Creator ‘#ForcedOut’ & ‘#Whitewashed’ two films & two books exposing #LabourAntisemitism Slava Ukraini
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Film & book featuring people who had to leave the Labour Party because of antisemitism. Forced Out youtu.be/b4f_TexfjbI Book: Forced Out Labour Antisemitism Resignation Letters amazon.co.uk/Forced-Labour-A…
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The charity Sun of Freedom is directly profiting both from tax-payer funded Gift Aid and from these extremist clothing items. That should NOT be allowed. @ChtyCommission
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I couldn’t be prouder of Lucie’s bravery.
Seeing her so ill was heartbreaking. I felt really useless as someone who didn’t know how to help.
Yesterday, when preparing to talk about BBC antisemitism, a Jewish person who works there told me they’d never felt like leaving so much as after reading about Lucie’s story.
Reading about the cruelty as she became ever more ill, and the pettiness of taking her names off the award-winning films she’d produced. The BBC worker told me: ‘I realise now they would never support me.’
As @imluciekon writes:
‘In the past week I have heard from former BBC colleagues about the toll their own experiences at work are taking, and from people in other organisations who are trying to live, and work, with mental health problems that are the result of the way they have been treated by colleagues. I'm too old and too ugly to hide from the truth, and I'm done with pretending.
‘The BBC can, and must, do better. So must the other organisations those people work for. If speaking out makes even the smallest contribution to change, then the pain won't have been for nothing.’
The BBC must do an investigation into its own antisemitism. Until it does, nothing will improve.
Yesterday I wrote about the impact of what happened at work on my mental health. It felt like work didn't believe me, or understand how seriously unwell I was. Perhaps they didn't want to understand.
The way they handed me my final redundancy notice sums it up.
In August 2025, HR called asking me to come into the office the next day to be given my notice in person. I explained that I wasn't strong enough to walk down the street, let alone travel on the Tube, just to face the humiliation of being handed a notice letter. When I said my consultant had advised I go into hospital, I was asked: "So you want to be in hospital?"
After the call, I remembered the reasonable adjustment we had agreed, that I would be given seven days' notice of any meeting, and emailed HR to politely remind them. A while later, I had an email saying we could meet in person the following week.
As agreed, seven days later I went in, by cab, at my own expense. I can't have been looking my best. I was severely underweight, and I can only guess that someone higher up the food chain could see that. I was told they wouldn't hand me my notice that day, and that I would need an occupational health assessment first. When it came, I learned the only question the clinical psychologist had been asked was whether I was physically fit enough to be handed my notice in person.
That was a light-bulb moment. For months I had been desperately trying to prove I was good enough to do my job, only to be told I wasn't. Now it was clear that all HR wanted to know was whether they could justify making me come in and open the envelope in front of them, so they could see the whites of my eyes as I read my notice letter. Naively, I had thought someone might give a damn about my health, that there might be some acknowledgement of a duty of care. There wasn't. HR didn't seem to care whether I lived or died. They just wanted to make sure it wasn't on the BBC's time. Getting me out of the job was what this whole process had been about. I had become a difficult Jew, a problem, and redundancy was a way to solve it.
The psychologist advised that I wasn't fit for a face-to-face meeting and that the notice should be given to someone on my behalf. I suggested my lawyer, but HR told me they didn't deal with lawyers. My consultant said she would write to them to say that, on health grounds, it had to go to my lawyer.
Then, on 3 October 2025, a phone call to say the notice would be sent that afternoon. I explained my consultant's advice that, on health grounds, it must go to my lawyer. It was brushed aside. I was told the whole thing had gone on too long.
The notice landed in my inbox within the hour. I couldn't face opening it, and sent it straight to my lawyer.
Eleven days later I was admitted to hospital for the third time that year.
I'm not saying this to be told I'm brave. I'm not. Anyone who has lived with mental illness will know it can feel shameful and embarrassing. With anorexia in particular, it can feel like something someone my age shouldn't have. But it isn't a choice. It's an illness.
In the past week I have heard from former BBC colleagues about the toll their own experiences at work are taking, and from people in other organisations who are trying to live, and work, with mental health problems that are the result of the way they have been treated by colleagues. I'm too old and too ugly to hide from the truth, and I'm done with pretending.
The BBC can, and must, do better. So must the other organisations those people work for. If speaking out makes even the smallest contribution to change, then the pain won't have been for nothing.
If you are struggling, @beatED's helpline is free on 0808 801 0677.
#MentalHealthAtWork #DutyOfCare #Anorexia #BBC #Antisemitism
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So, after coming for women, and coming for gay people, @GoodLawProject has come for the Jews. Jewish kids to be precise.
This utter piece of shit wants to launch a legal action against a government report that exposes how Jewish children are getting hissing gas noises made at them in school.
Let me lay this out very clearly Jolyon Maugham, because you appear to be a litigious fellow: as well as being a misogynist, and a homophobe, I believe you are a disgusting antisemite.
Now sue me you fucking cunt.
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The Supreme Court has granted permission to @CST_UK and Jewish Leadership Council to intervene in the appeal relating to the proscription of Palestine Action. Our intervention can be found in full here: supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2…
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I had intended to limit my public response to Lucy Kon’s story, allowing her to speak for herself. Her account had already attracted considerable attention within the Jewish community and the wider journalistic community.
But after reading today’s report in @thetimes, I believe remaining silent would be a dereliction of duty.
The Jewish community is one of the UK’s smallest minorities. What happens to individual Jews resonates far beyond those directly affected. Others read these accounts and recognise their own experiences, or fear they could be next. The chilling effect is profound.
Lucy Kon’s story cannot simply be dismissed as an isolated incident. It raises serious questions about a wider climate in which Jews face exclusion and public pressure, while too many people find it easier to acquiesce than to challenge it.
Little by little, British Jews are being made to feel that their identity puts them on the defensive. Each account of someone being silenced, marginalised or shown the door sends a message to many others: speaking openly about who you are may come at a cost.
The strength of a democratic society is measured by how it treats its minorities. British Jews deserve the same freedom, dignity and protection as everyone else.
Especially from the state.
Today’s @thetimes column is an interview with @imluciekon, an award-winning producer who was dealing with antisemitic bullying and had to fight for her BBC job while in hospital for anorexia
If you’re Jewish you’ll be an unperson at the BBC
thetimes.com/article/ad6378d…
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Serious questions for the BBC. Jeremy Bowen publicly describes genocide in Gaza as “clear”, yet his bosses appear to have accepted his explanation without seeing the full footage. Is this really accountability? BBC impartiality must mean something.
Important investigation by @jamie_shapiro in @JewishChron.
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On this day—November 2, 1917
A 67-word letter changed the course of Jewish history.
The Balfour Declaration from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object…”
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson approved the text in advance, both Houses of the U.S. Congress unanimously endorsed it in 1922, and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine unanimously made the recognition binding international law.
The Mandate’s preamble stated: “recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
Political rights of self-determination as a people were granted to the Jewish people. Civil and religious rights were guaranteed to all. No Arab political rights as a polity were conferred in this Mandate since they were already assigned in the exponentially more vast and separate League mandates for Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq (plus Transjordan once Britain sliced that out of the Mandate for Palestine).
The Mandate was never amended or revoked, and Article 80 of the UN Charter preserves its terms as a sacred trust. Uncomfortable fact for many: Jewish settlement rights from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea remain unaltered in international law.
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The state of political discourse from an Abdul El-Sayed supporter.
🚨🚨 JUST NOW: Deranged Abdul Supporter tackled a Jewish girl (@basedinmalibu) at free speech event.
She was SWIFTLY arrested, resisted and then said “I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HER!!” As she was loaded into the police vehicle.
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Telling the story of what happened in my last years at the BBC has meant being honest about something I have found even harder to talk about.
After I raised a grievance about antisemitism, I was gradually isolated and denied more and more of the job I loved so much. The loneliness of that took a serious toll on my mental health. I became ill with anorexia, a recurrence of an illness I had when I was younger, but this time it came back with a vengeance. Each time I thought I was taking a step or two forward, something would happen at work that knocked me back.
I was ashamed, and at times I am not sure I was believed. I kept trying to explain that I was struggling. More than once I was told I wasn’t the only one. I felt like colleagues thought I was making it up.
Since February last year I have been admitted to hospital four times. The most recent admission, and I hope the last, was for three months over the summer. The NHS staff on that ward saved me.
I’m sharing this because if I was going to tell my story honestly, I had to tell all of it. Shame keeps people silent. Anorexia is an illness, not a choice and not a weakness, and no one who is this unwell should have to prove it.
Swipe for some of what I was told along the way.
@HadleyFreeman has also struggled with anorexia, and in her brilliant piece in The Sunday Times she writes about our shared experience. Thank you, Hadley.
If you are struggling, or worried about someone, @beatedsupport
helpline is free on 0808 801 0677.
thetimes.com/article/ad6378d…
#Anorexia #EatingDisorders #EatingDisorderRecovery #MentalHealth #mentalhealthatwork
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🚨 NEW! Investigation by @LabourAgainstAS
Campaign against footballer Manor Solomon supported by councillors
Alex Hearn, of Labour Against Antisemitism, said: “Solomon’s done nothing except be an Israeli footballer. Hounding a player out of his job because of where he comes from is not activism, it’s bigotry. No elected councillor should be anywhere near it.”
(Link in next post)
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I want to share some of what I have personally experienced in the past few weeks because I believe others who speak out against the Islamic regime in Iran need to understand how these operations work.
I am an American-Israeli journalist covering Iran, and I have been repeatedly targeted by sophisticated cyberattacks, attempted espionage, and coordinated online harassment campaigns.
Several months ago, the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence publicly designated me an enemy of the regime, placing me second on a list of individuals it considers particularly hostile. In recent weeks, the targeting has escalated significantly.
Here is what has been happening:
1. Google has repeatedly warned me that government-backed attackers are targeting my accounts.
I have received multiple official Google security warnings involving more than one of my accounts. These are not the first warnings: Google also notified me of government-backed attempts to compromise my accounts in 2024.
2. Someone hacked the X account of an academic I personally know, and used it to lure me into a phishing operation.
On September 30, I received a message from the account of Daniel Pipes, an academic I know personally, inviting me to discuss a new project. A woman posing as his assistant subsequently contacted me through email and WhatsApp, arranged a meeting, and sent what appeared to be a Google Meet invitation.
When I clicked the link, I was redirected to a suspicious website asking me to sign into my Google account. I refused to enter my credentials. The supposed assistant insisted that the website was their internal server and that it was safe. I refused again. I later contacted the real Daniel Pipes, who confirmed that his account had been compromised and that he had never sent me those messages.
3. Last week, I was targeted with a remote-access Trojan disguised as a copyright infringement lawsuit.
An email accusing me of copyright violations on social media directed me to download a file supposedly related to legal proceedings. I suspected it was malicious and did not download it. Examination of the file in an isolated sandbox environment identified what appeared to be Parallax RAT, malware capable of providing attackers with remote access to an infected computer.
4. I have also been subjected to coordinated online character assassination and disinformation campaigns, including activity linked to the IRGC.
These campaigns have involved vicious sexist attacks against me, racist attacks against my partner, and the deliberate circulation of false allegations about my political positions and activities. Among the fabrications are claims that I supposedly “vote for Arab parties” in Israel, alongside other invented narratives intended to discredit me and drive wedges between Iranians and Israelis.
My message to other journalists, dissidents, activists, and anyone speaking out against the Islamic Republic is simple: take these threats seriously.
The people targeting you may not appear as strangers. They may impersonate your friends, colleagues, professional contacts, or legitimate institutions. Their attacks may unfold over days or weeks and involve multiple platforms to establish credibility.
Verify unusual requests, even when they appear to come from someone you know. Protect your accounts and be extremely cautious with unfamiliar links and attachments.
Cc: @israelpolice
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“The recent abuse against him was bolstered by the Tower Hamlets Palestine Solidarity Network, created and run by councillor Faysal Ahmed.
Sharing an image from the video, it wrote: “Activists hammer home the message: Kick out baby killer Manor Solomon from West Ham United.”
At least seven other Tower Hamlets councillors are members of the group’s Facebook page.”
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I feel lucky to be Israeli.
Out of 14m Palestinians in the Middle East, Arab Israelis are the *only* ones that get a vote.
Palestinians in West Bank haven't voted since 2006, stuck under a 90 year old dictator.
Lebanese Palestinians don't even get the citizenship.
Jordanian Palestinians have a.........king.
You may not like this, but the best thing to happen to Palestinians is to live inside Israel.
Eat your heart out.
Wonder what the clown, @nasdaily is feeling right now after Zionists have shed their mask about what they actually feel about "Arab Israelis" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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I want you all to know this.
There are 650 MPs in Parliament. Yet the one MP chosen by @UKLabour to Chair the Bill Committee for the controversial, dangerous and dismally bad draft legislation, the Conversion Practices Bill, is Alex Barros-Curtis. Until July 2024, when Alex was given a very safe Labour seat in Cardiff, he was the Head of the Labour Party's Governance and Legal Unit in London. This was a department set up to investigate complaints against members of the Labour Party. Complaints of antisemitism, Islamophobia, abuse, and of course latterly, mostly women holding legally-protected 'Gender Critical' (sex realist) beliefs. Alex oversaw the investigation of hundreds of members who liked or tweeted gender critical or feminist views. I was one of them. He investigated me, as a sitting Labour MP, for 13 months.
13 months to 'investigate' one like of one tweet. I had a great lawyer, one of the names we're all now familiar with, and I had to crowdfund to pay for his (excellent) work.
They first tried in 2020. But the screenshots crudely attached to that passive aggressive, threatening-sounding email from LP admin staff were so risible that I replied that it was too ridiculous for me to waste my precious time on. They left it. Years of Starmer bumbling and stuttering through interviews about whether he had spoken to me, whether he supported me, etc followed. My feminist sins continued apace.
And then I 'liked' a tweet by my GC comedian friend @Glinner. He had mocked Eddie'Suzy' for comparing his choice to wear traditional women's clothing, fake plastic breasts and nails, to those being persecuted by the Nazis during WWII. I found his sarcasm, as a award-winning comedy writer in the face of such offensive narcissism amusing and so 'liked' it. I found it absurd and obscene that Izzard, an extremely privileged and wealthy man, who openly changed his 'gender' at will, should write himself into history falseley as someone who would have been oppressed due to a circumstance beyond his control. We all know the groups who were tortured, starved and killed...
There is obviously more to my story, I will tell it all, it's just one chapter of the years of spiteful abusive and bullying practices meted out to me by the Labour Party managers. Not those who'd achieved office on merit, or even unexpectedly, but those in the club, often having failed to be elected themselves.
So Barros-Curtis who we were repeatedly told led 'the many *independent* inquiries into women members and MPs like me, now often stands as a trans-rights activist on the Labour backbenches. He has also been gifted the role of Chair of this Committee and is a huge supporter of this Bill. And I am not a part of the Bill Committee, although plenty of TRA MPs are. Does that sound like the democratic scrutiny of legislation to you?
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The “Zionism is settler colonialism” claim rests on early Zionists using the word “colony.”
In the 1880s–1910s, that word simply meant a new agricultural settlement. The Jewish Colonization Association used the same term for farms in Argentina.
There was no metropole and no resource extraction for an empire. Just Jews buying land and building self-governing communities in their ancestral homeland.
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I was just in Israel with @Mr_Andrew_Fox - part of a larger group of journalists and think tank people hosted by the Israel Press Club.
We spoke to many high ranking people, some on the record, many off.
Almost all spoke about Britain with warmth as a great country but also spoke as an increasingly hostile state.
They all described how our government is blowing up our relationship with Israel for internal political reasons. And because of a moral blindness.
They recognise that moral blindness. They once tried to appease Islamism, ignore the rhetoric of hatred.
The consensus thought in Israel was one of appeasement - let Hamas have the Qatari millions, trust that when they say they want to destroy Israel they aren’t really mad enough to attempt it.
That blew up in their faces on October 7 and they see our country as foolish for not learning that lesson.
And, as Andrew points out, the violence is already here in the UK too. It’s just over a year since the terrorist attack at Heaton Park killed two people. We’ve had stabbings, ambulances and synagogues set on fire.
We have had multiple cases of people either in prison or going through the court system for attempted terrorist attacks on my tiny community.
The hatred was uncorked on October 7 2023 when people in our country were in the streets celebrating the murder of Jews and the establishment, the DEI departments, the feminist groups, seemed unable to condemn any of it. There has been no let up since.
It unleashed this centuries old hatred and it’s been fed by an obsession which means Israel has been discussed in the Commons more than the NHS while BBC Verify has done more ‘investigations’ into Israel than all the UK stories put together.
The obsession, the skewed narrative in which Hamas is almost always missing is dangerous. And they know it is.
The response has simply been defence. Higher walls around our schools and synagogues. We don’t want higher walls. We want our government to stop appeasing the beast. We want the demonisation of Jews in the guise of Zionists to stop.
And if they aren’t doing it for us, they should do it for everyone else.
Because we are just the first in line.
A week of Jewish hospitality in Israel has left me ashamed of the welcome Britain offers its own Jews. My latest essay is a love letter to people who should never have to wonder whether they belong in the country they call home.
mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/a…
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On a brief trip to Jerusalem yesterday, I managed to get something I’ve long coveted. It’s an ancient Judean coin turned into a necklace.
It’s an incredible 2000 years old bronze prutot from the time of the Emperor Claudius - celebrating the birth of the emperor’s son Britannicus. The Roman province was being by administered by Antonius Felix (52-59 CE). It was just a few years since Jesus had been killed and the early Christians were still seen as a Jewish sect and going to the Temple in Jerusalem.
It was a Jewish state and had been for more than 500 years.
Just a few years later, after a rebellion, the Romans sacked Jerusalem and expelled the Judeans: the Jews. Some were taken as slaves, others fled. A few stayed, impoverished, treated badly and often even refused permission to go to the Western wall, all that remained of the great temple.
The descendants of those who fled ended up in all corners of the world but the desire to return always remained a central hope: particularly as in almost every land Jews were reminded they were outsiders, foreigners, not wanted, at best treated as second class citizens, at worse, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
So when ignorant people say Jews took someone else’s homeland I ask them to think about this history.
When the Zionists returned to their brethren in what is now the state of Israel, they joined Jews who had been there for centuries.
There has always been room to share: just this week the world has been forced to see that there is a very politically active Arab minority living in Israel who took part in the vote for the only democracy in the Middle East.
And I would ask these antizionists who hate us so, who deny this is our homeland too, where would you like the Jews to go?
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Last night, the exit polls told one story: Netanyahu had lost, but it wasn’t clear who on the other side had won. This morning, the results are telling another. Netanyahu hasn’t won yet, but the change bloc has clearly lost.
I’ve covered politics since the start of the century. I have never seen a camp organize for an election as impeccably, as efficiently and as energetically as the change bloc did. It signed model surplus-vote agreements, so that no leftover votes would go to waste, and ran an unprecedented operation flying Israelis home from abroad to vote. And by the actual count, it ended up with more or less the same number of seats as in the last election.
Demography beat energy, and the message also proved flawed and unsuccessful. The public wasn’t convinced that the war had been a total victory, as Netanyahu claimed, but it also refused to buy the opposition’s claim that it was a total failure. It was repelled by Haredi draft-dodging, but didn’t think the solution was a minority government propped up by draft refusers and anti-Zionists. It was disgusted when ultra-Orthodox protesters chanted “We do not believe in the rule of the Zionists,” but it was just as shocked when “Biladi, Biladi,” the Palestinian national anthem, was sung at the Joint List’s headquarters last night.
Netanyahu’s position changed completely between the release of the exit polls and the arrival of the real results. Last night it seemed clear that Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, a Likud loyalist, would be ousted and that, one way or another, Gadi Eisenkot, the former IDF chief of staff, would form a minority government. Now, by the criteria Eisenkot himself set, he has lost the legitimacy to form such a government. He promised he wouldn’t rely on the Arab parties’ votes, yet without a majority he would now need the active support of the Joint List, which looks futile and pointless. In post-October 7 Israel, there is no chance that a coalition including six candidates who lost immediate family to Hamas could last long alongside Joint List lawmakers who claim Hamas is simply a charitable organization.
After the 1967 war, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan famously said Israel was waiting for the Arabs to call. In the same spirit, Netanyahu in effect told the change camp before dawn: here’s my phone number, feel free to use it. Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Lieberman, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Eisenkot now face a dilemma from hell. They can go to another election, one that Israelis abroad will no longer fly home for. They can try to join Netanyahu’s bloc on tough terms, breaking their campaign pledges never to sit with him. Or they can beg the Islamist Ra’am and the Joint List, now drunk on their success, for support.
And one final note: for the entire campaign, we searched for a third bloc, a centrist unity bloc between Netanyahu and his rivals. Candidates included Benny Gantz and former UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, former general Ofer Winter and economist Yaron Zelekha, former Culture Minister Hili Tropper and who even remembers who else. They all collapsed, evaporated or vanished. And now it turns out the unity bloc may have been the Arab parties all along. Their historic, almost hysterical turnout, at rates that will need careful examination, shattered both sides’ dreams of a 61-seat majority. It reminded Jews on both sides that, after years of division, they may have to learn to sit together after all.
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On this day—October 28, 1917
31 years before the modern State of Israel and months before even Balfour, The Sun reported “Terror in Palestine”: 300 Jews deported from Jerusalem, 8,000 Jaffa Jews evicted with houses looted, two Yemeni Jews hanged at the entrance to Tel Aviv.
Ottoman governor Jamal Pasha ordered the mass expulsion of the Jews of Jaffa and Tel Aviv. Thousands were expelled with little or nothing. Many died from exposure, disease, and starvation. Properties were looted. Witnesses described hangings and bodies left in the dunes.
There was no “occupation,” no “settlements,” no Netanyahu, not even a State of Israel. Still, Jews in the Land were driven from their homes and killed.
So what's the conflict really about?
