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“The Liberty of a Democracy is not safe if a people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of goverment by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.'......President Roosevelt”
― Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
― Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy
“The hawk is unperturbed. She tips her head sideways to look up at the moving clouds - in daylight her irises are flat and shiny and slightly blurred, with pupils that dilate and contract like a camera lens as she focuses -zip-zip-zip- up to track a passing Cessna - and then she turns her head upside down to watch a fly, and then tracks another fly, and pulls abstractedly at the meat I hold in the glove, and watches other things way, way beyond my poor human vision.”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
“Geoffrey Robertson concluded: 'It is imprecise, confusing and open to misinterpretation and even manipulation' (Robertson 2018)”
― Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief
― Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief
“Or as Brian Klug put it:
'When anti-Semitism is everywhere, it is nowhere.
And when every anti-Zionist is an anti-semite, we no longer know how to recognize the real thing - the concept of anti-semitism loses its significance.' (Klug 2004).”
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'When anti-Semitism is everywhere, it is nowhere.
And when every anti-Zionist is an anti-semite, we no longer know how to recognize the real thing - the concept of anti-semitism loses its significance.' (Klug 2004).”
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“Sir Geoffrey Bindman wrote: 'Unfortunately, the definition and the examples are poorly drafted [and] misleading'. (Bindman 2018).”
― Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief
― Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief
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