It seems Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick wants a two-tier human rights law in the UK.
He is calling for the UK to end its membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which allows people seeking asylum from foreign countries to stay in the UK under special circumstances, while also demanding that Israelis and other Jews have an unlimited right of entry here.
Isn’t that a two-tier system? Foreigners from Israel, and other foreigners who are Jewish, have the freedom of the UK, while foreigners from other ethnicities are treated like vermin and thrown out?
(Let’s not forget, also, that the ECHR upholds many of what we in the UK consider to be rights – prohibition of slavery, the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, free expression, free association, prohibition of discrimination, and so on. Tories like Jenrick would love to take those rights away from you.)
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His comments about Israel are particularly off-colour at a time when that country’s government and military have been committing a genocide in one country (Palestine – Gaza) and have just started attacking another (Lebanon).
He made them at a Conservative Friends of Israel event where he wore a hoodie emblazoned with the words “Hamas are terrorists”. That’s all very well, but what about the many thousands of children who have been murdered, maimed, dismembered and otherwise tortured by giggling Israeli troops who have turned their massively superior firepower on innocent non-combatants and then made videos about it to show on the Internet? Were they terrorists too?
He said that, while he was immigration minister, he had wanted Israelis travelling to Britain to be able to use e-gates – meaning that at “every airport and point of entry to our great country”, there was a Star of David, as a “symbol that we support Israel”. He said, “We are friends and allies of Israel, and Israelis are welcome in our country.”
This Writer does not support an Israel that murders children and my country should not advertise that it does, because there are millions like me. I would still welcome Israelis into my country – if they denounced their government and showed evidence that they opposed its war crimes.
By declaring his unreserved support for Israel, its government and military, and their war crimes, Jenrick has crossed red lines.
He may be the front-runner in the Tory leadership contest but, with these beliefs, he does not deserve a place in Parliament, let alone the top job in its second-largest party.
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Robert Jenrick wants a two-tier human rights law
It seems Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick wants a two-tier human rights law in the UK.
He is calling for the UK to end its membership of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which allows people seeking asylum from foreign countries to stay in the UK under special circumstances, while also demanding that Israelis and other Jews have an unlimited right of entry here.
Isn’t that a two-tier system? Foreigners from Israel, and other foreigners who are Jewish, have the freedom of the UK, while foreigners from other ethnicities are treated like vermin and thrown out?
(Let’s not forget, also, that the ECHR upholds many of what we in the UK consider to be rights – prohibition of slavery, the right to liberty and security, the right to a fair trial, the right to privacy, free expression, free association, prohibition of discrimination, and so on. Tories like Jenrick would love to take those rights away from you.)
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His comments about Israel are particularly off-colour at a time when that country’s government and military have been committing a genocide in one country (Palestine – Gaza) and have just started attacking another (Lebanon).
He made them at a Conservative Friends of Israel event where he wore a hoodie emblazoned with the words “Hamas are terrorists”. That’s all very well, but what about the many thousands of children who have been murdered, maimed, dismembered and otherwise tortured by giggling Israeli troops who have turned their massively superior firepower on innocent non-combatants and then made videos about it to show on the Internet? Were they terrorists too?
He said that, while he was immigration minister, he had wanted Israelis travelling to Britain to be able to use e-gates – meaning that at “every airport and point of entry to our great country”, there was a Star of David, as a “symbol that we support Israel”. He said, “We are friends and allies of Israel, and Israelis are welcome in our country.”
This Writer does not support an Israel that murders children and my country should not advertise that it does, because there are millions like me. I would still welcome Israelis into my country – if they denounced their government and showed evidence that they opposed its war crimes.
By declaring his unreserved support for Israel, its government and military, and their war crimes, Jenrick has crossed red lines.
He may be the front-runner in the Tory leadership contest but, with these beliefs, he does not deserve a place in Parliament, let alone the top job in its second-largest party.
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