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[Video] Old footage resurfaces of Lisa Nandy in 2018 to ban Israel arms sales. Nandy has since joined Labour Friends of Israel, and is now doing everything in her power to invite Maccabi Tel Aviv (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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This is her now.

Do these people believe in anything?

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[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I reckon there's probably a middle ground which both supports allowing people to watch football, and does not support selling weapons to a genocidal state.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is a racist club known for genocidal chants about raping Arab women

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

And it's a club with a mob of hooligans who were attacking Muslim-appearing people in Amsterdam a few months ago. That was when they were playing against Ajax, who have historically had a large base of Jewish fans (rather like Spurs in London). So it was definitely more about hooliganism than Jewish identity.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I know who they are, I just don't think that even the most horrible football fan behaviour is remotely on a par with arms dealers selling weapons to Israel.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shockingly, more than one thing can be wrong at once.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago

Sure, but if you're trying to accuse someone of hypocrisy, both things need to be of a similar magnitude.

I'm neither pro-murder, nor pro-kicking-in-the-bollocks, but I still think "You used to be against murder, but now you're in favour of kicking people in the bollocks, you're such a hypocrite" is a nonsensical argument.