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Does Jess Phillips Perform a Sociopathic “Some of My Best Friends are Black” on the Gaza Genocide?

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The Labour pro-Zionist politician, Ms Jess Phillips clung on to her seat in Birmingham Yardley by the tip of her finger tips in the July 2024 UK general election. Her tally was just 700 votes more than her rival, the Workers Party of Britain’s Jody McIntyre. This result was a far cry from her winning margin in the last general election in 2019 of more than 13,000 votes. Naturally in the immediate aftermath of her victory she turned on her adversaries supporters. In her palliate victory speech, Phillips implies that her detractors find it hard to deal to deal with a strong woman. Phillips seems to be hard pressed to understand that McIntryre and admittedly some of his passionate supporters were spurred to enter the election race after seeing the Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer glowingly and cruelly endorse the genocide in Gaza, Palestine in October 2023.

Live on camera, the now victorious British leader, Starmer had endorsed the Zionist army cutting off electricity and water. Furthermore, in the same month he denounced calls for a ceasefire as playing into the hands of HAMAS. More so, it is not lost on many people that Phillips had spent the Jeremy Corbyn years, that is, the years when Corbyn led the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020, undermining his leadership in cahoots with other establishment politicians and also the mainstream media. At one stage she boasted that she blasted one of Corbyn’s long time loyalists, the most racially maligned politician in the UK, Diane Abbott to “f*ck off”. As such, she further cemented her role as a leading darling of the Westminster elite when she claimed she would solemnly “knife” [Jeremy Corbyn] “in the front”.

The genocide in Gaza has now claimed the lives of tens of thousands lives and visited total destruction on the Gaza strip. Continue reading →

Was Malcolm X a political Islamist?

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As the legacy of Malcolm X became more mainstream, many people from different political backgrounds jumped out of their seats to claim he represented their political trend and their political trend alone. Among the most vocal to claim his legacy are political Islamists. The only way we can assess if Malcolm X became an Islamist or his political trajectory was heading towards that direction is to unpack what he said or did not say after his split with Elijah Muhammad’s ‘Nation of Islam’ (NOI). It goes without saying that for as long as he was a member of the NOI he was the leading advocate of its distinctive cultural, social, economic and political theology and/or ideology.

First of all what do we mean by Islamism and/or radical political Islam? According to the scholar Oliver Roy in a study for the United Nations, Islamism “is the brand of modern political Islamic fundamentalism which claims to recreate a true Islamic society, not simply by imposing sharia, or Islamic law, but by first establishing an Islamic state through political action.” Earlier in the study he had unpacked and defined ‘fundamentalism’ as “a call for the return of all Muslims to the true tenets of Islam (or what is perceived as such): this trend is usually called “salafism” (“the path of the ancestors”).” Individuals who uphold this ideology are referred to as Islamists of one variety or another.

Split with NOI

Malcolm X’s split with the NOI began with a suspension for ninety days following his now famous comment, “chickens coming home to roost” with regard to the  assassination of President Kennedy on the 2nd December 1963.[1] The NOI hierarchy had previously sent out instructions Continue reading →

New Statesman: Invoking Destiny, Circumventing History.

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As the bombs rain on Gaza, the latest edition of the New Statesman magazine, Great Britain’s main weekly centre-left magazine, defined the Palestinian struggle against Zionist colonisation and aggression as a “conflict between two peoples destined to claim ownership of the same land.”

The editorial obviously doesn’t enunciate how and why it became the ‘destiny’ of Palestinians to have been ethnically cleansed from their land and killed in their thousands (i.e. “conflict”) in what was initially a British imperialist project. But the New Statesman’s editorial in November 1917 endorsing the Balfour Declaration certainly does shed an incredible dose of light on how this destiny materialised. Continue reading →