James Brownlie

Scottish, Jewish, Special Needs Head teacher (now retired), Grandad, Marathon and Half-marathon-running Arsenal fan.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

The bravery of @BoyGeorge made clear.
He’s not just being attacked by anonymous trolls but stupid headline writers who should know better.
(The lyrics mean it’s not a genocide it’s a war not that he’s pro war).

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Tonight @hackneycouncil will begin the process of de-twinning from Haifa in Israel. It’s a grave insult given the city is a beacon of coexistence that terrorists want to destroy. In the Second Intifada my husband’s 16 year old cousin Orly was murdered in an Arab Israeli cafe.

Now ppl in this country continue the work of Hamas. A grim act that can only be explained by ignorance and xenophobia. Shame on them.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Omg. Jerry Seinfeld is a LEGEND.

“Pro-Palestine” nut jobs interrupted his show, take a listen to his response. I can’t stop laughing.

“You just gave money to a Jew. That cannot be a good plan for you”

H/t @HuntersOfNazis

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Why. The. Shuddering. Fuck. Are. We. Importing. People. From. Gaza.

Not even Arab states do it. This is suicidal.

[Alex Hearn @hearnimator]

Alex Hearn, co-director of @LabourAgainstAS, said: “What HW4P is claiming, stripped of the legal letterhead, is a right to talk over the Jewish community about the racism the Jewish community experiences. Nobody would concede that right to anyone else”

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

The media ran 984 stories on "settler violence" in the West Bank and just 9 on Palestinian attacks against Israelis. That's a 109:1 coverage disparity.

Even after attacks by Jewish civilians fell 25%, coverage kept climbing and expanded beyond violence to frame stories about agriculture and livelihoods through the same lens.

The headlines weren't just reporting events. They were reinforcing a narrative.

https://t.co/56DCKSVpRP

[Yonatan יונתן #AdoptIHRA @__jacker__]

@hearnimator @LabourAgainstAS Precisely what we had in Hackney yesterday evening. Not even allowed to protest council decisions we believe harm us.

[The Jewish Chronicle @JewishChron]

🇬🇧 Burnham has decided to throw British Jews under the bus.

"Labour has run the numbers and deemed us a small enough community to be sacrificed for a much larger and more valuable section of the electorate," writes Dov Forman. @DovForman

🔗 Read Dov's opinion piece via the link below

[James Brownlie @jbrownlie]

@HeidiBachram @hackneycouncil @threadreaderapp unroll

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

The likes of Bob Vylan and Kneecap pose as brave and free speech advocates.
At the same time it is Jews, Israelis, Zionists who are cancelled, not those who laud the aims of terrorists.
It’s fair to say @BoyGeorge is an imperfect hero (as the best heroes often are) but this is one of the bravest things I’ve seen a celebrity do.
Thank you @BoyGeorge

[Gillian Lazarus @GillianLazarus]

I think it's very probable that Green led Hackney Council will sever their connection with Haifa. No great loss to Haifa but a snub to the Jews of Hackney. I was one of those in the 1950s & 60s. I recognize the facade of the Town Hall in the picture. https://t.co/ui7cScUmrw

[David Collier @mishtal]

Oh as you probably haven't heard ...

Six people in Paris were arrested over a planned Islamic terrorist attack on a synagogue in a Paris suburb. Guns and knives were found in a nearby car.

This does not even make the news anymore - does it @bbcnews, @skynews, @guardian?

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Pro-Pal goes to the Macedonia Holocaust memorial and complains about why it’s so big given there’s only a 250 Jews in the country. That’s because 98% of Jews were rounded up and slaughtered at Treblinka concentration camp. These ppl are sick and stupid.

[Gillian Lazarus @GillianLazarus]

I'm watching a BBC drama serial, #TheRapture, based on a 2009 novel by Liz Jenson. A strand in the story is the militancy of climate activists. Who could know, back in 2009, that the climate activists would drop all that to wave Palestine flags & focus on Gaza?

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

This speech is precisely what 90 million Iranians have been screaming into the void about for the last 47 years. Post what ever you like about ‘western imperialism’, Trump, Israel, Netanyahu - and by all means advocate for the Palestinian people - but if the Islamic Republic of Iran is your hero then you have negated all human rights advocacy you claim to stand for. If the regime is “beautiful resistance” because you think they are “standing up for Palestine” - which most have now worked out is a political tool to keep them in power and keep them supported by idiots in the west - then you have unequivocally shown that you have the intellectual capacity of a gnat.

[Mish @Mish_K_]

The Greek constitution states that Greek Orthodox is the prevailing religion of Greece. 90% of Greece is Greek Orthodox.

Israel is the only Jewish state and is roughly 75% Jewish.

People call Israel an ethnostate, as if it’s a bad thing, but don’t call Greece one. Or Japan. Or China. Or the UAE. Or Egypt. Or Saudi Arabia.

Just Israel.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Read my new Jewish Chronicle article rebutting Wes Streeting's nonsense about the IDF. The Israelis aren't perfect, but no army is. Every military makes mistakes, but no military in recent times had to fight in an environment as challenging as Gaza. We have many positive things to learn from the IDF.

https://t.co/7sud8RiPuj

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

It is clear that Khan abused legal process as well as his employees. And so the ICC dies. The court is now exposed and unsalvageable.

It’ll be the same with the Genocide Convention in the ICJ. Destroyed by pandering to false allegations.

Well done, everybody.

[UK Lawyers For Israel @UKLFI]

..@UKLFI has written to the Arzner cinema in London after discovering that its cocktail menus appeared to declare that Zionists are not welcome at the venue. https://t.co/yFHGdvLnCf

[David Hirsh @DavidHirsh]

At CASA conference last week, Haifa's Mayor said it's the world's best example of Jewish-Arab coexistence.

Haifa U has 40% Arab students.

Deputy Mayor, an Arab woman: "We have to decide that we want to live together... I don't want separated places... I want shared places."