Tag: George Floyd

Allegations of anti-Semitism against Black Lives Matter UK are particularly awkward for Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Last month, he posed for photographers while he ‘took the knee’ in his office, as shadow justice secretary David Lammy attacked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab for declining to do so. What’s more, Sir Keir recently sacked shadow education… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 13

Black Lives Matter’s Oxford branch chose to publicise an upcoming protest via Facebook containing an image of a notorious anti-Semitic mural created in east London by the graffiti artist Mear One. The mural, criticised for containing what Jewish groups have called a ‘variety of vile anti-Semitic tropes’, was famously (and very controversially) defended by Mr… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 12

Marie van der Zyl, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: ‘It is beyond disappointing that Black Lives Matter UK, a supposedly anti-racist organisation, has leaned into the anti-Semitic trope that British politics is ‘gagged’ in terms of debating Israel, a claim particularly preposterous because Israel is one of the most-discussed foreign… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 11

To Jewish groups, this raises a serious red flag: Many regard the BDS movement as intrinsically racist because they believe it unfairly singles out Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, for scrutiny that is not applied to other regimes. They were therefore deeply concerned at the weekend to see Black Lives Matter UK wade deeper… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 10

BLM are attacking our Culture, it’s an odious organisation. Then there is the thorny issue of anti-Semitism. One of its founder members, Ewa Jasiewicz, was banned from speaking at one of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour conferences after it emerged she had spray-painted ‘Liberate all ghettos’ and ‘Free Gaza and Palestine’ on one of the few remaining… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 9

During the Black Lives Matter Protests, there were some reports of journalists being attacked and police were seen at one point escorting a man to the side of the road who was bleeding from the head, with blood over his clothes and camera. A crowd then followed a group of officers to outside the Foreign… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 8

In footage that shows the Black Lives Matter Protests, one protester standing in front of a barricade is seen being pushed back by police. A scuffle then ensued as he was wrestled to the ground by officers, before a small number of demonstrators also pushed through barricades. Separate footage showed objects including signs and a… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 7

Chief constables from across the UK issued a joint statement saying they “stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified” after black 46-year-old Mr Floyd died in Minneapolis when a white police officer knelt on his neck for eight minutes. His death on May 25 sparked days of protest in the… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 6

In Australia, the ABC, through their programme Q&A chose a discussion about a “dead white guy” having influence over the Australian cultural landscape. The dead white guy, is of course, William Shakespeare. The ABC producers wondered if Shakespeare, the person most likely to have given society the foundation of culture through his epics of comedy… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 5

When the founder of Ramsay Health Care passed away in 2014 and bequeathed more than three billion dollars so that Western civilisation could be studies in Australian Universities, who would have guessed that the money would lie idle because those same halls of academia would see such studies as a threat. The vice-chancellor of the… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 4