Journalist writing about all things arts & politics. Book lover, mother of monkeys, vaccine volunteer, Jewish feminist ✡️ This is a Zelenskyy stan account. 🎗️
This morning I’m at a conference at the House of Lords hosted by Sheryl Sandberg about the rapes of October 7 and the likely ongoing rapes of hostages.
She started with these words that many so-called feminist groups in this country should take heed of:
‘If we can't agree that…
At the Tate Modern last night, a group of extraordinary women reminded a feminist crowd gathered about the rapes of Israeli women and the ongoing horror of the hostages.
The tape across their mouths is a reminder of silence of the feminist organisations who have failed to speak…
My boys asked why I was crying and I told them that when I was little girls weren’t allowed to play football (outside than in the garden or park). There’s been such a fight to get here before they even entered the stadium glorious
#Lionesses
Two survivors of the Nova festival in which 330 young people were killed by Hamas terrorists were interrogated for TWO HOURS at Manchester Airport by overzealous immigration officials who told them, ‘we are the boss not you’ and they ‘had to make sure that you are not going to do…
We have been made aware that survivors of the 7th October terrorist attack on the Re’Im Music Festival were discriminated against by
@UKBorder
when arriving
@manairport
.
We have requested an urgent investigation is commenced and assurances are received to ensure passengers with…
Yesterday, to hurt
@jk_rowling
who had defended me, trolls labelled me a ‘Holocaust denier’. Ironically the hateful messages swirled in as I was in the
@UKHouseofLords
at an event celebrating women who fight antisemitism. 1/
Why are the people calling for a ceasefire not demanding:
1) the return of the hostages
2) the surrender of Hamas
3) Qatar arrest Hamas leaders
4) Iran stops funding terrorism?
📢GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION:
#CEASEFIRENOW
🌍
Today, on December 18th, people worldwide are uniting to call for a sustained ceasefire in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Humanitarian organizations and individuals from 90+ countries are coming together - with over 3…
My interview with the brilliant
#Fauda
co-creator
@issacharoff
who knows more about the Palestinians than almost anyone else in Israel.
Speaking in London about the reaction of some in the West he says: “I can’t get over how ignorant these people are. When they say ‘Free…
I’m thinking of the 19 young women still hostage in Gaza almost five months after they were stolen from their beds, or kidnapped from a party.
We need them back.
#BringBackOurGirls
One of the interesting things about the Israel demos is that they have all had a number of Iranians attending.
Persians - who know what extremist Islamism did to their country - see echoes of their leaders in Hamas. 1/2
This week, with
@JournalistJill
, I’ve been looking into gender neutral changing rooms. Thank you to all who got in touch about your experiences in gender neutral changing rooms; we didn’t have room for all the horror stories 🧵👇🏼
So the Guardian writer who hosted Channel 4’s ‘How Not To Be A Racist’ ‘misjudged’ by retweeting antisemitic content. You couldn’t make it up, could you?
Heidi’s family includes an 18-year-old girl murdered on October 7 and the teenager’s dad who is still being held hostage.
Look at how these utter c
@nts
behaved when they saw her.
I just tried to attend my local Labour campaign to see what the MP candidate was about. The pro-Pals blocked me, yelled my name, shouted “shame on you” and “you’ve got blood on your hands”. I didn’t go in. They are schoolground bullies disrupting democracy. Shame on *them*.
WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!
An afternoon in the life of a COVID vaccinator.
I did my first shift today. It was exciting, amazing, to be part of the national effort to give everyone some liquid gold in their arms. I thought you might be interested to learn what it was like.
I just got off the phone with a very frightened Manchester University student. These posters have been put all over her university.
The Jewish Society kids are too scared to even go to a vigil for the fallen dead.
This meeting will celebrate heinous violence.
@BritishQuakers
My interview with a British born IDf soldier:
‘Going into Gaza we also saw the scale of what we were fighting. I would say that 75 per cent if not more of the homes we went into had some sort of affiliation with Hamas. Lots of weapons; we’d find RPGs and grenades on the floor.…
There’s quite an interesting row brewing between press regulator
@IpsoNews
and newspapers where I’ve seen at least two female columnists call Scottish rapist Isla Bryson/ Adam Graham with male pronouns….this battle has been a long time coming.
If you want to understand how insidious gender ideology is for young people, you don’t need to look any further than the way the Tate Gallery explores the Brit Jewish artist Marlow Moss by retrospectively deciding she was non binary - but only in the information for kids.
👇🏼🧵
"She must be saying every day, 'where's my daddy. why hasn't he come to save me?'"
The father of 9-year-old hostage Emily Hand describes his 'nightmare' of trying to rescue his daughter from Hamas terrorists.
It’s all kicking off on the FB Keir Starmer Supporters Forum with a Labour press officer telling women concerned about female safe spaces that they should go and join the Tories. 🧵👇🏼
If you see this placard tomorrow come say hi.
The photo is of Shani Louk who was murdered by Hamas terrorists, her body paraded around the streets of Gaza and spat on.
You can read more about the challenge to get charities to care about Jewish women in my pinned post.
Gary Lineker has strayed from politics into advocating that Israel should be banned from international football matches.
This is now about the actual job he does as the best paid presenter for BBC television - a sports presenter who is expressing the opinion that a team should…
This is anecdotal. On Wednesday I was with a group of other journalists at an off the record briefing from an Israeli official on this subject.
He told us that a UN advisor told him he witnessed one of these trucks being held up by Hamas and stealing an incredible 90 per cent of…
This aid has all accumulated and is waiting for
@UNRWA
and other
@UN
aid orgs to distribute it. This is the equivalent of hundreds of aid trucks—which isn’t being distributed to Gazan civilians.
We remain committed to the transfer of aid to Gaza.
Shari Mendes, a volunteer who helped look after the bodies of female IDF soldiers, described how the were shot so many times in the face that their faces were destroyed. They came in with blooded knickers, or totally naked, they had limbs hacked off, they were shot in their…
A mother, worried about these images of a Girl Guide leader writes to the organisation about her concerns.
The response she gets is a visit from the police threatening to charge her.
This is dystopian stuff.
Ok, this is what it feels like. People who have never cared about antisemitism before are suddenly furious about some banker goblins in a film series which is 20 years old because it’s a way of having a pop at
@jk_rowling
who still hasn’t been cancelled on a different subject.
The Jewish community has had few more steadfast friends than
@RosieDuffield1
.
Women have had few more vocal advocates in Labour that Rosie.
THIS IS APPALLING.
Labour MP Rosie Duffield ‘targeted in antisemitism row due to her trans views’
1/2
This gorgeous young lady is Abigail. She’s 12 and she’s in hospital with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. She’s about to lose her hair but she’s still smiling. Can you help keep her smiling through the next few difficult months of treatment?
This Iranian hero was arrested after he was attacked because he held up a placard saying ‘Hamas is terrorist’.
Police took him away from a violent mob who cried ‘shame’ at his placard. The placard which is UK govt policy.
He has now been ‘de-arrested’ but the Hamas supporters…
Cherie Blair told the committee she felt ‘humbled’ and ‘ashamed’ adding:
‘People don't want to hear that this is happening because it interferes with the narrative of the good guys and the bad guys. Life isn't just good or bad. And when bad things happen, it happens to people,…
Why are racism and antisemitism given a free pass on Twitter but women who speak about biological fact suspended and even arrested by the police? How did we get here?
OK. So I risk losing my Twitter account with this tweet as two women have been suspended from Twitter in last few hours for saying something about this player in the Gaelic women’s football team. But courage calls to courage etc. Name of Giulia. No, not the one in blue…
It’s hard to know what to say to a young man whose 19-year-old little sister has become the global face of the inhumanity of Hamas.
All he knows about his sister Na’ama is that when she was last seen (by other hostages) in Gaza she was injured.
I told him we are thinking of…
Somehow my baby boy is today 15, is taller than me and refuses to shave off his moustache. Motherhood is the most life-changing thing that ever happened to me. How dare men try and steal the word mother from us?
Once again London will be taken over by fans of Hamas on Saturday.
But this weekend there will also be a counter demo starting at 12pm. For info use the link 👇🏼
🇮🇱🇬🇧A call for action 🇮🇱🇬🇧
Come stand with us this Saturday in central London and say Enough is enough
Terror…
Antisemitism will not be tolerated in our city. I’m appalled by reports of an antisemitic incident in Leicester Square over the weekend. The Met Police are now investigating it as a hate crime.
I urge you to report any information you have about this incident:
This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Our prayers have been answered.
If you are among the 2billion+ people on earth about to celebrate the birth of a Jewish man in a Jewish land who preached in a Jewish temple in Jerusalem 2023 years ago - and yet don’t think Jews should be allowed to live there now, give your head a wobble.
This is how the Info Wars work
This is a photo from Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv was founded by 66 Jewish families in 1909
They literally started with sand dunes and built one of the world’s great cities
Patrick is trying to twist this brilliance to work against Jews
@SoozUK
Trans women have been through male puberty Sooz. That gives them an advantage over females that we can’t pretend isn’t there, however much you want to. The vast majority of experts in the field know this is unfair. Happy to help!
‘If you are going into a unisex changing room don’t go alone.’
Two men separately barge in as this young woman is changing at
@Primark
.
We said this would happen.
Unisex changing rooms aren’t inclusive. They are dangerous to women and girls.
Confirmation here - they’ve cancelled her press engagements to promote her album.
Because she said she was worried about puberty blockers.
This is what cancel culture looks like.
The BBC’s
@BBCr4today
just lies here - dangerous lies.
Israel has not deliberately ‘murdered tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians’.
Dangerous inflammatory language.
BREAKING:
@glastonbury
cancels screening of the Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie film. In a comment they tell me they stand against all forms of discrimination:
Every Jewish person I know is on edge. These stories are the tip of the iceberg: every day people are sending me instances of antisemitism in schools, universities, in their workplaces, in the streets.
We wonder where it is going to end and why people aren’t doing more to stop…
Today we’ve had:
a) 2 Labour candidates suspended for anti-Semitism
b) 3 people convicted of arousing suspicion of supporting an anti-Semitic terrorist organisation
c) A London theatre ban a comedian who ordered a Jewish audience member out of his gig.
One day. Britain. 2024
Most of the victims of the Hamas sexual violence are dead. A few are still in Gaza. The rest too traumatised to speak publicly.
But, for the first time, one of the returned hostages has spoken in detail about the sexual assault she endured in Gaza.
This is why we need to bring…
This is the most important post I have made since October 7.
Even if I was given all the time in the world, I could not do what Amit Soussana has just done. she has just come forth and told the world, in her own voice, how she was abducted by Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
"Ms.…
Yes I know that we are not in a war zone.
But this is beginning to feel really dangerous.
Most Jews are Zionists because if you know what happened in the Holocaust and how every country shut its doors to Jews you know we need a country.
This sign is effectively saying ‘Jews…
Birmingham University, today, 2024.
We need a ceasefire here in the United Kingdom—a ceasefire from the virulent hatred towards Jewish people that has been allowed to run wild since October 7.
Jewish students should not have to fear going into university. Enough is enough.
@tomcoates
@UnderTheThunde2
@iseult
@amscanlon
@Lorna9100M
I’m doing neither. I’m asking, as a Jewish person, that trans rights activists stop appropriating the Holocaust which was aimed at Jewish people. That takes away nothing from the many other crimes perpetrated by the Nazis. How about they show sensitivity to other minorities?
Many of the speeches there were about how internet trolls like to target Jewish women. But they won’t and they can’t shut us up.
This thread is about the Holocaust: what it was, what it wasn’t and the many crimes of the monstrous Nazis. 2/
By the end of this interview we were both in tears.
I hope Yoni gets his Naama back. The silence of the women - so many powerful women - on what Hamas has been doing to young women is shameful.
Being a student is, of course, a time to be an idiot but at
@ucl
in London they have really taken it to a new extreme.
A few of them are staging a sit-in demanding that a building is named after a former student called Refaat Alareer. He recently came to attention for joking…
Shifa Hospital: Hamas senior commander reveals that 600-1000 terrorists hid in the hospital.
He also disclosed that Hamas hid weapons in the hospital and used the management building and maternity ward to conduct terrorist activities from.
Jewish students at Leeds are so worried at the growing intimidation on campus that at least one has left.
Yesterday antisemitic graffiti was left on the Jewish building Hillel House. What does a
@BBCNews
report do? It prints the Hillel House address 🤦🏽♀️
I’m sure this was error…
When the
@metpoliceuk
refuse to arrest Hamas supporters with a swastika sign today in London one officer told a girl that swastikas disturbing public order “depends on context”
If you’re holding a sign with a swastika at an anti-Israel march — this is blatantly antisemitic. Come…
How many times are the Guardian going to bemoan the culture which enabled Brand’s form of misogyny without mentioning THEY were the newspaper which gave him a column?
People keep sending me antisemitism.
Some of it is malicious & targeted at me.
Mostly it’s other Jews pleading, ‘what can you do about this?’
The problem is there is so much antisemitism it is overwhelming.
I’m going to show you some antisemitism, so you see it to 👇🏼🧵
Every day people are writing to me to tell me about the antisemitism they’ve experienced. These figures don’t surprise me. I’m finding it overwhelming and frightening.