Migration to the UK is down 48% from last year and 82% from 2021.

Small boat arrivals and the asylum backlog are also down, while 70,000 people were returned or deported.

Yet, anti-immigration rhetoric has only intensified.

Liberals cannot win the immigration battle. By courting the xenophobic votes they harm their own nation, alienate their own voters, and play a pointless game to win the worst slice of the population - the despicable “I’m not racist but…” uncle who would anyway always be unhappy with anyone who doesn’t look and think like him/her, and for sure would never vote for a progressive party anyway.

Labour delivered what the public wanted: a huge fall in net migration to 171,000 in 2025 from 331,000 in 2024 – the lowest in over a decade. Yet online reactions show that parts of the public and the political class are so radicalised that no reduction will ever suffice.

Pipers like Farage, Salvini, Wilders or Trump will always run political agendas rooted in fear and prejudice, even if there was only a single migrant left in the country.

And, even if there was no migrant left, they’d just leverage new fracture lines (North vs South, urban vs rural, cis vs LGBTQ…).

Because, without creating a permanent sense of emergency that constantly turns natural differences in a society into collective irrational fears, their whole political careers would be irrelevant.

#UKPol

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/home-affairs/immigration-numbers-are-down-so-why-is-the-rage-still-rising/?fsp_sid=5224

The psychological pressure over Russian citizens matters just as much as the war on the frontlines.

Russians must know that their country is at war, that their president is the only one responsible for that war, and that when you attack someone without reason the other party has all the right to strike back.

Russians should be annoyed with the man who caused that war, to the point of feeling the urge of replacing him.

They shouldn’t go through a business-as-usual scenario while their president drops bombs on civilians.

The black clouds over St. Petersburg while the city prepares to host the International Economic Forum, and 20,000 international representatives are there, are a well deserved humiliation against a declining and decadent regime.

A couple of years ago the supporters of the Czar were very loud in repeating how Ukraine couldn’t win this war, how it was supposed to accept whatever deal imposed by the Russian invader, and how powerful Russia’s military apparatus was.

Fast forward a couple of years, and Russia has lost a whole generation of men to this stupid war (either through casualties or emigration), its logistical supply lines are permanently disrupted by the Ukrainian drones, and it’s forced to use Soviet-era weapons, trucks and tanks after the Ukrainian drones have destroyed everything they built in this century.

Russia was stuck in a 20th century idea of conflict, with frontlines to push, heavy artillery and traditional aviation to do most of the job, and vulnerable supply lines that stretch over hundreds of km of railway and roads.

#Ukraine has drones. And they didn’t need much else.

While Ukraine destroys military planes, oil depots and railways without killing anyone. Russia can only react by dropping bombs on civilians in Kyiv.

Because that’s what bullies do when they feel trapped and outsmarted - they resort to gratuitous violence.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-petersburg-oil-terminal-putin-drone-887969921c595f3a81c3b6c0b120b5f3

“You’re fucking crazy“.

It’s hard to believe that someone like #Trump calls someone else “crazy”. And yet these are the words he used for #Netanyahu, terrorist and convicted war criminal.

“Everybody hates you. Everyone hates #Israel because of you“.

Again, these words came from the president of the US. An ironclad Zionist who is craving to profit from his future resorts on the beach in #Gaza.

But when we repeated for so long that everyone hates Israel because of its crimes against humanity and its impunity, we were bashed as the antisemitic ones.

“I’m the one keeping your ass out of jail“.

Indeed, Netanyahu belongs to a jail.

Either at home, because of the endless trials for corruption that he’s been trying to escape for years, or in The Hague, for his ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity.

Trump, another thug who should be in jail, openly admitted that he’s the one keeping him out of jail.

Just like two thugs with their hands bathed in blood reminding each other to be grateful to the other.

The existence of Israel in its current genocidal and hyper-colonialist form is a disgrace for humanity as a whole.

The fact that Netanyahu is not in jail yet is a disgrace for everything that justice is supposed to be.

The fact that Netanyahu has so much leverage over the West that it can drag the most powerful country in the world in all of its colonialist wars is outrageous, and historians will spend years to understand how this happened.

There’s only a problem with the latest call between Trump and Netanyahu.

That those words should have come from us, as Europeans.

We should have told both Trump and Netanyahu that they are two fucking crazy fascist thugs, that the world hates them, that the world hates the US and Israel because of them, and that they both belong to a jail.

The fact that no head of State in Europe so far had enough courage to make such obvious statements speaks a lot of how ideologically, politically and morally irrelevant we have become.

https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-netanyahu-israel-lebanon-call

Al-Baqa Café was one of the last places where the people of #Gaza could escape and get some relief from the genocide inflicted upon them.

It was a popular gathering place on the beach that attracted many artists, journalists and creators.

In June 2025, it was obliterated by an unprovoked airstrike carried out by the Zionist entity, leaving only a crater on the beach behind.

At least 41 civilians died.

The IDF did not issue any warnings or evacuation orders before conducting the strike.

According to the Zionist entity, the target of the strike was Hasham Mansour, the son of a Hamas military commander who was killed months prior.

A 500-pound Mark 82 bomb was dropped on a crowded beach café in order to allegedly target one single person.

The others civilians were just collateral damage. They just happened to be in the way and deserved to be killed without being worth of a single mention. Or, who knows, perhaps they were just human shields used by Hamas to protect one of its members.

For context, about 90 civilians were killed in the terrorist attack to the Bataclan in Paris in 2015.

For months the whole world was understandably horrified. We all changed our profile pictures on Facebook to commemorate that awful tragedy.

Yet nobody changed their profile pictures to commemorate the terrorist attack against Al-Baqa Café.

Or perhaps something can be defined a terrorist attack only when carried out by fanatics with guns, not when the fanatics ride expensive warplanes loaded with bombs.

One year after the strike, our anonymous blogger from Gaza tries to break that silence and share their unique personal perspective on those events.

https://blog.gaza.onl/voicefromgaza/al-baqa-cafe-the-last-place-we-went-to-feel-alive

Also, there’s a campaign for our blogger https://www.gofundme.com/manage/support-the-voice-of-a-blogger-in-gaza

Just like everyone else in Gaza, they mostly rely on foreign donors to cover their basic necessities.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q...

The suppression of pro-Palestinian speech is the most serious permanent threat against Western democracy, and the methods employed by Israel to silent dissent have a name: fascism.

If the ownership of #DigID (the Dutch digital ID platform) is something that should be subject to the laws of a free market, then why is the US ambassador in the Netherlands stepping in?

And why is he requesting an urgent meeting with the Dutch PM?

Would his boss allow a Dutch company to take over a critical piece of the American federal digital infrastructure?

The American digital colonialism over Europe is becoming more aggressive as Europe starts to gain its own independence.

And they didn’t think that we were that serious with our talks about digital sovereignty.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/us-ambassador-criticises-dutch-block-on-digid-owner-sale/

The IHRA’s definition of #antisemitism is being brought to court in the UK for being incompatible with the grounds of free speech in a modern democracy.

You are welcome to send a donation on CrowdJustice to cover the legal costs of this trial.

The IHRA definition is, by its own admission, a non-legally binding working definition.

You can’t detain people nor limit their freedom of expression on the grounds of a non-legally binding working definition.

It was first published in 2005 by the European Monitoring Centre of Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), a EU agency, but the EUMC’s successor, the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), removed if from its website in 2013, as it’s basically a non-official document with no legal validity.

It is a definition strongly pushed by the same Israeli far-right groups that are perpetrating a genocide in Gaza right now, and by all the Zionist think-tanks that keep casting their lobbying shadows over European and American political institutions.

It is a very problematic definition because, out of the 11 illustrative examples of antisemitism attached to it, 7 related to criticism of Israel as a country rather than prejudice against Jews.

It is so controversial that it split Jewish academics along partisan lines. Many Jewish lawyers and academics have proposed the Jerusalem Definition of Antisemitism (JDA) in response to the IHRA. They want to keep the definition of antisemitism focused on prejudice and hatred towards Jews, rather than towards an allegedly democratic political entity that, as such, should be called accountable for its actions.

Take this example of antisemitism reported in the IHRA:

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

Notice how it squarely focuses on the right for Jews to have their own State, but deliberately omits any reference to self-determination for the indigenous Arab populations, and it omits the fact that expelling people out of their lands on the basis of their ethnicity is, objectively, a racist endeavor.

Or:

Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation

Notice how it characterizes an act of political criticism towards a democratic country, no matter if legitimate or not, as an act of antisemitism.

Assume that I criticize the Italian government, and that perhaps I have expectations about its actions that are higher than those I’d expect from another democratic country. Does it mean that I’m a racist anti-Italian? Are Jewish academics who criticize the political acts of Israel and call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide also antisemitic?

Or:

Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Notice how this prevents any objective historical comparison. If you establish an apartheid State and perpetrate a genocide like a Nazi, we can’t say that it’s something that a Nazi would do too - because that definition prevents you from saying that even when it’s objectively true.

In general, the IHRA definition suppresses political dissent by placing the onus on Israel’s critics to demonstrate they are not antisemitic.

Antony Lerman, the former director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, went as far as saying that “the case against IHRA is so strong that the fundamental principle is that IHRA is so flawed it should be abandoned“.

The list of academics who openly criticized the IHRA definition is so long to deserve 5 pages on Wikipedia.

We can’t even say that the IHRA definition is bad because it doesn’t have sufficient academic consensus. It’s so bad that the academic consensus over it is actually very strong. Most of the actual academic experts in the matter consider it a piece of pseudo-legal garbage.

Yet, such a controversial, polarizing and non-legally binding definition is the one that the politicians of most of the countries in the EU and the US, often without going through a process of Parliament ratification, have formally or informally adopted.

Some of its corollaries can also be found here on the Fediverse, in the form of memes that anonymous Hasbara accounts and propaganda pages like the Movement Against Antizionism keep posting.

Those memes and those acts of harassment have a very precise political purpose.

To lobby or pressure instance admins into applying the IHRA definition in their moderation activities, hence suppressing any speech that is critical of Israel and about the most uncompromising Zionist policies.

To create a sense of de facto validity around a non-legally binding definition that academics consider a piece of extremist propaganda garbage.

Those arrested in the UK because of their pro-Palestine activism were arrested on the basis of a non-legally binding definition with no academic nor political consensus.

It is time to ditch the IHRA and call it for what it is - a sophisticated act of nationalist propaganda that actually does more harms than good to the Jews because it misses the point on actual antisemitism, while fostering grudge towards an illiberal political entity that claims to speak in their name, while conflating political criticism and objective reporting with racism and prejudice.

It is time to call the IHRA something worth of the propaganda body of a fascist regime and not of a democratic country.

It is time to acknowledge that the IHRA definition is incompatible with America’s First Amendment and with the Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, and it poses unacceptable dangers to the tenure of our democratic fabric, all while providing a blanket excuse for a genocidal regime to pursue their colonial activities with impunity.

It is time to start taking this definition to courts, and make sure that there’s no space for this garbage in a civilized society.

As a non-Christian, my deepest respect goes to the intellectual honesty of Pope Leo XIV.

The Catholic Church had an important role in enabling the transatlantic trade of slaves.

It interpreted an atrocious process of colonization and human exploitation as an act of Christian duty towards infidels that were supposed to embrace Jesus.

Pope Nicholas V in 1452 allowed Christians to invade, conquer, fight, subjugate and seize all possessions of all enemies of Christ, as well as granting them the permission to reduce them into a state of perpetual slavery.

The following Popes (Callixtus III in 1456, Sixtus IV in 1481 and Leo X in 1514) also granted similar rights to Spanish and Portuguese kings.

The acknowledgement of the Church’s role in enabling slavery and colonialism is long overdue but still welcome.

https://apnews.com/article/pope-apologizes-slavery-role-holy-see-vatican-78df993c5604eb098b19f255b89b3155

Your reminder that #Russia is a terrorist State, and #Ukraine has all the right in the world to retaliate with attacks even on Moscow.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-kyiv-missile-drone-attack-998aeaab5833ca397290d9ee2737b0e5

#Fediblock @nprofile1q...

Reason: the usual Hasbara propagandist and ultra-Zionist lunatic with too much spare time at hand and a peculiar obsession against humanitarian initiatives for Gaza.

Receipts:

https://rollenspiel.social/@semaphore/116628030683618545
https://rollenspiel.social/@semaphore/116628015632742519
https://rollenspiel.social/@semaphore/116628011232757494
https://rollenspiel.social/@semaphore/116627989977116759

They created yet another anonymous account specifically to harass me.

But, instead of posting only memes, this time they also proudly spread on the Fediverse the nauseous ideological excrements that fill their hollow skull.

They claim that helping families in #Gaza enduring a genocide is illegal and that everyone in Gaza is Hamas.

They are repeating that I should be in jail for helping civilians in Gaza going through a genocide - when in truth we hate Hamas just as much as we hate the Zionazis who rule Israel, and we’re just trying to help the victims of both.

The only ones with an international arrest warrant on their heads are the demons who caused this tragedy - not me.

The minds of folks like @nprofile1q... are filled with perverse genocidal hate. They want all Palestinians to be dead and forgotten, so their “people” can finally take over their lands, and they hate everyone who prevents them from achieving this goal.

@nprofile1q... also harassed me on a personal level because of my employer, even on unrelated technical posts, and they also harassed people who simply interacted with my posts.

Since their incoherent and despicable genocidal narrative is finally losing ground in the West after decades of shameful propaganda fueled by the most despicable Israeli think tanks, and their bad memes aren’t working anymore either (even Iran got better than them at memes), they’re resorting to the next technique in the Nazi playbook (verbal violence and intimidation) in order to push their points when traditional propaganda fails.

A civilized society has a civic duty of hating these people, isolating them and making them feel very unwelcome.

They can always go to babka if they want to share their ideological manure with sociopaths bathed in the same ideological perversions, far away from humans with a functioning brain and a heart.

And don’t even dare to say that “go back to Babka” is like “go back to Poland”.

Telling someone to go back to their ghetto on the basis of their ethnicity or religion is racist.

Telling Nazis to go back to their Nazi bar and stop harassing decent people is the right thing to do.

There’s no place for them anywhere else on the Fediverse, just like there was no place for the previous accounts they created just to harass people.

If you hate a Nazi, you should hate a Zionist too.

Because they’re made of exactly the same fecal matter rooted in racial discrimination, ethnic cleansing, feeling of ethnic superiority and ruthless colonialism.

Hate accounts like @nprofile1q... as much as you would hate Ben Gvir or Smotrich, because their demonic minds were forged in the same circle of hell and they talk the same demonic language.

Report them, block them, make them feel unwelcome, make them feel all your hate. Hating the wicked and wishing their evil soul to burn in hell is a noble thing.