FULL SPEECH of stunning speech delivered by @UJS_UK president Louis Danker to the Prime Minister, ministers, business, police and other leaders at Downing Street:
Britain has an antisemitism crisis. It is a crisis that everyone in this room is accountable for solving. The Jewish community needs you to meet this moment.
I need you all to understand how British Jews feel.
Like many of us, I spend a lot of time in Golders Green. I get my lunch at the kosher supermarket. I pick up challah bread for my family at the Jewish bakery. I saw them both behind a police cordon last week. I couldn’t bring myself to stand at a bus stop, because I’d just seen footage of a Jewish man violently stabbed at one.
I was lucky to have supportive non-Jewish friends at university. I say lucky, because the Union of Jewish Students’ recent report found that 1 in 5 students are reluctant or unwilling to share a house with a Jew. Old-fashioned prejudice is becoming entrenched in the next generation.
I spend my life travelling across the country, working with brilliant Jewish young people who live proud Jewish lives on campus. They want to be leaders of British society in the years to come.
But many young Jews now despair for our future. We look to the workplace, the arts, the media, healthcare, trade unions, candidates for local government — and we see a frightening direction of travel: a minority emboldened to be hateful, and others who know it is wrong but haven’t found the clarity to condemn it.
Because the nagging question these past weeks has been this: where is the outrage? Where has anti-racist civil society gone? We know mass solidarity is possible — the Me Too movement, Black Lives Matter, the Together Alliance who stood against the far right just this March. We need that spirit now.
Instead, we see whataboutery. When Jews cry “antisemitism”, we’re asked why we haven’t condemned Israel. We’re told that Israel’s actions excuse an angry backlash against us. But no one asked the victims of last week’s stabbings for their views on Israeli policy.
All the while, violent language has been normalised: “Globalize the intifada”, “Death to the IDF”, “Put the Zios in the ground”. And violent language breeds violent acts. Jihad al-Shamie, while attacking Heaton Park Synagogue and murdering British Jews, shouted “this is what you get for killing our children”.
On campus, Jewish students have been stalked home, chased with glass bottles, and beaten up in nightclubs — because of the skullcap on their heads and the Star of David around their necks.
There is legitimate criticism of the Israeli government, and then there is hateful incitement towards Israelis, Zionists, and Jews here in Britain.
Britain has a long history of fighting racism. This is no position for a proud liberal democracy, a proud multicultural society, to find itself in. We need to meet this moment with a full crisis response.
So I thank the Prime Minister and his team for convening this crucial gathering, and the government ministers and advisers who have done important work so far.
We now need to build on it, accelerate action, and pull every lever we have as a country to respond.
The Jewish community cares deeply about Britain. We are proud to be British and proud to be Jewish.
We want to be outward-facing, build bridges, and participate fully in multicultural modern Britain. But we need to feel like we belong here.
More money for security is crucial, and we’re grateful for it.
A counter-extremism strategy is imperative, and we need to implement it.
Stronger regulation across sectors is necessary, and we need to accelerate it.
But what really makes Jews feel like we belong in this country is the allyship of non-Jewish people.
I’ve been reassured this past week by the non-Jewish family friend who asked how he could do a CST security shift, by the online influencers eating at Jewish-run restaurants in Golders Green, and by the university leaders asking what more they can do to support their students. These small acts need to be scaled up.
What we need is leaders of our institutions publicly standing by us, committing to tangible action, turning permissive environments into zero tolerance for hate, and showing real bravery with the full force of government behind them.
For Jews, antisemitism has become suffocating. It is making us shrink inwards. Every one of your Jewish staff, clients, customers, friends — whatever sector you’re in — is going through this. We all make calculations about hiding our Jewishness because it might literally save our lives.
And so it’s brilliant that you’re all here today. We need your allyship — in this room and beyond. You are here because you can help ensure Jews continue to feel like we belong in Britain. Together, we can turn a corner.
It is now my honour to introduce the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer.
@TheAnfieldWrap@empireofthekop Best fans in the world my arse.
Boo at spurs,leave man https://t.co/LOR527HcxZ this.
Fans pay price of an annual season ticket to go to one game from Australia.
Kicking the team when they are down again.
Booing at spurs and emptying the end against city.
Fans travel from all over the world and some pay the price of an annual season ticket for one game.
You want the best players in high wages but don’t want to contribute.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Spion Kop 1906 have released a statement in which they say their flags will no longer be present at Anfield for the remaining fixtures due to the ticket price increase.
“We, the fans, are the heartbeat of the football club”
Solidarity with Waitrose! They took decisive action after a highly aggressive employee attempted to attack a person of vulnerability. People only steal from shops because they are desperate - this is a FACT. I notice the employee is a w*ite male. No doubt he votes for Reform.
Solidarity with Waitrose! They took decisive action after a highly aggressive employee attempted to attack a person of vulnerability. People only steal from shops because they are desperate - this is a FACT. I notice the employee is a w*ite male. No doubt he votes for Reform.
🚨Hello every one ,
Today we received a notice that our account @WDIAfghanistan1 has been reported and temporarily locked. The reason was that we shared a video of a young girl who was bea💔ten by the Taliban.
We shared this not to spread hate, but to show the truth.
This page is not just a social media account. in fact It is a bridge and a voice for Afghan women inside Afghanistan — to the world.
If sharing the truth leads to reports and attempts to silence us, then it raises an important question: Should telling the truth about violence against women be punished?
We need your help now.
Please:
•Follow our page
•Share our posts
•Amplify the voices of Afghan women
Thank you every one for your solidarity.
please don't let Afghan women voice be silent 🙏🥰🍃
When I raised the question on the death penalty in Parliament yesterday, it was met with pure horror from hundreds of MPs. So, Restore Britain commissioned national polling to find out what the British people actually think…
60% of the British people would vote in favour of restoring the death penalty, 40% against.
The entire UK would vote in favour, other than London.
It is overwhelmingly popular.
41% of people believe we should have the referendum, 34% disagree.
This is a debate the British people want to have, even if almost nobody in Parliament does.
We look at these monstrous child rapist and killers sitting in prison, costing us tens of thousands every year - for what? To assault and injure prison staff?
No. When the guilt is undeniable, and the crime so appalling - we should put them to death.
I have no moral questions about that, whatsoever.
Axel Rudakubana
Lee Rigby's killers - Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale
Manchester Arena terrorist - Hashem Abedi
And many others...
Why keep these monsters alive?
We must restore the death penalty.
The British people agree with me, even if almost nobody in Parliament does.
🗣️ "He's sinking your club to oblivion, he will destroy Man United"
Liverpool fan Montel Bowen doesn’t hold back, claiming Ruben Amorim is out of his depth ahead of the post-break clash between the two sides 🔴
Remember the Yezidi girls,who were burned alive in iron cages in Mosul by ISIS for refusing to convert to Islam and become sex slaves.
Let us also remember the protests and condemnations from the Western left against Islamism
Ah,no, there weren't any!
Fûck your fake humanity