Immediate past Co-Chair, Kingston Liberal Synagogue. Former member of Board of Deputies of British Jews. Progressive Zionist.
London, England
Joined February 2009
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I’m back here for a while. Peeped into Blue Sky. Typed Israel into search engine….and promptly deleted app. Post after post of unhinged antisemitic conspiratorial bile. I know there’s some here too but at least I can find some commentators worth paying attention to.
One of the most inspirational women I have met and I’ve met a lot of inspirational women..
Great meeting in Jerusalem yesterday with the Global Leadership Fellowship from the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Discussed our unbreakable bond as Jews throughout the world, and our common mission to support Israel and combat antisemitism. @WUPJudaism
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Reading a couple of @theguardian articles in a last few days, I feel we may be seeing its final departure from the pluralistic liberal tradition that made it a great newspaper, thanks to its capture by – or its morally fuddled editorial cadre - surrender to, an activist, ideological, anti-Western and more than that, anti-factual front.
Our liberal democracy needs institutions of pluralistic discourse like this once-hallowed paper but it also requires a respect for facts and some sense of morals. Facts were once the essential ingredients of the coverage of a paper like the Guardian.
However at least there are comedic sides to this.
Two recent articles exemplify the Guardian’s embrace of illiberal anti democratic, anti fact forces and at the same time represent “a bonfire of the vanities” (an appropriate quotation from Savonarola who used the phrase to launch a bloodspattered but absurdly self-righteous purge of Florence that ended with his own execution.)
Today’s was a truly creepy review of the One Day in October documentary, by a comedy-writer Stuart Jeffries, on the October 7 Hamas massacres who seemed irritated and uneasy that the real record of the atrocities by Hamas and some Gazan civilians, gleefully documented by the killers themselves on GoPros and smart-phones, did not accord with his and the Guardian’s political prejudices.
How could these impertinent film-makers present these killers, decapitators, rapists, body-mutilators, corpse-abusers, kidnappers and looters as baddies? That is against the simplistic, rigid, flimsy framework of the ideology of anti-Israeli decolonization and must be wrong! This uncomfortable fact must be corrected!
The result: a piece of unintentional, amoral gallows comedy at the Guardian's expense.
The other was equally embarrassing and morally tone-deaf: a comically self-important and self-reverential but ugly and historically ignorant essay claiming the Israelis were guilty of memoralizing their October 7 fallen (so unlike every society, ever, in history from the 300 of the Spartans to the West with WW1 Armistice Day, the West and Russia with WW2, The Holodomor by Ukrainians, the Holocaust by the Jews, the Nakba by Palestinians, 9/11 by Americans and so on) by the clumsy Canadian provocateur Naomi Klein, all but indistinguishable from her alter-ego and fellow solipsist the other Naomi.
As I posted this amidst general contempt for these pieces across the X platform, the paper may have taken one of them down 'pending review.'
The fact is the paper has lost its heart and soul and sense of moral judgement but these preposterous pieces at least provide a sort of bleak, EndDays comedy amidst the heartbreaking civilian losses of Middle Eastern conflicts... @theguardian
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In times like these, we must all remember the plight of the hostages, combat antisemitism and seek a lasting peace in Israel and Palestine.
ALT Ed Davey at Kingston Liberal Synagogue, posing with a picture of a hostage taken on Oct 7th attacks.
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This morning, I visited Kingston Liberal Synagogue to observe the awful anniversary of the October 7th attacks. On what is such a difficult day, I was reminded of the strength that comes from standing together.
ALT Ed Davey at Kingston Liberal Synagogue
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Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to R4:
“On the day that those beautiful people were being buried, kidnapped from a music festival like Reading or Glastonbury, the UK decides to send a signal that it’s Israel that it wants to penalise, and that is a terrible, terrible message to be sending both to Israel in its hour of need, also to Hamas about the consequences – where consequences are for the horrific actions that Hamas has taken as a terrorist organisation, but also to other allies and adversaries around the world.
“So it is the wrong decision taken very much at the wrong time.”
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Our statement on the Government's decision today to institute a partial arms sales suspension against Israel:
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If you have Jewish friends, please give them a hug. Send them a message to check if they’re ok. We are all crushed.
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absolute evil - where are the marches?
Today, the Taliban passed a law that bans women from showing their faces and having their voices heard in public. Their burqas must now entirely cover their faces and they are not permitted to speak in public or to look at any males that are not relatives. Perhaps it’s been an emotional year, or maybe it’s because I’m triggered, but I once again cried when I heard the news. I’m still trying to piece myself together. Not even animals are treated with such cruelty, such dehumanization, such indignity, and such little value for human life. This is the entire erasure of the existence of women, and it cuts me to the core to know what Afghanistan and Iran were before this cancerous plague was brought to us. Where are the protests? Where is the outrage? Where is the ICJ? The ICC? Amnesty? Why doesn’t anybody care about the effective enslavement of millions of women under the jihadist system of gender apartheid?
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I really cannot stress this enough:
Hezbollah has been attacking Israel every single day since October 8, firing thousands of missiles, rockets, and drones into the country and causing scores of deaths and widespread devastation.
Nothing started today.
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“Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself.” -@KamalaHarris
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Disturbing. Even amidst attempts to reject far-right violence, antisemitic poison openly infects parts of the far left and some bodies who claim to speak for Muslims in the UK. If you blame it on Jews, you’re little better than the thugs trashing our towns.
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As ever, Jews are the target of choice for conspiracy theorists from the right, the left & Islamist groups. It is not acceptable.
We need a national conversation about promoting respect for our country & each other, how we tackle extremism & build cohesion.
Me in @JewishNewsUK
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Today, Board of Deputies President @philr_r, together with Vice President @andrewgilbert1 and Chief Executive @michaelwegier, met BBC Director General Tim Davie to discuss Jewish communal concerns. Here is our statement about that meeting:
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As you’re watching #Paris2024 @Olympics, remember Karina Pritika, 23, a former rhythmic gymnast from Israel, who was was murdered while attending the Nova music festival on October 7.
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“Labour worked hard for Jewish support. It should not take it for granted. The new government’s foreign policy stance towards Israel is raising grave concerns among the community in Britain.” – @PhilR_R writing in @thetimes.
thetimes.com/article/e7f7c5c…
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The European white colonizers who American students are protesting against. teapawt.org/AdamAlbilya/status/181…
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We are horrified by the targeting of Sydney’s Great Synagogue by so-called ‘anti-Israel’ activists. It is time for the general public to wake up and realise the deep rot at heart of the organised ‘anti-Israel’ movement.
ALT “We are horrified by the targeting of Sydney’s Great Synagogue by so-called ‘anti-Israel’ activists. “Over the last nine months, many antisemites have sought to sanitise their Jew-hatred by presenting it as ‘criticism of Israel’. It is time for the general public - including many people understandably concerned by the terrible situation in Gaza - to wake up and realise the deep rot at heart of the organised ‘anti-Israel’ movement. “We send our love and solidarity to Rabbi Elton, the Australian Jewish community, ECAJ and the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.”
Today, another line was crossed when Sydney’s oldest synagogue - The Great Synagogue - was vandalised.
The Synagogue has continuously operated in its current location since 1878 as a testament to the vibrancy of Jewish life in Sydney and Australia.
Over the past nine months, however, its services have been regularly disrupted to accommodate often incendiary protests in its immediate vicinity. Now The Great Synagogue itself has come under attack.
Let’s be clear - targeting a synagogue is pure, unadulterated antisemitism which is intended to have a chilling and intimidating effect on members of the Synagogue and the Jewish community more broadly.
Despicable conduct such as this is completely antithetical to our Australian way of life. Places of worship are sacred and should be places of safety, refuge and comfort.
This is truly outrageous behaviour and we are appalled. Enough is surely enough.
If you have so far remained silent, now is the time to speak up.
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An travesty of history. An attack on Jews everywhere. An outrage against the victims of the Holocaust. And an insult to the people of Gaza. No help to anyone
Anne Frank statue is defaced with 'Gaza' graffiti. dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Pure antisemitism 🥲 Anne Frank memorial in Amsterdam vandalized with 'Gaza' graffiti haaretz.com/world-news/europ….
