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Post by peterl on Aug 23, 2022 13:08:19 GMT
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batman
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Post by batman on Aug 23, 2022 15:14:41 GMT
someone who clearly has English heritage.
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Post by mattbewilson on Aug 23, 2022 15:46:04 GMT
Probably because there are quite a lot of non-observant Jews, who you might not necessarily realize are Jewish, spread around the country, as well as the observant Jews who will be much more concentrated in particular areas. pointed this out to a colleague who said she'd never met a Jewish person |
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 23, 2022 17:49:32 GMT
Warwick University would have its fair share of Jewish students, some living in halls and some in areas like Earlsdon. has "Approx Jewish Students on campus - 60+" and Warwick J-Soc has about 75 members. I don't know how "on campus" is defined - all students at the university, only those students based at the campus that year (so excluding placements, years abroad etc...), only those in campus accommodation, the number who sign up to J-Soc & declare or what, or if J-Soc includes non-Jewish members. I think the status of Conservative university societies was one of the bits of the party structure that was not really thought through for a long time. I started at Kent the same year as the Hague reforms that included the creation of Conservative Future and for many years there was a lot of confusion about whether university branch members were eligible to vote in CF elections etc... as well as questions over just which association they should be linked to and it did add to tension in the chaos of CF elections. I would have thought the Labour Party's more formal structure for affiliation would offer a clear route for a university club to be affiliated to a CLP or maybe even more though I don't know what the eligibility for determining which ones would be. There were also some real problems with membership lists and data protection (especially when universities/SUs started systems to join societies through an online student portal instead of signing up & paying a society stall). Some years ago the party disaffiliated all the university societies en bloc which removed a lot of the constitutional knots and required students to join directly. |
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Post by LDCaerdydd on Aug 23, 2022 19:04:31 GMT
someone who clearly has English heritage. Definitely one for the stupidity thread too. |
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Post by greenchristian on Aug 24, 2022 18:44:53 GMT
Warwick University would have its fair share of Jewish students, some living in halls and some in areas like Earlsdon. has "Approx Jewish Students on campus - 60+" and Warwick J-Soc has about 75 members. I don't know how "on campus" is defined - all students at the university, only those students based at the campus that year (so excluding placements, years abroad etc...), only those in campus accommodation, the number who sign up to J-Soc & declare or what, or if J-Soc includes non-Jewish members. On campus usually means living in on-campus student accommodation. At Warwick this has usually covered all first years plus a small number of third years, fourth years, and postgrads. Sstudent union rules almost certainly allow non-Jewish students to join J-Soc, but it's anyone's guess how many would do so. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 24, 2022 19:04:15 GMT
I was a member of J-Soc along with one or two other non-Jewish pro-Israel types. It was important for us to counteract the influence of leftie Jews and keep that as one of the only societies on campus controlled by the Right (apart from the Conservative society itself, and that was debatable sometimes..)
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Post by cj on Aug 24, 2022 19:17:20 GMT
I was a member of J-Soc along with one or two other non-Jewish pro-Israel types. It was important for us to counteract the influence of leftie Jews and keep that as one of the only societies on campus controlled by the Right (apart from the Conservative society itself, and that was debatable sometimes..) Well the politicisation of anti-Semitism won't happen by itself |
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Post by timrollpickering on Aug 25, 2022 16:29:27 GMT
On campus usually means living in on-campus student accommodation. I thought it might mean that but UJS also have a J-Soc at Birkbeck with "Approx Jewish Students on campus - 20+" and the nature of Birkbeck makes it harder to apply your definition and there are other universities on there where "campus" is not a terribly useful term (split sites, off site university accommodation, university buildings spread throughout a town etc...) yet they use it making me wonder what they means by the term. |
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Post by neilm on Aug 25, 2022 16:40:16 GMT
I was a member of J-Soc along with one or two other non-Jewish pro-Israel types. It was important for us to counteract the influence of leftie Jews and keep that as one of the only societies on campus controlled by the Right (apart from the Conservative society itself, and that was debatable sometimes..) Indeed, back in the day J-Soc and UJS were essentially Labour fronts. |
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Post by batman on Aug 25, 2022 16:46:35 GMT
the J-Soc at Sussex was very politically mixed. I'd say that somewhat more of them were anti-Tory than Tory, but not by that much. Certainly some were Labour Party members and I suspect some of them still are today. I joined the J-Soc as I was appalled at the implicit threat to the society by a motion calling for Zionist organisations to be closed down on campus (although its movers denied that they meant the Jewish society). Many of the Society's activities were nothing, or very little, to do with Israel at all.
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Post by neilm on Aug 25, 2022 18:35:06 GMT
the J-Soc at Sussex was very politically mixed. Given the period you were at Sussex, I'd have been surprised if anything was 'politically mixed.' |
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Post by batman on Aug 25, 2022 19:56:03 GMT
well, it was  |
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Post by greenchristian on Oct 13, 2022 15:32:24 GMT
Just realised that we hadn't noted another suspension in Coventry. Tariq Khan (Labour, Foleshill) is facing allegations of sending antisemitic and transphobic messages three years ago. Cllr Khan denies sending the messages, and claims that it's a stich-up to stop him becoming the candidate for Coventry North East as Colleen Fletcher is standing down. The content of the messages has not been made public, but comments made suggest they are really bad.
For some reason the report on reallocating committee places for next week's full council (in light of two suspensions and one by-election gain) refers to both his suspension and Cllr Thomas's suspension as "self-suspension".
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Post by skyep on Nov 18, 2022 16:13:00 GMT
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Post by Strontium Dog on Nov 19, 2022 13:55:32 GMT
Wearing a Nazi blackshirt by mistake, hey, it could happen to anyone.
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Post by neilm on Nov 19, 2022 18:15:23 GMT
Wearing a Nazi blackshirt by mistake, hey, it could happen to anyone. I wore a black shirt and tie a few times when I worked for Wetherspoons. I stopped when I walked in one morning and someone shouted "Ey Up, Oswald!" |
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Post by Khunanup on Nov 19, 2022 18:18:37 GMT
Wearing a Nazi blackshirt by mistake, hey, it could happen to anyone. I wore a black shirt and tie a few times when I worked for Wetherspoons. I stopped when I walked in one morning and someone shouted "Ey Up, Oswald!" For entirely different reasons I wear all black (other than a yellow rosette of course) at all election counts I go to, and always have done. As much as anything, offsets the yellow beautifully... 😁 |
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Post by J.G.Harston on Nov 19, 2022 18:20:51 GMT
I wore a black shirt and tie a few times when I worked for Wetherspoons. I stopped when I walked in one morning and someone shouted "Ey Up, Oswald!" For entirely different reasons I wear all black (other than a yellow rosette of course) at all election counts I go to, and always have done. As much as anything, offsets the yellow beautifully... 😁 Gawd, another person determined to commit suicide-by-being-run-over-at-nightime. |
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Post by Khunanup on Nov 19, 2022 18:52:12 GMT
For entirely different reasons I wear all black (other than a yellow rosette of course) at all election counts I go to, and always have done. As much as anything, offsets the yellow beautifully... 😁 Gawd, another person determined to commit suicide-by-being-run-over-at-nightime. That would be dependent on me having to put myself in the situation when I can be run over though, which never happens after a count... Regardless, I understand that cars have these storage photon emitting contraptions called headlamps, designed to pick out things that are on the road in front of them... |
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