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Helmet camera video from the first responders arriving in the Nova massacre site.
I will stop tweeting for a while, but anyone responding here with glee, hostility or whataboutism will be blocked.
To all the people who are attending the free Palestine march tomorrow on the anniversary of the hamas killing of totally innocent men women and children.
I hope you all rot in hell.
#standwithisrael
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Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland.
I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity.
For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither peopleโs future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other.
That is why declaring โZionism is racismโ is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isnโt inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.
Letโs be honest, blood cancer sucks.
For everyone whoโs been through it, is going through it, or is supporting someone through it - we know how much you go through just to stay alive.
And it sucks that so many people still have to go through all of this.
This is eniskillen after the IRA bombing of 1987 which targeted civilians the same scum who did this and many other atrocities were on stage with Michelle O'Neil sinn fein are still run by murderers
Times Square billboard honors the 1,200 victims of October 7th ahead of the 3rd anniversary. ๐ฎ๐ฑ
The faces of victims including Shani Louk have been displayed on a giant billboard to remind passers by of the massacre carried out by Palestinian terrorists.
Douglas Murray: โWhat happened in the skies above Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning stands as a metaphor for three years of war.
The Israelis saw an existential threat, took matters into their own hands, and decided their own course.
The rest of the West will have to decide whether it will follow the Israeli model or let its own future be dictated by terror and the hijacking of its entire society.โ
Over the summer, Henry Nowak's final moments were broadcast around the world. He was just eighteen, and when the police reached him on a street in Southampton he would have believed that help had come. He told them he had been stabbed and could not breathe, and they handcuffed and arrested him.
I met Henry's family in June, and that meeting has stayed with me ever since. There is still much more to be said about how the police failed Henry, and about how they went on failing his family and loved ones right up until the conviction.
The day after we met, I wrote to the then Prime Minister, Keir Starmer asking for an independent, rapid review of the police response, the decisions that followed, and the role of the police watchdog. I didn't publish that letter at the time, because I hoped the Government would do the right thing and I wanted to work with them quietly to make that happen. Downing Street's answer was to wait for the existing processes to run their course.
Since then, Keir Starmer has gone and Andy Burnham has taken his place, yet still there is no review. There was little mention of victims in the PMโs speech earlier this week. Henry's family have waited long enough, so today I'm publishing my letter. Andy Burnham should order the review now, and I stand ready to work with him to set it up, as I offered in June.
I haven't forgotten Henry, and I won't let this Government forget him either.