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Historian.The World a Family History.Jerusalem: a History of the MiddleEast. StalinRedTsar. YgStalin. TheRomanovs. CatherinetheGreat. Novels: the Moscow Trilogy

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S Sebag Montefiore
2 years
My new book #TheWorldaFamilyHistory is out now. A small thing I wrote in Lockdown, it's the most challenging but also most satisfying book of my writing life. I hope you enjoy it.
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2 years
Today we publish #TheWorld , @simonmontefiore 's extraordinary history of humanity viewed through the lens of the families who have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis, Kennedys, Kims, Zulus, Incas, and many, many more.
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Today in 1940 Stalin & Beria (see below) started the murder of 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. It took 28 nights & the chief executioner wore a butchers apron over his NKVD uniform. As we absorb todays Russian killings of Ukraine civilians, it’s hard not to think of the past...
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As always the sharpest questions and justified criticism of Hamas are made by decent, moderate Arab voices. Not by the West's Decolonialisation ideology apologists...
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Laura Ben-David 🇮🇱🎗️
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Egyptian journalist Abraham Eissa has a really good question for Hamas:
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Amazing that on night of such important events in Russia / Ukraine, the @bbcnews is running 15 minutes of reports about covid. Inc exciting report on reactions of people in Eastbourne. Astonishingly insular
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This - the greatest European speech on the Hamas murder raid, Israel war vs Hamas, rising antiJewish racism and toxic sham ‘history’ of Decolonisation - is deeply moving. Its decency and moral clarity is striking…
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Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz
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It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel . A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
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The anti-colonial’ ideology, powerful in the academy but long overdue for serious challenge, applies a toxic but historically nonsensical mix of Soviet propaganda, US anti-racist jargon & traditional anti-semitism to a complex history.
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Quite a night in Israel. As in any democracy one has to support people demonstrating to defend liberal democracy under threat
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Good for them. Jewish BBC staff defy ban to attend march against antisemitism
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Tragic day!Many civilians killed.Its complicated but the coverage is baffling @Bbcworld @bbcnews r not reporting plentiful footage posted by Hamas itself: housetohouse killings of women kids,hostages paraded,naked bodies desecrated b4 crowds, yet only debating Israeli response...
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The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous Inhumane Toxic and Historically False. And it rejects totally indeed makes impossible the two states of Israel & Palestine that is the only way this is important but do read whole article b4 you condemn it.
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As Zelensky visits Poland,today 1940 Stalin & Beria were murdering 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. It took 28 nights; chief executioner Blokhin wore a butchers apron over his NKVD uniform. Aim: to liquidate Polish elites who might later resist Soviet Russian imperium over Poland…
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Vive la France ❤️Heartening
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European Jewish Congress
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Thousands gathered in Paris today to stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, in the wake of an alarming rise of antisemitism. Thank you ❤️🇫🇷
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My mother April died at 92 last night. Exuberant, cultured,literary, witty, acute & Rabelaisian, a RADA-trained actress,author of 6 novels, doctor's wife,Jewish matriarch,mother of 4, grandm of 11, ggm of 8, my dear friend interested in all things, she had the gift of happiness
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I always wondered at leftist intellectuals who supported Stalin’s Terror & rightists who excused Hitler. Today’s Hamas apologists w their bloviations re ‘colonialism’ belong to that tradition but worse: after abundant evidence of gleeful slaughter of civilians they persist
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The greatest speech on the Hamas terror attack, Israel’s war vs Hamas & antisemitism & decolonisation has come from the German vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck. Do watch.
@BMWK
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz
6 months
It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel . A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
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What to do when your irrepressible 92 year old mother starts writing to The Times about Death .... @thetimes
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May her memory be a blessing
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5 months
Proud to be marching tomorrow against antisemitism
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Board of Deputies of British Jews
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📢Tomorrow, there will be a National Solidarity March Against Antisemitism in Central London. The march will start at 13:30 from the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL. The route will be policed. We encourage people to attend. #MarchAgainstAntisemitism
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Alot of people seem to be reading this on plane journeys at the moment. i keep getting photos like this. Its MiddleEast history that tries to respect both nations both narratives both histories Israel and Palestinians. Which is why i wrote it. Two states is the only way
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Gunmen snatch nearly 300 Nigerian schoolchildren from morning assembly. More than 350,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists; 2 million displaced, say the UN. And now this. Not unlike the Hamas raid on Israel. Attackers, probably Islamist militias…
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On this anxious day i want to thank those nonJews who supported us calling out Lab racism,regressive hatred of W values, support 4 terrorists & evil tyrants like Kadaffi Assad Iran.We r so grateful for yr courage & decency when so many enabled /appeased Corbyn. Thank u
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As the war rages, some of the bravest people tonight are those in Russia risking everything to protest against this Ukraine war and sign petitions.
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Сергей Бойко
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В Новосибирске шествие. Скандируют: "Нет войне!"
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In this crisis @bbcnews has squandered its reputation for both neutrality and reliability.
@BoardofDeputies
Board of Deputies of British Jews
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We are absolutely appalled by @BBCNews footage which appears to show a newsreader misquoting a Reuters report. The Corporation must issue a public apology without delay for this egregious misreporting.
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Twitter is sometimes repulsive, sometimes inspiring and this is one of the latter: here we can watch the funeral of #Navalny is real time.... & celebrate real courage not just in him but in all these brave people daring to attend his funeral under the jackboot of brutal tyranny
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How to commemorate the Holocaust. Without mentioning Jewish people at all.
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Today, we honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. We pledge never to forget – nor let others forget the truth of what happened. And we recognize the horrific resonance this day of commemoration finds in our own times. #HolocaustRemembrance
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I wrote @TheAtlantic : this sham ahistorical inhumane ideology based on Marxist dialectic Soviet progaganda & medieval antisemitism that is taught in our unis, justifies killing civilians,doesnt describe the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of Palestinians & rules out 2states
@TheAtlantic
The Atlantic
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"Much of the justification for killing civilians is based on a fashionable ideology, 'decolonization,' which, taken at face value, rules out the negotiation of two states ... and is as dangerous as it is false," @simonmontefiore writes:
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The malignant moral moronism of this interviewer takes the biscuit @skynews Many of the Hamas prisoners in this swap are terrorist killers of civilians inc children. The Israeli hostages are civilians and children.
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Eylon Levy
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The first question that left me speechless (but only for a second):
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I hate writing letters about anti-Jewish racism in Britain.I thought that time was over. But @guardian 's editorial in defence of Corbyn was too appalling to leave unchallenged. Heres my letter
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Heres something that gave me joy today: can you guess what is? The shopping list of Michelangelo. Fish bread fennel soups, a herring, anchovies, tortelli, and wine! Sketched for his illiterate maid. A friend sent it from Florence where its in Casa Buonarroti
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Its not just @BBC looks an ass refusing to say ‘terrorist’, its sad to see @JohnSimpsonNews plead BBC rules & reliability when its reporting of Hamas atrocities wasn’t reliable,aiding deniers, & now Gaza hospital. If not for platforms X & whatsapp we wouldn’t hear the real news.
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I wrote an article @TheAtlantic on History of Israelis & Palestinians, the urgency of 2 states, the use of Decolonialization to back Hamas barbarity dehumanize civilians & stop 2-states of Israel & Palestine. Plse read it all. Its key to be able to hold 2 thoughts at one time.
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Important to Listen to moderate Arab voices, not Western Hamas apologists who know nothing of the region or its history. Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad of Bahrain condemns Hamas: their October 7th massacre of Israelis was barbaric & demands release of the Israeli hostages.
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Middle East Monitor
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Bahraini Prime Minister Condemns Hamas Actions at IISS Manama Dialogue Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain, condemned Hamas’ actions on the 7th of October. His condemnation came during his speech at the 19th IISS Manama Dialogue. He described…
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Twitter is like spending time in the square of a cosmopolitan city where in a corner-cafe, one meets wits who talk books/history,inform you of war & revolution;some become friends;& across the square in dank alleys gangs of masked reptiles attack. The skill is to stay in the cafe
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Horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israeli women on Oct 7th, and the lack of global outrage. “Why would the international community and @UNWomenWatch be silent about these crimes? They seem to be vocal about so much else?”
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The Lead CNN
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Israel investigates claims of sexual violence on October 7. CNN's @jaketapper reports
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Amidst so much darkness, wishing everyone peace and lightness! Happy hannukah. Hannukah Sameach 🕎
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The New Rape Denialism On Oct. 7, Hamas invaded Israel and filmed itself committing scores of human-rights atrocities. Some of the footage was later captured by the Israeli military and screened to hundreds of journalists, including me. The “pure, predatory sadism,” as Atlantic…
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Here @BBCWorld explains they translate Hamas 'Kill JEWS' as 'Kill Israelis.' "We need to translate what the speaker means to say not the literal words". Absurd! Like accepting Hamas cadres as trustworthy BBC stringers. BBC protects Hamas fr itself. Translate what they say
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Khaled Hassan
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In a BBC 2019 documentary, a Gazan said "The revolutionary songs, they excite you, they encourage you to rip a Yehudi's (Arabic for Jew) head off.” The BBC translated 'Yehudi' to 'Israeli'. The BBC wrote to my MP who raised the matter with them at my request. This was the answer:
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Nothing constructive is possible while the Netanyahu Catastrophe is in power.
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Sky News
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BREAKING: Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely rejects the idea of a two-state solution "The answer is absolutely no", she says. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Huge numbers at London #MarchAgainstAntisemitism Great to be here
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This extraordinary image marks a new moment and a new era in the history of Jerusalem and the Middle East.
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Thanks to those of you who have pointed out that @AP 's Photos of Infiltration and Tragedy in Israel were shamefully awarded a Pictures of the Year (POY) Award by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute @RJI at the Missouri School of Journalism. I am happy to correct my…
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Today in 1938 mobs of German civilians & government SS & SA militias attacked German Jews & their homes businesses synagogue in the pogrom of Kristallnacht. 191 were murdered. 600 killed themselves. 30ooo Jews arrested. 115ooo emigrated. A step towards darker & diabolical times
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So the war unfolds tragically. Just as we deplore the killing of Israeli civilians, we deplore the killing of Palestinian civilians. We reject Hamas, evil & unfit to govern , but we do not mistake Hamas for the Palestinian people whose losses we mourn as we do our own.
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This country once had the best universities in world. Now it produces students who threaten to rape a rabbi’s wife & are told by their friends/tutors they’re on the right side of history.Gaza is a tragedy. What’s happening on British campuses is shameful.
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Just to say thank you and express admiration to the decent passengers on London public transport who stood up to this vile & violent racist yday. Its gives one hope
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Ed Leon Klinger
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‘ARE YOU A JEW?’ This video was recorded yesterday by a friend of mine in London. Welcome to the new reality for British Jews.
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Recent months of the Hamas kill-&-rape attack against Israeli civilians & Israel's war against Hamas have been marked by so much tragic killing and suffering of civilians, Palestinian & Israeli and the suffering of both populations must be told, all crimes exposed .... but…
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The Guardian
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I asked colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They said there is no precedent for what is happening | Devi Sridhar
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If true, a disgrace. And if these r the stringers for major Western news organizations, it explains the appalling reporting
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Noah Pollak
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🚨🚨🚨🚨 Important expose by @honestreporting : Photographers working for AP, CNN, NYT, and Reuters were EMBEDDED with Hamas on 10/7 and accompanied the terrorist group into Israel. They knew the attack was coming, and participated in it.
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Just show some character & apologize. Even in a maelstrom of indecent malign and smug ignorance, unreliable reporting & brazen prejudice, your performance stood out. Even in a storm of hypocrisy & bias yr haughty and oblivious justification stands out
@KayBurley
Kay Burley
5 months
Morning everyone, We often put one side of an argument to a guest so they can offer a counterclaim Yesterday, I raised a controversial view from an earlier guest to allow another to respond Each morning we’re dedicated to presenting fairly the news of this war #IsraelHamasWar
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Columbia revolutionary students push limits of satire in demand for humanitarian fooddrops of sushi, acai,electrolyte water & glutefree croissants fr uni. ‘This is crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus but this is, like, basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for’.
@TPostMillennial
The Post Millennial
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Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall: "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
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Today marks Departure & Expulsion of Jews from ArabCountries/Iran. A neglected piece of the history of 1948: 850,000 Jews lived in places like Iraq,Morocco for milennia.Most expelled. Now Israelis are: 50% MiddleEasternJews. 20% Arab/Druze. 30% descent fr EuropeanJews.
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It sometimes seems there r more decent people on the streets of Teheran than in many of the academies, media & ‘humanrights’ organizations of the west
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Maryam Aslany
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Iranians honking to obstruct regime’s pro-Hamas gathering in Tehran.
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If @bbcnews has done it again, they need to investigate and apologize.
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Elliot Cohen 🌹
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Jeremy Bowen on @bbcnews blaming the shot people on the road south of Gaza City on "Israeli snipers". There ARE no Israeli soldiers south of Gaza. You are utterly shameless, Bowen. Shame on you. Shame on the BBC.
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Just the last disgraceful and totally unacceptable outrage from this appalling Israeli government that seems hellbent on damaging inflaming and menacing not just Palestinians but also Israel itself.
@BenzionSanders
Benzi Sanders
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The masks keep coming off. Israeli Communications Minister from the ruling Likud party admits tonight that his plan for “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will actually be coerced migration or in other words ethnic cleansing.
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Finished The Wire. I realize: it is the greatest masterpiece of tv drama of all. The dialogue. The characters inc the villains PropJo Omar Mcnulty the scary Snoop. the worlds told. The flawless acting. the courage. It does resemble the 19C novel cycles of a balzac or a zola.
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The enthusiasm on Tiktok for Osama bin Laden shows where the enthusiasm for jihadist terrorist killers Hamas leads, much based on a zombie ideology that applies simple but brutal eliminationist gibberish Decolonisation to a complex world without knowledge of history or present.
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Surely this is a spoof, @guardian ? A malignant, ahistorical and amoral one but a spoof nonetheless.
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These female hostages walk fearlessly as they r paraded thru this baying crowd. The definition of courage
@HenMazzig
Hen Mazzig
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BREAKING: the 10 Israeli hostages, girls and women, released from Hamas captivity now, being paraded across an angry crowd of Gazans shouting Allahu Akbar as they cross into the Red Cross car with armed terrorists surrounding them. Vile.
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So glad I went #MarchagainstAntisemitism moving inspiring huge around 100k:Jews nonJews BritsArabsPalestinians IraniansKurdsItalians utd by celebration of Brit tolerance&democracy, rejection of antiJewish racism,Hamas terrorism but also empathy to Israeli & Palestinian civilians
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Still amazed to see this level of antiJewish racism in London…
@AvivaKlompas
Aviva Klompas
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At today’s London protest, a sign calling for a “Final Solution” to Israel and the Jews. 📸 @__jacker__
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"How could we have guessed that our attack where we slaughtered civilians and subsequent admissions that we planned to repeat this attack again and again until Israel has been destroyed would lead to a war to remove us from power?????"
@MEMRIReports
MEMRI
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Senior Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: Nobody Could Have Anticipated the Consequences of October 7; We Did Not Expect a Barbaric World War against Us, in Violation of International Law #Hamas #Palestinians #October7massacre
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The definition of moral weasel-ism! "Lost and found"? Was she playing hide & seek? Or was this Israeli child, 9, abducted by Hamas terrorists in the Kill Raid when 1200 civilians slaughtered, girls raped, babies beheaded."Our prayers answered"? Were yr prayers this dishonest?
@LeoVaradkar
Leo Varadkar
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This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief.  Our prayers have been answered.
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So glad to meet the Palestinian peace activist @aziz0nomics #MarchAgainstAntisemitism - along so many nonJews many Brits Arabs Italians Germans French Ukrainians cheered by todays marchers & fighting for their own Kurdistan the Kurds & fighting vs their dictator Iranians
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Courage is
@visegrad24
Visegrád 24
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Masked anti-Israel protesters attack a man carrying a sign in London saying “Hamas are terrorists”
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An Israeli woman responsible for identifying female victims of the Hamas massacre confirms that Hamas terrorists raped children and elderly women.
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Visegrád 24
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An Israeli woman responsible for identifying female victims of the Hamas massacre confirms that Hamas terrorists raped children and elderly women.
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Theres something deeper here. The justification for academics/activists supporting a terror org w racist genocidal program that butchers children is ‘anti-colonialism’, a progressive ideology thats dehumanized Israelis to extent that educated persons celebrate beheading babies
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The courage of a single jewish man against 100 terrorist supporters. A true shame ⁦ @UKLabour ⁩ 100 Pro-Hamas demonstrators confronted outside Labour conference by lone Israel supporter who says 'you should be ashamed - they're murdering people'
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Every now and then, it takes a NY Post frontpage to say it right
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Over 1,000 SUPER BRAVE people gathered at Moscow's Church of Icon of Mother of God Soothes My Sorrows as Alexei #Navalny to be buried as 40 vans of police in balaclavas and secret police disrupt the funeral.
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The BBC has apologised for reporting Hamas claims that the Israeli army was responsible for carrying out “summary executions” in the Gaza strip without seeking sufficient corroborating evidence.
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The key questions in this momentous revolt against Putin r those that faced nicholas II in 1917, Nicholas 1 1825, Peter I 1698 and many other Russian tsars: 1. watch to see if any regular forces & security forces join the mutuneers. If not, this will fail…
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The Saudis say it: Saudi official says Iran engineered war in Gaza to ruin normalization with Israel via @timesofisrael
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This woman shows real courage speaking out against Hamas
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Yonatan Gonen
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A must watch: A Gazan woman surprises Al Jazeera reporter and tells him that Hamas is taking all the humanitarian aid to its terrorists in the tunnels. The reporter tries to convince her otherwise but she continues to attack Hamas. @MOhadIsrael
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
5 months
Proud to be marching tomorrow against antisemitism - with Jews & non Jews: the many of all nations & religions joining to show their solidarity r so welcome! Never in my lifetime has this been imaginable yet alone necessary; it is now! See u there! #MarchAgainstAntisemitism
@antisemitism
Campaign Against Antisemitism
5 months
We’re all set! Looking forward to seeing you at the #MarchAgainstAntisemitism tomorrow! The march will start moving at 13:30 from the Royal Courts of Justice, so try to arrive a bit early. Please follow instructions from CAA stewards, the 1,000 @MetPoliceUK officers on duty and…
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
5 months
The dictator who killed 500,000 of his own people gives a monstrously boring and maligant paranoidconspiracistracistHolocaustdenying history lecture to his courtiers who take notes. The tedium of tyrannical history buffs !
@KareemRifai
Kareem Rifai 🌐
5 months
The disgusting depravity of Bashar al-Assad knows no end: "There is no evidence that six million Jews were killed."
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
5 months
Proud to be marching today against antisemitism - with Jews & non Jews: the many of all nations & religions joining to show their solidarity r so welcome! Never in my lifetime has this been imaginable yet alone necessary; it is now! See u there! #MarchAgainstAntisemitism
@antisemitism
Campaign Against Antisemitism
5 months
We’re all set! Looking forward to seeing you at the #MarchAgainstAntisemitism tomorrow! The march will start moving at 13:30 from the Royal Courts of Justice, so try to arrive a bit early. Please follow instructions from CAA stewards, the 1,000 @MetPoliceUK officers on duty and…
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
7 months
Israel has the right to defend itself. But its arrogant prejudiced divisive inept govt, worst ever, is responsible for failure to negotiate w Palestinians, evil settler attacks on Palestinians in Wbank, security collapse & undermining of democracy. But it must fight responsibly
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
6 months
Astonishing courage in Iran.
@AlinejadMasih
Masih Alinejad 🏳️
6 months
This simple act of #WalkingUnveiled can get you killed in Iran. I received this video from inside Iran right after the brutal murder of #ArmitaGaravand 16 year old girl by hijab police. The man says; we must stand shoulder to shoulder by our women and support their civil…
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
2 years
Traitors. Scum. Purification. Enemies. Putin’s speech and vocabulary back to 1937.
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
3 months
This is a dark moment
@BBCBreaking
BBC Breaking News
3 months
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report, citing the prison service
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
8 months
‘My greatest happiness is to destroy my enemies, hunt them down, reduce their cities to ashes and their beloveds to tears and possess their wives and daughters’. Genghis Khan Pope Francis praises Genghis Khan’s Mongol empire
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
1 month
This is how Shani Louk's family asked for her to be remembered. Smiling and alive.
@HenMazzig
Hen Mazzig
1 month
This is how Shani Louk's family asked for her to be remembered. Smiling and alive. The biggest photojournalism competition in the world decided to trample on the family's wishes in favor of giving a photo of Shani's mutilated body a prestigious award. She wasn't even named in…
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
3 months
Almost laughable humbug here. Once again: how to parade your solemn righteousness by remembering Holocaust Day - without mentioning the Jewish people. And if u listen to this , its quite hard to do….
@ScotGovFM
First Minister
3 months
"The freedom and dignity of every citizen relies on our willingness to defend each other’s human rights." On @HMD_UK #HolocaustMomorialDay , First Minister @HumzaYousaf is honouring everyone killed and all those who continue to be affected by the atrocity.
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
4 months
Hemedti lord of Arab Janjaweed thats killed 400,000 in Darfur was welcomed yday by SouthAfrican President. A Sudanese pundit asks "Hemedti in South Africa? A country that’s filed a case vs Israel at ICC now fetes the genocidal general who’s destroying killing looting raping us?"
@dalliasd
dalliasd
4 months
Himity is in South Africa?! So the country that’s filed a case against Israel in the ICC is now feting the genocidal general who’s literally destroying killing looting and raping us?! Someone make this make sense.
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
2 months
If it emerges Parliamentary chaos was caused by MPs' fear of a flood of threats of murder by mobs of extremists,then democracy is in peril; it doesnt just concern a faraway war; such pressure can be applied on issues closer to home; MPs & democratic freedoms must be protected now
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
4 months
How to advocate and promote massacre and slaughter! Just another weekend in London. Dangerous and murderous rhetoric: "we must be de-Zionized"
@5Pillarsuk
5Pillars
4 months
"We must de-Zionised because Zionism is a death cult, Zionism is indefensible!" Palestinian writer Mohammed El Kurd's passionate speech attacking Zionism at today's London demo for Gaza. @m7mdkurd #CEASEFIRE_NOW
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
7 months
London disgraces itself @MayorofLondon
@BellaWallerstei
Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦
7 months
I came to pay my respects to the Israeli Embassy. I was unable to get very far. Terrifying.
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
4 months
I am #StephenFry and I a Jew. Charming and touching message of Jewish pride, gay pride, British tolerance & moderation - and defiance of anti~Jewish racism. Thanks @stephenfry @Channel4News And lastly one has to pay tribute to that mythical jumper …
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
5 months
The definition of diabolical cruelty. Obviously the tormenting of civilian families of a child hostage both of whose parents were murdered on 7 Oct.
@NoyHilda
Noy Hilda🎗️
5 months
After postponing the ceasefire in a day, Hamas now announces that 3-year-old Abigail won't be released tomorrow. Abigail was kidnapped to #Gaza alone, and still doesn't know that she's an orphan after Hamas murdered her parents on October 7. #HamasislSIS #BringThemHomeNow
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
6 months
The @bbcnews prejudice wld be farcical if the circumstances were not so tragic & the bias so poisonous. Israel brings in Arab speaking medical teams & equipment to care for Palestinian patients. BBC reports Israel was targeting Arab-speaking medical teams. Watch the apology
@HenMazzig
Hen Mazzig
6 months
For the umpteenth time since the war started, the @BBC has had to apologize for reporting libelous information about Israel. Honestly, I don’t know why they even bother apologizing at this point…
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
1 month
Swastikas depend on context
@emilykschrader
Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر
1 month
When the @metpoliceuk refuse to arrest Hamas supporters with a swastika sign today in London one officer told a girl that swastikas disturbing public order “depends on context” If you’re holding a sign with a swastika at an anti-Israel march — this is blatantly antisemitic. Come…
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
3 years
Small pleasures. The joy of that first coffee in my favourite cafe after lockdown. And its snowing. But never mind that
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
6 months
Read this. Now without the paywall.
@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
6 months
The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous Inhumane Toxic and Historically False. And it rejects totally indeed makes impossible the two states of Israel & Palestine that is the only way this is important but do read whole article b4 you condemn it.
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@simonmontefiore
S Sebag Montefiore
2 years
Watching the almost simultaneous performances of weary, warm, charming modest Zelensky and chilling rigid menacing imperious Putin, have the differences between two worlds ideologies and mindsets ever been more marked?
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