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Activist Sameh Habeeb of the Palestine Telegraph has marked Holocaust Memorial Day by publishing a poisonous piece by the Holocaust denier Gilad Atzmon. It is titled “The Holocaust Backfires”.
The true interpretation of the Goldstone report is that Israelis are the Nazis of our time.
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In fact, those world leaders around the world who bowed [...]

This is a cross post by Edmund Standing

The BNP website has announced that BNP Head of Publicity, Mark ‘I am evil’ Collett, is to stand against David Blunkett in Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough.
They’ve put up a short biography, which includes this:
He moved to Leeds to study Business and Economics at Leeds University where he graduated [...]

Amnesty International UK has promoted Moazzam Begg of Cageprisoners for years, right up to a Downing Street publicity stunt earlier this month.
Begg and Cageprisoners in turn have promoted al Qaeda preacher Anwar al Awlaki. Just two weeks ago Begg was still defending him, with this laughable line about what happened after Awlaki’s detention in [...]

In just a couple of interminable hours, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce the company’s latest epoch-shattering iThing.
All indications are it will look something like this.
So will anyone admit to being genuinely excited about it?
UPDATE
It looks like this
Further update: In case anyone hasn’t seen it:

Further to Mikey’s piece below:
Reading Tony Greenstein’s tortured prose is never a pleasant experience. As one might expect, the article is filled with complaints about “lack of democracy” (i.e. the failure of Tony and his handful of mates to influence policy) and accusations of “Stalinism” (i.e. that a more successful and better organised group of Trots [...]

This is a Guest Post by Mikey
I have previously mentioned that Tony Greenstein can be violent. For those not familiar with this character, some background information is in order.
This is the man who is proud to have admitted that he “worked with supporters of the PFLP.” The PFLP is an organisation that pioneered [...]

This is a press release from Nick Lowles from Hope Not Hate
By now, you’d think I’d be used to Nick Griffin’s outrageous remarks.
But the BNP leader’s recent comments about the Haiti relief efforts were truly appalling. Griffin said, “Sending aid to rioting ingrates while our own people die is stinking elite hypocrisy.”
Calling suffering Haitians “rioting [...]

The BNP are not just wrong on race.
Nothing British are currently running an excellent Policy Focus series looking at the real implications of BNP policies:
Policy Focus #1: Why the BNP’s tariffs could cost £1,300 per person
Policy Focus # 2: Why the BNP’s manufacturing plan would lose 8 million jobs
Policy Focus #3: Why closing the City [...]

Well, who could have predicted this?
Israeli police have arrested a rabbi on suspicion of involvement in an arson attack on a mosque last month.
Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira, the head of a Jewish seminary in the settlement of Yitzhar, was arrested after he refused to co-operate, police said.
Mr Shapira denies any involvement in the attack, his lawyer [...]

Well, here’s some good news for the civil liberties of Al Qaeda:
The Supreme Court ruled that the draconian restrictions, imposed by Gordon Brown as Chancellor, breached the human rights of five suspected extremists.
They include Mohammad al-Ghabra, 29, a Syrian-born British citizen living in east London who has been named by the US as a terrorist [...]