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“You’re Islamophobic.”
“No, I’m not.”
“You’re a fan of Tommy Robinson.”
“No, I’m not.”
“You’re unfair on the Church of England.”
“No, I’m not.”
A pleasure to chat to @edvaizey on @TimesRadio about my new book, 'Never Again? How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself', today.
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ברייקינג: נתניהו אומר שהסיוע הבטחוני האמריקני לישראל "נגמר" ושצריך להיערך ל"סנקציות בנקאיות" עם "כלכלה עוקפת".
*מדובר באמירות מטרידות מאוד שמשמען סוף הכלכלה הישראלית הגלובלית ע"ע רוסיה של פוטין, רק בלי נפט וגז.
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BREAKING: Brave UNRWA teacher in Gaza speaks out against the culture of death being cultivated in the schools. Teachers around her are “aggressively pushing” ideologies of killing and violence onto their students. (Source: @JusoorNews)
Will @UNLazzarini be held to account?
These people
Help get @abdulelsayed elected to the senate! Jewish safety depends on a real multiracial democracy—and Abdul is the one fighting to protect it.
Get involved and help at abdulforsenate.com/vote
go.abdulforsenate.com
We know how much it matters to live in a country where our rights are protected, where the law applies equally to everyone, and where the majority can’t just decide that some people don’t deserve the same freedoms. The safety and freedom we’ve found in America didn’t happen by accident. They exist because of democracy. And protecting democracy means protecting Jewish safety, too.
We know what happens when those protections start to break down. When courts are weakened, elections are undermined, and people lose equal protection under the law, minorities are often the first to pay the price. Jews have seen this throughout our history. It’s one of the reasons so many of our families sought refuge in democratic countries.
That’s why I find it so alarming to see what’s happening right now. When masked government agents are taking people off the streets and citizens are being shot in public, we should all be worried about where things are headed. As Jews, we know that when a government starts targeting certain groups of people, no one should assume they’re safe from what comes next.
Mike Rogers has chosen to align himself with a movement that is willing to attack our democracy. He stood with Trump and refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. And now we’re seeing what happens when a political movement treats the rights and dignity of certain people as disposable. For Jews, these things should set off alarm bells.
Jewish safety is tied to the health of our democracy. We can’t protect one without protecting the other. And in this Senate race, Abdul is the candidate who understands that and is willing to fight for it.
#abdulelsayed #democracy #jewish #midterms
New Statesman having a normal one
Owen Jones has, for the last three years, revealed himself to be a man of enormous courage, integrity and truthfulness. No one should think for a minute that his relentless defence of Palestinian rights and historical truth is easy or comes without heavy personal costs. Throughout the genocide in Gaza, Jones remained a tireless bur rigorous and supremely decent voice. I suspect part of what initially moved him was the strong displeasure in being treated like an idiot by the official propaganda – a noble motive in itself – but there is no question he has been genuinely touched by the images of suffering arriving daily from Gaza. And yet, how does his intellectual fixation on a battle between left and right help us understand the horrors of Gaza, or move us to stop them? My impression is that the opposite has happened. People look at what is happening in Gaza and ask themselves what a person on the right or on the left should think. In many cases this is ideology. In most, simply careerism and group association. Jones shows how limited the perspective really is. How about, like the author himself, asking how a human being should feel? How about returning to the world of facts and feelings rather than our endless Marvel franchise? newstatesman.com/culture/boo…
Not now Zack
Basic education piece:
Not all Jewish people are Zionists.
Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.
The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.
The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.
Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName
Jonathan Powell must step down now
Jonathan Powell was not vetted before being appointed National Security Adviser, we can report.
spectator.com/article/reveal…
🚨 New episode dropped! The most outspoken British Muslim against extremism tells me and @Mr_Andrew_Fox what Islam in Britain has become after October 7. Must-watch! Link in first reply
Here’s the episode, filmed live at the Battle of Ideas youtu.be/7mw8FGWGZsU
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Warning from a British Muslim: ‘There’s a cancer in my community’ - Fiyaz Mughal
🚨 New episode dropped!
Is Britain failing to confront Islamist extremism?
Counter-extremism campaigner Fiyaz Mughal on the Muslim Brotherhood, rising antisemitism and why he believes moderate Muslim voices are being pushed aside.
From integration and free speech to foreign influence and the growing threat of radical Islamism…
In certain circles, anybody who raises the subject of antisemitism is assumed to be doing Israel’s bidding. Which is why I begin by pointing out that Sir David Bell, the author of a government-commissioned review of antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges, is about as far from a Zionist stooge as it is possible to get.
A former chief inspector of schools and permanent secretary at the Department for Education, he is the epitome of the sober, establishment centrist. His report, in other words, is about as kosher as they come.
What he found was shameful. Three in five Jewish pupils say they have experienced or witnessed antisemitism at school, and about half of them never reported it. Yet the most revealing part of the story is less what the review uncovered than the reaction to it from the people who are entrusted to run our classrooms...
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Jonathan Powell has a problem: his wife. As a result, Britain has a problem: Jonathan Powell.
For days, Sarah Helm has doubled down on her apparent sympathy for terrorist groups, including not just Palestine Action but even, in the past, Hamas.
The questions have now reached Parliament: our national securiry adviser's clearance, vetting, and his record on China and Chagos.
But the bigger story is what this says about British foreign policy. At the very moment when our relationship with Israel – an intelligence partner that has saved countless British lives – is in jeopardy due to empty, pro-Palestine virtue-signalling, our national security adviser is engulfed in this controversy.
His position is untenable. He must go.
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Do you have no shame at all, Owen?
The government's antisemitism in schools report is a travesty.
It's riddled with errors, distortions and contradictions.
And it will be used to silence people over Palestine 👇
zeteo.uk/p/debunked-the-anti…
Why national security adviser Jonathan Powell must resign now, explained in two minutes.
My interview with @JuliaHB1 today.
There's been some interest in the "Israel lobby" since Mehdi Hasan's little film today, and the graph I posted earlier. Here are a few more. Link to article in first reply!
Jonathan Powell must stand down.
Who is representing Britain abroad?
In November 2025 we discovered the National Security Advisor had travelled to Beijing to meet with Wang Yi, the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Minister.
No British Government record of this meeting was published.
Instead, the CCP informs us our National Security Advisor emphasized China’s role in the world and the Labour Government’s hopes of a deeper relationship.
No democratic mandate as an unelected special advisor. No transparency as only the Chinese side published a record of the meeting. No scrutiny as he refuses to appear in front of Parliamentary Committees.
Perhaps we should ask the National Security Advisor’s wife to tweet a record of what was discussed?
















