Mick Hartley

Author: Mick Hartley

  • Dangerous acid that corrodes socialism

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    The young woman was forced to publicly apologize for her comments, which were then printed in lecture materials for the county youth league chapter—much to her embarrassment.

  • NZ gender tragedy

    quot;At the scene, the Police corrected us when we used Vanessa's name and insisted on using a male name and pronouns," remembers Catherine.

    "I was so distressed by this."

  • Gaza aid and the BBC

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    At around 10 pm last night, Hamas attacked a bus carrying over two dozen members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — including local Palestinians working alongside U.S. personnel.

    GHF confirms at least five fatalities, multiple injuries, and fears that some team members may have been taken hostage.

    What are the international community, the UN, and all the so-called activists waiting for? They must unequivocally condemn this heinous attack and take immediate action to support GHF.

    GHF cannot deliver food and aid to Palestinians if Hamas continues to sabotage, threaten, and now murder humanitarian workers.

    This is outrageous. It must stop. Now.

  • Spitting on Israel

    a preacher urged Muslims to spit on Israel, The Telegraph can reveal.

    The Attorney General said he found the work of the Abdullah Quilliam Society “inspiring”, less than a year after it was named in a list of Islamic charities accused of harbouring “hateful rhetoric”.

    The controversy stemmed from a talk at the mosque by Haroon Hanif, an Islamic scholar, roughly two weeks after the Oct 7 massacre in 2023. The nature of his affiliation with the mosque, if any, is unknown.

    In the sermon, livestreamed on social media, Mr Hanif told worshippers that Muslims should “continue waging your war for Allah and his messenger, don’t back down”.

    He added: “We’re large in numbers right now, two billion. If the two billion just marched on Israel it’s all over, if you spat in the direction of Israel, two billion, it’s all over.”

    He also said “any Muslim who thinks the Palestinians are terrorists… you need to question your imam” and “no British Army can overpower you”.

    The comments prompted campaigners to refer the mosque, along with seven other Islamic charities, to the Charity Commission.

    In an open letter, they accused the organisations of breaching charity guidelines, which state that trustees should be alert to the dangers of “extremist ideology” or “extremist views”.

    Nothing, of course, has been done – though rest assured it's not been forgotten. The charity's assessment is "ongoing"

    Lord Hermer went on to visit the Abdullah Quilliam Society in August 2024, where he discussed ways to keep the Muslim community safe in the wake of the riots triggered by the Southport killings.

    He said it had been “truly wonderful” to hear about the community’s response to the protests, which affected the mosque directly, and said he had come away with “many ideas”.

    In a video posted on the society’s Instagram account, he said: “It’s been inspiring learning about the work of this mosque… It has been a huge, huge pleasure.”

    The revelation has prompted further questions about Lord Hermer’s judgment in light of recent headlines.

    Well yes.

  • Following an old pattern

    r for peace, Ariel Sharon’s government effectively handed Palestinians the opportunity to build the state they claimed to seek.

    Instead, they elected Hamas. The jihadists threw Fatah officials from rooftops (those who survived fled to the West bank via Israel) and built a terror hub instead of a state. The result: suicide bombings, rocket fire, terror tunnels and eventually, October 7.

    And here we are. Same old same old. It's always, and only, Israel's fault. The Palestinians have no agency, but merely respond to Israel's supposed brutality.

    This war has simply amplified a pattern established decades ago. What we are witnessing is not a break from the past, but its culmination.

    This reaction does more than isolate Israel and fuel anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment – it undermines peace itself. The message to Israelis is unambiguous: territorial withdrawal brings neither security nor legitimacy, but more terror and global censure. When even full evacuation leads to escalation and condemnation, the incentive to take further risks for peace disappears.

    Conversely, for Hamas, the lesson is also clear: atrocities can shift diplomatic ground. The more brutal the provocation, the greater the pressure on Israel and the louder the calls for Palestinian recognition.

    It helps, of course, that the press here, notably the BBC, put all Hamas news reports in the headlines – from the Al-Ahsi hospital bombing to the supposed IDF Gaza aid shootings. Corrections come later in small print, if at all.

    In this way, the West’s reaction doesn’t just misread the conflict – it helps perpetuate it.

  • Jews don’t count

    burns with hatred. The council does nothing.https://t.co/7iVwZ4DzGP https://t.co/DzlHB7A7Ns

    — habibi (@habibi_uk) June 11, 2025

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  • At the NEU trans and non-binary network seminar

    ourt ruling means they need to take proportionate steps to avoid discrimination against staff but school leaders can find it tricky to navigate the balancing of these rights.

    “Leaders need to aim to make sure women feel supported in the workplace and that any staff who are trans also feel supported.”

    It reminds me of Jeremy Corbyn reacting to accusations of antisemitism. The response was always that he opposed all types of racism, including antisemitism and Islamophobia. He couldn't mention antisemitism without Islamophobia. Just couldn't do it. Now these people can't talk about discrimination against women without bringing in discrimination against "staff who are trans". They can't do it.

  • Due to his “transgender” identity

    ith his bare hands after the two men had been detained together for a period of just three days. At the age of 17, Monroe strangled to death Kimani Muhammad, then 31, in Cook County jail.

    In 2019, after beginning to identify as transgender, Patterson received support from the Uptown People’s Law Center, MacArthur Justice Center, and ACLU to sue the state for transfer to a women’s prison. The suit has been ongoing for six years, but Patterson was transferred shortly after it was filed.

    Of course he was. It's such a wonderful progressive cause, putting men like this into women's prisons. 

  • What if

    for you. It wasn't reported for two reasons.

    1. Because reporting in Gaza is neither free, nor independent – and if you wanted continued access to Gaza – you could not write ANYTHING to annoy Hamas. Not that you would ever tell your readers that.

    2. You are an anti-Israel rag that doesn't care what is happening if you cannot demonise Israel with it.

    Now think about this. What if you had reported it? And what if it had been seen by Israeli intelligence? And what if one of the officers had brought it to the attention of a superior officer? And what if one of them had thought it odd and thought it worth looking at more closely?

    Three days before Oct 7. What if.

    Bethan McKernan's article here.

     

  • “Lincoln woman”

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