I wonder if any of the people who think terrorism means a people forfeits their right to a state have heard of Menachem Begin

I like the way Starmer says ‘We recognised the State of Israel more than 75 years ago as a homeland for the Jewish people’ as if the UK had no role in those events and no responsibility for how they played out.

I know it’s not enough but I didn’t think they’d actually go through with this so I’m pleased that they are www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This was a fascinating listen but they should have had a critical antisemitism scholar on too, whether David Feldman, Anthony Lerman or me. Dave Rich espouses a very ideological position and it needs more balance than Jo Glanville was willing to give it. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro...

Excellent thread

What is going on? This is chaos

The Board of Deputies collaborating with the Canadian and Australian Jewish bodies has strong bring back the British Empire vibes

What royal dinner would be complete without Rupert Murdoch, Australian media mogul and wrecker of the British press?

This is basically a call for students to report on their lecturers

It was great to speak today at the IOHA oral history conference in Krakow as part of a leftist Jewish panel, in which we attempted to draw on various aspects of modern Jewish history to oppose genocide in Gaza.

So true from @theradr.bsky.social Really good piece www.lifeisasacredtext.com/gazarepentan...

Ed Miliband for PM. It’s time.

One more share for my piece on why Jews shouldn't be afraid of Palestine josephfinlay.com/making-our-p... 'Israel and Palestine are not two separate locations. They are two ways at looking at the same reality; two ways to describe the same piece of land between the river and the sea.'

Listening to this on Radio 4. A version of the Cherry Orchard set amongst Palestinians in 1948. A bit clunky but still good www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The headlines should be Tommyberg Rally - Police Fail to Stop Britain’s Biggest Ever Fascist March’

New piece josephfinlay.com/making-our-p...

What an absolute hero www.jewishnews.co.uk/israeli-cond...

If Starmer really wanted to reset his government he could just sack Morgan McSweeney

I found this very funny www.jewishnews.co.uk/israeli-esta...

I listened to enough of Herzog’s talk to hear him say that Israel has accepted every ceasefire proposal by the negotiators, which is demonstrably untrue.

It appears that there's a widespread view in Israel that if its army can do something then it should, regardless of negative consequences, and its 'skill' in bombing various neighbouring countries is celebrated. Only if the operation failed to kill the Hamas leaders will it be viewed as a failure.

Brilliant interview with Amos Goldberg tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

Go away Herzog, we don’t need you, don’t claim that you act in our name, your state’s actions make life worse for us.

The absolute bare minimum Keir Starmer could do is to refuse to meet Isaac Herzog

Nothing is more dangerous to Netanyahu than a ceasefire. He had 2 years to bomb Hamas in Doha and he chose to do so while they were meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal.

Israel has long claimed that the war would end if Hamas gave up the hostages and surrendered. Today’s attack shows this to be false. Israel seeks only ‘total victory’ over Hamas. Since it rarely distinguishes between Gazans and Hamas this effectively means emptying Gaza of all Palestinians.

Nothing shows you’re not interested in negotiating like bombing the people you are supposedly negotiating with, in a separate country.

It's actually enjoyable to find a piece in the Jewish press that I wildly disagree with yet has nothing to do with Israel.

A brief 🧵on the UK's cynical and conveniently shifting position on this. news.sky.com/story/israel...

This seems like a smart and important case

Calls to defund the BBC? Sounds like an extremist march to me. www.thejc.com/news/uk/enou...

Solidarity with all those arrested defending the right to non-violent direct action and sabotage as a necessary means to stop genocide

I’ve never met anyone in the UK with flags or flag paraphernalia in their home. It is a deeply weird thing to do, If I found myself in a house that did I would run a mile.

We should judge YourParty on the policies it ultimately adopts on trans rights, not on whether it admits people who have a chequered record on the issue. Demanding they ban people one step removed from GCs/TERFs has worrying echoes of the demands made to Labour over antisemitism in 2015-2020.

I think it is clearer, better and less subject to misinterpretation for British leftists to identity as pro-Palestinian, or as supporters of a free Palestine than as anti-Zionist.

This article quotes some estate agent as saying ‘Governments need to fully appreciate that when you tax an activity, you get less of it.’ This implies that if landlords are taxed more they are going to bulldoze their properties. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/a...

Packed hall for the launch of Arise, a local socialist party in Harrow, arising out of Pamela Fitzpatrick’s 2024 independent campaign. It’s loosely connected to @yourparty.bsky.social so Jeremy Corbyn came and spoke. A positive start.

Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵

Why is the BBC reporting Reform as if it is a serious party? Especially when it is trying to relaunch the failed Rwanda scheme. I only want to see them in a headline if there is the descriptor ‘joke party’ in front of it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zohare Jacobi of @jewitches.bsky.social fame has authored a zesty Op-Ed for Der Spekter! www.derspekter.org/why-the-left...

The Jewish Chronicle on the Jaffa riots of 1921, quoted in Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete.

1/3 Netanyahu’s government is pulling out all the propaganda stops to deny its deliberately induced famine in Gaza. First identifying that some food is available for sale in the area affected. Famine confirmed in Gaza City is 'failure of humanity', UN chief says www.bbc.com/news/article...

To decide if a form of anti-Zionism is praiseworthy or antisemitic you just need to see if the ‘Zionism’ it opposes means Jews ruling as much as possible of historic Palestine while trying to minimise the number of Palestinians Arabs within it (the former) or Jews controlling the world (the latter).

Absolutely archive.is/202508181726...

Waiting for someone to claim that Sally Rooney’s Normal People is antisemitic, since it clearly excludes Zionists who, by dint of their Israel obsession, are definitely abnormal people.

If Zarah and Jeremy’s new party would like a friendly Jewish anti-Zionist adviser to help them avoid caving in to Zionists and the IHRA definition while avoiding stupid mistakes, tankie discourses and actual antisemitism…I’m available.

This is a really good and encouraging interview with Zana Sultana newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Well this is some wildly racist shit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here the Chief Rabbi is taking a highly political stance, seeking to overturn UK government policy. Since he is employed by the Chief Rabbinate Trust, the Charity Commission needs to urgently investigate if it has breached the terms of its charitable status www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

In 2021-22 I wrote an essay called “The Holocaust and the Challenges of Representation” for the Cambridge History of the Holocaust, a 4-vol. collection masterfully ed. by Mark Roseman (& Laura Jockush & Devin Pendas) that has just appeared. I’m honored to be included in very impressive company. 1/x