"At a time of rising fascism, staggering inequality, and the collapse of moral and civic responsibility ... education ... must create the conditions for students to become informed, critical, and engaged citizens, capable of holding power accountable and fighting for a radical democracy."

What the Central Line and its defective trains have done to my early start today is derelict. It's caused me stress and deprived me of the exercise I built into the journey. Good comms from the driver. #TfL

UKLFI is a pro-Israel lawfare outfit with a low bar for antisemitism. BUT this motion from UCU’s London regional committee is appalling: constructing all “Zionist groups” as threats and defining uni managements’ heavy-handed discipline as “Zionist repression”. www.uklfi.com/ucu-warned-o...

Wait, lethal antisemitism was invented in 1948? Huge if true!

To my fellow Jewish Londoners: now is the time to stand tall. London is our home. We are proud to be part of its fabric. We do not have to just survive in this city. It is time to lean into who we are. Let us be vibrantly Jewish and deepen our roots here. news.sky.com/story/follow...

Muslim-Jewish solidarity

Great thread about the history of the Bund from an actual historian

Lots of praise for policing defending Jews against armed antisemites. As @daverich1.bsky.social said on #BBCR4PM policing is an important measure but not a solution

Nachman Moshe ben Chaya Sarah and Moshe Ben Baila. May the victims of today's terrorist attack in Golders Green make full and speedy recoveries. #antisemitism

Four statements on X on the Golders Green attack by UK political party leaders. Three directly reference Jews, the Jewish community & antisemitism. Only one erases us entirely: @zackpolanski.bsky.social. His generic statement could be about anything and anyone. This is a pattern not an oversight.

Maybe it's time for everyone to wear a Star of David in public, to bewilder the armed antisemites and show solidarity with Jews

“The antisemites are attempting to raise the cost of being Jewish in the UK. We must work as a society to ensure the cost of being antisemitic is far higher.” A joint response from the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council on the terrorist incident in Golders Green.

We are appalled by the stabbing attack on two Jews in London's Golders Green neighborhood. This is the same neighborhood where a terrorist group set fire to four ambulances belonging to the Jewish ambulance corps Hatzola just last month. 1/2

I drafted something a few days ago on why it doesn't matter how scared I am of antisemitism. Today's horrible attack in Golders Green prompted me to publish it in my newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/keithkah...

Im asssuming Farage is being interviewed as part of local election coverage for next week. #bbcr4today Wonder what happened to any questions *at all* about policies local councils actually control

“Unaddressed” cost pressures undermining university access work: London-based institutions failing to respond to risks outlined by regulator and setting fewer access-related targets, LSBU/London Higher report finds. https://ow.ly/3cHt50YQEOL

Being made redundant has a profound impact on people. Read Part 1 of our analysis of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey here: https://ow.ly/5ZhE50YQp1p #jobcuts #highered #edusky

This really lays bare how antisemitism creeps into opposition to the Israeli government's actions. Refusing to sing with Jews at a benefit to support a Jewish community that was targeted in a horrific, deadly attack is antisemitic.

Assad-era defected judge returns to prosecute former regime figures Fakhruddin al-Arian defected in 2013, saying that a judge could not remain silent in the face of injustice. Arian now heads a criminal court trying figures tied to the Assad regime. — Levant24 levant24.com/news/2026/04...

Why is this Guardian article about Palantir not outraged? Because it's about hunting down bent coppers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Aner Shapira (my profile pic) got the @unholypod.bsky.social mensch award open.spotify.com/episode/7vDD...

Former Mossad head Tamir Pardo : “What I saw today is the existential threat to the State of Israel." A must see, as these former high level Israeli officials bear witness to the ongoing destruction and abuses of the Arab population in the Jordan Valley and issue an urgent clarion call:

30,000 university redundancies in the past three years, particularly affecting older staff, more senior staff and the Arts & Humanities. 1,095 respondents share their circumstances

Aha!

Cartoon in The Spectator, May 1986... #Chernobyl

Zack Polanski is a good example of the difference between being Jewish and grasping antisemitism. He is complacent - downfall of leaders. www.jewishnews.co.uk/starmer-slam...

Any trade union who would take Usama Ghanem's cause against its staff and students is very lost. The aggression against the Israeli economist and the assault on the security guard are particularly disturbing cameraoncampus.org/blog/why-kcl...

Transport for London. Leave early, arrive late. #TfL

The Central Line. Letting Londoners down.

Holy sh.. The cover of Germany‘s very pro-business Manager Magazin about Minister Reiche‘s irresponsible decision to double down on gas power plants. Illustrates once more that old journalistic frames of there being such a monolithic thing as ‚the business community‘ are outdated.

One for Julian Casablancas, in pursuit of his frisson he forgot he was talking about actual people. Where are the real anti-racists? substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thought this threaded a difficult needle well

24 April 1934 | A German Jewish boy, Kurt Peter Wiesen, was born in Eisenach. In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

In part because we have to live in their societies. All minorities in the US have to deal with conditional acceptance. But I've believed for a very long time that because Jews sit at the intersection of a lot of different ideologies and frameworks, our acceptance is less stable than some others.

And in the UK because we're nearing drought in most of it. A volunteer. Let him be the last. We can turn from this fossil fuel and depletion frenzy.

Thank God for a warm safe bed and a full stomach.

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

One thing I can say about Independents already on Redbridge Council is that they're notorious for not doing any work on their wards. If it's not part of the Gaza agenda it's not of much interest to them.

Your Party statement today: 'Lutfur Rahman's Aspire heralded as municipal socialist success story, [seeking] to boost majority with Corbyn backing' 'Newham & Redbridge key targets for YP-allied community indy groups' The YP-backed Newham group pledges to *freeze* council tax. A recipe for cuts.

Redbridge, Jo Blackman and Daniel Huw Morgan-Thomas are the good candidates on that ballot, #Labour representing everyone, uniting everyone and doing a lot of good with a Tory austerity budget >>>>> www.redbridgelabour.org.uk/manifesto/

Given the diversity of Reform UK candidates in some parts of London, one might think that the local branches in the capital were home to a more moderate, inclusive version of the party. Unfortunately not. Meet David Davies, Reform candidate for Wanstead Village. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/23/i...

Letting cats out at the time of year when animals are breeding is one of the most awful things a cat owner can do

They didn't even tell us what happened to the injured axolotl. Is it getting help? Will it get back home? #BBCR4Today

I'm going to start asking every person who advocates for the forcible ending of Israel, against its people's will, how many Israelis they're willing to kill to achieve that goal. I've asked several already, and remarkably none have answered, even though the answer is obvious from their rhetoric.

It is smart of the IRCG to tell the boy to plead witless. Which is what I presume happened

Not sure tube strikes (especially partial ones) “bring London to a halt”. WfH/Liz Line/Overground/Lime bikes. London just felt a bit empty today (so bad for restaurants etc) rather than full of people who’d come in and were struggling home. TfL say only -13% passengers and 51% of tube running.

A rally and a march, organised by different Jewish groups, had been organised to take place in Central London on the same date - an hour apart

The attack is being treated as religiously aggravated

Here's the thing. All these childish adults calling to wipe a state off the map, and pretending they think no one would die in that effort? Once the war of Israeli extermination began, they would absolutely put on a shocked Pikachu face and go "Oh, I didn't know it would be like THIS! How could I?"