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Simon fae Standingstone ::🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌍:: Profile picture
@simon_brooke
Sep 2, 2018 • 11 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
I commented briefly, and carefully, on this tweet a couple of days ago. But it's been gnawing away at the back of my mind, and I'm going to try again. Thread. >>>
There is, obviously and necessarily, a great deal of sensitivity about comparisons between Zionism and fascism. There is a necessary reluctance to make that comparison. >>>

It's precisely this issue - of how much, and how, you can criticise Zionism and the Zionist state - that is causing so much trouble for @UKLabour at present. >>>

I'm not suggesting, of course, that Netanyahu made this post merely to embarrass the British Labour party, I'd be surprised if it's high on his radar. >>>

Nevertheless, Netanyahu knows the sensitivity of his words. The #IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism states:

"Contemporary examples of antisemitism... include... Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis"

holocaustremembrance.com/working-defini…
Netanyahu, in making an openly, clearly, and obviously deliberately fascistic statement in fascistic language clearly knows this.

No-one can make an honest comment on Netanyahu's post without recognising that fact, and, consequently, without making a statement which @theIHRA definition defines as anti-semitic. >>>

Bibi is, then, deliberately trolling all people of good will everywhere in the world. If we speak truth unto power, we're 'anti-semitic'. >>>

This cannot be what @TheIHRA intended; they clearly didn't intend to make a smokescreen from the ashes of their ancestors behind which the government of Israel could flaunt its unacceptable policies. >>>

I think the onus is now on @theIHRA to change their definition. Yes, there must be extreme sensitivity to accusing Israel of fascism. But when Israeli politicians openly espouse fascist positions, is cannot be antisemitic to say so. /ends

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Simon fae Standingstone ::🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌍:: Profile picture
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Two things that I'm thinking about as very serious issues this weekend:

1. Do you remember how quickly the Soviet Bloc collapsed? We're all thinking about life post-#Brexit as sort of muddling through, business as usual, but I think that's unlikely. >>>
If there's no deal, if the borders clog up - both looking virtually certain just now - there will be a sudden, long lasting, critical shortage of fresh food. Britain isn't used to that. I believe there will be civil disorder. >>>
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The #GrowthComission report (yes, I'm struggling to read it, too) says:

"3.88 Maximising frictionless trade and market access with the rest of the UK and with Europe is of critical importance to the performance of the Scottish economy in the short and long term."
This is almost certainly not possible, and absolutely certainly not in our gift. England and Wales (hereinafter #EW) seemed destined for a very hard crash out of the #EU. >>>
Given that that is so, there will be a hard border between #EW and any country which is in either the EU or EFTA. >>>
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May 14, 2018
OK, look, sometimes people mess up. We all have times when we mess up. We all have times when we make two or three bad errors in succession. We're human. #1/23
The @newsundayherald is one of the important institutions of Scotland's news media. Admittedly it's less important now as our new media develops, but it was a big win for #Yes when, in 2014, it nailed our colours to its mast. #2/23
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Apr 27, 2018
Does a social system with entrenched privilege systematically breed progressively nastier people? I suspect it does, and I shall argue it. Thread: >>>
I used to believe that the reason the British elite are in general such noxious people was because our system of elite education is so bad; but I've begun to doubt that that's the whole story. >>>
Elites tend to breed with elites, in quite narrow parameters: people tend to choose mates from socially similar backgrounds. >>>
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Mar 7, 2018
We're going to face a decade of economic collapse - probably two. The welfare state will go - and because of Barnett consequentials, it will go in Scotland too. Civil dissent will be met with repression. >>>
In those circumstances, secessionism is just another form of civil dissent, like trades unionism, to be crushed. We saw it in the 1980s, we see it today in #Catalunya. >>>
I don't know whether you are old enough to have campaigned in the 1979 referendum, or lived through the industrial conflict of the 1980s. I am; I did. Thatcher's government was as hostile to nationalism as to the left. >>>
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