In a BBC interview, the Labour Party Leader, Sir Keir Starmer, sought to distance himself from @UKBLM, saying he took the knee to support the wider anti-racism movement, rather than this organisation. He stressed: ‘Nobody should be saying anything about defunding the police.’ Black Lives Matter UK responded via Twitter, saying that when he was… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 14
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Western Culture under Attack Part 13
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
Western Culture under Attack Part 12
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
Western Culture under Attack Part 11
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
Western Culture under Attack Part 10
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
Western Culture under Attack Part 9
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
What Is White Privilege Part 4
The roots of privilege theory extend deep into the factional political atmosphere of early American Maoism. The specific use of white-skin privilege concepts, which date back to US slavery, to analyse oppression began in one tiny section of the Stalinist left, the obscure Provisional Organizing Committee to Reconstitute the Marxist Leninist Party, a 1958 split… Continue reading What Is White Privilege Part 4
Western Culture under Attack Part 8
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
What Is White Privilege Part 3
The privilege model of oppression, often encountered in today’s liberal and radical circles, has evolved since the 1960s. Many of today’s well-intentioned advocates are unaware of the theory’s class roots – roots that continue to profoundly impact privilege politics today. At the height of the American civil rights movement, when theories of oppression might be… Continue reading What Is White Privilege Part 3
Western Culture under Attack Part 7
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