Sebastian Milbank has written an excellent piece in the Critic charting the descent of the University of Edinburgh into woke madness and how that spilled over in antisemitic bile under the guise of ‘decolonisation’ in the past week. Here’s an excerpt.
Dr. Kate Davison, a “Queer historian of sexuality, psy-sciences & Cold War”, a lecturer at the Edinburgh history faculty and a vocal advocate of trans rights (who recently approvingly tweeted about calls to suppress a gender critical book launch), took the events of the past few days as an opportunity to express her solidarity with Palestine, retweeting a UCU tweet doing just that, and tweeted that “Palestine and trans human rights are the litmus test and most of you are failing half of it”. She also retweeted a post arguing that Palestinian violence must be understood in the context of Israeli occupation and that “Eventually people will snap”. Most shocking of all was her her support for a statement by academics of Berzeit University (a Palestinian institution in the West Bank) which unequivocally celebrated the Hamas attacks, speaking of the “blood of our martyrs”, arguing that Israel has “no right to self-defence”, denouncing the global reach of the “Zionist media coverage” and defending attacks on civilians as “guerilla war tactics” undertaken by “resistance fighters”.
Nor was she alone, another Edinburgh academic, Dr. İdil Akıncı-Pérez, a lecturer in social policy, also liked the Berzeit statement, as well as a post celebrating the toppling of the border wall and another quoting a statement that “calls Hamas’s attack a ‘legitimate right’ of the Palestinian people resisting settler occupation and says ‘we pray for victory, oh heroes of the resistance’”. One PhD student, whom I have chosen not to name, on the assumption that graduate students are below the age of reason, simply has a ‘Free Palestine’ poster as his or her departmental bio photo.
Julie Gibbings, a history lecturer at Edinburgh and the director of EDI in the faculty, appeared to denounce the violence, retweeting a piece by Naomi Klein in the Guardian attacking those who celebrated the massacres by Hamas. Granted Klein speaks out of both sides of her mouth, saying that “we can recognise that when Israeli Jews are killed in their homes and it is celebrated by people who claim to be anti-racists and anti-fascists, that is experienced as antisemitism by a great many Jews”. It’s mealy mouthed stuff (experienced as antisemitism!), but at least it does denounce murder as murder, even if it absurdly pretends that Jew hatred is a matter of appearance rather than fact. But dig into what has Dr. Gibbings pounding the like button, and you discover that days before she was playing at being even-handed, she was liking tweets by Dr. Fúnez-Flores, specifically ones in which he writes (on the day of Hamas’s massacres of Israeli civilians): “Academia loves to decolonise everything besides occupied land. Its silence on Palestine is enough to know how decolonisation has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance.” And another in which he disputes the civilian status of Israeli settlers, writing: “Decolonisation isn’t ‘social justice’. That’s why Tuck and Yang wrote that, ‘The absorption of decolonisation by settler social justice frameworks is one way the settler, disturbed by her own settler status, tries to escape or contain the unbearable searchlight of complicity’.”
Another Edinburgh academic, Dr. Sarah Liu, a Senior Lecturer in Gender and Politics at Edinburgh, and the Chair of the Staff BAME Network, chose the occasion of Hamas’s mass murder to retweet (only one day after Hamas’s bloody border crossing) the quote: “The oppressor makes his violence part of the functioning society. But the violence of the oppressed becomes disruptive… because it is disruptive it’s easy to recognise, and therefore it becomes the target of all those who in fact do not want to change the society.” And she retweeted a post (written on the day of the attacks) that read: “Academics, largely, as a class, aren’t in favour of revolutionary action, but many revolutionaries are also scholars so they offer academics an opportunity to associate themselves with revolutionaries under the guise of study, with no real intention of extending it into practice.” She also liked a tweet (likewise posted on the day that Hamas stormed across the border to murder civilians) which reads: “Did some people just think Palestine had to like file paperwork or something to be freed. this is what oppressed fighting the oppressor looks like.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Lloyds Bank’s Human Resources Director has written to the bank’s 30,000 employees offering them counselling if they were traumatised by the ‘hate’ on display at the Conservative Party Conference. The Mail has more.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Oh this is going to be fun.
“I’m very conscious, as I sit in this chair now, of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates,…”
Well there’s the problem in a nutshell. She’s prioritizing diversity over the best candidates for the job, which is kind of predictable if she herself is a DEI tick box person. Does a person want their life guarded with the most diverse people or the most suitable and capable? Maybe we should get some insight from Trump’s wife, Melania, lol. I mean, at least make your bodyguards be bigger than the person they’re tasked with guarding, FFS!
If/when Trump gets in the White House he seriously needs to scrap this godawful DEI bullshit. There’s literally nothing good to say about any of it.
P.S Elon’s comment did make me laugh. Crikey, what an upgrade!
Kimberley Cheatle is directly responsible for the death of one man and two others critically injured.
DIE working like a proper acronym.
How does she sleep at night?
Is she? I’d say the snipers that failed to fire and eliminate the threat, who apparently needed no approval first, were responsible.
From what I heard yesterday those snipers are actually tasked
with covering threats much further away, their rifles and scopes are able to engage at more than 1,500m. Their guns had to be lowered to point along the needed sightline.
Yes, but the facts remain. The snipers managed to take the gunman out only *after* he’d fired first. And bearing in mind it all happened in a few split seconds, if they could’ve killed him as they did do, very effectively, why wait those critical moments, allowing the gunman to open fire first? Unless they were specifically ordered to wait then some personal responsibility needs to be taken. I heard the sniper that killed the gunman got the sack, but that’s just some comment online, I don’t have a source.
As I understand it they had to adjust the tripod supporting the rifle, that’s where the extra seconds came from.
What is poor is that a local police officer climbed up to the roof and the shooter pointed his rifle at him causing him to retreat but it seems there was no integrated comms to alert everyone else at this point. So 2 lots of slow responses because the organisation was inadequate, which is unusual given the experience of the people who should be in charge of security.
Police and security services were alerted to the shooter by members of the public and video evidence supports this but the warnings were ignored.
Yes Tvarisch.
The rot starts at the top.
Well as we know, no matter the organisation, across all sectors, if there’s individual f@ck ups within the team, and there’s serious consequences/damage done as a result, it’s the person in charge of the team’s performance that takes the fall. So this woman should resign and jump before she gets pushed.
As if the whole debacle wasn’t bad enough, imagine if the gunman had succeeded in his objective and we’d all woke up to news that Donald Trump had been murdered. Are we honestly meant to believe that this woman would still be in her role as head of security? If she stays in her job now then it’s like a two-fingured salute to that poor man’s family, because that guy in the audience literally took the place of Trump and was gunned down due to incompetence on a massive scale. No second chances with this, no way.
But what I think should happen is that the person responsible for hiring her should bare some responsibility and get fired too. I mean, the article says she was hired by Biden but it won’t have literally been him that interviewed and selected her. The guy’s away with the fairies at the best of times. But if better candidates were deliberately discarded and she was nothing more than a paper exercise then someone’s head needs to roll.
But I do hope, and fully expect, Trump to ditch these inept clowns who don’t value his ( or the public’s ) life and find some top quality, highly skilled and experienced officers instead. Otherwise you’d be worried about making any more public appearances, all the time thinking “is this it? Will they get me this time?” All because you can’t trust your security team.
“But what I think should happen is that the person responsible for hiring her should bare some responsibility and get fired too.”
Now this I am in full agreement with.
DEI MUST DIE.
Get the t.shirts printed. hux does it again.
Bear some responsibility
A lot of people have raised this suggestion that Trump should get his own security team rather than relying on the Secret Service who might be less than 100% loyal to him. But surely his own security team would not have sufficient authority to kill suspected assassins and to enter property etc … nor the necessary legal protection for the officers for acts undertaken in the course of their duties.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/warning-signs-secret-service-months-trump-assassination-attempt/5862650
It looks like Cheatle has been failing for some time.
The knives are out. Good.
The rooftops were supposed be searched and cleared. Or guarded or closed off. Seems they were not. Probably for DEI reasons or some such mindless, midwit reason
The theme of this article and comments is DEI, but we must keep in mind the (in my opinion) more likely possibility of malice or malign intent on the part of the deep state.
Maybe she sleeps in the day?
It won’t be her/their fault. It never is.
Exactly.
One report said that a police command center was located inside the building that the shooter climbed to the roof. There were to be SS snipers set up on that roof but , apparently, it was too hot and they they remained inside. One reason the SS sniper held his fire was that he was unsure if the person on the roof of the police command post was a police sniper. That might also explain why this rooftop was apparently left exposed and unprotected.
“The agency has the goal of increasing the number of women to 30% by 2030…”
Why?
Given how the Woketard force is so strong with these people I’m surprised they didn’t put the word “biological” in front of the word “women” to qualify what they mean, unless they’re aiming to diversify further by including women with penises and the non-binary peeps.
Then the SS really will resemble a Netflix series.
Shouldn’t the SS be recruiting Red Indians now?
Whoops, I bet that’s not allowed.
It’s not quite up there with coon or nigger I don’t think.
I know this plays well with “the right”, but this is NOT why Trump was shot at.
A cock up 2 days before the start of the Republican Convention?
Has anyone stopped to wonder how a random looney with a gun is able to plan and execute something like that? How far in advance does he plan? Days? Hours? How does it work? He sees the podium finds out Trump is speaking, and on the spur of the moment decides to assassinate him? So he has a quick look around, sees a good spot to take a shot, which miraculouslly is overlooked by the security services? And of he goes to get his gun?
Or does he plan it days in advance? How does he have all the advanced information about where everything is going to be, how it’s going to be set up? This disgruntled rando.
Public shootings by randos are messy and badly thought out in very public places. Not surgical, precision strikes.
Just the slightest bit of thought should make anyone conclude that the theory of the random disgruntled assassin is the most improbable of conspiracy theories.
The difference of course is that when you have the full force of the media to push your conspiracy theory, it immediately becomes the official explanation. And the relentlessly gullible masses lap it up every fuckkng time. No questions asked. The only source of information: the FBI. No probs, all good.
Depressing.
An inside job.
Apparently he borrowed his Dad’s AR-15, not sure if he had permission or just took it without asking.
Now you say that it does sound a bit ridiculous.
They didn’t like his choice of VP so they chose to off him. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.
Who is his choice of VP?
He hadn’t announced it but the person would have known, as would the security apparatus. Once official the line of succession is clear if trump is killed, if killed before the announcement the Republican party gets to choose at the convention. Oddly trump has bought the announcement two days forward from Wednesday to today.
From what I have read he joined the Party. This means he would have received a notification about DTs itinerary.
That’s the problem. You can make/take a million precautions and then something random can happen. Who really expects a nutter to commit suicide in such a situation when the policing would be expected to by smotheringly oppressive? The US is suffering a law enforcement recruitment crisis as potential recruits are reluctant to apply for work as a police officer because the US has gone woke mad. That includes the Secret Service, State Police forces and the local policing delivery at every level. This was a small town. Possibly its entire police force may only be 10 strong. State police and county police may have tried to beef the local input up, but they’re all manpower strapped too. Mix that with the multilayered way that US law enforcement is delivered and there are a myriad of potential holes to create. So everyone is short of manpower (personpower for our rainbow zealots) and mistakes are made. All you need is an alignment of errors to align and you have what happened at the Trump rally. Could it be a conspiracy? Yes. But, equally, could it just have been a law enforcement SNAFU? Of course it could. Preparedness to grab at the former just proves that one’s political agenda overloads one’s ability to maintain an open mind until the facts emerge.
Ann Coulter on X: “Female secret service agent fails situational judgement course (ability to separate gumen from innocent civilians). Kimberly Cheatle authorized her graduation anyway, in order to fulfill the girl quota. Sign petition to fire this lunatic: https://t.co/uJCYxVbTLJ” / X
Probably the chubby little firker who couldn’t holster her gun. Most boys have mastered that by age 6. Ain’t DIE bloody marvellous.
History is littered literally with winning DEI armies. In fact the more diverse an army was the more winning. I don’t think Alexander the greats or Julius Caesar contained a single straight white male. Prove me wrong!
Wasn’t Julius Caeser supposed to be a bit gay? Or bi? Are you gay if you’re bi?
I think he was pan actually, cleo had a large dildo and he loved it. This is all documented I read a peer reviewed study on it.
It’s no comfort to know your cardiologist, airline pilot, car mechanic, Chief Constable, MP (etc) weren’t selected for their experience/expertise, but their woke credentials.
People who think gender is a choice, Britain is evil and wrong is right.
Excellent video from Paul Joseph Watson with some seriously informed additional video clips.
The security services were in on this for sure.
My initial suspicions were wrong.
https://youtu.be/TxE3t3lUijA?si=pnh1jLWygb8EO0jY
https://youtu.be/dXfDFVysQ6Q?si=sHrse6t5oYU8DJ1o
A short clip from The Rubin Report where Cheatle outlines her DIE credentials.
Helpful stuff. Two minutes viewing.
Women can’t do these types of jobs properly. There’s a reason why, throughout history, strong, athletic, skillful males were warriors and heavy lifters. Because women are too small, not fast enough and lack strength. We have become utter idiots about equality in many jobs. It is madness.
Someone very dear to me joined a UK police force and is now a fully trained police constable. She is in her twenties, around 4’10” tall and could easily be mistaken for a child. I feel very concerned for her safety.
This politically woke interference everywhere has unintended consequences. I am sure these woke inspired people have the best of intentions. They think they can socially engineer a better world. But my friend who is a fireman was just saying to me recently that the Fire Brigade where he works recently employed a female and in the fire engine a wooden box is required since her feet cannot touch the bottom of the fire engine. She does not have the physical attributes of the male firemen and cannot climb the ladder so well as them. I say to people “When there is a fire and your 2 year old child needs recused from the burning building, who do you want to rescue them? A 6ft 3 in powerful man or a smaller less powerful woman? ——–Social Engineering and wokery cannot and should not happen if it interferes with what is best for safety and for common sense. —–PS This in no way reflects badly on women. But it is the case that men and women do no compete together in physical sport, since that would be very unfair, and why there is currently just a stink kicked up about trans people swimming and running against women in races.
“You know she was working at Pepsi before this. I know she was a former CIA Secret Service agent, but still, this is what happens when you don’t put the best players in.”
But if you want to assassinate your political opponent and blame it on incompetence, ideal.