Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦

Author and subeditor, but I only write about my work here once in a blue moon. Also a keen amateur singer. Retweets apart, my own opinions and views.

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

I try to avoid posting about things I don’t like. But... why do other people do this? Particularly about things they know give other people pleasure. Is it because they need validation by others who share their distaste? I’d much rather know what they actually like.

[Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🕊️🟣 פניה עוז-זלצברגר @faniaoz]

My Oxford keynote is now online.
“Pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-peace: not a zero sum game”.

Hosted by the Massada Center at Worcester College. https://t.co/xPdb1IX73o

[Alexandra Wilson @amwilson_opera]

I am delighted to be giving a talk on 17 November @blackwelloxford about my forthcoming @politybooks book CULTURE VULTURES. You can buy tickets already! It would be great to have a good audience.

https://t.co/b1Mr2QF8ZY

[Nadeem Shafqat @Nadeem83Shafqat]

A Muslim stabbing another Muslim isn't an Islamophobic attack.

A Muslim who travels intentionally to Golders Green and stabs two Jewish people is an act of antisemitism.

[Yalla Yalla @HoHum321]

@lucianaberger Name it then! It’s just so frustrating that no one will say what the problem is. It’s Islamist extremism. It’s radicalisation in the Muslim community. They have a serious anti-Semitism problem. People are dying - say it!

[Daniel Epstein-O'Dowd @DODubhda]

Many would rather this story was forgotten.

The Palestinian 'cause' has a long track record of using Irish people for their own gain...

Forty years ago today, a Palestinian terrorist was preparing to kill his Irish fiancée and their unborn child in order to murder hundreds of innocent Israelis and others on an airplane.

The Hindawi Affair remains one of the most chilling examples of human depravity in the history of terrorism. It was not only an attempt to destroy an aircraft; it was a cold-blooded act of ultimate betrayal. Nezar Hindawi, a Palestinian terrorist working with Syrian intelligence, groomed his Irish fiancée, Ann-Marie Murphy, into believing they were headed toward a life of marriage and family. In reality, he was sending her—and their six-month-old unborn child—to a mid-air execution

Forty years have passed since the morning of April 17, 1986, when a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions was narrowly averted at London's Heathrow Airport.

The target was El Al Flight 016, a Boeing 747 bound for Tel Aviv with 375 passengers on board. Among them was Ann-Marie Murphy.

As Ann-Marie approached the El Al check-in desk, she was the picture of an unsuspecting traveller. She had been coached by Hindawi to lie to security, claiming she was travelling alone for a holiday. However, her story didn't hold up under the rigorous questioning of El Al’s security team. When an agent emptied her bag, he noticed it remained unusually heavy.

Hidden beneath a false bottom was 1.5 kilograms of Semtex—a powerful plastic explosive—and a scientific calculator that Hindawi had given her as a "gift." The calculator was, in fact, a sophisticated detonator set to trigger the bomb two hours into the flight, while the plane would have been at 39,000 feet over Austria.

The discovery sent shockwaves through the international community. British authorities quickly arrested Hindawi, uncovering evidence that he had been trained and equipped by Syrian intelligence. The incident led the UK to sever diplomatic relations with Syria, a move backed by the United States and Canada.

For Ann-Marie Murphy, the revelation was a double trauma: the shock of a near-death experience and the soul-crushing realisation that the man she loved had intended to murder her and their unborn baby for the Palestinian cause.

In October 1986, she faced Hindawi in court. During her testimony, the soft-spoken woman finally snapped, shouting at him, "You bastard! I hate you! How could you do this to me?" Hindawi was sentenced to 45 years in prison, then the longest fixed sentence in British legal history.

Following the trial, Ann-Marie withdrew from the public eye. She returned to her native Ireland to raise her daughter, Sara. In rare interviews over the years, she described Sara as the "only good thing" to come from the relationship.

Today, the Hindawi Affair is a mandatory case study in aviation security training. Its lessons impact on us today every time we pass through airport security.

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

@amwilson_opera I hardly go there, let alone post - but I’ve just checked and it appears to be still going.

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

Today is Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Israel.

Once again, I share this 5-minute video of British troops liberating the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and ask that people watch it. We can't prevent it happening again unless we remember it.

[Bogáta Timár @BogataTimar]

okay I guess I have to talk about Péter Magyar here.
Let me just start with saying, in a very unladylike way, that you guys seem to have zero clue what happened in Hungary in the last two years, you completely miss the point, and you're a disappointing bunch.
Let's go.

[David Taylor MP @DavidTaylor85]

This is completely insane - not only for investigating Tabatha Caplan for organising an email campaign, but for concluding 'no criminal offences' have been committed by the artist when it contains pictures like this!

[Sabrina Miller @SabriSun_Miller]

🚨I reported ‘anti-Semitic’ art show to the police. Now they are investigating me. This is the shocking story of how a woman who tried to do the right thing faced threats of a “potential criminal offence” by Kent police! https://t.co/Fl93sGQwUA

[Jessica Duchen ✍️🎶 @jessicaduchen]

Joe Maher, veteran violinist of the @LPOrchestra, left his instrument on the train today, I think on Thameslink. Please spread the word and keep eyes peeled.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Right then.
Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic.

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works.

You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera.
And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls.

Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available?

You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant.

NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours.

You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

@Humble_Gardener @ElliotMalin @thenation Ergo, if I take preventative measures against being burgled - such as locking windows and doors - I’ve actually been burgled? This isn’t the evidence you think it is.

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

@LamisK @BeeMaya9534 @faniaoz I suggest you don’t blanket condemn Israelis - even those who didn’t vote for Netanyahu - or should we perhaps condemn all Palestinians for having the genocidal Hamas in charge?

[Fania Oz-Salzberger 🇮🇱🕊️🟣 פניה עוז-זלצברגר @faniaoz]

Non-Israeli friends are asking me why we’re not all out on the streets demonstrating against Jewish settler terror in the West Bank.
Their well-meant ignorance clearly shows that the international media is not reporting about our daily and nightly routine of missile attacks, sheltering at home, all schools shut, emergency law prohibiting assemblies.
We are following the West Bank atrocities with anger and pain.
And we still have the liberty to sign petitions.

[Hatzola @Hatzola]

We’ve received many messages asking how to support our life-saving work following the devastating arson attack in Northwest London.

If you would like to help Hatzola Stamford Hill continue responding to emergencies you can donate here:

https://t.co/ULh1g97oa1

Your support at this time means more than ever.

Thank you for standing with us.

[Stop The Hate UK @StopTheHate_UK]

Today, we went to see the racist exhibit in Margate - having been alerted to this by @realzoestrimpel's experience yesterday.

What we saw sickened us - we will share evidence of the hate on display.

But first - here is the curator calling out 'globalise the Intifada'.

And Kent police gaslight us with the lie that this hate isn't antisemitism. They may be ignorant to what hatred towards Jews looks like. But we're not.

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

@jontrot9 @simon_schama To pretend that no such things happened to Jews before Israel existed is to be really, really dishonest, my friend.

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

@Fredayesthatone @HeidiBachram Really?

[Daniel Jaffé 🇺🇦 @Dangiddy]

@ProfAliceS @MForstater That is vile.