It's fecking ridiculous, holding Israeli flags and some IDF ones as well. There is a person with a sign right in that video saying "Anti Zionism - Terrorism".
Nigel Farage - Reform leader
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But it wasn't the Jewish community heckling? There were a small number of protestors from the video.
He hasn’t got a fecking clue. If you are voting for this you are literally a moron.
The fact that they were waving the isreal flag does make think these are paid plants, let's face it isreal are well known for meddling in British politics, they basically fund tommy ten names for God sake but most people watching these clips will take it at face value that starmer is somehow anti jew and farage is the man of the Jewish people...
I'm not denying that. I'm not comfortable with describing them as the Jewish community. They are not the community. They may be members of the community or communities, but that doesn't mean they are speaking for them.
Farage may not have been heckled in his video but that's not representative. For one he usually is surrounded by his own goons and would not interact with people but aim to get a staged event without interruption. The BBC interviewed at least one other person present who identified as left leaning, who didn't heckled, but still wanted the PM and government to do more.
For another he isn't the PM and doesn't have any power - the people heckling the PM are at least focusing on the person who actually could take decisions to improve security. We may disagree with them, but it does at least make sense.
For another another Farage has been heckled plenty of times in recent weeks and months, including by Jewish activists in London accusing him of racism. If he evaded shouts today that doesn't mean he isn't being held to account by members of the public:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/11/nigel-farage-heckled-reform-jewish-alliance-launch
I just think it's important to be careful with our language here, and to avoid even unintentionally classifying thousands of people the same way.
There was the same chap on BBC News and LBC yesterday, a rabbi apparently, who said he got the notification of the attack while he was at Auschwitz and then unironically compared the situation in the UK to 1930s Germany. On LBC he also passively implied calling Israel’s campaign against Gaza a genocide was antisemitic because it’s ‘nothing like the holocaust’.
I agree however that is what is being reported in the media and that is what people are seeing. Whether they are activists or not, they haven’t been disowned by the Jewish community there. Farage got to tell everyone how support he was by the Jewish community and got hos media spotlight ahead of the elections.
In terms of the PM, I’m not sure what those people want him to do. He’s been pro Jewish with his decisions and people have a right to protest the war on Israel. The Jewish community seem to have got more recognition and attention then all of the other communities. There needs to be a crackdown on all racist behaviour for all communities not just one community.
when will labour learn that bowing to zionist and the far right is not helping them in anyway, no matter how much they bend over backwards with policies to appease these group of people is never going to be good enough and in turn has just alienated their core base of left leaning supporters and have left them in not man's land politically.
I have probably derailed this Farage thread enough so I will be brief, and I appreciate your response.
What I would say is this:
Does a community have to disown small groups of unrepresentative protestors, or individual actors? I worry about asking communities to do that, mostly because we have heard consistent demands from right wing and far right media for the 'Muslim community' to disown acts committed by individuals.
As an aside, we may be assuming the protestors were Jewish. They may not have been. There are millions of non Jews who support Israel, the IDF and are Zionists (example one being Luke Akehurst).
The problem here is the media reporting primarily. Zack Polanski apologising for a tweet is front page news today, and Farage gets another pass.
I'd also say that campaigning against anti Semitism and for the safety of the Jewish communities does not mean anyone has to deny, evade or dismiss other forms of virulent racism. It should be perfectly possible to do both.
I think there is a wider societal problem with underreporting and dismissing Islamophobia and other racisms. Farage does this.
I think historical and contemporary Jew hatred is endemic. It is another form of structural and institutional racism. What is unhelpful is the calls for Palestine marches to be banned, whilst Tommy Robinson's mob get to march. The virulent far right anti Semitism doesn't get anywhere near as much prominence, which is itself a form of whitewashing racism.
So ultimately I get my objection here is to the framing of certain types of language, and a claim that we should be able to speak fairly about Jew hatred whilst also being able to campaign against other racisms, and against states who conduct genocide.
I appreciate your response and it’s definitly a topic which needs further discussion. But perhaps for a different thread.
Every single Jewish person I have met will vote Reform because of their fear/hatred of islam. In the same way I am sure many Muslims right now will vote Green because of Reform.
Coward.
Standard procedure, then the BBC will still be in a rush to wheel him back out again when he can go on the attack.
He’s also piss terrified of Polanski, so not surprised.
Many of the Jews I work with will not be voting for reform but are regardless terrified and all of the men who are visibly religious, to a man, now wear a baseball cap when walking around in their own city to avoid being visibly Jewish. They’ve also detailed receiving near constant abuse in the past couple of years for being Jewish, even in Jewish areas.
Many Muslims will be voting green(including many of my in laws) despite not necessarily caring that much about the environment because they have essentially become single issue voters on a foreign policy issue, not because of reform. They also (anecdotally) are unfortunately incredibly dismissive of anti semitism as a thing (despite often saying things that are at best borderline themselves).
Farage shitting himself again.
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...firm-house-constituency-clacton-laure-ferrari
I am sure we will get to the bottom of this one day...
Oh dear, shitting the bed again.
Cathy Newman was very good on channel 4 news and now on sky with her own show. Not scared to ask the awkward questions and push for an answer.
How anyone can trust Farage to manage our economy if he gets in, I don't know.
Especially with his crypto and disaster capitalism ties.
Then don't get me started about foreign policy.. is he really going to stand up to MAGA or Russia? Surely he's tainted by the foreign money he receives..
Especially with his crypto and disaster capitalism ties.
Then don't get me started about foreign policy.. is he really going to stand up to MAGA or Russia? Surely he's tainted by the foreign money he receives..
None of the people who will vote for him care about any of that. They simply want him to stop (or dramatically reduce) immigration/ asylum claims.
Yep, they are happy to have lower living standards, poor public services, more sewage in our rivers, no NHS, possibly be dragged into unwanted wars that america/isreal start, no workers or human rights as long as they see a few less black faces in their town.
Insanity.
"You can't trust politicians, they're all the same. Starmer wants this country to be invaded and Labour have been in power for decades and destroyed this country and sold our gold. At least Farage is honest."
Is more or less the shite I keep hearing. Most people don't have the time or the interest in doing more than look at news headlines. And if the headlines are telling them that everyone except Farage is awful, and Reform politicians are involved in absolutely zero scandals, then you know who they're going with.
Then you've also got the racist twats who think the reason why their lives are so shit is because of a brown person, because god forbid they accepted blame for their own feck ups.
Good post
It is even more basic than that.
The Tories were shite.
I don't like Starmer.
So let's give reform a go.
Absolutely nailed it.
Oh look the Cnut is still avoiding scrutiny.
There you go, foot Trumps tactics (Steve Bannon playbook) and the gullible people will fall for it. European countries will be next
Always another time, never happens, gets away with it, rinse repeat. Whose show is it, LBC’s or Farage’s? Get a fecking grip.
Well Farage had his own show on LBC a while back
It will be interesting to see when the media choose the drop the kid glove treatment and start attacking Farage in a similar way to Polanski
They won’t.
Just a reminder this was glossed over.
Odious Cnut.
I'm available to administer any 6 figure errors that are seeking legislative solutions.
There will be more to come out about this cnut.
They will all grass on each other eventually. Corrupt bastards.
As a side note - saw a video of that Paul Thorpe moaning about foreigners in the UK, whilst broadcasting from his house in Spain
Yes you are probably right. But Farage will be quite happy for all of his dirty washing to come out before he gets to be PM.
I know there's massive momentum behind Reform but we can't assume that increased scrutiny leading to more dirty secrets disclosed doesn't have a material impact on voters minds
You are right. It should do, as long as we don't get like the US