Francesco Belcastro
@DrFrancescoBelc
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Sen Lecturer IR (Middle East, sport&politics and other stuff), co-host of @footpolpodcast and Chair at @uniderbyucu. Politics, football and oth sports, food.
London, England
Joined October 2017
BREAKING: It is now antisemitic to object to Israeli football hooligans causing violence in your city. The IHRA guidelines have been updated accordingly x
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Your moronic belief that the police shouldn’t be allowed to ban a bunch of notoriously thuggish & racist fans because they’re Israeli reflects why you have actively aided Israel’s genocide, why you are a racist & why you belong in The Hague. You are a disgrace!
This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets. The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation. https://t.co/8aBeqE4qbA
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This has nothing to do with antisemitism. Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are thugs who will be looking for the opportunity to cause troubles, as seen in Amsterdam last year. Let alone the fact that Israeli clubs should have been booted out of FIFA ages ago...
This is the wrong decision. We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets. The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation. https://t.co/8aBeqE4qbA
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Maccabi Tel Aviv fans last year in Amsterdam rampaged across the city, attacked people, burnt Palestinian flags before people got fed up and fought back. No wonder no one wants them in their city.
Police in Birmingham could not guarantee that local Islamic thugs would not attack visiting Jewish football fans. So they banned the Jewish fans from going. This is unacceptable capitulation and cowardice. We should have escorted the Jewish fans with the army if need be.
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Boycot, divestment, sanctions. Now, more than ever.
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Shame.
The right to protest must be protected. But repeated large protests are leaving communities feeling unsafe. This cannot continue. Police will have new powers to instruct organisers to hold events elsewhere or risk arrest - protecting communities and police resources.
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@ukhomeoffice @ShabanaMahmood Remember when this was you? How aren't you dying of shame... https://t.co/g8bXa5Wi1r
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What Israel is today in a tweet
In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly with our allies in the United Kingdom. On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to host British patriot @TRobinsonNewEra who will visit Israel in mid-October. Tommy is a
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A disgraceful assault on the right to protest. The UK government is complicit in genocide. Anyone who understands the meaning of these words knows full well why we continue to speak out. See you on 11 October for the largest demonstration for Palestine in British history.
NEW: Police forces will be granted new powers to put conditions on repeat protests, Shabana Mahmood says. The new powers, to be brought in asap, will allow senior officers to consider ‘cumulative impact’ of previous protests - and move them elsewhere. Home Secretary will
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Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper have made an absolute mockery of the law & the word 'terrorism'
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Meanwhile a British ship is being assaulted in international waters by a foreign power, British nationals are being kidnapped, and your government is doing nothing.
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The state of British media
Ceasefire Now (!) brigade: we do want a ceasefire now but not this ceasefire now
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How many BBC reporters does it take to ignore a story? Endless blather about mood and Andy Burnham.
BREAKING: Huge defeat for the Government as Labour conference votes that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The resolution accepts the UN Commission of Inquiry report and demands sanctions and a full arms embargo. The Government must listen and act. Stop arming Israel now!
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Hard to imagine a more embarrassing crop of MPs than Labour's current one.
It's as if Labour politicians think that conference operates by Chatham House rules, and if you baselessly call someone an antisemite, they won't come and confront you about it. And we have footage of my intervention, there was no screaming.
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Palestinians should decide their futures. No one else.
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Imagine this guy, who probably could not tell you where Canada is on a map, let alone know anything about the history of the ME, telling anyone else they are ignorant. FFS.
80 years after the end of WWII, where over 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis for simply being Jewish, the so-called civilized world is rewarding modern day religious Nazis with an arbitrary Palestinian state designation. To those Western leaders who embrace this, I do not
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And yet you lot decided to spend your time and energy fighting among yourselves over absolutely nothing. Shame on all of you, really.
Last weekend we witnessed the biggest fascist mobilisation in decades. Yesterday we answered with unity at the #StopTrump demo. Trump, Tommy Robinson & their allies peddle hate, but they don’t speak for us. Our fight is clear and we must unite against the real enemy: fascism.
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Depressing from @jeremycorbyn @zarahsultana and all those involved. So much expectations for this new Left part and with what is happening out there they decide to waste everything in these little squabbles. Many will just look at this and think "I'll stick with the Greens".
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FFS.
Zarah Sultana has announced that membership of the new left party hit 20,000 less than three hours after the membership portal opened. However, Jeremy Corbyn has said that the portal is “unauthorised”, in what appears to be a split between the two co-founders. On Thursday
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Imagine how far you have to fall from being a Human Rights Lawyer and leader of your country to being a participant and apologist for Genocide. That is the sum total of Keir Starmers legacy. There isn’t a flag large enough to cover that shame.
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