Antoni Mikocki

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

W Wielkiej Brytanii Krakus sprzedaje kapustę kiszoną jako "sauerkraut". Ktoś powinien zainterweniować. @PolishEmbassyUK @RzecznikMSZ

[Marcin Przydacz @marcin_przydacz]

Jeśli coś pomagało Putinowi przez całe lata, to istnienie gazociągów Nord Stream I i II, którego tak zdecydowanie bronił Pan Ambasador (wtedy jako wiceminister) podczas kilku naszych oficjalnych rozmów. Proszę więc uprzejmie powstrzymać się od korzystania z tego argumentu.

Jeśli zaś chodzi o podziały, to nic tak Polaków nie łączy, jak reakcja na niemieckie besserwisserstwo.

I mam dla Pana dobrą informację, ten Raport istnieje i będzie wpływał na kształt relacji polsko-niemieckich. Dopóki Niemcy nie rozliczą się w pełni ze zbrodni i zniszczeń, jakich dopuściły się na moim Narodzie i Państwie.

[Michał Dworczyk @michaldworczyk]

Panie Ambasadorze 🇩🇪, doskonale Pana zapamiętałem i pańską butę podczas Szczytu Inicjatywy Trójmorza w Lublanie w 2019 r.
Gdy podczas panelu wszedł Pan między innymi w ostry spór z Sekretarzem @SecretaryPerry 🇺🇲 i bronił Pan Nord Stream jak niepodległości. Krytykował Pan sankcje nałożone na Rosję bo uważał Pan, że współpraca energetyczna z Rosją jest dla Europy konieczna i korzystna.
I dziś ma Pan czelność pouczać Polaków i pisać o Putinie?
#ReparationsForPoland

[Stanisław Żerko @StZerko]

Jeśli minister @sikorskiradek nie wezwie tego typa do MSZ i nie powie mu, że każdy przyzwoity Polak spluwa, słysząc takie teksty, to znaczy, że się nie szanujemy w ogóle.

[James Blunt @JamesBlunt]

You’re a little slow to the party.

[Sławomir Dębski @SlawomirDebski]

There are very few issues in international affairs to which I have a genuinely personal, even emotional, attitude - but German policy on Nord Stream is definitely high on that list, perhaps even at the very top.

Much of my professional life as an analyst and expert on international relations has been spent debating German and Russian politicians, diplomats, and experts - and later countering their propaganda about Nord Stream being this “wonderful, European, forward-looking project.” The sheer amount of lies, manipulation, arrogance, and condescension I encountered forced me to rethink many assumptions and to clearly separate rhetoric from actual policy practice.

I used to be optimistic about Germany’s role in Europe and about the prospects for Polish-German relations - you can find traces of that optimism in my writings from twenty years ago. But it was precisely the Nord Stream affair that made me replace optimism with realism - and, quite often, with pessimism. Discussions with Russians about Nord Stream never disappointed me as much as those with Germans. The Russians were cynical, but at least consistent. The Germans, on the other hand, usually reacted to my arguments with disdain, superiority, arrogance - and eventually, offense.

To accuse them of becoming a tool in Russia’s imperial arsenal? How dare you! To warn them that Nord Stream would import Russian corruption, not just gas? Outrageous! After all, they were the Rechtsstaat - the rule-of-law state - supposedly immune to corruption and uniquely equipped to handle it. Really? It turned out the Russians were far better at corruption than the Germans were at resisting it.

In 2006, during a closed-door meeting in Berlin, I asked a senior official from the Auswärtiges Amt whether he wasn’t concerned that cooperation with Russia over Nord Stream would damage Germany’s relations with Poland and Eastern Europe. He replied, “You think so? Well, we can afford to pay that price.” Those words still ring in my ears. That man later became one of the leading figures of German and European diplomacy - a prominent advocate of “dialogue” with Russia.

So forgive me if I say that the sight of Germany now “investigating” the sabotage of Nord Stream feels like a mockery of history - another manifestation of German arrogance and hubris. Perhaps they should start by investigating Schröder and Merkel - they were the ones who blew up Europe’s trust in Germany as a reliable ally.

A little more humility - and a little less Über alles - would be a good start.

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

@doctor_rahmeh @metpoliceuk

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

A few thoughts the morning after the fast.

I awake like many Jews all over the world with a strangely sorry feeling. Why is this Day of Atonement not like others? Then I remember.
This, Yom Kippur, is not one that the Jews of Britain will ever forget. As we were fasting on the most solemn day in the Jewish year, the terrible news arrived. I remember as a child the start of the Yom Kippur War when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on this day 1973 – but that was a battle of states and armies. This was the coldblooded murder of ordinary British people, Melvin Cravitz and the brave security guard Adrian Daulby who gave his life to save many others and this could have been my synagogue. I want to pay tribute to the courageous security guard, the brave rabbi and to the Manchester chief constable and his armed police who acted so fast. I hope the Met would have been as quick ( I saw no police anywhere near my synagogue before the attack.)

I just wanted to thank the many friends who have written to me and other Jews last night and today. Your messages are so appreciated in this unsettling time. It is also entirely fitting that my Muslim friends, here and across the world, have been the kindest, my UK media acquaintances the most silent.
You might have noticed how angry Jewish people are. Usually mostly quiet. But what happened in Manchester was much predicted and entirely predictable and probably preventable. We warned it would end this way but we were ignored or shamed or gaslit. It could have been worse too. Our great security services have foiled many such plots. But let us hope this atrocity is a moment to reset our ways…
This was the inevitable result of two wild years of anti-Jewish racism and radicalism, dehumanizing antiJewish slogans and images, blood libels, calls for killing, support for terror, ‘globalizing intifada’ and ‘decolonize Israel now’, unleashed on the streets and media, barely policed either by actual policeman who have stood by nor by politicians who have swung between crowdpleasing Manichaean hyperbole and sensible, balanced reassurance; nor by the TV media anchors who have disgraced the noble vocation of journalism by rabid hostility, irresponsible exaggerations and actual mistakes that are never corrected; nor by the NHS doctors openly keening to kill Jews who are still working in hospitals despite the comments of Wes Streeting; and I don’t even need to mention the keyboard missionaries whose propagation of factual lies and vicious amplifications now include telling the suffering Gazans not to accept a peace deal that is on the table and will - we pray - bring peace and save many lives.

Today it is not a pretty sight seeing those same politicians, same anchors on Sky / BBC, same twitter missionaries pumping out self serving messages of sympathy, adopting their well-practised multicultural-community-in-danger faces - days after propagating easily-disprovable disinformation and wild Manichaean hyperbole. Of course they are not guilty of killing those people in Manchester; only the murderer and his accomplices are actually guilty.
But that is the point: the inciters congratulate themselves on being good people but take and show no responsibility for promoting bloodcurlding Manichaean credo of good and evil imposed on a faraway real war in which there is guilt and innocence on both sides. Here they have helped incite a whirlpool of hatred and they have contributed to an atmosphere that has of course proved lethal. It is other ordinary people whether here or there who play the price for their exciting transcendent parades of costfree, easy piety.
If one of them had said one thing that recognized that maybe their misuse of a thesaurus of emotive, hyperbolic Manicheanism had contributed to this vortex, I would respect them. But it is one of the distasteful characteristics of our time: many are rigidly convinced of their ironclad virtue, indeed sated and swollen with sanctimony – as they rush out their pro forma denunciations of antisemitism: the very definition of hypocrisy. That is why on X you might notice Jewish people saying ‘not now, thanks’ to the worst humbugs.

The protests started immediately and revealingly on October 7 and the line between acceptable criticism of the Israeli government and Israeli war (and yes there is much to criticise) immediately morphed into bloodcurdling calls for terror and a frenzy of anti-Jewish racism. The government, mayors and police were overwhelmed by a Manichean delirium or terrified of the aggression of these activists (or their electoral power in vulnerable constituencies) before sometimes making reassuring sensible comments. The result has been to say the least mixed messages.
Yesterday the intifada was indeed globalized and Britishized and Mancunianised. Words and bulletins have effects on real people in the street next door and far away too. They bleed, they die.
Last night, demonstrators celebrated the killing of British people in bloodthirsty fiestas in London and Manchester. It was heartening to see the PM, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor in synagogue last night: thank you.
To her credit Home Secretary Mahmood called these ghoulish celebrations “fundamentally unBritish” and recognized the problem ordering the celebrating demonstrators: “show some humanity”. Thank you Home Secretary. Such comments are two years overdue and it has taken murders to get British politicians to save those two phrases. The pro-Palestine demonstrations always contained decent people making just points but their tone was brazenly set by racists bigots and terrorist sympathizers who were indeed fundamentally unBritish in their calls for violence. The Home Secretary also said “I take my lead from the police” but that is the entire problem. You give the orders to the police. Thanks to confused guidance that has created a hierarchy of grievances, the fuddled police especially the Met have lost the ability to make moral decisions on law and order, terror and protest. Hence pro Palestinian demonstrators are permitted extra space to promote killing and antiJudaism that would never be permitted to any other cause and Jews exposed as no other ethnic minority would be. Time to redress that balance.
The government now needs to give explicit orders to the police to enforce laws against terror and hate in the streets that they have ceded to vicious activists. If that means police enforcing control of the streets,– as Italian and Germany police do every day. Everyone has the right to criticise Israeli government and its many faults as I do myself - just as they have the right to criticise Hamas and terrorism but these murders are the sign for responsible people, politicians and media to “dial down the rhetoric” as Conservative leader Badenoch said last night, that created “a climate of fear and aggression” for British Jews. “Get a grip,” demands Chief Rabbi.
Britain is a ship tossed helplessly on a storm partly of its own making, its own captain and crew (i dont just mean politicians but police and media too) often unsure and confused, its course, its British values is being tested. Now we have a chance: steady the ship before more lives are lost.

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

Today was another dark day for a community still reeling from the horrors of 7 October. But it was also a dark day for Britain itself. For the first time in my lifetime, for the first time in decades, a Jew has been murdered on the streets of this country simply for being Jewish.

For years we comforted ourselves with the idea that what we saw in Germany, in France, even in America, could never happen here. But who were we kidding?

Successive Governments, since the 2000s, have responded to this threat by pouring millions into security for synagogues and Jewish schools. In truth, they were saying: “We cannot protect you, but we will help you protect yourselves.” That is no long-term answer. We cannot go on building ever higher fences and thicker doors while ignoring the disease itself.

The time has come to stop treating the symptoms and start seeking a cure. That means every town, every community, every local authority, looking inward and confronting the deep-rooted antisemitism that bubbles beneath the surface, waiting for moments of crisis like October 7 to erupt.

On Yom Kippur, Jews reflect on where we have gone wrong in the past year and how we can do better. These are questions Britain must now ask itself. You cannot allow calls to “globalise the intifada” to go unchecked and then feign surprise when blood is spilled on our streets.

And yet tonight, across our country, there are people celebrating this murder on hate marches. That is the measure of the sickness we face.

Britain must decide. Either this country becomes a safe home for Jews once again by rooting this cancer of antisemitism out of society, or it will not. And if it does not, then the great Jewish community of this country, patriotic, generous, and built by refugees who came here to escape precisely this hatred, will have no choice but to leave.

[Saul Sadka @Saul_Sadka]

As promised, they globalized the intifada again today, this time in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and life for Jews in the UK will never be the same. It might even be the beginning of Jewish life in the UK. It is a black day.(1/9)

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

As two Jews were murdered today, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, we all feel shocked—but nobody should feel surprised. British Jews, warning of the surge of vile antisemitism day after day, since 8 October ‘23, have been silenced and systemically ignored.

[David Hirsh @DavidHirsh]

If you can't include the word "antisemitism" in your tweet about the murder of Jews in a synagogue on Yom Kippur, don't bother to tweet.

Not interested, today, in any pleading guilty to a lesser offence.

Antisemitic murder, caused by antisemitic discourse.

[Stop The Hate UK @StopTheHate_UK]

Khamenei fans on a walk in London today to tell people that they're on the "right side of history". Do they mean the far right side of history?

[Andrzej Szaja 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @AndrzejSzaja]

Zandberg zachęcający Brauna do antysemickiej wypowiedzi w debacie prezydenckiej. Coś obrzydliwego. A brak riposty na antysemickie stwierdzenia Brauna już wystarczająco wiele mówi o liderze partii razem, partii, której politycy mają na koncie spotkania z ludźmi Hamasu.

[Przemo315 @Przemek62]

Nie wiem dlaczego nikt nie wspomina, że pytanie @ZandbergRAZEM do Brauna to było wystawienie mu piłki. W odpowiedzi był antysemicki rzyg Brauna. Z reakcji Zandberga wywnioskowałem, że zgadza si�� z Braunem. Zareagowała dopiero @MagdaBiejat co jej się bardzo chwali.

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

@majakstasko Mnie absolutnie oburza najbardziej to, że Zandberg — po tym jak podał piłeczkę Braunowi, żeby ten wyrzygał swój antysemicki ściek — słowem nie skomentował jego antysemityzmu w swojej bezpośredniej ripoście, na którą miał (niewykorzystany zresztą) czas.

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

@owca_ola Ale to @ZandbergRAZEM wcześniej podał piłeczkę Braunowi, żeby ten mógł wyrzygać swój antysemicki ściek — a w swojej ripoście (czasu na którą nawet nie wykorzystał), nie skomentował słowem antysemityzmu Brauna. To budowanie poparcia politycznego kosztem polskich Żydów. Podłe.

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

Fajnie jest budować poparcie polityczne kosztem mniejszości, jak akurat to nie jest mniejszość, którą reprezentujesz, nie? Wiadomo, na lewicy powinniśmy wierzyć mniejszościom, które mówią o swoim życiowym doświadczeniu dyskryminacji, chyba że to akurat są Żydzi:))))

[Maja Heban @HebanMaja]

@AM_Zukowska @GrzegorzBraun_ @ZandbergRAZEM @MagdaBiejat Niesamowicie głupi i podły tweet, gratuluję!

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

Zandberg podał piłeczkę Braunowi, żeby ten mógł wyrzygać swój antysemicki ściek—a w swojej ripoście, na którą miał czas, nie skomentował antysemityzmu Brauna, tylko przyrównywał dalej Rosję i Izrael. To budowanie poparcia politycznego kosztem polskich Żydow. Podłe i nielewicowe.

[Anna-Maria Żukowska 💁🏻‍♀️ @AM_Zukowska]

Komentarze pod tym wpisem potwierdzają, że faktycznie istnieją jakieś przepływy między @GrzegorzBraun_ a @ZandbergRAZEM i że dlatego Zandberg nie zajął tak jednoznacznego stanowiska jak @MagdaBiejat w debacie.
To było widać już po ataku Hamasu na Izrael. Te same hasła, te same antysemickie (włącznie z wątkiem znanym z carskiej fałszywki pt. „Protokoły Mędrców Syjonu” o robieniu macy z dzieci) linie narracyjne zarówno u (jeszcze wtedy) Konfiarzy, a propalestyńskimi zwolennikami @partiarazem.

Ale po tym wpisie może się skończą.

[Antoni Mikocki @Mikocki]

Wy jeszcze nie wiecie, ale w 15. rocznicę Katastrofy Smoleńskiej TVN was nauczy: Rosji należy tego, co się wydarzyło pod Smoleńskiem, współczuć.
Nieprawdopodobne. #smoleńsk2010

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Perhaps it was always inevitable that a British law firm would act on behalf of Hamas so that they are no longer proscribed as a terrorist group.
After all, more than half our media establishment refuse to call them terrorists even though we all saw their terrorist acts of October 7.