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Labour have always been a bit more puritanical “for the greater good”. The Palestine Action thing is a bit more complicated because the proscription process is not exactly transparent. However there are plenty of other pro-palestine groups you can support. The people getting arrested are doing it to make a point about the proscription.
The man was a walking red flag - it really shouldn’t have taken this long for him to have been found out.
That said some of the things I’ve seen MAGA types saying about what they think is going on in the UK is absolutely fueled by this sort of misinformation.
Did his right wing grift drift align with getting dropped when the allegations first came out?
So which of the 8 mentions of Zionism in the report is forcing it into the curriculum? Most of the instances are either surfacing comments from the consultation or exploring it’s definition for the purposes of the report. It even says:
Criticism of Zionism, advocacy for alternative models for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict, or criticism of Israeli government policies may not, in themselves, be antisemitic.
although it does note there can be a cross over between anti-zionism being used as code for anti-Semitism. The closest I could find was:
Recommendation 12 The Department for Education, schools and colleges should address antisemitism through appropriate places in the curriculum, tutorial time and pastoral provision. To enable this: a. The Department for Education should ensure that citizenship education has sufficient opportunity to address contemporary antisemitism, alongside other forms of hatred and prejudice, within a coherent programme of learning. b. The Department for Education should ensure schools and colleges embed high-quality teaching on media literacy and online safety, helping learners to recognise and confront harmful online content, including antisemitism and conspiracy theories. c. Schools and colleges should make effective use of tutorial time, pastoral provision and wider learning opportunities to address contemporary antisemitism alongside other forms of hatred and prejudice. The Department for Education should develop, quality assure and publish practical resources and tools to support schools, colleges, academy trusts, college groups, and/or local authorities in addressing antisemitism and wider hatred and social cohesion issues. These resources should include guidance and materials to help all staff discuss controversial issues and respond to significant global events, particularly those relating to the Israel-Palestine conflict and contemporary antisemitism
which seems pretty reasonable to me given kids to the tools to recognise all sorts of prejudice when navigating a very contested information space.
Are we gish-galloping to something else now? I guess I’ll bite - in what way are schools being forced to put Zionism in the curriculum. Do you have a source other than an out of context picture on someone’s Twitter post?
So I actually did a reverse image search and found the picture if from a video promoting a UK-Ukrainian Schools Partnership to share the joy of reading across borders. It’s hardly indoctrination.
Why do your think they are being indoctrinated into a particular ideology rather than for example celebrating the national day of some of their fellow students? What is the context of this picture?
There is no evidence of students being brainwashed here - and certainly not enough in the image to confirm your supposition here.
Where I live we have a fair number of Ukrainian refuges in our town. A lot of them have been here so long they have even started putting down roots and starting businesses. As you might expect this has meant we have had several tranches of Ukrainian students coming through the school. Because we teach our kids empathy and understanding and we want to be welcoming we have school assemblies for some of their key national days, just like we celebrate other cultures and religious traditions. When we have Remembrance day in a few weeks I look forward to the local Ukrainian association laying down their wreath at the war memorial along with the numerous other local civic groupings who come together for the occasion. It’s called being welcoming and helping integration.
It’s certainly a far cry from mandating school books justifying agression which we actually have documented evidence of.
Is that what you think is going on in the photo?
Is that Lucy Powell? What’s the compliant? The education secretary has visited a school?
Has anyone done the minimum like for example verify this is the banner image on their X account? I’m kinda surprised the education department is even on X.
May not be “important” but it sounds like it might be popular.
Yep they are being arrested for supporting a proscribed organisation. They know what they are doing - it’s not like they accidently used that particular form of words.
There are other groups protesting genocide that aren’t Palestine Action.
I think the first mistake was to think the Orange Man said anything worth listening too. The default assumption should be he’s lying unless there is corroborating evidence.
Not dynamic, but an EV rate so I get the overnight rate and a daytime rate and I also hand control of the car charger to my provider. It will usually charge overnight but if energy is cheap on the network at other times it will trigger the charge and my entire consumption during that time will be at the night rate.
There are also incentives to save energy at particular times, cut your usage below normal levels at high demand times and get “free” energy at other times in return. It helps the provider balance the grid with their wholesale input deals.
No public charging stations go by the commercial rate. That is not too say you can’t get discounts based on high energy days. Using my domestic energy supplier charging tag I sometimes get a discount if the wind is blowing or the sunshine is strong.
It will still be more than my overnight domestic rate though (7p/kwH).
They are very well funded for an “upstart” “insurgent” party fighting the “establishment”.
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