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- Another fine analysis piece on the BBC about the #Woolwich killing - this time from Mark Easton. bbc.in/10T0MA3 1 hour ago
- Attacks on Braintree mosque and Gillingham mosque attacked following #Woolwich killing. tinyurl.com/o9l7kmp tinyurl.com/npnsk54 6 hours ago
- RT @ggreenwald: You get 3 guesses as to the motive cited by the perpetrators of the horrendous machete attack in London http://t.co/IWQuRY2… 7 hours ago
- Most insightful piece yet into yesterday's savage killing of someone presumed to be a soldier. It is by @BBCDomC . bbc.co.uk/news/uk-226241… 7 hours ago
- UK wants Belhadj case in secret court - pulse.me/s/lQLix 1 day ago
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Tag Archives: racism
Advert: “Uncivilised Arab Savages”!
Some of Israel’s most vocal supporters including Pamela Geller have paid for an advert that has been placed on buses in San Francisco describing Israel’s opponents as ‘savages’. How sad that they view Arabs and Muslims as ‘savages’, as sub-human. … Continue reading
Report from the EDL Demo in Luton today
I attended the English Defence League march and demonstration today in Luton (as I also did last year) and posted a number of live tweets from there. The demo began with the EDL supporters gathering in Park Street. I was … Continue reading
Max Hastings: Israeli PM Netanyahu is a racist ethnic cleanser
In a very revealing snippet in the middle of his Daily Mail article today, the experienced journalist and columnist Max Hastings – a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard – makes a very important disclosure … Continue reading
Racist woman on London Tram
The most astonishing thing about this video is not the crude BNP/EDL type abuse – I think most of us who are not white-skinned have witnessed such abuse – but the fact that the bigoted lady is holding a young … Continue reading
The Independent: Welcome to the World of ‘Mad Mel’
The Independent’s diarist, Matthew Norman, today reflects on the controversial comments made by Melanie Phillips about Arabs: “What desperate moments for all among us who revere Melanie Phillips and the rigorous self-restraint she brings to her work. In the coming … Continue reading
Mel P in 2005 vs Mel P in 2011
Here is Mel P writing on her blog in 2005 about why it is right to have incitement to racial hatred laws but not incitement to religious hatred laws: “Attacking people on account of their race is to attack what … Continue reading
Is Spectator editor Fraser Nelson an idiot?
The editor of The Spectator, Fraser Nelson, is quoted in the Independent today defending Melanie Phillips’ racist outburst about Arabs in a blogpost she wrote for the Spectator website last week. “We are quite clear that Melanie Phillips hasn’t … Continue reading
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The Guardian: PCC investigates Mel P for racist hate speech
The Guardian has just published a story online about the Melanie Phillips article I have blogged about twice already this week. It is vitally important that we set a clear marker here and insist that anti-Arab racism is every … Continue reading
Police to investigate Mel P article for possible racist hate speech
A few days ago I wrote about Melanie Phillips’ use of what seemed to me to be highly inflammatory and racist language in a piece she wrote for Spectator blogs. In that article she talked about ‘the moral depravity … Continue reading
Mel P on ‘the moral depravity of the Arabs’
Melanie Phillips – one of the most vocal pro-Israel cheerleaders in the UK media – has a characteristically caustic piece up on Spectator blogs today in which she denounces ‘…the moral depravity of the Arabs…’ and refers to them as ‘savages.’ … Continue reading