Kebab shop in Manc on my own last night, two meat heads came in; within a minute went "are you a fucking Jew?", then said I'm not British, Jews are "worst of the lot", should be wiped out, gave me the fash salute etc...
Not proud of what I said, disgusted by what I didn't say...
My son is the only Jewish kid at his nursery (to my knowledge) yet they've spent all week doing Hannukah stuff: making dreidls, drawing Star of Davids, lighting candles everyday. Kids came out wishing their parents "happy Hannukah" today, brought me a lot of comfort, just lovely.
Anti-Jewish racism is on the rise in Britain. You don't want to be an antisemite, but if you did, these videos, one a week from today, will teach you all you need to know: Watch it and then tag five friends and ask them
#whatJewknow
?
We always knew anti-Jewish hatred would go through the roof if something like this ever happened, but to witness so many people go, "Now we can FINALLY say it." That's another thing entirely.
Who'd have guessed that Mendoza - one of the people most responsible for toxifying the British left with racially charged conspiracy theories about Jews - would blame a Jew before anyone else.
Whoever takes control of Labour, from whatever faction, please fuck these people off.
Solidarity with everyone else who insists on capitalising the letters in their postcode when filling out online forms even though it makes no difference whatsoever
A lot of the younger crowd moaning about Tracey Ullman don't remember Spitting Image.
If it was around now they'd probably have Corbyn dressed as the Ayatollah, in a suicide vest, directing operations for Hamas from Westminster.
The satire police don't know how lucky they are.
Out of the horrible darkness of the
#Oct7
massacre, there are shreds of light in the form of heroic stories of rescue and humanity.
Watch this inspiring story that was just now revealed.
After 9/11 a theory spread through the conspiracy community which claimed Jews were ordered to stay home from the twin towers as Israel was involved in what they considered an 'inside job'.
It is still readily believed all over the world today.
So begins it's new incaranation.
... had been going on for five minutes by that point, wasn't going to post it because I'd obvs had a few & had embarrassingly lost it by this point but while these people exist, I am proud to be British & Jewish, this country IS better than them and stand up to fascists. Always.
Absolute state of this. 100's of replies screaming at a Jewish woman for a totally standard descriptor of what antisemitism felt like to her during the Corbyn years.
This self-destructive capacity to prove our point again and again is something I'll never cease to be amazed by.
43 mins witnessing most horrendous anti-Jewish violence and "footage was distressing" is all it's worth. Followed by a full thread sowing a seed of doubt as to what he's just watched and talking about the politics of the event. The massacre itself barely worth a passing reference
I also attended this screening and, as Giles says, the footage was distressing. It also confirmed my belief it should be passed to news organisations who can verify & report it independently as opposed to it being packaged by IDF and shown to influencers who can tweet afterwards.
Still getting 3 or 4 tweets a day from Corbynites blaming me for the election because I've been vocal re: antisemitism in Labour.
But as we enter a new year & a time of reconciliation, I'd just like to say a massive fuck you to everyone who has allowed this culture to take root.
On Douglas Murray's article: this is a picture of the guards at Auschwitz taking a break from shepherding Jews to gas chambers to be industrally exterminated.
The report of what happened to the pregnant woman at the kibbutz is the worst thing I've heard since reading about the most depraved moments of Holocaust. Just cannot take it in.
Have I imagined this or was there once bus ticket inspectors who'd board a bus to check tickets even though you'd bought your ticket from the bus driver?
Can everyone using Holocaust Memorial Day to make cheap political points about Covid restrictions, Brexit and Palestine please proceed to the nearest bin. Thank you.
Had my card declined at the checkout in Sainsburys. After a few tries was about to give up until the guy behind me - the only one in the queue - insisted to pay for the shopping and refused to give me his bank details so I could pay him back.
Couldn't find the strength or the words yesterday to tweet about the utterly depraved reaction to Rafael Behr's piece so thank you to all the many non-Jewish folks who showed their disgust and indignance to what was going on. As ever, it means a heck of lot that you get it.
The commissioning editor of Novara Media last night claimed that in his antisemitism doc, David Baddiel was lying in about not having a relationship with Israel because... "he went to a Zionist Primary School."
Crowds of people shouting "SHAME ON YOU" at young families going in to McDonalds because of Israel/Palestine - and smiling while they do it - is deeply deeply weird and sinister.
PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE TATS: Yeah, just not really into them y'know, don't know why, just don't find them *that* attractive... no, I'd never get one myself.
MELANIE PHILLIPS:
Also, Pickford was unreal all night but because we got beat and he's a keeper, it'll get lost. Just like his initial save for the equaliser was superhuman but it was instantly forgotten because it was followed up by a goal. And then we got beat.
Long live the keeper.
Gonna stick my neck out here and say that the people in these replies making lists of prominent British Jews to send to Gaza and be murdered is *probably* not what people should be doing right now.
I know this may be controversial but I have to call it as I see it, sorry.
It's a big deal when a mainstream Jewish Newspaper invokes the Holocaust. They're right to do it as well. Good on
@JewishNewsUK
for putting this front and centre.
How the fuck I haven't woken up in A & E is anyone's guess... saddest thing was that one was an ex-squaddie, other going on about how his grandparents had fought in WWII (as mine did) then he gave the Nazi salute as they left.
The sneering demand currently being made to Jewish people that they should care about the weaponisation of the racism they suffered far more than the actual racism they suffered sums up their whole outlook on Jews quite masterfully.
What exactly does Chris Williamson MP have to do to get the whip withdrawn? How much calibrated posturing and baiting of the British Jewish community can he get away with before the Labour leadership publically rebuke him?
The answer, it would seem, is quite a lot. Thread. 1/
1/ A snapshot of some of the things they were saying about Luciana Berger last night on a couple of the pro-Corbyn FB forums:
They say this is nothing to do with antisemitism, they say it's to do with her being critical of Corbyn...
My replies are unreal. There's a significant amount of people on the left who believe that the MP for Bury South is under orders from the Israeli government to speak out about what Roger Waters.
That's how deep-rooted and extreme the antisemitism this problem is.
As
#HolocaustMemorialDay
and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz approaches; this video examines perhaps the most pernicious aspect of modern antisemitic discourse, abuse of the memory of the Holocaust, including denial. Please like & share.
#whatJewknow
#HMD2020
If some folk believe Russia bombed a hospital by mistake it just shows how little of an impression a decade of indiscriminate slaughter in Syria has made.
Since Friday:
-Corbyn said something antisemitic.
-Emily Benn innundated with abuse for speaking out on antisemitism; her dead grandfather the tool of abuse
-Luciana Berger has every antisemite in Britain on her TL.
Almost all high-profile pro-Corbyn voices silent. Disgrace
My 5 yr old boy is currently learning Romanian on Duolingo so he can speak to the boy in his class who doesn't speak any English and Goddamnit this is the cutest thing I've ever seen
To the Just Stop Oil guy who did this at the Joe Perry vs Robert Milkins match I'm watching, you'll win the sum total of zero people over and everyone in here - watching the great environmental disaster that is snooker - thought you came across like a sad self-conscious wanker.
Rough timeline of how conspiracy theories about Salisbury attacks laced with antisemitism have entered the zeitgeist, with the help of virtually the entire pro-Corbyn commentariat - who are currently telling you to concentrate your energies on a photoshopped hat. Thread. 1/
We've lost an incredible man. Survived the ghetto, Buchenwald, ended up a medal-winning weightlifter for Britain at the Olympics and educated countless people about the Holocaust. Olav Ha Shalom.
βIt suddenly became very important to me to make a stand against those people that are trying to shut down musicians, to bully musicians, to censor musicians and to silence musicians..... So really you could say in a way that the BDS made me play Israel.β
British police arrested a citizen of this country and sent him to a temporary prison just because he brought the Palestinian flag.
This happens in a country that claims freedom of speech
As David Icke is trending, it's a good time to remind people that he isn't a kooky conspiracy theorist who believes in weird ideas, he's a crypto-fascist demagogue who publishes full-on Nazi apologism on his website.
As many have said, Russell Brand's been at it a long time: In 2014/15, perhaps when he had the most traction, he not only interviewed David Icke several times on his show but routinely exalted him as some sort of heroic revolutionary crusader.
Astonishing comment. I know some of us (me especially) have been very vocal about a section of the left and antisemitism but this is insanity and quite insidious.
If you want a good contemporary example of the Jewish 'dual loyalty' trope in action then this tweet is a good example.
A former associate editor of The Guardian doesn't seem to be aware that Netanyahu is not who 'Jewish Brits' vote for.
It is not "their own" government.
I WATCHED OWEN JONES WATCH THE HAMAS MASSACRE VIDEO: MY RESPONSE
Expanded my initial thoughts into some detail, unpacking this video about 7th Oct and related footage. It's for the record (whatever that's worth) but more for my own sanity.
Bastani RTs this disgrace. Blaming David Schneider for Corbyn's defeat. A loyal, vocal Jewish Corbyn supporter for 2 years; his critiques of antisemitism diplomatic but still became a victim as a result.
This is how Jews are victim-blamed & bullied out of "progressive" politics
Stuff like that's been going on for 3 years & it doesn't just stay online. It's led to 2 convictions for people associated with Labour, its a big part of why she needed police protection & why she is critical of the leadership who have done nothing to support her or stop it.
Rancid stuff Novara Media are pushing - what Peake said isn't antisemitic, it isn't even a conspiracy theory etc..
They can't just argue Starmer overreacted, they have to justify the antisemitism. Novara are deplorable on antisemitism, shame on Labour MPs who give them time.
To all the people talking pot shots at today's march because whoever attended: two weeks ago at a pro-Palestinian march in London, someone said to camera, "death to all Jews" and another said Hitler had the right idea with the final solution.
Sit this one out. You've got nothing
Reminder that whatever a Jewish person's politics, even if they're firmly of the left, the moment they are perceived to have stepped out of line they'll be treated like this. Not just wrong, more like a monster.
βBelieve all womenβ was always an absurd overreach: woman should be heard, claims should be investigated, but evidence is required. The same is true of the allegations out of Israel.
But also, this isnβt a βbelieve womenβ scenario bc no female victims have offered testimony.
This morning someone attempted to post Sara Gibb's address in these replies...all because she told a joke about Corbyn. After which she was lied about, abused, harrassed, received antisemitic & misogynistic comments. 100's of tweets, all Corbyn supporters.
Not only did you work for Press TV, Mr. Corbyn but after it became clear that they had filmed a confession coerced through torture, nearly everyone in this country stopped working for them in protest. Pretty much everyone bar you and Galloway that is.
Best sit this one out mate.
On World Press Freedom Day, we stand in solidarity with journalists around the world and celebrate the precious, hard won right of freedom of the press.
It's a matter of public record that Novara refused to allow any Jewish person on their channel to discuss antisemitism, unless they came from the small sliver of Jewish opinion they found palatable - one which of course wouldn't challenge their own views and blindspots.
βUsing a token Jewβ is a disgusting way to talk about my colleague. We didnβt hire her because she fits some preconceived mould, we hired her because sheβs a fantastic editor and writer, and we support her in expressing the political beliefs *she* thinks itβs important to share.
This 10 page pamphlet 'How To Talk To Zionists' has been posted on the Instagram page of the Brixton Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Without question, if this was an actual thing people tried to do, it would lead very quickly to pogroms on British soil.
As horrific as this testimony is, it bears repeating that these reports have been in the public domain for quite sometime and it's only now that the UN have finally spoken that people are taking notice. Which is why the deniers have gone into overdrive.