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 Abuqamar shared a video of her revealing to a crowd of protestors that her visa has been revoked – she said: “I do not regret standing up for my people and advocating for their right to resist oppression, as prescribed by international law, and I will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.”
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These morons must have thoroughly enjoyed the Corona Fascism and Medical Nazism. I am convinced that half the pop are libtard fascists who cry for the ‘good old days’ of the Corona plandemic totalitarianism.
How is that massive spend in ‘public education’ working out?
Maybe. Or maybe they see our democracy as the sham it is.
Maybe it says more about our democracy than it does about Gen Z.
Or maybe it’s a young person thing. 40 or 50 years ago, how many young people thought Soviet communism wasnt such a bad thing and maybe better than the system at the time?
Those ex Communists like Robert Lindsay from My Family are now running the show. What about the confounding factors like people wanting a revolution, not all of them want a dictatorship. Many on here say change won’t happen at the ballet box.
Good point about “democracy”, but young people don’t really know enough yet to come to any conclusions about almost everything.
In the early days of the first Lockdown I was baffled by how quickly the young around me volunteered to be Covid Marshalls and Lockdown Enforcers, while the elderly were far more likely to be relaxed about the whole hysteria around them. It was especially puzzling in the case of students, who seemed to tolerate being imprisoned in halls of residence, yet who wanted ever more stringent lockdowns and mandatory vaccinations. Somehow, nobody wants to talk about what they did during the Plandemic, especially not the Karens.
You stole my thunder there. All they did was push a fence down when they were herded like cattle into their ‘zones’. And the buggers paid for the pleasure!
They’ve been brought up on ‘safetyism’ and a zero risk society concept, which, as we all know is a) total bollocks and b) totally pointless – life is for living, risks and all
Years ago I got into a discussion with someone who was passionately opposed to Brexit. When I mentioned that Brexit was democracy in action he said he’d rather have a “good” government rather than a democratic one. People wanting a dictator that share’s their views isn’t new.
And they want to give the vote to 16 year old’s.
This is a good point. There are far more young people who believe in the ideological promises of socialism and the dictatorial style of government that comes with it (albeit with a democratic veneer). Sooner or later people drift to the right as decades of life experience demonstrate all the reasons why most of the ideas on the left simply don’t work. So lowering the voting age is simply a strategy to lower the average voting age in an attempt by left wing parties to secure more votes.
Proof, if it were needed, that 79.48% of statistics are made up on the spot. Which is appropriate given how meaningless they are.
40% of those in the photo are likely descended from parents that are familiar with military dictatorships and ‘strong man’ politics.
Oh! Racist!
Ha! See what you did there.
Looking at the photo they don’t look like bad people. Maybe they’re smiling a bit too effusively given the state of things but it would be mean-spirited to hold that against them. The desire for the strong leader is nothing new. I am Generation X and the love of the authoritarian personality was much stronger in my parent’s generation. Many of them believed in the death penalty, corporal punishment, no sentimentality when it came to killing animals or giving the wife a slap. These attitudes had softened by my time and I expect that they have softened more now. I don’t see anything wrong or retrograde about this generation of young people.
All these kids are crying out for limits to be set.
Sounds like their parents never set any boundaries.
They should do a bit more reading. I can recommend Heller and Nekrich’s sarcastically titled “Utopia in Power: A History of the USSR”. Then they’ll find out what dictatorship really means.
Or maybe Gulag Archipelago.
Wouldn’t they be “triggered” by it, though?
You could see the totalitarian impulse as the heart and origin of western philosophy. Karl Popper pointed out that Plato’s Republic could be seen as a key totalitarian text. Plato admitted later in The Laws that the world he described in The Republic was a world fit for Gods, not achievable but this belief in rule by an elite isn’t irrational although it could be said to be naive. So it would be wrong to criticise young people for such views as they are only just beginning their intellectual journey. Consider the things that you believed when you were eighteen years old.
Personally I hold accountable the silicon chip.
Too much pull-down menu thinking, not enough educating how to think.
It is a low blow to just attack young people and worse than that it is a sign that you have bought into this idea that out reproduction is useless and just breeds monsters. If you are talking this way then you aren’t coming from a position of light. You know that this stuff will be red meat to people of a certain ilk and you are happy to lay it out and watch them abuse their own children when we need more children and fecundity and faith in the future than ever in a time like this one.
I’m hugely sceptical of polls, even when they do confirm my bias, as it’s very easy to read too much into them, especially when they consistently poll just a small number of people and that’s supposed to be representative of millions. I shared Connor Tomlinson’s take on this earlier but here’s a good analysis and it comes sans paywall. It also touches on at least a few of the reasons that we’re seeing birthrates plummet. Only being able to afford a shoebox apartment ( if you’re lucky enough to move out from your parents’ house in the first place ), often with extortionate rent because you’re unable to buy, is not conducive to starting a family. People just didn’t have these same concerns in previous generations;
”Why are the youth suddenly in revolt against democracy? Perhaps the blame lies with the more reactionary and authoritarian instincts of young men, something seen in November’s US presidential election. Perhaps these findings reflect elite progressive attitudes, cultivated on university campuses, and turbo-charged by the electoral successes of candidates and causes anathema to younger voters, such as Donald Trump and Brexit. Or perhaps we are seeing a backlash against that very elite progressivism, and younger voters are signalling their affinity with a right-wing counter elite, embodied in movements like post-liberalism, common good conservatism and nationalism.
All reasonable interpretations, but allow me to suggest an alternative: this is less to do with politics than with economics. Consider the position younger voters find themselves in. Only 37 per cent of those born in the 1980s achieved home ownership by age 30, compared to 62 per cent of those born in the 1960s. An average-priced house in England today costs 8.6 times the average annual income, up from 4.4 times in 1999. New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows that the proportion of 25 to 34-year-olds still living with their parents increased by more than a third between 2006 and last year. Especially frustrating for those desperate to get on the housing ladder is the frequency with which new developments are blocked, often off the back of lobbying by older home owners, all the while these young workers are being taxed onerously to fund generous state pensions for those obstructionist retirees.”
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-no-surprise-that-democracy-is-losing-its-appeal/
I share your scepticism.
Well at least they seem to want a right wing dictatorship.
O/T: have the BBC switched to using “Gulf of America” yet? They are usually very quick to use new geographical names (such as Beijing, Myanmar, Chennai and Uluru) as soon as a new regime comes to power.
They don’t have a stake in the future and they are painfully aware of that. You are nothing without owning your own house. In Medieval Spain they used to say that a man without land is no man at all and it is true. This is a huge shift and it is happening all over the world. It is interesting to speculate about what train of events will come about to remedy this situation because it will have to be remedied in the very near future.
There is something about them that acknowldeges that after a period of turbulence then things will be beautiful and healthy and shiny again. That’s the spirit. I admire their stoicism when I was growing up everything was easy in terms of money, jobs etc. They have nothing and they make something beautiful. I visited Serbia where they had 50 percent youth unemployment and the young Serbians used their times in the gym improving their bodies and reading expansively. Just project a bright reality in your heart and it will help to create one.
Those Serbian women are on another level like they are a combination of Greek and Russian beauty.
And they aren’t just vacuous sluts. Like you could sit down in a cafe and a woman would sit with you and them maybe request a game of chess and then leave. This is a higher level of civilisation. I never felt that I had to do the babytalk like you have to with some of the women in this country.
This is one of the hidden downsides of living here. If you enter into a romantic relationship it can never be truly free. You have created such ugliness that the imaginaton and the hope lies elsehere. There will always be British romantics that keep the dream alive. Any external force canot contain the energies of this land. If you don’t even bother to address the yearning of the young then you might as well keep your mouth shut. I am for their fire.
Get hold of a good Serbian lass and take her to a house in the Ural mountains in Russia. It will be an enchanting location so full of possibilty that your lass will be like the life force. You must discover a Serbian or Russian bride it will start things anew for you. That is the only hope for you.
Speaking from experience?
In Russia they are offering sanctuary for westerners trying to flee neoliberalism.
I have known these Russian and Serbian women and they know about stuff. You don’t have to do any of the crap talk. And they are charming and beautiful and have their own interests.
A poll for Channel 4, it must be true then.
Yet more reason to not allow children to vote.
They are not even “brainwashed”. They have not lived long enough to be brainwashed. They are simply immature dreamers with no clue about how the world works because they have no experience of anything other than pop groups and mobile phones.
I would urge fellow Sceptics to be mindful as to how frequently ‘The Young’ are used as a cypher for whatever political manoeuvre is on the agenda.
My observation of my own children and their friends is that they are not remotely on board with climate hysteria/woke indoctrination.
Remember, they have been brow beaten and immersed in this madness at school and via the media. Therefore they are sick of the mass hysteria of the older generations.
Therefore I expect that the expressed dissatisfaction is actually with ‘politics as usual’.
something upon which we can all agree
Socialism always appeals to the younger generations, because it promises so much free stuff, with nothing in return.
They don’t have the lived experience to see how fucking awful it really is, but they are seeing it now under Labour, but the true horror has not sunk in just yet!
Many forget that those large houses that they may one day inherit, might be seen as an asset for the state to redistribute.
Of course a dictatorship is best….. as long as I am obeyed to the letter.
“People aged between 13 and 27…” A 13-year-old is barely going to understand the question!
One thing that keeps showing up is that our current system of so called democracy is not fit for purpose. It has and could work but the whole system has been so corrupted by a blind quest for enrichment at any cost and a complete lack of accountability. Unfortunately benevolent dictator is almost an oxymoron.
We already have an elective dictatorship.
I wonder if there’s more to this than just the politics. Could it also be a reflection on their parents’ parenting skills? I see so many parents of young children who simply fail to engage with them in a meaningful way, ignoring their children and talking to friends on their mobiles while they take them out in the pushchair, sitting them down in front of the TV to keep them amused while they get on with something else, or failing to deal with bad behaviour. Perhaps Gen Z consequently feel a genuine need for an adult to establish boundaries and enforce them?
Or is it just that Gen Z are too lazy to think for themselves, and feel a dictatorship would solve that problem?
If the future of the UK is in the hands of Gen Z then heaven help us.
With a dictatorial PM who doesn’t seem to be too keen on parliament or democracy these youngsters are getting a taste of it now I would have thought.