Absolutely deranged behaviour from this commenter lmfao

Transphobia being a veil and trojan horse for homophobia? Colour me surprised!

It didn’t show up until I clicked through multiple pages of results. I will concede that makes me incorrect that paywalled articles still technically eventually show up in search results. All good now, nitpicker? It still doesn’t change that it is not a news article and can’t be passed off as such, and that I have now shown the explicit stance the paper’s political editor has on the mere concept of Israeli influence in British politics. Nor has it changed my initial point that Russia’s “disinformation war” is clearly ineffective and irrelevant besides as scaremongering when the government, the opposition and mainstream political media and thought is basically 100% behind deep-throated support of Ukraine, NATO and expanding military spending. Maybe the article could talk about US influence and “dis-information” because it’s clearly more effective that whatever shit Russian affiliated news sources are able to achieve.

It showed up for me when I looked back at my search on like the third page of results - probably because fuck all people read it because it’s locked behind a paywall and the fact, as stated, that it isn’t a news article. Interestingly, here’s the political editor of the Independent on why he believes Keir Starmer’s government didn’t act sooner against Israel https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-israel-gaza-starmer-david-lammy-sanctions-trade-b2754928.html

Here is him smearing the idea that there is undue Israeli influence in the labour party:

Antisemitic conspiracy theories suggesting Labour is being held back by Zionist interests can readily be found on social media, but none of this is true."

The ‘real reason’?

In reality, Labour under Sir Keir Starmer has been held back by a sense of shame.

A visible reminder of this came when former leader Jeremy Corbyn got to his feet to challenge Lammy. Under Corbyn’s leadership, Labour became so immersed in antisemitism and so marginalised the Jewish community that the party has had to continue working hard to restore its reputation

First one - French not British. Edit: also look at the vastly different way it treats the concept of Israeli influence to Russian influence: lots of fact-checking by Reuters, making sure the readers know there’s no possible link to Israel, conjuring the idea that the left wing in France are jumping at shadows and falling for anti-semitic lies.

Second - Guest commentary and columns that require membership don’t show up in normal search engines, and also are clearly not the same as an actual attempt at a “news” article. “And more” also doing a lot of heavy lifting.

You constantly re-post articles that confirm your biases on China and Russia (most of which are absolutely partisan hack-quality trash that are basically excuses to quote anti-Russian and anti-China parliamentary sub-groups - I.e. not factual and barely news), and you have the audacity to talk about being “monopolized (sic) by propaganda”?

Last article I can see from the independent explicitly on the Israeli influence in British politics is from 2014 you absolute liar.

I also find it interesting how you don’t deal with the rest of my comment. Maybe because the full context of the comment reveals it wasn’t “whataboutism” but a comparison in what real influence actually gets you, and the utter ineffectiveness of so-called Russian misinformation.

Note that the “Independent” would not post a similar article about direct Israeli influence in our government and in Labour, the Tories and Reform parties. Instead it bloviates about the so-called “threat” of Russian disinformation and how apparently destabilising it is, when everyone in government is roundly supportive of Ukraine and continuously back policies to increase military spending and sabre-rattling against Russia.

How can Russia have these supposed super powers of influence when the people in power and the opposition are all singing from the same anti-Russian hymn sheet? How does that make any sense at all? Clearly they’re absolutely shit at their jobs otherwise there might be some mainstream opposition to the consensus pro-NATO and anti-Russia positions.