade Terry Burke <a href="https://www.startribune.com/media-beyond-the-mainstream-syria-s-information-wars/337733421/" target="_blank">wrote back in 2015</a>:</div><blockquote>Minneapolis-based Mint Press is best known for its story based on one unknown reporter’s claim that the Syrian rebels were behind the August 2013 chemical attack that killed 1,300. The story went viral. Russian President Vladimir Putin cited it to defend Assad. The <i><a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Backchannels/2013/0923/Syrian-rebels-and-chemical-weapons-a-disinformation-operation" target="_blank">Christian Science Monitor</a></i> found the story “mind-boggling” and asked if it was a “disinformation operation.” Mint Press stands behind it, despite the findings of a U.N. Commission that the chemicals “appear to come from the stockpiles of the Syrian military.” Mint Press is accountable only to its <a href="https://www.minnpost.com/media/2015/11/mystery-mintpress-news/" target="_blank">anonymous funders</a>.<br /><div></div></blockquote>Among those funders are AIPAC. No, not that AIPAC, but the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Investment_in_Popular_Action_Committees">Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees</a>, via its "<a href="https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-echo-chamber-of-syrian-chemical-weapons-conspiracy-theorists/" target="_blank">Serena Shim Award</a>", a vehicle for transferring money to pro-Iranian alt-media outlets, which has <a href="https://serenashimaward.org/laureates/" target="_blank">supported </a>the pro-Assad disinformation outlet <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Grayzone" target="_blank">Grayzone </a>and its team members <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/03/fact-checking-splc-on-max-blumenthal.html" target="_blank">Max Blumenthal</a> and Aaron Mate (and former team member <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/03/who-is-ben-norton.html" target="_blank">Ben Norton</a>), among others. AIPAC also paid Ohio politician Dennis Kucinich (now anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy's campaign manager) <a href="https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/17/democrat-dennis-kucinich-got-20-k-speak-2017-pro-syrian-group/525817002/" target="_blank">$20,000 </a>to attend a pro-Assad conference in Britain and give a speech there (which he <a href="https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/17/democrat-dennis-kucinich-got-20-k-speak-2017-pro-syrian-group/525817002/" target="_blank">returned </a>after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/dennis-kucinich-assad-syria-paid-speech-ohio-governor-primary" target="_blank">heavy criticism</a>).<div> </div><div>One of Nord's colleagues as a MintPress contributor is disgraced British former academic and antisemite, <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/david-miller/" target="_blank">David Miller</a>, who uses it to spin his bizarre conspiracy theories about Jews, as well as to attack Ukraine. (For example, Miller believes Azov is part of a complex Jewish conspiracy involving Chabad and various oligarchs, and that Ashkenazi Jews are in fact descended from Ukrainian Khazars.) </div><div><br /></div><div>Another is British rapper <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/lowkey/" target="_blank">Lowkey</a>, another conspiracy theorist (who this month hosted Ben Norton on his MintPress podcast "The Watchdog", and last month hosted <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-protests-uk-spying-palestinian-refugees-asa-winstanley/284358/" target="_blank">Asa Winstanley</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>Still another is the rather creepy <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/kit-klarenberg/" target="_blank">Kit Klarenberg</a>, who is sometimes <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/mi6-russia-hackers-used-a-pro-brexit-ex-mi6-boss-and-a-left-wing-labour-firebrand-in-its-ukraine-war/" target="_blank">based in Serbia </a>and whose main role is to be a <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252525366/How-Russian-intelligence-hacked-the-encrypted-emails-of-former-MI6-boss-Richard-Dearlove" target="_blank">conduit </a>for Russian intelligence <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/kit-klarenberg/" target="_blank">hack and dump</a> <a href="https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/tales-from-the-underside-a-kremlin-approved-hack-leak-doxxing-operation/" target="_blank">operations</a> against critics of the Kremlin (including British leftist <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/mi6-russia-hackers-used-a-pro-brexit-ex-mi6-boss-and-a-left-wing-labour-firebrand-in-its-ukraine-war/" target="_blank">Paul Mason</a>). Klarenberg has <a href="https://serenashimaward.org/laureates/" target="_blank">received </a>funding via the Serena Shim Award, as has fellow MintPress conspiracist writers <a href="https://twitter.com/mike10010100/status/1659572141359001600?s=20" target="_blank">Alan MacLeod </a>(who got his media studies PhD in the same department as Miller did) and Whitney Webb.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Enter the Grayzone</b></div><div><br /></div><div>As should already be clear, the MintPress network overlaps heavily with the network around the pro-Kremlin blog, The Grayzone, whose conspiracy theories Elon Musk has recently been promoting in his increasingly hysterical vendettas against Bellingcat and George Soros. </div><div><br /></div><div>If you don't know Grayzone, start with Joshua Collins' analysis <a href="https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/grayzone-grifters-and-the-cult-of-tank-fbd9b8e0dbe2" target="_blank">here</a>:</div><blockquote>They receive helping hands from a number of<a href="https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/how-anti-imperialism-became-a-buzzword-for-oppressors-a6e9ace5c7ed"> shady media</a> organizations and fringe voices that include Russian disinformation network RT, TeleSur in South America, reknown racists<a href="https://twitter.com/RichardBSpencer/status/1213035160075030530?s=20"> Richard Spencer</a>, Tucker Carlson, a<a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/kansas-kkk-shooter-cited-max-blumenthal/"> nazi school shooter</a> and even ex-KKK wizard<a href="https://twitter.com/WarpedMirrorPMB/status/975839942311120899?s=20"> David Duke</a>.<br /><br />Though they claim to write from the left, their digital fog-machine defies political boundaries, incorporating anti-semetic smears about<a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/853091357312864258?s=20"> Soros</a> that have <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-been-a-george-soros-for-every-era-of-antisemitic-panic">white-supremacis</a>t origins, genocide denial tricks pioneered by European fascist parties and the “always<a href="https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1139644218018881536?s=20"> discredit</a> or<a href="https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1224837500386140161?s=20"> insult</a> rather than respond to fact” tactics of sociopaths like Alex Jones.<br /><br />Every social movement in the world they dislike is the fault of the<a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1159519729490505729?s=20"> CIA</a>, and every government they support, which are unfailingly disturbingly authoritarian, can do no wrong.<br /><br />These fearless champions of state-violence cheer police forces brutalizing protesters, <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1154140059874017280?s=20">deny</a> well-documented death squads and <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/17/hong-kong-protest-washington-nativism-violence/">rationalize</a> oppression at every turn.</blockquote><div>In short, Grayzone open up a grey zone between Stalinist left and fascist right, between truth and fiction, a world of false flags and hidden hands. It was this zone in which Randi Nord dwelled.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nord's current Twitter account, only created year ago, <a href="https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1659144037297795079" target="_blank">has just two likes</a>: one was for the aptly named "Useful Idiots" podcast, hosted by Katie Halper and the Grayzone's Aaron Mate, that week featuring MintPress's own Alan MacLeod.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsQT0NzP5ZIFt1KsnhImvXLUEyMm0DRMabArZqgQfTDUai30bNF9vGOMKqVZgW-SR7LFSADyCgQPAN5r18vbIjJLgpQPQ0oePJUjIicv87WOsBEnNv6IqvYhsO5aswT-LXAUStjoC00c-moV6UvlO2ZOVx1mm8akd0w2y-ZM1HxUjVONUbw/s900/macleod-idiot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="599" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsQT0NzP5ZIFt1KsnhImvXLUEyMm0DRMabArZqgQfTDUai30bNF9vGOMKqVZgW-SR7LFSADyCgQPAN5r18vbIjJLgpQPQ0oePJUjIicv87WOsBEnNv6IqvYhsO5aswT-LXAUStjoC00c-moV6UvlO2ZOVx1mm8akd0w2y-ZM1HxUjVONUbw/s320/macleod-idiot.png" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div>As well as Grayzone's own account, she <a href="https://twitter.com/RealZeist/status/1659138473276874760" target="_blank">followed </a>those of its team members Max Blumenthal and Rania Khalek. Her new account is not (or at least no longer) followed by many people; one of the few is the far right activist <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2019-05/Lyons_CtrlAltDelete_PRINT.pdf" target="_blank">Keith Preston</a>, who also promoted her work (along with that of Danny Haiphong) on his website.</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">One of synagogue false flagger Randi Nord's 14 followers appears to have been "pan-secessionist" Keith Preston (think proto-Boogaloo Boys), who posted a few articles, a speech, and an interview btw her and Danny Haiphong to his website, Attack the System, from 2018-2020. <a href="https://t.co/iFj4UpmcNM">pic.twitter.com/iFj4UpmcNM</a></p>— Alexander Reid Ross (@areidross) <a href="https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1659254732131811328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><b>Erasing evidence</b></div><div><br /></div><div>MintPress appears to have <a href="https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1659523673592590337" target="_blank">attempted to scrub</a> its archive of mention of Randi Nord, although the Wayback Machine and Twitter archives show clearly the articles she wrote for them. (Intriguingly, the removals occurred prior to her synagogue attack.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Before and after:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQdKEp71rwnhDqy6FTvInXrMOS0K2S_9C8E6ra1--HzNUnFRKhNm3-r7mM0BpP49phP_gZQZIcsF09OMni8BH0OW0VqziJp3qfJbHvuZnZffcj_AWhwQNLJWnzUn5bhWTTZIJtVrRze1pW86utk6PbrId-VI7Lfn923vfT_HIVkwuaaA4hEg/s1808/mint1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1808" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQdKEp71rwnhDqy6FTvInXrMOS0K2S_9C8E6ra1--HzNUnFRKhNm3-r7mM0BpP49phP_gZQZIcsF09OMni8BH0OW0VqziJp3qfJbHvuZnZffcj_AWhwQNLJWnzUn5bhWTTZIJtVrRze1pW86utk6PbrId-VI7Lfn923vfT_HIVkwuaaA4hEg/s320/mint1.jpg" width="272" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1cb6ni6NDRiPj7a7pwfOIj7yldL0BxkCNcOhcO4weNVMviULY431Yk3Isivm7-yNAb5Mf8xb3aWAY1sPshaB-Km-RVAW68VKL9rVdSVHhcjTlTCc6b8oxN6IvslhV6NSwVnlu8bqCSv3YRhTSaSO7XywBZsNGwxIwAV6uA-xUcgNoay8KNw/s1799/mint2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1799" data-original-width="1284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1cb6ni6NDRiPj7a7pwfOIj7yldL0BxkCNcOhcO4weNVMviULY431Yk3Isivm7-yNAb5Mf8xb3aWAY1sPshaB-Km-RVAW68VKL9rVdSVHhcjTlTCc6b8oxN6IvslhV6NSwVnlu8bqCSv3YRhTSaSO7XywBZsNGwxIwAV6uA-xUcgNoay8KNw/s320/mint2.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /></div>And her friend Max Blumenthal has deleted at least <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190524095629/https://twitter.com/maxblumenthal/status/1014377437071855627" target="_blank">one tweet</a> promoting her.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the archive remembers;</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEu631z0DFrrWSkReOtT-8qNaA8yiwHDlCg8jO2150UthgkwtW8-h8AAgNF72s-YNmqw_U9F7Zj_g01ixixUvsipQHjadNzarW3lfb2Q7qGYzRpcHbfYDhTLZ_WJ7Fl9xlh-nlH3w3ckFMU-c8Tlsg3kT8Vbqc0l05mP6kDtz9F7vNB6Z4-Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1750" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjEu631z0DFrrWSkReOtT-8qNaA8yiwHDlCg8jO2150UthgkwtW8-h8AAgNF72s-YNmqw_U9F7Zj_g01ixixUvsipQHjadNzarW3lfb2Q7qGYzRpcHbfYDhTLZ_WJ7Fl9xlh-nlH3w3ckFMU-c8Tlsg3kT8Vbqc0l05mP6kDtz9F7vNB6Z4-Q" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>A path to radicalisation</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>It seems that Nord's background was in the "anti-imperialist" left. She was <a href="https://twitter.com/Vorkoz/status/1659254850746499073" target="_blank">active </a>in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_World_Party">Workers World Party (WWP</a>). The WWP is a tiny American Marxist-Leninist sect which specialises in loudly supporting whatever authoritarian regimes it considers anti-imperialist. It punches above its weight through its front organisations the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Action_Center" target="_blank">International Action Center</a> (fronted by Ramsay Clarke) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.N.S.W.E.R." target="_blank">ANSWER</a>. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) was a split from WWP.<div><br /></div><div>WWP was originally a Trotskyist party, critical of Stalinism, but over time the logic of campist "anti-imperialism" (the faith that anyone in the camp opposing America is a good guy) led them towards an increasingly pro-dictator politics. As the bipolar Cold War gave way to the apparently unipolar War on Terror, anti-American campism became increasingly strong. It increasingly synchronised with the so-called "axis of resistance" (Iran, Ba'athist Syria, and Hezbollah) and its partnership with Russia's far right government. Fascist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, with his message of "Eurasian" resistance to Western hegemony and to a "multipolar world" to replace it, gave them a new geopolitical philosophy to replace Marxism. </div><div><br /></div><div>Alexander Reid Ross documents this turn - and how it was intrumentalised by the fascist right - in his <a href="https://hummusforthought.com/2018/03/16/the-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment/" target="_blank">2018 "Multipolar Spin" report</a>: in the 2000s WWP fronts and activists (including Caleb Maupin) and their close associates in <i>Black Agenda Report</i> collaborated closely with Duginist, Milosevic supporters, Lyndon LaRouche and other fascist groups in forums hosted by the Iranian, Syrian and Russian governments. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Y10QKSgr64aIaIvlgmLODxsqy37HygFihHIORMj8MnGbamZswPN80B5d1EUvRUbJPl-s-YpxzcWTbxGGEw0R7u8Hm45QFlALlCOk-yjJDXoRMVT3sHIQ6iZx35ZhhJWMzDSBAkJ21UIrWKa-wGhsYF7IKmUOBs_ZTus61sjviK3W3BzNdQ/s465/multipolar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="465" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Y10QKSgr64aIaIvlgmLODxsqy37HygFihHIORMj8MnGbamZswPN80B5d1EUvRUbJPl-s-YpxzcWTbxGGEw0R7u8Hm45QFlALlCOk-yjJDXoRMVT3sHIQ6iZx35ZhhJWMzDSBAkJ21UIrWKa-wGhsYF7IKmUOBs_ZTus61sjviK3W3BzNdQ/s320/multipolar.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>The logic often ultimately leads away from the left, to explicitly far right politics, as with the "MAGA Communist" online micro-movement involving grifters such as former WWP activist (and <a href="https://libcom.org/article/caleb-maupins-former-comrades-speak-out-his-abuses-must-stop" target="_blank">alleged sexual abuser</a>) <a href="https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Caleb_Maupin" target="_blank">Caleb Maupin</a> and his Center for Political Innovation (CPI), or perhaps as with Max Blumenthal's celebration of anti-vaxx "truckers". Using the terms set out by anti-fascist researcher Spencer Sunshine in his <a href="https://www.patreon.com/join/spencersunshine/checkout?rid=3629148&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fposts%2Fwhat-do-we-mean-82211240" target="_blank">recent, very useful typology of red-brownism</a>, the trajectory is from left-right <i>collaboration </i>(shared platforms and shared conspiracy theories) to red-brownism <i>as </i>defining ideology, partly as a result of fascists cynically using "anti-imperialist" language to sell themselves to the left.</div><div><br /></div>Nord's personal trajectory follows this path. As a WWP activist, she <a href="https://twitter.com/RealZeist/status/1659133032488632326" target="_blank">adopted a Stalinist aesthetic </a>and hung out with Marxist-Leninist Putinist Danny Haiphong of <i>Black Agenda Report</i>. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iX8u-8h04_S3StpLuDl1mIY0rcvr7Rp_O6fjGP2kqhSoIt2tK9rSB3H-dRP8tph2Vp9FfqxuENeo2m0W78EK9GbMaOzHCJMqHXVaeNe0F1iKfyMxSS4yAGBDoZIlpETU5cq5rRMrUVwfxTtqgMQVo_TLhzZkoF_AMg0WeXPd0lLKak9gzQ/s368/mintstalin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="368" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7iX8u-8h04_S3StpLuDl1mIY0rcvr7Rp_O6fjGP2kqhSoIt2tK9rSB3H-dRP8tph2Vp9FfqxuENeo2m0W78EK9GbMaOzHCJMqHXVaeNe0F1iKfyMxSS4yAGBDoZIlpETU5cq5rRMrUVwfxTtqgMQVo_TLhzZkoF_AMg0WeXPd0lLKak9gzQ/s320/mintstalin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>But she <a href="https://www.workers.org/2017/04/30581/" target="_blank">focused on promoting the "axis of resistance"</a> rather than on Marxist analysis. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwQe_Va5suBsYDn3tqhGLuPNowJ1lkBayuIg-NAauINKTrBSXEZ4A0a0QZqo3OVoW57JRtYOtT9VSagjKXdJG0wdniYjEQtrofM9tOAnF_aovCDO7FVlptdcr7yx1WgTGm7ik9JVAgIddGR8eneunkWsbY_WjDLLsHIpFY4kWAxYDE1M0hA/s1396/randiWWP.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1396" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwQe_Va5suBsYDn3tqhGLuPNowJ1lkBayuIg-NAauINKTrBSXEZ4A0a0QZqo3OVoW57JRtYOtT9VSagjKXdJG0wdniYjEQtrofM9tOAnF_aovCDO7FVlptdcr7yx1WgTGm7ik9JVAgIddGR8eneunkWsbY_WjDLLsHIpFY4kWAxYDE1M0hA/s320/randiWWP.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>She founded a spurious thinktank Geopolitics Alert, to promote Dugin's "multipolar" agenda. On her VK account she <a href="https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1659339391960244224" target="_blank">followed </a>several Dugin-linked groups. Iranian state channels such as Press TV, Tehran Times and Tasnim <a href="https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1659258692557230080" target="_blank">syndicated her writing</a>. Much as the Russian delegate has hosted Grayzone's Aaron Mate to speak at UN side events to legitimise their disavowal of involvement in war crimes in Syria and Ukraine, the Iranian state actually hosted Nord to speak at UN Human Rights Council events to promote their interests. </div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Can't get over the fact that the alleged synagogue vandal Randi Nord spoke about Yemen at the UNHRC. <a href="https://t.co/ImGSFgkOfl">pic.twitter.com/ImGSFgkOfl</a></p>— The A.C.E.R.B.I.C. Nerd (@acerbicnerd) <a href="https://twitter.com/acerbicnerd/status/1659502195941801987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div>Before long, Russian state media - in particular <a href="https://twitter.com/RealZeist/status/1659280940944990208" target="_blank">Sputnik</a> - was promoting her analysis.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDDJnpqa_LmAPNH0RoZWMB4Gy2Jo1T2ZcW3P8a1GpQTRpwUyaLuMmyjFYAfArpONWk9BUt4uzpCcG4ZieoGuTYWXj5K3kLeIkGgcBQkjJcWdnRR8VJCpB-n3QsMxrfpgqo1pCfU70EERGSDLl5aVjxop7daqVqWvxjFSCQybKkH6RKR2HBA/s2010/nordsputnik.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="2010" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDDJnpqa_LmAPNH0RoZWMB4Gy2Jo1T2ZcW3P8a1GpQTRpwUyaLuMmyjFYAfArpONWk9BUt4uzpCcG4ZieoGuTYWXj5K3kLeIkGgcBQkjJcWdnRR8VJCpB-n3QsMxrfpgqo1pCfU70EERGSDLl5aVjxop7daqVqWvxjFSCQybKkH6RKR2HBA/s320/nordsputnik.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Geopolitics Alert in turn <a href="https://twitter.com/Dragnet_News/status/1659166394393702401" target="_blank">promoted </a>Russian-backed right-wing voices, such as Russia Today's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Stranahan" target="_blank">Lee Stranahan</a>, formerly of Breitbart, one of the people that Kremlin-backed hackers Guccifer 2.0 passed material to to help Donald Trump.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggj5ZvcJl0QGQMx5nmpa87bWkB2eshsVykb7YYfmiSHEk2Awwf6g8ZpfXPFNiK4Fdo91AM3nMYgDMVPmbp97inOl4IiUllPRm9OJiR89dhOKovPfTQ2t6aL_qsQh9kWGrIzjLFm13g0wFjmIweJvXOK2fr9hi29i4cg2fA4wP1lNXlEYfUhA/s1971/nordstranahan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="1971" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggj5ZvcJl0QGQMx5nmpa87bWkB2eshsVykb7YYfmiSHEk2Awwf6g8ZpfXPFNiK4Fdo91AM3nMYgDMVPmbp97inOl4IiUllPRm9OJiR89dhOKovPfTQ2t6aL_qsQh9kWGrIzjLFm13g0wFjmIweJvXOK2fr9hi29i4cg2fA4wP1lNXlEYfUhA/s320/nordstranahan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><div>Stranahan in turn <a href="https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1659254732131811328" target="_blank">hosted her</a> on his podcast with Garland Nixon, alongside Code Pink's Medea Benjamin, Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft, MintPress colleague Whitney Webb, and Patrick Henningsen of pro-Kremlin conspiracy theory site 21st Century Wire. By 2020, she <a href="https://twitter.com/fash_busters/status/1659343038622072838" target="_blank">appears to have been collaborating closely with Caleb Maupin's CPI</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>In 2020, she <a href="https://twitter.com/RealZeist/status/1659315298586234882" target="_blank">relocated </a>to Serbia to found a shady consultancy called the <a href="https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1659318857729970176?s=20" target="_blank">Sutra Agency</a>, and appears to have radicalised further. Her "Azov" attacks began almost as soon as she returned to the US from there.</div><div><br /><div><div><b>Why does it matter?</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>The alt-media ecosystem cultivated by state actors such as Iran and Russia relies on a low-information audience, cynical of "mainstream" sources and eagerly credulous towards "alternative" ones. Hence until the very day in 2022 that Russia launched its "special military operation", MintPress, Aaron Mate and other western mouthpieces were assuring us that invasion was a hoax, a US psy-op, and their gullible followers repeated this talking point on social media.</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-ZxWX4sv85JNgac3MHa7N48YxnSz3Gfelfg_x2CtZ906smIVtOPDsf_zkhlXXEvhhHBzUjNWeEr4jdy-fqu-xs3U3Di4PBKlaMas9U2JgwBNH9Wyv1pQnOG1XHhhmpOTpRtEANvARlJD3zjgXoHoeR26bcIlwdPgpyf6evX3-0zbNmcpxQ/s1200/mintlatuff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1200" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-ZxWX4sv85JNgac3MHa7N48YxnSz3Gfelfg_x2CtZ906smIVtOPDsf_zkhlXXEvhhHBzUjNWeEr4jdy-fqu-xs3U3Di4PBKlaMas9U2JgwBNH9Wyv1pQnOG1XHhhmpOTpRtEANvARlJD3zjgXoHoeR26bcIlwdPgpyf6evX3-0zbNmcpxQ/s320/mintlatuff.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Once the fighting began, they immediately <a href="https://twitter.com/BadBalticTakes/status/1659523673592590337" target="_blank">pivoted </a>to claiming the war had always been inevitable due to NATO provocation, with no apparent need to square the circle.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ706uWk6vwY18b8V7IwFZ1hxSZ81jxxCA52HFARbpTPZe1iE_JfMfalzgQaAMGCtBYG5IC9KKWdOohSQXCEG4ImsSxGoiPlFakkUizhOkQPIlr3i_UWBA6jKnsy3N243wqAQDp-N59BXt9nJ5GKiguYTFUhA5mc7fPjrhEBW4lhyHEC0PbA/s1569/minthedges.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1569" data-original-width="1284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ706uWk6vwY18b8V7IwFZ1hxSZ81jxxCA52HFARbpTPZe1iE_JfMfalzgQaAMGCtBYG5IC9KKWdOohSQXCEG4ImsSxGoiPlFakkUizhOkQPIlr3i_UWBA6jKnsy3N243wqAQDp-N59BXt9nJ5GKiguYTFUhA5mc7fPjrhEBW4lhyHEC0PbA/s320/minthedges.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><div><br /></div>A mentality that sees consumers of mainstream media as sheeple manipulated by NATO psy-ops, while they alone see the truth, is one that lends itself to believing in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag" target="_blank">false flag operations</a>. A false flag is when one party fakes an incident and blames it on its opponent as a pretext for attacking them. While there are <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60434579" target="_blank">examples </a>of the US using or considering using false flag attacks in the high Cold War, there are no recent such examples. Russia, on the other hand, has used it heavily, including in Crimea in 2014 and Donbass in 2022. Most recently, Russian agents <a href="https://lansinginstitute.org/2023/02/03/neo-nazi-organizations-and-radicals-as-a-tool-of-influence-in-scandinavia/" target="_blank">instigated apparent fascist Koran-burnings </a>in Scandinavia <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230321-did-russian-ties-to-koran-burning-outside-turkish-embassy-derail-sweden-s-nato-bid" target="_blank">to intensify </a>Turkish opposition to expanding NATO membership</div><div><br /></div><div>Nord's amateur false flag - attacking synagogues to get Americans to blame Ukraine - is learnt from the Russian playbook.<br /><div><br /><div>Not surprisingly, then, accusations of false flag are constantly projected by Russian and Iranian mouthpieces on to the West. MintPress is <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/tag/false-flag/" target="_blank">full </a>of conspiracist article by Whitney Webb and others conjuring up imaginary NATO false flag ops against Iran, Russia and Assad (including the sick fantasy that the US supports Syrian rebels to gas themselves to get the US to intervene in Syria which it then fails to do). In the Grayzone, Klarenberg, Blumenthal and Mate <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/tag/false-flag/" target="_blank">make up </a>lurid stories about British agents committing false flag operations in Bosnia, Syria and Ukraine in order to justify military action. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>In a similar way, Aaron Mate has flogged a baseless idea that Western states tampered with the OPCW (the world's chemical watchdog) to make it blame chemical attacks on Assad - when in reality Russian spies have been caught red-handed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/04/how-russian-spies-bungled-cyber-attack-on-weapons-watchdog" target="_blank">actually tampering with the OPCW</a>. Likewise, MintPress and Grayzone ad nauseum tag their enemies, from citizen journalists Bellingcat to Ecuadorian indigenous ecosocialist activist Yaku Perez, as "state cut-outs" - while they themselves follow an editorial line that never deviates from the interests of the Iranian theocracy and the Kremlin. Or again, while the Russian military and paramilitary presence in Ukraine is soaked through with hardcore fascists, their Western fans point the spotlight at the right-wingers involved in Azov to portray the whole of Ukraine as "Nazi". </div><div><br /></div><div>Essentially the pattern is that whatever the Russians do, their Western propogandists project on to the West, and in this case one particularly mentally unhinged propogandist tried to put it in to action. Luckily, this time, she didn't physically hurt anyone.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>In the last three years, the Covid pandemic has added to the psychic pressure we are all under. Anxiety about what messages to trust and hesitancy about vaccines and "big pharma" have driven many citizens into the arms of conspiracy theorists. Both fascists and state-backed disinformation (like Randi Nord) have been on hand to radicalise them further. In this case, the agent, as vulnerable and filled with rage and hatred as her target audience, has gotten very high on her own supply. </div></div><br />bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-22835593402223547572023-05-11T15:15:00.001+01:002023-05-11T15:21:13.159+01:00For our fallen comrades in Bakhmut<div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the flower of the partisan </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is the flower of the partisan </i></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Who died for freedom </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>
Some tragic losses at the end of last month, amongst the many tragic losses of the brutal Russian war in Ukraine (and the many other tragic losses in conflicts everywhere, from Sudan to Myanmar.<br /><br /><b>Cooper "Harris" Andrews<br /></b><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhHirme2BspCS8MCBwD-g8cZkg8d0WJnUeMkmLv75jvPTiSTbZBcp7Ub6uQ9YMNbzt0duEUY8oi9IxOKZFe08IedRY_4tUkjmiBPeyh-bOGH2ML7srP5keQm2jYMwzYmgSSadu9mooSdNTbTnjbrhegGDncquh9RSwwz7-yMzH7eZ4yC2oxkw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-cooper-andrews-bakhmut-ukraine/" target="_blank">Via Task and Purpose:</a></div><div><blockquote>Independent journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan" target="_blank">Jake Hanrahan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1652696668775620608?s=20">tweeted news of Andrews’ death on Sunday</a>, including <a href="https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1652715902587092993?s=20">a selfie that Andrews had sent a friend</a> showing him holding a sledgehammer along with the message: “If I am martyred, remember me with my hammer.”<br /><br />Andrews and two others were killed after being ambushed by Russian forces while they were defending Ukrainians being evacuated from Bakhmut, according to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrqrydwMWPB/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D">an Instagram post </a>from the <a href="https://www.popularfront.co/about">Popular Front</a>, a grassroots media organization that Hanrahan runs.<br /><br />“Cooper was a former US Marine and lifelong leftist organizer,” the Instagram post says. “He was a man of action. He didn’t scream into the void through his keyboard, he did real life.”<br /><br />The Instagram post also said that Andrews served as a volunteer firefighter in Texas, Colorado, and Idaho when those states battled wildfires, and he also taught self-defense classes.<br /><br />After initially joining Ukraine’s International Legion, Andrews joined another group, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrrCYr8MSe9/?hl=en">The Black Headquarter,</a> which posted a separate tribute to him on Instagram calling him “a brave fighter and a reliable comrade.”</blockquote>Via <a href="https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work" target="_blank">Crimethinc</a>: You can read about Cooper’s motivations in his own words <a href="https://www.facebook.com/610318036/posts/pfbid032fTw1c38RcbfvkrFqgMd4Azftv4wucrQ5s8rmd3HcwE5v9xTbZuzCXggZ9MiNeRbl/">here</a> and consult a eulogy from his comrades <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrtgQtgJUlE/">here</a>. <b><br /></b><b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>Dmitry Petrov</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-52612 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled" data-attachment-id="52612" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="81b3472b74daa4351b45c" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1" data-lazy-loaded="1" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1" data-orig-size="1280,960" data-permalink="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/29/my-name-is-dmitriy-petrov-and-if-you-are-reading-these-lines-it-means-that-i-most-likely-died-fighting-putins-invasion-of-ukraine/81b3472b74daa4351b45c/" data-recalc-dims="1" decoding="async" height="480" loading="eager" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?resize=640%2C480&ssl=1" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?resize=300%2C225&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?resize=768%2C576&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/81b3472b74daa4351b45c.jpg?w=1280&ssl=1 1280w" style="background-color: white; border-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292b2c; font-family: lora, serif; font-size: 16px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" width="640" /></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/29/my-name-is-dmitriy-petrov-and-if-you-are-reading-these-lines-it-means-that-i-most-likely-died-fighting-putins-invasion-of-ukraine/" target="_blank">In Freedom: "My name is Dmitriy Petrov, and if you are reading these lines, it means that I most likely died fighting Putin’s invasion of Ukraine"</a>. Extract:</div><blockquote>I am a member of the Militant Organisation of Anarcho-Communists (BOAC), and will remain so after my death. BOAC is our brainchild, born out of a belief in organised struggle. We managed to lead it across national borders.<br /><br />I tried my best to contribute to defeating the dictatorship and to the social revolution...<br /><br />As an anarchist, a revolutionary and a Russian I found it necessary to take part in the armed repulse of the Ukrainian people to Putin’s occupiers. I did it for justice, to defend Ukrainian society and to free my country, Russia, from oppression. For all the people who have been deprived of their dignity and the opportunity to breathe freely by the nefarious totalitarian system created in Russia and Belarus.<br /><br />Another important meaning of the participation in this war is to establish internationalism by our example. In the days when deadly imperialism awakens in response a wave of nationalism and contempt for the Russians, I assert in word and deed: there are no bad nations. All nations have one misfortune – greedy and power-hungry rulers. [Original source: <a href="https://t.me/boakom/111">https://t.me/boakom/111</a>, <a href="https://t.me/boakom/110">https://t.me/boakom/110</a>]</blockquote></div><div><a href="https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work" target="_blank">Crimethinc</a> publish a <a href="https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work" target="_blank">beautiful eulogy and incomplete biography</a>. Extract:</div><blockquote>In an <a href="https://syg.ma/@veniamin-volin/eto-ochieriednaia-popytka-transformatsii-blizhniegho-vostoka-kotoroi-trudno-nie-sochuvstvovat-i-k-tomu-zhie-biezumno-intieriesno-izuchat-intierviu-s-avtorami-sbornika-zhizn-biez-ghosudarstva-rievoliutsiia-v-kurdistanie">interview</a> published in December 2017, Dmitry said “In general, almost everything that is created by human hands is the fruit of the labor of countless people.” In that spirit, we do not seek to hold Dmitry up as an exemplary figure. Rather, his life affords us a glimpse into the lives of many Russian anarchists, illuminating their courage and the challenges they have faced.<br /><br />Above all, Dmitry’s life is a testament to how much is possible even in the most difficult conditions. Under a brutal dictatorship, faced with mounting adversity, he repeatedly found ways to continue organizing and fighting for the future he desired...<br /><br />Yet as authoritarianism rises around the world and war spreads from Syria to Ukraine, from Ukraine to Sudan, we too may have to answer the questions that Dmitry confronted when Russia invaded the country to which he had fled. If we are to be prepared for that situation—especially if we want to propose other answers to those questions—we need to study what has taken place in Russia. It may be that there is still time for things to turn out differently in other parts of the world, if we act boldly enough—but time is growing tight.<div></div></blockquote><div>Also read: An <a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/19/ukraine-war-video-dispatch-north-eastern-european-anarchists-respond-to-the-russian-narrative/">interview </a>from last April by Alexis Daloumis (<a href="https://twitter.com/AlexisDaloumis">@AlexisDaloumis</a>).</div><div><div><br /></div><b><div><b><br /></b></div>Finbar Cafferkey</b><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh6Hp820EuJLLJEOhSHmBWKxPLh2sjIcSIldRWTA6kbBFGmsuyOa4wISpaIE78d0-FEoaOMYvEWSxUmOCqfnXPsWZ9bfqasvt0kPRlVzp9xonm8R7KHJnGojl5kF_LAB2YKRZa5hk9Lg67yI35xrTAwzZTnCUvGaksb1XAID9xtYjFfzrK7g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh6Hp820EuJLLJEOhSHmBWKxPLh2sjIcSIldRWTA6kbBFGmsuyOa4wISpaIE78d0-FEoaOMYvEWSxUmOCqfnXPsWZ9bfqasvt0kPRlVzp9xonm8R7KHJnGojl5kF_LAB2YKRZa5hk9Lg67yI35xrTAwzZTnCUvGaksb1XAID9xtYjFfzrK7g" width="319" /></a></div><br /></b><div><i><a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/04/27/achill-island-man-killed-battling-russian-forces-in-eastern-ukraine/" target="_blank">Finbar Cafferkey </a>(40s), a native of Achill Island, Co Mayo, was a military volunteer and had recently travelled to Ukraine to assist local forces. Mr Cafferkey had previous combat experience in Syria where he assisted Kurdish militia in their battle against Islamic State. </i></div><div><br /></div><div>Via <a href="https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/in-memory-of-dmitry-petrov-an-incomplete-biography-and-translation-of-his-work" target="_blank">Crimethinc</a>: You can learn about Finbar’s lifelong activism <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1652251507712983040">here</a>, read an interview with him <a href="https://www.rabble.ie/2018/01/18/pride-tinged-with-sadness-an-interview-from-the-front/">here</a>, and listen to a song of his <a href="http://www.shelltosea.com/content/finbar-cafferkey-rip">here</a>.<span face="system, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "‘Segoe UI’", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "‘Open Sans’", "‘Helvetica Neue’", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.48px;"> </span></div></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"With sadness and pride we remember our friend and comrade Finbar Cafferkey. Ciya Dehmat, the name by which we knew him in Rojava, was killed on April 19th while fighting for the Ukrainian resistance together with BOAK (Combat Organisation of Anarcho-Communists)." (1) <a href="https://t.co/zgsMwr0eod">pic.twitter.com/zgsMwr0eod</a></p>— Davide Grasso (@velvetsecret80) <a href="https://twitter.com/velvetsecret80/status/1655267887462875137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Finbar Cafferkey who died resisting the Russian invasion of Ukraine Apr19 was a friend & comrade who for the two decades I knew him consistently put himself in harms way to oppose injustice. Whether that was fighting Shell or ISIS or going to Kos to help refugees come ashore/1 <a href="https://t.co/SEsPQFtxFK">pic.twitter.com/SEsPQFtxFK</a></p>— Andrew Flood 👨🏻💻📝🕺 (@andrewflood) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewflood/status/1652251507712983040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 29, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>His comrade, Philip O'Keefe, another veteran of the fight against Daesh in NE Syria, was <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/05/10/comrade-of-cafferkey-arrested-while-travelling-to-ireland-to-inform-family-of-mayo-mans-death/" target="_blank">arrested </a>by UK counter-terrorism police when he attempted to cross the UK to inform Cafferkey's kin of his death. </div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Remembering all fallen revolutionary comrades fighting Russian Imperialism on 1st of May ✊ <a href="https://t.co/oq8bzaYxPB">pic.twitter.com/oq8bzaYxPB</a></p>— Perspektive Selbstverwaltung (@perspektive_sv) <a href="https://twitter.com/perspektive_sv/status/1653418273055076354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>A musical tribute by Emmet Doyle:</div><iframe allow="autoplay" frameborder="no" height="300" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1506650917&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe><div style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Interstate, "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Sans", Garuda, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 100; line-break: anywhere; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; word-break: normal;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-310458959" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Emmett Doyle">Emmett Doyle</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-310458959/bakhmut-town-a-tribute-to-finbar-cooper-and-dmitry" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Bakhmut Town; a tribute to Finbar, Cooper, and Dmitry">Bakhmut Town; a tribute to Finbar, Cooper, and Dmitry</a></div></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-67519486019953394832023-04-03T18:43:00.032+01:002023-08-24T14:59:41.103+01:00The Battle of Honor Oak, round 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPv61Pujy1IpPprNpdb6jIkpBIQU1Y4JE4QURbKMa6oBVwxQktFaKLvV97wAka-R60PlQlZuyJz6MJ9QEmBC0NI8XWraIhiT9Y__2YfJTYgbih-ocMpU8ulAKmrAOX0wmpAjYrNRuerV0Ng-VXE8cjfp9GGN9uCeSiK46EsQ7rO8NYLrxOWNB5/s1024/honor-oak-scaled.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPv61Pujy1IpPprNpdb6jIkpBIQU1Y4JE4QURbKMa6oBVwxQktFaKLvV97wAka-R60PlQlZuyJz6MJ9QEmBC0NI8XWraIhiT9Y__2YfJTYgbih-ocMpU8ulAKmrAOX0wmpAjYrNRuerV0Ng-VXE8cjfp9GGN9uCeSiK46EsQ7rO8NYLrxOWNB5/s320/honor-oak-scaled.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.rs21.org.uk/2023/03/02/mobilising-against-the-convergence-of-the-far-right-and-transphobia/" target="_blank">February counter-protest, via RS21</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>At the end of March, the Honor Oak pub in Southeast London saw the second monthly mobilisation of far right activists under the brand of "Turning Point UK" (originally trading as a conservative student group) to protest against a private commercial family-friendly drag storytime held at the pub on some Saturday mornings. The protest was dominated by ageing football thug veterans of far right and fascist groups including the British National Party and Blood and Honour. The far right were vastly outnumbered by local people and anti-fascists, including our vicar, our MP, councillors and trade unions. </p><p>Copied from <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1641069857650212864.html" target="_blank">Threadreader </a>(so forgive the format glitches), here's my Twitter thread on what happened. 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box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069885856808961" dir="auto" id="tweet_4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This little guy really fancied himself as a hard man — while he was protected by two rows of cops.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXI0WwAIYP-P.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXI0WwAIYP-P.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069896351068161" dir="auto" id="tweet_5" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This creepy guy (<a class="entity-hashtag" href="https://threadreaderapp.com/hashtag/fagin_mr" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">#fagin_mr</a>?) spent most of the morning masked up filming anti-fascists.<span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXpVXsAAeOLz.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXpVXsAAeOLz.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXpWXwAEIxGb.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXpWXwAEIxGb.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXpsX0AAa27v.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAXpsX0AAa27v.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069906488705026" dir="auto" id="tweet_6" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Among the aging thugs was this trio of posh-voiced wannabe influencers from “Students Against Tyranny” <a class="entity-hashtag" href="https://threadreaderapp.com/hashtag/SATOfficial_1" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">#SATOfficial_1</a>, including comedic anti-vaxxer Nazarin Veronica.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAYRQXsAEcnPE.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAYRQXsAEcnPE.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069915065942016" dir="auto" id="tweet_7" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Loads of the far right activists there fancy themselves to be vloggers, such as this guy (who is also antisemitic, anti-vaxx, pro-Nazi and pro-Putin, of course).<span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2PXwAExFZ6.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2PXwAExFZ6.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2KWAAEedbt.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2KWAAEedbt.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2NXwAA4Gvh.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2NXwAA4Gvh.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2bX0AA0yw1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAY2bX0AA0yw1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069924511522819" dir="auto" id="tweet_8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This little guy had a Tommy Robinson News logo on his camera (that’s “Tommy” for reference in the right-hand pic - not at Honor Oak at the weekend!). Not sure if he’s an affiliated vlogger or just a fanboy of the diminutive demagogue<span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAZURWwAU2rYw.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAZURWwAU2rYw.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAZUUX0AA8OiF.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAZUUX0AA8OiF.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069933164363777" dir="auto" id="tweet_9" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This lady, attending with her kids (who really didn’t look like they wanted to be there), spent most of the morning holding her Turning Point placard upside down.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAZ5jXgAIJoU8.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAZ5jXgAIJoU8.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069943809515520" dir="auto" id="tweet_10" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This banner helpfully explains what Turning Point UK want to see: “adult sex entertainers, not pantomime dames.”<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAaY_WwAAdfDT.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAaY_WwAAdfDT.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069955436216320" dir="auto" id="tweet_11" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The master race<span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbE3WIAcBJr1.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbE3WIAcBJr1.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbEqWwAA9iSq.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbEqWwAA9iSq.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbErWYAEU5bR.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbErWYAEU5bR.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbEqWAAA6mTE.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbEqWAAA6mTE.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069963606671362" dir="auto" id="tweet_12" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Roy Brinkley<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbuhWIAEqXpY.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAbuhWIAEqXpY.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069972615987200" dir="auto" id="tweet_13" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This guy tried to get up close with the counter protestors to show how hard he is, but was swiftly removed by anti-fascists and slunk back behind police lines.<span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAcKbXgAIRyQp.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAcKbXgAIRyQp.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; 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box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">No defence of children and British morality is complete without a few cans of Stella at 11 am.<span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAcx1XoAI5Hvu.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAcx1XoAI5Hvu.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 700px;" /></a></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069985891008515" dir="auto" id="tweet_15" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">PS this thread on how the cops always side with the fascists. At the end of the demo, five police vans full of cops were parked outside another local pub so the fash (many of whom had already been drinking at their own demo) could have a pint in peace.<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1639615944514256898" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-2" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-2&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1639615944514256898&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1641069857650212864.html&sessionId=b4382da2fa4468e471cb3f77f016c0cfedc04f6b&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 626px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069993650429952" dir="auto" id="tweet_16" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Make no mistake, the ageing thugs who turned up for Turning Point would’ve loved to have a fight. Here’s one. This guy was also at the insane march against traffic calming in Oxford last month; weird overlap between men who get triggered by drag queens and anti-LTN activism.<span class="row justify-content-center entity-multiple-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><span class="col-md-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 50%; max-width: 50%; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 365px;"><span class="entity-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAdbeX0AIaU93.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="Image" class="b-loaded" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsZAdbeX0AIaU93.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; 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background-size: initial; border-radius: 15px; border: 1px solid rgb(225, 232, 237); box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.8rem; margin: 10px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 335px;" /></a></span></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069996410392577" dir="auto" id="tweet_17" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">See also:<span class="entity-embed" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="twitter-player" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 550px; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1639611258449149953" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-3" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=bobfrombrockley&dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-3&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=true&id=1639611258449149953&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fthreadreaderapp.com%2Fthread%2F1641069857650212864.html&sessionId=b4382da2fa4468e471cb3f77f016c0cfedc04f6b&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 787px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641069999514087428" dir="auto" id="tweet_18" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Take homes:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a4a4a4;">1/ </span>These are not people who care about children or who have critical questions about gender; they’re hardened, violent far right activists, plus grifters trying to use culture rage to build an audience.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />… <span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641070002450079746" dir="auto" id="tweet_19" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a4a4a4;">2/ </span>Looking at their social media accounts, you see a mix of themes. The top ones, as well as gender, are: migrant boats, vaccines/lockdowns, celebrating resistance (including violent &/or illegal acts) against traffic calming— the key current gateways to right-wing radicalisation <span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641070004962574339" dir="auto" id="tweet_20" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a4a4a4;">3/ </span>In February, they were utterly humiliated by their tiny turnout and huge local counter-turnout, so they made an effort this week to gather their forces. We still outnumbered them, but ordinary locals have better things to do with their Saturdays so that might change. <span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641070007361712129" dir="auto" id="tweet_21" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-family: charter, Georgia, Cambria, "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.1875rem; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span class="nop nop-start" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #a4a4a4;">4/ </span>Liberal strategies — relying on the cops to keep the order — won’t protect our community from the fash. We need to keep physically showing them they’re not welcome here, while politically contesting their toxic ideas.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />/🧵over. <a class="entity-hashtag" href="https://threadreaderapp.com/hashtag/NoPasaran" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1f2; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">#NoPasaran</a> <span class="tw-permalink" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #cccccc; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: hidden; width: 12px;"><span class="fas fa-link" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: var(--fa-display,inline-block); font-family: "Font Awesome 6 Free"; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 900; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto;"></span></span></div><div class="content-tweet allow-preview" data-action="click->thread#showTweet" data-controller="thread" data-screenname="bobfrombrockley" data-tweet="1641075923117064194" dir="auto" id="tweet_22" style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/PA-61779846.jpg?itok=RYhkjnWL&c=90628b3479d758ef9382c904c182868f" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="800" height="318" src="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/article_full/public/PA-61779846.jpg?itok=RYhkjnWL&c=90628b3479d758ef9382c904c182868f" width="640" /></a></i></div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Stop The War is in the news for its opposition to Western action to protect Ukraine. Labour leader Keir Starmer has gone so far as to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/10/labour-nato-british-left-ukraine-keir-starmer" target="_blank">say </a>"At best they are naive, at worst they actively give succour to authoritarian leaders who directly threaten democracies. There is nothing progressive in showing solidarity with the aggressor when our allies need our solidarity and – crucially – our practical assistance now more than ever." Googling around this, I noticed a 2015 piece about them by Gary Kent of <a href="http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/" target="_blank">Labour Friends of Iraq</a> - "Corbyn's kebabs with sectarians" - was no longer online, so I am pasting it here from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161201024253/https://www.progressonline.org.uk/2015/12/08/corbyns-kebabs-with-sectarians/" target="_blank">Wayback Machine</a>.</i><br /><br />***<br /><br /><span style="color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Jeremy Corbyn will this Friday grace a Stop the War Coalition<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_War_Coalition#Corbyn_and_the_StWC_Christmas_2015_dinner" target="_blank"> fundraising dinner</a> at a Turkish/Kurdish restaurant as their guest. He has spurned calls from Labour members of parliament to stay away from this hotchpotch of ultra-leftist groupuscules that abhor democratic socialists.</span><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="pf-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is not as if they have just become a poisonous sect. They have been at it for over a decade. Ten years ago, I and an Iraqi trade unionist Abdullah Muhsin, who differed on the invasion, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161201024253/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1389815378d2MushinKent1.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ef3341; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">reviewed</a> the hagiography of the STWC written by its two main officers, Andrew Murray and Lindsey German.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We had united with others to support the Iraqi trade unions and other democrats. Given that Saddam had brutally repressed independent unions for decades, one of the best outcomes of his fall was the re-emergence of a free labour movement that could again become a bulwark of non-sectarianism and democracy.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the STWC’s priority was Troops Out Now. The clash peaked at the 2004 Labour party conference where STWC supporters proposed withdrawing British troops. Abdullah for the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions made plain that, ‘an early date for the unilateral withdrawal of troops would be bad for my country, bad for the emerging progressive forces, a terrible blow for free trade unionism, and would play into the hands of extremists and terrorists.’</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The STWC thought it would win the vote but lost massively. Murray and German then <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161201024253/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1389815378d2MushinKent1.pdf" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ef3341; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sneered</a> that such arguments are always used by colonisers and their stooges. We argued that it was the height of a cultural imperialist arrogance for such armchair revolutionaries to lecture Iraqis on how to deal with the new political situation.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Murray and German also circulated a statement in October 2004 backing the struggle of Iraqis ‘by whatever means they find necessary.’ Leftwing member of parliament <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Barnes_(Labour_politician)" target="_blank">Harry Barnes </a>tabled a Commons <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161201024253/http://www.parliament.uk/edm/print/2003-04/1744" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #ef3341; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">motion</a>, which explained the issue. It said,</p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/web/20161120125455im_/http://www.progressonline.org.uk/content/themes/continuum/images/blockquote.png") 0px 12px no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 50px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That this House notes that the Stop the War Coalition leaders recently put out a statement by email to its supporters which backed ‘the legitimacy of the struggle of the Iraqi people, by whatever means they find necessary’ to end occupation; believes that this scurrilous statement would strongly imply support for the so-called resistance and thereby acquiesce in the murders of more people such as Ken Bigley, as well as hundreds of ordinary Iraqis; further notes, however, that versions of the statement published in the Morning Star and on the Stop the War website exclude the words ‘by whatever means they find necessary’; expresses the hope that the Coalition’s leadership has disavowed these outrageous words which will only encourage those who use physical force in Iraq.</p></blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It urged, ‘the Stop the War leadership to clarify its position without delay, reassure the public that they have not lost their moral bearings and, if this is a policy statement made internally to their membership, to withdraw it and institute internal action against those who issued this terrible statement to make sure that such highly offensive positions are never taken again.’ No such action was taken. Corbyn immediately tabled a Commons amendment deleting everything in favour of a paean to the SWTC and also argued that ‘much of the unacceptable violence in Iraq is a result of the occupation.’</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Former railway drivers’ union leader Mick Rix resigned from the STWC executive saying,</p><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("/web/20161120125455im_/http://www.progressonline.org.uk/content/themes/continuum/images/blockquote.png") 0px 12px no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 50px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you think I am going to sit back and agree with beheadings, kidnappings, torture and brutality, and outright terrorisation of ordinary Iraqis and others, then you can forget it. I will not be involved whatsoever, to me it is akin to supporting the same brutality and oppression inflicted on Iraq by Saddam, and the invading and occupying forces of the USA.</p></blockquote><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rix told Murray: ‘The language that was used was deliberate, archaic, violent, and plain downright stupid and dangerous if you happen to be an Iraqi at this present time. Then again you are not … I don’t think you also realise the danger that your actions and those of the Respect colleagues in the STW have placed Abdullah and perhaps others in the IFTU against attacks from extremists.’ This was sadly prescient. Within weeks, the IFTU’s international secretary Hadi Saleh, was tortured, garrotted, and shot dead in Baghdad by Saddam’s goons.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All this was just four years after its foundation but the STWC has further decayed for a decade. Yet Corbyn now says that the STWC has repeatedly called it right for over 14 years of disastrous war in the Middle East. It is one thing for a factional left leader to back sects, but a Labour leader should rise above them. This is a kebab too far, Jeremy.</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">***</p><p style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Also read:</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Abdullah Muhsin and Gary Kent: <a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1389815378d2MushinKent1.pdf" target="_blank">Stop the War - The Story of Britain’s Biggest Mass Movement</a> (2005)</li><li>Taylor Parkes: <a href="https://thequietus.com/articles/18714-jeremy-corbyn-labour-election-rally-policies" target="_blank">Last House On The Left: Following Jeremy Corbyn's Campaign Trail </a>(2015)</li><li>James Bloodworth: <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2016/10/where-anti-war-left-s-fury-over-syria" target="_blank">Where is the anti-war left’s fury over Syria?</a> (2016) </li><li><a href="https://english.alaraby.co.uk/taxonomy/term/68445">Joey Ayoub: </a><a href="https://english.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/whats-behind-stop-wars-aversion-syria-voices" target="_blank">What's behind Stop the War's aversion to Syria voices?</a> (2016)</li></ul></div><div class="pf-content" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div></div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-33492191595438014262021-09-03T11:32:00.001+01:002021-09-03T11:50:51.428+01:00Stephen J. Sniegoski and David Miller: Promoting an antisemite? [by Vorkoz]<p><b><i>This is a guest post by <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Vorkoz</a>. Content in square brackets is added by Bob. </i></b></p><p><br /><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jsoc-bristol-university-david-miller_uk_602bd532c5b680717eea7b39" target="_blank">University of Bristol professor David Miller</a> has previously been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jul/13/spinwatch-right-reply-david-miller" target="_blank">accused </a>of sharing far-right propaganda on a website associated with him, <b>Spinwatch</b>, namely quotations from and links to the works of one <b>Kevin MacDonald</b>, a former professor in the United States whose writings have provided a scholarly cover for many classic antisemitic libels and conspiracy theories. [The extracts from MacDonald's work published by Spinwatch included a list of "characteristics of Jewish intellectual movements", such as that Jews "form a cohesive, mutually reinforcing core" that has "access to prestigious and mainstream media sources, partly as a result of Jewish influence on the media".]</p><p>After some receiving some negative attention about this, Miller <a href="http://hurryupharry.net/2009/12/10/questions-for-david-miller-at-neoconeurope/" target="_blank">apologised</a>, removed the references from his website and made a commitment to "tighten the editorial process governing the posting of material", and over time the furore died down. This piece would like to draw attention to the fact that, despite this tightening of editorial process, MacDonald is not the only antisemitic conspiracy theorist whose writings Miller has shared. </p><p>An example can be found on a website associated with Miller, <b>Powerbase.info</b>, a project of Public Interest Investigations, the organisation Miller co-directs and co-founded. Powerbase, <a href="https://archive.ph/rxIXD" target="_blank">linked to</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/tracking_power" target="_blank">his Twitter profile page</a> and official <a href="https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/david-miller" target="_blank">Bristol University page </a>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210829021429/https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/david-miller" target="_blank">archived</a>), has a page entitled "<a href="https://powerbase.info/index.php/Neoconservatives" target="_blank">Neoconservatives</a>" (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210410211716/https://powerbase.info/index.php/Neoconservatives" target="_blank">archived</a>), which apparently attempts to portray information about the so-called Neoconservative movement.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlKtLI1HJ2o/YTD-lf0yL_I/AAAAAAAADp8/o2lcnmnu12Yr2gppvfYRm5rlJXXa2AgCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s903/Inkedpowerbase_LI.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="903" height="146" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlKtLI1HJ2o/YTD-lf0yL_I/AAAAAAAADp8/o2lcnmnu12Yr2gppvfYRm5rlJXXa2AgCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Inkedpowerbase_LI.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>A book recommended by Powerbase is the <i>Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel </i>by one <b>Stephen J. Sniegoski</b>. Powerbase lists IHS Press as the publisher.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J6DWiusW1U4/YTDdJZnfaWI/AAAAAAAADo8/ADKQfog-AqkOSgKrZdEf7-eE3Oh1BsWEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s903/books.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="903" height="101" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J6DWiusW1U4/YTDdJZnfaWI/AAAAAAAADo8/ADKQfog-AqkOSgKrZdEf7-eE3Oh1BsWEQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h101/books.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>As one can see on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Cabal-Neoconservative-National-Interest/dp/1932528172" target="_blank">the book's Amazon page</a>, its introduction was written by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gottfried" target="_blank">Paul Gottfried</a>. Gottfried is an important character in the US far right scene and he is often <a href="http://transformativestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Joan-Braune.pdf" target="_blank">credited </a>with creating the term 'alt-right' and for his promotion of the far right conspiracy theory concerning 'cultural marxism' which has been cited by several far-right spree-killers in recent years. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3JayvYMd6gY/YTD7YoOtwgI/AAAAAAAADp0/6_lmp0wXv0QxbHPSpyvnKggzPwH_ZlrYQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="338" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3JayvYMd6gY/YTD7YoOtwgI/AAAAAAAADp0/6_lmp0wXv0QxbHPSpyvnKggzPwH_ZlrYQCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="163" /></a></div><p></p><p>Political Research Associates, a US think tank focusing on investigating the American far right, has published a review of this book in <a href="https://www.politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/PE-Summer-2009.pdf" target="_blank">the summer 2009 issue </a>of its magazine <i>The Public Eye </i>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201109134525/https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/PE-Summer-2009.pdf" target="_blank">archived</a>). The review, by <a href="https://twitter.com/michelleinbklyn" target="_blank">Michelle Goldberg</a>, posits that Sniegoski views US foreign policy as driven by Israeli interests and its loyal servants in the United States, with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld acting as mere supporting players. </p><p></p><blockquote><p>It’s a long way from there, however, to the claim that Israel alone inspired the Iraq war and that the catastrophic outcome there was intentional, meant to keep Israel’s enemies fractured and disorganized. By treating George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld as mere supporting players in the march to war, co-opted or manipulated by the titular “cabal,” Sniegoski is playing into old stereotypes about covert, omnipresent and almost occult Jewish influence. At one point, he calls Rumsfeld “the fall guy for the war’s failures.” (In fact, as former counterterrorism czar Richard Clark wrote in his book <i>Against All Enemies</i>, “By the afternoon [the day after the attack], Secretary Rumsfeld was talking about broadening the objectives of our response and ‘getting Iraq.’”) The former Vice President is barely mentioned.</p><p>For the conspiracist, there are no accidents. Thus Sniegoski assumes that since Iraq devolved into an anarchic bloodbath, that must have been the plan all along. “Now one might be tempted to attribute the rejection of the military’s caution to insane hubris on the part of [Richard] Perle and the neoconservative crowd,” he writes, before dispensing with that notion. “Richard Perle may be many things, but stupid is not one of these. Perle undoubtedly thought through the implications of his plan.” Indeed, says Sniegoski, a “complete fiasco” could work to the neocons’ advantage by throwing the region into chaos and preparing the way for a wider war. (He doesn’t bother to address how Perle’s all-seeing brilliance squares with the total discrediting of neoconservatism and the increased strength of Iran that resulted from the Iraq war.)</p></blockquote><p></p><p>A bit further:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Just as the neoconservatives attribute a kind of cosmic evil to many Islamic regimes, and dismiss all efforts at historical understanding as amoral relativism, so Sniegoski sees only the diabolical in Israel. Obviously, that country is in many ways richly deserving of criticism, but there’s something suspect about the reflexive way the author demonizes the Jewish state while downplaying or dismissing the aggression of its enemies. To read this book, one would think Israel started every war it ever fought. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial is explained away thusly: “It was not apparent that Ahmadinejad had actually denied the mass murder of the Jews during World War II, though he did, at various times, question various facets of the Holocaust and demanded greater evidential proof.” Here, Sniegoski’s language suggests he finds Holocaust revisionism reasonable. </p></blockquote><blockquote><p>To be sure, the author goes out of his way to distance himself from antisemitism, and several times he notes that not all Jews support the neoconservative agenda or the Israeli Right. Nevertheless, he quotes openly antisemitic sources as authoritative, at one point citing Kevin MacDonald, who he describes as a “rightist evolutionary biologist.” In fact, MacDonald is a sociobiologist who claims Jews are genetically extremely smart yet clannish, and subversive of whatever society they find themselves in. Among other things, MacDonald has written that eventually universities may have to establish quotas to reduce the number of Jewish students, and that higher taxes on Jews may have to be levied “to counter the Jewish advantage in the possession of wealth.” To quote MacDonald on the subject of dual loyalties in this context is roughly equivalent to appealing to the wisdom of David Duke in an argument over affirmative action.</p><p></p></blockquote><p>The review also mentions neoconservatives as pushing for the Kosovo campaign as part of their subversive agenda, which is somewhat odd given that some of the prominent neoconservatives such as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/04/02/the-road-to-hell/1d8b9556-8ea4-4495-aa14-36c928ccfd60/" target="_blank">Charles Krauthammer </a>seemed to be opposed to such a campaign, while the Republican party inside which the neoconsevative movement operated was not very supportive of then Democratic president Bill Clinton's designs re: Kosovo. </p><p>The review also identifies the book's publisher, <b>IHS Press</b>, as a far right Catholic publishing house with other published authors including such as the French fascist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ousset" target="_blank">Jean Ousset</a>. </p><p>Another <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2007/12-anti-semitic-radical-traditionalist-catholic-groups">article </a>by the US organization Southern Poverty Law Center, known for its advocacy of civil rights and opposition to far right extremists, goes into further detail about IHS Press' extensive far right connections. [The SPLC calls IHS, along with the closely related Legion of St Louis, "two of the most nakedly anti-Semitic organizations in the entire radical traditionalist Catholic pantheon".]<br /><br />The SPLC identifies the two men directing this company. One is former US Navy public affairs officer <b>John Sharpe</b> and the other is <b>Derek Holland</b>, who has used the pen name D. Liam O'Huallachain to contribute to a few of the books.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Did you know about these two books that were published by IHS and received loads of praise from prominent lefties? They were co-edited by John Sharpe & Derek Holland under a pseudonym <a href="https://t.co/NiFrYqUyVI">pic.twitter.com/NiFrYqUyVI</a></p>— Anti-Fascism & Far Right 🥤 (@FFRAFAction) <a href="https://twitter.com/FFRAFAction/status/1419344652986195973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Holland_(activist)" target="_blank">Holland </a>is quite infamous amongst the European far right scene (see <a href="https://twitter.com/areidross/status/1227709574444126208" target="_blank">this long thread </a>by Alexander Reid Ross). An activist in the far right scene since the 1970s, he was involved with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(UK)" target="_blank">National Front</a> in Britain alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Griffin" target="_blank">Nick Griffin</a>. In 1984 he authored a pamphlet, <i>The Political Soldier</i>, which became popular amongst the fascist scene. Later he went on to found a neo-fascist group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Third_Position" target="_blank">International Third Position </a>with Nick Griffin and Italian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Fiore" target="_blank">Roberto Fiore</a>.<p></p><p>A more thorough treatment of Holland etc. can be found for example in "<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2017.1417191" target="_blank">Pan-European thought in British fascism: the International Third Position and the Alliance for Peace and Freedom</a>" by Ryan Shaffer or Oxford University historian Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke's <i>Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity</i>, pp 68-69.</p><p>Thus the IHS publishing house can be said to be very networked into both European and American far right movements, and, with a bit further digging, this seems to be the case with regard to Mr. Sniegoski as well.</p><p>Sniegoski has articles published in far right publications on both sides of the Atlantic. For example in Europe, he has published a 2003 article in a journal called<i> The Revisionist</i> (also called <i>Viertelsjahrshefte für freie Geschichstsforschung </i>in German) edited by a German Holocaust denier called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germar_Rudolf" target="_blank">Germar Rudolf</a> (convicted for Holocaust denial in Germany and <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/crime/2021/08/noted-holocaust-denier-cant-beat-indecent-exposure-conviction-for-being-pants-less-in-central-pa-park.html" target="_blank">more recently for indecent exposure at a kids' play park in Pennsylvania</a>).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hSJuA49J_E/YTDjB13b60I/AAAAAAAADpE/odGBVmC9bk4BLVbePbtttNPsZ1ITU_nzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s903/revisionist.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="903" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hSJuA49J_E/YTDjB13b60I/AAAAAAAADpE/odGBVmC9bk4BLVbePbtttNPsZ1ITU_nzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h284/revisionist.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>The frontpage of the journal includes glowing endorsements from the regulars of the field, such as <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/willis-carto" target="_blank">Willis Carto</a>, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/mark-weber" target="_blank">Mark Weber</a>, <a href="https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2018/10/23/an-obituary-for-holocaust-denial" target="_blank">Robert Faurisson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_T%C3%B6ben" target="_blank">Fredrick Töben</a> and <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-irving" target="_blank">David Irving</a>.</p><p>Another Sniegoski <a href="https://archive.ph/GFt9o" target="_blank">article </a>can be found in the journal <i>Telos</i>, which also publishes<i> </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_de_Benoist" target="_blank">Alain de Benoist</a>, a leading author of the French New Right. </p><p>In the United States, Sniegoski has published articles in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Occidental_Quarterly" target="_blank">The Occidental Quarterly </a></i>of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_MacDonald_(evolutionary_psychologist)" target="_blank">Kevin MacDonald</a>, for example this one promoting Pearl Harbor revisionism [a cause he has <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161209013754/https://www.unz.com/article/the-case-for-pearl-harbor-revisionism/" target="_blank">explicitly embraced </a>in another antisemitic publication, the Unz Review, which has published 92 articles by Sniegoski]. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9ZVJ-F3jKA/YTDkwhNwXdI/AAAAAAAADpM/0seYbpznucYpu2Lz2KW2htSecMThKf8XACLcBGAsYHQ/s811/occidental.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="811" height="294" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L9ZVJ-F3jKA/YTDkwhNwXdI/AAAAAAAADpM/0seYbpznucYpu2Lz2KW2htSecMThKf8XACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/occidental.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFid2wBMkks/YTEJz8clOwI/AAAAAAAADqE/B2DbL0AKPtoOPT-K8pldsEy-GAbaL5e7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s903/unz.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="903" height="294" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EFid2wBMkks/YTEJz8clOwI/AAAAAAAADqE/B2DbL0AKPtoOPT-K8pldsEy-GAbaL5e7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/unz.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>[His list of contributions to <i>The Occidental Quarterly </i>also includes a glowing review of Patrick Buchanan's argument that America shouldn't have fought the Nazis in WWII, in a 2009 issue which also features de Benoiste.]</p><p><i>The Occidental Quarterly</i>'s<i> </i>staff and regular authors have included the likes of <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jared-taylor" target="_blank">Jared Taylor</a>, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2005/sam-francis-voice-radical-right-dies-unexpectedly" target="_blank">Sam Francis</a>, Ted O'Keefe and others, familiar to those who follow the far right scene. O'Keefe for example is affiliated with the Holocaust denialist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Review" target="_blank">Institute for Historical Review</a> (IHR) and used to be involved with the American neo-nazi group the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/national-alliance" target="_blank">National Alliance </a>founded by <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/william-pierce" target="_blank">William Luther Pierce</a>. A far-right website containing articles from the IHR's <i>Journal of Historical Review</i>, directed by above-mentioned Mark Weber, contains a 2002 <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/2019*/http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/12/2/Weber231-240.html" target="_blank">article </a>indicating Sniegoski has penned a "laudatory" review of a book published by IHR, a translation of a German language book penned by an American Holocaust denier called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Hoggan" target="_blank">David Hoggan</a>. </p><p>Further connections to MacDonald are also evident from a 2009 article on a website affiliated with MacDonald claiming both were part of a conversation about 'Jewish power' together with hosts <a href="https://jhate.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/mark-glenns-new-anti-semitic-broadcasting-network/" target="_blank">Mark Glenn </a>and James Morris on the far right <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0402/Guardians-of-the-free-Republics-tied-to-Texas-radio-station" target="_blank">Republic Broadcasting internet radio n</a>etwork.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e6oKDU725qQ/YTDpeQMEyoI/AAAAAAAADpU/qbgte72EClENyiwIX-M3o4sm_Q1L7_YUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s903/RBN.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="903" height="192" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e6oKDU725qQ/YTDpeQMEyoI/AAAAAAAADpU/qbgte72EClENyiwIX-M3o4sm_Q1L7_YUQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/RBN.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Mark Glenn, a traditionalist Catholic who also hosts the "Ugly Truth" internet radio show, is a <a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/anti-semite-mark-glenn-gave-speech-at-ahmadinejad-dinner-in-new-york" target="_blank">well-known antisemite</a> with connections to Willis Carto's publications.</p><p>Articles by Sniegoski can also be found on the website of the former KKK-leader David Duke, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190807033113/https://davidduke.com/1927/" target="_blank">one </a>of them, from 2007, lamenting the IHS' above-mentioned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sharpe_(publisher)" target="_blank">John Sharpe</a>'s <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2007/us-navy-suspends-radical-traditionalist-catholic" target="_blank">firing from the Navy </a>for antisemitism, and the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210712161435/https://davidduke.com/a-war-for-israel-not-for-oil/" target="_blank">other</a>, from 2005, blaming Israel for the Iraq war and talking about "Jewish power" as a "taboo topic". [The latter article is<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041027042940/https://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_oilwar.htm" target="_blank"> re-posted</a> from the far right website <i>The Last Ditch</i>, where Sniegoski has a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210126114118/https://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/sniegcontents.htm" target="_blank">regular column </a>and which also publishes Jared Taylor and Sam Francis - but the piece on Sharpe seems to be published only by David Duke. -B.]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MH3orCQz0aM/YTDv7bzmTaI/AAAAAAAADpc/oeLPh7NvSvoUcyA2miPdFhHmNSB732jxACLcBGAsYHQ/s903/neoconned.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="515" data-original-width="903" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MH3orCQz0aM/YTDv7bzmTaI/AAAAAAAADpc/oeLPh7NvSvoUcyA2miPdFhHmNSB732jxACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/neoconned.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yhayNNxjPI/YTDv7XqOx7I/AAAAAAAADpg/_hWuvjWf7MkYE11_Fn-P-k3puu0E7aj2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s903/waroil.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="903" height="181" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4yhayNNxjPI/YTDv7XqOx7I/AAAAAAAADpg/_hWuvjWf7MkYE11_Fn-P-k3puu0E7aj2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/waroil.png" width="320" /></a></div><p>Yet another example of Sniegoski's far right association would be his appearance at another far-right radio show, <i>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Cesspool" target="_blank">Political Cesspool</a></i>, and hosted by white nationalist James Edwards. [Sniegoski appeared a week after David Duke.]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3oBnidv2iv4/YTDw2WV441I/AAAAAAAADps/v-_kNGxE60UCVw6raovbZPInJjZwVMAtACLcBGAsYHQ/s903/cess.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="903" height="127" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3oBnidv2iv4/YTDw2WV441I/AAAAAAAADps/v-_kNGxE60UCVw6raovbZPInJjZwVMAtACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h127/cess.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>One can see that on November 15 2008 Dr. 'Sneigoski' (sic) and Paul Gottfried were discussing Transparent Cabal's publication. <i>The Political Cesspool</i> was hosted in 2008 by the Republic Broadcasting Network and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulcast">simulcast</a> on Stormfront Radio, a service of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_(website)">Stormfront</a>, one of largest and oldest hate-sites on the internet, Stormfront.org. [The Political Cesspool, sponsored by the IHR, was described in 2009 by the SPLC as "the primary radio nexus of hate in America". MacDonald has been a regular guest.]<br /><br />There are even more examples of Sniegoski's connections to the far right on both sides of the Atlantic, so David Miller's promotion of <i>Transparent Cabal </i>is indeed no less worrying than his earlier implied endorsement of Kevin MacDonald's views on his website. Yet <i>Transparent Cabal </i>is still offered as a reference on Professor Miller's website.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Editorial note:</b></p><p><i>Regular readers will recognise that Professor Miller as a member of the "Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media", co-authoring their 2019 article claiming the OPCW's investigation of the Syrian government chemical attack on Douma (which they believe was "staged") was "nobbled"; he is also the director and sole shareholder in a company called <a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/12109054">Campaign for Chris Williamson Ltd</a>. For more on that, see <a href="https://al-bab.com/blog/2019/08/syria-truther-heads-fundraising-campaign-sue-british-labour-party" target="_blank">Brian Whitaker</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/conspiracy-theories-spread-by-academics-with-university-help-9g09xtc73" target="_blank">Dominic Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/assad-defender-backs-mp-chris-williamson-over-antisemitism-dispute-pwv2h9lnp" target="_blank">Eleni Courea</a> and <a href="https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/tag/david-miller/" target="_blank">Tendance Coatesy</a>. </i></p><p><b>Further reading:</b></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Keith Kahn-Harris "<a href="https://www.jewthink.org/2021/02/22/into-the-flatlands-with-professor-david-miller/" target="_blank">Into the Flatlands with Professor David Miller</a>"</li><li>David Hirsh <a href="https://fathomjournal.org/fathom-long-read-the-meaning-of-david-miller/" target="_blank">"The Meaning of David Miller"</a></li><li>Fringewatch on <a href="http://fringewatcher.blogspot.com/search/label/Derek%20Holland" target="_blank">Derek Holland</a> and <a href="http://fringewatcher.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Sharpe" target="_blank">John Sharp</a></li></ul><p></p><br />bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-55193544560697565552021-07-02T22:52:00.005+01:002021-07-02T22:52:59.672+01:00Tory antisemitim file updates<p>At the time of the last general election, towards the end of 2019, I wrote <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/11/dont-let-tories-use-jews-as-political.html" target="_blank">a long post on why the Tories are not the anti-antisemitic party</a>. This post briefly updates the Tory antisemitism file.</p><b><a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/tory-candidate-regrets-claim-jews-return-from-israel-brainwashed-extremists/" target="_blank">November 2019:</a> </b>Tory candidate Amjad Bashir suspended over antisemitism<div>The Leeds NE candidate (previously <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30967633" target="_blank">a UKIP MEP</a>, and a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50491208" target="_blank">pro-Brexit restauranteur,</a> according to the BBC) was suspended over remarks made as a UKIP member in 2014, that young British Jews who visit Israel come back as "brainwashed extremists".</div><div><br /></div><b>January 2020:</b> <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/tim-montgomerie-viktor-orban-hungary-brexit" target="_blank">A Top Boris Johnson Aide Says The UK Will Have A “Special Relationship” With Viktor Orbán’s Hungary After Brexit</a><div>Tim Montgomerie praised the "interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism" by Hungary's authoritarian government<div><br /></div><div><b>May 2020:</b> Scandal as Michael Gove's fascist bookshelf revealed</div><p dir="ltr" lang="en">While everyone's talking about Michael Gove and David Irving, I found an old article that Michael Gove wrote about David Irving. It gives a real insight into Gove's attitude to Holocaust denial and history more generally.</p><div>Thread:<br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">While everyone's talking about Michael Gove and David Irving, I found an old article that Michael Gove wrote about David Irving. It gives a real insight into Gove's attitude to Holocaust denial and history more generally.</p>— libcom.org (@libcomorg) <a href="https://twitter.com/libcomorg/status/1257242704490233857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><b>June 2020:</b> <a href="https://www.thenational.scot/news/18502563.tories-lift-suspension-aberdeen-councillor-anti-semitism-islamophobia-row/" target="_blank">Tories readmit an Aberdeen councillor suspended last year over a a history of antisemitic and Islamophobic internet comments.<br /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "Roboto Slab", serif; font-size: 17px;">Ryan Houghton </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "Roboto Slab", serif; font-size: 17px;">seemed to suggest that some events around the Nazi regime’s state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews had been “fabricated”.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: "Roboto Slab", serif; font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Roboto Slab, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"><b>September 2020:</b> MP's wife Sasha Swire pubishes diary full of upper class casual antisemtism, including from Crispin Blunt.</span></span></div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here are two references: <a href="https://t.co/W38mXEHZDv">pic.twitter.com/W38mXEHZDv</a></p>— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenpollard/status/1309933000076001285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><b>October 2020: </b>MP Ben Bradley indulges in "cultural Marxism" conspiracy theories.</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Why is Ben Bradley engaging in the antisemitic conspiracy theory "cultural marxism" that has led to synagogue shootings? <a href="https://t.co/M8x4bA9xuT">https://t.co/M8x4bA9xuT</a></p>— Tom Wainwright (@TomNwainwright) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomNwainwright/status/1318806073936150528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">so in the time since the <a href="https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BoardofDeputies</a> (among others) criticised <a href="https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@suellabraverman</a> for invoking antisemitic "cultural marxism" conspiracy theory & asked her not to do so in future, at least 4 Tories have decided to just carry on using it (3 of which times were in parliament!) <a href="https://t.co/TvjWifJwQE">pic.twitter.com/TvjWifJwQE</a></p>— Tom Wainwright (@TomNwainwright) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomNwainwright/status/1318966664214564864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p><b>November 2020: </b><a href="https://leftfootforward.org/2020/11/why-are-leading-tories-using-a-phrase-linked-to-an-anti-semitic-dog-whistle/" target="_blank">Loads of Tory MPs jump on the "cultural Marxism" train</a>. (See also <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdpby/tories-telegraph-cultural-marxism-letter" target="_blank">Vice</a>, <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/tory-mps-and-peers-warned-over-use-of-the-term-cultural-marxism-1.508974" target="_blank">JC</a>.)</p><p><b>January 2021: </b>MP Desmond Swayne appears on show of Holocaust deiner Richie Allen</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/BoDPres?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BoDPres</a> Marie van der Zyl: “We are deeply concerned that Conservative MP Desmond Swayne appeared on a show that hosts Holocaust deniers. This should be inexcusable in any major political party. We have raised our concerns with the Conservatives as a matter of urgency.”</p>— Board of Deputies of British Jews (@BoardofDeputies) <a href="https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1354864873696620551?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2021</a></blockquote><p>He has form: </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Swayne said in parliament in 2018 that if one criticises "Israel, as I have done, one receives a number of unsolicited invitations to meet various people. Members need to be absolutely vigilant about those people." Guess he didn't heed his advice.<a href="https://t.co/bXJb4388Xg">https://t.co/bXJb4388Xg</a></p>— Bob From Brockley 🥤 (@bobfrombrockley) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1355166348528279553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><div><b>April 2021: </b><a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/tory-candidate-being-investigated-after-saying-sorry-for-jew-boy-post/" target="_blank">Tory candidate being investigated after saying sorry for ‘Jew boy’ post.</a></div>Darran Davies, the Conservative candidate in Charville ward by-election in Hillingdon, shared an offensive Facebook post.<div><br /></div><b>Also read:</b><br /><p>Libcom: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Conservative anti-Semitism: the strange case of Boris Johnson, Richard Spencer and Gavin McInnes</a> (November 2019) </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
</div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-73433501211902110902021-05-27T18:29:00.001+01:002021-06-04T18:02:08.721+01:00That time The Canary promoted pro-Trump conspiracy theories about the Russian DNC hack<p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-82gJAHzT8vk/YLpchKj_0vI/AAAAAAAADkw/cbG7CCIdr3E3rqTi078NsQOhbujvKE9VgCLcBGAsYHQ/s831/canary2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="831" data-original-width="710" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-82gJAHzT8vk/YLpchKj_0vI/AAAAAAAADkw/cbG7CCIdr3E3rqTi078NsQOhbujvKE9VgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/canary2.png" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><i>This is intended to be part of a longer series called "The Canary's Greatest Hits". </i></i></div><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">This does everything but say the name 'Seth Rich' and 'was murdered'. This is The Canary going full-on FOX NEWS. <a href="https://t.co/aSTFG09dTs">https://t.co/aSTFG09dTs</a></p>— Paul Canning (@pauloCanning) <a href="https://twitter.com/pauloCanning/status/895224409639858176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>In a <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/topics/seth-rich/" target="_blank">series of articles in 2017</a>, The Canary's <b>Tom Coburg </b>amplified conspiracy theories that<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Democratic_National_Committee_email_leak" target="_blank"> the Democratic National Committee documents published by Wikileaks</a> during the 2016 election (helping <b>Donald Trump</b> get elected) were not hacked by Russia but leaked internally. These conspiracy theories (<a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445769/Briton-ran-pro-Kremlin-disinformation-campaign-that-helped-Trump-deny-Russian-links" target="_blank">almost certainly originating from Russia's GRU agency</a>) hinged on the <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/08/how-russian-hackers-amplified-seth-rich-conspiracy-until-it-reached-donald-trump-and-cia/150263/" target="_blank">claim </a>that a young Democratic staffer, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/07/11/740608323/the-origins-of-the-seth-rich-conspiracy-theory" target="_blank"><b>Seth Rich</b></a>, had been involved in the leak and killed by the Deep State because of this. </p><p>On 23 May 2017, The Canary, under the title "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191219110457/https://www.thecanary.co/global/2017/05/23/evidence-offered-prove-murdered-us-democrats-insider-wikileaks-source-video/" target="_blank">Evidence offered to prove that murdered Democrat insider was WikiLeaks source</a>", recycled an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013930/https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-22/seth-rich-plot-thickens-dc-insider-confirms-complete-panic-highest-levels-dnc" target="_blank">article </a>from the right-wing conspiracy site <b>Zero Hedge</b> promoting <b>Fox News</b> claims that Rich was the leaker, throwing in some <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170517085132/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html" target="_blank">dubious claims from Fox News</a> that were <a href="https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/fbi-not-probing-dnc-staffer-163919936.html" target="_blank">refuted by the FBI </a>and subsequently <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html" target="_blank">deleted </a>by the network. The Canary reported as fact that "Former DC homicide detective Rod Wheeler also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20191219110457/http://bigleaguepolitics.com/kim-dotcom-offers-congress-evidence-prove-seth-rich-wikileaks-source/">told</a> Fox News that Rich sent 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments to MacFayden before 21 May 2016."</p><p>The timing here is significant, because Fox pushed this story on 15 May, the same day as the Washington Post broke <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump%27s_disclosures_of_classified_information" target="_blank">the story that five days earlier Trump gave Putin classified information gained from a US ally</a>. Fox focused on Ted Wheeler's claims for days, to distract from the classified information story. Wheeler, however, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170517013527/http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-response-claims-of-wikileaks-contact/index.html" target="_blank">said he was misquoted the very next day</a>, so by the time The Canary was on it, it was already known to be fake news. In between, the Kremlin had picked up the story:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WikiLeaks?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WikiLeaks</a> informer Seth Rich murdered in US but 🇬🇧 MSM was so busy accusing Russian hackers to take notice. <a href="https://t.co/0XVezTyfHM">pic.twitter.com/0XVezTyfHM</a></p>— Russian Embassy, UK (@RussianEmbassy) <a href="https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/865571158862811136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><p>On 2 August, The Canary <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201021170149/https://www.thecanary.co/global/2017/08/02/latest-allegations-true-trumps-days-president-may-numbered-video-tweet/" target="_blank">returned </a>to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170516133954/http:/www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html" target="_blank">the same Fox story</a>, noting that the "source" in the previous story (Wheeler) was now suing Fox for making up quotes at Trump's behest to distract from the investigation into Trump-Russia links. But instead of using this as an opportunity to retract their previous story based on this, The Canary doubled down and promoted an "other side to the story", i.e. that Fox's baseless original story was true, citing Australian entrepreneur <b>Kim Dotcom</b> and <b>Julian Assange</b>.</p><p>Although by now the Seth Rich story had been completely <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/08/how-russian-hackers-amplified-seth-rich-conspiracy-until-it-reached-donald-trump-and-cia/150263/" target="_blank">debunked</a>, on 9 August The Canary <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200925075629/https://www.thecanary.co/global/2017/08/09/secret-recording-raises-questions-leaked-democratic-emails-audio/" target="_blank">ran </a>yet another piece promoting it, this time quoting the <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-method-syria-sy-hersh-art-mass-crime-revisionism/" target="_blank">discredited former journalist <b>Seymour Hersh</b></a>. A conversation with Hersh was secretly recorded by <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-ed-butowsky-the-trump-supporter-has-a-key-role-in-this-shocking-lawsuit-73848"><b>Ed Butowsky</b></a>, a wealthy Republican donor with ties to Breitbart, shared without Hersh's approval, published on an alt-right website and then published by Wikileaks. Despite Hersh's explicit disavowal and the ethical red lights flashing about this, The Canary linked to the recording and to a transcript on a now-banned pro-Trump reddit chat. The Canary took the opportunity to promote claims by <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445769/Briton-ran-pro-Kremlin-disinformation-campaign-that-helped-Trump-deny-Russian-links" target="_blank"><b>"The Forensicator"</b> and "<b>Adam Carter"</b></a> that purported to show that the DNC stuff was leaked not hacked, as well as a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veteran_Intelligence_Professionals_for_Sanity" target="_blank">Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity" (VIPS</a>) memo based on these claims. <b>Duncan Campbell</b> <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445769/Briton-ran-pro-Kremlin-disinformation-campaign-that-helped-Trump-deny-Russian-links" target="_blank">would later show</a> that "The Forensicator" and "Adam Carter" were both frauds perpetrated by a British pro-Putin internet troll called Tim; most VIPS members disowned the memo; and even <b>William Binney</b>, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/nsa-critic-bill-binney-says-trump-pushed-meeting-cia-s-n818306" target="_blank">the pro-Trump ex-spook</a> who co-wrote the memo, admitted it was a mistake, although not before Binney paraded the story on Fox News <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/dnc-hack-trump-cia-director-william-binney-nsa/" target="_blank">leading Trump to order Mike Pompeo to meet with Binney</a>. The Canary has never added a clarification to Coburg's article.</p><p>Finally, The Canary's <b>James Wright</b> ran <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201204063653/https://www.thecanary.co/global/2017/08/08/media-silent-former-cia-analyst-destroys-claim-russia-hacked-us-election-video/" target="_blank">another </a>piece a couple of days later promoting the VIPs allegations, quoting Binney's co-author <b>Ray McGovern</b>. The headline is "Media silent as former CIA analyst <i>destroys </i>the claim that Russia hacked the US election" (my emphasis). The claim in the lede is slightly less hubristic: "Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern <i>seems </i>to have destroyed the claim that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the 2016 US election." The rest of the article spells out McGovern's theories in detail, adds that they accord with <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/a-monster-not-a-journalist-mueller-report-shows-assange-lied-about-russian-hacking-20190420-p51frc.html" target="_blank">Julian Assange's dishonest insistence </a>that this was a leak not a hack, and complains that "mainstream media" has not taken up the story. Once again, no mention that several VIPS members (including <a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/time-to-reassess-the-roles-played-by-guccifer-2-0-and-russia-in-the-dnc-hack/" target="_blank">Scott Ritter </a>and <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252445769/Briton-ran-pro-Kremlin-disinformation-campaign-that-helped-Trump-deny-Russian-links" target="_blank">Tom Drake</a>) <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-leak-or-a-hack-a-forum-on-the-vips-memo/" target="_blank">disavowed </a>McGovern and Binney's claims. A few days later, the VIPS dissidents would <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/a-leak-or-a-hack-a-forum-on-the-vips-memo/" target="_blank">write </a>that "This VIPS memo was hastily written based on a flawed analysis of third-party analyses and then thrown against the wall, waiting to see if it would stick" and "In an ideal world, VIPS would at least retract its assertion of certainty." </p><p>All of these posts are still up with no corrections, even after many of the sources of these stories, such as Butowsky, have <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/14/media/seth-rich-lawsuit-settlement-ed-butowsky/index.html" target="_blank">retracted and apologised</a>.</p><p>The Canary's promotion of the pro-Trump and pro-Kremlin narratives about the 2016 election fit in with a wider pattern of pouring scorn on the massive body of evidence that Russia interfered in the election, with articles by James Wright <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/02/13/us-media-finally-admits-theyve-been-bullstting-you-about-russian-collusion-for-years/" target="_blank">insisting </a>claims of interference are "bullshit", <b>John McEvoy</b> <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/02/04/russiagate-has-little-to-do-with-russia-its-a-tool-to-destroy-anti-war-resistance/" target="_blank">asserting </a>that "RussiaGate" is a made-up narrative used to smear noble anti-war voices such as Rand Paul and Tulsi Gabbard, and of course <b>Peter Bolton</b> <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/03/27/forget-mueller-israel-not-russia-is-trumps-real-partner-in-crime/" target="_blank">claiming </a>that it is Israel and not Russia which is Trump's real partner in crime.</p><p><b>The tl;dr version: The Canary publishes pro-Trump fake news and does not retract it when it is thoroughly refuted. They hate the mainstream Democrats more than they hate Trump, and their output ends up doing the work of the Kremlin. </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>***</b></p><p><b>Also read:</b></p><p><a href="https://everybodyhatesatourist.wordpress.com/2019/06/30/the-canary-in-the-coalmine/" target="_blank">Everybody Hates A Tourist: The Canary in the Coalmine</a>.</p><p><b>Previously:</b></p><p><a data-ved="2ahUKEwiG4_jMr-rwAhU05uAKHZp0CFAQFnoECAcQAA" href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-authoritarian-war-on-journalism-and.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-authoritarian-war-on-journalism-and.html&ved=2ahUKEwiG4_jMr-rwAhU05uAKHZp0CFAQFnoECAcQAA" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); background-color: white; color: #1a0dab; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: 0px;"></a></p><p><a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-authoritarian-war-on-journalism-and.html" target="_blank">The authoritarian war on journalism and dissent - and the fake left web personalities who front it</a>. <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/10/brief-notes-alt-left-and-labour.html" target="_blank">The alt-left and Labour</a>. <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/06/kerry-anne-mendoza-and-gaslighting-of.html" target="_blank">Kerry-Anne Mendoza and the gaslighting of British Jews</a></p><br />bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-52072024649539277612021-02-07T13:03:00.004+00:002021-02-12T15:09:35.909+00:00From Bob's archive: The revolution of flowers, February 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b></b><blockquote><b>"An invitation to the dance </b><br />
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Come to the corner of Cross and Sickle<br />
At eight sharp Put on your masks Look to<br />
your bayonets Don't mind the barricades<br />
Take your lives into your Hands off the morning's<br />
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men will ask How did you fare Tell them<br />
our love was like a town with gods there<br />
Our love<br />
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---Kenneth Patchen, 1936<br /> </div><div>"Bourgeois revolutions, like those of the eighteenth century, storm more swiftly from success to success, their dramatic effects outdo each other, men and things seem set in sparkling diamonds, ecstasy is the order of the day – but they are short-lived, soon they have reached their zenith... On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the 21st century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out: <i>Hic Rhodus, hic salta!</i> <b>Here is the rose, here dance!</b>"</div><div>
---<a href="http://poumista.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/globalise-the-jasmine-revolution-some-notes-from-history-and-theory/">Karl Marx <i>The Eighteenth Brumaire of Hosni Mubarak </i>(with apologies!)</a></div></blockquote><div><a href="http://poumista.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/globalise-the-jasmine-revolution-some-notes-from-history-and-theory/"></a></div>
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Marx's letters to his wife Jenny reveal a love of flowers, and this love of flowers finds its way into both his turgid poetry and into his more vivid philosophical and political writing. In his "Contribution to a critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right", he has the image of religion as a chain entwined with flowers, and says that the task is not to pluck "the imaginary flowers on the chain... in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation" (a good characterisation of modern militant secularism of the Harris/Dawkins variety), but to <b>throw off the chain so we can feel the living flower</b>. In one of his dreadful poems, he writes this of the man in the moon: "He pines, he yearns to be a song,/<b>To thaw in dancing flowers</b>." In his bitter attack on Prussian censorship, he writes: "The most essential form of the spirit is cheerfulness, light, but you make shadow the sole manifestation of the spirit; it must be clothed only in black, yet among flowers there are no black ones."<br />
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I began a <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2011/02/let-scent-of-jasmine-spread.html" target="_blank">recent post</a> with the following quote: <a href="http://the19thbrumaire.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisian-revolution-twilight-of.html">Every revolution, Marx remarked, begins with flowers</a>. I was not actually familiar with the original quote, and suspected it was taking a liberty. I had in mind the passage from Marx's <i>Eighteenth Brumaire </i>above, where Marx deliberately misquotes Aesop's fables. In Aesop's fable of <a href="http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/209.htm">The Boastful Athlete</a>, an athlete claims to have jumped high in Rhodes, and a doubtful bystander says, "Here is Rhodes, jump here." Hegel uses the Latin for this as an epigram, but then translates it into German as “<i>Hier ist die Rose, hier tanze</i>”: “Here is the rose, dance here”. He is arguing that philosophy must deal with the concrete reality of the world, apprehend what is not what ought to be - the kernel of Marx's materialist worldview.<br />
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I have recently been in Portugal, and spent time reading about the <a href="http://libcom.org/tags/portuguese-revolution">carnation revolution of 1974</a>, and more recently in Barcelona, where I was talking to people who remembered the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democracy">democratisation </a>in the late 1970s. And so when following the jasmine revolution in Tunisia, I had in mind the carnations of Lisbon.<br />
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In <a href="http://libcom.org/history/unknown-revolution-1917-1921-voline">Russia in 1917</a>, in Spain in 1931, in Portugal in 1974, across Eastern and Central Europe in 1989-91, there were moments of great flowering, often at the end of the winter, when huge numbers of people defied unbelievably brutal state machines to take to the streets and express their manifold demands. During this early phase, there is a high level of unity on the street, despite the vast range of demands expressed. It is during this period that we see striking examples of participatory democracy, such as in Tahrir Square, where the closing of the internet has opened up old ways of assembling and aggregating demands. The Muslim Brotherhood sits down with the feminists, youth and Coptic Christians; the bourgeois leaders like ElBaradei sit down with the striking workers. As Marx <a href="http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch01.htm">wrote</a>:</div><div><blockquote>“The February days originally intended an electoral reform by which the circle of the politically privileged among the possessing class itself was to be widened and the exclusive domination of the aristocracy of finance overthrown. When it came to the actual conflict, however – when the people mounted the barricades,... the army offered no serious resistance, and the monarchy ran away – the republic appeared to be a matter of course. Every party construed it in its own way. Having secured it arms in hand, the proletariat impressed its stamp upon it and proclaimed it to be a social republic... <b>In no period, therefore, do we find a more confused mixture of high-flown phrases and actual uncertainty and clumsiness, of more enthusiastic striving for innovation and more deeply rooted domination of the old routine, of more apparent harmony of the whole of society; and more profound estrangement of its elements</b>."</blockquote></div>
<div>The demands are often incommensurate with each other, and the energy only lasts so long. As often as not the revolution is channelled into either the normal order of liberal democracy (as in Portugal), or turns against the revolutionaries as the vanguard parties - Jacobin, Bolshevik or Islamist - take over.<br />
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I have not found a reference, and I am not sure exactly what they mean, but according to some Marxists (including <a href="http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/theory/37-theory/9358-the-tunisian-revolution-in-historical-context">John Rees</a>), Marx or Engels spoke about the first phase of the revolution as the "revolution of flowers", the period of democratic unity around the myriad incommensurate demands. Now around the Mediterranean is the time of the flowers, a time of thawing, a time to dance. The chill will no doubt come and the petals will fall. Marx continued:</div>
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bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-44886436593570028312021-01-20T12:06:00.001+00:002021-01-20T18:50:47.836+00:00From Bob's archive: Optimism and pessimism, January 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nYzLjNEUdPk/R398d2ydPwI/AAAAAAAAAus/Sv0eLRtbD98/S240/carnival_of_socialism.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nYzLjNEUdPk/R398d2ydPwI/AAAAAAAAAus/Sv0eLRtbD98/S240/carnival_of_socialism.jpg" /></a><i>This post is from exactly a decade ago, 20 January 2011, and was part of the "Carnival of Socialism" where different socialist bloggers would round up what was going on in the socialist blogosphere. This post marks my engagement with a couple of historical shifts that, looking back, seem very important now. The 2000s had been a period of economic expansion in the global North, which came to an abrupt end in 2008 leading to a period marked by harsh austerity and also by increasingly sharp resistance. (For me personally, in the 2000s I had been increasingly dis-engaged from the radical left, but the age of austerity and resistance made me re-engage more.) </i><br />
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<i>There is an added note of poignancy in that the "recent victim of the government’s slash and burn approach to the public and voluntary sectors" mentioned in the first section was my friend <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2013/04/i-sang-for-birds-for-river-trees-and.html" target="_blank">Shaun Downey</a>, who died some months later, after having been made redundant in the post-2008 cuts. </i></div>
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<i>Globally, 2011 was a high point in the age of resistance: the year, as Paul Mason put it, that it kicked off everywhere. This post was written as the so-called Arab Spring - the jasmine revolution, as I preferred to call it - began. The post ends saying Egypt is the next one to watch, and five days later the Egyptian revolution broke out, whose brief flourishing and brutal crushing has summed up the dashed hopes of the last decade. </i></div>
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"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry." --- Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms</div>
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“Very often, optimism is nothing more than a defence of one’s laziness, one’s irresponsibility, the will to do nothing. It is also a form of fatalism and mechanicism. One relies on factors extraneous to one’s will and activity, exalts them, and appears to burn with sacred enthusiasm... It is necessary to direct one’s attention relentlessly towards the present as it is, if one wishes to transform it.” --- Antonio Gramsci The Prison Notebooks </div>
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My themes for this edition are optimism and pessimism. You all know Gramsci's adage, "optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect" (actually, he took it from Romain Rolland). Gramsci was condemning the anarchists for their intellectual optimism about human nature and about the masses' capacity for self-emancipation, which for him was a key justification of the need for a Leninist-style vanguard party to tell the masses what to do. </div>
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I oscillate between hope (anarchist hope of the intellect as well Gramscian hope of the will) and despair, and in this edition I sum up some of the reasons, based on some of the top socialist blogging of 2011 so far.<br />
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<b>Austerity</b><br />
As one recent victim of the government’s slash and burn approach to the public and voluntary sectors writes, <a href="http://thepoormouth.blogspot.com/2011/01/wishing-our-employees-happy-and-work.html">2011 is going to be a very bad year</a>. Not a week goes by when I don't hear from a friend or acquaintance that they've got their redundancy notice or, if they're lucky, just a cautionary redundancy notice. And these people, in Hemingway's phrase, are the "very good, the very gentle and the very brave" - while the<a href="http://ukhousebubble.blogspot.com/2011/01/uk-banks.html"> un-good, un-gentle and un-brave in the world of finance</a> are <a href="http://greenerblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bonuses-will-bankers-go-abroad-if.html">rolling in it once more</a>. Or, as <a href="http://thesocialistway.blogspot.com/2011/01/bankers-free-school.html">Norbert puts it</a>, "Britain today is akin to living three hundred thousand fathoms under a sea of wealth, that’s if you consider that we have the highest levels of income inequality for over half a century. Household and personal wealth of the top 10% of the population is 100 times greater than that of the poorest 10% and 30% of children live in poverty." In this context, the struggle against the austerity regime is surely the highest priority for blogging and non-blogging socialists in the UK, and in the other countries where the social sector is similarly being eviscerated. [...]<br />
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<b>Internationalism</b><br />
Turning from the local to the global, Terry Glavin, Canadian social democrat, is blogging about Iran, from the perspective of working class solidarity, in a post entitled “<a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2011/01/will-you-be-lousy-scab-or-will-you-be.html">Will you be a lousy scab or will you be a man?</a>” While my location in inner South London gives me cause for pessimism, Terry's more global perspective gives him cause for optimism. He sees <a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2011/01/outlines-of-coming-convulsion.html">a coming convulsion led by the youth</a>, <a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2011/01/one-world.html">things getting better</a>, and <a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2011/01/anti-totalitarian-round-up.html">an "anti-totalitarian surge"</a>. Kellie Strom also highlights the same <a href="http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/2011/01/mediterranean-anti-totalitarian-news.html">anti-totalitarian wave in the Mediterranean</a>. <br />
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Other bloggers with good posts on Tunisia's "jasmine revolution" include <a href="http://riversstream.blogspot.com/2011/01/18th-january-tunisia-celebrates.html">River's Edge</a> (on the socialist role), <a href="http://lattelabour.blogspot.com/2011/01/if-sections-of-british-press-are-to-be.html">Latte Labour</a> (on the UK media coverage), <a href="http://bloodworthweb.blogspot.com/2011/01/us-relations-with-tunisian-dictatorship.html">James Bloodworth</a> (on the American connection), <a href="http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisian-model-crush-islamists-and.html">Terry again</a> (on the Islamists), <a href="http://www.organizedrage.com/2011/01/lets-hope-tunisian-revolt-will-not.html">Mick Hall </a>(pessimistically hoping it won't be more of the same), <a href="http://thecommune.co.uk/2011/01/19/revolution-in-tunisia-just-the-beginning/">The Commune</a> and <a href="http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisia-domino-falls.html">Phil</a>. A choice phrase from Phil: "Saudia Arabia, long the Costa Brava of forcibly retired tyrants". The (over-optimistic?) conclusion: "With sustained struggle and determined action, the dictatorial obscenities of the Middle East could be entering their final days. Let despots everywhere tremble as the revolutionary gale howls about their ears."<br />
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Probably the best blog for resources on Tunisia is <a href="http://airforceamazons.blogspot.com/search/label/tunisia">Airforce Amazons</a>, although <a href="http://entdinglichung.wordpress.com/category/tunesien/">Entdinglichung </a>is also good of course. And from Phil I see <a href="http://methalif.blogspot.com/">Tunisia Scenario</a>. Oh, and<a href="http://advant.blogspot.com/2011/01/stratfor-north-africa-after-tunisia.html"> Egypt is the next one to watch</a>.</div>
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bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-82246431290262098442020-11-09T18:19:00.015+00:002021-09-21T09:54:36.631+01:00Intrigue:Mayday - background reading <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3rqCuL81gpk/X6lgIWTNtfI/AAAAAAAADXM/PdtCCnXFc-Ify9zdNPi5-hUc1iaDaQyqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/intrigue.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="768" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3rqCuL81gpk/X6lgIWTNtfI/AAAAAAAADXM/PdtCCnXFc-Ify9zdNPi5-hUc1iaDaQyqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/intrigue.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Today sees the start of the new series of BBC Radio 4's superb podcast programme <i><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000nfh" target="_blank">Intrigue</a></i>. This series, entitled <i>Mayday</i>, focuses on the late James Le Mesurier, British founder of free Syria's Civil Defence service, the White Helmets. The series also looks at the co-ordinated disinformation campaign against James and the White Helmets, touching on the role of the so-called Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media in this campaign.</p><p>You can <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/8h3FB5DzDRN4pjZSCZX74K/why-no-one-could-save-the-man-who-co-founded-the-white-helmets" target="_blank">read about it here</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08xh4ds" target="_blank">watch the trailer here</a>, or <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04sj2pt/episodes/downloads" target="_blank">download the whole series now</a>. It is produced, written and presented by: Chloe Hadjimatheou, working with a team including researcher Tom Wright. </p><p>In this post, I have just brought together some of the essential background reading on the story. </p><p><b>On the Ledge: James Le Mesurier</b></p><p>The best place to start is Martin Chulov's excellent recent long read in the <i>Guardian</i>: "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/oct/27/syria-disinformation-war-white-helmets-mayday-rescue-james-le-mesurier" target="_blank">How Syria's disinformation wars destroyed the co-founder of the White Helmets</a>". </p><p><b>The Miracle Baby: The White Helmets</b></p><p>The White Helmets formed in 2014, with Le Mesurier's support, and by 2016 had 3000 volunteers across Syria's liberated zones, including a <a href="https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2020/3/4/unsung-heroes-syrias-female-white-helmets-in-the-spotlight" target="_blank">small but growing number of women volunteers</a>. They have rescued <a href="https://theconversation.com/who-are-syrias-white-helmets-and-why-are-they-so-controversial-66580" target="_blank">tens of thousands </a>of potential victims of the government's war crimes.</p><p>In 2018, as the Assad regime (in the aftermath of the Douma chemical attack - see below) captured the last parts of the southern liberated zone in Syria, Le Mesurier and others <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/its-now-or-never-the-untold-story-of-the-dramatic-canadian-led-rescue-of-syrias-white-helmets/" target="_blank">worked to facilitate the escape to Canada</a> of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/30/syrian-white-helmets-canada-exile" target="_blank">hundreds of volunteers and their families</a>. </p><p>The White Helmets <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/12/jo-cox-white-helmets-peace-prize-coventry" target="_blank">were championed by the late Jo Cox</a>, which has made Cox a <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2018/08/labour-can-be-jo-cox-s-party-or-chris-williamson-s-it-cannot-be-both" target="_blank">posthumous target</a> for far right and pro-Russian trolls. Films such as <i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/06/last-men-in-aleppo-feras-fayyad-syria-russia-smear-campaign" target="_blank">Last Man in Aleppo</a> </i>meant that the White Helmets have received public attention in the West. This is in contrast to so many of <a href="https://newint.org/issues/2015/09/01" target="_blank">the heroic grassroots activities of Syrian civil society</a>, which has passed completely below the radar, despite the efforts of writers like <a href="https://leilashami.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Leila al-Shami</a> and journalists like <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/the-nightmares-of-the-dead-the-weeping-and-the-wounded-haunt-me-still-1.921416" target="_blank">Kareem Shaheen</a>. </p><p>For a great account of the White Helmets, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/may/11/supporting-the-west-no-syrias-white-helmets-are-about-saving-lives" target="_blank">read Omar Sabbour</a>, showing how they were far from tools of Western interests.</p><p>Episode 3 also highlights the Syria Campaign, who you can check out <a href="https://thesyriacampaign.org/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><b>The Hoax Producers: the war on truth</b></p><p>As <i>Mayday </i>says, the White Helmets became important targets of the main war criminals in Syria because the civilian volunteers <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/white-helmets-explainer_uk_5ad86288e4b0e4d0715d8788?utm_hp_ref=uk-white-helmets" target="_blank">bore witness </a>to their crimes. On this, the best read is Olivia Solon in the <i>Guardian</i> "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/syria-white-helmets-conspiracy-theories" target="_blank">How Syria's White Helmets became victims of an online propaganda machine</a>" and <a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/janine-di-giovanni/">Janine di Giovanni</a> in the <i>New York Rewivew of Books</i> "<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/10/16/why-assad-and-russia-target-the-white-helmets/" target="_blank">Why Assad and Russia Target the White Helmets</a>".<br /><br />Also read Solon's "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/06/last-men-in-aleppo-feras-fayyad-syria-russia-smear-campaign" target="_blank">Russia wants to hack the Oscars</a>", Emran Feroz's <a href="https://en.qantara.de/content/syrias-white-helmets-stigmatising-saviours" target="_blank">"Stigmatising saviours</a>", Bethania Palma's <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/syrian-rescue-organization-the-white-helmets-are-terrorists/" target="_blank">fact-checking of White Helmets myths for Snopes</a>, Emma Grey Ellis <a href="https://www.wired.com/2017/04/white-helmets-conspiracy-theory/" target="_blank">on the 'terrorist' conspiracy theory about them</a> and <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/white-helmets/" target="_blank">several pieces in HuffPo UK</a>. For another comprehensive fact check, see <a href="https://observers.france24.com/en/20180514-white-helmets-allegations-fact-fiction" target="_blank">France24</a>.</p><div><p><b>"No hole, no Holocaust": Chemical weapons in the Damascus suburbs</b><b> </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGDMOSDe2ok/X6lr3CX_0-I/AAAAAAAADXY/JOt37e8g27A_4ZBj08toNI6lJDMbHFp8QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1050/chemical%2Battacks.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1050" height="284" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGDMOSDe2ok/X6lr3CX_0-I/AAAAAAAADXY/JOt37e8g27A_4ZBj08toNI6lJDMbHFp8QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h284/chemical%2Battacks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Although the Syrian government has killed far more civilians with conventional weapons, one feature of the war in Syria has been the heavy use of chemical weapons, more or less exclusively by the Syrian government. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/13/world/middleeast/syria-chemical-attacks-maps-history.html" target="_blank">The particularly cautious UN had confirmed over two dozen attacks</a> by 2018. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45586903" target="_blank">BBC Arabic found enough evidence to be confident of 106</a>. German thinktank <a href="https://www.gppi.net/2019/02/17/the-logic-of-chemical-weapons-use-in-syria" target="_blank">GPPi forensically confirmed 336</a> in a 2019 report. <p></p></div><div>From 2013, when the Syrian government was first shown to have used chemical weapons, it has - supported by its key backer Russia - carried out a campaign of obfuscaton around this. The best piece on this long-term campaign is <a href="https://brian-whit.medium.com/syria-russia-and-the-politics-of-chemical-weapons-12761f944815" target="_blank">Brian Whitaker's long read here</a>, which shows how Russia and Syria played every effort by the so-called "international community" to create some sort of accountability in the conflict.</div><div><br /></div><div>A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Shaykhun_chemical_attack" target="_blank">2017 attack on Khan Sheikhoun</a> in northern Syria saw <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/syria-gas-attack-false-flag_uk_58e5e0f6e4b06a4cb30f2fe1" target="_blank">a new intensification of the information war</a>, but the chemical attack on which the disinformation campaign has focused on most obsessively was in April 2018 in Douma in the eastern Damascus suburbs. Contemporaneous reports by <a href="https://youtu.be/2m_gpBch0Fs" target="_blank">CBS </a>and <a href="https://youtu.be/KDey9vvPmlM" target="_blank">Swedish news TV</a>, as well as thorough investigations by <a href="https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/chemical-attacks-in-douma" target="_blank">Forensic Architecture</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/25/world/middleeast/syria-chemical-attack-douma.html" target="_blank">the <i>New York Times</i></a> and later <a href="https://www.opcw.org/sites/default/files/documents/2019/03/s-1731-2019%28e%29.pdf" target="_blank">the UN's Organisation for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW</a>), confirmed a deadly chemical attack. Over 40 civilians were killed (<a href="https://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/martyrs/1/c29ydGJ5PWEua2lsbGVkX2RhdGV8c29ydGRpcj1ERVNDfGFwcHJvdmVkPXZpc2libGV8ZXh0cmFkaXNwbGF5PTB8cHJvdmluY2U9Mnxjb2RNdWx0aT0xLDIsMTMsMTQsMTUsMTYsMTd8c3RhcnREYXRlPTIwMTgtMDQtMDZ8ZW5kRGF0ZT0yMDE4LTA0LTA5fA==" target="_blank">many of their names are recorded</a> by the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/23/why-database-of-syrian-atrocities-may-hold-key-to-future-justice" target="_blank">Violations Documentation Centre</a>, another civilian group dedicated to bearing witness to the atrocities of this war). Immediately after attack, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/russia-accused-of-tampering-with-the-site-of-alleged-syrian-chemical-attack/2018/04/16/5b424dfc-4183-11e8-b2dc-b0a403e4720a_story.html" target="_blank">Russia began tampering with evidence</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/syria-crisis-medics-intimidated-over-douma-gas-attack" target="_blank">the regime intimated witnesses</a>, demonstrating the importance to them of control over the narrative.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Douma attack was effective: the day after it, the rebels holding in Douma surrendered. This follows a familiar pattern: BBC analysis of 106 confirmed incidents in 2014-2018 <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45586903" target="_blank">found most were clustered at the end of offensives to retake areas</a>: to force fighters to surrender and drive out civilian populations to pave the way for re-occupation, analysis <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/13/world/middleeast/syria-chemical-attacks-maps-history.html" target="_blank">confirmed by the GPPi</a>. Unusually, the Douma attack caught the public imagination outside Syria too, and led to<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_missile_strikes_against_Syria" target="_blank"> a symbolic response by the US and its allies</a>, in which six soldiers were injured and some marginal damage done to a runway. (France and the UK <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/04/14/america-britain-and-france-strike-syria" target="_blank">reported </a>that the Trump administration had warned Russia of the locations targeted.)</div><div><br /></div><div>As <a href="https://www.nottinghilleditions.com/product/denial-the-unspeakable-truth/" target="_blank">Keith Kahn-Harris notes</a>, denialists, such as Holocaust denialists, like to zoom in on irrelevant details, as threads which they believe they can pull on until the whole big picture unravels: </div><div><blockquote>there is no evidence of holes in the roof in the ‘alleged’ Auschwitz gas chambers through which Zyklon B was ‘allegedly’ poured. ‘No holes, no Holocaust’ goes the Holocaust denier’s taunt. The Holocaust is reduced to arguments over the reliability of wartime aerial photographs of Auschwitz or drawings by survivors.</blockquote></div><div>There were a few details around what happened at Douma that offer threads on which chemical weapons truthers can pull, taking attention away from the vast amount of proof for the bigger picture of dozens - hundreds - of murderous chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And none of this should be surprising: it's what authoritarian regimes do, and thus the Assad government's response to its chemical attacks <a href="https://louisproyect.org/2018/04/28/the-shifting-sands-of-assadist-propaganda/" target="_blank">exactly resembles how the Franco government sought to spin Guernica</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Brian Slocock - veteran anti-imperialist activist and academic - carefully explores how Russia attempted to use witnesses to create a false narrative around Douma (<a href="https://magpie68.wordpress.com/2019/12/01/life-and-death-in-douma/" target="_blank">part 1</a>, <a href="https://magpie68.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/life-and-death-in-douma-2/" target="_blank">part 2</a>). Coming close in time to t<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/03/russia-propaganda-war-skripal-poisoning-embassy-london" target="_blank">he Salisbury attack</a>, disinformation on Douma was <a href="https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-disinformation-surge-from-skripal-to-syria-f44f92a476cd" target="_blank">often tangled up with disinfo on the Skripals</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the journalists reporting on the disinformation around Assad's chemical weapons are: <a href="https://www.snopes.com/author/bethania/">Snopes' Bethania Palma</a> ("<a href="https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/04/20/critics-slam-viral-stories-claiming-douma-chemical-attack-victims-died-dust/">Critics Slam Viral Stories Claiming Douma Chemical Attack Victims Died from ‘Dust’</a>"), <a href="http://eaworldview.com/author/eaworldview/">EAWorldview's Scott Lucas</a> ("<a href="http://eaworldview.com/2018/04/russias-disinformation-warfare-and-assads-chemical-attacks/">Russia’s (Dis)information Warfare and Assad’s Chemical Attacks</a>"), <a href="https://pulsemedia.org/about/mia/" target="_blank">Muhammad Idrees Ahmad</a> ("<a href="http://progressive.org/dispatches/truth-is-the-first-step-to-accountability-in-syria-180425/#.WuDes3Oqqzo.twitter">Truth Is the First Step to Accountability in Syria</a>"), The <a href="https://theintercept.com/mackey/">Intercept's Robert Mackey</a> ("<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/russia-sows-doubts-chemical-attack-syria-aided-pro-trump-cable-channel/">Russia Sows Doubts Over Chemical Attack in Syria, Aided by Pro-Trump Cable Channe</a>l") and <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/christopher-york/">HuffPo's Chris York</a> ("<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vanessa-beeley-syria-white-helmets_uk_5ad9b6cae4b03c426dad48a9">How An Obscure British Blogger Became Russia's Key Witness Against The White Helmets</a>"). The SyriaUK has also published "<a href="http://www.syriauk.org/2017/11/the-bbc-conspiracy-theorist-and-shadow.html" target="_blank">The BBC, the conspiracy theorist, and the Shadow Foreign Secretary</a>" by Clara Connolly, and US Marxist blogger <a href="https://louisproyect.org/2020/02/12/the-rancid-politics-of-the-douma-false-flag-brigades/" target="_blank">Louis Proyect has analysed "false flag" claims</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>For a more comprehensive list of key reading about the Douma attack and the OPCW report into it, go <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/12/quick-links-robert-fisk-douma-locations.html">here</a>. Also see <a href="https://al-bab.com/syria-and-chemical-weapons" target="_blank">Brian Whitaker's important series of posts </a>and <a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/opcw/">Bellingcat's OPCW archives</a>/<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/douma/">Douma archives</a>.<br /><br /><b>The hoax producers: bloggers and professors</b></div><p>Key to the Russian-backed disinformation campaign against the White Helmets and in denial of the chemical attacks have been a small cluster of bloggers who have become salaried journalists for Russian state media, most notably Vanessa Beeley and Eva Barlett, who both feature in <i>Mayday</i>. On them read my posts "<a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/10/is-vanessa-beeley-reliable-source.html" target="_blank">Is Vanessa Beeley a reliable source?</a>" and "<a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/10/is-eva-bartlett-reliable-source.html" target="_blank">Is Eva Bartlett a reliable source?</a>" and Chris York's "<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2018/04/24/how-an-obscure-british-blogger-became-russias-key-witness-against-the-white-helmets_a_23418636/?utm_hp_ref=uk-white-helmets" target="_blank">How An Obscure British Blogger Became Russia's Key Witness Against The White Helmets</a>". See also Javier Sethness "<a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2019/01/13/radical-media-and-the-blurred-lines-of-red-fascism/" target="_blank">Radical media and the blurred lines of ‘red’ fascism"</a>.</p>Beeley is often featured in a semi-regular act called "Media on Trial" - see "<a href="https://www.syriauk.org/2017/02/beeley-in-bristol.html">Beeley in Bristol" by Clara Connolly</a>, for a taste of how the live version works. Also read <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43745629">BBC Trending's report on Beeley</a> and Brian Slocock's <a href="https://magpie68.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/vanessa-beeley-descends-on-daraa/">analysis of her misreporting of Daraa</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hq55dHvBZaA/X6l0rKP0-SI/AAAAAAAADXk/FqLOO4IqNTIWXytPRQsSrvASey2WrZ3yACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="640" height="348" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hq55dHvBZaA/X6l0rKP0-SI/AAAAAAAADXk/FqLOO4IqNTIWXytPRQsSrvASey2WrZ3yACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h348/image.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Examples of antisemitism posted by Vanessa Beeley, via <a href="https://twitter.com/TomNwainwright" target="_blank">Tom Wainwright<br /></a></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Beeley, listed as an "independent researcher", is <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vanessa-beeley-canada-tour_uk_5dea2ac7e4b0d50f32b1c802" target="_blank">one of the members</a> of a group called <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/uk-academics-pro-assad-conspiracy-theories-about-syria_uk_5aa51ea7e4b01b9b0a3c4b10" target="_blank">the "Working Group on Syria, Propoganda and Media" (SPM</a>), who give some semi-academic cover to the disinformation campaign. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hfdZl0pZ-hg/X6l1UVrDSuI/AAAAAAAADXs/qC7YU8oWiN42fgNPzJeH4kGVSbdCYa55gCLcBGAsYHQ/s975/SPM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="975" height="325" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hfdZl0pZ-hg/X6l1UVrDSuI/AAAAAAAADXs/qC7YU8oWiN42fgNPzJeH4kGVSbdCYa55gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h325/SPM.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>The key reading on these guys is Chris York's <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-useful-idiots_uk_5e2b107ac5b67d8874b0dd9d?utm_hp_ref=uk-white-helmets" target="_blank">"The 'Useful Idiots': How These British Academics Helped Russia Deny War Crimes At The UN</a>". In addition, the Times has <a href="https://louisproyect.org/2018/04/15/london-times-articles-about-assadist-university-professors/">reported on this Working Group several times</a>, as has <a href="https://brian-whit.medium.com/the-syrian-conflicts-anti-propaganda-propagandists-ebb3e5752e16" target="_blank">veteran Middle East expert Brian Whitaker</a> (who also <a href="https://al-bab.com/blog/2018/03/911-truther-joins-syria-propaganda-research-group" target="_blank">looks at the 9/11 truthers in their group</a>). <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/muhammad-idrees-ahmad/">Muhammad Idrees Ahmad</a> has also written an <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/syria-on-academic-freedom-and-responsibility/" target="_blank">important piece on them for openDemocracy</a>, and Chris Doyle has written <a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1658151/%7B%7B">this excellent op ed</a>. Brian Slocock forensically <a href="https://magpie68.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/5-questions-for-professors-against-white-helmets/">tackles their allegations about the White Helmets </a>and <a href="https://magpie68.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/life-and-death-in-douma-2/" target="_blank">their claims about witnesses in Douma</a>. Louis Proyect taks them on <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/20/syria-and-neo-mccarthyism/" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://louisproyect.org/2020/04/01/the-conspiracist-left-and-the-far-right-strange-bedfellows-on-covid-19/" target="_blank">notes how they have now slipped into Covid denialism</a>, and socialist academic Michael Barker <a href="https://thoughtsofaleicestersocialist.wordpress.com/2018/04/21/assads-confused-apologists-academics-in-the-times/" target="_blank">looks at them (and their links to the libertarian "Spiked" cult) here</a>. Brian Whitaker notes <a href="https://brian-whit.medium.com/propaganda-professors-switch-focus-from-syria-to-britain-and-russia-f7183b5a5875" target="_blank">their promotion of pro-Putin conspiracy theories about Salisbury too</a>.<br /><br />Essential reading on the whole disinformation war over Syria is <a href="https://diary.thesyriacampaign.org/killing-the-truth/" target="_blank">the Syria Campaign's <i>Killing Truth </i>report</a>. Standing back a bit: Otto English <a href="https://thepinprick.com/2018/02/05/defectors-neon-and-electric-dreams-my-holiday-snaps-at-the-berlin-wall/">on the history of disinfomation</a>. And three more analytical long must-reads on how the Syria truth war fits into the larger war on truth currently being fought: Amar Diwakar on <a href="https://splinteredeye.wordpress.com/2018/02/28/the-permutations-of-assadism/">Assadism in the post-truth vortex</a>, <a href="https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/authors/u%C4%9Fur-%C3%BCmit-%C3%BCng%C3%B6r">Ümit Üngör</a> on <a href="https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/narrative-war-coming" target="_blank">the coming narrative war</a>, and Sam Hamad on <a href="https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/essay-the-alternate-reality-that-enables-genocide-in-syria-17104" target="_blank">the alternate reality that enables genocide in Syria</a>.</p><p>***</p><p>Finally, for a really good guide to other resources online to understand Syria, <a href="http://www.syriauk.org/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">start with SyriaUK</a>.</p><p><b>Previous posts: </b></p><p>Most of the material in this post draws on <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20war%20for%20truth" target="_blank">previous blogposts</a> here. These are some: <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-house-of-assad-and-house-of-rumour.html" target="_blank">The House of Assad and the House of Rumour</a> (February 2014); <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/02/truth-wars-continued.html" target="_blank">Truth wars continue </a>(February 2018); <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/04/i-didnt-manage-to-catch-all-of-my.html" target="_blank">It's exhausting: the fight against fake news</a> (April 2018); <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/04/in-time-of-multipolar-spin.html" target="_blank">In the time of the multi-polar spin </a>(April 2018); <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2018/08/white-helmets-black-blocs-red-flags.html" target="_blank">White helmets, black blocs, red flags</a> (August 2018); <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/06/friday-round-up.html" target="_blank">Banned bombs fall on Idlib</a> (2019);</p><p><br /></p>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-83070409652787630572020-11-09T11:24:00.001+00:002021-02-02T17:57:26.710+00:00James Petras footnotes<p> This paragraph has been removed from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Petras" target="_blank">Wikipedia page for retired American professor James Petras</a>, so am pasting it here:<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 2011, Mark Gardner of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Security_Trust" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Community Security Trust">Community Security Trust</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, which monitors antisemitism in the UK, wrote an article in the left-wing magazine </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissent_(American_magazine)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dissent (American magazine)">Dissent</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> saying that Petras' works "present a conspiracy theory that... fits resoundingly with the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century socialist linkage of Jews with capitalism, now updated and repackaged for twenty-first-century anti-capitalist discourse."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Petras&diff=prev&oldid=987345126#cite_note-30" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[30]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> In 2014, Marxist scholar Werner Bonefeld described Petras as exemplary of a current of antisemitism on the anti-imperialist left: "The Jews [in Petras' work] have not only conquered Palestine; they have also taken control of America, or as James Petras sees it, the current effort of 'U.S. empire building' is shaped by 'Zionist empire builders.'"</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Petras&diff=prev&oldid=987345126#cite_note-31" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[31]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Similarly, author and researcher </span><a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Bogdanor&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #a55858; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Paul Bogdanor (page does not exist)">Paul Bogdanor</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, writing in an academic book published by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_University_Press" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Indiana University Press">Indiana University Press</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, focusing on the same texts as Gardner, described Petras as "articulat[ing] his theory of the organized American Jewish community as a 'Zionist Power Configuration' (ZPC)—an acronym that he apparently developed as a substitute for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> term '</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_Occupation_Government" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Zionist Occupation Government">Zionist Occupation Government</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">' (ZOG)... and cautions against 'the role of the Zionist/Jewish Lobby in promoting future US wars.' None of this material is readily distinguishable from contemporary neo-Nazi propaganda."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Petras&diff=prev&oldid=987345126#cite_note-32" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[32]</a></sup></blockquote><p>We previously encounted Petras <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2006/03/flemming-rose-straussian-neo-con.html">in 2006 when he claimed Mossad was secretly responsible for provocative cartoons in Denmark</a>, <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2007/08/cuba-and-two-souls-of-socialism.html">in 2007 in relation to his terrible take on socialism in Cuba</a>, <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2009/06/iran-drawing-clear-lines.html">in 2009 in relation to his Second Camp position on the revolution in Iran</a>, and <a href="https://brockley.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilad-atzmonism.html" target="_blank">in 2011 in relation to his support for both Holocaust denial and forcing Cuban dissidents into labour camps</a>.</p><p>Notes:</p><p></p><ol class="references" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px;"><li id="cite_note-30" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>30. </b> <span class="reference-text">Mark Gardner, <a class="external text" href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/routledges-journal-of-contemporary-leftist-anti-semitism" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Routledge's Journal of Contemporary Leftist Anti-Semitism</a>, <i>Dissent</i>, May 5, 2011</span></li><li id="cite_note-31" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="reference-text"><b>31. </b>Werner Bonefeld <a class="external text" href="https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/marcel-stoetzler-ed-antisemitism-and-the-constitution-of-sociology-2014.pdf#page=325" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 18px; text-decoration-line: none;">Antisemitism and the Power of Abstraction From Political Economy to Critical Theory</a>, in Marcel Stoetzler, ed, <i>Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology</i>, Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1 Jul 2014, p.316</span></li><li id="cite_note-32" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="reference-text"><b>32. </b>Paul Bogdanor <a class="external text" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/46444480/AntisemitismBogdanorP.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIWOWYYGZ2Y53UL3A&Expires=1512042513&Signature=tEeA7d96pt7ofibFJ9nnb8NHZjs%3D&response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3DManifestations_of_Antisemitism_in_Britis.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 18px; text-decoration-line: none;">Manifestations of Antisemitism in British Intellectual and Cultural Life</a>, in Alvin H. Rosenfeld, ed <i><a class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gzbgz" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives</a></i><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link since March 2019">dead link</span></a></i>]</span></sup>, Indiana University Press (Series: Studies in Antisemitism), 2013, pp.77-78</span></li></ol><p></p><p> </p><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Petras&diff=prev&oldid=987345126#cite_note-32" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></sup><p></p>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-7358467294903005582020-10-27T10:54:00.004+00:002020-10-27T10:54:57.265+00:00Antifa hoaxes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-izns4BGvhVw/X5f8TBewOKI/AAAAAAAADWg/gvTyG7YghRweZHn5xrYsdIguJs5XbF3pwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="2048" height="180" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-izns4BGvhVw/X5f8TBewOKI/AAAAAAAADWg/gvTyG7YghRweZHn5xrYsdIguJs5XbF3pwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />This is a section on hoaxes about "antifa" from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa_(United_States)&oldid=985326641" target="_blank">current version</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)" target="_blank">Wikipedia article on American antifa</a>. I am pasting it here as the article talk page suggests the section will be edited as it is excessively detailed, which it probably is. <span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Conspiracy theories"></a></p><blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Conspiracy theories">Conspiracy theories</a> about antifa that tend to inaccurately portray antifa as a single organization with leaders and secret sources of funding have been spread by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Right-wing">right-wing</a> activists, media organizations and politicians,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Laura_Ingraham_proposes_declaring_antifa_a_'terrorist_organization'_191-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Laura_Ingraham_proposes_declaring_antifa_a_'terrorist_organization'-191" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[191]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Alba_192-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Alba-192" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[192]</a></sup> including <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Trump administration">Trump administration</a> officials<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Stelloh_2020_50-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Stelloh_2020-50" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[50]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bray_September_2020_68-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Bray_September_2020-68" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[68]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Battleground_sunshine_2020_193-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Battleground_sunshine_2020-193" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[193]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-194" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-194" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[194]</a></sup> and the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Trump_campaign" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2020 Trump campaign">2020 Trump campaign</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-195" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-195" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[195]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;">In August 2017, a #PunchWhiteWomen photo hoax campaign spread by fake antifa Twitter accounts.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Salon_196-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Salon-196" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[196]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-dailydot_197-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-dailydot-197" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[197]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellingcat" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bellingcat">Bellingcat</a> researcher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Higgins" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eliot Higgins">Eliot Higgins</a> discovered an image of British actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Friel" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anna Friel">Anna Friel</a> portraying a battered woman in a 2007 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Aid" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Women's Aid">Women's Aid</a> anti-domestic violence campaign that had been re-purposed using fake antifa Twitter accounts organized by way of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="4chan">4chan</a>. The image is captioned "53% of white women voted for Trump, 53% of white women should look like this" and includes an antifa flag. Another image featuring an injured woman is captioned "She chose to be a Nazi. Choices have consequences" and includes the hashtag #PunchANazi. Higgins remarked to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="BBC">BBC</a> that "[t]his was a transparent and quite pathetic attempt, but I wouldn't be surprised if white nationalist groups try to mount more sophisticated attacks in the future".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Far-right_smear_campaign_against_Antifa_exposed_by_Bellingcat_41-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Far-right_smear_campaign_against_Antifa_exposed_by_Bellingcat-41" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[41]</a></sup> A similar fake image circulated on social media after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_Right_rally" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Unite the Right rally">Unite the Right rally</a> in 2017. The doctored image, actually from a 2009 riot in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Athens">Athens</a>, was altered to make it look like someone wearing an antifa symbol attacking a policeman with a flag.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-198" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-198" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[198]</a></sup> After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2017 Las Vegas shooting">2017 Las Vegas shooting</a>, similar hoaxes falsely claimed that the shooter was an antifa "member"; another such hoax involved a fake antifa Twitter account praising the shooting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-199" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-199" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[199]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-200" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-200" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[200]</a></sup> Another high-profile fake antifa account was banned from Twitter after it posted with a geotag originating in Russia.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vice_42-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-vice-42" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[42]</a></sup> Those fake antifa accounts have been repeatedly reported on as real by right-leaning media outlets.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-GQ_40-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-GQ-40" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[40]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-masslive_44-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-masslive-44" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[44]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;">During the nationwide <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George Floyd protests">George Floyd protests</a> against police brutality and racism in May and June 2020, false claims of impending antifa activity circulated through social media platforms, causing alarm in at least 41 towns and cities.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Alba_&_Decker_201-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Alba_&_Decker-201" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[201]</a></sup> On May 31, 2020, @ANTIFA_US, a newly created Twitter account, attempted to incite violence relating to the protests. The next day, after determining that it was linked to the white nationalist group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_Evropa" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Identity Evropa">Identity Evropa</a>, Twitter suspended the fake account.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-202" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-202" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[202]</a></sup> An <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="FBI">FBI</a>'s Washington Field Office report stated that members of a far-right group on social media had "called for far-right provocateurs to attack federal agents, use automatic weapons against protesters" during the D.C.-area protests over Floyd's murder on May 31, 2020.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Klippenstein_165-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Klippenstein-165" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[165]</a></sup> Conservative news organizations, pro-Trump individuals using social media, and impostor social media accounts propagated false rumors that antifa groups were traveling to small cities, suburbs, and rural communities to instigate unrest during the protests.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-203" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-203" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[203]</a></sup> In May and June 2020, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Logan" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Lara Logan">Lara Logan</a> repeatedly promoted hoaxes as part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>' coverage of antifa, including publishing a false document she described as an antifa battle plan and claiming that a joke about <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalos" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Juggalos">juggalos</a> was evidence of a clandestine antifa hierarchy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-204" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-204" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[204]</a></sup> In an appearance on Fox News's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ingraham_Angle" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Ingraham Angle">The Ingraham Angle</a></i> in June 2020, Trump's personal attorney <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a> claimed that "Antifa" as well as "Black Lives Matter" and unspecified communists were working together to "do away with our system of courts" and "take your property away and give it to other people", asserting without evidence that they receive significant funding from an outside source. Giuliani had previously criticized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="George Soros">George Soros</a>, who has been a frequent <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_about_George_Soros" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Conspiracy theories about George Soros">target of conspiracy theories</a>, claiming he funded such groups and demonstrations.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-205" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-205" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[205]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;">In June 2020, a multiracial family on a camping trip in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forks,_Washington" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Forks, Washington">Forks, Washington</a>, were accused of being antifa activists, harassed and trapped in their campsite when trees were felled to block the road.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-206" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-206" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[206]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-207" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-207" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[207]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-208" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-208" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[208]</a></sup> In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene,_Idaho" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Coeur d'Alene, Idaho">Coeur d'Alene, Idaho</a>, groups of armed right-wing vigilantes occupied streets in response to false rumors that antifa activists were planning to travel to the city while similar rumors led to threats being made against activists planning peaceful protests in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonora,_California" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sonora, California">Sonora, California</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-209" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-209" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[209]</a></sup> In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klamath_Falls,_Oregon" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Klamath Falls, Oregon">Klamath Falls, Oregon</a>, hundreds of people, most of whom were armed, assembled in response to false rumors that antifa activists would target the city, spread by a commander in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Air_National_Guard" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oregon Air National Guard">Oregon Air National Guard</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_&_Zadrozny_June_2020_173-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Collins_&_Zadrozny_June_2020-173" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[173]</a></sup> In an August 2020 interview, Trump spread a similar <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a>, claiming that "thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that" had boarded a plane to Washington, D.C. to disrupt the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Republican_National_Convention" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2020 Republican National Convention">2020 Republican National Convention</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_2020_170-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Collins_2020-170" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[170]</a></sup> Also in August 2020, a fake antifa website began to redirect users to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_2020_presidential_campaign" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign">Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign</a> website. Although this has been described as "clearly a ploy to associate the Democratic Party with antifa", those on the right seized upon it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Bray_September_2020_68-6" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Bray_September_2020-68" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[68]</a></sup> A study by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zignal_Labs" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Zignal Labs">Zignal Labs</a> found that unsubstantiated claims of antifa involvement were one of three dominant themes in misinformation and conspiracy theories around the protests, alongside claims that Floyd's death had been faked and claims of involvement by George Soros.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Alba_192-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Alba-192" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[192]</a></sup> Some of the opposition to antifa activism has also been artificial in nature. Nafeesa Syeed of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bloomberg News">Bloomberg News</a> reported that "[t]he most-tweeted link in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Russian web brigades">Russian-linked network</a> followed by the researchers was a petition to declare Antifa a terrorist group".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-210" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-210" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[210]</a></sup></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Western_United_States_wildfire_season" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2020 Western United States wildfire season">wildfires</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">raged on the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">in September 2020, rumors spread on social media that antifa was deliberately setting fires and preparing to loot property that was being evacuated, which local police departments debunked. Some residents refused to evacuate based on the rumors, choosing to defend their homes from the alleged invasions. Authorities pleaded with residents to ignore the false rumors.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-211" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-211" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[211]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-212" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-212" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[212]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-213" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-213" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[213]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-214" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-214" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[214]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Firefighter">firefighters</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">union in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_state" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Washington state">Washington state</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, also debunking these rumors, described</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Facebook">Facebook</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">as "an absolute cesspool of misinformation" on the topic.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_&_Zadrozny_September_2020_215-0" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Collins_&_Zadrozny_September_2020-215" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[215]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Prominent promoters of the unfounded rumors included adherents of the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="QAnon">QAnon</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">conspiracy theory.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Collins_&_Zadrozny_September_2020_215-1" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-Collins_&_Zadrozny_September_2020-215" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[215]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">One false claim that six antifa activists had been arrested for setting fires was specifically amplified by "Q", i.e. "the anonymous person or people behind QAnon".</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-216" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-216" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[216]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">QAnon had for months been organizing "digital soldiers" on social media and internet message boards to wage</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Information warfare">information warfare</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to influence the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_elections" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="2020 United States elections">2020 United States elections</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-217" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_note-217" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[217]</a></sup></p></blockquote><p>Source: <span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wikipedia contributors. (2020, October 25). Antifa (United States). In</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Retrieved 10:50, October 27, 2020, from</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa_(United_States)&oldid=985326641" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antifa_(United_States)&oldid=985326641</a></p><p>Footnotes:</p><ol class="references" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px;"><li id="cite_note-Laura_Ingraham_proposes_declaring_antifa_a_'terrorist_organization'-191" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFConcha2017" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Concha, Joe (August 29, 2017). <a class="external text" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/348383-laura-ingraham-proposes-declaring-antifa-a-terrorist-organization" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">"Laura Ingraham proposes declaring antifa a 'terrorist organization<span class="cs1-kern-right" style="padding-right: 0.2em;">'</span>"</a>. <i>The Hill</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 12,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=911+dispatchers+slammed+with+calls+about+QAnon-backed+false+claims+about+wildfires&rft.date=2020-09-11&rft.aulast=O%27Sullivan&rft.aufirst=Donie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2020%2F09%2F11%2Ftech%2Fqanon-oregon-fire-conspiracy-theory%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAntifa+%28United+States%29"></span></span></li><li id="cite_note-214" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a aria-label="Jump up" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)#cite_ref-214" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jump up">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFFunke2020" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Funke, Daniel (September 10, 2020). <a class="external text" href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/10/facebook-posts/antifa-activists-did-not-start-west-coast-wildfire/" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">"Antifa activists did not start the West Coast wildfires"</a>. <i>PolitiFact</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">September 13,</span> 2020</span>.</span></li></ol><p> </p><p></p>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-55655519663230072772020-06-24T16:46:00.005+01:002020-06-24T17:05:06.908+01:00Spiked footnotes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hPjqfbg2Lq8/XvN1KfNnUKI/AAAAAAAADGg/iFY9GxIubbkdd93VnCa08-tAnym54JF-wCK4BGAsYHg/s1374/spiked.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="1374" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hPjqfbg2Lq8/XvN1KfNnUKI/AAAAAAAADGg/iFY9GxIubbkdd93VnCa08-tAnym54JF-wCK4BGAsYHg/s320/spiked.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-rcps-long-march-from-anti.html" target="_blank">My post</a> on what Boris Johnson advisor Munira Mirza and brief Brexit MEP Claire Fox have in common - a background in the formerly left-wing sect that rebranded from the Revolutionary Communist Party to Spiked - has become unexpectedly timely of late. </div><div><br /></div><div>Mirza - who thinks institutional racism is a myth and has described previous inquiries into inequality as "fostering a culture of grievance" - has been named as heading up a new government commission on racial inequalities. </div><div><br /></div><div>I track some of Mirza's recent involvements with the RCP/Spiked network in <a href="https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1156462956328247296" target="_blank">this Twitter thread</a>. Here are some snips:</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">...Change Britain has an overlapping leadership with Artists For Brexit and Invoke Democracy Now, both of which are dominated by LM veterans. Mirza helped set up AFB and Westley has been involved in it. It is heavily promoted by BrexitCentral. <a href="https://t.co/0Dt7jeEf6d">https://t.co/0Dt7jeEf6d</a> <a href="https://t.co/PDcJFWia9c">pic.twitter.com/PDcJFWia9c</a></p>— Bob From Brockley 🥤 (@bobfrombrockley) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1156463038188404736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Dizzy from all these front organisations & astroturfing. <a href="https://twitter.com/JRogan3000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JRogan3000</a> points out another “grassroots, informal, diverse” pro-Brexit group Munira Mirza started: All In Britain. Reposts stuff from Spiked, eg by Artists For Brexit’s Manick Govinda. <a href="https://t.co/tzFI9KFG23">https://t.co/tzFI9KFG23</a> <a href="https://t.co/eo6kOf8iuG">pic.twitter.com/eo6kOf8iuG</a></p>— Bob From Brockley 🥤 (@bobfrombrockley) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1156544056685674498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<div><br /></div><div>Since Mirza's appointment there have been a couple of new pieces published about the RCP that I thought worth sharing. First, Nick Cohen has (along with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation" target="_blank">George Monbiot</a>) long been one of the few mainstream journalists with his eye on the sect. Here's some extracts from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the-far-left-origins-of-no-10s-desperate-attack-on-all-things-woke-" target="_blank">his latest</a>:</div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><blockquote>Back in the day, [Frank Furedi's] party <a href="https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/a-platform-for-working-class-unity-the-revolutionary-communist-partys-red-front-and-the-1987-election/">treated liberal opinion</a>, the Labour party, the trade unions and other far left groups who compromised by advocating voting Labour to stop the Tories with a hatred that matched the hatred directed at them by today’s right. It despised the concept of human rights. It delighted Serbian war criminals by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/mar/15/pressandpublishing.tvnews">denying </a>that they were ethnically cleansing Muslims during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Before anyone had thought about Putin or Trump, or read about £350m for the NHS on the side of a bus, the RCP was exploiting a post-truth world where genocide could be dismissed as fake news...<br /><br />The RCP... grew to despair of a working class that never paid it a blind bit of attention. When it failed to end imperialism and capitalism, it ditched revolutionary politics but kept the absolute contempt for liberalism, labourism and human rights. It did not move to the right in the manner of people who grow more conservative with age but as a cohesive unit. Party policy now allowed its members to begin a Gramscian march through institutions that previously would have ignored them...<br /><br />Over the years, I have tried to keep my temper with nominally intelligent people who say the propagators of lies about the oppression of Bosnia’s Muslims at least have the guts to tell hard truths that others duck. I hear that they stand up for freedom of speech. I reply they defend it only when it is under attack from authoritarian “liberals” but ensure that the corporate loot keeps flowing by saying nothing about big business silencing whistleblowers.</blockquote><div>Historian Evan Smith <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/23/fringe-1980s-communist-faction-no-10-attitude-racism-munira-mirza" target="_blank">tells some of this story in fine-toothed detail</a>:</div><blockquote>The RCP... made a name for itself for taking positions that rankled with others on the left. Among theses were enthusiastic support for the armed struggle in Northern Ireland and calling for a national ballot during the 1984-5 miners’ strike. Party members also <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?redir_esc=y&id=F_RmSjy3K0EC&q=RCP#v=onepage&q=rcp&f=false">criticised</a> gay activists and were accused of undermining the message of safe sex during the HIV/Aids crisis.<br /><br />At the end of the cold war, the RCP pronounced that class-based politics was a dead end, with ideas now being the key battleground. The party eventually dissolved in 1997, which left Living Marxism as the primary vehicle for its former cadre. It acted as a halfway house for former leftwing activists now increasingly interested in libertarianism. The journal itself was wound up in 2000 after losing a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/mar/15/pressandpublishing.tvnews">libel case against ITN</a> over claims made about reporting during the Balkan wars in the 1990s...<br /><br />The crossover of many of these individuals between the journal, the website, the thinktank and other endeavours has been referred to as the LM network. It has gained attention not just because many of its members occupy a significant media and political profile, but also for the trajectory of its cohort from the far left to the hard right... Some commentators have suggested that this is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2">coordinated case of entryism</a> (although the end goal of this is unclear). But it is more likely that the politics and activities of the network have a certain appeal (and notoriety), which has seen a number of former members be willing to shift with the changing agenda, from revolutionary communism to a mixture of contrarianism and right libertarianism. In many ways, this owes something to the Leninism of the former RCP and an ideological coherence, even in the absence of the vanguard of the party.<br /><br />In recent years, Spiked has been at the forefront of perpetuating the idea of the free-speech “crisis” on university campuses and elsewhere. Some at the magazine also disagree with laws against racial discrimination (<a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/06/02/hate-speech-laws-are-no-friend-of-minorities/">particularly against racist speech</a>) and with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, viewing both as overreach by the state into people’s lives. This approach to racism, free speech and the state are intertwined, and can be traced back to the days of the RCP.<br /><br />Throughout the 1980s, some at the magazine opposed the “<a href="https://hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/the-revolutionary-communist-party-living-marxism-and-the-road-to-free-speech-absolutism/">no platforming</a>” of fascists and racists, stemming from an objection to state bans and censorship. Furthermore, use of racial discrimination legislation was seen as a call for state intervention in working-class and migrant communities. In reality, this meant that while the RCP (and its front, Workers Against Racism, or WAR) were involved in a number of anti-racist campaigns, it denigrated the work being done by other activist groups. One of the constant tropes of the RCP/WAR was to argue that while the rest of the left concentrated their efforts in one area, they really should be concentrating in another (which coincidentally was where the RCP dedicated their attention). This notion that everybody else is wrong and just tilting at windmills persists in the writings of Spiked today.<br /><br />Actions against non-state racism in the 1990s, such as those by anti-fascists against the British National party, were often dismissed or framed as attacks on the legitimate concerns of the (white) British working class. The end point of this rhetorical stance has seen a writer in Spiked <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2002/05/10/doing-fascists-a-favour/">dismiss</a> the threat of the far right, suggesting that the BNP could appear “moderate” and “level-headed” when compared with the anti-fascist left; and the magazine publish an <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/15/the-myth-of-bigoted-britain/">article</a> titled The Myth of Bigoted Britain. Simultaneously, while its predecessor had abandoned class politics in favour of ideas in the 1990s, Spiked has also criticised the rise of identity politics as pure ideology and an attempt to divide the working class.<br /><br />These preoccupations have proven to be well suited to a moment in which the right has reduced racism to a component of a “culture war” being waged by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/17/boris-johnson-racism-woke-tories">the “woke” left</a>. Mirza’s previous comments on Spiked about institutional racism, diversity and multiculturalism reveal the mindset in which this new proposed commission on racial inequalities has been cast. They also reveal how the fixations of a contrarian, right-leaning, libertarian website, established by disillusioned leftists, has become part of the mainstream discourse in the UK.</blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">** </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Though it may be that culture changed to meet them. A lot of Living Marxism covers - before they were folded after flirtation with genocide denial - look like they’ve come from the Spiked headline generator. <a href="https://t.co/6QSa1ytbk0">pic.twitter.com/6QSa1ytbk0</a></p>— Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1274713990699134979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div><div style="text-align: center;">**</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Smith argues that the ex-RCP has played a role in shifting the UK's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window">"Overton window"</a> rightwards in recent years. This point is made by Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon in a series of articles, starting with 2017's "<a href="https://discoversociety.org/2017/12/06/reading-mein-kampf-misreading-education-the-reactionary-backlash-goes-back-to-school/" target="_blank">Reading Mein Kampf, Misreading Education: The Reactionary Backlash Goes Back To School</a>". <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4695-the-liberal-hegemony-is-crumbling" target="_blank">This is one of their most recent</a>, published on the Verso blog in May:</div><blockquote>On the 23rd of March, as the UK finally went into lockdown, much later than its European counterparts – to <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/17/britain-uk-coronavirus-response-johnson-drops-go-it-alone/">the dismay of many experts</a> and a rightly concerned population – the reactionary libertarian right was at it again, with its contrarianism and pseudo-radicalism, as if a global pandemic was nothing but another opportunity to exploit. Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked!, a website <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/us-billionaires-hard-right-britain-spiked-magazine-charles-david-koch-foundation">part funded by the Koch brothers</a>, called for ‘<a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/23/dissent-in-a-time-of-covid/">Dissent in a time of Covid</a>’, criticising the ‘chilling’ and ‘dangerous’ ‘witch-hunting of those who criticise the response to coronavirus’. This was no surprise and in fact before the article was even published, experts in the field were already joking about what catastrophising and self-aggrandising headline the online magazine would choose: over the past few years, Spiked! has made a name for itself by creating narratives of martyrdom and heroism on the back of real societal crises and injustices, all in the name of twisted versions of democracy and liberty, and <a href="http://brockley.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-rcps-long-march-from-anti.html">in the interest of the powerful</a>.<br /><br />O’Neill and Spiked! are only examples of this reaction, albeit with disproportionate access to popular mainstream platforms and attention from the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Brendan+O%27Neill">media</a> and <a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/joint-select/human-rights-committee/news-parliament-2017/freedom-of-speech-uni-17-19/">government, particularly in respect to their free speech campaigning</a>, as part of a broader trend towards (far) right-wing politics. However, recent events, from Brexit to Trump’s election and more recently the debate over how to respond to Covid-19, really drive home that reactionary ideas have become part of mainstream politics, but this may have its limits...</blockquote><blockquote>until Covid-19, Spiked!’s extremely reactionary stances on questions like race, gender or transgender rights had become broadly considered as worthwhile debates in a society the right believes to be controlled by some PC elite. In ‘normal’ times, O’Neill’s use of pubs as the symbol of the true people qua white working class would have been welcome in much of the mainstream, where this racialised and paternalistic view of ‘the people’ is now taken for granted. On this occasion, it seemed to have gone too far though, with some fellow travellers, usually happy to indulge the reactionary libertarian right’s attacks on minorities, the marginalised and their allies, denouncing O’Neill’s stance as ‘<a href="https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1241344095559331841">irresponsible and wrong</a>’ when he compared <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-pub-ban-makes-this-a-dark-day-for-britain">the closing of pubs to North Korea</a>, no less. </blockquote><blockquote>What O’Neill had done was simply push the argument to one of its logical conclusions. But that meant turning against a government which had so far been the best ally of our reactionary class, despite their alleged anti-elitism, as well as putting at risk its main constituency, found in older voters. Even though austerity and the action or inaction of the government will impact far more on those at the bottom, the merchants of inequality and injustice are also at risk, and this risk cannot be downplayed, mocked or questioned: it is beyond free speech. This may be why they finally criticised O’Neill who had, with Spiked!, until this point served the cause well, legitimising and mainstreaming reactionary and far right ideas. O’Neill was joined by other, more mainstream, figures, such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLQmzsqtB4">Peter Hitchens</a>, <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/16/the-shutdown-is-blighting-billions-of-lives/">Heather MacDonald</a> and <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/03/cancelled-criticising-lockdown-now-ever-must-hold-government/">Toby Young</a>, as the lockdown gave reactionaries another opportunity to rehearse well-worn arguments on the libertarian right: our society is shackled by a culture of fear and safe spaces, where elite experts are in cahoots with nanny state authoritarians, denying our most basic freedom and liberties (but really mostly that to be racist, sexist and reactionary in a free market). We can see this discourse at its most explicit in the <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52371977">anti-lockdown protestors emboldened by Donald Trump in the US</a>. </blockquote><div>Many of us might think that <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-next-victim-populism-uk-boris-johnson-us-donald-trump/" target="_blank">the COVID19 crisis has shown the limits of populist government</a> and the need to <a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2020/03/12/get-covid-done/" target="_blank">bring expertise, evidence and data into decision-making</a> (something eroded as part of the "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/17/boris-johnson-racism-woke-tories" target="_blank">war on woke</a>" which Johnson (and Trump) have both stoked and benefited from. But the RCP/Spiked network draws the opposite conclusion. <a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/covid-19-exposes-failure-post-political-state" target="_blank">Writing in the Stalinist pro-Brexit Morning Star back in April</a>, RCP veteran Tara McCormack and Spiked star Lee Jones argue that too much power has passed from poiticians and the executive arm of the state to expert regulatory bodies, and there is a need for autocratic decisionist actions from our rulers, who somehow innately have a sense of the will of the people:</div><blockquote>The Brexit slogan “take back control” resonated so widely because it spoke to this sense of disempowerment and stasis. Johnson’s “get Brexit done,” likewise, promised to cut through the political and bureaucratic morass to deliver what people had demanded.<br /><div></div></blockquote><div>They describe their position as opposed to the "post-political" rule of technocrats, but this anti-technocratic language is the hallmark of populist post-politics, which seeks to burn away contentious, democratic politics, as represented by social movements, student politics, trade unions, etc.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">**</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, McCormack has also had some <a href="https://louisproyect.org/2018/04/15/london-times-articles-about-assadist-university-professors/" target="_blank">media attention</a> for her role in the fringe "<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/vanessa-beeley-syria-piers-robinson_uk_5c570a53e4b08710475471a6">Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media</a> (WGSPM), with HuffPo <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-useful-idiots_uk_5e2b107ac5b67d8874b0dd9d" target="_blank">noting </a>how Russian state media has given her and her colleagues a platform to promote a denialism over Syrian government war crimes which echoes the RCP line about Serbian government war crimes.</div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">It is also an established fact that a) the White Helmets are basically Al Q (they provide most of the reporting from Jihadi held areas and b) that hospitals are used as bases by these groups.</p>— Tara McCormack (@McCormack_Tara) <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormack_Tara/status/960527482502991875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">"You have a corruption of the independence of the OPCW"<a href="https://twitter.com/PiersRobinson1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PiersRobinson1</a>, co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies discusses war, propaganda and crushing dissent with <a href="https://twitter.com/uniofleicester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@uniofleicester</a>'s <a href="https://twitter.com/McCormack_Tara?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@McCormack_Tara</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/Renegade_Inc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Renegade_Inc</a>.<br /><br />MORE: <a href="https://t.co/BjDZaAP9MT">https://t.co/BjDZaAP9MT</a> <a href="https://t.co/hD7K3UbZ2H">pic.twitter.com/hD7K3UbZ2H</a></p>— RT UK (@RTUKnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RTUKnews/status/1185520971588857856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">**</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Finally, for more on the cult, check out <a href="Spiked Online, Brexit, and the looming catastrophe" target="_blank">this post by Louis Proyect from last year</a>, and </span><a href="https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/tag/spiked/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Coatesy's blog</a><span style="text-align: left;">, including </span><a href="https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/spiked-shifting-the-overton-window-to-the-right-from-brexit-to-racism/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">his latest round-up</a><span style="text-align: left;">. Coatesy has in particular charted how Spiked has played a key role in </span><a href="https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/tag/red-brown-front/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">creating a red-brown alliance</a><span style="text-align: left;">, in particular in bringing together left and right pro-Brexit activists in its front group </span><a href="https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/tag/the-full-brexit/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">The Full Brexit</a>, which links the Morning Star/Communist Party of Britain with right-wing Blue Labour. </div>bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-43845366324495145472020-06-16T18:02:00.001+01:002020-09-24T18:03:52.176+01:00Sources on the 2013 crisis in the Socialist Workers Party<p> Just pasting the following sources here for reference:<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><ol class="references" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px;"><li id="cite_note-Muir-21" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFMuir2013" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Muir, Hugh (29 July 2013). <a class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jul/29/adieu-comrade-delta-swp-sex-allegations" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?b4b84") right center no-repeat; color: #663366; padding-right: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">"Diary: Adieu, Comrade Delta. 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