Next week's antisemitism conference in Israel has caused divisions in the global struggle against anti-Jewish hate just when we need unity the most. I've written about what it means. everydayhate.substack.com/p/the-antise...

Good old @theguardian.com, urging Jews to celebrate Purim by reflecting on "the evil that Jews commit" and "the danger we pose" to non-Jews... "With the blood of their foes barely dry, the Jews feast and make merry." Happy Purim! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today? Simply this. From @daverich1.bsky.social. everydayhate.substack.com/p/now-we-see...

All that talk of decolonisation, freedom fighters, liberation & resistance, and it ends with Jewish children paraded in coffins as grotesque propaganda props by Hamas. It feels like the right day to remember how some people welcomed October 7 at the time everydayhate.substack.com/p/now-we-see...

The AI-generated fake video of Jewish celebrities supposedly denouncing Kanye West's antisemitism exposed a troubling reality: we need artificial outrage because genuine outrage is in such short supply. everydayhate.substack.com/p/artificial...

If Palestinians want to leave Gaza and live somewhere else, then if there are other countries willing to offer them residency or citizenship they should be able to go. The moment they are forced against their will to leave en masse, it is ethnic cleansing. I don't see how it can be anything else.

Striking how similar the sentiments - and even exact wording - is on this Hamas banner to the placards and chants on protests in the UK. “Nazi Zionism”, victory to the resistance, etc. Different parts of the same movement.

"Musk the Troll" by Dave Rich. Superb analysis of that Nazi salute and what may or may not lie behind it. #antisemitism

It was a Nazi salute - but does that mean Elon Musk is a Nazi? As ever, it's a bit more complicated than that. everydayhate.substack.com/p/musk-the-t...

It was a fascist salute. Even if it came from his subconscious, that’s what it was. There shouldn’t be any doubt about that.

With Holocaust Memorial Day approaching I've written about Pankaj Mishra's London Review of Books essay 'The Shoah After Gaza'. It was a deeply disturbing work linking traditional anti-Jewish narratives & contemporary intellectual anti-Zionism: this is my response. isca.indiana.edu/publication-...

Excellent piece from Dave Rich on the implications of changes to Facebook and other Meta entities.

Brilliant.

Changes announced by Meta this week - ditching fact-checkers & removing automated filters for hate speech - confirm that they never really believed in the need to remove hate content, and now, in a Muskovite online world, they don't have to pretend. everydayhate.substack.com/p/meta-opens...

Update to this post: The Met Police have now imposed legal restrictions on PSC's demonstration to force them to change their plans. news.met.police.uk/news/met-use...

Police have asked the Palestine Solidarity Campaign to move their next march so it doesn't clash with Shabbat morning services at a nearby synagogue. PSC have refused. The row gets to the heart of what the marches are for & their impact on community tensions everydayhate.substack.com/p/move-the-m...

Very much looking forward to taking part in this jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/events/simon...

Maajid Nawaz has finally completed the circular journey back to his antisemitic conspiracist roots, blaming the grooming gangs on Mossad.

📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7 He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east:

Time to get rid of that blue tick on my X account.

Writing about antisemitism can be a miserable business, so I thought that, in the spirit of the season, I should use my last newsletter of 2024 to suggest five reasons to be optimistic for 2025 everydayhate.substack.com/p/reasons-to...

Our Chief Executive, @markg-cst.bsky.social and Director of Policy, @daverich1.bsky.social attended Keir Starmer Chanukah reception at 10 Downing Street alongside many others from across the Jewish community. Thank you for your support.

Every single time this argument comes up it is Mizrahi erasure. Worse -- it's not just forgetting Mizrahi and other MENA Jews exist, it's insisting their very identity is a form of theft. They must choose: they can be Jews, or Middle Eastern, but not both.

This week the Irish government asked the ICJ to widen its legal definition of genocide for the case against Israel. Amnesty International have suggested the same. What does this tell us about the campaign to convict Israel of genocide? everydayhate.substack.com/p/shifting-t...

Israel destroying Syria's air force, navy, chemical weapons and other strategic military assets, so that jihadists or anyone else can't use them, is the kind of thing that governments across the Middle East and Europe will be secretly cheering while publicly condemning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📽 Catch up now on a fascinating talk by @daverich1.bsky.social, Antisemitism and the Holocaust since October 7 He explored how antisemitic tropes and understandings (or misunderstandings) of the Holocaust may condition responses to the conflict in the middle east: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnAa...

Thinking of David Miller and George Galloway on this difficult day for them and their crank Assadist friends.

This is superb

The arson at Melbourne's Adass Israel Synagogue ought to shock everyone - except it isn't shocking at all, because this is the state antisemitism has reached now. It's time for everyone to act everydayhate.substack.com/p/arson-in-m...

Including Jews in ethnicity-based monitoring was one of the recommendations I made in Everyday Hate - we can't tackle antisemitism if we don't measure it properly.

📢 Today is Giving Tuesday! Want to build a safer internet for kids, teens & everyone? Donate to CCDH and help us hold social media companies & their bosses accountable for the harms they create. Donate today 👇 donate.counterhate.com/page/88254/d...

So much misogyny in one comment. Maybe “middle class women of a certain age” have more agency to complain, especially on Celebrity Masterchef where - unlike regular Masterchef - they are less likely to fear risking their dreams if they speak up, and are more likely to know who to complain to in TV.

Last week a mosque in Preston came under pressure for hosting a meeting with local Jewish community leaders. It's an example of how extremist groups and narratives are trying to squeeze Jews out of public spaces - and with it damaging social cohesion for all everydayhate.substack.com/p/squeezing-...

Last week a mosque in Preston came under pressure for hosting a meeting with local Jewish community leaders. It's an example of how extremist groups and narratives are trying to squeeze Jews out of public spaces - and with it damaging social cohesion for all everydayhate.substack.com/p/squeezing-...

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It's like James II losing the Glorious Revolution because of his debilitating nosebleeds

An important thread about Musk's political trajectory in relation to UK politics; and also about how UK political culture differs from that of the United States in ways that Musk does not understand.

I've currently got 17k followers on X and 700 here. But I'll be posting more here than there, for the same reason that I'd rather go for a walk through a nice park than trudge through a filthy swamp. And hopefully those follower numbers will gradually climb.

I've made a Starter Pack for research & insight into antisemitism, extremism, conspiracy theories and similar unpleasant but important things. I'm sure I've forgotten people & I'll add more as I go along, but as the name suggests - it's a start! go.bsky.app/L3v2Zp9

Quality list!

David Miller thinks *Saudi Arabia* is set on erasing Islam from the earth and wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons to stop them.

I've made a Starter Pack for research & insight into antisemitism, extremism, conspiracy theories and similar unpleasant but important things. I'm sure I've forgotten people & I'll add more as I go along, but as the name suggests - it's a start! go.bsky.app/L3v2Zp9

In 2015 Portugal offered citizenship to people descended from medieval Jewish communities expelled in the 14th/15th century. To prove Jewish heritage they used traditional Jewish surnames from that period - and Amorim is on the list. That’s enough for Jewish MUFC fans to get even more excited imv

Happy to say I was already following a lot of these excellent people. I highly recommend you do the same!

SPECIAL REPORT: 5Pillars’ latest discrimination breach shines new light on its alarming content. My latest story for Jewish News: www.jewishnews.co.uk/special-repo...

Väldigt intressant intervju med @daverich1.bsky.social som var på SKMA-konferensen. Håller verkligen inte med honom om allt. Men ändå. Eller kanske just därför.

"It should be possible to campaign for Palestinian freedom, condemn racist Israeli football fans, and still show genuine, unequivocal solidarity with European Jews who are once more being squeezed out of public life." New by @daverich1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some more thoughts about the violence in Amsterdam, or rather on the various reactions to it, now that everyone has settled into their chosen narrative about what happened www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The violence in Amsterdam was not a football riot, or a pogrom, but a warning of the antisemitic potential that still resides in European society: and a sign of who will stand with Europe’s Jews and who would betray us. open.substack.com/pub/everyday...

False Friends: why yesterday's marches in central London have nothing to offer Jews in the struggle against antisemitism open.substack.com/pub/everyday...