Professor Joe Goldblatt, Author (He / Him)
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My Views are My Own and Do Not Reflect the Views of Any Organisation or Group, Emeritus Professor, Author, Speaker, Consultant and Advocate for Planned Events
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Thank you @MhairiBlack. Scotland is better because of your courageous service, unshakeable integrity, and solid steel backbone as you forthrightly stood up for us. May you find many other ways to serve Scotland as we continue our step by step journey to full independence!
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Well done @NicolaSturgeon on BBC Morning! Accurate, Articulate and Ambitious for Scotland! Just what we need to help achieve independence!.
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I am proud to join Brian Cox and soon to be many others in supporting Angus Robertson MSP as future leader of my party, @theSNP. No other potential candidate has the depth, breadth and wisdom of experience as Angus. I believe he will also help us achieve independence sooner!
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The decisions made today by the Scottish Government reflects a high level of public responsibility. Whilst these new conditions will be difficult for many they will invariably save lives and protect our NHS. I am proud to live in a country that has the courage of its convictions.
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Scots Labour leader announces his vision of future governance for Scotland in London whilst the leader of the SNP announces her vision of an independent Scotland in our capital city of Edinburgh. There could not be a more stark contrast!.
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Wow! What a forceful statement about human rights! Well done Humza!
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Why Not Scotland? I designed and printed these stickers. Let me know by message if you would like some as we get ready for the next Scottish independence referendum in October 2023.
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Humza Yousaf MSP @HumzaYousaf gave one of the best speeches of his political career today at the Independence March in Edinburgh. If he does this all over Scotland we will be independent very soon!
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Join me in voting SNP today and keep Scotland in Europe.
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Meet my Haddington Super Heroes! My very well respected QMU colleague Evelyn Weir and her husband David saw my cry for help and passed my theft to an online forum. A short time later they drove all the way from Haddington, retrieved and returned my bike!
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Thanks to the hundreds of folk who have offered to help me find my stolen trike. Here is what I looks like.
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The man of the moment is @HumzaYousaf. He left the stage and we.embraced one another saying Shalom and Salam Alaikum. Then, with tears of sorrow I told him that his family is in my prayers and he told me that my family were also in his prayers. This is a good, compassionate man.
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Ian Blackford MP gave a.barn storming speech that was followed by a long and loud standing ovation from.thousands of SNP activists today!
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Here are my TWO votes for the SNP! I am voting for a bolder and transformational government!
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As a Jewish faith leader in our country I am deeply appreciative to @HumzaYousaf for clearly championing human rights for all people in Scotland!
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@ConnorGillies This is the kind of class and compassion I expect in my leaders. Very well done @humzayousaf.
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Scottish Independence March is within our Grasp! As thousands cheered!
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Scottish Independence March! Scottish Independence is within our Grasp! As thousands cheered!
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Our beloved NHS has invited us to receive our first Covid - 19 jag (shot). One week from today we shall be on our way to further good health! God bless the Scottish NHS!
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The 12 musicians from the Glasgow University Student Reel Society is playing upon the ferry taking us to Stromness tonight. What a great welcome to the 40th annual Orkney Folk Festival!
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We SNP activists are out in full force today in Costorphine. Here is our fantastic team! Voters were very positive about Scottish independence and giving their first vote to the SNP!
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Last year at this time, Nancy and I were proudly marching in the Tartan Day Parade in New York City. What a thrill that was to see thousands of Saltires waving their warm welcomes at us! Happy Tartan Day!
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Well done First Minister @HumzaYousaf.
I was pleased to be able to meet with representatives of Scotland's Jewish community this morning. They spoke powerfully about the fear & anxiety our Jewish community feels. There can be no safe space in Scotland for hatred of any kind. We stand united against antisemitism.
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We attended the opening of the Edinburgh International Book Festival today in its new site. The Festival has a slightly younger audience, has less crowd density, outstanding outdoor programmes and the same ambiance, professionalism, and serendipity of previous festivals! Bravo!
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Miss CoCo and I were back in the campaign trail today in lovely Rutherglen to help elect @KatyLoudonSNP! Very positive responses at every door!
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She brought nothing but MISERY to us and our bairn!. Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher for bringing ‘meaningful change’ to UK
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@NicolaSturgeon I echo and support former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s comments above. My prayers and positive thoughts are with all negatively impacted. As it is written in the Torah … “they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks … (Isaiah 2:4).
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@PeterMurrell I am so proud of our First Minister. As I watched her speaking in the Scottish Parliament and answering questions this week I remarked to my wife “How grateful I am to have a leader of this magnitude at this time, also one who is absolutely the best of all leaders in my life!”.
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Scottish Independence March is within our Grasp! As thousands cheered!
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44 years married and 45 years together today and we are still green and growing. Thank you Nancy for being the light of my life all these happy years! xxoo
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@duchessgoldblat @alexanderchee You grace, perhaps I may be of service. I am your fifth cousin thrice removed and I tap dance professionally. I am happy to assist your grace if required.
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The SCOTTISH POETRY LIBRARY and its leaders should be COMMENDED rather than condemned for protecting poets by taking a strong stand as opposed to bullying. It is a national treasure.
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I love this. What a wise lady and a gracious and respectful First Minister @HumzaYousaf.
To mark the 75th Anniversary of the NHS, First Minister @HumzaYousaf sat down with Kit, who joined the service as a nurse at its inception in 1948 #NHSScot75. She described what the creation of the NHS meant for people and how she believes we could not be without it.
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@NicolaSturgeon @theSNP May her hallowed memory be a blessing for many generations to come. Now, let us bring forth Scottish independence soon in her name!.
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What a THRILL to see the new TARTAN exhibition at the @V_and_A Dundee where the Mac Goldblatt Tartan is featured in the Diaspora themed section. I had the great pleasure of showing our family tartan to @ShonaRobison Deputy First Minister of Scotland!
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Emotional moment when Scotland’s First Minister welcomes to SNP Conference a member of Ukraine’s Parliament. She then thanked Scotland for welcoming 20,000 Ukraine refugees.
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Nancy, CoCo and I delivered our SNP leaflets in Stockbridge this morning. Oooooh, climbing stairs after having just recovered from Covid is a huff puff indeed. I am glad CoCo was there to pull me up and Nancy was there to catch me if I collapsed!
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When I arrived the EICC last evening the staff offered to take me to my dressing room. Here is what I found!
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Scottish Independence March is within our Grasp! As thousands cheered!
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Scottish Independence March is within our Grasp! As thousands cheered!
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From the SNP National Conference … my party of whom I am so proud!
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Nicola Sturgeon's 'farewell' address will be studied by scholars as was the farewell address of US President George Washington. Primarily written by Alexander Hamilton it showed his modesty and determination for the future as did our First Minister's eloquent address today.
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I am flying the flag of LOVE! I ordered the Progress flag and it was larger than I imagined so I just bought a taller flag pole. Help me SPREAD THE LOVE in our INSPIRING CITY!
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Will there ever in my lifetime be another leader with such compassion, humility, and integrity? I hope so. Well done @NicolaSturgeon and @scotgov.
Many thousands of women, most of them young and unmarried, were forced to give up their babies for adoption until the late 1970s. Today, First Minister @NicolaSturgeon, on behalf of the Scottish Government, delivered a formal apology for these cruel historic practices.
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CoCo and I had a full day at the Meadows and Portobello Promenade today. She was a STAR everywhere she appeared!
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@AngusRobertson @NicolaSturgeon Well done Scot Gov. My grandmother Susie Goldblatt, of blessed memory, escaped the pogroms of Kiev in the last century. We must not allow history to repeat itself and we must support the Ukrainian people unreservedly.
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@NicolaSturgeon @ScotParl Thank you for your integrity, devotion to Scotland, and good humour in the face of every adversity.
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I found the Prime Minister of England was dangerously vague tonight. I shall stay at home and protect our NHS for as long as it takes. It is my solemn responsibility and duty to help my fellow Scots as well as millions of others throughout the world.
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Jane Haining was a righteous Christian woman who saved Jewish children in Hungary during WW II. Talented Edinburgh Councillor Vicky Nicholson is leading the efforts to establish a plaque in her honour. Today, I proudly helped her & Angus Robertson MSP launch the campaign.
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Our Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Health was brilliant on Question Time this week. However, why was she the only panellist in isolation at a remote location and why was the sound so poor that it appeared she was in a tunnel? The BBC must do better!.
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Come on Scotland! Vote for Independence. We can and must do better for future generations!
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We met this baby Easter Bunny in Holyrood Park this morning. He said to tell you Happy Easter!
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Happy Passover and Happy Easter from Washington, DC!
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Wow! Well done Hamza Yassin!.A Sudanese Scot has won Strictly Come Dancing!!! I was not a fan of this programme and now I am cheering thanks to Hamza’s victory! God bless the new Scots as they add so much to our country!!!!!.
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Richard Demarco received an honorary membership from the Saltire Society of Scotland today. What a thrill to be in the same room with this 92 year young legend!. @Saltire_Society
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Eight hours of accusation, innuendo, and falsehoods lobbed toward the leader of my country. Through it all she responded with candor, grace, professionalism and demonstrated her respect for our sacred institutions. Nicola Sturgeon 10. Committee: 0.
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We took our annual daffodil photo in the Meadows this week. The City or Edinburgh Council does such a great job with our gardens!
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Today was a day we shall remember all the remaining days of our lives! The Tartan Day Parade in NYC marched up 6th Avenue as tens of thousands of New Yorkers cheered loudly for my beloved adopted country of Scotland! What an honour to March in this Parade!
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At long last, a negative Covid test. Good bye and good riddance!
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I love the combination of the bright blue Scottish sky and vivid yellow gorse out with my window. Heaven on earth!
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Is this not one of the most beautiful cities in the world? My Edinburgh!
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@ceilidhbanjo @MhairiBlack In my view she.eloquently spoke up for Scotland in Westminster and.was a fierce advocate for our principles. We need more like her!.
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One of the great joys of my life was the opportunity to support this wise, articulate, passionate and very talented statesman. He is the kind of citizen of whom Aristotle would have used as an example to others about our duty and role in a democratic state. Stand again Graham!
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An amazing humongous rainbow welcomed us to the Orkney Islands during our smooth and sunny voyage upon the SS Hamnavoe.
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Myself and the hardworking City of Edinburgh Councillor Martha Mattos - Coelho at the SNP hustings last night. She is a powerhouse of boundless talent, good judgment, great devotion to her constituents and enthusiasm!
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Our son Sam is the Senior Marketing Executive responsible for promoting this show at the Festival Theatre. Here is his mother proudly viewing his great work!
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Our SNP Team was out in full force in Broomhall today as we campaigned for our candidate the amazing Donald Rutherford! We have grown in three weeks from 4 to 6 and now 11 SNP Activists out chapping on doors and receiving very positive reactions!
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Today a debate on Independence was held at Queen Margaret University. Results: http://t.co/74bPY9iXOL.
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I have signed. Please join me. Enough is enough. Suella Braverman's article in the Times is dangerous, divisive, and shows she's unfit for office. @RishiSunak must sack her now. Agree? Add your name:
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Tonight we celebrated St Andrews Day, Scotland’s national day at the Scottish Parliament. All of the performers were brilliant! Thanks to all you performed, exhibited, and attended at this very successful event! Here is @sistemascotland who played amazing melodies!
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Hilarious!.
“I’m thinking of moving into Boris’s back bedroom and watching the weans for him” #nadinedories #janeygodleyvoiceover
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What fun hosting the 2022 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce awards at the beautiful EICC!
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Nicola Sturgeon, MSP unveils plaque honoring Jewish artists and Jewish community in the Usher Hall 27 August 2017.
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Happy Third Birthday today the Third of January to Miss CoCo! Thank you Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home for our treasurer Dogter! @EdinDogCatHome .Photo by Lesley Martin @lesleympix
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Here is my way of building support from those who still opposed or undecided. My plan is simply to find POINTS OF AGREEMENT by asking “What is your future vision for Scotland?” Then I LISTEN with EMPATHY and then SHOW WHERE WE AGREE. Let’s work together to win them over!
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I am disgusted by her inaccurate stereotypes of Jews. Liz Truss stated that “Jewish values are Conservative values and British too … and the value of setting up your own business.” Enough of these ancient tropes!.
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I am confident that Scotland is now rising higher and higher and this irresponsible snap election will propel us to independence soon!.
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What is love after 45 years of togetherness? This morning my wife knocked upon the door that separates us whilst I have Covid and said “Sorry honey, I tested negative again today. We still cannot be together just now.” Well young people, in my book that’s ❤️!.
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We must pass legislation forbidding our former political leaders from profiting from their time in office. I recommend a one year ban on paid speeches after leaving office.
Liz Truss aims to emulate Theresa May by giving £60,000 speeches in the Middle East. “There will be a lot of travel to the US and the Middle East,” a friend said. “That’s where the money is.” via @ShippersUnbound
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I wish to thank @PeterMurrell for his selfless leadership of the @theSNP HQ team over many years. His extraordinary service, unique talent and hard work is much appreciated by thousands of members, including me.
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I love Mhairi Black. Period. Full stop!.
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The @AngusRobertson and @EdinburghSNP #VoteAngus and #EdinburghCentral activists were out in full force today in Newington!
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Today is our son’s birthday and we are at the beach in Oban. The most massive and brilliant double rainbow just appeared to wish him Happy Birthday and welcome us all to Oban!
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Never! Never! Never! We must never let this happen again!.
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Tonight we celebrated St Andrews Day, Scotland’s national day at the Scottish Parliament. All of the performers were brilliant! Thanks to all you performed, exhibited, and attended at this very successful event! Here is soprano Elizabeth Thomson who received a standing ovation!
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This old photo of my beautiful young mum brings back so many sweet memories of this sassy lass who was admired by so many. My sister and I were blessed to have Rosa deBlanc Goldblatt as our mum! When told at eighty that she still looked good she retorted “Looks are deceiving!”
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Celebration Chanukah tonight w/ (left to right) Rabbi Pinny Weinman, Shabir Beg of Ahlul Bayt Society, myself, Reverend George Whyte Principal Clerk of the Church of Scotland General Assembly and Scottish Gov Cabinet Secretary Aileen Campbell, MSP. True ecumenism in action!
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45 years ago last week Nancy and I were married in Des Moines, Iowa and my best man was Joe Straka. This week Joe’s son Dr. Eric Straka of Ann Arbor, Michigan visited Scotland with his beautiful family. We were delighted!
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As our train approached Loch Awe my grandson asked why it was called Awe. I told him and then right on cue as we passed through this sunset he said “Awe…”
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Nancy and I are getting into the Festive Season spirit at the Balmoral Hotel!
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During the long dark days of Scotland’s winter, there are wee moments of sheer golden magic! This one was just out with my wee window!
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CoCo and I returned to the Meadows for lots of ball chasing this morning and we discovered all this beauty!
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The Scotsman newspaper kindly wished me a happy 70th birthday today. Thank you Scotsman editorial team!
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