{"id":1540953,"date":"2024-03-07T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1675356"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:49:00","slug":"the-antisemitic-cuddly-octopus-on-university-challenge-is-the-most-ludicrous-psy-op-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/07\/the-antisemitic-cuddly-octopus-on-university-challenge-is-the-most-ludicrous-psy-op-going\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018antisemitic\u2019 cuddly octopus on University Challenge is the most ludicrous psy op going"},"content":{"rendered":"
Conservative Baroness Jacqueline Foste<\/span>r has paid<\/a> damages and apologised to a doctoral student. Foster claimed Melika Gorgianeh and her team’s cuddly octopus mascot on University Challenge was antisemitic. This in itself is perhaps the most ludicrous psy op to date.<\/p>\n The psy op is part of a longstanding wider campaign to shut down<\/a> free speech and expression on Israel and Palestine. But it’s clear this campaign is reaching bizarre new heights. For instance, Labour’s Keir Starmer continues to target<\/a> left-wing Jewish people for alleged antisemitism.<\/p>\n Antisemitism is a real issue and octopuses have been use in antisemitic posters. But the weaponisation of antisemitism to try and scare the public in to silence is also a problem. Context is everything – it’s literally a cuddly toy with zero antisemitic setting. And this was upheld in the courts.<\/p>\n Gorgianeh said<\/a>:<\/p>\n The false allegation of antisemitism has had a profound and deeply damaging impact on my life. I was a student appearing on my favourite TV quiz show. All of a sudden, lies told about me, and only me, led to me receiving death threats and to my mental health deteriorating. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tory peer Foster is openly backing<\/a> the Tory government in its support of Israel’s in-motion genocide in Palestine. She does this while accusing a Muslim student of antisemitism for a soft toy Octopus mascot.<\/p>\n On top of this, the Conservatives are still licensing arms sales to Israel while the International Court of Justice has said<\/a> there is a case the state is committing genocide in Gaza. Exporting arms when there’s a risk they could be used to violate international law is against<\/a> the UK’s own law.<\/p>\n Foster accused<\/a> countries supporting the genocide investigation as having a ‘financial interest in South Africa’, which led the case.<\/p>\n The corporate media, from the Guardian<\/em> to the Mail<\/em>, participates in the campaign to shut down free speech and expression. Academics at the Media Reform Coalition found the corporate media to have presided<\/a> over a “disinformation paradigm” when it reported on alleged antisemitism in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour.<\/p>\n The case study found<\/a> 29 outright false statements, 66 clear distortions and overwhelming source imbalance in favour of those attacking the Corbyn-led movement. They analysed<\/a> 250 articles and televised news segments.<\/p>\n Additionally, the Guardian<\/em> has fired<\/a> numerous employees for criticising Israel.<\/p>\n Baroness Foster supports the government’s position on the genocide of brown people in Palestine. Then she accuses a Muslim student of antisemitism for a cuddly toy octopus. The double standard is earth shattering and racist.<\/p>\n This accusation is part of a psy op campaign that now looks nothing short of hysterical. And it represents how ridiculous the weaponisation of antisemitism has become.<\/p>\n Featured image via Miqdaad Versi- X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n By James Wright<\/a><\/p>\n\nBaroness Foster: that octopus is antisemitic!<\/h2>\n
Backing the government’s pro-genocide position<\/h2>\n
Shutting down free speech<\/h2>\n
Baroness Foster: ludicrous<\/h2>\n