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[–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Mohamed highlighted that Israel did not get a single mention in the Rycroft review into foreign interference published in March.

Wow. That is stark.

The article says that the debate has taken place. What are the next steps, or is that the end of it ?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    118k is just above the minimum for debate.

    Given governments have ignored millions. Absolutely nothing was ever expected to happen.

    The only way to have any effect. If 10s of millions directly writing to MPs stating the conflation with Israels actions and Jewish people. Is unacceptable.

    Only when MPs have a clear indication. Their power is on the line. Will any pay any attention to it.

    And ATM. No matter how much social media etc. makes it clear anti genocide and accusing Israel of genocide in not anti Semitic. Their bank Ballance. And UK media. Is pointing them.

    To this opinion being a small vocal group and not the majority.

    Only with millions taking direct action and telling their MPs. No stop this shit or lose you job.

    Do any of them think they have anything to fear.

    Add this to the fact. They still refuse to take the one party expressing this view seriously. As do many voters.

    And they are in part correct to think. The opposition to this view. Is not supported by any risk of electoral defeat.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    You contact your local MP and make sure they're aware that you think this is not acceptable, and if they support it, they're going against the wishes of their constituents.

    If only you do this, they'll probably ignore you. If 100 or 1,000 or 10,000 people do this, then there's a chance of something happening eventually.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The petition debates are always dead-ends.

    In this case the consensus was that the petition author was probably anti-semitic, and that the people who signed it were either misled or filled with hatred.

    So no, nothing further. And there was also the suggestion that if a similar petition should reach 100k votes it should be ignored as antisemitism.

    That quote is a bit out of context. Mohamed was responding to the frequent claims of singling “the only Jewish state” out, and he pointed to Rycroft as having solely Chinese and Russian influence as its terms of reference, so why can they be singled out but not Israel.

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