Secular Jewish Londoner, West Ham fan. CEO @fsu_world, international adviser at https://xitter.cf/t.co/W0S9vpqLah. Ex British Ambassador to Chile, Ghana and Mexico.
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Joined November 2010
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Today Iโm wearing my keffiyeh jacket to show my solidarity with Gaza.
Hand-finished in cashmere-and-silk bouclรฉ, ยฃ3,250.
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Remember when Owen Jones said this:
"Vulnerable white girls being targeted by British Pakistani grooming gangs is the sort of thing you expect to read in BNP leaflets"
He went on to say "it Wasn't true" don't ever forget he said this.
My Mum and Dad lived and worked in Aden in 1960 and for a couple of years either side!
Wow, this is what Yemen looked like in the 1960s under British rule. That was over half a century ago, but it looked decades more advanced than Yemen does today.
Itโs almost unbelievable compared to what the country has become. And itโs a testament to how quickly a country can collapse once Islam reigns supreme.
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Under capitalism, you can spend your entire life publicly criticizing capitalism, writing books against it, and selling anti-capitalist merch for a profit.
Under communism, writing a single private pamphlet criticizing the party gets you sent to a forced labor camp or put against a wall.
The sheer tolerance of freedom vs. the fragile cowardice of tyranny.
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You know that old joke where the far left thinks Jews are fascists and the far right thinks Jews are communists?
Well, they did the meme.
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This 260-year demographic timeline of Polandโs Jewish population reveals the devastating scale of the Holocaust. Source: buff.ly/MEHJWla
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United should sack Carrick and then immediately appoint him as interim manager to sort this mess out
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Iโd like to apologise.
The last week has finally made me understand that the real victims of the shocking rise in antisemitism are not Jewish people (and Jewish school children in particular) but Owen Jones, Sarah Helm and Sally Rooney.
I hope theyโre ok and Iโm very sorry for having got this wrong.
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Islamo-Leftism Is Not a Conspiracy Theory
Itโs an unrequited love affair
โThe Red-Green alliance does not rest on covert coordination behind the scenes, but on ideological kinship, a shared enemy (Western civilization, modernity and capitalism) and a hefty dose of naivety on one side.โ
โThe bargain is straightforward: leftists coddle Muslims and give them preferential treatment, while Muslims respond by voting for left-wing parties.โ
โWhat makes this love affair tragic is that it is mostly unrequited.โ
โThere may be โQueers for Palestineโ, but there are no โQueers in Palestineโ.โ
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The idea that Pinochet, Mussolini, and Franco, who killed under 1% of their countrymen after they took power, were worse than Pol Pot, who murdered about 25% of his, is beyond absurd.
And Pinochet probably did more good than harm overall. Pol Pot, on the other hand, destroyed almost everything he touched. His per capita domestic civilian death toll was higher than everyone on this list.
Top 20 Worst Dictators in History
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Locations of Uganda and Ethiopia are switched even though the leaders are correct share.google/bTcu2SAk3Z5NYLโฆ
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Since 1948, the population of Jews in Muslim countries has gone from approximately 1,000,000 to around 30,000.
Since 1948, the population of Muslims in Jewish countries has gone from about 156,000 to around 2,000,000.
Whoโs guilty of apartheid and ethnic cleansing?
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Letโs stop sanitizing mass murder with clean economic terms like "collectivization" and "five-year plans."
Call it what it actually was: state-sponsored theft, engineered starvation, and industrial-scale slaughter designed to break the human spirit.
History doesn't forgive, and it shouldn't forget.
Donโt worry, Iโm sure @JamesPGoddard90 is just an โanti-Zionistโ.
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Not once, but twice.
Preston Fearon, that is outrageous.
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Ilhan Omar Starting To Regret Hiring Immigration Attorney From Quality Citizeship Center
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No es Gaza, es Cuba. No fue un terremoto, fue 67 aรฑos de comunismo.
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Our era has produced so many insane headlines that will baffle future historians.
Hereโs anotherโฆ
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Central planning is what happens when arrogance meets absolute ignorance.
A room full of mid-level bureaucrats who couldn't manage a lemonade stand genuinely believe they have the divine right to dictate the survival of 300 million human beings.
The result is always a total, catastrophic collapse.
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Owen Jones came on Triggernometry. After being given lots of speaking time, he was asked a few probing questions and immediately turned the conversation into a gotcha style debate. This naturally resulted in him being destroyed with facts and lots of people on the internet laughing at him.
Now he is so butthurt, he spends his days posting videos no one watches about how he was right about everything. While having me and Francis blocked.
Loser energy.