Synagogue attack survivor: I knew I’d been shot

I've just read @Gabriel_Pogrund's article. At the Home Affairs Select Committee, the police seemed first confident, then defensive & eventually, shifty. Now this 👇 https://t.co/9BREs3iZjP

Toughest gig in journalism, writing an opinion piece in the Sun. Contributing to the understanding of antisemitism in 300 words?

I quite like it when trolls like Bob here tell me to go back to Israel. Halevai. It's better than Poland, for me at least.

'What? What?!' he asks, as a couple of police officers lead him away.

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'C*** Jews; I'll have you !' warns this silver haired gentleman on the streets of Brighton.

Maybe out of a Christmas cracker?

I just saw @LordJohnMannn on the Parliament channel, in a recording of the Home Affairs Select Committee on 1 Dec, about Maccabi fans being banned from Aston Villa on 6 November. Lord Mann had all the facts & was brilliant. West Midlands Police? Don't know where they got theirs.

After claiming 500,000 babies have been killed in Palestine this couple then said Jews are only interested in money, power and wealth and then to proceeded to call us C*nt Jews. The ‘lady’ shouted ‘wankers’ from across the road as her partner was carted off. Thank you

Woke folk in Brighton - wait for the end when the old man turns to the camera. It's a moment when a rather deluded Dr Jekyll goes full Mister Hyde.

It's Saturday. It's Shabbat. It's pro Pals yelling outside a synagogue. Just life in the UK as we know it in 2025 with, sorry to say, almost cetainly no change in 2026.

Interfaith, lights and Haifa - what more could anyone want?

Following #hignfy, I was pleased to find Richard Coles wrote this 2 years ago. Pleased because I quite like his mystery books & being for the 2 State Solution is pretty good, compared to what's out there.

Full disclosure: I feel quite sick reading posts like those above, by Tanausu and Brian, although obviously not the least surprised. They might be kindly, sensitive people but I can see they would prefer it if I would die promptly, & the people I love. So yes, one feels queasy.

I glanced at Brian Vickery's TL, curious about the kind of person who states proudly he wouldn't micturate on Israel if it were burning. Should we assume he believes in tropes about 'Jewish lobbies' or would that be an unfair assumption? Mais voilà

There are people who say the war with Gaza has caused them to hate Israel (no other war has caused them to hate an entire country but c'est la vie). When they say their hatred is new, I'm not sure what to think. To get to their present view, there must be some unknown variable.

The journalist who turned down the invitation also complained: 'not a single mention of Palestine or genocide.' Without seeing the films, how does he know what's mentioned in them? Does he think Jews don't talk about the war? Or that Israelis don't speak of Gaza? Phooey.

@KemiBadenoch is ever so good in the interview above. I hope people won't trust Reform to stand against racism because they won't, & Labour, despite Keir's well-meaning but lame attempts, can't get to grip with anti Jewish racism. The Greens are more toxic than raw kidney beans.

Here's Maureen Lipman's column in the JC. I'm long familiar with the Norwich blood libel, but shocked by the journalist who responds to an invitation to a Jewish Film Festival with 'I shall be joining the Free Palestine protest.'

Something for West Midlands Police to deny - not that they were there. I was hunted down and attacked in Amsterdam – will I ever leave Israel again?