The #British #government has been grappling with #question of #extremism for years now. It has failed even to define extremism in any clear #fashion, and has been #struggling to #fight back against an avalanche of criticism that its counter-extremism policies are Islamophobic.
The #British #government has been grappling with #question of #extremism for years now. It has failed even to define extremism in any clear #fashion, and has been #struggling to #fight back against an avalanche of criticism that its counter-extremism policies are Islamophobic.
The #genocide in #Gaza has focused minds in the #British elite, because of the massive #sympathy for the #Palestinians visible on the #streets. The desperate attempts to cast pro-#Palestine protestors as #genocidal is a desperate attempt to #split the #movement.
The #government is trying to reframe “#extremism” in such a way that more #radical supporters of #Palestinian #liberation are demonised, criminalised & disavowed by the rest of the #movement. The #minister leading this is the #toxic Michael Gove, the most pro-#Zionist #minister
in the #government. He has a #history of involvement with Zionist #lobby #groups, and for example, was the first chairman of the Neoconservative and #Islamophobic #thinktank #policy #Exchange. It’s no coincidence that the new #policy he is introducing was dreamt up by