Jonny Gould

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[Jonny Gould @jnygld]

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#PODCAST ▶️ https://t.co/SoTCvletuK

🔵 How the world’s changed since #October7
🔵 How the #IsraelHamasWar personally affected him
🔵 What will Series 5 look like?

#PLAY EPISODE ▶️ https://t.co/SoTCvletuK

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

Desperately chasing the game late-on, Tuchel brought on Ivan Toney, not Ollie Watkins. He picked a Saudi-based player over a Premier League star in top form going into the summer.

Ollie didn’t play a single minute. Why? #UTV

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

I wish Anthony Gordon hadn’t been taken off.

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

We 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 really, really need to keep our cool. Let’s not get drawn into Argentina’s thuggery.

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

Morgz will score tonight. #UTV

[Lois Perry @LoisPerry26]

I have never been more embarrassed of my @churchofengland in my life, even having a girl Archbishop of Canterbury @ArchbishopSarah is not as bad as this.
Unless your organisation is stuffed full of rampant antisemites, how can the Abraham Peace Accords be a BAD thing?
Shame, shame, shame on all of you, HEY newsflash JESUS was JEWISH ✝️… morons…
#notinmyname

[Dave Rich @daverich1]

Amongst the many scandalous elements of the Kairos II document is its rejection of peace agreements between Israel and Arab states. I had assumed the Church of England General Synod would prefer peace to war - isn't that a core Christian belief? - but perhaps not in this case.

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 will win tomorrow night. Messi’s place in history is assured, he’s won it. We haven’t. We want it bad. Here’s my team: Morgz for Saka. The bench will also play its part, because of Tuchel’s instincts in effective game management.

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

Keir’s farewell £250m to secure Britain’s embattled Jewish community means we live behind bigger walls.

@kelvmackenzie engages viewers on difficult stories like few others. Pleasure to join him on @iromg’s @UKLiveOnline.

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[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

I’m not in agreement with all of this but it is once again an astonishingly articulate deconstruction of how we got to how we live now.

[ERIC RUBIN אריק רובין🟦 @rubin_eric]

Six days after October 7th, I landed in Israel and became a citizen. Since then, I’ve done what I could to defend the lies about my country and work to highlight the best of our nation. After consulting with my closest family and friends, I have decided to seriously consider running on a slate of likeminded friends in the next election for the Knesset. It’s time for a new generation of leaders who represent the diverse mosaic of Israeli society. I will make a final decision in the next few weeks. One way or another, I will always work for Am Yisrael. #AmYisraelChai

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NOW: Coming up on The Kelvin Mackenzie Show ⬇️

🔴 @KeithTordoff on the Ann Widdecombe murder investigation
🔴 @alanvibe on Together and CPAC GB
🔴 @andrew_allison on the state of the right
🔴 @jonnygould on Jewish security in Britain
🔴 @moutet live from Paris on Bastille Day

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Talked to @DuncanBarkes on @TalkTV earlier on a) a surpising revelation about Anne Widdecombe from when we were both MEPs and b) if all politicians need special protection which I have reservations about. Can backfire. This was before horrific if unsurpising news that suspect in Ann's murder being investigated by anti-terrorism police. Listen and let me know what you think. Also discussed establishment trying to defang populist mvts & going to extraordinary lengths to quarantine Reform away from 'respectable' politics using lawfare & demonisation.

[Kasra Aarabi @KasraAarabi]

My take on the designation of the IRGC under the State Threats Act:

While the designation of the IRGC is a welcome move, we should be clear: this is not equivalent to full terrorist proscription. The designation was made under the State Threats Act, which is far weaker than proscription under the Terrorism Act, despite all the government spin.

The designation will not counter the full spectrum of IRGC-linked activity in the UK—specifically its ability to nurture homegrown Islamist radicalisation and antisemitism. This is because the State Threats Act was constructed to counter hostile activity emanating from a conventional state actor. The IRGC is not a conventional state actor. It constitutes a hybrid that combines hostile state activity with asymmetric warfare and the promotion of a violent Islamist extremist and antisemitic ideology. Its modus operandi is closer to that of Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda than to that of a conventional armed force.

As a result, countering the threat posed by the IRGC requires methods that address not only hostile state activity but also its soft-power, propaganda, and radicalisation operations, which are designed to facilitate, promote, inspire, and/or glorify terrorism and other acts of ideologically motivated violence. The State Threats Act does not effectively address these methods. The amendments put forward by the Shadow Front Bench would have filled these gaps, but sadly the government rejected them in an attempt to rush the Bill through. It appears that the Bill was rushed through so that Starmer could claim he was not weak on antisemitism and thereby save face. In other words, the government has once again played politics with our national security.

That being said, a weak defence is better than no defence at all. But the reality is that this designation is weak and does not fully equip the relevant authorities with the tools and powers needed to counter the full spectrum of IRGC activity on our soil. This comes as the IRGC has doubled down on its efforts to nurture homegrown Islamist radicalisation and inspire acts of antisemitic violence in Britain.

[David Collier @mishtal]

@BBCNews Put the violent antisemitic thugs behind bars, walls and electronic fences.

not British Jews.

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

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A great pleasure to be on tonight’s @iromg’s PLONK of the Week, including delicious Heppington Estate Rosé 2019.

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[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

My first reaction to the news of Ann Widdecombe’s death was sorrow, especially as it seemed so sudden. She’d been her usual feisty self on the telly a day or two before.

But that sorrow’s now shock that an older lady can be murdered in her own home in quiet countryside retirement.

And these fools falling over themselves to apologise for gloating at her death ever since.

What is our society becoming?

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Landed in Israel at 3:00am today. Look at this photo. Do you see exhaustion? Nope. Only joy. This is what Israel does to me. It's the same giggle I felt as a child the moment we'd catch sight of the sea on family holiday. Some places just do that to you.

On the flight over, I watched Soda. It's set in a small Israeli community of Holocaust survivors in the early 1950s, and it's become one of my favorite films, because it's part of what I love about this country. It's raw.

No spoilers, I promise. But here's what stayed with me: almost every character in this film lingers somewhere between good and evil, going back and forth. And that's the question the film keeps circling: how far would you go to save your child, your parents? Once you ask that honestly, the door opens onto every shade of gray between "good" and "evil."

I've never believed human beings are good by default. We're capable of going either way, depending on circumstance. That's exactly why we need a strong moral compass and ethical discipline, not because goodness comes naturally, but because it doesn't.

The film also made me think about something we forget: for Holocaust survivors, the war didn't end in 1945. Families were scattered and searched for each other for years. People discovered what happened to the ones they loved, and sometimes discovered who had hurt them, not only among the Nazis, but among their own. And while they were living through that surreal, painful reckoning, they were attacked again, by Arab armies, by militias, again and again, up to October 7.

And here is something that disturbs me deeply, something I only saw clearly as of yesterday. In much of the Arab world, the Holocaust is denied, or barely acknowledged when it isn't. The Jews who had lived in Arab lands for centuries were uprooted, estranged, cut out. Meanwhile, the Arab world offered a literal haven to Nazi officers fleeing justice: Alois Brunner, one of Eichmann's closest deputies, lived protected in Syria for decades; Johann von Leers, a leading Nazi propagandist, converted and worked for Nasser's propaganda ministry in Egypt. While antisemitic and Nazi propaganda circulated freely, the Arab world rejected the Zionist project outright and went to war against Israel. It attacked the Jews who had lived among them for generations, and it attacked the Jews who had just survived the Holocaust in Europe. The Arab world must reckon with what it did to the Jews. What it owes them is no less than what the Nazis owe.

Watch Soda. It won't give you easy answers. It'll give you something better: the right questions.

Shabbat shalom 🤍🇮🇱

#jerusalem #israel #holocaust #NeverAgainIsNow

[Jonny Gould @jonnygould]

15 or 20 years ago, I could say to a few mates: “Let’s head down the Edgware Road for some Middle Eastern comfort food. Morocco just played — the atmosphere will be great.”

That felt normal. Exciting, even. London at its best.

The energy and optimism of Euro ’96 now feel like another country.

How has government managed to damage the social fabric, confidence and ease of this country so badly — so quickly?