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Sending love and solidarity to Iman Khelife, Lin Yu-ting and anyone else who doesn’t conform to conventional standards of femininity 🫶🏽

England is seriously fucked up and not because of refugees or Muslims. But by a news media class that earns their bread by telling the public their hard knock life is because of the vulnerable, the refugees and Muslims and not the entitled.

They called Pro Palestinian protests Hate Marches They called BLM protests riots They called Just Stop Oil protests disruption Deliberately targeting mosques, throwing bricks and burning property with no agenda is not a protest it’s a racial hatred riot.

Far-right violence hasn’t come out of nowhere. It is the result of anti-migrant rhetoric from mainstream politicians who scapegoat refugees. We are an anti-racist movement that believes in a more inclusive world. We defeated the far right before. We will defeat them again.

This is not positive. Starmer & other authoritarian /punitive leaders will expand police powers & tech and frame it as a way to address the far right but it will largely be weaponised against black & marginalised communities…

I’m disgusted but not shocked that politicians the in U.K. who labelled 10 months of peace pro-Palestinian protests as hateful, dangerous and intimidating are yet to use the same language to describe the destructive violence we’ve witnessed over the last few days.

In the UK, a group of men attacking a lone Black man, shouting the P-word & throwing bricks at mosques is called a ‘protest’ And those doing it are even called ‘protesters’ Incredible.

‘Pockets of disorder’ ‘rival protests’ ‘anti-immigration protesters’ ‘protesters outside a mosque’ Language that legitimises racism and Islamophobia has led us here, and the BBC continue to do a fabulous job of playing down brown and black people being targeted and battered

These aren’t protests, protesters in Britain get aggressively policed and given draconian prison sentences - these are organised, racist attacks, given cover and legitimacy by the language of the media and silence of Britain’s political class

This is the Britain our parents and grandparents lived in, what we’re seeing is the true face of Britain, and it's sickening seeing white people perform shock and horror. The government cannot control anything because doing so would alienate the voters it has been pandering to

- Asian man stabbed - Black men attacked - Black bus passengers attacked - Muslim women have hijab pulled off - Asian man pulled from car + beaten And now reports of an acid attack on a Muslim woman If you are not calling this racism + Islamophobia you are part of the problem.

Sickens me that for 10 months we marched peacefully to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and we were framed and smeared as violent, divisive and driven by hate. Then actual fascists start rioting, looting and engaging in racist violence and there’s barely a murmur.

The most ironic thing about today is that despite all the videos we’ve seen, next week people will go back to saying “you see the thing about racism in the UK is it’s just very subtle, not in your face.”

The Labour party are so institutionally racist they can’t even offer vocal and unequivocal support to Muslim communities and keeping them safe. They just want to “thank the police”

when you see a commentator saying that "normal decent people are being slurred as the far right", what you are reading is someone who basically agrees with the rioters but doesn't themselves have the nerve to smash the windows of a phone shop (or who has a nicer job to lose).

look at these horrifying images, realise how close we came to public lynchings and remember that just five days ago local labour mp Sarah Edwards for Tamworth publicly named this hotel in the commons - putting a giant target on it in the process. she clearly must resign.

Nothing proves Zarah Sultana's point – that Britain is rife with Islamophobia its establishment refuses to admit – better than her treatment on Good Morning Britain. The sniggering, the constant interruption – can you imagine Jess Phillips being treated this way? Luciana Berger?