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Having said that, he just did a piece on children in Jewish schools doing drills on how to protect themselves if they should come under attack. Awful that they need to do this, but why have Jewish schools in the first place?

Why not? We’ve had them for 300 years.
 
I remember being at school assemblies in the sixties where the Jewish children would file out when it got to the bit where hymns would be sung, presumably at the behest of their parents. I was just puzzled at the time, but looking back it seems terribly damaging.
 
Very good David Baddiel documentary on C4 tonight looking at racism directed at Jewish people.

Watch David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count | Stream free on Channel 4

For an alternative perspective, I watched a fascinating documentary on Storyville last night...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001q7qz

Blue Box is a brave account of how the Jewish National Fund acquired land in Palestine before and after the creation of the State of Israel. Film-maker Michal Weits' great-grandfather Joseph was a key figure in the organisation. In her family, and across Israel, he is celebrated as the father of the country’s forests, taking ‘a land without a people for a people without a land', but when Michal finds his private diaries, she discovers a very different story. In conversations with her family, she questions her great-grandfather's actions, resulting in an exploration of Israel's past and an uncomfortable truth
 
Oh Strolls you are so naive. It’s well known that the police are in league with the forces of evil, specifically Muslims and ‘the left’, their boss, the one who is supposed to provide leadership for them, says so.

The best thing about Suella Braverman is she dispels all the myths about the benign, peaceful, philosophical nature of Buddhism. “Pain is certain, suffering is optional”. But Suella delivers on both. Relentlessly.
 
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Presumably the police investigated this with the same vigour they investigate burglaries

British Transport Police said officers had reviewed CCTV footage and spoken to key witnesses.

Perhaps the poor man was just a bit muddled about what happened. I was going to suggest this yesterday, but I was concerned that I'd be accused of making excuses for baby-slaughtering maniacs. But then you did that anyway.

It goes to my point about how incredulous you were about my not being aware of this horrendous incident. You were outraged by it because it was thrust in your face by the rabble-rousing right wing media that you consume. I wasn't aware of it because it was minor incident that wasn't worthy of being top of the agenda for responsible news media.
 
British Transport Police said officers had reviewed CCTV footage and spoken to key witnesses.

Perhaps the poor man was just a bit muddled about what happened. I was going to suggest this yesterday, but I was concerned that I'd be accused of making excuses for baby-slaughtering maniacs. But then you did that anyway.

It goes to my point about how incredulous you were about my not being aware of this horrendous incident. You were outraged by it because it was thrust in your face by the rabble-rousing right wing media that you consume. I wasn't aware of it because it was minor incident that wasn't worthy of being top of the agenda for responsible news media.

I wouldn't be too patronising about the man. The police are useless at the best of times, and may well feel it's not in their interests to make anything of this in case it inflames the anger of those who follow the religion of peace. Public confidence in our woke police could hardly be lower. Here's a reminder:

https://news.sky.com/story/public-trust-in-police-is-hanging-by-a-thread-watchdog-admits-12898981
 
I wouldn't be too patronising about the man. The police are useless at the best of times, and may well feel it's not in their interests to make anything of this in case it inflames the anger of those who follow the religion of peace. Public confidence in our woke police could hardly be lower. Here's a reminder:

https://news.sky.com/story/public-trust-in-police-is-hanging-by-a-thread-watchdog-admits-12898981

Face it Goldie, you were wrong.

Now we have the right wing trash media saying that there are no poppy sellers at stations any more because they're scared of being attacked. Who's making them scared?
 
Face it Goldie, you were wrong.

Now we have the right wing trash media saying that there are no poppy sellers at stations any more because they're scared of being attacked. Who's making them scared?

Have the police said it definitely didn't happen, Strolls? Straight answer please...
 
Have the police said it definitely didn't happen, Strolls? Straight answer please...

You said yesterday that it definitely did. Railway concourses are among the most surveilled places in the country and the police have decided after reviewing the evidence that there was nothing to take further. That's good enough for me, I'm not going to get into semantic games with you.

My point is that the story is being shamefully used by scumbag right wing media and a despicable Home Secretary to whip up fear and hatred and you fell for it.
 
You said yesterday that it definitely did. Railway concourses are among the most surveilled places in the country and the police have decided after reviewing the evidence that there was nothing to take further. That's good enough for me, I'm not going to get into semantic games with you.

My point is that the story is being shamefully used by scumbag right wing media and a despicable Home Secretary to whip up fear and hatred and you fell for it.

I didn't think I'd get a straight answer. The answer is no, they haven't said it didn't happen. They've said there's insufficient evidence to prosecute someone. And you've immediately jumped on the ageist bandwaggon by saying he was too muddled to know whether he was punched twice.

If this man has made it up, I would expect him to be prosecuted. We'll see...
 
I didn't think I'd get a straight answer. The answer is no, they haven't said it didn't happen. They've said there's insufficient evidence to prosecute someone. And you've immediately jumped on the ageist bandwaggon by saying he was too muddled to know whether he was punched twice.

If this man has made it up, I would expect him to be prosecuted. We'll see...

What, a yellow card for diving?

You're getting even more ridiculous now, Goldie.
 
From the outside looking in, how on earth did Braverman land this gig? She's delusional

Ok Sunak always looks lost and worried he might crease his chinos but Braverman she's a piece of work

Reminds me when Trump banned all Syrians from entering the US as they were all Muslim fundamentalists / terrorists, even the Christian and Greek Orthodox ones

Shockingly inept
 
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