JamesHeartfield
@JamesHeartfield
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Writer and lecturer
Islington, London
Joined January 2009
@spikedonline has been publishing for 25 years this year, and I have been honoured to write for it since it launched. This is an archive of everything I wrote there, on topics from the housing crisis to Imperialism and the politics of commemoration.
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@andrewdoyle_com Trump victory, Meta abandoning fact-checking, US firms dial back DEI policies, Wes Streeting continuing Tory ban on puberty blockers, calls for National Inquiry on grooming gangs, rise of Reform UK/AfD/Meloni.
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@sabra_the Not least for having accidentally taken a hypocritical oath instead of the usual Hippocratic oath.
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@muhammadshehad2 Your heroes held these young women terrified hostages for 468 days and then paraded them like trophies - and you think this makes Israel look bad?.
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@nickwestes That Israelis look on the last 470 days as a terrible tragedy while Hamas’s supporters glory in the bloodshed.
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@Aboujahjah They defended their country against an Hamas attack. What did Hamas achieve apart from putting Gazans in harm’s way?.And please - ‘genocide’? - it’s not a genocide just because you lose a war that you started.
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@PennyRed 'Woke' is a liberal ideology that downgrades the white working class by elevating minority rights over those of the majority.
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@jameson_nicki It’s characteristic of Palestine solidarity in the U.K. - made up of the same poshos whose dads and grandads marched with Mosley.
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@Hezbolsonaro “Israelis are Nazis”? What? And is the sun the moon. The sea the sky? Steel jelly?.You’re talking gibberish.
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@NateB_Panic 82 per cent of those prisoners released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange returned to terrorist activity, including 7 Oct architect Yahya Sinwar.
🚨 Israeli Shin Bet head Ronen Bar presented the following figure to the ministers in the political and security cabinet today: 82% of those released in the Shalit deal returned to terrorism.
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@zarahsultana That’s not true. They proposed an alternate route which the PSC declined. And then they agreed a static protest that the PSC asked for - only for them to breach that agreement by marching out to Trafalgar Square.
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@andreas_krieg You don't think that still firing missiles at Israel and still holding hostages, after it cost you >50,000 deaths, and your territory is still occupied is what strategic failure looks like?.
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@kieran_andrieu The conflict in Gaza is nothing like a genocide. It’s a war, in which Hamas came off worse. There is only 1 reason why people call it a genocide and that is to belittle the genocide of Jews in 1942-5. Nothing has ever been more transparent, you loathsome ghoul.
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@ChrisNineham Great actor - as is Mel Gibson - but I won’t be asking either what I should think about the Middle East, any more than I would go and watch Gilbert Achcar or Einat Wilf on the stage.
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@implausibleblog At any time in the conflict Hamas could have released the hostages and brought the war to an end.
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@MargBarAmerica The richest man in the world is ‘a loser’ - you must be using some different metric to me.
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@cathynewman @Channel4News @elonmusk That’s utterly shameful to be attacking Mark Zuckerberg just at the point that he is explaining that the Biden govt launched police inquiries into his companies because he resisted the administration’s attempts to censor his social media platform.
HOLY SHLIT. Mark Zuckerberg says the Biden admin called his employees and “screamed and cursed” at them to take down Covid/vaccine content. They wanted Meta to censor memes too. When he pushed back, the Biden regime started investigating his companies. “It was brutal.”
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@AbiWilks A deranged attack on 7 Oct 23 led Gazans into a fatal defeat, and the far left in the West reneged on their historic claim to oppose antisemitism. You’re right. There’s no going back to normal after that.
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@_TimBarker The USSR liberated Auschwitz, the USA Buchenwald. Who is it that you think liberated Gaza?.
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@JamesSurowiecki Nationalised farming according to Alfred Sohn Rethel; imposed price controls in 1936, replaced free unions with the German Labour Front - it’s hard not to think of the Nazi economy as a command economy, even if it was chaotically organised.
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@AlexSnowdon8 @YvetteCooperMP If that was true the demonstrators would have accepted the police’s proposed revision of their route.
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@CloverSevenLeaf @PeyotePyro Get out of the women’s changing room you sad pervert. We were asked how ‘woke’ subordinates the rights of the majority to the minority, and you have demonstrated. Muted.
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@IhabHassane @EylonALevy These men are all in uniform carrying assault rifles, jostling their female captives.
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@AyoubKhanMP That depends, when the perpetrators racialise the victims, then religion or ethnicity might indeed be pertinent.
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@DillyHussain88 You’re asking the wrong question. Israel was attacked and they defended themselves. The real question is what did Hamas achieve other than sacrificing the lives of 50,000 Gazans, and destroying their homes?.
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@RmSalih They abjectly failed to offer any defence for the civilian population, having pushed them into a war they did not choose. The Al-Aqsa Flood will go down in history as the most cynical - but largely pointless - waste of life.
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@ZackPolanski Your demonstration organisers were offered options to march or just rally, but broke the promises they made to police. You had nothing to say when police really did suppress protests in 2020
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@mehdirhasan Really? There seems to be a rather obvious difference between Israeli hostages who were seized opportunistically by a movement that hates Jews, and those arrested for terrorist offences by Israel, a multicultural polity. It’s not hard to unpack the dishonesty in your tweet.
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