Zahrah Sultana is a racist conspiracy theorist and not someone to take seriously on any matter.

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/mps-mcdonnell-and-sultana-addre...

Sultana is also on record stating the grooming gangs were a racist smear (which is odd as there were multiple races involved)

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potamic 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

As someone who is neither a Jew nor a Palestinian, I'm going to take this with a grain of salt, because there is so much mud being slung across from both sides.

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boomlinde 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There's no need to even take it with a grain of salt. The factual circumstances described in the article are extremely mundane, but the article tries to paint her participation as a problem by supposing that anyone participating in a public event should only do so if they can answer for every disparate opinion of everyone else there.

	▲	nailer 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Part of the hacker news guidelines is to assume that everyone read the article, so obviously you read the sentence that started with: > One can never control what others say or do at any public gathering but if actions take place that I disagree with, once this has been pointed out, it is right and important to explain one’s own position

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petesergeant an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Your article doesn’t support your claims

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Daishiman 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That entire website looks like Israeli sponsored propaganda.

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nailer 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Well Jews are from Israel so yes. What’s your point? Are you saying Zultana wasn’t at that event?

	▲	Daishiman 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Israelis may be from Israel. Jews live all over the world. Do we need to explain the difference between Judaism and Zionism?
	▲	bigfudge an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Being at an event with racists does not make you a racist. That would tar the entire Israeli parliament and anyone who currently works in the White House. Can you point to anything Sultana has said which you think is beyond the pale? - a direct quote rather than indirect smears. As gross as it was, the grooming gangs stuff has been used by the right wing press to smear the entire immigrant population. The vast majority of abuse happens by people the child knows. I think reporting which distorts that -is- a smear, no matter how incompetent, misguided or corrupt the police response to what went on in Rotherham and elsewhere.