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an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
The reality of the "independent" review telling every school in England to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism: its author, Sir David Bell, was being paid by a government agency while he wrote it, and a pro-Israel charity has listed him on its council for ten years.
The government told the public he was "independent of Government" and had "no conflict of interest". Neither is true.
What we found:
- Bell was paid ยฃ20,000 a year as vice-chair of Skills England, a government agency, in a seat the Department for Education gave him. He held it until August, through most of the review.
- The Academic Study Group on Israel and the Middle East has listed him on its council since at least 2016. Its website says its one firm policy is opposing boycotts of Israel. It gives talks on Israel in schools, which is exactly what his review was asked to judge.
- In 2005, as chief inspector of schools, he singled out Muslim schools as a challenge to "our coherence as a nation". The chairman of the Association of Muslim Schools called it Islamophobia, and his own inspectors said he had presented a personal view as inspection evidence.
Then we followed the money:
- The department's ยฃ1.3 million antisemitism training contract had one bidder, according to the tender record. It went to Palace Yard, a company set up in 2022 by the former Labour MP Natascha Engel.
- That contract says all its training must use the IHRA definition "as a foundation". It was signed eight months before Bell was appointed. His review then recommended IHRA.
- Two of the people who advised Bell, from Partnerships for Jewish Schools and the Antisemitism Policy Trust, now sit on the group putting his recommendations into practice.
- The Union of Jewish Students, also on that group, holds a contract worth almost ยฃ1 million to train universities. Its own policies include "UJS to advocate for Israel within UK Policy and International Law".
- UK Lawyers for Israel* (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism* (CAA) both say the review adopted their recommendations.
*For context, UKLFI once justified the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli occupation as "good for obesity". Both these groups have staunchly defended Israel throughout its perpetration of a genocide in Gaza, and regularly conflate Jewish people with the apartheid state.
This matters because the review decides how every school treats what pupils and teachers say about Israel, and the IHRA definition it recommends treats some criticism of Israel as antisemitic. A review with that power should come from someone with no pay from government and no tie to a pro-Israel charity. Bell had both. The government put one in a footnote and left the other out.
We mapped every link, each with its source, explaining just how far this review is from "independent": newscord.org/editorials/daviโฆ
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
Jeffrey Donaldson was twice UK delegate to childrenโs rights group
An investigation published by The Sunday Times reveals that Donaldson repeatedly sought out positions involving child protection throughout his political career at Westminster.
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an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
Issuing oil drilling licences + blaming wildfires on disposable barbecues = not really taking this seriously.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
ALT It's easy to knock bitcoin, crypto, Joe Rogan, MMA and Jordan Peterson, but as a woman I'm very grateful these things exist. Throughout human history, we have never had men advertise their red flags as clearly as they do now by expressing an interest in any of the above. anon_opin GOLD from 6th May 2025
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
My family are from Jerusalem. They live under Israeli occupation in the West Bank and canโt return to the towns they originate from.
But the political correspondent at The Spectator can enter and travel without restrictions.
Is there a word for this?
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
If anyone needs to be deported, itโs this deviant motherfucker right here.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
I'm not going to name the school, but the @BBC's coverage of the antisemitism in schools report featured interviews with children from a Jewish school.
Here's the rub, though.
The school's own published curriculum explicitly teaches Zionism, celebrates the establishment of Israel and describes preparing pupils to become "positive advocates for Israel" at university.
It even references bringing in organisations such as StandWithUs to prepare pupils for that advocacy.
Now, let me be absolutely clear. There is nothing wrong with teaching Jewish history, culture or identity. And antisemitism must be challenged wherever it exists.
But when children are actively encouraged to advocate for a particular state, rather than critically examine its history, policies and actions, surely we have to question whether this is education or ideological conditioning?
And here's the staggering hypocrisy.
We're being told that schools must exercise political impartiality when discussing Palestine, while a school can openly describe preparing children to advocate for Israel.
Political impartiality cannot be a principle applied selectively, depending on which side of a conflict children are encouraged to support.
And the BBC has a responsibility to scrutinise that distinction, not simply present children's views without examining the educational environment in which those views have developed.
Children deserve an education that teaches them how to think, not what to think.
@NEUnion @educationgovuk
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
"Those with a vested interest in sustainable #palmoil are linked in some way. How can anyone say sustainable is OK when it is grow in the ashes of the dead wildlife and burnt forests?" #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife" #Wildlife photographer @CraigJones17 palmoildetectives.com/2021/0โฆ
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
If your first thought when you hear about a serious crime, like a murder or a rape, is 'what nationality was the offender' then don't pretend you're bothered about the victim.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
itโs not an accident that this isnโt all over the media while calling zionism racism is.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
๐จ CONTEXT: 95% of Black British pupils have experienced racism at school, according to a @ymca report in October 2020. 6 years later, no action has been taken on this.
In comparison, the government accepted all 27 recommendations of David Bell's antisemitism study after 1 day.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
If Jewish pupils are feeling upset when they see a Palestinian badge, the correct response is not to erase Palestine from schools--it's to educate those kids that a genocide is taking place and the correct moral position is to oppose it. Anything less is a dereliction of duty.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
Exclusive: The US spytech firm sent letters to British MPs who made critical comments or asked difficult questions in parliament. @harriepw reports. novaramedia.com/2026/10/22/pโฆ
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
The next time Nick Clegg in invited onto BBC to pontificate as an independent tech expertโฆplease note that here he is, named in the $27bn New Mexico judgment as one of execs engaged in a systematic cover-up of Facebookโs deceptive consumer practices.
an Keady cailleach ๐ต๐ธ๐ retweeted
If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6
ALT If there's one UK politician that should stand trial for their crimes against our country it's David Cameron for the EU referendum. Ever since then it's been division, anger, hate and corruption, all triggered by something most people never really cared about in the first place. anon_opin GOLD from 16th September 2024
