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Musa Okwonga
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My reply to @JakeWSimons is below.
Let’s start with one typical example. The writer Musa Okwonga and I have rather lost touch over the years, but I remember him as a man of great intelligence, sensitivity and good humour. We met at university and, some years after graduating, travelled to Israel together to play in a good-natured writers’ football tournament. We had a good time and as I recall, he loved the country.
Which is why I found his latest Substack essay so disturbing. “Genocide,” it begins. “We should probably start there.” Israel, he writes, is committing that worst of all crimes. Its troops are “using children for target practice”, its politicians engaged in a “process of revenge against the Palestinian population”.
He compares its conduct to the Ugandan atrocities against the Acholi, his own people. “Genocide infects and corrupts everything it touches,” he writes. True enough. Only in the case of Gaza, Musa, it’s quite obviously not a genocide...
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Circling back to this.
never thought I’d be more hopeful about socialism than arsenal and yet here we are.View quoted post on X
Translated: “I am jealous of the attention my actual coach and players are getting - I’m even jealous of that guy with the big hair - let me have a childish rant for clout”
🚨 NEW: "The UK has been colonised by immigrants," Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has told @EdConwaySky.
“You can't have an economy with nine million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in,” he said. “I mean, the UK has been colonised. It’s costing too much money.
“The UK has been colonised by immigrants, really, hasn't it? I mean, the population of the UK was 58 million in 2020, now it's 70 million. That's 12 million people.”
He also said of the PM: “I don’t know whether it's just the apparatus that hasn't allowed Keir to do it or, or he's maybe too nice - I mean, Keir is a nice man. I like him, but it's a tough job and I think you have to do some difficult things with the UK to get it back on track, because at the moment I don't think the economy is in a good state."
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In 2021, 60 Jewish associations in Germany warned that the AfD party was "a hotbed for anti-Semitism" (juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/jewish…), a party who gave Farage a standing ovation in 2017 as their honoured guest (news.sky.com/story/farage-s…). For anyone saying "it was all 50 years ago".
www.juedische-allgemeine.de Jewish organizations warn against the AfD A total of 60 Jewish associations, including the Central Council of Jews, speak out against the election of right-wing extremists