Golan's initial song, October Rain, had been rejected by Eurovision organisers who took issue with the apparent reference to the 7 October attacks. After a request by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Kan agreed to change the lyrics despite initially refusing.
This might be the final edition of the contest given how insanely chaotic it is.
Belgium didn't qualify to the final, and rightfully so, since they don't have to deal with any additional chaos. Also, their neighbors the Netherlands got disqualified for allegations with one of the producers.
Good for him. Germany is acting in a disgustingly racist and despicable way towards pro Palestinians in its simping for Israel. They have really shown their true colours.
Anti-Semitism was generally not regarded as a big problem in the Labour Party before Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in September 2015.
Mr Corbyn and his allies on the left had spent decades campaigning for Palestinian statehood, in contrast with the more nuanced position taken by many of his predecessors.
Under his leadership, there was an influx of new members, many of whom were vocal critics of Israel and who believed the UK, along with the US, should be tougher towards Israel, especially regarding its policies towards the Palestinians and its building of settlements in the occupied territories.
Sir Keir sacked his shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey in June 2020, saying she had shared an article containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Mrs Long-Bailey had retweeted an interview with actor and Labour supporter Maxine Peake, later saying she had not meant to endorse all aspects of the article.
In the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, saying: "The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd's neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services."
You can see where this is going. Also the claim from Ms Peake is factually correct.
Corbyn was absolutely shit smeared by the press; if you get people to look at Corbyn's Labour policies in isolation, I reckon you'd be hard pressed to find someone that disliked them.
I wonder why privately held media would do this...
What’s the point? He won’t win by any stretch of the imagination, and the majority of votes he does get will be taken from the pool of voters who would ordinarily vote labour. All this does is benefit the tories. He’d be far better supporting Starmer, even if he doesn’t really.
I guess he could be trying to intentionally play a spoiler role. Like, he'd have to want Labour policy changes, believe that Labour adopting those changes wouldn't make Labour lose in the general election, and believe that he could split off enough votes to cause Labour to lose so that it has to give him those concessions if it wants him not to run.
I dont think thats a relevant concern in Islington North. The Labour vote at the last election was 3 times all other parties combined and has been Labour (or a Labour spin off mp) since 1937, this is going to be a straight up 2 way fight between Corbyn and whoever Labour put up against him.
Best of luck to him. The Zionist orchestrated smear campaign, backed by the red Tories, was a disgrace and a chilling sign of how far the Israel lobby has ensconced itself into UK politics.
We need to push back against the AIPAC-isation of our democracy.
Yeah... I'm sure it had nothing to do with Israeli lobbyists and their PsyOps campaigns.
Zionism is religious and ethnic nationalism, implemented by colonial powers dictating control over foreign lands and people, denying them their basic human right to democracy — a "right" they codified the same year they annexed Palestine and enabled the ethnic cleansing of 750k people. Corbyn was on the right side of history and you are not.
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