Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Britain's New Mainstream Racists?

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Britain's New Mainstream Racists?
Does the Rot Start from the Top

by Douglas Murray  •  February 24, 2016 at 5:30 am
  • From the accounts of those in the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) and elsewhere, it is clear that anti-Semitism surfaced in the Labour party at exactly the moment the party started to be led by a man who, throughout his political life, had demonstrated extreme comfort with anti-Semites.
  • "The decision of the club [OULC] to endorse a movement with a history of targetting and harassing Jewish students and inviting antisemitic speakers to campuses, despite the concerns of Jewish students, illustrates how uneven and insincere much of the active membership is when it comes to liberation..." — Alex Chalmers, who resigned from the Oxford University Labour Club.
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (left) has shown support for the Hezbollah-trained extremist Dyab Abou Jahjah (right).
The British Labour party is currently led by a man, Jeremy Corbyn, who has described Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends" and has spent his years in the political wilderness with Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites, terrorist-sympathisers and all manner of other undesirables. Now that he is the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, he has tried to present himself as a more moderate force by stressing that he has spent his life fighting racism and anti-Semitism. In fact, he appears to have spent his life being remarkably content with exponents of both.
His Shadow Chancellor spent the same period in similar company, but with an even more fervent devotion to the terrorists of the Irish Republican Army.

The Moral Cost of Appeasing Iran

by Mohshin Habib  •  February 24, 2016 at 4:00 am
  • The leaders of both France and Italy set aside their values to appease the president of Iran.
  • In France, protesters demanded that President François Hollande challenge the Iranian president about his country's human rights abuses. France's leadership, however, raised no questions of that sort. Instead, Mr. Rouhani was welcomed as a superstar.
  • According to a 659-page report by Human Rights Watch, Iran's human rights violations under Mr. Rouhani's governance have been increasing. Social media users, artists and journalists face harsh sentences on dubious security charges.
  • In November, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld a criminal court ruling sentencing Soheil Arabi to death for Facebook posts "insulting the Prophet" and "corruption on earth."
Since Hassan Rouhani (right) became the president of Iran, the surge in executions has given Iran the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.
Right after signing the Iran nuclear deal with itself -- Iran still has not signed it, and even if it did, the deal would not be legally binding -- members of the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany) have been showing their eagerness to establish improved relations with their imaginary partner.
Last month, after the lifting of international sanctions, Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, went on a five-day trip to Italy and France.
Officials from the host countries were so enthusiastic to welcome the Iranian president, it was as if they were unaware of Iran's multiple violations of The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) -- which Iran did sign in 1968. They also seemed unaware of Iran's expansion into Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, as well as Iran's continuing role in sponsoring global terrorism.

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