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Robert likes to call the UK “shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain.” I’ve always thought that an exaggeration, but the evidence keeps piling up that he is right. The latest horror story is about an employee of the Severn Trent Water Supply, Damon Joshua, a sewage worker who, on October 7, 2024, as part of a social media post he put up in observance of the one-year anniversary of the attack by Hamas, in which the terror group raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered 1,200 Israelis, expressed his solidarity with Israel in a post on an employee website, and dared to describe Hamas as a “group of violent and disgusting terrorists.” Isn’t that exactly what they are? For expressing that view, one shared by all sensible people, he was fired within a few hours.
Daniel Greenfield wrote about this here, and more on this monstrous moral error by his managers can be found here: “Sewage worker ‘is sacked after calling Hamas “disgusting terrorists” in post to remember October 7 attack,’” by Mary O’Connor, Daily Mail, March 23, 2025:
A sewage worker was reportedly sacked over a post calling Hamas ‘disgusting terrorists’ on an internal staff site.
Severn Trent Water (STW) immediately suspended Damon Joshua, who was then dismissed without notice following a disciplinary hearing.
It all happened so fast, within hours of his post. He was called in by his supervisor. No due process, no chance for Damon Joshua to explain himself, no chance for him to question the motives of those fellow workers who were apparently incensed by his statement of solidarity with Israel and the Jewish people.
In the post, which included an image of the Israel flag, Mr Joshua wrote: ‘One year ago our valued partners and friends, Israel, were horrifically attacked by a group of violent and disgusting terrorists.
‘I can say the vast majority of STW’s employees stand in solidarity with our Jewish, Israeli and Zionist colleagues against the evil of Islamist terror.’
The post was taken down by managers after other staff complained ‘the terminology was very derogatory’ and ‘is very one-sided’, it was reported….
Who were those “other staff” who complained about Damon Joshua’s post? These were undoubtedly Muslim members of the Severn Trent Water company, people who did not deplore but welcomed the “resistance” offered by Hamas when 6,000 of its operatives smashed into Israel on October 7, 2023, and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and murder 1,200 Israelis. Girls were mass raped. Babies were set on fire. Women had their breasts sliced off, and knives stuck in their vaginas. Men had their genitalia cut off, and their eyes gouged out. All these mutilations happened while they were still alive. Families were bound together with wire, then set alight. This is what Damon Joshua had in mind when he described those Hamas attackers as those “violent and disgusting terrorists.”
A Severn Trent Water spokesman said: ‘This is a complex employee relations case and it’s important to be clear that this is not the whole story nor an isolated incident.’
No, it’s not a “complex employee relations case.” It’ a case of managerial spinelessness, a fear of offending Muslims and a readiness to capitulate to the demands of Muslim employees who wanted to get Damon Joshua not just silenced, but fired, for daring to express his sympathy for the embattled Jewish state and for the Jewish people who on October 7, 2023 suffered their worst one-day loss of life since World War II. It’s not “complex,” but a crystal-clear case of Good being silenced by Evil.
When the Severn Trent spokesman said “this is not the whole story nor an isolated incident,” I assume he means that Damon Joshua has in the past expressed his sympathies for the people of Israel, and his deploring the acts of those who would destroy them. Should the Muslims who work at Severn Trent Water have the power not only to silence him, but to cause him to lose his job? What message does that send to others, from sewage workers such as Damon Joshua to the invertebrate managers who sacked him because of their fear of what the Muslim staff might do? Will the same fate meet other employees who might merely express the same pro-Israel sentiments not on social media, but in a conversation in the employee lunchroom, where Muslims might complain to the managers that that employee has created an “Islamophobic atmosphere” by criticizing Hamas’ “resistance to oppression”? Anything is possible, in this morally topsy-turvical universe.
Here’s hoping that Damon Joshua’s case becomes a cause célèbre, taken up by those who think that those calling terrorist murderers “disgusting” do not deserve to lose their jobs, and that the ones who ought to be fired are those who defend and applaud Hamas.
