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True. I didn't say that, though. Bit of bad faith there, what a shame.

The 'history of the Jewish people' as you so carefully put it is one determined by atrocities, pogroms and genocide carried out in Europe. The history of Palestine before 1918 was reasonably harmonious coexistence of Muslims, Christians and Jewish inhabitants. That all changed only with Zionism.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 9h

I think it's what springs from the "there must be a Jewish state" eg the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in '48 because Jews weren't a majority in the territory of what became Israel. Also the refusal to relinquish the West Bank but unable to offer its inhabitants equal rights for the same reason.

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 10h

Despite access to media training, Badenoch's voice has a "You can't tell me what to do. You're not my real dad" stroppy tone to it.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 04/10/2026

Might possibly add Yemen to that....

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 04/10/2026

are weak, small statelets pop up in the Levant and the Gulf, last for 100, perhaps 200 years and then vanish again. Only Egypt, Iraq and Iran are permanent. "We don't have to do anything about Israel, Iran will simply outlast them as it has all the others".

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 04/10/2026

That seems unlikely in the short term. In the meantime there are millions of Palestinians whose lives are blighted daily. Re short term, once spoke to an Iranian who said historically there's only three areas in the ME that are permanent: Egypt, Iraq and Iran. From time to time, when those three

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 04/10/2026

The sucks seem to land on the Palestinians more often than not. Israel won't tolerate a Palestinian state. But because of Zionism, they can't give Palestinians equal rights as this would risk the Jewish character of Israel. Now what. And what does violent control of a people do to Israeli democracy?

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 28/09/2026

And yet, black shirts can march with balaclavas intimidating people and no arrests are made. BBC News - More than 50 Palestine Action support rally protesters arrested - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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More than 50 Palestine Action support rally protesters arrested

More than 250 protesters sat outside Labour's party conference in Liverpool to support the banned group.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 23/09/2026

Oh great. He can be arrested and sent to The Hague.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 23/09/2026

Another one for the mute box...

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 23/09/2026

I'm not defending any state, least of all one who's all too aware of its historical failings. I'm defending an experienced journalist making the point 1933 isn't the same as 2027. You're American and so your education obvs is lacking, but some kind of reading comprehension would be helpful.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 23/09/2026

Esp delicious from a USian whose nation was founded on stolen land in slavery and genocide, who are plundering the wealth of their neighbours (Venezuela, anyone?) as we speak and whose 'people', when faced with a choice between a rapist and accomplished black woman picked the rapist. No offence.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 22/09/2026

That would indicate that Germany and its republic in 2026 is essentially the same as Weimar in 1930 (ah, those *chartered* waters) which of course it isn't. Unless you believe there's something uniquely flawed in Germans and this is why the same sh*t keeps happening. That'd be a bit racist, tbh.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 22/09/2026

Well, as you hint it seems unlikely that she needed school to understand how Nazism works, so you have to ask yourself who's the real thicko here: the highly experienced Europe correspondent or some food critic.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 22/09/2026

The referendum is done. It told us to leave the EU. We left. Done. It never said anything about never rejoining again.

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Easy to forget that the reset (now in its third year!) is both a British govt idea, and entirely optional.

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A Voice in Detroit @thevoiceindetroit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

He didn't do the stutter "Just for fun." He did it because he was making fun of his younger brother who actually had a stutter. It originally wasn't even intended to be released to the public.

stutteringhelp.org

B.T.O's Song Is Unique

Editor's Note: The author is a person who stutters. For many years he has been a collector of "stuttering" songs – the good and the bad!

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The EU has delivered greater stability across the continent, greater mobility for its citizens, and a single market that gives Europe global economic weight. An honour to hear President von der Leyen address the European Parliament today as we build a deeper partnership for the future.

Prime Minister Carney visits the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 16/09/2026

Knuckles clearly sang like a bird.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 16/09/2026

Welcome to Free Piddington. Population: 350. Surnames: 4.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 15/09/2026

Would that convince the EU, though? Because that’s really the only question that matters.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 15/09/2026

“Ok ni wedder recht wat dot bleeven”

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 14/09/2026

It's the 'cold handovers' you have to worry about #morgue

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 13/09/2026

People are sharing the French video of what a world would look like if all the immigrants were deported. OK but (a) you’re preaching to the choir and (b) it’s obviously AI generated so what you’re doing by reposting it is spreading AI slop without changing minds.

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Days apart. -Burnham doesn’t cap donations. -Reform get record donations. In addition: - Voter ID will remain (needlessly), it’s estimated that 400k were denied a vote in 2024 as a result - Proportional Representation not part of the “Representation of the People” bill making it an oxymoron

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 12/09/2026

That's ok then. They had it coming. Especially the children. Ah, Israel, how far have you sunk. You are, with all due respect, a swine.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 12/09/2026

What, like killing 70000+ in Gaza?

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 11/09/2026

There should have been an "It is what it is" option.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel this increasingly strongly. If the Labour party want to damn themselves by going "oooh, but the electoral calculation-" before having the balls to speak out against racism, that's up to them, but I think we should be saying this shit is wrong *even if it doesn't change a single damn thing*

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 10/09/2026

That's a good point - also Hungary though that may be the impact of very low numbers, I guess. And as I said, Finland's education system is supposed to be the envy of the world.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 10/09/2026

3 genders. 4 cases. Declension of pronouns & adjectives. 'With' followed by Dative, 'in' either Accusative or Dative, 'für' always by Accusative. 'In eineM kleineN Haus', 'in ein kleineS Haus", "Das kleinE Haus'. Germans get it right because getting it wrong sounds wrong. Not because they know why.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 10/09/2026

Hmmm, also perhaps an indication at the difficulty in acquiring the local language? Finland's supposed to have an excellent education system but a fiendish difficult language to learn. Icelandic ain't easy and German grammar is a nightmare.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026

London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. That’s the danger of disinformation. We cannot accept it, and to defeat it, we’ve got to put pressure on the social media companies who profit from it.

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 09/09/2026

My view, for what it's worth, is that it's not healthy for a democracy to rule by force over a subjugated population. If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you, and all that.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For those still learning about Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD, here are the salient facts:

INTELLIFACTS
ALICE WEIDEL BECOMES THE FIRST LEADER IN THE WORLD WHO IS ANTI-IMMIGRATION BUT HAS AN IMMIGRANT WIFE, IS ANTI-LGBTQ+ BUT IS A LESBIAN HERSELF, OPPOSES LGBT ADOPTION BUT HAS ADOPTED TWO CHILDREN, AND IS A HARDCORE GERMAN NATIONALIST BUT LIVES IN SWITZERLAND

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

oh my god they're gonna kill their own bounce in under a month aren't they

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Norbert Lieckfeldt @lieckfeldt.net · 07/09/2026

They would have a majority but not the power to be as awful as they wanted as Germany has a constitution, the first 20 articles of which are essentially guarantees of human rights which "bind the legislature, the executive and the judiciary as directly applicable law" and which cannot be amended.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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