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Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
Attacking Jewish businesses isn’t striking a blow against Israel. Stabbing Jews to death in Manchester isn’t striking a blow for Palestinians. Demonising world’s only Jewish state/sanctuary for imaginary crimes, after worst slaughter of Jews since Holocaust, is not righteousness.
Last week I was in Israel, surrounded by joyous Jewish life. Today I stood at Auschwitz, where my Jewish friends prayed in the gas chambers for relatives murdered there.
I finally understand how the Holocaust became possible. And I am frightened by what I see around us.
“Never Again” is NOW.
mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/l…
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
Last week I was in Israel, surrounded by joyous Jewish life. Today I stood at Auschwitz, where my Jewish friends prayed in the gas chambers for relatives murdered there.
I finally understand how the Holocaust became possible. And I am frightened by what I see around us.
“Never Again” is NOW.
mrandrewfox.substack.com/p/l…
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
I’ve just voted for @JamesCleverly. James is the candidate we need - to defeat Labour and get London back on track!
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
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Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
It isn’t the Israeli Philharmonic performing as this image might suggest. It’s a small Arab-Jewish six person ensemble from the orchestra and their aim is to create a “bridge between cultures”. This is not a protest. It’s racist harassment.
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
Over the weekend, I traveled to Berlin with a delegation of constituents to commemorate the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organized pogrom that saw the widespread destruction of Jewish businesses and synagogues, foreshadowing the horrors of the Holocaust.
I never imagined returning to America to discover that, during the same week as Kristallnacht’s anniversary, extremists had organized a boycott of Jewish businesses, declaring, “These Zionist establishments must go.”
We are unlearning the lessons of history at great peril not only to our Jewish brothers and sisters but also to ourselves.
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
I would like to give immense personal thanks to Jemima Goldsmith. It was Jemima who alerted me to Russell Brand when I was Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel Four because she believed, based on her own experience, he was a danger to other women and must be exposed.
How many things smeared as 'far right' now will be seen as prescient and justified in ten years time? – at Islington, London
I’ve been thinking a lot about the time that Brand was fired from the BBC over ‘Sachsgate’.
The fuss, created by the Mail on Sunday, became a sort of culture war moment before the phrase ‘culture war’ was talked about.
The idea of being shocked by what Brand and Ross had done and said (left messages for a famous actor about Brand sleeping with his grand daughter) was deemed right wing.
And that gets to the bottom of the permissive culture of that time. To say what they did was wrong was deemed right wing.
And that’s partly why Brand was so easily embraced by the left. Why they were so willing to ignore what he had been publicly sacked for.
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Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
A group closely linked to hard-left conspiracy theorists has been given more than a quarter of a million pounds of public money to promote "trusted, high-quality local journalism.".
Bylines Networks Ltd is the second largest recipient of money from the Government’s new Local News Fund, receiving a total of £266,221 to "fund the future of local news."
Bylines Networks Ltd is closely associated with Byline Times, whose recent output is a mixture of hard-left attack, Jason Arday trutherism and the frankly deranged.
Byline Times and Bylines Networks Ltd are controlled by the same people, Peter Jukes and Steve Colegrave, who are directors of both. Bylines Network describes itself as a “partner organisation to Byline Times” and says that the two organisations “work closely together.“
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Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
Gaza is flooding. It could have been so different. In 2005, Israel left advanced drainage systems when it pulled out of The Strip. Hamas dug up the pipes and turned them into rockets to shoot at Israel.
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
The contradiction of Palestinianism is accusing Israel of genocide while furiously demanding they provide more aid. Who expects a welfare state from an enemy supposedly trying to annihilate them? The demand itself exposes how ridiculous the genocide claim is.
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
I’m sure this won’t be a surprise to most, but pleased to have voted for @JamesCleverly to be our @Conservatives London mayoral candidate!
My partner just came across this in a book he is reading:
'We allude to that most undeservedly persecuted race, the Jews - a race endowed with many virtues and generous qualities, but whose characters have been blackened by a host of writers whose narrow minds and illiberal preudices have induced them to preserve all the exaggerations and misrepresentations which tradition hands down in the Christian world relative to the cruelly-treated Israelite'.
Written by the popular Victorian author George W.M.Reynolds in 1846. Note the use of the term 'Israelite'.
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Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
Israeli Arabs on Eisenkot's 4 conditions for Arab parties joining his government:
Recognize Hamas as a terrorist group
✅Accept: 43% | ❌Reject: 30% | ❔DK: 26%
Recognize Israel as Jewish & democratic
✅54% | ❌38%
Nonmilitary national service for Arab youth
✅68% | ❌28%
Commitment to Declaration of Independence Values (universal equality)
✅95% | ❌4%
via Statnet/Chan13, Nov. 2–5
Jane Gerson 🧡 🦁 retweeted
I must say thank you for all the Reform UK trolls who think they’re giving me a hard time because my poll shows them third at a miserable 18%. My article as a consequence has been seen more times than I could ever have imagined. Thank you. Keep going. Love it!
Never again isn't simply something we say when remembering the dead. It's a responsibility to the living. – at Islington, London
On this day in 1938, synagogues burned across Germany. Jewish businesses were smashed, homes attacked and thousands of Jewish men dragged off to concentration camps.
Kristallnacht didn't happen in a vacuum.
It followed years of propaganda, scapegoating and the gradual acceptance of hatred towards Jews as something normal.
88 years later, antisemitism is once again finding its way into mainstream conversation, sometimes dressed up as political activism.
History doesn't have to repeat itself exactly for its lessons to matter.
Never again isn't simply something we say when remembering the dead. It's a responsibility to the living.
'This is how it must be done' – at Islington, London
I have been following closely the events unfolding today in Philadelphia, it is deeply moving to witness such a powerful and unified response in support of Jewish spaces.
What we are seeing is not merely solidarity—it is the clearest answer to antisemitism. Thousands have gathered, not in silence or afterthought, but in immediate, visible defense of a community under threat.
This is how it must be done, every incident, large or small, met with a response that leaves no room for doubt or isolation.
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