26-06-2020, 15:34
(25-06-2020, 22:50)0762 Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53183085
Yep! Good comments LS. So RLB is the latest casualty of Sir Starmer and the establishment Labour Party. His motive is clearly to ensure the Labour Party is "squeaky clean" and this is one huge "stain" that needed to be cleaned out AT ALL COST! Forget common values and good ethics! Also I despair observing the normalised "state of affairs" in this country when it comes to criticising the State of Israel (not the Jewish community!!!!!) or anything to do with the State of Israel. We are now at a point where anyone of any kinda political standing is shit scared to say what they should be saying in criticising Israeli criminals like Netanyahu, his extreme accomplices and other religious fanatics who don't "give a fook" re the human rights of the indigenous people in the occupied territories. It is just another confirmation that the Israelis, prob through Mossad and other covert agencies, have won the propaganda war in the likes of the UK and the USA (god knows what they have on Trump!!!) and I despair while all big western countries are "standing back" again while the Israeli govt "rides ram shod" all over the Palestinians and other minority ethnic groups for the umpteenth time even in the face of another UN condemnation (one of many in the past 50 years!!) of their unlawful partitioning of settlement land that, under international law, they have no legal standing re ownership!!
Peake is obviously right that systemic racism by security forces is an international issue, and pointing out how one racist security force has learnt violent population control techniques from another to me is not a conspiracy theory. Are we right in saying that if Peake had been more precise, and used well-documented examples of racist policing by Israeli security services – like the ones Amnesty had pointed to - of say extrajudicial execution, ill-treatment and torture (including those of children), excessive use of force against protestors then RLB wouldn't have got sacked ? It feels a bit 'off'.
Israel is set to illegally annex a large part of the West Bank next week. That is real modern-day colonialism, and happening now. Anti-racists and internationalists should be united in opposing it, without fear of the social media bullying and 'gotcha' style politics.
But thats the particular rabbit hole we appear to be down at the moment.