Keren David

YA author, Managing Editor @jewishchron, collage art, mother of cats, north London

[Keren David @Kerensd]

I'm really hoping that decent members of the Green Party will resign due to this shameful vote. MPs & Peers first.

[Keren David @Kerensd]

@adamlangleben Even then not safe (Spanish Inquisition)

[Keren David @Kerensd]

@CarolineLucas @adamboultonTABB Supporting the rights of the Jewish people = Zionism. As you and Polanski well know. But your party has just voted to remove the most basics rights from Jewish people. If you had any decency you'd resign from the party.

[Arsen Ostrovsky @Ostrov_A]

He should’ve turned 26 today.

May Hersh’s memory be a revolution!

[Keren David @Kerensd]

@Daniel_Sugarman Didn't have punctuation on my 'reasons to hate Jews' bingo card

[Niv Calderon @nivcalderon]

Israeli passenger that was on the @flydubai flight to Israel gives a perfect testimony. No need to translate, just watch

[Keren David @Kerensd]

@jonsac 😱

[Keren David @Kerensd]

This is something we're also seeing at the Jewish Chronicle. A very grim trend.

[Richard Ferrer @richferrer]

I’ve written about the grim trend of people asking @JewishNewsUK to remove their names from old articles because they no longer want to be publicly identifiable as Jewish.

This morning was the saddest yet. The children of a remarkable man, honoured by the late Queen, asked us to remove his obituary because it mentions them.

Britain has been enriched for generations by stalwarts of our community who were proud to put their names to what they built, created and contributed. Now their children are asking for those names to disappear.

The question is no longer whether British Jewish life is in retreat. It is how much of it will soon be left. This is not a country where my children can build their lives.

[Keren David @Kerensd]

@lady_valor_07 1981

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

George Galloway posted this photo today with the caption "What if this was your Dad? #Gaza."

This man is not in Gaza and he is not Palestinian. He is Syrian, like me.

His name is Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, known as Abu Omar. AFP photographer Joseph Eid took this photo in March 2017, in the ruins of Abu Omar's bedroom in al-Shaar, eastern Aleppo, the neighborhood devastated in the regime's 2016 offensive to retake the city. Abu Omar was a collector of antiques and vintage cars. The war took his home and most of his collection. He came back anyway, sat on his bed in the rubble, lit his pipe and played a record. The whole world knew this picture as the face of Aleppo's destruction.

And Galloway knows exactly who destroyed Aleppo, because he was on their payroll.

In 2012, Galloway began hosting a show on Al Mayadeen, the Beirut channel that has never disclosed its backers and is widely seen as the voice of Iran's "Axis of Resistance." He was reportedly paid around £3,000 an episode. He also presented on Iran's state channel Press TV, and spent nearly a decade on Putin's RT.

The Axis: the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, the Iraqi militias, the Houthis and, until December 2024, the Assad regime. For over 13 years after the 2011 uprising, Assad survived only because the IRGC, Hezbollah and Russia fought his war for him. When the regime finally collapsed, he fled to Moscow and was granted "humanitarian" asylum. The same humanity he denied every Syrian he bombed.

Who doesn't remember the barrel bombs on bakeries and markets? The sarin in Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun? The chlorine in Douma?

Galloway remembers. On his show he called Assad "the last bastion of Arab dignity." When Assad gassed Douma in 2018, Galloway pushed the "staged attack" conspiracy, even though the OPCW confirmed chlorine was used.

None of this is new. This is the man who stood before Saddam Hussein in 1994 and saluted his "courage" and "indefatigability." He was suspended from the House of Commons after an inquiry found strong circumstantial evidence that Saddam's regime, with his connivance, used the Oil-for-Food program, meant to feed starving Iraqi children, to fund his Mariam Appeal campaign.

In 2014 he declared Bradford an "Israel-free zone": no Israeli goods, no Israeli academics, not even Israeli tourists. Police logged it as a hate incident.

Last year he flew to Tehran to accept an award named after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, called him a "martyr," and boasted that his most treasured possession is Haniyeh's personal passport. Then he flew straight to Moscow to applaud Putin's Victory Day parade.

Today, the self-proclaimed anti-imperialist lives in what he calls "exile," broadcasting from Russia and China, lecturing the West about freedom.

This is not an honest mistake. It is the method of Galloway and his camp, and it is what they mean by "by any means necessary." When the truth doesn't serve the cause, you invent a new one. A Syrian father, ruined by Assad and his Iranian and Russian patrons, becomes a Gazan victim of Israel. The real killers get erased, and the propagandist who defended them on their payroll gets applause from a Western audience that never bothers to check.

Syrians remember who bombed Aleppo. They remember who went on TV to defend it.

Abu Omar is not your propaganda, shameless George.

@georgegalloway

[Eylon Levy @EylonALevy]

This was one week after the October 7 Massacre.

Never in my wildest nightmares did I imagine a British foreign secretary would tell this violent movement, “You were right.”

[Fig Newton @TopTerf]

Spent 8 hours in A&E yesterday with two broken ribs.

"Do you have a religion?"
"No."

Took off my Star of David.

Small moments, heavy reality. It doesn’t feel safe to be openly Jewish in the UK right now.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

I’ve seen a lot said about Ed Miliband meeting the Islamic regime foreign minister. But this concise article by @JakeWSimons says it best:

“When jihadists are your underdogs and democracies are your oppressors, you’ve lost the moral argument.”

Our Foreign Secretary should take the time to consider how his handshake looks to the many thousands of Iranian parents “whose children were slaughtered like animals on the streets, or blinded and castrated with shotguns, or hanged for the crime of wanting freedom, or executed by armed men as they lay in hospital.”

https://t.co/AJ3ocoqRaN

[Daniel Sugarman @Daniel_Sugarman]

I’m struggling with the concept of someone who goes big on the moral importance of recognising the death & devastation in Gaza, & then 2 weeks later sits down with the Foreign Minister of a regime which this year murdered tens of thousands of people over the course of 72 hours.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

👏 @Eve_Barlow

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

Because Ukraine didn't start the war.

[lelemSLP @lelemSLP]

It's hard to live in the world, where monsters invade my country, burn children alive, cut women genitals, rape women and girls in front of their family members, and succeed to frame it as resistance.

Photo: Arbel, Shahar, Omer Siman-Tov, burned alive by Gazans.

[Keren David @Kerensd]

@DebNathan1 well, quite.

[Keren David @Kerensd]

On Monday: 'Let's bomb Israel'
On Wednesday:' I have long been a campaigner for peace and reconciliation'
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[Tahir Ali MP @TahirAliMP]

In Parliament on Monday, I wrongly gave the impression that I support the use of military force against Israel.

Those are not my views, and I apologise unreservedly. I do not support military action anywhere in the Middle East and have long been a campaigner for peace and conflict resolution.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“For 48 days, an UNRWA teacher kept her trapped in his attic — in terrible conditions, with very little food. I ask the United Nations: How could you place the education of Gaza’s next generation with someone involved in holding an elderly woman hostage?”

Neta Heiman, the daughter of former hostage Ditza Heiman, spoke out about the horrifying conditions her mother, who was then 84, was subjected to by United Nations employees.

How can any organization be so heartless as to refuse accountability after a grandmother was held hostage by their employee?

The UN must take action and replace UNRWA. Otherwise, they do not stand for "human rights."

@netaheiman @WomenWagePeace