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That's not true. Palestinians are generic Arabs. In terms of language, religion and culture, there's very little difference between Palestinian Arabs and Jordanian, Syrian or Iraqi Arabs. Many of the Arabs regarded today as Palestinians moved to Palestine during the British Mandate period. During Ottoman rule, Palestine had been one of the poorest and most wretched corners of the Ottoman Empire, but the economy and living conditions improved under the British.

Here's one UN official who has no doubts about rapes and sexual violence by Hamas on Oct. 7 and after: "Following a 17-day visit to Israel, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict reported on Monday that she and a team of experts had found “clear and convincing information” of rape and sexualized torture being committed against hostages seized during the 7 October terror attacks. "Pramila Patten added in a press release issued along with the report that there are also reasonable grounds to believe that such violence, which includes other “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, may be continuing against those still being held by Hamas and other extremists in the Gaza Strip." https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147217

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Are you trying to play game swith the definition of "call'' or "solidarity?" In any case, I wasn't making anything up. If the quote I included had been wrong (and it wasn't), then the journalist who wrote the article would have been the one making things up, not me. If you're convinced the TUC did not call for solidarity with Palestine, you could chide me for falling for and quoting false information, but I didn't make up that information myself by any stretch of the imagination. To get back to the facts: In several pages on its Web site, the TUC explicitly calls for solidarity with Palestine. Due to board rules, I didn't post the entire text of the TUC's Nov. 28 announcement. The first two sentences read (my bold): "The TUC and unions are today (Thursday) uniting to support a workplace day of action to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. This initiative is a response to the urgent appeal from Palestinian workers for global solidarity." One of the specific suggestions was: "Wearing red, green, black, or a Palestinian keffiyeh to show solidarity, with photos shared on social media." https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-and-unions-support-workplace-day-action-immediate-ceasefire-gaza The above sentences are amplified by the rest of the release, especially the previously quoted statement by TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak on "showing solidarity." What sort of mental gymnastics do you have to perform to believe the TUC wasn't calling for solidarity with Palestine?

I'm certainly not making anything up. On the TUC Web site page about the "Workplace Day of Action for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza, TUC ," General Secretary Paul Nowak said: [my bold text] “Today is about showing solidarity in the workplace with the horrendous situation in Gaza. " https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-and-unions-support-workplace-day-action-immediate-ceasefire-gaza This is a screen shot about the same event from another page on the TUC site. The word solidarity is used four times. https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/tuc-and-unions-support-workplace-day-action-immediate-ceasefire-gaza There's a section of the TUC Web site called "Solidarity with Palestine." https://www.tuc.org.uk/campaigns/solidarity-palestine And to top it all off, the praragraph I (and you) quoted says [my bold]: Do you still claim that I am "making things up?"

BBC mum on union calls for staff to stand with ‘Palestine’ "The BBC is maintaining apparent neutrality on a call by a journalists’ union to its members, including BBC employees, to show up at work Thursday wearing items that express solidarity with the Palestinian national cause." https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/bbc-mum-on-union-calls-for-staff-to-stand-with-palestine/article_2d213158-d962-5731-b77b-cfd2ceef5914.html Does anyone know if any BBC journalists appeared on air wearing Palestinian colors or a keffiyeh? How about the other 5.5 million TUC members in 47 unions besides the NUJ? Any real response to the TUC call for solidarity with Palestine?

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I was right! The resort to name calling is a sure sign he lacks the intellectual ability to frame a rational answer. At least reverse psychology was enought to call a loser's bluff. However, any other pro-Ham-, I mean pro-Palestinian, BM can pick up the guantlet on @ourmanflint's behalf. What is "deranged" about the above post by @Nick Carter icp? That's the question @ourmanflint was unable to answer. Anyone else want to try?

Home Office issues ‘common sense’ guidance for non-crime hate incidents Police told to only record incidents with a clear risk to community tensions amid concerns that trivial cases are wasting officers’ time https://www.thetimes.com/article/8bb4abd2-47e6-4bf6-ab60-cba12d9e698f?shareToken=195dc6c242140814784b01720e1a32c9 Former Metropolitan Police commissioner asks ministers to 'look closely' at report calling for end of non-crime hate incidents A new report from the thinktank Policy Exchange calls for an end to non-crime hate incidents. https://news.sky.com/story/former-metropolitan-police-commissioner-asks-ministers-to-look-closely-at-report-calling-for-end-of-non-crime-hate-incidents-13260331 You can find the full report from think-tank Policy Exchange here: https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/non-crime-hate-incidents/ Non-Crime Hate Incidents A chilling distraction from the public's priorities on policing The report is well worth the read for anyone concerned about free speech in the U.K. The introduction: "In this policy note we outline the origins of Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs), the approach by police forces to recording them and their impact: (1) distracting police officers from focusing on what should be the core mission of policing to fight crime, (2) curtailing the employment prospects of individual members of the public through inappropriate disclosures of NCHIs, and (3) having a broader chilling effect on freedom of expression in our society."

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That's the key point. The military actions ordered by Netanyahu and Gallant were in defense of Israel and its citizens; the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 was pure terrorism. The civilian casualties Gaza suffered were almost entirely the result of Hamas' policy of using Gazans as human shields. There's zero moral equivalence between the actions of the state of Israel and a terrorist group sworn to destroy it. The Allies deliberately bombed civilians during WWII; think Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and many other German cities as well as the U.S. firebombing Tokyo and dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of women, chikdren and the elderly were killed in these Allied aerial attacks. Churchill and Rooseveldt, as well as the heads of the British and U.S. air forces, are regarded as national heros. The civilian deaths in the strategic bombing of Germany and Japan was seen as a tragic but anavoidable consequence of winning the war. Eighty years later, Netanyahu has a warrant issued on suspicion of war crimes against Gazans for ordering the same type of areial bombing against Hamas. Can someone explain why it was not a war crime for the UK and U.S. to bomb German and Japanese civilians but is a war crime for Israel to bomb Gazans?

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