It's taken me time to process the #LondonBridgeAttack and #BoroughMarketAttack, each year adds a different perspective. I don't tend to post about it and took steps back from social media, but as I reframe the experiences, I've become more comfortable to post 1/
@AdamMeakins Reminds of when I turned up with a blackeye to teach a class of teenagers first aid and resus at @StreetDoctors - most engaged class I ever taught!
I have to say something right now because I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t. For years, I spoke up for the people of Palestine and their right to self-determination and to live in peace. For years, nobody cared. For years, Iranians have spoken up against their terrorism and brutality at the hands of the IRGC. For years, nobody cared. For years I had felt we shared the same unnerving struggle, which is the world’s indifference to the loss of our lives. Over the past week, however, I’ve seen something that I’m ashamed to say I had never seen before and I can’t believe what it took for me to see it. When Jews are murdered, the world is not just indifferent. Instead, the world rejoices. It celebrates. This is a type of depravity no people should ever have to endure, especially given the barbaric history of persecution since time immemorial. To the Jewish community, you are my brothers and sisters. I am so sorry that I let you down. I am so sorry that you screamed about it for years and I didn’t hear you. I am so sorry I didn’t stand up with you. I am so sorry I pretended not to see the flagrant and hateful anti-semitism. But my eyes are open and I see you now. I hear you. I’m with you, and I promise to never let you down again.
To our friends: 78 years ago, the world promised the Jewish people that the atrocities of the Holocaust would never happen again.
You pledged that no Jewish family would burn to death in their home, that no Jewish children would be kidnapped from their beds and dragged through the streets, that no Jewish girl would be raped and murdered, and that Jews would never again have to hide from those seeking to eradicate us.
Now, we need you to stand with us and speak up. We need you to fulfill that promise. We need your voice to call out the antisemitic atrocities facing the Jewish nation and those who support them.
#NeverAgain is now.
I have watched a video that I can never unsee. I will not share. The girl on the motorbike captured by #Hamas (“we don’t harm #women & #children”) was #BURNT#ALIVE - 100s watched incl children
They are animals & I never say that about anyone.
#unforgiven#Israel_under_attack
Can’t sleep
Partly still on #Israel time
Mostly because I’m bereft
We were there. It was a peaceful happy #sukkot
& then it was carnage
The world turns too quickly
I 🙏🏻 for #peace but know not coming soon after such #barbarism.
>1000 dead & people elsewhere celebrate? 💔💔
Burning the Torah sends a clear and concise message: this is not about Israel.
This is about Jews.
Burning our sacred texts in protest of Israel makes as much sense as burning the Bible to protest America. You aren't targeting the government with this act, you are hurting a group of people that spans the entire world.
It's taken me time to process the #LondonBridgeAttack and #BoroughMarketAttack, each year adds a different perspective. I don't tend to post about it and took steps back from social media, but as I reframe the experiences, I've become more comfortable to post 1/