A Palestinian student who said she was “full of pride” after Hamas launched its attack on Israel has declared “I don’t regret it” after the Home Office revoked her visa. The Mail has the story.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a law student at the University of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protest just one day after Hamas carried out its horrific October 7th attack.
During the demonstration, Ms. Abuqamar, President of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was filmed saying she was “really full of joy” and “proud that Palestinian resistance has come to this point”.
She has now claimed that the U.K. Government has “violated her human rights” by rescinding her student visa on the “baseless” accusation that she is a “risk to public safety”.
However despite complaining about her visa being revoked, Ms. Abuqamar appears to have doubled down on her inflammatory activism in a post on social media, declaring: “I do not regret standing up for my people.”
In a post on Instagram on May 8th – in which Ms. Abuqamar shared a video of her revealing to a crowd of protestors that her visa has been revoked – she said: “I do not regret standing up for my people and advocating for their right to resist oppression, as prescribed by international law, and I will continue to do so regardless of the repercussions.”
She added: “If anything, the backlash I received from complicit media, institutions and governmental authorities should encourage you to stay steadfast in your activism, or at least I would so hope.”
Worth reading in full.
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Is Yes Prime Minister in for an update? I loved that show. I think it was largely responsible for setting me into the Skeptical camp from an early age.
It only really works with a conservative PM, though. Drama and Comedy relies on conflict and misunderstanding, and there’s not much chance of that between a Labour PM and The Deep State.
I’m the opposite, I just cannot bring myself to watch it now.
Well written and acted it certainly was but that soft, gentle self mockery (for it is us who are the victims) is no longer funny in the light of recent developments
On the bookshelf beside me today there are 3 hardback books of the script for those.
It’s still a masterpiece I think, and like you I’m sure it influenced my critical thinking from an early age. In particular the scene where they discuss surveys – I’ve thought the same about one since… once you see behind the curtain…
Wednesday Morning Twyford Rd & Bell Foundry Lane Wokingham
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/russia-ukraine-peace-talks-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump
‘After three years of war, it is Russia – not Ukraine – that has been confronted by the limits of its power. The so-called “second most powerful army in the world” has failed to achieve its strategic objectives. Since January, Russia’s territorial advances have amounted a handful of fields and abandoned villages, totalling under 1,000 sq km. And its economy is crumbling under the weight of sanctions and mobilisation.’
Putin cannot win but has no interest in peace either.
‘Anybody hoping for successful direct Russia-Ukraine negotiations should temper their expectations. Putin has no interest in genuine negotiations, and likely never will. He has repeatedly refused to meet Zelenskyy – not because there’s no agenda, but because acknowledging Ukraine’s leader would mean recognising Ukraine’s sovereignty. In Putin’s imperial worldview, Ukraine isn’t a country and therefore cannot have a legitimate government. This from a man whose own political legitimacy is propped up by ballot stuffing and electoral spectacle rivalling the Bolshoi theatre.’
This is what he wants:
‘The procedure for the dissolution of the USSR in 1991 was violated, which means the Soviet Union still legally exists.’
Anton Kobyakov, advisor to the President of the Russian Federation, 21 May 2025
This man is despicable and a proven liar;
”14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours unless Israel allows sufficient aid into Gaza.
Stop what you’re doing.
Take action.
At the very least speak out and demand the UK Government stops selling arms to Israel.
Do something.
The lives of 14,000 babies depends on it.”
https://x.com/HumzaYousaf/status/1924840991107785148
See the screenshot of the BBC spreading this propaganda. Where’s Verify when you need them?
”A lie this has been confirmed as a lie yet Humza doesn’t delete the post let alone release an apology or retraction.”
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1925253389861966200
This is the inevitable result of spreading blatant lies in order to demonize entire groups of people;
”What we know so far about the shooting near the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.:
– The gunman reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” before opening fire
– Two people are dead, including one believed to be an Israeli embassy staffer
– A second individual fled into the museum after the shooting and pulled out a keffiyeh
The situation is still developing.” Eyal Yakoby
I could refute the blatant BS the world is being told ( and gullible, Jew-hating fools suck up like Kool-Aid ) using video evidence until the cows come home, because there are entire Twitter accounts with big followings focusing specifically on sharing the reality and exposing the sheer level of propaganda regarding the narrative about ‘Palestine’. They want the world to see the truth instead of listening to hateful, terrorist-supporting gobshites;
”I know you don’t like logic. Since October 7, 2023, Gaza has received more than 300,000 metric tons of humanitarian aid, delivered through over 22,000 trucks to a population of just 2.1 million people. That translates to roughly 143 kilograms of aid per person in just a few months. Assuming an average of 3,500 calories per kilogram of food, which is standard for calorie-dense emergency rations, this aid contains more than 1.05 trillion calories in total. With Gaza’s population requiring approximately 4.2 billion calories per day based on a 2,000-calorie daily diet per person, this aid alone could fully feed the entire population for over 250 consecutive days with three full meals a day and room for dessert. Put differently, if the intake increased to four heavy meals per day, which far exceeds any humanitarian minimum, the people of Gaza would still be covered for roughly 190 days.
To compare this to European cities, the city of Paris with its 2.1 million residents could be fully fed for eight months with the same amount of calories. Berlin, with 3.6 million people, could be fed for five months, and Rome, with 2.8 million people, could survive on this aid for six months. Meanwhile, countries in Africa face actual famine with a fraction of this attention and delivery. South Sudan, with 6.3 million people facing urgent food insecurity, receives less than one quarter of Gaza’s per capita aid. Somalia, with over 7 million in need, receives even less, with estimates showing less than 30 dollars worth of aid per capita, compared to Gaza’s estimated 133 dollars per person. Chad, Niger, and Burkina Faso receive figures so low they do not even reach the global minimum nutritional requirements.
If we turn Gaza into a metaphorical restaurant, it is essentially receiving 400 supply trucks a day, delivering gourmet level logistics to every street, while war-torn regions in Africa are left to scavenge for leaves and sip contaminated water, completely abandoned by headlines and hashtags.
This is no longer about hunger. It is about overfeeding a narrative. When sending humanitarian aid, the world must ensure it reaches the people and is not used to flood a terrorist-run zone with resources far beyond those provided to any other crisis region. Meanwhile, groups like Islamic Relief based in Birmingham in the UK claim neutrality while their aid conveniently vanishes into Hamas tunnels and stockpiles. Real starvation, in places like Tigray, Niger, and Sudan dies in silence with no camera, no spotlight, while countries like France and the UK continue feeding a conflict they pretend to be solving.”
https://x.com/amjadt25/status/1925140117930308019
”100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid by the UN and the international community, including flour, baby food, and medical equipment were transferred today (Wednesday) via the Kerem Shalom Crossing into the Gaza Strip. All aid was transferred after a thorough security inspection.
This was following the recommendation of IDF officials, and in accordance with the directive of the political echelon.
We will continue to facilitate humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip while making every effort to ensure that the aid does not reach the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization.”
https://x.com/cogatonline/status/1925266681003405799
They are also self-sufficient due to the markets selling freshly-caught fish and locally grown produce. In what realm could this pass for ‘starvation’?
”Inas goes to the market in Gaza and tells us prices of vegetables and fruit during the famine (timestamp 2 days ago):
In shekels (1 shekel = $0.28) per kg (2.2lb)
Tomato 35
Hot pepper 38
Potato 33
Onion 160
Watermelon 15
Okra 140
Apricot 160
Peach 150-200
Vine leaves 80
Zucchini 60
Eggplant 30
Molokhiya 30
Cucumber 25
There were some other veggies that I didn’t know what they are
Note: This is all locally grown in Gaza.”
https://x.com/imshin/status/1925210106704035939
The lie can be right round the world before the truth has put its shoes on…
Is there anything more disgusting or despicable than denying an ongoing genocide? For almost one and a half years the British government has supported the incredible destruction of Gaza perpetrated by the utterly perverse Israeli soldiers, and propagated the recurrent lie that the murder of presumably well over 100,000 innocent civilians, including vast numbers of children, is an act of ‘self-defence’. All that time UK has happily provided weaponry and RAF reconnaissance flights to Israel but suddenly the government is becoming embarrassed by too many children starving, or was it simply too many people noticing that images of children in Gaza reminded them of WWII concentration camps? Now Lammy is saying the government must do something to stop the carnage and pathetically talks about levying sanctions. Well, I suppose it is a start but far too late and far too little for far too many.
In all fairness, people should remember the fact that, only a couple of years ago, Palestinian Muslims in Gaza were ranked as SIXTH on the list of the World’s Most Obese People. (No one bothered asking the Palestinian Christians.)
They are obese because all they have done for the past half century is sit on their backsides shrieking and whining to the world.
Well done Mogs.
You know what the laugh about all of this “starvation”/aid not getting through bollocks is? The videos being uploaded to TikTok, then shared on other platforms such as Twitter, are all filmed by Gazans in Gaza. So while we’ve got Western propaganda outlets, such as MSM and associated high profile talking heads and other useful idiots spouting this false narrative, it’s the Gazans themselves that are showing the world the reality and contradicting the lies. They make no secret of it.
There’s people doing recipe videos, showing how they make bread from lentil flour because it’s cheaper, for instance, and how they grind down boiled sweets to use as sugar so they can make their sweet treats they seem very fond of. Absolutely nobody looks emaciated, on the contrary.
It’s almost like the Westerners want to keep this narrative going, trying to drum up sympathy and paint these people as victims ad nauseum, more than the Gazans themselves, who wouldn’t be uploading this contradictory evidence if it served them to stick to the ‘script’.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
“Boris warns that Starmer’s Britain is ‘turning into a police state’
Oh, Boris.! Don’t you remember the police arresting and fining people for sitting on park benches, or all the times you supported ‘Non-crime’ reporting.? Or when poor David Amess was cruelly stabbed to death, your first act was to bring in more legislation to stop people talking about knife crime.
Personally I would rather trust Ozzy Osbourne’s recollections of the 1980’s.
“Something had to be done”, so he did what he was told, subject to the MSM being notified in advance, in many cases.
This is standard operating procedure.
A vanishingly small number of people do something that is harmful or illegal? Create a law and regulation that assumes every single person is a potential criminal.
It’s mental, but that’s how it works.
That’s why millions of grannies have to be frisked and scanned when going through airport security. Because over the last six decades a few dozen, let’s face it, Arab men have hijacked planes. We have to assume that grannies and small children (to highlight the most ridiculous cases) might also hijack a plane.
Just one of the many ways our society has gone mad.
Everyone knows that it’s absolutely impossible to do any harm without the pointy bit. Absolutely impossible.
Let me tell you about blunt plastic, however… I fell skiing here in France at the end of March and a rounded buckle from my rucksack somehow managed to get under my jacket, tear through my t-shirt, tear through the skin of my back and leave a huge bruise right next to my spine, leaving me bleeding everywhere and requiring five stitches. I was lucky. Clearly, for everyone’s safety, we need to ban rucksacks and plastic buckles.
And skiing, just to be sure! 😉
Well that may mean that some people will learn valuable metal working skills. Seriously, if I couldn’t buy the kitchen knife I wanted, I’d modify one.
That said, my most useful kitchen knife has a sharp point but I reckon someone could do a lot more damage with its edge.
Yes, the white people, even babies, get frisked, humiliated, and blasted with radiation, guards smirking at the naked outlines on the screen, while they wave through anyone wearing a full-length black bin liner.
Presumably Robinson was shouting threats at the Islamist inmates through his cell bars.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35057408/tommy-robinson-charged-harassing-men/
How can a crime “causing fear of violence” exist?”
So, if I venture into a paki area in Oldham, where I genuinely do have a fear of violence, who am I to accuse? If it wasn’t 2025 in Kneel’s la la land I would describe this as unbelievable.
How much money does the UK government borrow, and does it matter? asks the BBC.
UK population is 69,506,254 according to Worldometer; so that debt is more than £40k for each and every man, woman, child and infant (and others) in the UK.
The comparison with the 20th century is interesting. Two World Wars where our existence as a nation was in doubt – almost any debt would be risked.
Remember: that on top of this debt is whatever we owe in mortgages, car loans, credit cards or milk bills.
That little kid riding around on his bike (not at school) owes £40k. That drunk on the park bench owes £40k. That couple downing their methadone at the pharmacy owe £40k each. None of those are able to help pay down the debt… so we have to pay ours and theirs.
This is why our government should not take on more debt – but also why they will.
That’s a problem for future Homer. Man! I wouldn’t want to be that guy.
“Trump shames South African president by playing ‘white genocide’ video”
Thanks to the courage and tenacity of Elon Musk in bringing this to the US President’s attention, white farmers in South Africa are now being welcomed as genuine refugees in America, shaming almost all the other countries of the West, except Australia.
Some public comments in the Mail:
—“Almost everyone in SA knows people who were killed for racial reasons. My family and I go there every summer and it’s 100% true. In Jo’berg, white people can’t even walk after dark, even 15 minutes after the sun goes down, in safe areas. Many of the SA people are very kind and on the rare occasion when dinner goes long and we’re outdoors, we are approached and asked if we need help. It’s that dangerous for whites there. I love the country, I love the people, but the country is so utterly corrupt, even the blacks (as they call themselves) aren’t safe.”
—“Excellent. It’s about time the truth and scope of the genocide of whites that is happening in South Africa came out. Well done for having the bottle to do this, Trump.
And to think SA is complaining about Israel!”
—“Kudos to President Trump. Mass genocide of white farmers in South Africa was ignored by both the Biden and Obama administrations. It’s been a disgrace. Then political amnesty was denied to them as monthly Haitians and Venezuelans were flown over here for asylum.”
Please see this also, which was omitted from the Daily Mail article completely:
TRUMP hears SHOCKING TESTIMONY from South African golfer on FARM ATTACKS – YouTube