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A short Vox Political playlist on extremism

Michael Gove: the hard hat might be covering a hard-headed extremist.

One idea I’ve had for the new-look Vox Political – when it happens – is nicked from YouTube and the various music sites: playlists.

Basically, if you want to read everything This Site has published on a certain subject, you get to look up the playlist, with all the links you need.

It was inspired by the following ‘X’ posts, by Jill Darbyshire, who looked up a few posts on extremism after Michael Gove came out with his new definition.

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You can draw your own conclusions about what they mean for what he’s done:


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Michael Gove re-defines extremism – to get Tories off the hook?

Michael Gove came up with a new definition of political extremism in the UK, after Frank Hester’s racist outburst against Diane Abbott.

It doesn’t work, because we’ve all seen it as an attempt to get the Conservative Party’s biggest donor off the hook and keep the £10 million he has handed over to that organisation in advance of this year’s general election campaign.

Gove’s announcement still did not include a definition of Islamophobia – possibly because he can’t find one that will exonerate Tory politicians of accusations against them. But he will be publishing a (revised?) list of organisations which meet the new definition of extremism. As ever, This Writer wonders if Vox Political will be on it.

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The comments on Gove’s work have been harsh – but possibly fair:

In proof of the claim that the Tories are describing themselves, members of the public have put up Hester – the man Gove is trying to protect:

And Gove doesn’t have an answer. We witnessed that when he failed to even address the question on ITV’s Good Morning Britain:

We can only conclude that the new definition has been created to be misused by the Tories – and possibly Labour as well:

As proof:

Again, the judgement of the public has been harsh:

The final verdict should go to Adil Ray, I think – because he points out that Gove’s new definition of extremism is only likely to feed even more of the same:


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Right-wing extremists are trying to exploit claims of anti-Semitism and racism. Don’t let them

Dis-influencers: they try to flood the media and social media with falsehoods, to blind you to the facts.

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Is this the new theme of UK politics – projecting one’s own behaviour onto others?

This Writer has already mentioned it in connection with the behaviour of BBC reporters at the Rochdale by-election count.

But it also seems to be gripping our political classes, who are trying to get us to believe that Jewish people across the UK are living in fear of Nazi-style persecution – when it is they who seem desperate to impose it on all of us.

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So we are being spoon-fed reports the like of which Aaron Winter discusses below:

He’s right on the button. The article states:

Jewish people in Britain say they are considering leaving the country as it “feels like Nazi Germany”, amid a surge in antisemitic incidents since the 7 October Hamas massacre in Israel.

Physical attacks, threats and accusations of “slaughtering babies” are among the incidents suffered by terrified residents, after recent figures showed more than 4,000 reports of antisemitism last year.

The number of Islamophobic incidents in the UK has also soared.

How many of these alleged incidents have been investigated by police? Where are the figures showing how many of them were found to have actually taken place? And why have those figures not been reported?

Answer: because none of them have. They are simply claims that have been made and then bandied about by pressure groups like the so-called Community Security Trust, in order to heighten fear among the public and boost support for their own political ends.

CST is getting £54 million of public money from Rishi Sunak, on the basis of nothing more than hearsay.

The Independent reports two alleged anti-Semitic incidents – but one-sidedly. Only the claims of the alleged victims are put forward and we hear nothing from the people they accuse. That is not balanced reporting.

And other Jews are furious:

The Independent also reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned George Galloway’s Rochdale by-election win as a “dark day” for the UK’s Jewish community – but consider this:

Meanwhile, other Jews are suffering abuse and intimidation from the self-appointed representatives and organisations claiming to represent all Jews in the UK, who want to prevent their fellows from expressing any support for the people of Palestine who are suffering a genocide at the hands of the government and military of Israel, the country that presents itself as the nation-state of the Jewish people:

The knock-on effect is that organisations speaking up for the persecuted Palestinians are themselves being persecuted – here in the UK.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has echoed the comments of Lord Walney, formerly the Labour MP John Woodcocksuggested that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign should be de-platformed – its voice silenced among the media and political classes:

Woodcock (or Walney if you like) left Labour under a cloud after one of his former staff members said he had sent her inappropriate text messages between 2014 and 2016. The allegations were never fully investigated.

This Writer agrees. It seems improper to trumpet this man’s allegations about others while ignoring the fact that he has unexamined allegations against himself. How can we believe anything he says?

Also resurfacing as a consequence of the claims of anti-Semitism is Islamophobia; if anti-Semitism is said to be rising because of the way Israel has carried out its assault on Gaza, then it is also being claimed that Muslims are acting in solidarity with their fellows in that land – with violence; and that has triggered a wave of anti-Muslim feeling.

We see it in the resurgence of the long-debunked trope of “no-go” areas in our towns and cities, where it is claimed nobody is welcome who is not a Muslim. It isn’t true – but notice that politicians representing these areas seem to be conspicuously absent from the debates:

Open Democracy puts its finger on what is really happening:

The fears about antisemitism, particularly in relation to such marches and solidarity, are being stoked by political figures and the media. This was evident when former home secretary Suella Braverman called ceasefire protests “hate marches”.

We need to … address fears; challenge misconceptions, misrepresentations and politicisation; and fight antisemitism itself, instead of targeting and delegitimising critics of Israel and the fight against other racisms, occupation and genocide.

The author, who is clearly Jewish, expresses joy at Jewish participation in pro-Palestine activities:

Something that gives me hope, however, has been the solidarity expressed by communities around the world – among them Jewish groups such as If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, Na’amod, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and Jewdas.

On the one hand, our presence in these movements as Jewish people can help offset accusations that opposition to Israel is antisemitic. On the other, many of us are accused of being self-hating, kapos, Judenrats, and not Jewish anyway.

And JINOs, apparently.

And, of course, opposing Israel does not become antisemitic just because someone who is not Jewish does it.

The accusation of genocide directed at Israel is framed by critics as antisemitism or even Holocaust minimisation. This not only serves genocide denial and spits in the face of the promise ‘Never Again’, but also corresponds to the redemption of the Nazis and the actual minimisation of the Holocaust.

So instead of the UK becoming like Nazi Germany because of anti-Semitism alleged against people who want to see Palestine supported before Israel destroys it completely, it is becoming like Nazi Germany because of the behaviour of the Zionist organisations, media outlets and politicians who are supporting Israel.

They are simply projecting their own abhorrent behaviour onto others – making it seem that it is their opponents who are the wrong-doers and not them.

What is to be done about it?

The first choice is obvious: you simply don’t believe what the pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian mob are saying, from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer down to the keyboard warriors on the social media.

Beyond that, it should be our responsibility to do to them what they so keenly wish to do to those of us who are trying to present the facts: we should do what we can to remove them from public life.

That is most easily done with politicians. We’ve seen the upset that George Galloway’s election as MP for Rochdale has caused – and there is a general election coming.

Keir Starmer’s blind support for Israel, in the face of video evidence of that country’s military slaughtering children, has been particularly nauseating.

There is an excellent candidate standing against him – and for peace in Gaza – in his Holborn & St Pancras constituency.

Everybody there should vote for Andrew Feinstein. Those of us in other constituencies should look for the candidates who also oppose the right-wing, pro-Zionist dogma that we’re being force-fed, and do our best to get them into the House of Commons too.


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What could be more extremist, in the UK, than its own government?

Michael Gove: it seems this is the face of fascist extremism in the UK.

Leaked documents tell us that officials working for Michael Gove are planning to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values.

But who defines the country’s institutions and values? The government, I would say.

So this is a plan to criminalise anybody who protests against the behaviour of the government.

I would say that was a bit… you know… fascist. Wouldn’t you?

According to The Guardian,

The documents state: “Extremism is the promotion or advancement of any ideology which aims to overturn or undermine the UK’s system of parliamentary democracy, its institutions and values.”

But the UK’s system is likely to fall out of date and require constant revision, so this definition is – or should be – useless.

The proposed definition … lists a number of organisations which it considers would be “captured” by the new definition.

Among them are the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Palestine Action and Mend (Muslim Engagement and Development), which has featured at some Conservative party conference fringe events and in 2021 provided evidence to parliamentary committees.

Also among them, by his own definition, is economist Richard Murphy, who has written a lengthy ‘X’ thread on the subject. Here it is (I did the work on this before realising he’s collected it all into a web article himself but this gives me a chance to comment on parts of it):

He’s saying the UK’s institutions are not fit for purpose and therefore require reform – that would be prohibited by Gove’s planning legislation.

Personally, This Writer would oppose an extensive written constitution. Such documents limit our rights to what they describe. One saying that we can do anything other than what is prohibited by democratically-passed laws might be acceptable, providing those laws were subject to periodic review.

These seem reasonable to me; I guess I’m a terrible subversive too.

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I am not keen on a Bill of Rights – because I have seen what the Tory government would do with it. Tories would ensure that the rest of us were only allowed to do what’s necessary to make them richer and increase their freedoms. No – thank you.

There’s nothing objectionable here – or shouldn’t be. Why would an advanced, enlightened democracy want to restrict our freedoms?

This is all right on-the-button. The state is not a private company.

I think everybody knows I agree that the libel laws are not fit for purpose.

I also agree about British media firms – indeed, any firm that influences the lives of many people should be owned by people who live in the UK.

While the changes are being drafted by Michael Gove’s people, they would be enforced by Suella Braverman’s Home Office, so Mr Murphy is right to name-check her.

And yes, we all know that her attitude to reform is biased against people on the basis of their ethnicity.

That’s extreme in itself.

So it seems the best that can be said of this Gove/Braverman ‘reform’ is that it is symbolic of the very extremism it claims to oppose.


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Even Conservatives are worried their party is sliding into extremism

Baroness Warsi: She’s been a voice in the Tory wilderness for years.

Former Tory bigwigs have noticed the party is slipping into fascism, it seems.

Former party co-chair Sayeeda Warsi has said the party’s rhetoric on asylum seekers is dangerous. One has to wonder whether she’s okay with the way her colleagues talk about peaceful protesters.

Here she is:

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi told the FT that some of the “generalisations” that Conservative politicians had made were creating a “really dangerous space”.

Her remarks come after immigration minister Robert Jenrick said in a speech last month that refugee numbers needed to be controlled because those seeking asylum had “completely different lifestyles and values” from people in the UK.

He was supported by home secretary Suella Braverman, who added that asylum seekers showed “heightened levels of criminality”, including prostitution and drug dealing.

Earlier comments by Braverman about immigration prompted former footballer Gary Lineker to write on Twitter that the ministers’ language was “not dissimilar to that used in Germany in the 1930s”.

Warsi said Lineker was right about her party’s rhetoric and warned that it risked sliding into the same rightwing extremism as the Republican party in the US.

“There are only a few steps from there where then we end up demonising whole groups of communities,” Warsi said. “

You know, Gary Lineker was right when he said this is rhetoric from 1930s Germany.”

So if you know anybody who’s voting Tory on May 4, ask them why they support fascism and remind them that we fought a world war against it.

Source: Former Tory co-chair warns of party’s slide towards extremism | Financial Times


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Is Vox Political on this Home Office list of left-wing ‘extremism’?

Take a look at this:

The Home Office has lumped together left-wing groups and green campaigners with neo-nazis and white supremacists in literature and posters supposedly designed to educate officers about extremism.

The Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) document has categories including white supremacist and nationalist groups, left-wing and “associated single issue groups,” animal rights groups, and environmental campaigns.

The left-wing and environmental groups listed include the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), Stop the War, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greenpeace.

Let’s have a poll:

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Source: Left wing? You may be on police extremism list | Morning Star

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Disgraceful: Former Labour defector lies about MP’s critique of Independent Group

Liar: Ian Austin.

Comments by Scottish Labour MP Paul Sweeney about former colleagues who defected to The Independent Group have proved very interesting – in the way another former Labour MP has lied about them.

Glasgow North East MP Paul Sweeney said the MPs who founded and joined The Independent Group took part in a “necessary cleansing” of Labour.

He described Chris Leslie and Chuka Umunna as “self-centred careerists”.

Mr Leslie was “aloof and arrogant”, he said, adding: “The venom and vitriol with which he addressed our front bench was a disgrace.”

And he applied these criticisms to other Independent Group members who used to be Labour MPs, including Mr Umunna, Mike Gapes and Angela Smith.

But he said Luciana Berger, who also quit Labour to join the Independent Group, had faced “unacceptable bullying”.

And how does Ian Austin, who also quit Labour but didn’t join The Independent Group, present this story?

Like this:

Austin is a liar. Mr Sweeney never said a word about racism and extremism.

In fact, he spoke kindly about Ms Berger, even though none of the bullying she suffered was by Labour Party members.

Austin’s words have only served to prove Mr Sweeney’s point: Labour is cleaner without the Independent Group defectors – and much cleaner without Austin himself.

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May and Rudd ‘stripped anti-extremism unit to focus on Brexit’ | The SKWAWKBOX

Amber Rudd and Theresa May.

Is this more irresponsibility from the least responsible UK government ever?

Theresa May stripped the UK’s police of their ability to handle terrorist attacks (as we saw in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing).

Now, it seems, we are finding that she stripped the country of its ability to anticipate attacks such as that at Manchester.

All because she didn’t have enough resources to handle Brexit properly – probably because of her own party’s cuts to the public sector.

And how’s Brexit going?

The Home Office has a department named the Extremism Analysis Unit responsible, as its name suggests, for identifying and analysing potential extremist groups and individuals in order to identify the most serious threats to the safety of UK citizens.

And a civil servant close to the unit alleges that Theresa May, along with her successor Amber Rudd, intentionally moved resources away from it in order to increase resources available to Brexit teams.

Source: Exclusive: May, Rudd ‘stripped anti-extremism unit to focus on #Brexit’ #GE17 | The SKWAWKBOX


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Terrorist Thomas Mair jailed for life for killing Jo Cox. Why did he do it?

Murderer and terrorist: Thomas Mair [Image: PA].

Murderer and terrorist: Thomas Mair [Image: PA].

This was a terrorist attack by a right-wing extremist – and just the first sign of a wave of aggression, around the world.

People like Thomas Mair saw the anti-immigration rhetoric that fuelled the vote to leave the European Union as an endorsement of racist, nationalist views.

And the proliferation of hate crimes suggests those views appear to be on the rise in the United States of America, after the election of Donald Trump as President, and in continental Europe.

People are committing these crimes because they think they can. They think that, somehow, atrocities against their fellow human being are now permissible – or at least that the authorities will turn a blind eye.

But what makes them believe their racism, homophobia, sexism, sectarianism, anti-Semitism or whatever is justified, anyway?

Have we, as a culture, failed to address these issues?

This Writer finds that hard to believe. I’ve been brought up in the same culture as everybody else and my compassion for another person has never been conditional on the colour of their skin or the compatibility of their religious beliefs.

Yet these crimes have happened and are continuing to happen. Thomas Mair murdered Jo Cox on the basis of a falsehood – for a lie.

Why?

I know many Vox Political readers have been waiting to air their opinions on this very subject; now is your chance.

What on Earth do you think has been motivating this?

Thomas Mair has been jailed for life after being found guilty of the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

The 53-year-old shot and stabbed to death the mother-of-two in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June, a week before the EU referendum vote.

Mair shouted “Britain First” in the attack, but the judge said the true “patriot” was Mrs Cox, not Mair.

Prosecutors said Mair was motivated by hate and his crimes were “nothing less than acts of terrorism”.

Mair was also found guilty of having a firearm with intent, causing grievous bodily harm with intent to 78-year-old Bernard Kenny, who tried to help the MP, and having an offensive weapon, namely a dagger.

Source: Jo Cox: Man jailed for ‘terrorist’ murder of MP – BBC News

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Corbyn wants us out of the ‘cycle of hate’; Cameron wants to extend it

In talking about the “cycle of violence and hate”, Jeremy Corbyn has been expanding on a theme – that we must cut off the supply of money and weapons to extremists.

In This Writer’s opinion, Corbyn is referring to this cycle:

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It seems clear that the appropriate starting point is at the bottom, where it says: “Allied based manufacturers supply weapons to the extremists.” This is one of the events Mr Corbyn wants to stop.

By contrast, David Cameron wants Parliament to support air strikes in Syria. See the segment that says “Allies respond to extremism by bombing Middle Eastern targets”?

This is only to be expected from a man who has led at least one trade delegation to the Middle East in order to sell weapons.

Clearly, Cameron is part of the problem and Corbyn is offering the solution.

Jeremy Corbyn has said that Britain must not be “drawn into responses that feed a cycle of violence and hate” following the terror attacks in Paris.

The Labour leader told a regional party conference in Bristol on Saturday that governments “must not keep making the same mistakes” following atrocities such as the series of attacks in the French capital that left 130 people dead.

However, Corbyn said Labour would back every necessary measure to ensure Britons were safe. “The dreadful Paris attacks make the case for a far more urgent effort to reach a negotiated settlement of the civil war in Syria and the end to the threat from Isis,” he said.

“It is the conflict in Syria and the consequences of the Iraq war which have created the conditions for Isis to thrive and spread its murderous rule,” he added. “For the past 14 years, Britain has been at the centre of a succession of disastrous wars that have brought devastation to large parts of the wider Middle East. They have increased, not diminished, the threats to our own national security in the process.”

Corbyn had been due to give his speech last weekend but cancelled it in the wake of the Paris attacks.

Source: Jeremy Corbyn: Paris attacks must not draw us into cycle of hate | Politics | The Guardian

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