Jamie Peston

Jamie Peston is an educator, entrepreneur and community leader writing on Jewish identity, education, and public life.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Not sure who made this but why are the rights of these Nazis more important than the right of Jews to not have to face these Nazis?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: London’s Nova exhibition to commemorate the Jewish kids massacred on October 7th was removed per police request.

The Met police asked the organizers to take the sign down out of fear of terror attacks on the exhibition.

So grim.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

Kemi Badenoch refuses to fall into the trap that Starmer and others have set by smearing ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protesters as “far right”.

Asked by Trevor Phillips:

“Would you have banned either of these marches? The Palestine Action one or the @TRobinsonNewEra march?”

Badenoch was clear: they’re completely different. She’d ban the pro-Palestine marches.

She stood up for ordinary people on the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march, saying it’s about uniting the kingdom, a domestic issue focused on Britain.

In contrast, she slammed the pro-Palestine protests for calling for violence, creating a “climate of intimidation and fear” for Jewish people, with chants like “river to the sea” and “globalise the intifada” that serve as cover for “wiping out Jewish people”.

Refreshingly honest leadership that puts Britain first. No false equivalence. No pandering to foreign conflicts over domestic concerns.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Unbelievably there are still westerners pretending they don’t believe Oct 7 was an abomination on every conceivable level. The reason, I assume, is that being honest to themselves about what happened would mean acknowledging they have actively supported the people behind it.
But for anyone interested, here are the vast and diverse array of sources used by the Civil Commission to compile their report.
The acrobatics required to pretend it’s all made up are Olympic level, but hate does that to people. It is a poison.
…

The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women and Children (a non-governmental Israeli body) published its report Silenced No More: Sexual Terror Unveiled on 12 May 2026. 
This 280–300-page document is the most comprehensive independent investigation to date into the systematic sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) committed by Hamas and affiliates on 7 October 2023 and against hostages in Gaza. 
It draws on a dedicated “war crimes archive” the Commission built immediately after the attacks (preserving materials later removed or lost) and follows trauma-informed, survivor-centred, internationally recognised standards. 

Key sources include:
•  430+ formal and informal testimonies and interviews collected over two years from survivors, direct witnesses, released hostages, family members of victims, first responders (including paramedics and ZAKA volunteers), soldiers, and experts. Victims represented 52 nationalities in addition to Israelis. 
•  Front-line responders’ accounts and site evidence — explicit testimony and observations from first responders, emergency personnel, and military personnel who recovered bodies, treated survivors, and worked the attack sites (Nova festival, kibbutzim, roads, etc.). 
•  Extensive visual and forensic archive — over 10,000 photographs and video segments (more than 1,800 hours of analysis), including perpetrator-recorded footage, bodycam and security camera recordings, open-source material, and geolocated datasets from the attack sites. 
•  Victim and family statements — direct accounts from survivors of sexual violence, released hostages describing abuse in captivity, and families of murdered victims, often cross-referenced with visual evidence.
•  Open-source intelligence and expert consultations — geolocation-supported verification, interdisciplinary expert review, site visits, and meetings with affected communities. 
•  UN and prior international investigations — the report builds on and incorporates findings from UN reports, notably the March 2024 report by UN Special Representative Pramila Patten on sexual violence in the context of the 7 October attacks, as well as other UN documentation. 
•  Official records and primary materials— forensic reports, communications, and documentation preserved in the Commission’s independent archive that are no longer publicly available. 
The Commission systematically cross-referenced all materials by time, location, and pattern, identifying 13 recurring forms of SGBV used deliberately across multiple sites and phases (attack, abduction, captivity, and digital dissemination). All evidence was handled under ethical “do no harm” protocols. 
This body of primary, multi-source evidence (testimonies + visuals + archives) forms the core of the report’s conclusion that the sexual violence was systematic, widespread, and integral to the Hamas-led assault.

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

If only the British communal leadership had the stomach to say we will not platform spreaders of the genocide blood libel, like Ed Davey, at a national rally against Antisemitism, things might look at bit different in the UK.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I stand against antisemitism.

I stand against those people who want Jews to be afraid to go about their lives, and will never allow them to win.

I stand with the Jews of Britain.

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Gosh this is good. Thank you @spectator

[Richard Ferrer @richferrer]

Dear @owenjonesjourno. As editor of Jewish News, I was appalled by the language my deputy used towards you. There is no excuse for the unnecessary use of a full stop before a coordinating conjunction. The sentence should, of course, have read:

“I am Deputy Editor of Jewish News and I’m respectfully asking you to fuck right off.”

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

This is correct. The test is simple. Duriing the period between October 7 and the beginning of Israel's military campaign did we see sympathy that was subsequently lost by the ferocity of that campaign? We did not. what we saw - especially on campuses was the celebration or rationalisation of the mass murder, sexualised sadism and torture and hostage taking as legitimate resistance against colonial oppressors irrespective if they were children, Nova festival goers, elderly holocaust survivors, people who had spent lives working for peace. The slaughter excited a thirst for more not less Jew- killing and not the end of occupation but the end of Israel. Then came the world wide avalanche of Jew hatred and Hamas cosplaying by drum- beating white people guilty about their own colonial history and displacing it on to Jews that gets ever more toxically racist; a virulent hatred so intense it of course strenthens not weakens the case for Zionism,

[Rebecca Paul MP @Rebecca_SPaul]

If you’ve ever wondered how you would have behaved in Nazi Germany, you can find out now.

Will you call out antisemitism? Will you stand up for our Jewish community? Or will you stay silent and turn a blind eye?

If you believe in ‘never again’, speak up for British Jews now.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

It is astonishing that Owen Jones sees antisemitism here, where there isn’t any, but is seemingly utterly indifferent to antisemitism where it is deafening (ie any comment on Tina Ion (Newcastle) who posts under “thereal.anne.frank” handle and calls for “every single Zionist” to be killed; referred to “money grubbing thieves”, “vermin”, “rats” etc?
Or Sabine Mairey (Lambeth) who said “Ramming a synagogue isn’t antisemitism, it’s revenge”?
Or Saiqa Ali (Lambeth) who posted that the UK government is “overrepresented with Zionists Jews”; that Trump is “owned by Jews”; and depicted a serpent choking the globe with a Star of David (“cut the head of this snake”) etc?
I say it’s astonishing but sadly it is not at all astonishing.

[Grange_Hillel📟Beep beep🎶BOOM💥 @grange_hillel]

@afneil Dear Andrew,
Why do you think the letters editor thought it a good idea to publish it?

Anyhow, here’s my letter to the letters editor

[Jamie Peston @jpjp253]

@joshxhowie @joshxhowie truth doesn’t require total agreement. It requires honesty and the courage to say it. Thank you @BoyGeorge you have shown more moral clarity and courage than most.

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

This video is less than two minutes long and I implore everyone to watch it. It is indeed rather extraordinary.

As Holocaust Awareness Ireland says, Patrick Kielty exhibits utter callousness with respect to the attacks on the Jewish community, astonishingly saying ‘the backdrop of that is obviously the horrors in Gaza, this is a complex thing.’

Boy George remains calm and says ‘if you don’t know any Jewish people maybe that’s the problem.’ He then asks the audience ‘do you know any Jewish people?’

Boy George is visibly taken aback by the ensuing silence, and vocalises his shock twice, remarking that it is ‘weird’ and ‘surprising me a little bit.’ Patrick looks uncomfortable and ends puts an end to the topic with a dismissive ‘mmm’.

Extraordinary viewing. Just extraordinary.

[Jamie Peston @jpjp253]

He’s here, but not with us.

Keir Starmer in Temple Fortune, behind locked gates, surrounded by police. No engagement.

Maybe he steps out later.
Maybe he meets the community.
I doubt he has the guts.
He definitely doesn’t have any answers.

Leadership is what you do in the moment.

And if the instinct is to stay hidden, that tells you everything.

We’ve had enough.

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Here come the cliches…..
‘This is not who we are as country’ ‘this has no place in british society’ and the rest….

Aptly done
@JewishNewsUK

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Dropped wife at work, a few helicopters in the sky from when two Jewish men got stabbed earlier. Off to pick up kids from school that was scoped out most likely by a terrorist last week. On the way I’ll drive past two synagogues that have been firebombed. This is being a Jew in the UK in 2026.

[Jamie Peston @jpjp253]

@10DowningStreet @MayorofLondon before you offer thoughts and prayers, know that your words, your actions and your friends have caused the streets of London to no longer be a safe space for Jews.