Find someone who looks at you the way Dec looks at the Premier League trophy

A season that felt like an eon

I decided not to travel in to see my community's 350-year legacy in this country trampled on by bigots and opportunists, but I'm glad Alona did.

"leadership demands the ability to hold two truths at once: antisemitism is a real and growing danger, and the protection of freedom to protest the actions of the Israeli government is a democratic right" @yachad.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/argument/733...

A whole society response to antisemitism will wither if there isn't a whole society effort to make Jewish life about more than antisemitism, the Holocaust & Israel. If the worry is "how to stop Jews wanting to leave the UK", a hollow community is just as damaging as a community under fire.

An important note within the attacks against the Jewish community taking place right now, where grooming young people is seemingly a key part of their model. It shows that simply policing is not enough.

This headline reads a farce, and it is, but it is also a tragedy. There are likely over 100,000 people – one hundred thousand lives – that have prevented from being saved from war and persecution in each of these four years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jews have been standing against hate since Pharoah. Proud to be a part of this diverse community, city, and country.

This antisemitic arson attack is pressure on an already open wound. And because of how news spreads, this will reverberate across the diaspora, making many Jewish communities feel unsafe, unstable, and alone. The only way out of this is with our neighbours. Safety will come from community.

This is exactly what happened with refugees and migrants. There comes a point where public support flips after bonbardment. A shame no one listens when we say if you let the right win on migration, they will win on everything. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fact that Nick Timothy is still in the Shadow Cabinet shows Britain now has two major parties standing on a clear platform of hatred toward Muslims.

Max Dowman.

A Israeli brigade commander told Palestinians in the Jordan valley that the IDF plans to remove all Palestinians currently living in "Area C" - that's 60% of the West Bank - within a year. IDF spokesperson was asked for comment and did not deny this. www.ha-makom.co.il/area-c-evacu...

And as @sabirzazai.bsky.social said elsewhere, "imagine spending a fraction of this to help people rebuild lives, integrate and make a contribution. We would all win."

"Let us administer the poison so that Reform doesn't get to" is morally wrong, politically disastrous, and totally ineffective. In a world of political football where 'political courage' only means beating up the vulnerable - never caring for them - every minority group is fair game.

I’m not entirely sure what the strategic value of killing a man (if they have) in his 80s, on poor health, who’s spent decades preaching about the value of martyrdom. Especially when you’ve said you want to do negotiations again in within 36 hours. But maybe expecting any kind of plan is elitist.

250 days ago, the Israeli and Iranian militaries were bombing one another. Today, they are doing so once again. The reasons will not change, the lessons will not be learned, and the civilians will keep paying the price.

Make the far right miserable again 🤌

They should call him Matt Badloss

It's 100% this - voters are rejecting tired race-baiting on immigration and rejecting inauthentic politics. No one believes the Labour Party back their attacks on migrants, and they find that hypocrisy and inathenticity even more galling.

Strip away the 'edgy' rhetoric, and Reform are just offering the same tired ideas that successive governments have tried and failed with. We deserve a real alternative that prioritises how we all grow and earn together.

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"Nobody can recall anything he’s actually said ... How do you counter a narrative that people can’t remember? How do you rebut a vibe?"

Reform's agenda won’t just hurt migrants - it will entrench hardship for working-class communities of every background. Record high child poverty is the direct result of the very austerity policies Reform’s cabinet pushed when they were in the Conservative Party. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The rule of only 1 Arsenal side doing well at a time continues

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

REVEALED: Matt Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the Gorton and Denton byelection, has been campaigning alongside racists and far-right activists in his bid to win the seat. Read the full story: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/02/16/m...

The sad truth is that many orgs & leaders have been primed for years for this. They've been conditioned to think: 1. Jews are more uniquely in danger than others 2. Even if others are in danger, we must protect ourselves first 3. It's okay to work with fascists if they claim to be on your side

No one tell Sir Jim that he paid £1.3bn for a football team that only functions because of immigration.

Standing up to the far right is good, actually

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

If politicians really cared about about Jewish life, this project would've been a nonstarter. London has no Jewish Museum, probably the largest Jewish diaspora community not to have one. Jews deserve to remembered for more than their darkest moments. Build a befitting museum, then we can talk.

This headline makes a mockery of both British Jews and for concept of asylum and safety. We are a community of refugees and those who welcomed them. We should all refuse to be a part of these games.

This, not the other thing, is "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

Please can someone in No. 10 actually tap in this open goal

“This isn’t the first time the synagogue has burned. On September 18, 1967, Beth Israel’s temple was bombed by local Ku Klux Klan members, in part because of the congregation’s work in the civil rights movement, according to the synagogue’s website.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/11/u...

I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration

A reminder that Kemi Badenoch wants to create a UK “Removals Force” explicitly modelled on ICE

Either human rights and international law exist for everyone, or they exist for no one. I won't mourn the Maduro regime, but we are less safe than we were yesterday – Venezuelan citizens least of all.

"Arsenal in the Community doesn’t exist for headlines or highlights. It exists for Tuesdays at 2.30 pm, for small interventions, familiar faces, and work that rarely stops. And after seeing it up close, it’s hard to imagine this club without it."

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

The fleeting promise of votes isn't worth the lasting, generational damage it'll cause.

Locally, only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was in their top 3 issues. Nationally, it is double that. This Best of Britain polling shows how bought in everyone is to a moral panic. It is a vibes-based 'crisis' whose root cause cannot be addressed by cracking down on migrants yet again.

Terrible news for someone really looking to push on and develop. Hopefully her work up to this point will put her in good stead for next season.

Every few weeks there's a new govt announcement to raise the barriers against immigrants. It's as if, having ransacked public services, we've reduced British patriotism to spitting on our welcoming nature.

A day of relief. A day of pictures of happy tears. It didn't always feel like this, but this day was always going to come. Agreements and negotiations work. May it be the latest healing day of many. May Palestinian families know the same relief felt today soon. 🎗

This is a fantastic statement from the BoD, and it has rightfully received praise from a wide spectrum of people for this. The real test is one of consistency. Douglas Murray is just Robinson with a posh accent, and yet he is welcomed into our synagogues gladly.

Amichai Chikli may be a small-minded fascist, but he is also monumentally bad at his job. Legacy diaspora institutions are desperate to support Israel, and he can't help but alienate them. That Netanyahu has let him fester in this job for 3 years is proof of how little the diaspora matters.