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Aaron Bastani

grew up in Bournemouth, with his mother’s surname, as Aaron Peters. A single parent, she was a cleaner, a sandwich maker, then a social worker — and, until her death in 2015, a Conservative voter. Only in 2014 did he take his father’s name.

His father Mammad, a taxi driver who was born in Iran, “ended up in Britain a refugee” when his parents told him not to come home after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He was a refugee like his great-grandfather, an ethnic Azeri merchant installed in Moscow, who had fled the Bolsheviks to Iran. “I think he may even have fought with the Whites.” Ben Judah waiting in the Financial times, April 2018 Bastani and Butler founded Novara Media in June 2011, initially as an hour-long show on the community radio station Resonance FM, based in south London. They named it Novara after the town in northern Italy in the 1973 film by Elio Petri, The Working Class Goes to Heaven.

was given a suspended sentence for his role in a bank attack. During the anti-cuts protests in March 2011, Bastani was filmed ramming a bin into a branch of HSBC before beckoning rioters inside. The bank was then smashed up. Bastani was convicted of a public order offence and received a suspended sentence.

'Before notable chemical weapons expert Aaron Bastani was a Corbynista, he was fumbling around desperately trying to absolve Assad of responsibility for killing over 1000 people in a Sarin attack in Eastern Ghouta by claiming

the Sarin was "watered down".' his father Mammad, a taxi driver was born in Iran

However, despite the mountain of complaints against Williamson by Labour members and even loyal Corbyn supporters, he has been continually endorsed by noteable pro-Corbyn activists such as Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar, providing him with a youthful platform to reach new audiences that he may have otherwise not had.



o when Novara Media’s co-founder Aaron Bastani tweeted a picture of the Free Syrian Army soldiers doing a salute to God and compared it to ISIS’ triumphant gestures, it said a lot about not Bastani himself but the left’s deep ignorance for all its perceived we-told-you-so-why-didn’t-you-listen-to-us wisdom.

The celebration that ISIS militants often carry out is fingers raised to the sky, “tawhid” or “oneness to God”. It usually means gratitude to God. It’s unquestionable that jihadists do it, but then so does Liverpool winger Mo Salah when he inevitably scores. It’s a timeless tradition within Islam where Muslims point to the sky as an affirmation of their faith in God. It doesn’t belong to ISIS or jihadists, which Bastani essentially implied by seeking to equate FSA and ISIS.

But this, as mentioned before, is a snapshot that speaks about left-wing ignorance particularly over Syria. Many on the left, likes of Rania Khalek, Ben Norton and others have regularly portrayed Syrian rebels as terrorists. Their basis for this has simply been that the Syrian rebels are conservative Muslims. Thereby, they qualify as terrorists as soon as they pick up weapons. attitudes to syrian rebels shameful



'Of the novels, Black List: Section H is likely to survive as a work of Kafkaesque darkness. It mixed elements of the German years with forays into fantasia, and is probably the truest reflection of Stuart's own meandering, instinctive life journey.'