Kalim Rajab

“I seduce myself with my hope…”

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The 1943 Bengal Famine has been in the news. What exactly was Churchill's role in it? The great @kavpuri who has spent years researching this topic, separates truth from fiction @EmpirePodUK

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This report is haunting even for someone who has documented the most horrific aspects of this genocide - which too many world leaders pretend not to see.

I commend the Commission of Inquiry for its effort to bring about accountability and make the truth accessible.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If this was any other country, it would be huge news, and most western governments would be loudly condemning it.

But it’s Israel so…

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Way down the @BBCNews agenda. Not headlines, no national soul searching just a minor story. Why???

BBC News - Five injured in suspected anti-Muslim attacks after armed man roamed Edinburgh streets
https://t.co/hdnYP0wg9P

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

I’ve been reading a lot about Simon Nkoli of late. His coming out as gay during his imprisonment as part of the Delmas 22 in the 80s helped shift the ANC & broader liberation movement’s stance on discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. By the 90s, he & others lobbied directly for its constitutional protection, and it was. We do not honour him enough for the intersectionality of his anti-Apartheid work, and the need for the protection of human rights to continue to be thus.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If you were to write this headline or article in a variety of US, UK, German or French media outlets, your career might be on the line and you’d probably be accused of antisemitism.

And yet the author of this piece is a former prime minister for Israel.
https://t.co/xUqPAHxsab

[Lester Kiewit @lesterkk]

Abdullah Ibrahim was a difficult man to interview. He spoke in parable. In metaphor. In metaphysics. You could not pin him down. I later found he was a very difficult. Period. The first time I bumped into him walking anonymously on Plein street circa 2003 he literally growled.

[Pierre de Vos ⚖️ @pierredevos]

Statement from the Johannesburg Society of Advocates on false claims made by Advocate Mark Oppenheimer.

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

I have rarely seen the Jewish world so united in revulsion than in its response to this shameful display. Such conduct is the very antithesis of our core Jewish values and an awful Chillul Hashem.

[Kalim Rajab @KalimRajab]

Well worth a read by @paulyberk on ruptures happening within a community which are very real

[Paul Berkowitz @paulyberk]

'Self-hating Jew'? Let me answer your rhetorical question so you don't have to ask it any more.

From 2012 until 2023 I was a regular shul-goer and shomrei mitzvot. Still have a kosher home. I went to shul in the morning, davened from the amud, leined Monday Thursday morning 1/

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

Do you think three men appearing on stage dressed as Hasidic Jews to incite the mockery of an antisemitic crowd would be tolerated?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Today is Nakba Day. You cannot understand what lies at the heart of conflict in the Middle East unless you understand what happened to 85% of Palestinians in 1948. Here Eugene Rogan explains how hundreds of thousands of refugees ended up homeless in Gaza

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Entirely misses the point that it's a death penalty that only applies to one ethnicity, the Palestinians, a people who are illegally occupied, living under military rule and subject to dispossession, constant violence and ethnic cleansing

[Gallup @Gallup]

41% of Americans now say they sympathize more with the Palestinians in the Middle East situation, while 36% sympathize more with the Israelis.

[Kalim Rajab @KalimRajab]

Much has been written about Roedean and King David in recent weeks, but not a lot has been spoken about the implications from the fallout. My take in @dailymaverick on the faultlines in our society around this issue, and what the implications are

https://t.co/YDZ1sTBCuD

[Redi Tlhabi @RediTlhabi]

This is a disgrace. Editorial checks and balances replaced with "adventure journalism." Shameful..

[Kalim Rajab @KalimRajab]

Thank goodness. What does The Telegraph say for itself ?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

I've just been chatting with Nick Cullinan, the excellent new director of the British Museum, and I'm very relieved to say that the story put by the Daily Telegraph about the BM cancelling the name Palestine is a complete misrepresentation of the facts:

"To reassure you we are not removing mention from Palestine from our labels," Nick told me. "Indeed, we have a display on at the moment about Palestine and Gaza.

"I know this is something our curators have thought long and hard about - as you can imagine. We amended two panels in our ancient Levant gallery last year during a regular gallery refresh, when some wording was amended to reflect historical terms.

"To be honest, the even more frustrating and concerning thing is that I knew nothing about this until yesterday and has only been explained to me this morning. I hadn’t even seen that [UK Lawyers for Israel] letter despite asking for it until this morning. I’m disgusted by the whole thing."

The question remains why the Daily Telegraph would put out such a mischief-making story without first fact checking it with the Directors office.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Ridiculous of the British Museum to remove the word 'Palestine" from its displays, when it has a greater antiquity than the word "British". The first reference to Palestine is on the Egyptian monument of Medinet Habu in 1186BCE. The first reference to Britain is the 4th century BC when it appears in the work of the Greek traveler Pytheas of Massalia.

[Jonathan Berger @Jon_M_Berger]

The audio does not reveal any unwillingness among members of the Roedean school community to compete against Jewish pupils. What it reveals is a real discomfort in playing against King David High School, seemingly because of its position on Israel. That is not antisemitism.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Congressman @JaredEMoskowitz will you now apologize for this bill of yours and admit you got this wrong?