Zoe Strimpel Profile
Zoe Strimpel

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Historian of gender, Sunday Telegraph columnist, Spectator, Jewish Chronicle, R4. Sincere contrarian. Very bad chess player.

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Zoe Strimpel
4 years
My column in @Telegraph today: 'In daring to point out one ugly and disturbing aspect of a mass movement, I had riled some of its supporters. But in calling that disturbing aspect out as anti-Semitism, I had invited spitting derision.'
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Zoe Strimpel
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I voted Remain and never became a fanatical Leaver. But it seems that being outside the EU – even for a month – has saved thousands of British lives.
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3 years
My interview with the fabulous, thoughtful @bariweiss in today’s Sunday Tel. Great to get to discuss her brilliant work for a UK audience
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Zoe Strimpel
2 years
I had a brilliant time interviewing @AbigailShrier - whose extreme intelligence, wit and courage changed the whole conversation Abigail Shrier: Taking on the trans lobby has made me Public Enemy No 1
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Zoe Strimpel
4 months
I interviewed @YasMohammedxx , half-Gazan, half Egyptian, married at 19 to an Al Qaeda operative, and now one of the most astute critics of Islam, the hypocrisy and anti-Semitism of much of the pro-Palestine crowd, and the idea that Hamas = Palestine
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
In Reuters and The Times, but *totally unreported* in NY Times and BBC six hours after the story splashed on the Tel website. Weird thing to keep quiet.Hamas plot to attack Jewish sites across Europe foiled by police
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
Genuinely flattered! Thank you.
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2 years
My interview with political philosopher-entrepreneur @VivekGRamaswamy about how corporate woke is eating away at democracy. I thoroughly enjoyed engaging with his ideas and arguments
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2 years
Me on ⁦⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ on the collapse of Western authority, self and geopolitical understanding— and the predictably catastrophic results of our politics of retrenchment, appeasement and pacifism - thanks ⁦ @petersavodnik ⁩ for being a great ed
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
Musk appaz wants to downplay posts with links on X, because links take people away from X. But they do the opposite: they keep people like me coming back for more, using X as a curated news source. Without links it’s just tiresome grandstanding and pronouncements
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
Only the Jews: massacred, terrorised and kidnapped — and the the biggest police forces in the West have to launch patrols to protect JEWS, not those of the religion of their attackers
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2 months
My interview with @AbigailShrier — as usual this force of nature nails the truth and doesn’t care if you like it or not The stifling pathologisation of children for basically being human is proving lethal,as per her new book Bad Therapy via @JewishChron
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Zoe Strimpel
3 years
People often rail about politics and culture wars and so on in conceptual and psychological terms, forgetting that these things map directly onto physical harm and safety.
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
Jesus. Braverman did not 'incite violence'. In calling out as haters those screaming "Hitler should have finished the job" and wearing Hamas outfits, how is SHE the one inciting hatred?I'd have thought anti-semites storming through streets are solely responsible on that front
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This is indeed a tragedy, like all innocent lives lost. But it's a war, and they were working in a warzone, which carries terrible risk. Why is the world acting like it was some kind of sadistic murder? Oh, because Jews.
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'the family who brought the High Court case are sending another child to the school in September and also planning a separate legal action.' The crafty entitlement is ASTOUNDING
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Zoe Strimpel
2 years
I wrote about how feminism went weird about women for the divine @bariweiss
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Abigail Shrier
2 years
“Post-Feminist Feminism …is not about liberating women. It’s about pushing women out of college sports. It’s about telling girls they aren’t lesbians or tomboys, men struggling to find themselves.” Love this piece, by the unstoppable @realzoestrimpel
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As the mob high and low rages and organises against Israeli 'genocide'... my column says: 'The Israel Defence Forces are the most moral soldiers in the world'
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2 months
How utterly disgusting. Not that it’s a surprise from this passionate antisemite
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Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
2 months
My thoughts today are with the women & young girls of Gaza.May they find the "second of safety" they desperately need. My thoughts also go to the Israeli women,especially the soldiers: what have you done,what have you become. Dears, when you realise it,you will be haunted forever
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3 years
My interview with the very funny, extremely sharp and exceptionally wise @JohnHMcWhorter in today’s @Telegraph about his new book Woke Racism and why the ‘religion’ of woke is only holding back the people it purports to serve
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Zoe Strimpel
4 months
More than half an hour for the police to come to a terrifying anti-Semitic pile-on. Three attacked in Leicester Square ‘for being Jewish’ and 'speaking Hebrew'
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1 year
I get antsy when people - ok, men - start talking with certainty about ‘women’ and what constitutes ‘their long-term happiness’. Translation: women, stop lying to yourselves (and inconveniencing us) and go realise yourselves in the kitchen as mothers of seven
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Konstantin Kisin
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One of the biggest unspoken truths of modern Western society is that women have been brainwashed into acting in ways that are fundamentally against their own long term happiness and well-being in order to maintain the myth that men and women are the same. It's tragic but...
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Zoe Strimpel
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Hamas is laughing its head off.Many smirks and chuckles.That's what happens when you make the whole world an evil fool and it merrily plays along. Hamas *always* knew it could fully indulge its sadistic taste for murdering Israelis and the world would still deplore *only* ISRAEL.
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
Me in @Telegraph : "While lefties bleat about Islamophobia, Jews like me look askance at the chanting and cheering in Muslim communities in response to Hamas’s murder of hundreds of Israelis."
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
So many excuses made for the unbridled antisemitism uniting elites,old lefties,rock stars,BLM-ers and many Muslims-it’s their ‘ignorance’,their ‘cowardice’;their ‘education’,it’s a misguided interpretation of postcolonial theory. No: it’s simpler and darker than all of the above
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
I never had high hopes for the right and especially the far right. Who would, re the latter? But what a disappointment the global left has become - my column in @Telegraph
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
A lovely bunch of innocents being released from Israeli jails in exchange for 5 year olds
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Zoe Strimpel
3 years
For many, ten days spent under lock and key in a quarantine hotel room would be deeply traumatic – never mind civil liberties, what about human rights? Britain can and MUST do better @grantshapps @michaelgove @RishiSunak
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Zoe Strimpel
1 year
Tonight on @BBCRadio4 at 20.30, my doc is a must-listen for anyone who has ever had a row about Brexit, empire or Britain’s future, with some fabulous interviewees, including @lindacolley @redhistorian @DavidDeutschOxf @daliagebrial
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Zoe Strimpel
2 years
Margaret Thatcher on events in Tianenmen Square, June 1989. ‘It shows communism stands ready to impose its will by force… we must take that into account on our views on defence…’. How she’d be squrming at the West’s response to Russia, China and Iran today…
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Zoe Strimpel
1 month
My @Telegraph column. That hundreds of Britain's political and legal grandees – including Tories – are demanding an arms embargo to Israel is pusillanimous and dangerous. They should be shamed, not taken seriously
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
We're not crying 'ism': these are not metaphorical issues of safety and we have left the domain of discourse: Jews are once again in real, physical peril: my latest @telegraph column
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
Me on the moral abomination that is the UN – which has hated Israel since the 1970s and, indulging China and Russia, seems more committed to destroying peace than promoting it
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Zoe Strimpel
4 years
And... this Critical Theory student is getting the violins out for the Third Reich in the name of social justice in Britain today.
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
Dude, we thank you, but ‘hatred’ is not where it’s at. That’s schoolroom jargon.Where it’s at is something far more profound, an ancient worldview hinging around the desire to kill Jews,or justify doing so,and to take over the world and make it a caliphate,as per @richard_landes
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Elon Musk
7 months
How many times did you die trying to beat hatred before winning?
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
Israel would do *almost* anything not to have to control Gaza. But it won’t sacrifice the heads of its citizens again
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Elizabeth Warren
6 months
Netanyahu claims that Israel could control Gaza for an “indefinite period.” No. Palestinians have a right to determine their own future. Israeli military occupation of Gaza undermines efforts to build two independent states that advance respect for every human being.
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This shows the strength of what @DavidDeutschOxf calls The Pattern: Labour frontbenchers willing to destroy their careers in order to – let's not mince words – defend the mass murder of Jews
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Zoe Strimpel
2 months
A total delight to sit down with @bariweiss and talk Israel, morality, and both where the West has gone wrong and who can save it — and how. Bari Weiss: 'History has come for Israel, it's come for Ukraine and it will come for the West next'
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Zoe Strimpel
4 months
"Measles is surging again because Covid destroyed trust in the medical establishment" No: measles is back because conspiracy theory destroyed trust in the medical establishment – and in sanity more generally
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Zoe Strimpel
1 year
The launch of The Lesbian Project, @project_lesbian , comes not a moment too soon - well done @bindelj and @Docstockk
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Zoe Strimpel
2 years
Me on @bariweiss substack. War is never nice, but the West’s abandonment of making credible the threat of physical force - an essential component to moral force - has got us here, with bombs raining on the gates of Europe, and with much worse to come as China and Iran look on.
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
Wow. Never thought I’d see UK worse/more craven on Jews than Austria/ the EU. We know where this money goes. The last few days have made it crystal clear. It’s no good lighting up the FCO. Stop the funding now!
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Zoe Strimpel
1 year
Too often, among today's students, a concern for "wellbeing" > zest for learning, reading and thinking. This is the real threat to their wellbeing
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Apparently, I was guilty of affecting their mental well-being | @realzoestrimpel
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Zoe Strimpel
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My @jewishchronicle column on the traitorous Jews who hate Israel.. and yes, Jews Anti-Israel Jews are worse than just antisemitic via @JewishChron
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Zoe Strimpel
1 year
What’s horrifying about not forcing 16-18 year olds to do something they really don’t want to do, and encouraging those who do want to do it… ? Or perhaps @yuanyi_z didn’t read it. Horrifying in its own way ;)
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Yuan Yi Zhu
1 year
Horrifying.
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Zoe Strimpel
4 years
'The elected parties make actual laws, but it is the illiberal left now making all the other laws; those we increasingly must live by if we want to work, express ourselves in public and private, and keep our friends.'
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
At @ucl library. Just outside is a crowd baying for Israel to be cut off from the international community, and cheering at anti-Semitic falsehoods
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Zoe Strimpel
3 years
Me on the death of American science and knowledge growth.
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The Telegraph
3 years
"Professors are tying themselves in knots to avoid describing reality so that students will be politically pacified and not offended" | Writes @realzoestrimpel
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
Yes. Last night I had a finger wagged at me about the IDF’s zest for ‘collective punishment’ of Gazans.Israel never engages in ‘collective punishment’— which it neither has has time or taste for. Plus the IDF’s code of ethics, whose author I’ve interviewed, explicitly forbids it
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David Deutsch
7 months
You're addressing people who are honestly against Hamas's crimes. No such people are opposed to Israel doing what is necessary to end them. Ending "the occupation" or avoiding what many mischievously call 'collective punishment' means perpetuating those crimes. Being complicit.
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
Yes, hundreds of thousands calling for mass pogroms is so ‘disrespectful’
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Rishi Sunak
6 months
My statement on the disrespectful protests planned for Armistice Day.
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Zoe Strimpel
7 months
I think there are clear moral lines: the parallel is with Allied bombing of Germany: to defeat the Nazis, innocent civilians had to die. Few would argue we should not have responded militarily to Hitler’s regime. It’s the same with Israel and Hamas, horrible though that is.
@soniasodha
Sonia Sodha
7 months
There aren’t clear moral lines in this conflict. If you accept Israel has the right to protect its citizens against terror, innocent Palestinian lives will be lost; the question is what can be done to minimise loss of life & worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Awful, but true.
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
Didn’t see this ally coming
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Me in @Telegraph : Britain should be THANKING the Israeli Defence Forces not taking every opportunity to undermine it by sniping and repeating vicious inaccuracies
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Zoe Strimpel
4 months
My @Telegraph column: the hostage families, evacuees and former two-staters I met this week all say the same thing: Israel has woken up to the total war with Islamism — while the West remains stuck in lethal lalaland, repeatedly hitting snooze
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My column in @telegraph Pushed around by Iran and its proxies, Russia and China, the West must remember how to fight. It may already be too late
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1 year
My column in @Telegraph : we're all tired of the culture wars, of woke this and right wing that, but alas, the issues remain important and very stubbornly there
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Zoe Strimpel
1 year
Trains are fun - but air travel is the great wonder of the modern world
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David Frost
1 year
Or alternatively you could stay in the modern world: carry on getting the plane, be there in under 2 hours, no need to wait and change in Brussels, generally for about half the price.
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Zoe Strimpel
3 years
For some women, it’s the *absence* of sexual attention that troubles. My APOV on the matter.
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
Young people in the West have no real idea anymore what war is— why it is waged, and why it isn’t the same as genocide. It’s good they don’t know what war means, maybe. It’s bad they use this ignorance to compound their RAGING ANTISEMITISM
@GretaThunberg
Greta Thunberg
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The death rate in Gaza is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks. Demanding an end to this inexcusable violence is a question of basic humanity. Silence is complicity. You cannot be silent in an unfolding genocide.
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Another false idea is that such a thing as ‘long-term happiness’ for any group a) exists or b) is a proper goal. In fact, being free and miserable/mixed bag or unfree and even more miserable are the two options. I choose the first.
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
A lot of men calling other men great heroes right now on X. Many women are also doing sterling, brave work on Israel and Harvard… just sayin…
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Chris Brunet
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John McWhorter is an American hero
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Zoe Strimpel
3 years
Me on the terrible hypocrisy of those who persist in treating women’s fate in Afghanistan as discourse rather than reality; as the West’s, not the Taliban’s fault.
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Zoe Strimpel
4 months
Come on - it’s nothing to do with trust in Britain’s healthcare system, which has proved remarkably good at vetting and administering vaccines — it’s to do with the *spreading grip of conspiracy theory*
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GB News
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'London is a real hotspot - we've got below 65% uptake of the MMR vaccine, and more broadly about 85% across the UK.' Dr Chris Smith details a rise in vaccine hesitancy across the UK, as the trust in Britain's healthcare system falls.
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Zoe Strimpel
6 months
Just stand down Gary! You won’t win this. Stick to your off-sides rules or whatever
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Douglas Murray
6 months
Also, airhead @GaryLineker . You said the present Conservative government is like the Nazis. But you had nothing to say when Hamas massacred 1,400 Jews. Which ought to spark even your little memory to some extent. So yes. We do know your ‘thoughts’. Such as they are.
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Still NO MENTION in NY Times, Wash Post. Which is odd given that Hamas expanding operations to Europe means US is next. And they can't even insinuate it's the Jews, sorry, the Israelis, practicing deception this time because it's 'European authorities' reporting it
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My interview in today’s @Telegraph with the perennially superb and courageous @Ayaan Hirsi Ali: ‘Britain should take the lead of the English-speaking world’
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Zoe Strimpel
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Old news, nobody cares, why’re they up at all etc but still DISGUSTING - Belsize bloody Park NW3
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My @Telegraph column: she laughs mockingly in court as she’s charged. She lead chants to thousands associated with genocidal antisemitism, yells garbled Marxist nonsense and gleefully disrupts and destroys. Thunberg is a thug.
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Zoe Strimpel
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Belsize Park, West Hampstead, areas with large Jewish communities… I’m seeing a lot of this, and now don’t know if it’s the Met serving ‘community cohesion’ or the pitchforking-wielding mob
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Zoe Strimpel
5 months
The West should be THANKING Israel for single handedly taking on such a nightmarishly difficult global threat— not constantly trying to thwart it and insult it with petty and stupid accusations. Isis was a multi state job, and we didn’t constantly condemn those fighting it
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Zoe Strimpel
2 years
Yes. The lines have also gone dead on improved variant-busting vaccines, and indeed on any forward vaccine policy at all from the Govt. It’s totally mad.
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David Deutsch
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"people don’t like wearing masks, but they’re still needed in crowded indoor places. We need to keep going with vaccinations, which have almost ground to a halt, and use this summer to make our schools and workplaces safe from airborne infections"
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Zoe Strimpel
1 year
I interviewed Judit Polgar in Budapest... and it was every bit as fascinating to meet the real-life Beth Harmon (minus the orphanage and drugs)...and the woman who beat Kasparov, as I had hoped. The queen of chess makes her next move
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Zoe Strimpel
3 months
This is what happens when Holocaust education- and morality tout court - has completely failed. The Overton window shifts in queasy ways and hey presto it’s fine to engage in holocaust denial/ mockery/ distortion
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Jake Wallis Simons
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Comparing Gaza to the Holocaust is profoundly false, offensive and shameful. Drumroll please… This message was sent by Labour MP @KateOsamor to her constituents. As @RishiSunak would say: Is this “the face of the changed Labour Party”? Can you deal with this, @Keir_Starmer ?
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'The officials said they hoped Iran would opt for a smaller-scale strike.' This is ABSURD from the mighty US about IRAN. 'Hope they would opt...?' And:'HMS Lancaster is not expected to join US Naval movements'. No, of course it isn't. Winning is taboo.
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Zoe Strimpel
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Chess is way more seductive and interesting, even to be bad at, than I ever expected. It leaps from board to metaphor to deadly power politics. My thoughts on A Point of View.
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Zoe Strimpel
3 months
Me in @Telegraph — Labour is once again being eaten alive by those who want to harm Jews— too many Muslim voters and the keffiyah-sporting Pro Pal bloc. @DavidLammy comments about UK trying to REWARD Hamas with a state doesn’t bode well.
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Zoe Strimpel
4 months
Yes, being in Israel now is hard and sad but it’s also a relief - nobody tearing down posters of hostages, blaming Israel for genocide and otherwise mocking the Jews for being brutally raped and murdered. Sometimes it actually feels we… belong there!
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Eve Barlow
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I haven’t even been in Israel a week but it’s felt like a year. I have decided to stay here for a while longer because there’s too much to do, and I can’t do enough. Too much to document. Too many hugs to give. Too big a fight to take on. I’ll be honest that I’m also scared to…
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Zoe Strimpel
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Is Britain Exceptional? And how— or how not? This question lies below the big political rifts of our time - and there’s still time to listen on Sounds. Huge thanks to @BenDowell for making it Pick of the Week in Saturday’s Times
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3 years
Cosmetic surgery has entered the realms of empowerment - of a very shaky sort. But why do they do it? #loveisland
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Zoe Strimpel
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My @Telegraph column: all pretence at acknowledging Israel’s cause has gone, replaced with endless blame, antisemitism, and most puzzling, the urge to reward the Palestinian cause
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Zoe Strimpel
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Even the @Telegraph published it prominently as fact. As did @thetimes To quote an Israel analyst I know: "Disgusting"
@omriceren
Omri Ceren
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This is just something Hamas made up and CNN is amplifying it. I haven't even seen a defense of it. It's just CNN amplifying a thing that Hamas made up and then moving on.
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Zoe Strimpel
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The Israeli government is a temporal political problem.Hamas poses an existential ongoing threat whose real nature is entirely irrelevant to whoever is elected to the Knesset. So stop using the former to delegitimise the war against the latter-they are fundmtly separate issues
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