My new book FIXING FRANCE: HOW TO REPAIR A BROKEN REPUBLIC will be published by
@public_affairs
/
@HachetteUS
in Sept & by
@HurstPublishers
UK in Oct 2023. A marginalised insider offers a stark critique of crisis-ridden
#France
& ways to fix it. Pre-order 👉🏽
.
@EmmanuelMacron
wants to limit
#homeschooling
for Muslim children at a time when pretty much all parents are being encouraged to homeschool because of Coronavirus! The message is:
#Muslims
can’t be trusted in private spaces & need constant
#monitoring
.
My piece on
#Algeria
’s triumph at the Africa Cup of Nations & the intricate link between football & the nationalist movement that won independence from
#France
. The
#Fennecs
in Cairo were imbued with an indomitable spirit that they share with their fans.🇩🇿
My OpEd: On the day the free world was celebrating the defeat of the Nazis,
#French
colonial forces massacred 45,000 in the
#Algeria
-n towns of
#S
étif,
#Guelma
&
#Kherrata
. It's the 75th anniversary of a
#genocide
hardly anybody talks about today.
#VEDay
Des extrémistes enseignent qu'il ne faut pas respecter la France. Ils enseignent que les femmes ne sont pas l'égal des hommes, que les petites filles ne doivent pas avoir les mêmes droits que les petits garçons.
Je vous le dis très clairement : pas chez nous.
After a peaceful pro-
#independence
demonstration in
#Paris
on
#17October1961
,up to 300
#Algerians
were murdered by police. Historians described this
#massacre
as “the bloodiest act of state repression of street protest in western Europe in modern history”.
Two Jordanian students-brother and sister-attacked in the city of Angers,
#France
. ‘Why are you speaking Arabic? Why aren’t you speaking French in France?' ‘Go back to your own country. What are you doing here?’
Prosecutors confirmed attack was 'racially motivated'.
#Islamophobia
« Pourquoi vous parlez arabe puisque vous êtes en France, revenez à votre pays, qu’est-ce que vous faites ici ».
Deux étudiants Jordaniens agressés à Angers, l’ambassade demande des explications.
#Macron
’s message to
#Israel
: “Civilians are bombed - de facto. These babies, these ladies, these old people are bombed and killed. So there is no reason for that and no legitimacy. So we do urge Israel to stop”.
#Gaza
My piece on how the
#Macron
administration uses chemical weapons to subdue the
#GiletsJaunes
. Never mind that tear gas is banned in warzones by intl treaties - in France there is apparently nothing to prohibit officers of the law pouring it into crowds.
Very moving article about the great aunt and uncle of
@MichaelRosenYes
who died in the
#Holocaust
after being entrained from
#Paris
to Auschwitz in 1943. Michael has spent years researching their story and is publishing a book about them.
IN MEMORIAM - On this day in 1961: The most murderous episode in the
#French
capital's postwar history, when up to 300 peaceful
#Algerian
protesters were slaughtered in cold blood by police around iconic monuments and drowned in the Seine river.
My piece:
Note how
@EmmanuelMacron
says he's not attacking
#Muslims
per se and then attacks them over gender equality. The way he's clearly trying to set himself up as an "us French" (chez nous) civilised person compared to the "savages" is obscene!
#IslamophobiaFrance
@AlJazeera_World
"We are deeply worried about current attempts to silence a public discussion of what happened in
#Palestine
& to the Palestinians in 1948,when the majority of its people were forcibly expelled."There's a "disturbing absence of key information about these past ¤t injustices"
84 anti-racist and BAME community organisations have signed a letter against Labour adopting full IHRA.
Mainstream outlets won’t cover this – unless you all make it impossible for them not to
#PalestineSpeakUp
Banned pro-
#Palestine
🇵🇸
#demonstration
gathering in
#Paris
🇫🇷now calling for peace & a
#ceasefire
. In a protest nation par excellence if you disagree with the message, then just ban it and get authoritarian forces out.
#Gaza
Embarrassing defense of Toby Young by
@Freddygray31
on
@SkyNews
.Great job by
@KayBurley
for holding him to account.Young is not the victim of the "mob" - otherwise known as democratic expression.He's an extremist/misogynist pretending to be a cool contrarian & has been found out!
Another Palestinian journalist in Gaza killed by Israel, Mohammed Abu Hattab and 11 members of his family were killed in Khan Younis, SOUTH of Gaza, where residents were told to flee too. This is his death being announced on TV. You don't need to understand Arabic, just watch.
My Column: How the French president
@EmmanuelMacron
is delivering lines straight out of a Donald
#Trump
fake news generator and uses eugenics parlance to spread collective guilt about entire
#Muslim
communities, including children.
#FakeNews
#Eugenics
It took the killing of seven brave foreign aid workers for
#Britain
to issue this kind of weasel words as it’s not suspending its arms sales to the
#genocidal
#Israel
-i regime.
20,000
#Palestinian
protest peacefully in the
#GreatReturnMarch
in besieged
#Gaza
calling for the right of return for Palestinian refugees.They were met w heavily armed
#Israeli
soldiers & drone technology that rains tear gas,killing 15 & injuring +1,200
#FreePalestine
#أنا_راجع
Lovely Saturday afternoon in
#Paris
, but the authorities are concentrating on gassing everybody, tourists included. Been like this all day.
#GiletsJaunes
My piece on
#Netanyahu
’s visit to
#Paris
: His portrayal of all
#Palestinian
demonstrators — including medical staff, journalists, the disabled and children — as “terrorists” fell on deaf ears.
My Op-Ed: In
#France
, we are furious about the
#AstraZeneca
suspension &
#Macron
’s confrontational power play. Our president appears to have little interest in promoting the products of Brexit Britain,no matter how important they are to defeating
#Covid19
.
Meanwhile,
@EmmanuelMacron
pretends to be "civilised" and "reasonable". But he's neither because he is supporting vile hate-spreading material while pretending that the vast majority of French people love this filth because it makes them French! Extremely dangerous.
#CharlieHebdo
On this day 25 years ago four
#NationalFront
supporters murdered
#BrahimBouarram
. He was tossed into the Seine to drown. The
#LePen
family was taking part in their party’s annual
#MayDay
tribute to Joan of Arc, just as they did today. I wrote about it:
France 🇫🇷 isn’t just romantic and revolutionary-it’s also deeply flawed. My new book
#FixingFrance
is an unflinching, original exposé that offers unique insight into a crisis-ridden country from a very different perspective to the establishment elites. *OUT TODAY* in 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦! 🧵
Note too
@EmmanuelMacron
's reckless weasel words: he says "they attributed to me that I support the
#cartoons
" (as if it was a lie) and then he says "I support... being able to draw freely" - Thus claiming he's not saying what he is in fact saying!
#CharlieHebdo
#Hate
@AJArabic
My Op-Ed on why
@EmmanuelMacron
needs to apologise for France's
#colonial
crimes in
#Algeria
: the Algeria question is about so much more than the
#war
– it has come to define the nature of modern
#France
, and particularly its prejudices and inequalities.