"We saw you from across the bar and thought you should be deported."

It’s a Wonderful Life. Basically a Yom Kippur film. Based on a short story by a Jewish writer, one that is clearly based on the Dickens.

The only required answer to perennial arguments over whether Jesus is Palestinian or Jewish is that Jesus can be whatever nationality you want him to be. Merry Xmas!

I hope people will read this and see that it had everything to do with IS and nothing to do with the Palestine solidarity movement

Excellent piece

Stalin would have been proud of such a result www.thejc.com/news/almost-...

Shameless. Herodotus (c. 484-425 BCE) used the term Palestine, long before the Roman conquest. www.uklfi.com/open-univers...

‘Let’s tell our stories: both the heroic and the embarrassing, the simple and the strange, those of our celebrities and ordinary Yoysef-shmos. We are constructed from the broader tales of Albion, and Albion itself is woven out of our stories.’ www.toratalbion.org.uk/telling-brit...

Tikkun Olam: the original ‘Globalise the Intifada’

But McSweeney’s analysis of Labour’s wrong turn goes back further, to the summoning of the Long Parliament in November 1640

A relatively light piece for the holidays, but with some serious ideas behind it www.toratalbion.org.uk/telling-brit...

How come when the children put a hat on Frosty and he comes to life it’s cute and kitschy, but when I write “emet” on this lump of clay and it comes to life suddenly I’m “bringing destruction on the whole village” and I have to “make it stop??”

Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist Full release available at the link in our bio.

Keir Starmer is firmly committed to wasting police time, and equally committed to avoiding doing anything that would actually combat antisemtism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Maybe I'm going to regret wading into this but 1) There is no evidence that the Bondi killers ever shouted 'globalize the intifada' or even attended any pro-Palestine demonstrations or events 2) 'Globalize the intifada' is not a call to kill Jews ...

As we now know that the Bondi Beach attackers were motivated by IS ideology, responding by cracking down on Palestine protests is at best irrelevant and at worst totally counterproductive.

Very good from @emhilton.bsky.social www.972mag.com/bondi-massac...

Yes I do have a Channukah snow globe

I feel particularly affected when other Jewish people across the world are massacred, as they were yesterday. It’s normal and reasonable. It’s equally normal and reasonable for the Palestinian diaspora to have felt similarly in the last 2 years when so many Palestinians have been massacred in Gaza.

Worrying number of people online claiming that the Australia attack was carried out by Mossad / was a false flag op. Exactly the same logic as people denying the death toll in Gaza or saying they were killed by Hamas. An attempt to deny the veracity of deaths caused by the people you support.

I'm on my way to a Chanukah event. It should be a celebration but instead our community is once again mourning. I will be thinking of everyone in Australia and those around the world in the Jewish Community who know this fear and loss. We stand with you.

Horrific events in Australia. Sending solidarity to the families of the victims. Please remember that jumping to political conclusions about the motivation for the attack is distasteful and disrespectful to those who have lost their lives.

The Board of Deputies could destroy Farage, a politician that has credibly said some of the most atrocious antisemitic comments uttered in recent British history by an elected MP, by releasing a statement condemning him, but they don’t. They did previously, in 2019, over far less. Why is that?

This is a really great article by @shaneburley.bsky.social on contemporary anti-Zionist Judaism inthesetimes.com/article/jewi...

It turns out that when they refused to tell us who funds them there was a pretty good reason

From the Wikipedia entry for No Good Deed, from Wicked. Rarely has the phrase ‘citation needed’ been more apt.

While Labour leader, Ed Miliband was asked if he was a Zionist, and declined to give a clear answer. As the child of Jewish anti-Zionist parents he had some idea what Zionism meant. Rachel Reeves is not encumbered by any such knowledge so she just says whatever she thinks politically convenient.

The Spectator has done everything in its power to harm Jews, Muslims, Black and brown people and defend its fascists friends from criticism—it’s a perpetual hate machine. Therefore, naturally, every year the London elite attend its summer garden party to be photographed and do cocaine

Saw Wicked: For Good. It’s decent and enjoyable, but some bits are unnecessarily drawn out and other very dramatic moments rushed. It would have been much better as a single film.

Surely it is also relevant that Labour banned its candidate from campaigning in the constituency? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

After complaints from peace

The Zionist claim that it’s Hamas that is the true threat to Palestinians comes in the tradition of blaming the ANC / Mau Mau / FLN / Nat Turner / Sitting Bull for indigenous suffering rather than settlers and their imperial sponsors.

I’m sure that if various classmates of Jeremy Corbyn had said that he used to be racist and antisemitic towards them the media would have said that it was a long time ago and it was unfair to bring it up now.

Note the similarity of ‘Hitler was right’ with ‘Powell was right’. Farage wasn’t just saying coarse things, he was specifically advocating for structural racism, forced repatriation and racial discrimination, while supporting historic genocide.

On reflection I think it would have been smarter to demand that Palestine be included in Eurovision rather than Israel be excluded. It would have shown that the real international boycott is not of Israel but of Palestine, whose right to exist is constantly denied.

This is a golden opportunity for the UK to withdraw from Eurovision without it looking like it’s doing so because we always do so badly.

Also, the only people who talk about the Black and White Minstrel Show, Till Death Do Us Part, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum etc. are either a) critical race scholars or b) people who really enjoyed watching them and can’t understand why they ceased. I wonder which group Farage is in?

Nice that Farage has an imaginary Jewish friend from his schooldays who can vouch for his goodness (anonymously, obviously).

Farage accuses the BBC of hypocrisy over racism for their past broadcasts of The Black and White Minstrel Show, Till Death Do Us Part and Bernard Manning, ignoring the fact that neither Manning nor Alf Garnett are currently attempting to become Prime Minster. news.sky.com/story/politi...

I'm speaking in Sheffield on Sunday - do come if you're around!

Richard Tice’s comments on Nigel Farage’s schoolboy fascism. Please share widely, especially to anyone considering voting for Reform.

Excluding Israel from Eurovision is the very least the international community can do in response to Gaza www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Only just read this by Raz Segal, it's very good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Would just like to plug Woodcraft Folk (aka the militant wing of The Coop), where children of all genders will always be welcome and you don't have to promise to serve God and the King woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

‘When I think of the oldest hatred it’s Nigel Farage’s face I see’. Ettedgui says he never experienced such antisemitism before or since, quashing the idea that this was what everyone did then. www.itv.com/news/2025-12-02/former-classmate-of-farage-alleges-he-racially-abused-him-throughout-school

This will include many cases of direct action, in which juries frequently acquit even if the defendants clearly broke the law, but did so on moral grounds. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good to see Richard Hermer taking this on as one who has been a victim of antisemitism from the Tories and the press - often portrayed as a radical lawyer, in ways that echo the Judeo-Bolshevik myth. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I loved this piece on 'Choose Life' in Deuteronomy by @theradr.bsky.social www.lifeisasacredtext.com/our-side-of-...

Direct comparisons between Jewish communities miss the point, argues contributing writer Joseph Finlay in this week's Pickle. www.vashtimedia.com/us-uk-jewish...

To this day I still see people say Israel did not start bombing Gaza until the next week, which is wrong, they started bombing within 5 hours of the initial incursions by Hamas, the PFLP and other groups on the 7th. What they're doing is either 1) confusing airstrikes and land invasion, or 2) lying.