#british parliament

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Gerald Kaufman (1930-2017🙏🏼🌹🕊️), British MP, speaking from the rostrum of Parliament in 2009.

Gerald Kaufman was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants. Born in the UK, Kaufman was one of the country's most famous Jewish politicians. He was also a fervent critic of Israel, calling for sanctions against the Jewish state for its policies towards the Palestinians, and comparing Israeli soldiers to Nazis.

For years, Kaufman has been one of Britain's most outspoken critics of Israel.

In April 2002, at the start of Israel's Operation Rampart to halt the wave of suicide bombings in the country's cities, Kaufman declared Israel an "international pariah" and accused then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of ordering "his troops to use barbaric methods against the Palestinians", according to the BBC.

Kaufman, who was Foreign Secretary between 1987 and 1992, told the House of Commons in 2002 that it was "time to remind Sharon that the Star of David belongs to all Jews and not to his repulsive government. His actions sully the Star of David with blood."

In 2004, in an editorial published in the Guardian, he called for economic sanctions against Israel similar to those used against South Africa.

In 2009, during the war between Israel and Hamas, Operation Cast Lead, he accused Israel of exploiting Holocaust guilt to justify its actions in the Gaza Strip.

"The current Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the guilt of gentiles [non-Jews] after the murder of Jews during the Holocaust as justification for its murders of Palestinians," Kaufman had declared before Parliament.

Speaking of his personal history as the son of Jewish refugees from Poland, he had said that "my grandmother was in bed, sick, when the Nazis came to her town. A German soldier shot her in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza."

Kaufman had compared Hamas fighters to Jewish resistance fighters in the Second World War, claiming that "Israeli army spokesman Major Leibovich was asked about Israeli murders of, at the time, 800 Palestinians. The total is now 1,000. She replied instantly that '500 of them were militants'. That's the response of a Nazi. I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw ghetto could have been considered militants."

His opposition to Israel has persisted with age. In 2012, he had written an editorial published by the Huffington Post claiming that Israel was a "rogue state", and that the fact that Israel is a democracy "means that the Israeli electorate is complicit in its government's war crimes."

In 2015, he had told the Palestine Return Centre, a Hamas-affiliated association, that "Jewish money" was the reason why British Conservatives were pro-Israel.

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J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834

J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1835

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#OTD in 1981 – Bobby Sands was elected to Westminster in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone by-election, while on hunger strike in Long Kesh Prison, as MP for the constituency.

Shortly after the beginning of the strike, Frank Maguire, the Independent Republican MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, died suddenly of a heart attack, precipitating the April 1981 by-election. The sudden vacancy in a seat with a nationalist majority of about five thousand was a valuable opportunity for Bobby Sands’ supporters to unite the nationalist community behind their campaign. Pressure…

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Although some have been proficient since the beginning, and made sure their names are pronounced correctly, like Benedict Cumberbatch, some have not been able to get people to pronounce their names correctly even after being in the business for decades – like Charlize Theron. And some, like Timothée Chalamet, just don’t care what name you call them by.

Here are five celebrity names, including Charlize Theron, that you have probably been pronouncing wrong all this time.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron, while being interviewed by Piers Morgan, once revealed how her name should actually be pronounced. Saying her name in Afrikaans, she said that her name is actually pronounced as “Shar-lis Throne.”

Saoirse Ronan

We don’t blame you, Irish names are difficult to pronounce for anyone who is not an Irish themselves. Back in 2017, during her Saturday Night Live opening monologue, Saoirse Ronan taught everyone how to pronounced her name, which is  “Sur-sha.”

Also included in this farce:

Syphilis Murphy

The Swedenborgians, Jake Gyllenhaal (& Maggie Gyllenhaal)

Emily Ratjkowski, whomever that is

Say hello to cult tool, and stenographer, Swagata Das. Shameful.

Has anyone ever seen anything this fucking low class and petty? Only, usually from Fandomwire, is it this bad. A magazine, supposedly started by Reilly Johnson, a young man in a wheelchair. But given we all now know two things: That Stephen Hawking was a pedophile and a creep AND because of the Doctor Who Davros shitstorm, that saying people in wheelchairs cannot be villains.... I name Reilly Johnson of Harrisburg, PA, where the magazine is located, as either being a complete Nazified asshole OR...someone else runs the business, and uses him as cover, to deflect. I think it's past time for the public to know which.

No one who puts out petty shit for traffickers, like Scientology and the criminals connected to Soho House, is of good character. As for the article, as usual, the Hollywood Mob decided to highlight aka promote the talent that they control.

I think I speak for everyone sane, when I say I don't want cultist, Charlize Theron, anywhere NEAR a Doctor Strange film. Scrap it and come up with something new.

I'm glad that Ben won't be there to put butts in the seat for Scientology Tool, Timothee Chalamet, because that is the only way I would ever pay for one of his movies.

NOW I get the big deal with trying to make fetch happen with Saoirse Ronan, for years. She's Irish, and they even tried to get a boost by using David Tennant in one of her films. McAvoy, Knightly AND Cumberbatch were used in another film, for the same reason, weren't they? To try and boost Ronan.

As for Syphilis Murphy....nobody fucking cares or is comfortable around that creepy-looking cheat.

I don't want to see any of these fuckers. I want a decent, good, even GREAT Benedict Cumberbatch film, because HE'S the one with real talent. DO NOT shove mid listers, propped up by mobster billionaires, in my fucking face.

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it was the POOR PEOPLE who did not get the emergency alert

people with sim cards that use the "three" network such as three or smarty (like i use), did NOT receive the emergency alert test today. these networks are known for being a lot cheaper than other networks such as O2. the government is once again prioritising those who can afford more expensive mobile data as these are the people that vote for them. this is essentially the government saying that the working classes are second rate citizens that do not deserve to be warned of fires, floods, or terrorist threats near them. do NOT vote conservative if you wish to be allowed to know if your life is in danger.

this system is meant to warn you of fires, floods, terrorist threats, and other danger. this is not a privilege it is a right.

vote for a party that does not discriminate (hard to find these days i know).

take the tories out of power.

public safety is a right not a privilege.

I hate asking for reblogs but we NEED people to know that the government does not care about them. people NEED to know that the government will leave you to die.

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Elvis Costello is a British MP.

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To all the people who say they want Queen Elizabeth II to die right now, that wouldn't be an improvement:

Boris would definitely use the whole State Funeral process to put his ego front and centre in a stomach churning display.

The fuss would be far too helpful as distractions from skeletons in anyone's closet and would distract the Civil Service from the actual business of government.

Boris has only resigned as Party Leader. The Party Leader of the ruling party is Prime Minister but the whole thing operates on an honour system. However British Law says that, if Boris refuses to go and Parliament has a vote of No Confidence, the Queen can actually chuck him out...an appealing thought if not for the negative consequences of that level of chaos.

Anyway! Queen dying right now? Not a good thing.

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everyday my government does some dumb ass shit to piss me off i swear

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Damn England really lost two Lizs in the past two months.

That's got to be tragic. 😔

Now they don't know who to Truss. 😌

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CONTENT WARNING: CONVERSATION ABOUT C*L*NIALISM, RA**SM, GEN**IDE, GENERATIONAL TR**MA.

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I want to take a anti-oppressive approach to the situation with the Queen.

Don't mourn her, it spits in the face of those she directly and indirectly harmed.

I did forget to also post about the genocidal treatment of the Australian Aboriginal peoples, since I had made this post quickly and on Instagram story. The Australian Aboriginal peoples were pushed out of their lands through means of and genocide, and their culture repressed though stealing away children from their mothers because they were seen as unfit.

The British crown is the physical face of oppression for millions of people. The Queen and parliament made irreparable, irreversible and incredibly impactful decisions for the course of other people's lives and never faced or even acknowledged the consequences. I can't and won't mourn the death of someone who created and benefited from the pain and exploitation of others.

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a real thing that happened on my youtube home page

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Ok but why is my entire dashboard The Legend of Zelda (a game I do nOt play) and the fall of the british government (a country I do nOt live in)

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible