The report on antisemitism at Goldsmiths dropped yesterday. It mentioned no sanctions against anybody who was responsible for any antisemitism.
Today, I receive an email from Goldsmiths UCU, inviting me to its AGM, which will feature a guest speaker from Palestine Action.
— David Hirsh (@DavidHirsh) June 27, 2025
Author: Mick Hartley
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At Goldsmiths
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Fuelled by Islamic extremists in the UK
the historic roots of hatred show themselves is a valuable contribution to warnings for the future by reflecting on the past.”
Not to worry. The government is busy preparing sterner new laws against Islamophobia.
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In Muswell Hill
ommunity — that symbolise the hostages still held in Gaza.
I went over to speak to them.
They were all wearing keffiyehs. And they immediately launched into abuse — calling me a “murdering bitch,” saying I was “complicit in genocide,” and that “Jews deserve to die.”
I asked if they understood what the yellow ribbons were for. They didn’t care. I suggested we put up more — with pictures of Palestinians held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, alongside the ribbons — to create something humanitarian, something that acknowledged everyone’s suffering.
They laughed in my face.
Said they didn’t want peace with ‘Jews’.
They didn’t want understanding ‘with Jews’.They wanted to dehumanise anything ‘Jewish/ related to Israel and the genocide’.
When someone looks you in the eye and says “no one wants to exist with Jews — you are all filth,” it stays with you.
That hate, that poison, it didn’t come from nowhere.
And it’s being legitimised, fed, and spread. And it’s getting bolder.
I know some people will say “don’t give them attention” — but that’s not an option anymore.
Silence isn’t safety.
This is the reality some of us are living with right now. And it needs to be called out.
Continuously associating the Palestinian narrative with violent slogans/ rhetoric does a major disservice to the just and urgent aspirations of the Palestinian people for freedom, self-determination, and independence.
STOP. THE.HATE
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The permitted racism
378 people were murdered at the Nova music festival in southern Israel on 7 October: 378 young people who just wanted to dance, let loose and party, as young people all over the world do at music festivals. They were murdered by Hamas, in cold blood and in a murderous frenzy, filmed by Hamas themselves as they did it. Some were raped, others tortured, others still kidnapped and taken as hostages back to Gaza where some still suffer unimaginable atrocities in their underground dungeons.
Today, tens of thousands of their festival-going counterparts at Glastonbury, led from the stage by Bob Vylan, chanted “Death, death to the IDF”. They, too, were just young people at a music festival, and the ease with which they went along with a call for Israelis to be killed reveals a deep sickness at the heart of our culture.
Something broke at Glastonbury today. I can’t remember any other single occasion when a crowd of that size chanted for anyone to be killed. It’s the kind of mass hatred that belongs at a Blood & Honour neo-Nazi gig, not at Britain’s biggest music festival, broadcast live on the BBC. But it happened, and it lays bare the sheer permissibility of hating Israelis even to the point of wishing them dead. This is the racism that is not just allowed but actively celebrated in progressive circles…..
But read it all.
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Babies’ health a non-existent consideration
yet it’s striking that infants barely feature on the club’s pastel-themed website, which claims to be “amplifying the voices of the often overlooked and invisible minorities in the birthing world”. The most invisible minority in its pitch, however, is babies.
That’s because male breastfeeding is an adult predilection, in which infants are co-opted to affirm the lie that men can become women. It’s a “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist, evidenced by the fact that human beings were born and breastfed by women for thousands of years. No one suggested that men being unable to produce breast milk was an issue until about a decade ago, when the demands of trans-identified males began to distort just about every aspect of human life.
Babies’ health appears to be a non-existent consideration when a man wants to preen about his ability to breastfeed, even though he can only do it by taking an anti-nausea drug called domperidone. It is not approved to encourage lactation anywhere in the world, and the US Food and Drug Administration warns that it “is excreted in breast milk and could expose a breastfeeding infant to unknown risks”.
The NHS is in the middle of a financial crisis, leaving patients stuck on waiting lists for months if not years. The Queer Birth Club’s workshops are not free: it offers “tiered pricing for anybody working in the NHS, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those from historically excluded communities and more”. Health Secretary Wes Streeting needs to ask urgent questions about whether the NHS is funding participation in what is effectively “queer” propaganda — and whether health professionals are encouraging “off-label” prescriptions of lactation-inducing drugs as a result.
Politicians have become so used to appeasing the trans lobby that they rarely ask how trans women can simultaneously be the most oppressed demographic and one that gets everything it wants. But using newborn infants to satisfy a male fetish is surely a line that should not be crossed.
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The washing of the hands
The same Emily Eavis who programmed a man from Kneecap, on trial for a terror offence.
The same Emily Eavis who handed the stage to a member of Palestine Action, an organisation about to be proscribed as terrorists. https://t.co/D0rMPPvRNg— Stephen Pollard (@stephenpollard) June 29, 2025
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Embedding diversity and inclusion
Glastonbury sets out its virtues, for admiration and acclaim:
"Respect for each other." An "inclusive and accepting world". The festival "is proactive in embedding diversity and inclusion". Discrimination is "not tolerated". pic.twitter.com/I5NIHoU3bb
— habibi (@habibi_uk) June 28, 2025
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"The festival is proactive in embedding diversity and inclusion in all that we do, and discrimination of any sort – whether it be on the grounds of race, gender, ethnicity, visible or invisible disabilities, sexual orientation, religion, heritage, age, family status, social class or education – is not tolerated."
Except for Jews of course. "Fucking Zionists".
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Overshadowing Kneecap
The JC on yesterday at Glastonbury:
Hundreds of festival-goers at Glastonbury chanted “Death to the IDF” during a performance by punk duo Bob Vylan, shortly before Irish rap group Kneecap took to the stage with their own anti-Israel messaging.
The chant, calling for the death of the Israel Defence Force, was broadcast live as part of the BBC’s festival coverage.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli embassy in London, Orly Goldschmidt, described the performances as “a hate fest.”
The chant occurred during Bob Vylan’s set on Saturday afternoon, half an hour before Kneecap’s appearance on the West Holts stage, who went on to lead a “F*** Keir Starmer” chant.
During the Bob Vylan set, one member of the duo – the pair do not use their full names – launched into an anti-Zionist tirade and expressed solidarity with Kneecap.
“I worked for a record label and it’s funny because when I worked there, the boss of the record label, we would talk every so often and he would speak very strongly about his support for Israel,” he said.
“And then this list of names came out recently or people trying to stop our mates Kneecap from performing here tonight. Who do I see on that f***ing list of names but that bald-headed c***t I used to f****ing work for,” Vylan added.
That bald-headed c**t, I think we can safely assume, was one of…you know….them. The ones with the hooked noses.
This appeared to reference a leaked list of 30 music insiders who had urged Glastonbury organisers to drop Kneecap from the lineup.
Referring to working in bars and “for f***ing Zionists,” he told the crowd: “If we can do this, I promise you lot you can do anything that you put your mind to.”
Yes them. The fucking Zionists.
I imagine Kneecap are quietly seething after Bob Vylan stole their thunder. They were supposed to be the outrageous anti-Zionist nasty lads, and here come these Bob Vylan upstarts getting all the headlines.
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Not Glastonbury
I think it’s important to clarify that this video is not from #Glastonbury. Though I completely understand the confusion. pic.twitter.com/FYO7sekXXq
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 28, 2025
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Back to the future
src%5Etfw”>#Glastonbury is ecstatic by the thought of genocide, they chant for ethnic cleansing and stripping Jews of their protection.
All in the name of fighting for humanity.
It feels like the 1930’s. pic.twitter.com/yUKJyEP5Uj
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) June 28, 2025
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A kind of hip Nuremberg.
Next up, Kneecap…