George Galloway (Alamy)
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“From the river to the sea,” the familiar-hatted figure roars. “Palestine will be free,” his supporters chant in unison. George Galloway is conducting his followers like a religious cleric. “In our thousands, in our millions,” the high-priest cries. “We are all Palestinian,” they respond.
It is rare these days for a foreign issue to be so central to a British political campaign: two by-elections being fought this week — in Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, and in Kingswood near Bristol — will be decided by the economy and other domestic concerns. The battle for Rochdale, which will be fought at the end of this month, is the exception.
The former textile town, in the Pennine foothills north of Manchester, is Labour’s biggest problem between now and the next general election. At the weekend, The Mail on Sunday published a recording of its candidate Azhar Ali telling a meeting of party members that Israel had “allowed” Hamas’s October 7 massacre to take place, to give it the “green light” to invade Gaza. Ali swiftly issued an apology, but it came too late: last night, the Labour Party withdrew its support for his campaign, after receiving “new information” about his comments. All of which makes for a rather peculiar scenario: come polling day, a constituency that has voted Labour since 2010 will not have a Labour candidate on the ballot.
Yet even before Ali’s comments were unearthed, the Rochdale by-election had been tainted by vicious dysfunction. From the moment it was called, after incumbent MP Sir Tony Lloyd died following a long illness, Labour insiders feared — correctly, as it turned out — that it would expose the party’s growing struggle to both retain its loyal support among Muslims and regain the confidence of British Jews. In Rochdale, around 30% of voters are Muslim; beyond the town and across north Lancashire, roughly two dozen Labour councillors have now resigned from the party over Gaza.
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Events in the Middle East are far from Labour’s only local trial. There’s also the notorious child-abuse scandal, in which predominantly Pakistani men from the town, many of them gangsters and drug dealers, committed horrific sexual crimes against white, working-class teenage girls over many years, and indeed some are suspected of still doing so. Labour has run the council since 2010 and their councillors have been accused of brushing the issue aside — not least by Simon Danczuk, Rochdale’s former Labour MP, who was suspended by the party in 2017 following reports that he sent explicit messages to a 17-year-old girl. He is now running for the seat under the banners of the Reform Party.
And following last night’s developments, outsider campaigns such as his have been handed a significant boost. Indeed, how different the mood seems from 2019, when, despite losing scores of other northern working-class seats, Labour held Rochdale comfortably, with a majority of almost 10,000. For Starmer to lose such a solid seat, only a few months before the country votes as a whole, will shock and demoralise his party — and rejuvenate his opponents.
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SubscribeWell, you have to at least salute George’s indefatigability.
You mean his grift
Why?
I was quoting his obsequious address to Saddam Hussein when they met.
“despite running a campaign accused of homophobia, he won almost 22% of the vote and gained so many ex-Labour Muslim supporters”
Maybe it should be “because of” and not “despite”?
“You can’t get away from the fact it’s Asian men grooming young white girls.”
So we have a situation where muslims do mass grooming gangs but can’t be named, muslims join ISIS or Hamas but “terror has no religion”, muslim mobs attack Jews or Hindus with impunity, and most revealing is how a candidate who is even falsely labelled as “Gujarati Indian” is unacceptable to Pakistani muslim voters (and clearly they will only vote for muslims or islamic parties) but we have to pretend that these people are “British”.
About as British as I am Pakistani
Give it time.
I can imagine one native American saying just that to another native American, say in 1700
We could end being a success story just like the Balkan.
LOL
Are you not an immigrant? Rather hypocritical maybe?
Anyone in the UK who is not a Celtic Briton is either German (Angle / Saxon) or Norse (Viking) or French (Norman) or Irish even is an “immigrant”..
Not that simple L M, about 60 percent of modern white British dna is ‘brythonic’, no ancestrally British person is ‘German’ or ‘French’ because it’s our particular mix of brythonic-germanic-norse dna that makes us British, even as variation in the mix gives regional distinctiveness (I’m on the Lancs/Yorks border, the native ppl even look different on each side of the Pennines).
Mate, that’s a long time time ago don’t you reckon. let’s keep it current hey?
No
They are called Reservations in the US and First Nations in Canada.
What are you then?
..and Rishi Sunak is? ..and Suella Braverman is? ..and all the rest of the non-white, non Christian Tories (et al).. exactly what are they? ..clearly not British in your view? If I’m not reading you correctly please enlighten me.
Under British law everyone is equal that is not the case in Islam. We fought WW2 for freedom which includes being able to criticise all religions, practices and beliefs.
Anywhere vs Somewhere, but the Somewheres are from Elsewhere.
Asian men. Asian. While technically true, that description remains wildly inaccurate and purposely so.
Baroness Jay named them exactly what they were – British born males of Pakistani origin – which is why they cannot be deported.
The profits from their ghastly enterprise must’ve been known about, even shared with their some of their community, none of whom would have dared to blow the whistle on them even had they wanted to do so.
Galloway, rank opportunist that he is, hopped aboard and thrives on the notoriety. Ugh….
..and thrives too on the rank hypocrisy of genocide supporting UK politicians on all sides, opposing the genocidal war in Iraq and now in Gaza, opposing the delivery of legal weapons to murder Gazans.. is that what you call opportunism? Exposing the murder of wholly innocent, defenceless women and children? Is that what you call opportunism?? Are you a Satanist?
There is no ‘genocide’ going on in Gaza. There never has been. There are acts of war which are completely different. Israel has warned Gazans when attacks were due to be carried out – what other country at war has ever warned the enemy in advance of their plans? None that I know of.
The high numbers of civilian deaths are down to Hamas not having made any provision for civilian air raid shelters, and refusing to let them use the tunnels where they hide their men and ammunition. Hamas’ useful idiots in the west conveniently ignore this item of fact. Hamas claims that it is the responsibility of the UN to provide shelter. Hamas is the government in Gaza – and since when was it NOT the responsibility of governments to keep their citizens safe?.
The Gazans have brought this on themselves for supporting Hamas whilst it wreaked horrendous violence on defenceless Israeli citizens without any declaration of war, and still holds some of them as hostages in no doubt awful living conditions. The majority of Gazans still support Hamas which means they obviously don’t care about the deaths of defenceless women and children.
Quite frankly, the Palestinians have proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that they are wholly unfitted to govern themselves – as they have chosen weak ineffectual Abbas in the West Bank, and a death cult in Gaza.
And to be calling ordinary people Satanists is nothing short of hysteria. The only true Satanists are Hamas and their partners in crime.
Seems to me that the killing would stop immediately if Hamas laid down their weapons. Pretty simple really.
Indeed, they are Pakistani or sub continent, not Asian.
Why did they ever allow mass immigration from Pakistan?
Because “they” have a religious belief in the view that all cultures are equal, and at the same time snobbishly look down upon their own culture and people because “they” are superior.
This holds true for so called “liberals” across the world incidentally, not just in the West but in places like India.
“Nastiest”
Pro-genocide vs. Anti.
I have issues with Galloway, and even more with Islam. The majority of grooming gang members do have Muslim names. (Denial of this fact is the one thing that Corbyn and Starmer agree on).
But the children of Gaza are not being groomed, they are being exterminated.
Britain supports it. That’s because of Jewish, not Islamic, influence.
More Muslims have been killed by Muslims than by Jews since 1948; ever heard of Janjaweed or Algerian Civil War ? What about Sunni killing Shia in Iraq and vice versa ?
If Hamas, lay down weapons, built bombs shelters, move civilians away from military targets and did not send missiles into Israel, then Israel would have no reason to be Gaza and people would be safe.
I see Talcum X (baby-faced drivel meister Owen Jones) is predictably straight off the blocks for the hard (ish in his case) left, claiming the candidate’s suspension shows ‘Starmer is in trouble’.
Bless – and still in his jimjams no doubt.
Maybe he’ll pop over to Gaza with the ‘Queers for Palestine ‘ brigade to show support and they’ll show him a crane and a noose to go with it.
Surprising (but perhaps not) that Owen Jones seems indifferent to the fact of Tory MP Mike Freer was driven out of the North Finchley mosque by Islamic activists outraged that Freer, a homosexual, should be defiling their holy place with his presence. Can Owen Jones really not see the implications, for himself and his kind, of the muslim contempt for homosexuals? Perhaps he thinks his intersectional opposition to Israel and to “Islamophobia” will be seen by muslims as some sort of noble self-sacrifice.
It is sexual kink for these queer people to be proximal to these dangerous hard men of Islam but ultimately safe because they live in western liberal democracies.
I expect the ubiquitous Pride flag could be stretched just a bit further to include the Palestinian colours and a crescent symbol next to the brolly for sex workers.
Owen Jones is far, far more than his gender orientation.. indeed he is a giant among pygmy journalists who stopped reporting a long time ago and now just spout MSM lies. His gender orientation has NOTHING to do with his stance on the Gaza genocide.. it is entirely subordinate to the major issue but I guess pygmies like you will never see that.
Labour left wingers are the Tories’ greatest allies. One openly admitted to me that he’d prefer another Tory government in power after the next general election, rather than Labour whilst Starmer is leader.
Granted it’s a toss up.. the Tories would be wiped out completely on the following election by a new, left-wing, anti-genocide, progressive party.. Maybe a Corbyn, Jones, Galloway alliance?
Now there’s a thought.. an real, honest, incorruptible, peace-loving political party with real Christian/Muslim and socialist principles.. Wow.. wouldn’t that be novel.
Corbyn – a drippy ineffectual do-nothing and lover of terrorists
Galloway – a born troublemaker and lover of terrorists
Jones – terminally stupid and not fit to comment on what he had for breakfast, let alone on something as complex as the Israel/Gaza war.
Wow so many bigots on Unherd now, shame really. Bet you would like the ‘queers’ blown up with the Palestinians right?
Straight to name calling eh?
As an alternative, why not engage? Can you explain to us how the whole “Queers for Palestine” thing works? The “Queers” support Palestinians, (who would, of course, strangulation-hang them on a crane jib just for being queer), against Jews (who are pretty cool about their sexualities).
Over to you, old thing. How does that work then? You got the guts or the imagination to tell us?
Do you understand the concept of some issues being vastly greater than others? Of some evils being vastly greater than other evils? Of compromise being necessary to see the much, much larger picture. Just because a wicked Muslim wants to strangle a homosexual doesn’t mean his children must be blown to pieces and die in agony! Is that too complex a scenario for you grasp? Are you really so homophobic you are that blinded to basic realities?
So true.. the hatefilled genocide has them oozing out of the slime of Hell with their murderous, evil degenerate views. Sad.
I expect degenerates like you to ooze out of the slime from time to time but I find it really sad that there are another 214 degenerates like you. You need help ..try an exorcist first.
Like our dear “Carl Valentine” You just can’t cope, can you, when good points with which you don’t agree, are intelligently put.
Straight to abuse – because it’s all you know how to do, I suppose.
It feels like the forces of darkness are revealing themselves in their common hatred of Jewish people.
Nothing new there, James, unfortunately.
Whaddya mean James ?
(see this morning’s further ‘revelations’ about Jewish media smears from ‘our man in Rochdale’)
We all know
یہودی دنیا کو کنٹرول کرتے ہیں۔
(Jews control the world innit).
Satanyahu controls AIPAC, AIPAC controls the US and the US controls the world: so yes, I guess that’s true.
One attraction of antisemitism is that Jews don’t murder their critics, so it’s safe to abuse them.
Maybe they ought to start. Even just threats and no action seems to work for the Muslims.
But it ‘works’ only because Islamists are barbarians. What’s lacking is courage on the part of everyone else and law-enforcement by the police.
Even barbarian is too kind a name to describe Islamists. They are savages. But you’re right that they get a free pass due to ineffectual law enforcement and lack of courage amongst the rest. I think the time is coming though when all of us will have to be prepared to defend ourselves against them.
I agree.. but Zionists are the most evil of the lot.. sick, degenerate child murderers.. you can’t really get up lower than Satanyahu, Ben Gvir, Smothrich er al if you’re looking for evil, heartless, soulless savages can you?
Islamists, Zionists, genocide-supporting politicians are ALL barbaric.. Galloway is a peace-loving Christian.. Corbyn too.. and Jesus was a peace-loving Jew.. all meeting a similar fate it seems?
I think 28,000 Gaza civilians would disagree? Did you know an Israeli survey found that 58% thought that ‘not enough force was being used in Gaza’ Wow, my opinion is changing, of course this survey refers to the Israeli populace, not to be confused with ‘Jews…’
You MUST insert the word Zionist before the word Jews.. millions of decent Jews all over the world, including the UK are vehemently opposed to Israeli Zionist evil.
Otherwise your statement is truly and most unfairly anti Jewish and that is NOT acceptable!
Really? tell that to all those journalists murdered by the IOF in Gaza. Are you insane??
While there a few willfully blind deniers, those dark forces of darkness weren’t making any particular efforts hiding what they were.
The only chnage is that theyr are now even more demographically important.
The ‘forces of darkness’ are doing a good job defending the Jewish army and government on here..?
They certainly are. James Love scoring 228 for 7 in the Ist innings and Michael James 108 for 6 in the second is saying something.
Are those ‘dark forces’ really Kosher Nostra at work?*
(* Isaiah 36:12.)
Yes.. but there is another side.. and there are other Jews ..on the right side of history, all over the world. AIPAC / Kosher Nostra are in a minority.. others I the majority are clearly confused, scared and propagandised to within an inch of their sanity. Truth, accuracy, fairness and balance are crucial in these dreadful days.
Hatred of Zionism and all it’s Satanic evil is NOT hatred of Jews.. I have Jewish friends who ALSO fall into the category of Zionist haters. My favourite guy in all of history was born, lived and died a Palestinian Jew. He preached as a rabbi in the synogogs of Judea and Jerusalem.. and HE TOO would be adamantly, outspokenly, unashamedly and passionately anti Zionist if he were here today. So save your lies for the gullible!
Wasn’t he executed as a suspected Zionist?
I got the most downvoted comment on this site yesterday, and I expect to match that today. It may be anathema to the vast majority of the readership of this site, but millions of people in this country are horrified about what is happening in Gaza and horrified by our politician’s support for it.
The terrible story of Hind Rajab should, finally, be the wake-up call that something has gone badly wrong here. What if she had been Israeli and Hamas had killed her? You would have been up in arms about her. There would be story after story on this site mentioning her. Where is your humanity?
Very few politicians in the House of Commons are representing the views of the millions of people who are horrified. It is Starmer’s job to hold the government to account, not to go along with the government whilst it supports a war that has been condemned by the International Court of Justice, concerned with the prevention of genocide.
The only person in parliament at the moment who is asking the government questions that millions of people are concerned about, in this case, vaccine harms and the WHO / Big Pharma’s power grab, is Andrew Bridgen. Nobody is consistently representing the views of the millions concerned about Gaza. George Galloway is somebody who can be relied on to represent those views in Parliament, and I wish him every success in this by-election.
Does that mean I agree with him on everything? Not at all, but somebody has to ask the questions that neither the government nor the opposition wish to answer. What is the point of having an opposition? Politics has become a charade in this country.
I think it is about time that we starting referring to the GAZA GHETTO, so dreadful have things become.
Due to historical precedent, I was rather reluctant to use this expression, but enough is enough. Just imagine if the British Army had behaved like this on so called Blo*dy) Sunday*, 52 years ago!
(* For some Good Sunday.)
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And immediately SIN BINNED.
Charles, you were doing fine up to now. You were a bit of old empire relief. You’re usually quite good fun but clearly an eejit at the same time. “Eejit” is a sort of a term of endearment, but not quite. You’ll hardly have come across it. Look it up. It’s from your Ulster-Scots friends’ vocabulary.
I’ve heard “Eejit” often enough, although I prefer “Gobshite”.
Both were both favourite expletives of that renowned fighting force the ‘B Specials’ of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
So what is your point ‘Mr gobshite’? (wink to Chas)
Rubbish.
It wouldn’t be if you bothered to evidence your capability to think critically
You rise to easily to the bait Ms Vogel to offer any ‘sport’.
It’s just old Charlie’s way.. spanner in the works Charlie ..the old eejity gobshyte!
I update you for you’re opener AND down vote you for your unfortunate closer.. you bad man you Charlie!
Everyone is horrified by what is happening in Gaza. The reason that you got so downvoted is that decent people call on Hamas to end the fighting by surrendering, but you call on Israel to end the fighting by abandoning the hostages.
Where did I “call on Israel to end the fighting by abandoning the hostages”? Please evidence this or retract.
Retract, my arse. You say you are horrified by our politician’s support of the IDF action in Gaza. So what is your strategy for getting the hostages back? Asking nicely? Trading for thousands of scum bags currently In Israeli jails? You are a sentimental fool who wants Israelis to suffer so you don’t feel bad. Why don’t you just demand our politicians call for the immediate surrender by Hamas? Why do you hold Israel responsible for what is happening in an enclave they left 20 years ago?
Getting the hostages back should not involve the mass slaughter of 100x the number of women and children. Quite apart from anything else it against the rules of war and is a criminal offence. Once we accept it it will be used against us as it will be against the Israelis in the future.
If the enemy was not Hamas it would not. Read my reply to Aidan Twomey above as to why Hamas licks its lips when faced with naivete such as yours
You are correct, it shouldn’t. If Hamas had spent all its money developing the economy of Gaza rather than building tunnels then the civilians wouldn’t be a human shield. I presume that you think using paragliders to murder civilians at a music festival is also a criminal offense. When you have successfully prosecuted the offenders I will take you seriously, but until then I think the IDF are doing a better job of getting justice than you.
You alluded (I assume by accident) to the concept of “bringing Hamas (et al) killers to justice”.. Are you referring to courts of law? Like the ICJ is a court of law?
But no, I see you prefer the more British way of blowing thousands of innocent people to pieces just like in Iraq.. for a minute there I thought you were promoting the rule of law! Silly me! You’re British right? ..despite your Irish name?
Yes. As we speak the UK is in flagrant breach of the ICJ directives.. the highest court in the world. As such the UK is guilty of aiding and abetting the genocide. This will be a stain on Britain for a thousand years, just as the war crime of invading and murdering a million Iraqis is already. Biden, Sunak, Von der Leyen and Blair are all war criminals and no lawyer on Earth can weasel out of that.
When BRICS++ with all of Africa and Asia on board (after USUKEU crumbles) set up real UN courts hopefully they will all be jailed for life.. and the Israeli demons executed like the worst of the Naz¡s.
Among the “sumbags” in Israeli jails are over 700 children, incarcerated without trial for the crime of throwing stones.. where they are tortured, starved and sexually abused..
Why on God’s Earth would Hamas’s freedom fighters surrender to the Satanic, murderous Zionists? Should the French (+English) Resistance have surrendered to the Naz¡s?
Hamas could end this immediately by saying they will return the hostages and stop the rockets if Israel agree to a ceasefire. If they don’t they are as responsible for Gaza deaths.
True Edgar, but we know they won’t. The dilemma that Hamas has ‘cleverly’ put Israel in is irresolvable on any moral grounds. Any cease fire will inevitably enable Hamas to recharge, so Israel can’t stop now. It’s like when the doctor tells you must not stop taking the antibiotic before its finished or the disease will rise again.
It’s unfortunately a human conundrum that we can’t get out of. We killed millions more than we saved in WW2 fighting for moral justice.
They did thar dozens if times in the past but Israeli killers, ie IOF and settlers alike continued murdering unarmed Palestinians at 27 times the rate Hamas did.. including in the West Bank where Hamas doesn’t exist! Read more history ..please!
Aa mistakenly downvoted ye. The system usually allows a corrective second vote but no this time.
..yes, I noticed that too. Sneaky eh?
Not everyone.
Frankly, I’m not following what’s happening in Gaza at all. Hamas has got what they wanted – an Israeli over-reaction. But the consequences are entirely on them. We are in no way responsible for any of this. Since there’s absolutely nothing I can do to improve anything (and it’s not clear what could be done by external actors to improve anything), I’ve stopped watching. Better to work on solvable problems and things where the people involved really do want and are open to external help.
Over-reaction?
It’s a bit subjective – but it seems that many people are viewing it as an over-reaction (and being instructed to do so by the media).
Of course you can help.. you can even stop it! Protest.. take to the streets, write to your MP.. put up posters. Send funds to Gaza so the children don’t starve..
The holocaust of our time and you turn a blind eye! Shame on you!
Everyone on this comments page is not horrified. Quite the opposite. Did you read the comments?
I don’t get you. Any in particular you want to highlight?
I did.. Satanism is alive and well in GB just as it is thriving in Israel under Satanyahu and the AshkeNAZI Zionist child murderers.
Google Palestinian Media Watch and search for the Hamas leader, comfortable in exile in Qatar, who when asked why Palestinians weren’t allowed to take shelter alongside Hamas in the tunnels, said that the Palestinian people want to be martyrs. The wretch meant every word he said.
If Hamas surrendered it would make the ethnic cleansing of Gaza by Israel much easier. However, it would be very difficult for Hamas to surrender as Israeli soldiers tend to shoot people waving white flags, whether they are Escaped hostages or Palestinian children. Also, even if they did mange to successfully surrender, the Israelis would say it was fake and keep bombing. Hamas are only the excuse, the civilians are the target.
And if you genuinely cared about the hostages, you be calling for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange. Israel’s recent attempt at rescuing by force hostages resulted in to being freed and 3 being killed by the IDF!
..using half the bloody army to do it as well! It was just a propaganda show to appease Israeli relatives.. Zionist zealots want all Israeli hostages killed.. that is clear. The IDF killed around 300 Israeli hostages using tank fire and Apache helicopter strafing on Oct 7th.. read a bit more will you! Try the Istaeli newspaper Ha’aretz even!! and Bet’slem the ISRAELI human rights organisation. About 2% of Israelis are decent human beings and publish the truth!
Those I power in Israel don’t give a flying f¤ck for the Israeli hostages you silly boy.. if they did they wouldn’t have blown half of them to pieces with tank fire and Apache helicopter strafing on Oct 7th BEFORE they had a chance of even becoming hostages.. check that out in the Israeli newspapers Ha’aretz especially. Equally, they would be using precision bombs if they were trying to avoid blowing Jewish hostages to pieces in Gaza alongside their Hamas captors wouldn’t they instead of bombing indiscrimately. Far from wanting to have the hostages released they have been trying to kill them all on that fateful day and ever since as per the Hannibal doctrine..
AND HIDING it from the Israeli public (and you as well, obviously, you silly boy).
You’ve got my (up)vote mate. So many people here claim to be free-thinkers and critical of the mainstream state-fed official lines but swallow the pro-Israel anti-Palestine (let’s face it anti-arab) one so willingly.
Just looking at the support given to some of the other comments on this article alone shows why…
You do know this isn’t binary ?
You don’t have to be on one side or the other here. And these situations often feel like a choice between “awful” and “worse”.
This issue is about right vs utter evil.. of course everyone has to take a side! Just like the Naz¡ holocaust in the 1940s.. you can’t stand idly by and call yourself a fully evolved human being ..and yes, that too is binary!
It’s nothing like the Nazi holocaust. If you read some history of that period, you will see that the Nazi approach had absolutely nothing in common with Israel.
And in fact, nobody has to take a side. It’s a choice. Some people believe there are faults on both sides. That is their right. It’s not up to you to dictate terms with your arrogant claim to moral superiority.
To be fair your lot stood idly by during the holocaust in the 40’s
Correct assessment, in my opinion
Hi Nik
I suspect the big issue most people have is centred around a few things
Over 800,000 Muslim on Muslim murders in Syria and Yemen alone. Assad barrel bombing his own people and using chemical weapons on them. It’s ongoing but for some reason, not a feature of British politics or marches. I could list out for you the atrocities committed on a daily basis by Boko Haram, Al-Shabab, Sunni on Shia or you can check them here https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
After WWII a lot of people were displaced and new national (and indeed in some cases notional) borders were drawn up. This resulted in a lot of people moving around the globe, including >700,000 Jews who were genuinely ethnically cleansed from Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq. Iran etc. The only people still being called ‘refugees’ are the nomadic Syrian / Egyptian / Jordanian Arabs who have been rebranded as Palestinians (complete with a flag, as of 1964). Why is that? Why did UNRWA change the definition of what is a refugee? And how did the Egyptian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat manage to leave c $1 billion in his will?
Once you can answer both those questions with coherence, we may have a more common view on the attribution and culpability of why those poor Gazans are suffering so much (clue – it’s not because Israel wants to fight with them, it just seriously enriches a few men and it’s super convenient for them for the ‘struggle’ to continue).
It’s critical to understand that Islam (and Christianity) are absolutist religions. Judaism is not. That has a LOT to do with things too.
The constant geopolitical meddling, deliberate exacerbation of religious tensions and financing of Islamist terrorism by global powers wishing to control the region’s oil is what lies behind much of the violence.
The children of Gaza are not responsible for anything that you have listed there, and if you wish to discuss attribution and culpability, then answer this: Why are Palestinians the people who have to be collectively punished for centuries of past crimes against Jews carried out in other countries?
“The constant geopolitical meddling”
why do you assume they lack agency? unless you mean the meddling by their fellow Muslims in Iran maybe?
geopolitical meddling didn’t make them slaughter Christians in Nigeria, you peanut
Hi Nik
If this were the case, how would you explain Muslim attacks on Jews that pre-date the use or need for oil? It’s not like this is a new thing. Islamic intolerance of Christians and Jews has been a feature of their thinking and culture since the 8th century CE. And that’s without discussing the Sunni-Shia schism responsible for millions of deaths – with no sign of the 1200 year old argument abating either.
The poor children of Gaza are not responsible, you’re right. The publicly declared desire for Genocide of the Jews by the terrorist group Hamas that their parents voted, are responsible. That and the brainwashing of the educational material UNRWA pushed into their schools (really, look it up, it’s disgusting).
I am not convinced you’re really thinking about this properly. How would you, if you had the stress of being Israeli PM for a couple of weeks, deal with a neighbour committed to your destruction? It’s not like you can negotiate with them, is it?
One thing you can be sure of – Israelis and Israel would love nothing more than to live in peace and spend the dollars their amazingly productive economy produces on better things than the IDF that defends the most persecuted race on the planet.
So, please do share how you would deal with the ongoing problem. It’s very easy to criticise and indeed, I have a PhD in hindsight. So let’s hear your sagacious solution(s).
The same countries that are enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza, by supplying the weapons, are also the same countries that sold weapons to Saudi Arabia, notably France, the UK and US, thus enabling the slaughter in Yemen. They are also the same western powers that supplied Islamic extremists (who later became ISIS) with weapons to destroy Syria, in exactly the same way they destroyed Libya. Without Russian support, Syria would either be a failed state like Libya, or run by a theocracy who would have slaughtered or driven out the Christians and any non Sunni Muslims.
Big fan of Andrew Bridgen. His speech at the recent parliamentary committee was brilliant and throughly researched. Quite agree that George Galloway would represent the views of the people of Gaza – but I suspect he also represents the views of many Non Zionist Jewish people both in Israel and overseas who want there to be one multifaith Palestine shared peacably between Arabs and Jews. In the long run this is surely the only solution.
Jeff, seriously, grow up!
Just saying – there are only two solutions a multifaith Palestine shared peacably between Arabs and Jews OR one side destroys the other side completly. The two state solution whcih was proposed thirty years ago in 1993 clearly hasn’t worked. What is your solution?
Run that one past Hammas/Hezbollah/IJ – just for the craic.
“…. want there to be one multifaith Palestine shared peacably between Arabs and Jews. In the long run this is surely the only solution.”
That sounds great to me. Who is the credible Palestinian leader with the backing of the majority of Palestinians who is calling for this solution? The “Nelson Mandela” of Palestine if you like.
It certainly is not any member of Hamas nor Mahmoud Abbas, who is despised by many Palestinians as a collaborator, so who is it? I do feel that without a figure of this kind, the perfectly reasonable desire expressed above is nothing more than a pointless pipe dream that makes about as much sense as “Queers for Palestine”.
“one multifaith Palestine shared peacably between Arabs and Jews”
as seen in so many Arab/majority muslim countries
So you think Pfizer are trying to kill us and Hamas are trying to live peacefully with their Jewish neighbors. Put the bong down, my friend.
If it ever were a solution it’s not now, Hamas blew that away quite spectaularly.
Are we talking about Rochdale here?
A typical Islamist’s narrative.
What would you do if you were Israel’s PM?
Throw myself at the mercy of the International Criminal Court and. beg for forgiveness?
The Israelis had a cease-fire. The Palestinians broke it. How would a second cease-fire be any different? I’m sorry, but there dire consequences when one country initiates atrocities toward another. It’s easy for us to condemn from the comfort of our armchairs, but the truth is we don’t really know the realities of the situation.
One thing to consider: if either of these groups were your enemy who would you rather be captured by?
During the summer of 2023 over 200 Palestinians were killed by IDF and Israeli settlers who were try to ethnically cleanse the west bank. That does not sound like a ceasefire to me.
OCT 7 Hamas broke the cease fire 1300 jews were killed 5000 injured dozens of rapes 450 innocents kidnapped in 1 day Hamas were trying to kill exterminate all the population.
‘One thing to consider: if either of these groups were your enemy who would you rather be captured by?’
Good question. Didn’t even have to think about it. As a woman I’d rather take my chances with the Israeli Defence Force rather than Hamas.
Thanks Nik a just and worthy comment, 51 up votes is what you need to concern yourself with, not the red neck -133…
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH every sentiment you express; and happy to see 53 others who also have a heart and a soul! Well said.
Galloway is despicable. Apart from brass neck, one of his advantages over rivals is that he has a natural mastery of rhetoric. Politicians in the UK mainstream parties are entirely lacking in this department.
True – but I will always be grateful for his takedown of the US Senate hearing over the Iraq invasion.
That takedown was a tour de force of brass neck coupled with rhetoric.
What about the fabled HILLARY BENN,MP?
Although I disagree completely with him on Israel, I often find George Galloway to be worth listening to for the clarity of his views. He looks, acts, and speaks like a convert to Islam (three Muslim wives, unquestioning support for Palestinians, failure to ask any meaningful questions about the Rochdale – and other – grooming scandals).
Does this matter? Well yes, very much so given the behaviour of the Muslim voting block. It’s not unlikely that this block will carry the day in Rochdale with a minority – albeit a substantial one – of the population. A foretaste of what is to come for the rest of the country.
Simon Danzuk has really put his neck on the line over the years attempting to expose various grooming scandals, and I’d like to see him do well. Interesting to see the damage done by his three words while the vote for the other side is unaffected by multiple, widespread child sex rings.
It would be a wake up call were Galloway to win the election. The threat from an unintegrated minority would become apparent. There is nothing wrong with a diverse population, but they must integrate. There is nothing wrong with say, a second generation immigrant being proud of their cultural heritage, but first and foremost they must be proud of being British.
Mostly I agree with you, execept I wouldn’t class their cultural heritage as something to be proud of – which is no doubt why their parents came to the UK in the first place.
Not to be confused with Britain’s cultural heritage right? I’m Irish and so very aware of Britain’s “cultural heritage”. By the way the Indus Valley was civilised when Britons were dragging each other from cave to cave by the hair.. and let’s not talk of a million dead, wholly innocent Iraqi Muslims or war crimes in Muslim Afghanistan or Muslim Libya.. Yep, I bet those Muslims are ashamed of their heritage which, by the way, included sheltering Jews for centuries from many massacres carried out by oh so cultured Christian culture. Gimme a break!
‘By the way the Indus Valley was civilised when Britons were dragging each other from cave to cave by the hair.’
What a pity they have been dragged backwards by Islam.
As Orwell pointed out The Left wing intelligentsia despise physical courage, patriotism, British culture, possessed of shallow self righteousness, have little contact with physical reality, take their politics from Moscow and cooking from Paris, are always anti British and only capable of petty fogging carping criticism. It has only become worse since the early 1940s.
Homer nodded.. I guess Orwell also needed a nap from time to time.. For balance maybe you’ll quote a few lies from Orwell criticising the other side? ..not that it’s necessary now we have UnHerd and they, like Satanyahu’s demons can boast about their genocidal evil all by themselves.
I presume by “intergrate” you mean become white, Christian, Islamophobic, support Nigel Farrage and join the BNP? Am I correct?
Apart from being anti truth (logically, by your own admission), anti Muslim, pro genocide (again, logically from your statement) and entirely ignorant on th basic principles of Islam, is there anything else we should know about you?
Been bingeing on RTE/IT Liam?
There is the old saying that we get the politicians we deserve. What on earth did the good people of Rochdale do? Not so long ago they had Cyril Smith, the fattest MP in Britain. No, it was not Cyril’s circumference. It was his taste for beating young boys and his corrupt apologia for a local asbestos company. You couldn’t make this stuff up in a bad music hall sketch. Yes, Gracie Fields also came from Rochdale. But she has not yet been accused of anything…..
Funnily enough ‘Our Gracie’ was turned on by her fans during the war as she and her husband escaped the bombing and rationing by going to live in their Mediterranean home for the duration. My grandparents had no time for her!
And to add insult to injury, she went to live in Capri which is part of Italy – which during WW2 was then allied with our enemy.
We hanged ‘Lord Haw Haw’ who wasn’t even a British citizen so why not Mrs Fields?
I don’t think she engaged in any propaganda on behalf of the Axis though. I think she had visited Capri prior to WW2 and liked it. The Italians left her alone, she wasn’t interned.
This is a small point, but a telling one, I think: Michael Crick says, “in Rochdale, around 30% of voters are Muslim; beyond the town and across north Lancashire, roughly two dozen Labour councillors have now resigned from the party”. This is geographically incorrect – the ex-mill towns with large Muslim majorities are in East Lancashire. North Lancashire borders the Lake District, very few mill towns up there.
It might seem pedantic, but I think it shows that even a journalist with solid northern connections like Michael Crick has no idea where these towns actually are.
Writing an article about a place should consist of more than interviewing one Muslim man and one middle-aged white woman and then hot-footing it back to central Manchester on the tram to write up your notes in a michelin-starred restaurant.
In addition, the possession of a season ticket to United has been an unreliable indicator of northern working-class authenticity for several decades now, something George Galloway, Michael Crick, Nick Robinson et al. could usefully note.
The people of towns like Rochdale, Burnley, Oldham, Blackburn, Haslingden, Accrington etc deserve better. Better politicians, better journalism, more investment. A start would be locating them in the right place.
Katherine Hayes, Orkney (most definitely in the north)
Good point. Mr Crick clearly thinks “North Lancashire” is anywhere in Lancashire North of Manchester city centre.
I agree, but no-one will be “hot-footing” on a GMPT tram; they’re slow, clanky and often dangerous to travel on after dark, especially in the outlying places such as Rochdale.
I guess even the trams compare well to the London Underground. Plus, maybe he got a taxi there and back. I don’t know why I’m anonymous here – I’m logged in under my own name. Katherine Hayes.
Probably a consequence of the site revamp.
Hi Katherine Go to my Account (top right home page) and then Profile (horizonal menu) and You will find your user name is blank. Enter your name in the profile and you will be fine.
Yes. It’s basically two bands of industrialised towns: the central band starting from Preston, running east through Blackburn, Darwen into Burnley and the Southern band, Wigan, Bolton, Bury to Oldham. The latter is largely Greater Manchester by the new administrative borders.
Edit – *A Lancastrian
Quite. I went walking in the Ribble Valley last Summer. Probably I should have anticipated it, but it was remarkable how the high streets of the mill towns are now dominated by asian businesses – sari shops, curry houses, halal butchers etc.
Those with the skills, especially leadership often leave. What would be of use is an MP who is Para /Commando Technical Corp, who boxed for Army and who has worked in industry as a foreman and who cannot be intimidated. If required, can call favours from his ex military unit.
What! And find yourself on trial in Belfast accused of murder over 50 years ago?*
(*As five former soldiers currently are.)
What he is effective at is stirring up racial hatred.
Owen Jones has actually said something sensible. There’s a first time for everything I guess. Here’s the interview from LBC
https://youtu.be/XoHL_2EDI1c?si=8T2VcsxFxao94Vvo
Just watched it and yes, you’re right, to my amazement as I’m usually a critic of Jones.
Yes he has this correct.
I’m amazed. Jones has excelled himself and had a major burst of sanity.
Listen more carefully next time eh?
I find 90%+ of what Owen Jones says very sensible.. also calm, measured, informed and accurate.. if only UnHerd contributors could aspire to a fraction of Owen Jones’s brilliance what a great platform it would be.. but no, we have to put up with endless homophobes, bigots, white supremacists and ultra right-wing racists as the majority.. A pity.. I always thought the British were better than that..
Wasn’t Ireland recently said to be the worst place in Europe to be black, whereas Britain was the 2nd best? Seems a bit rich for you to be throwing around accusations of bigotry and Dublin was recently the scene of violent anti immigration riots
Islam will never compromise. Do Labour wish to be seen as bowing down to muslim demands? At some stage this was bound to happen and is going to put Labour in a difficult position. Maybe they would be better off without the Muslim vote.
The Muslim vote is growing ; the white vote is shrinking.
I’m glad that I’ll be pushing up daisies before the Muslims become the majority.
Good, the whites on hear seem totally bigotted!
How do you know who’s “white on hear [sic]”? Can you see through people’s screens?
‘By their works (words)shall ye know them’ – Jesus of Nazareth.
What exactly is a “white vote” ..the ballot does not record the skin colour of the voter. Only the candidates count.. Don’t white voters vote Tory and Kabour and LibDem and Green and Reform and unckd Tom Cobley? And don’t black, brown and yellow voters do likewise? Wyf are you on about??
If, as we’re led to believe by Tarek Heggy, an Egyptian philosopher who lives in the US now, there is no word in Arabic for “compromise” and if language influences thought and both influence behaviour, devout Muslims must be mystified by the concept.
There is no word in Irish (Gaeluc) fir YES or NO.. watja make dat?
Has everyone forgotten Christian fundamental thinking on sexual morality and behaviour generally.. how strict was that? Islam will do the same; ease off on its fundamental dogma or it will lose most of its young folk. Not that it will gets ‘liberal’ as modern so-called (former?) Christians have become; God forbid!
Let’s remember the suitable punishment for gang rapers of underage girls:
hanged from a lap post
used down
by their johnny.
Why is the Muslim community considered a voting bloc? Why do Muslims vote en masse? Is Muslim identity more important than individuality? These are important questions to address if we want our democracy to survive, especially in a system where individual choice is given a high priority.
Muslim identity IS more important than individuality for working class Muslims. It is a peasant religion.
The answer to all your questions is “yes” for reasons I haven’t time or space to address. Google the 10 year plan of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose aim is to encourage us to destroy ourselves “by our own miserable hands.”
Seems to me that we’re well on the way….
Do you recall what B*shar al-Ass*d’s father did to the ‘M*slim Brotherhood’ in 1982?
SHIN BET*Censorship makes it impossible to reply.
(* The Israeli version of the G*stapo.)
Islam and fellow Muslims of the Umma have always come first for the overwhelming majority of Muslims and it will always be so.
What a shame Galloway doesn’t use his considerable powers for good.
He does.. remove Iraq war! Or are you in favour of the million murdered under the false pretext of WMD? If only GB had listened to him!
So, a candidate who essentially wants Israel wiped from the map – because what else does that ‘river/sea’ bumper sticker mean? – who also had a previous campaign touched by homophobia. Of course, a Muslim community would back him, but it raises questions about why the left at large would, beyond the exercise in power-grabbing. Then again, the ‘queers for Palestine’ crowd reveals the depth of tribal thinking.
And the ignorance and stupidity.
Precisely what Israel is indulging in now!
How they have squandered the ‘Holocaust Dividend’ is truly astonishing is it not?
Absolutely agree, other than the nutters on unherd the Israelis have lost most of the support they had, I do believe that the downward trajectory of the ‘bankers club’ seems to be going hand in hand with that of Jewish people, courtesy of Netanyahu and his ultra right wing zealots.
The Balkanisation of the UK along religious lines, with Islam at the forefront, is only going to get worse. When less than 50% of the electorate turn out to vote, a block which can guarantee 100% turnout, one way or another, is going to turn the constituency into a pocket borough, like Tower Hamlets. Our main political parties are going to have to face up to the entryism these hardliners are using, grow a pair, and force them out. Only when these extremist ideologues have to campaign under their own banner will they be recognised for what they are.
Agreed.
The time really to worry will be when islamists (wearing sheep-like clothing) get their own political party. Heaven forbid it!
They put in an application last month but it was turned down for technical reasons.
Islamlists are extremely rare.. you may be confusing decent Islamic people, usually better than most so-called Christians, with terrorists who came in many forms, Islamist being just one.. state terrirists like Israel are far more lethal.. be careful you don’t end up a puppet to AIPAC’s equivalent in the UK if you haven’t done so already!
GAZA GENOCIDE our government complicit the Labour Party Liberals House of Lords the minority of UK citizens NOT REPRESENTING the UK masses thats what this is about. Democracy there is none now in the UK otherwise we would have sanctions on the zionist Apartheid genocidal Israel state. Our government are murderers collaborators to a Holocaust a Genocide. THEY DO REPRESENT ME OUR THE MASSES here in the UK. imagine you are in your home now a prison, your electricity turned off your water no food no medical help for your wife and children your in your prison garden and a bomb explodes killing your wife and blowing off your childrens limbs?? This is what is happening and any UK citizen who does not call for a ceasefire and boycotts any Isralie products should hang their head in shame. You can call out these Zionist Murderous jews this Zionist Apartheid Israel it is not a crime they are a terrorist state.
Hard to take you seriously when you can’t even spell Israeli properly.
It is done deliberately -IsraLIE, IsraHELL. The derangement is real and why the supposed pro palestinian cause is actually antisemitic to the core.
No it’s not antisemitic at all! How could it be?
Zionist Israelis are NOT Semitic but almost all AshkeNAZI. Satanyahu is Polish having changed his name from Szmwolski or something similar.
Palestinians are ALL Semitic as are most Jordanians, Egyptians and many Lebanese and Syrians.
Learn some history! Look up your dictionary now and again..
You are a pompous bigot, is that spelt/spelled to your liking?
I approve!
Nicely observed.. let’s get the spellings right:
It’s IsraHELL
AshkeNAZI
Satanyahu
Genocide Joe and
Infosys Sunak
..are you okay with all that?
Infosys is a public company. Sunak family probably owns around 1% of its share capital. But don’t let the truth come in the way of your fabricated narrative.
You 3xclude the wife’s father’s shares! Like Sunak doesn’t get an earful of he disobeys the woman with the money who, I assume is very close to daddy!
Well said, it is truly frightening that Unherd readers are happy to ignore the pain and suffering of others because they are of a different ethnic group, we are a remarkably unpleasant species.
Absolutely true.. hence the response from the usual bigots, Zionists, anti Muslim, racist, white supremacy crowd..
The other area where Labour in general and Starmer in particular are going to be vulnerable in the run up to the election is in the extreme woke ideologies space generally and gender ideology in particular.
Support for Israel and support for trans women are women are, I believe, Starmer’s equivalent of Cameron’s BREXIT.
The Labour Party has brought this on itself by courting the Muslim vote for decades, (30 at least) with Ken Livingstone hugging Sheik Qarawadi, [pass me a bucket to vomit in]. In its adoration of this religio/cultural group which it wrongly perceived as underdogs in brown skin, as apposed to the privileged ‘white’ Jews who recklessly annoyed Nazi fascism and got punished for it, they might soon, I hope, have their comeuppance.
These sagging scrotums, Ali, Galloway, and Danczuk might help Labour to finally have the moral courage to face the degenerative affect these men, and I mean men, from Pakistan have brought into the UK unreconstucted from a failed state into the streets of Rochdale and other towns. Filthy men to whom the Labour Party handed over our white children as a sacrificial offereing in order to placate them so that they wouldn’t riot.
I’ve been left disenfranhised by this lily livered Labour Party. It must rid itself of the Muslim grip or it will forever stand in the filth that these Pakistani men brought here to the UK.
I can’t get past images of George Galloway pretending to be a cat in the 2006 Big Brother whilst he was an MP
That image sprung to my mind too. Wasn’t Rula Lenska the unfortunate lady on the receiving end of his advances?
Here’s the timeline, in around 10 years time the Jewish population will have left these shores. In around 30 years White Christians here will be seeking refuge/safety in other Countries including the useful idiots of the far left.
As Christian persecution (along with the persecution of other minorities, such as gay, apostates etc) is pretty much institutionalised in most Islamic countries – a fact recognised by our authorities and is therefore a reason no illegal immigrant, however criminal, can be deported if they claim to be Christian – it has always struck me as rather bizarre, even sinister, that those same authorities have encouraged mass, demographic changing immigration from Muslim countries while claiming it is the religion of peace.
I’d like to see someone, anyone really, getting half so exercised over domestic issues – things that affect British people & that British MPs can change. Leave the Middle East to those that live there.
It seems abundantly clear that George Galloway would be happier somewhere else.
There is something very odd about Rochdale and its even worse neighbour, Oldham. Travel there from Central Manchester and its hard to believe they are in the same century never mind the same county. Some weird outcome of economic stagnation, societal breakdown, despair and hopelessness. The outskirts are nice but the town centres are depressing. Even a trip through on the tram is bad enough, but as per Steve above, don’t do that at night, not on that line.
It’s beyond belief that Labour didn’t check Azhar Ali’s stance on Gaza before approving his adoption as Labour candidate for Rochdale. No doubt some policy wonk from London judged that it was not ‘woke’ to check his credentials because he is a Muslim and is therefore automatically entitled to a get out of jail free card whatever he says. And I’m not surprised by Galloway’s prompt decision to exploit the situation for his own ends, he must rank as the one of the most unscrupulous chancers currently involved in politics.
There are other explanations. One of which is that they knew and thought it would never ‘get out’ of the local community.
Labour have been running with the foxes and hunting with the hounds on islamic chauvinism for so long they appear to have simply become complacent.
I don’t know what all the hullabaloo is about.. the guy expressed the belief that Oct 7th was known about and let happen.. I hold the same view.. It is inconceivable that that the most sophisticated intelligence/surveillance equippcounyry on Earth was surprised lime that and too 5 hours to get 45 mes to count the attack.. It makes zero sense..
..any evidence for that scurrulous slander against Galloway?
I know it’s fashionable for left liberals to express cynicism and scornfully dismiss George Galloway as an opportunist. I don’t see it that way. He has been a consistent advocate of the old style left wing politics which resonated with me since my youth. George Galloway for all his undoubted faults is recognizable to me as the type of authentic voice which once abounded in the Labour movement, from the same oratorical lineage as Willie Gallacher MP, Mick McGahey, Jimmy Reid, and Jim Airlie. I would be delighted to hear his voice at Westminster again.
The curse of colonialism is akin to the curse of slavery.
All this, in a town that is literally a five-mile walk from my birthplace. How things have changed!
The author must’ve forgotten to mention that rape (and thieving, lying, extorting and terrorizing) are all allowed, encouraged or mandated under Islam, as they handily wrote it down and have based their business plan on these manuals for over a thousand years.
Pakistan expelled Two Million Afghans and sent them back home ‘to their own country’. That’s how it’s done, folks.
They only had to drive them over the border, we would have to catapult them some 5,000 miles.
One thing so many anxious observers in the Secular or Christian West seem unaware of is the brittleness and fissipariousness of the seeming monolith we observe as Islamic ‘unity’. Labour knows this. Galloway knows this better, as he shows when he plays on the class, caste, ethnic and linguistic differences within the Islamic Bloc to carve off his own electorate. He must have learned it in the religious and socialist Glasgow of his political youth. He is the Fox to Labours Hedgehog. Israel, and its handmaid of antisemitism, is really the one and only cause which unites the much vaunted Ummah.
Israel is their Carthage. Israel Delenda Est they cry. We’ll, what then?
Now you’re confusing Judaism with Zionism and clearly unaware of religious differences within both Judaism AND Zionism.. try less surmise and more research.. you’ll be amazed!
Not the first attempt to smear Galloway and will not be the last I’ll warrant.. and yes, while George is given to hyperbole he is still one of the the most honest politicians in the UK if most the most honest after Jeremy Corbyn. He is also peace-loving (hard to attack him there I guess) and opposed to genocide and the supply of lethal UK murder weapons to the demonic Satanyahu regime (granted many Brits support the genocide).. but that too must be worth a few votes.
I pray he wins in Rochdale if only to reverse Labour’s support for genocide (eg Starmers support for denying Palestinian women and children food and water!)..
Galloway’s accusation to Blair is a perfect description of the people he now claims to represent.
Hmmmm …. nothing good ever comes from Islam. On the other hand …. everything that is good … Torah, Bible, Constitutions …. came from the Hebrews and Israel. It’s a mystery to me why this is still a mystery. Gaza is a collection of Ottoman Arab imperialists who never invented anything but the word “Palestine”, never had national borders, and never had any leaders except Muhammad and Arafat and now Hamas. Maybe you’d understand better by thinking about David and Goliath ? Good and Evil ? The majority Muslim, Christians and Secularites can’t seem to get over their covetous envy of just about everything Jews brought to humanity, which is basically the concept of humanity itself.
Don’t blame me for being off – topic. The title of this article is “When Gaza came to Rochdale.” The clash of civilizations is real and it’s not about your national origin or skin color. It’s about human decency. Gaza lacks human decency because Islam has rendered the people heartless, brainless and intolerant.
You can’t have both Jews and Moslems in the same party. The liberal Jew will get out of bed a progressive, be threatened with genocide and go to bed a hard right conservative or flee to Israel. Note that if the Moslems get to be a majority, they will make all other religions non-citizens in an effort to force conversions. Ask the Coptic minority in Egypt about their citizenship in their native country. This is their standard missionary practice. They traditionally do it by military conquest but will also try it using immigration.
Could the UnHerd editors please stop using sentences from the essays as sub headings and placing them under the para in which they appear? The effect is very off-putting – as if the authors were repeating themselves or highlighting their own remarks in a “yes I said that” style. It might work before the para with a suitable change of fonts but this is just an editorial c**k-up which – crucially – applies quite unnecessary emphasis to the phrases echoed in this egegrious way. Thanks for listening.
It is curious, how with war and injustice all around the world it is only when Jews are involved that the spittle-flecked ones are roused from their torpor.