A Kosher restaurant in Golders Green, north London, vandalised and a bridge metres away branded with ‘Free Palestine’.
As in previous conflicts involving Israel, British Jews are being targeted amid a rise in antisemitic attacks
One question
@GaryLineker
. It’s been pointed out to us today that you didn’t tweet a word of condemnation against Hamas atrocities in the immediate aftermath of 7 Oct. Can you clarify now that you do in fact unequivocally condemn Hamas and those attacks?
And still the marchers pour in from every angle ahead of
#MarchAgainstAntisemitism
. More than 12000 already in place, making this the largest gathering of British Jews for 20 years
@antisemitism
🔴Filmed 1/11/23, 8pm, Oxford St.
Most explicit, shocking video yet of destroying kidnap posters while supporting terror.
'Hamas, my mujahadeen brothers. I love them, I support them, I pray for them. Tell
@RishiSunak
we love them.'
@metpoliceuk
@TerrorismPolice
@MayorofLondon
A minute’s silence to honour the fallen at
@AJEX_UK
annual remembrance parade
Amid rising hate, a timely reminder of why Britain remains a good place to live a proudly Jewish life. Where else in the world does such a march take place in the heart of the capital
'Many transphobic arguments follow the template of dehumanisation and disinformation that feels sickeningly familiar to me as a Jewish woman,' says TV and radio comedy writer Sara Gibbs
A human chain of 229 people formed outside the Qatar embassy in Mayfair, London. Qatar harbours Hamas leaders and has positioned itself as a lynchpin in negotiations for the release of the hostages, who were taken from their homes and a rave by Hamas terrorists on 7 October.
Remarkable 99-year-old was recognised for her services to Holocaust education at Windsor Castle on Tuesday after being included in the New Year Honours list.
🚨VIDEO EXCLUSIVE 🚨📽️:
Sickening unseen footage of the Chanukah bus attack
The brave passenger who filmed the attack on a bus carrying Jewish teenagers celebrating Chanukah has shared her shock and anger and the terrified reaction of those on board
5 mins until the start of
@BoardofDeputies
@JLC_uk
@UJIAcharity
rally demanding the freeing of the more than 200 Israelis hostages…and this is now the largest gathering of British Jews for nearly 20 years
Holocaust survivor who represented Britain at the Olympics within years of his liberation from the Nazi camps went on to fight for his fellow survivors and was a key educator about the horrors
Holocaust survivor Anita Lasker-Wallfisch praised the Duke of Cambridge as being "concerned" with learning about the horrors of the Shoah.
She claimed his brother Prince Harry had not taken the issue "seriously" when she delivered a talk to him.
Hundreds of people are gathering this afternoon in Parliament Square to stand in solidarity with
#Israel
and call for the safe return of the kidnapped.
💥Terrifying event at Netanya College, where a few dozen Arab students are locked in dorms & several 100s far-right Jews are trying to break in & shouting the police minister's old song, "death to Arabs." Cops doing nothing to evacuate writes
@AlonLeeGreen
Sir Ben Helfgott was one of Britain's greatest Jews of the last century: an educator, Olympian, a fighter for other survivors, an inspiration to royalty and schoolkids alike. He was also a father, grandfather and a friend to so many including Jewish News.
Breaking: London is to donate £300,000 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
.
@SadiqKhan
: "It is vital that we work even harder to preserve the site and ensure younger generations learn the lessons from history"
.
@jeremycorbyn
“was very shaken” said Rabbi Hershel Gluck, president of
@Shomrim
. "He has no security. I told him this should change, offered words of comfort and sat down with him for a while to get everything back to an equilibrium"
"One of the schools at which I told my story is Eton, when Prince William and Harry were there.
“Of course Harry wasn’t taking it seriously – just another boring lady who comes to talk about boring things – but William is a different character altogether.”
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Around 2500 British Jews and their allies have taken part in a vigil opposite Downing Street in solidarity with Israel. The rally, called by
@BoardofDeputies
@JLC_uk
, concluded with a rendition of the Israel national anthem Hatikvah
🌍 WORLD EXCLUSIVE 🌍
Roman
#Abramovich
accepts
#Ukraine
’s offer to help negotiate peace
Ukraine reached out to the Russian billionaire over the weekend through his connections in Israel.
Peace negotiations are expected to be held later today.
#Russia
Many of us are feeling abandoned at the moment and senior Muslim and other clerical voices haven’t been loud enough. But we’ve received many messages of solidarity from Muslims and this meant so much to the team that we wanted to share it with our readers and the world
📺 EYEWITNESS EXCLUSIVE // The scene at Babyn Yar today captured by
@OzKaterji
: acrid smoke, uprooted trees, debris scattered everywhere – but the memorial still stands after yesterday's Russian rocket strike
.
@Jeremy_Hunt
: “When I went to Auschwitz I rather complacently said to myself, ‘thank goodness we don’t have to worry about that kind of thing in the UK’ and now I find myself faced with the leader of
@UKLabour
who has opened the door to antisemitism”
Anita also expressed concern with attempts to teach children about the Holocaust on TikTok
"..don’t tell me I need to go on TikTok and do it in a 3 second video, that’s ridiculous.
“They should learn to sit down for an hour and develop an attention span”
We're here at Piccadilly Circus as Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, Tigrayans, and campaigners gather to protest the IOC's complicity in the CCP’s crimes against humanity on the eve of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Protest kicks off at 18:30.
Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz and Belsen death camps because she was recruited into the camp orchestra, said of the Duke of Cambridge’s eagerness to learn about the Shoah:
"He gets that interest from his father."
Credible voices:
Those who speak out against both antisemitism and Islamophobia
Voices that are not credible:
People who speak out against Islamophobia but are happy to ignore antisemitism
People who speak out against antisemitism but are happy to ignore Islamophobia
Emily Hand should be celebrating her 9th birthday today but she remains in Hamas captivity, one of more than 30 children stolen from their families.
A party scene was set up outside the London offices of Save the Children - each seat empty as we long for them all to be freed
"To make our party fit to serve our country: that's why we had to rip antisemitism out by its roots"
A 34-second standing ovation followed this line by Labour's
@Keir_Starmer
Mike Leigh and Miriam Margolyes are among the 51 high profile figures urging the BBC to call for
#Eurovision
2019 to be moved from Israel in a signed letter in the Guardian.
The former cricketer admitted he’d not heard of
@AuschwitzMuseum
before and told Lily at the end of her testimony it was important to tell her story “to remember, in order that events are not repeated.”
@DovForman
Maajid Nawaz has been honoured with the ‘Beacon of Light’ Award by pro-Israel group StandWithUs UK for his work fighting antisemitism.
@MaajidNawaz
@StandWithUsUK
British-born activist Jonny Daniels, of
@FTDepths
, and Edward Mosberg, 93, invite top Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (
@AOC
) in wake of her using the term 'concentration camps' to describe Trump's migrant detention centres
This week's front page – we're putting up a cash reward of £30,000 in partnership with
@JewishChron
and
@antisemitism
to catch the racist yobs who abused Jewish children on a Chanukah bus last November after
@metpoliceuk
abandoned their search.
It's a Zion of the times!
@lucianaberger
, Independent Group MP for Liverpool Wavertree, has named her second child Zion Benjamin Manny Goldsmith. Mazeltov!
Lasker-Wallfisch is to appear in a
@BBC
documentary that features survivors’ accounts, and she is one of seven survivors who the Prince of Wales has commissioned artists to paint for portraits to be displayed at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
The Mayor of London,
@SadiqKhan
, apologises to the Jewish community which he says was let down in recent years by his party, saying
@UKLabour
must 'fundamentally change' to win back support
EXCLUSIVE: Police say they are dropping their investigation into the Oxford Street attack on a bus carrying Jews – because they cannot identify the suspects
Murder in Action // Wendy Lower researched every aspect of a shocking image taken at the massacre of Ukrainian Jews in Miropol in 1941, as detailed in her new book, The Ravine.
(Warning: Graphic Content)
@FWolfisz
@HolocaustUK
@AuschwitzMuseum
“I’m a mother and I thought if I were with my children, I would want someone to intervene, and the poor man was trying to keep calm for his children”
We spoke to Asma Shuweikh, after her heroic actions defending a Jewish family being abused on a train
📽️// Police are investigating after yobs attempted to smash the windows of an open-top bus carrying Jewish teens celebrating Chanukah. They also spat on the bus, swore at the passengers and yelled verbal threats and abuse.
Breaking // 🔴 A senior London rabbi has been brutally attacked close to his synagogue in Essex.
Leeds-born Rabbi Rafi Goodwin was taken to St. George’s Hospital this morning.
We’re in, are you? Retweet if you are.
Join us, anti-racism campaigners and other public figures on a mass walkout from Twitter for 48 hours starting tomorrow at 9:00am.
#NoSafeSpaceForJewHate
Have you seen this man? Police say they are investigating the images shared by
@Shomrim
showing a Jewish man being attacked in a North London block of flats
@WestHam
📽️ // This is the moment an Orthodox Jewish man was faced with antisemitic chanting during a
@Ryanair
flight to Belgium, as
@WestHam
fans travelled to a
#EuropaLeague
game
The club has promised an 'indefinite ban' for anyone found to have been involved.
The Duchess of Cambridge has been reunited with Holocaust survivors Yvonne Bernstein and Steven Frank at an exhibition of photographs of survivors and refugees – including two she took of the pair as part of a Jewish News project.
@KensingtonRoyal
@I_W_M
Members of two synagogues visited their Muslim neighbours at a Cricklewood mosque, Al-Majlis Al-Hussaini, on
#YomKippur
, after the driver of a car rammed into worshippers and shouted hateful abuse, seriously injuring two.
Labour politicians urged to explain their participation at a Stop the War Coalition rally held last weekend, where participants called for the terror group to bomb Kiryat Shmona.
Sorry, did you miss the blood libel signs, ancient battle cries against Jews, Hamas symbols? Whether it was 10 people, 100 people or 10,000 people, there was plenty on hate in show again today
Karen Pollock, chief exec of the Holocaust Educational Trust responded to the MP's comments saying:"This disgusting post is a malicious distortion of the truth,a painful insult to survivors of the Holocaust and particularly distressing on the eve of HMD."
EXCLUSIVE: Jewish News understands
@LBofHavering
leaders have reversed their deeply controversial decision to cancel the town hall
#Chanukah
celebration.