Steven Heywood on Nostr: I take your point that for once Labour and the media have a common enemy to traduce ...

I take your point that for once Labour and the media have a common enemy to traduce but the Greens work best when they question the accepted narrative rather than acquiesce to it (as per the brilliant exchange in Scotland when Offord was told to his face there should be less people with six homes.)

Why is it "disgraceful" to question the police response but not disgraceful for Starmer to immediately pounce on an attack on three people, one of them a Muslim, and before the facts are known declare it an antisemitic hate crime and justification for crackdowns on protests against the Israeli government? It's unfortunate that in its responses to the row the Greens have chosen to amplify the assumption of an antisemitic attack rather than focus on the incident of the arrest.

(It's also interesting that this Grauniad piece sidelines the third victim and his implications for the antisemitic hate crime narrative throughout.)

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