Rebecca Singerman-Knight 🇮🇱

Immediate past Co-Chair, Kingston Liberal Synagogue. Former member of Board of Deputies of British Jews. Progressive Zionist.

[Rebecca Singerman-Knight 🇮🇱 @RSingerman]

I’m back here for a while. Peeped into Blue Sky. Typed Israel into search engine….and promptly deleted app. Post after post of unhinged antisemitic conspiratorial bile. I know there’s some here too but at least I can find some commentators worth paying attention to.

[Rebecca Singerman-Knight 🇮🇱 @RSingerman]

@adammaanit So incredibly sorry 😢

[Rebecca Singerman-Knight 🇮🇱 @RSingerman]

@adammaanit You don’t know me although I serve on the Board of Deputies and have been following you and the family for some time. I just wanted to say how truly sorry I am that it has come to this after everything. May you and your family find some strength in all the support you have

[Rebecca Singerman-Knight 🇮🇱 @RSingerman]

One of the most inspirational women I have met and I’ve met a lot of inspirational women..

[Sarah Weiss Ma’udi @SarahWM2003]

Great meeting in Jerusalem yesterday with the Global Leadership Fellowship from the World Union for Progressive Judaism. Discussed our unbreakable bond as Jews throughout the world, and our common mission to support Israel and combat antisemitism. @WUPJudaism

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Reading a couple of @theguardian articles in a last few days, I feel we may be seeing its final departure from the pluralistic liberal tradition that made it a great newspaper, thanks to its capture by – or its morally fuddled editorial cadre - surrender to, an activist, ideological, anti-Western and more than that, anti-factual front.
Our liberal democracy needs institutions of pluralistic discourse like this once-hallowed paper but it also requires a respect for facts and some sense of morals. Facts were once the essential ingredients of the coverage of a paper like the Guardian.
However at least there are comedic sides to this.
Two recent articles exemplify the Guardian’s embrace of illiberal anti democratic, anti fact forces and at the same time represent “a bonfire of the vanities” (an appropriate quotation from Savonarola who used the phrase to launch a bloodspattered but absurdly self-righteous purge of Florence that ended with his own execution.)
Today’s was a truly creepy review of the One Day in October documentary, by a comedy-writer Stuart Jeffries, on the October 7 Hamas massacres who seemed irritated and uneasy that the real record of the atrocities by Hamas and some Gazan civilians, gleefully documented by the killers themselves on GoPros and smart-phones, did not accord with his and the Guardian’s political prejudices.
How could these impertinent film-makers present these killers, decapitators, rapists, body-mutilators, corpse-abusers, kidnappers and looters as baddies? That is against the simplistic, rigid, flimsy framework of the ideology of anti-Israeli decolonization and must be wrong! This uncomfortable fact must be corrected!
The result: a piece of unintentional, amoral gallows comedy at the Guardian's expense.
The other was equally embarrassing and morally tone-deaf: a comically self-important and self-reverential but ugly and historically ignorant essay claiming the Israelis were guilty of memoralizing their October 7 fallen (so unlike every society, ever, in history from the 300 of the Spartans to the West with WW1 Armistice Day, the West and Russia with WW2, The Holodomor by Ukrainians, the Holocaust by the Jews, the Nakba by Palestinians, 9/11 by Americans and so on) by the clumsy Canadian provocateur Naomi Klein, all but indistinguishable from her alter-ego and fellow solipsist the other Naomi.
As I posted this amidst general contempt for these pieces across the X platform, the paper may have taken one of them down 'pending review.'
The fact is the paper has lost its heart and soul and sense of moral judgement but these preposterous pieces at least provide a sort of bleak, EndDays comedy amidst the heartbreaking civilian losses of Middle Eastern conflicts... @theguardian
@KathViner
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[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

In times like these, we must all remember the plight of the hostages, combat antisemitism and seek a lasting peace in Israel and Palestine.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

This morning, I visited Kingston Liberal Synagogue to observe the awful anniversary of the October 7th attacks. On what is such a difficult day, I was reminded of the strength that comes from standing together.

[Harry Cole @MrHarryCole]

Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to R4:

“On the day that those beautiful people were being buried, kidnapped from a music festival like Reading or Glastonbury, the UK decides to send a signal that it’s Israel that it wants to penalise, and that is a terrible, terrible message to be sending both to Israel in its hour of need, also to Hamas about the consequences – where consequences are for the horrific actions that Hamas has taken as a terrorist organisation, but also to other allies and adversaries around the world.

“So it is the wrong decision taken very much at the wrong time.”

[Board of Deputies of British Jews @BoardofDeputies]

Our statement on the Government's decision today to institute a partial arms sales suspension against Israel:

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

If you have Jewish friends, please give them a hug. Send them a message to check if they’re ok. We are all crushed.

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

absolute evil - where are the marches?

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

I really cannot stress this enough:

Hezbollah has been attacking Israel every single day since October 8, firing thousands of missiles, rockets, and drones into the country and causing scores of deaths and widespread devastation.

Nothing started today.

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

“Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself.” -@KamalaHarris

[Lord Walney @LordWalney]

Disturbing. Even amidst attempts to reject far-right violence, antisemitic poison openly infects parts of the far left and some bodies who claim to speak for Muslims in the UK. If you blame it on Jews, you’re little better than the thugs trashing our towns.

[Phil Rosenberg @PhilR_R]

As ever, Jews are the target of choice for conspiracy theorists from the right, the left & Islamist groups. It is not acceptable.

We need a national conversation about promoting respect for our country & each other, how we tackle extremism & build cohesion.

Me in @JewishNewsUK

[Board of Deputies of British Jews @BoardofDeputies]

Today, Board of Deputies President @philr_r, together with Vice President @andrewgilbert1 and Chief Executive @michaelwegier, met BBC Director General Tim Davie to discuss Jewish communal concerns. Here is our statement about that meeting:

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

As you’re watching #Paris2024 @Olympics, remember Karina Pritika, 23, a former rhythmic gymnast from Israel, who was was murdered while attending the Nova music festival on October 7.

[Board of Deputies of British Jews @BoardofDeputies]

“Labour worked hard for Jewish support. It should not take it for granted. The new government’s foreign policy stance towards Israel is raising grave concerns among the community in Britain.” – @PhilR_R writing in @thetimes.

https://t.co/eRBVtEREAe

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The European white colonizers who American students are protesting against. https://t.co/yaGMHhnxxo

[Board of Deputies of British Jews @BoardofDeputies]

We are horrified by the targeting of Sydney’s Great Synagogue by so-called ‘anti-Israel’ activists. It is time for the general public to wake up and realise the deep rot at heart of the organised ‘anti-Israel’ movement.