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[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@Justin_Gau @smartcardriver @david_povall *drum roll* Gefilte fish earrings! GEFILTE FISH EARRINGS! Good shabbes all

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@HeidiBachram And kidnapped Bipin Joshi and murdered him in Gaza.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@jk_rowling I love you, J.K. Rowling.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@robinsaikia @ArmandDAngour @SteveKills @MichaelRosenYes @DalrympleWill @GilesMacDonogh The Jews have an ancient claim to the land; the Arabs have a more recent one. Israel has repeatedly come up with proposals to share the land and live side by side in peace; the Palestinian leadership has turned every offer down.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@ArmandDAngour @robinsaikia @SteveKills @MichaelRosenYes @DalrympleWill @GilesMacDonogh Excellent, sober, reasoned analysis here on how we've got to a point where the murder of Israelis elicits no sympathy and antisemitism in the diaspora is condoned:
https://t.co/hPSlUDFYA8

[Tony Blair Institute for Global Change @InstituteGC]

Without a challenge to the ideology that encourages antisemitism, incidents like the arson attack on a Jewish Charity’s ambulances will continue “to the shame of our society”.

Tony Blair sets out the scale of the challenge. Read more: https://t.co/NWXLjK0D5u

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@ArmandDAngour Most of my friends stopped using X as it became more and more extreme. I was glad of my account late on Sunday night when I heard four huge explosions. "Golders Green" in X's search box told me the cause hours before regular news sources had time to verify and publish the story.

[Adam Ma'anit @adammaanit]

Two days ago, Laila Soueif, mother of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, shared a Facebook post claiming that the hostages “were not subjected to systematic torture”.

My cousin Tsachi was taken hostage alive after watching his firstborn daughter murdered in front of him. In captivity he was denied medical care, denied visits from the Red Cross, starved, tortured, and ultimately murdered. His body was returned to us so mutilated that forensics had trouble identifying him.

My MP @sianberry never once contacted my family when Tsachi’s remains were finally returned earlier this year. No condolence. No acknowledgement. Just silence.

Yet she is content to stand smiling beside the mother of an extremist who now shares posts denying the torture and mistreatment of the hostages – lies contradicted by the detailed, harrowing testimony of survivors who lived through those abuses and the forensic evidence of those who were murdered.

Soueif’s son called for the killing of Zionists. He called for the expulsion of Jews from Israel. He praised Yahya Sinwar and other terrorists released in the Gilad Shalit deal as “heroes.”

As her constituent, and as someone whose family has paid in blood, the contrast is devastating – silence for the murdered, smiles for those who excuse their tormentors.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@TSchwarzbard The indomitable resilience of its people 🇮🇱

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

Maybe not massacre Israelis at a music festival, torture and burn families alive in their homes, or abduct 251 hostages including a baby and dozens of kids?

Maybe that, Owen?

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@ui_sinead @lmharpin No point arguing with a frothing antisemite.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@ui_sinead @lmharpin 2. The claim that Israel is an apartheid state is utter nonsense. Arab, Christian, Bedouin, Druze citizens have the same rights in Israel as Jews. Go there. See for yourself. Open your blinkered, racist little peepers. And then go anywhere else in the Middle East for comparison.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@ui_sinead @lmharpin 1. The ribbon is a reminder of the plight of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas and held in dungeons in Gaza for 21 months. Are you too blinded by antisemitism to feel pity for them?

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@JoosyJew Yep. Intoning platitudes and doing fuck all to get to grips with the problem.

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

This is what “globalise the intifada” looks like: the tenth firebombing of a Jewish community building in Australia in the past 12 months.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@jonathangrade Just awful. Rocketing antisemitism since Oct 7th means we're given full-on stab vests when doing security duty at my shul. Xxx

[Aviva Klompas @AvivaKlompas]

“You feel like you’re in Holocaust stories”

Ofer Calderon spent months in Hamas captivity, buried underground in suffocating tunnels, believing his entire family had been murdered on October 7.

Three weeks into his captivity, another hostage told him his 16-year-old daughter Sahar was alive. Ofer begged his captors to let him see her, and for three hours, he was taken above ground to the apartment where she was being held. It was the only time he saw daylight during his entire captivity.

Later, a Hamas commander told him that his 12-year-old son Erez was alive too, being treated in a Gaza hospital.

During his captivity, Yahya Sinwar visited Ofer carrying a fax machine to communicate without being tracked.

Ofer spent weeks lying in a tunnel just 28 inches wide, with unbearable sanitary conditions, constant explosions above, and the ever-present stench of death. He was given only salty water to drink and a thin piece of pita a day, which he would break into small pieces to make it last.

Ofer: “the morning of October 7 is the moment when my life shattered to pieces. That moment, when Erez was torn from my hands and Sahar was led away on a motorcycle between two terrorists, is a nightmare that keeps coming back and won't let go of me. I thought that when I returned, I would be able to compensate my children for all the suffering they went through. But the truth is I can barely compensate myself. When you see us smiling during the day, you don't know that in the dark everything comes back.”

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@YuvalMimi Mazal tov!

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@treesey @PrideInLondon I wonder if, in the midst of their Israel hatred, @PrideInLondon ever stops to reflect that Israel is the ONLY country in the Middle East where LGBTQ people are safe from persecution.

[Kate 🎗️ @Kate_NW11]

@chiefrabbi That's beautiful. Shabbat shalom.

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

Every week, we receive messages from people of all faiths and backgrounds. This one, from a British Christian of Iraqi heritage, moved us deeply:

Dear Chief Rabbi,

I hope you will permit me, as someone outside the Jewish community, to write with humility, sorrow and a deep sense of shared humanity.

I am an Iraqi Arab Christian of Chaldean heritage, from the Aramaic-speaking tradition of Christianity. My roots, like yours, lie in lands that once carried the weight of holiness and coexistence and now too often bear the burden of suffering and despair.

There was a time when Jews, Christians and Muslims lived not in perfect harmony, but in shared neighbourliness, intertwined, familiar and bound by common ground.

Having lived in the United Kingdom for over 45 years, I have witnessed how societies can thrive when they embrace dignity, plurality and mutual respect. These are not abstract ideals; they are lived realities, deeply embedded in the moral fabric of British life at its best.

It is precisely because I have seen what is possible that I feel such pain at the cruelty unfolding across many of our ancestral homelands. What should be places of spiritual richness and cultural generosity are now known too often for war, persecution and loss.

I cannot express strongly enough mine and my family’s revulsion at the evil committed on 7th October.

The calculated murder and terrorising of innocent lives is not merely an outrage; it is a desecration of everything sacred.

As a Christian, I recognise how deeply our tradition is rooted in Judaism.

Our understanding of justice, of mercy and of the sanctity of life are all drawn from your ancient faith.

And through lifelong friendships with Jewish colleagues and friends, I have come to value not just the spiritual depth, but the intellectual rigour and moral clarity that continue to define Jewish life.

It causes me profound sorrow to witness how antisemitism, sometimes subtle, sometimes explicit, has resurged in public life.

We know too well that what begins in rhetoric can (does) end in violence. History has, very sadly, taught us that silence in such moments is complicity.

The recent scenes at Glastonbury, where chants of “death to the IDF” were not only uttered but amplified and cheered, struck me with a profound sense of moral unease.

That such language could be broadcast on national television and momentarily pass as acceptable public expression is not just alarming, it is degrading.

This was not protest, it was incitement.

The failure to immediately recognise and reject it reveals how blurred the lines have become between legitimate political critique and outright hate.

I share your view that this is a moment of national shame.

When calls to violence against Jews or Jewish institutions are dressed up as cultural commentary, it is not only the Jewish community that suffers. It is the integrity of the society we all share. Integrity no longer has a front-row seat in society.

Please accept this message as a personal expression of solidarity, from one who recognises the sorrow, fear and pain that your community has endured and who stands with you.

If any of my dear Jewish friends happen to read these words, I hope they feel seen, respected and not alone.

If there is ever any way I can be of help in promoting understanding between our communities, I would gladly do so with a full heart.

With the deepest respect and warmest wishes.