Am feeling pure rage at what is being allowed to happen on the streets of London.
100,000 people marching because they think Hamas didn't go far enough.
100,000 people who want rid of me and my fellow Jews.
And don't give me that bullshit about a peaceful march for Palestine.
I appear to be in a minority of one as a Brexiteer who is entirely comfortable with the Supreme Court deciding the law. I thought that was what it was all about...
.
@brexitparty_uk
has banned
@Channel4News
from its events.
ITV, Sky and BBC should make it very clear that they will not be attending any either.
Banning mainstream media because they do their job and scrutinise is a dangerous tactic that must be resisted
My son, a massive fan of
@rickygervais
, just called me to say he and a friend saw the great man in the street and went up to him to say how wonderful they think he is.
He said
@rickygervais
was entirely charming to both.
It's wonderful when heros turn out to be nice people!
I rarely do personal on here but I've noticed a phenomenon which mixes personal and political.
I'm divorced, and on a couple of dating sites (feels very odd but it's the way it's done nowadays). I noticed a few weeks after October 7 that some profiles started to show the 🇵🇸 flag…
A friend just sent me this, take a moment ago in West Hampstead. It’s a food market.
Every single person there is a selfish piece of shit.
It is because of people like that who don't think the rules apply to them that the NHS will be overrun and people will die
Even for
@amnesty
this is sick.
Daqqa abducted 19-year-old Moshe Tamam, castrated him, gouged his eyes out, mutilated the rest of his body and then shot him.
The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a 62-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after 38 years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel’s disregard for Palestinians’ right to life ⬇️
Every week. Every fucking week we - and I mean all of us, not just Jews - have to put up with these hate marches.
Our leaders are weak. They are craven. They are scared to act.
I genuinely don't know if the pass has already been sold and it's too late to row back. But FFS we…
She is one amazing woman. It took me months to come to terms with my diagnosis and well over a year to ready myself to go public. For her to have to tell the entire world like this... Let's just say she is more ballsy than me.
Let's hope she will be ok. Modern medicine is…
This story makes me so angry. As editor of
@JewishChron
I spent the years after Corbyn became Labour leader fighting the party’s antisemitism. Most Labour MPs were either complicit in it or said nothing to upset party members.
@RosieDuffield1
was one of the very few who refused…
Over the first 4 marches I've - slightly obsessively - posted some of the many examples of Jew hate in the hope people will see what is happening. The hate has got worse with each march.
But I can't raise myself to do it today. Everyone knows it's there, because we've had a month…
As days go when you're stuck in hospital for what seems like forever, today is as good as it gets...
Last week my doctors prepared me for a diagnosis of bone cancer on top of my existing leukemia. All the signs indicted it.
But the scan and biopsy results today say NO!
Yesterday was a shameful day. Yes, Hamas exploited - even organised - much of the protests. Yes, no one would have been killed if they’d not been charging at the border.
But no one can tell me that the correct response was to fire live ammunition at unarmed Palestinians.
"The word we keep hearing is unprecedented, the scale and ferocity of attacks on both sides."
Just now, presenter on BBC News. "On both sides."
The BBC has been an utter disgrace these last 24 hours.
If you are wondering why I am so especially angry about the irresponsible crap being tweeted and broadcast - I am being treated for cancer and my immune system is not where it should be so. So I might, you know, die. And I really don't want to if it can be avoided
The BBC has been magnificent from the very first moment
@thehuwedwards
broke the news of Elizabeth's death.
Every moment has been pitch perfect. But it outdid everything with its coverage today. Everyone involved deserves the highest praise.
At every stage of the vaccine process the government has played a blinder:
*Not joining EU scheme
*Appointing Kate Bingham
*Buying vaccines early
*Insisting on UK manufacturing base for Oxford vaccine
*Roll out infratsructure
Many other mistakes made, but this is deepy impressive
Pains me to say it of a Gooner icon, but:
Ian Wright is just magnificent. He is wise, thoughtful, authentic and inspirational. A genuine national treasure
It takes a lot to shock me. And I am well aware of the Guardian's and especially Rowson's form. But I still find it genuinely shocking that not a single person looked at this and said, no, we can't run this. To me that's the real issue.
I struggle to think of any greater force for good in this world than
@jk_rowling
Getting hundreds of millions of children to love reading
Philanthropy
Speaking out against bigotry and ideology
...and now this latest example
Sitting on bench in St James Sq. Suited man - mid 50s, sober looking - sits next to me. Opens his briefcase and puts a brown A4 envelope down next to me.
I look at him and say, jokingly, "If this is a drop you've found the wrong person."
He grabs it and scarpers.
Question is:
I used to respect Ken Clarke. But his statement that, “The present crisis is as bad as it was in 1931 or even 1940” is deranged nonsense.
In 1940 we faced the most ruthless fascist army and murder machine in history. Today, we are unsettled over how to leave a trading bloc
Tnis press conference is unbearable. The 100,000 death figure is appalling, of course. But the parade of questions seeking to apportion personal blame to the PM and those working with him is.a truly foul spectacle
Yes, it's only been calls for intifada and wiping out Jews. And central London becoming a no-go zone for Jews on Saturdays. Nothing worth bothering with.
The majority of protests and other events held in recent months have taken place without any notable disorder, with most people attending to express their views in a lawful and peaceful way.
Regrettably not everyone has acted responsibly and we have seen multiple arrests at a…
Told my son he could stay up for the first half. If we stood any chance he could stay up for second half. So of course he had to go to bed.
How do I break it to him tomorrow? How do I stop him never speaking to me again?
As a rule, I think the BBC editors do a decent job in trying circumstances. But...
It is utterly bonkers that they are dispensing with
@afneil
. He is without peer as an interview and is needed more than ever now.
Give him his own programme to do what he wants, when he wants.
And of course
@BBCr4today
7am headlines don't point out that Hamas ended the truce by firing rockets. This is how the news begins: "Fighting has resumed in Gaza after Israel and Hamas failed to extend a week long truce."
Its report then rams the point home: "The Israeli…
Through all this carnival of hate that's been allowed on our steeets over the past 4 Saturdays, two thoughts have kept me positive:
1) Foul as they are, and illegal as so much of the chants and placards are, perhaps it is a good thing that people get to see the reality of what…
Unconscionable reporting of the exchange deal is universal. Just now (at 06.41) on BBC Five Live,
@chriswarburton_
has informed listeners: "There were celebrations as 39 Palestinian women and children who had been held in Israel were released as part of the deal" - as if this…
Anyone who has been to one of my parties is free to disagree but however bad they've been, I hope no has actually left one thinking they'd been at work
There has been some appalling BBC reporting these past few days. But this by Jeremy Bowen is truly sickening. He draws an explicit moral equivalence between the barbarity at Kfar Aza and Israel's response. I am actually shocked by it. It's grotesque. Foul
Vaccinated! Everything was like clockwork. The entire staff, from stewards to nurses to GPs were smiling as people entered the surgery.
Pretty awe inspiring all round.
I'm genuinely confused. What if my daughter is out on her bike, sees a series of friends en route and stops to chat? And while chatting, a herd of goats pushes her towards one of them. Who is guilty? My daughter or the goats? The government has provided no guidance
No pieces need be written. No analysis supplied. No comment is necessary.
The simple fact that Labour now welcomes Derek Hatton back while it makes life intolerable for Luciana Berger is all that needs to be said
I'm old enough to remember what BT was like as a nationalised organisation - when you had to choose between two types of phones, and then wait months for it to be installed.
Astonishing there are people who see that as a model to return to.
Throughout the election I've argued with friends and allies who've said Corbyn has no chance. Last night's poll shows there is every chance of an extremist Labour forming a government. I can barely bring myself to think what this says about my fellow Brits' tolerance of Jew hate
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Speaking as a Brexiteer, I don't see how the future prosperity of an independent UK is helped by rippling up agreements we have voluntarily signed up to and agree to uphold.
Quite apart from anything else, it's not very British.
I am putting if mildly.
I’ve little in common politically with
@tom_watson
I’ve attacked him in print many times.
But bloody hell I will stand on the baricades with him now. He has stood up against prejudice, and deserves the support of all decent people against the Corbynites going after him
Amazing and inspiring turn out of 105,000 at
#MarchAgainstAntisemitism
I was proud to be there in the body of the crowd, and the sheer size was so uplifting.
It was quite an emotional experience. The quiet dignity of the march was such a contrast to the carnivals of hate seen on…
It's a kind of proud ignorance. Quite apart from the use of the word Nazi, clearly without the least idea of what the Nazis were, it is grotesquely inappropriate given Philip's brave war record, for which he was mentioned in despatches and given the Greek War Cross of Valour
My column: The pro-Palestine protest on Armistice Day must have been the largest anti-Semitic demonstration in British history... but the BBC turned a blind eye
Every one of the Labour MPs and members who campaigned in Peterborough should hang their heads in shame, having worked to get an antisemite elected as MP for an institutionally racist party.
But they won't, because they long ago became complicit in racism.
Telegraph story is disturbing because of the use of the idea it’s a “secret plot.” Soros is incredibly open about what he does. Say it’s wrong; fine. But idea it’s a secret plot is exactly the line being used in Hungary and elsewhere precisely because he is Jewish.
So much for the promises that police would act. They're milling around as if they are at a country fair while Hamas, a proscribed terror organisation is being glorified.
What is the point of the police (a question I ask myself often)?
Bizarre line in this report: “The professor believes that people cannot change their biological sex.”
It’s not a belief. It’s not an opinion. Kathleen Stock merely states scientific fact.
Words matter and The Times needs to be accurate
This is not a parody - these are the exact words of
@LauraPidcockMP
explaining Labour's Brexit policy:
"We recognise why people voted Leave. We recognise why people voted Remain. We are not the party of either. We are the party of both."
No wonder trust in journalists is so low when this is the level of stories.
PM's key aide attended a meeting of top scientists during a pandemic. Isn't that a good thing? Instead, it's reported as some sort of scandal. Sometimes I am ashamed of my trade
Bloody hell, he should see my bookshelves!
I have Mein Kampf, Mao's Little Red Book, and - yes - two books by Irving.
I even have a book by Owen Jones, who from his (excellent) Chavs clearly understands that to understand and critique a view you have to have read it.
I've spent the days since the Hamas massacre in a mix of depression, anger and a kind of unsettled melancholy. But the march today has crystalised things into pure rage that this is happening - and being allowed to happen. 1/
Am feeling pure rage at what is being allowed to happen on the streets of London.
100,000 people marching because they think Hamas didn't go far enough.
100,000 people who want rid of me and my fellow Jews.
And don't give me that bullshit about a peaceful march for Palestine.
I am absolutely disgusted that
@BorisJohnson
has stood by and let IRA apologist Claire Fox be elevated to the House of Lords.
His failure to block her appointment is an insult to the victims of terrorist atrocities and people in Warrington and the NW.
He should be ashamed.
"For a time, the prime minister’s life appeared to be in danger. Will this brush with mortality change his attitudes?"
Seriously, Guardian? Forgive my language, but go fuck yourselves
Stories like this are so f***ing depressing. Absolute total bollocks. He was asking if they were done so he could go to his daughter, who he didn't want on camera.
Quite apart from the sheer horror of this video, there are at least 6 police officers dealing with someone who allegedly said something. Nothing better illustrates the utter mess of modern policing.
I won't link to this foul, poisonous piece in the Guardian because I don't want the bastards there to get anything from me, but the timing of this - on Pesach, when Jews celebrate our liberation and when our fellow Jews are being held hostage by a genocidal terrorist organisation…
Other than my wedding ring (when I was married) and a signet ring given to my dad for his bar mitzvah, I've never worn jewellery.
But I will be damned if I am going to let the Jew haters win, so I've just bought a Magen David, which I am going to wear proudly.
This is a Trump-style attempt to divert blame from the UK government's failures.
A World Health Organization report says China "rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile & aggressive disease containment effort in history"
We haven't even sorted out enough tests for NHS staff
They don't march over war in Europe. They don't march over Chinese killing of the Uyghur. They haven't marched over Assad's murder of his Muslim citizens.
I wonder what it is about the world's only Jewish state defending itself from Hamas that prompts them to march.
100,000's of people March every week to protest about the war in the middle East. They don't march because they've got nothing else to do. They march because they have to do something
I'm voting for a ceasefire Tomorrow because that's the least I can do. Parliament should be one
So now we are just going to pretend everything is fine and we can all just forget what happened outside the school, and the threats made to the teacher? This pretence is how we strengthen the extremists. This is how things gets worse
BBC reporter just now on London mayoral election: "Labour of course is always dominant in London".
Do you think she knows what Boris Johnson did before he entered the Cabinet?
Corbynite attack line on Field is that he voted with the Tories - three times.
I can see why that might be an issue for Corbynites. Because it's 425 times fewer than Corbyn managed. He voted against the Labour whip 428 times under the last Labour government
The sheer hypocrisy!
Utterly bizarre - and wrong on every level - that Whitty and Vallance aren't taking questions. What is the point of having having them speak if it's not to clarify and aid understanding.
They might as well just send out a press notice.
British Jews say a prayer every week for the Royal Family.
There is something deeply moving about this picture of the second in line to the throne praying at our holiest site
How very kind of Lisa Forbes to be willing to tell Jews why we are wrong about her.
Because she accidentally liked a post about Zionist Slave Masters, and didn't mean it when she posted in antisemitic forums, endorsed Jew hating threads and signed a letter rejecting IHRA
Translation:
"Would you rather have the most incompetent government in living memory, or a party led by racists who want a socialist revolution?"
"We'll take the useless idiots, please"
Tonight's Labour resignations are a useful exercise.
The Commons vote is meaningless as anything other than a demonstration of the self-absorbtion of MPs who think their views on Gaza are in any way consequential.
But the vote has helped Labour identify and remove MPs who have…
I am with
@Dannythefink
on this. I wanted the deal. I don't want No Deal. But almost nothing is more important than stopping Corbyn from taking power. For the past 4 years that has driven my politics. I would always take No Deal over Corbyn. Always
Dear
@OwenJones84
You made a fair point on
@BBCr4today
about the unsavoury people Blair speaks to.
As a principled chap, I'm waiting for your denunciation of the terrorists, racists and gay killers
@jeremycorbyn
has allied with.
Waiting.
Still waiting...
I keep reading that Emma Raducanu shows how if you work hard you can achieve anythjng.
Except it's not true. If you work hard you can fulfil your potential, which is very different.
No matter how hard I work I will never nor could ever have won the US Open.