One of my favourite anniversaries today: 4 October 1936, the Battle of Cable Street. Very pleased to write an article in the Morning Star about the people who were there, and the urgent tasks for anti-fascists here and now. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/batt...

“We stand in solidarity with those… being targeted because their protests are… illuminating actions by governments and state institutions that are criminal, corrupt or just wrong.” Statement by the Jewish Socialists’ Group. www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/news/item/st...

Coming up this Sunday morning my next radical walk: “Activists, Militants, Pioneers: women of the radical Jewish East End”. Tales of anarchists, anti-fascists, strike leaders, street orators… Fee:£10/£7. Book at www.eastendwalks.com?page_id=82

Yesterday, at 87, my dad & former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis, stood for an hour by the road in his old riding. As a Jewish elder, he stood against genocide embodying the values he has always championed. I am so proud to see him on the right side of history – as always. ❤️

Starmer at the summit calling “illegal” migration the “driver of global insecurity”. Continuing, instead of challenging the British State’s shameful tradition of hostility to migrants and refugees. Boasting of Labour’s record of deportations. He’s the Far-Right’s wet dream, and our nightmare.

I’ve just signed this - hope you will too. The time to fight back is now!

The Jewish Bloc will be adding a collective Jewish voice opposing the Israeli state’s war on Palestine on this week’s National March for Palestine. The JSG will be there as part of the Bloc, assembling on Saturday 15 March from 11.45am at Stratton Street corner with Mayfair Place W1J 8LA. Join us!

Spoke last weekend in a workshop at SUTR’s trade union conference. We need to spend more time persuading people in our workspaces attracted to far right talking points and less time talking to ourselves in safe spaces: rebellion602.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/n...

Excellent article by an MP who knows there is no glory in war, and knows who will pay the price in cuts of funding they need to find more “defence” spending. Time for other MPs to speak out too.

Germany’s election saw a late surge in support for the Left- but a far more significant rise for the far right. Their path was made so much easier by centrists who have adapted to far right themes. Sue Levi Hughes spoke for the JSG at a protest last night: www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/news/item/th...

This is very powerful. If the very right wing, pro-settler, UK Chief Rabbi (of the United Synagogue) reads it, he would/should be worried. Time for someone from the msm here to rise from their slumber, show it to him and ask for a comment. How about it?

This is where I will be on Saturday. The fragile ceasefire is welcome, as is the deal for returning Palestinians and Israelis from captivity. Ultimately though, there are no long term solutions except those based on justice, equality and freedom for all from war and occupation.

We have to prevent Robinson’s supporters trying to claim city centres but the hard work to turn the tide against the far right will rest on building local alliances defending communities attack and deepening anti-racist outlooks among the wider public.

Well said Natalie - time for those anti-racists pro- migrant/refugee, pro-multiculturalism MPs and activists still within Labour’s ranks to stand and be counted.

My speech yesterday for the Jewish Socialists’ Group at the rally before our spirited march against the Far Right’s mobilisation: rebellion602.wordpress.com/2025/02/02/e...

Did you see the joint statement by Board of Deputies+Jewish Leadership Council on Elon Musk's Nazi salute and Trump's executive orders promising pardons/commuted sentences to the 1,500 white supremacists + Holocaust deniers, convicted after the riots on Capitol Hill in January 2021? Me neither!

Pleased to be speaking at this protest late afternoon on the day of Trump’s inauguration.

The People’s March in Washington 👏

BREAKING: Three Palestinian performers who were set to appear at Celtic Connections have had their visas 'rejected' by the Home Office. The team behind Bethlehem Calling have urged the department to reconsider.

We don't gather to only mourn the dead and the endless destruction. Our government has been complicit in selling arms to a country committing a genocide. We gather to demand justice and an end to the occupation. @pscupdates.bsky.social

The British State's attack on democratic rights to march in London tomorrow against mass killings, near total destruction of basic infrastructure for life in Gaza by the Israeli military, the regular pogroms and burning of olive trees in the occupied West Bank, is a complete disgrace. 1/9

This statement is a wonderful form of collective action that shows that the authorities need to listen to a much wider range of voices in the Jewish community than those whose main aim is to shield Netanyahu’s Government and the Israeli army from criticism.

Hundreds of British Jews are calling on the Metropolitan Police to reverse a ban on a pro-Palestine protest assembling at the BBC in London next Saturday, with more adding their names throughout the day. www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/news/item/po...

Jean Marie Le Pen is dead. Associated Press describe him as “a polarizing figure in French politics”. Way too generous. Call him a “Holocaust denying Nazi”, and save 3 words. No sadness in his passing. But sad that several countries in Europe and beyond are lurching towards the far right.

The government has told elderly & disabled people to wait until 2028 to hear its plan for social care. What about those who are suffering here and now? We don’t need a commission to know what to do: end austerity, reverse privatisation and build a National Care Service for all.

This week, Mayor Adams bragged about the NYPD's brutal crackdowns on Palestinian solidarity protests to a room full of Jewish New Yorkers. The mayor made it clear he thinks he can best appeal to Jewish voters by violently suppressing protests & that the job of the NYPD is to carry out this abuse. 1/

Jewish anti-zionist sticker spotted in Vancouver, Canada

Woke up to news about Mandelson being made UK ambassador to Trump’s America. Well they have the monster Epstein as a common friend and why wouldn’t Trump welcome the guy who said he was “intensely relaxed” about people getting “filthy rich”? Less good news for the world I suppose.

Good letter. The speed with which western nations are using the regime change in Syria as an excuse to relieve themselves of obligations towards asylum seekers is really alarming.

Horrific news from France. Rather than shock us it should tell us where relentless anti-migrant/anti-refugee rhetoric surging through Europe, fuelled by “mainstream” politicians adapting to far right arguments is leading. 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

New print in my shop: the Bund on May Day Perfect hannukah gift for your antizionist Jewish friends www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/the-b...

Solidarity with Jewish faculty standing up for justice and equality.

Shameful that Labour seeks to continue austerity here at the expense of retaining teachers and reducing schools’ capacity for offering innovative quality education. Fund and expand education properly through a wealth tax!

#OtD 10 Dec 1983 Argentina’s right-wing military dictatorship ended. It was responsible for the murder and disappearance of approximately 30,000 people since 1976- mostly trade unionists, socialists, communists and Jews. Israel provided them with arms. stories.workingclasshistory.c...

‘It Can’t Happen Here’ could happen here Guy Standing suggests a bleak political outcome will result from Labour pursuing its current economic strategy. In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote a book entitled It Can’t Happen Here, warning that fascism in Europe could easily happen in the United States. His…

Loved visiting @mrcwarwick.bsky.social and exploring the National Union of Mineworkers' archives that are currently being catalogued. These materials serve as a powerful reminder of the rich history of trade unionism and working class struggles that have shaped our communities 💕✊🏽

A lesson in what happens if you elect a right-wing populist (aka a fascist) For nearly 40 years, Argentina’s poverty level had consistently hovered above 25 percent. But since the far-right Milei took office on December 10, 2023, that figure has skyrocketed. aje.io/c73wqm 1/2

x.com/davidjrosenb... I did a brief interview for a Turkish news outlet giving my perspective as a Jewish socialist and part of the Jewish Bloc for Palestine.

Another big, multi-generational mobilisation by the Jewish Bloc at the demo for Palestine on Saturday. New banners and new faces in our bloc. Meanwhile Keir Starmer thinks it is cool to share a platform at the weekend with Israel’s far right ambassador here Tzipi Hotovely.

Sickened by UK politicians blaming each other today over “migration failures” ie they haven’t kept enough migrants/refugees out. Then there will be crocodile tears at rising racism which they themselves have fostered. We need to celebrate migration and reserve our hatred for racism.

Excellent thread - very sound approach to issues of antisemitism, other racism, zionism, anti-Zionism and instrumentalisation of the Holocaust.

Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled. If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.

This needs to be said again, and again, and again: Israel's Kahanists are convinced that under Trump they have a clear path towards mass ethnic cleansing and the expulsion of most Palestinians out of Palestine. They will not let this opportunity pass by.

Netanyahu will keep his war going as long as he personally needs it. The ICC warrant for his arrest makes him more vulnerable. Across the world Jews have joined protests against war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, I will be marching with the Jewish bloc this Saturday. Please Join us!

I’ve come to hear Ofer Cassif, Hadash MK, speak in London, organised by Na’amod and JJP. He is predictably great. Currently discussing genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and South Lebanon.

Looking forward very much to teaching a 10-part in-person course on “Jews in London 1650s-1950s” and a 1-day in-person course “Ghetto Uprising 1943: Jewish life and death in Warsaw” in January at City Lit: www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/jews... and www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/ghet... Book today!

Wanted to share my most recent piece on here: 'Riots, racism and the left' in the latest issue of Jewish Socialist (n.80) Check out the whole issue and work of the Jewish Socialists' Group www.jewishsocialist.org.uk/features/ite...

Very pleased to participate in a plenary and a workshop at yesterday’s International Summit on racism and fascism. Here is my talk from the workshop: rebellion602.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/r...

So, here I am, look forward to interacting with people here as that other place was doing my head in!