Green Party activists have spent the weekend sharing a letter-writing campaign based on the conspiracy that there has been zero reporting about Essa Suleiman’s third non-Jewish alleged victim. They were later joined on the bandwagon by senior party leadership…
The letter-writing campaign is titled: “UK Govt’s Racist Double Standard Must Be Challenged by MPs re the handling of the 29 April Golders Green stabbings.”
On a private group chat for “Muslim Greens,” which contains deputy leader Mothin Ali, Green activists were encouraged to write a letter to their MP alleging that Starmer and Shabana Mahmood have “repeatedly framed” the Golders Green attack “only as a terror attack on ‘two Jewish men’ and an “antisemitic national security emergency,’ while failing to name or centre Ishmael Hussein in their public statements.” There is no suggestion Ali has supported the campaign in the group chat. By focussing on the attack on Jewish people the letter organisers allege “Jewish victims are elevated to the level of a national security crisis while the Muslim victim in the same case is treated as background detail”…
The letter to MPs, organised by the “Campaign Against Muslim Hate,” demands that the government: “Issue a public apology to the Muslim community for the selective handling of this case… Confirm in writing that the attack on the Muslim victim will be treated as fully equivalent under hate-crime and counter-terrorism frameworks… Publicly name Ishmael Hussein as the first of the three victims in all future ministerial statements and correct the “two Jewish victims only” framing.”
Green Deputy Leader Rachel Millward also shared a post from NewsCord, an AI news aggregator and campaign platform which was founded after the October 7th attacks to challenge “the way the Western media was justifying and manufacturing consent for Israel’s war.” It alleged: “The third alleged victim, Ismail Hussein, attacked at his home in Southwark hours before Golders Green, has been erased from headlines to suit a weaponised, desperate narrative.” Millward said: “How can this be? Three attempted murders and only 2 reported?”
Major outlets have of course reported all three alleged attempted murders. The Greens are fast becoming world experts in missing the point…
Starmer in Downing Street this morning:
“Security is essential, but that is not enough. We must also deal with the forces that drive this hatred in the first place, so we’re confronting them directly. One of the lines of inquiry is whether a foreign state has been behind some of these incidents. We’re investigating, of course, all the possibilities and we’re clear that these actions will have consequences if that proves to be the case.
“Our message to Iran, or to any other country that might seek to foment violence, hatred or division in society, is that it will not be tolerated. That is why we passed legislation to tackle these malign threats. We’re clear-eyed about the fact that antisemitism does not have one source alone: Islamists, far left, far right extremism, all target Jewish communities.
“That is why this Government has put in place the first co-ordinated national plan to strengthen cohesion and confront extremism in all of its forms.”
News of yet another suspected arson attack on a synagogue broke as Starmer was speaking…
The Met says:
“Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London are investigating a further arson incident at a former synagogue in east London.
Police were called at 05:16hrs on Tuesday, 5 May by the London Fire Brigade to reports of a fire at a former synagogue in Nelson Street, Tower Hamlets.
Officers were quickly on scene with firefighters. Minor damage was caused to a set of gates and a lock at the front of the building and no reports of any persons injured.
Initial CCTV enquiries indicate that the fire was started intentionally at approximately 05:10hrs and the incident is being treated as arson.
Given the nature of the incident and the location being a former synagogue, the incident is being investigated by Counter Terrorism Policing London. There have been no arrests at this time.”
While Starmer speaks on dealing with antisemitism…
From More in Common’s tracker: Zack Polanski’s approval rating has dropped by 14 points in one week. Sunlight is the best disinfectant…
New polling from JL Partners also shows that only 27% of the voting public can correctly identify Zack Polanski, the lowest of all party leaders apart from Rupert Lowe. Guido can only envy the 73%…
More in Common’s UK director Luke Tryl said: “it’s both a rise in negatives and a fall in positives, in particular more young people seem to have shifted from ‘good job’ to ‘neither good nor bad job’. So a mix of more disapproval and more uncertainty.” Labour is making hay as the Greens suffer from the same antisemitism problem which blighted Corbyn’s operation. Polanski’s run at power is Corbynism reheated…
Gaza ranks above the economy in determining how Muslim voters in Britain will vote, according to polling conducted by JL Partners for think tank Policy Exchange. Polling shows differences in political attitudes which have grown very stark indeed:
Read the full report below:
Continue reading “POLL: Three in Five Muslim Voters Would Vote for Gaza Independent to Stop Labour”
Housing Secretary Steve Reed on Sky News this morning, asked if Angela Rayner should return to the Cabinet:
“I think in time. I think she did a great job, I’m a big fan and friend of Angela Rayner. She’s really good at communicating, can cut through to voters, she has a role to play.”
The Times reported last night that Labour MPs are plotting a Brownite-style ‘putsch’ after Thursdays local elections, with demands for Starmer to set a date for his resignation. Rayner’s allies insist she has the 81 MPs needed to launch a challenge. But no one wants to make the first move, yet…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”