Tag: Minneapolis

Over the years @UKBLM has pursued some bizarre campaigns, many of which have little obvious link to race relations. Their very first public protest, after being formed in July 2016, was to blockade several major airports on the basis climate change is ‘racist’. Since the demonstrators arrested at one such protest at London’s City airport… Continue reading Western Culture under Attack Part 15

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

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