As much as the General Election overshadowed yesterdays Grenfell news, and may well do today, please take a moment to note another important, yet much delayed milestone in our fight for Justice that has just been published grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/news/publicati…

This is the most consequential point made about the election so far. Not who's in Kent today or who got wet yesterday.
Both Lab and Tories are signed up to huge austerity in the next parliament and must say what they plan to cut or tax. Big test of our political-media culture

Taj Ali Agree, and employment, education, CJS etc. Here's a copy of the written submission we made as AVOW to the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2019 detailing where Muslims fare in many aspects of British life- at the bottom & heavily discriminated committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…

Absolutely. It's very lazy to pretend we only care about foreign policy issues. British Muslims are disproportionately working class and contend with numerous issues from child poverty to poor housing.

When all else goes wrong, blame the immigrants. An age-old tactic from a political class who couldn't give a damn about working-class communities.

This week in Madrid, a Vox party rally brought together Holocaust deniers, Israeli officials and right-wing leaders from around the world — putting Spain at the centre of a new far-right international movement.
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It's not just Muslim voters that care about Palestine and it's not just Palestine that Muslim voters care about.

Jews are being used as a rhetorical prop to launder the exact same racism that kept the borders closed while we were fleeing Europe.

About a decade or so ago, I was semi-friendly with Goodwin. He seemed like a decent guy. Actually gave a damn about Islamophobia even.

What happened to him? How did he become a poor man’s Kelvin Mackenzie? Is this real? Pretend? The bigotry expressed is almost beyond parody.

This is a case study in the far-right using Jews as shields for their own anti-Palestinian politics. You do not keep Jews safe by dehumanising Palestinians. Disgusting comments by Goodwin.

“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

— Toni Morrison

'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognising this may be incapable of morality.'

— James Baldwin

The Tories have presided over the worst squeeze on living standards since the 1950s and the longest period of wage stagnation since the Napoleonic Wars.

Now, they are whipping up a moral panic about immigrants to distract from their own failings.