This is truly a dark day for British Jews.
Today our Government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us.
The measures announced amount to little more than political flag bearing for mendacious anti-Israel rhetoric and those who harbour a dangerous obsession with the Jewish State. These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah and at a time when our community is more vulnerable than ever to the wave of extremism that has been building over recent years, these sanctions do nothing to advance the cause of peace. Nor do they make anyone safer – quite the contrary.
Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel, and the cumulative effect of such punitive policies is to further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.
@fillefoux@Xcorp33 it is very strange what it does to many of their egos lol tho tbf i think many (especially in the uk) buy into the mythology of it being a sacred calling and that clashes hard with reality. but they also will just say damn that's crazy want some antidepressants etc to everything
@Glinner@TharriesYT do you ever think if you spent less time on twitter helen and your kids wouldn't have left you? what a fork in the road, and what a choice you made
@FranklinVH2 "you get espresso/cappuccinos while you are out" was also the original anti work from home argument lol. our economy WILL collapse if you don't buy a starbucks
@HeidiBachram@LucyMPowell wait until you find out the stuff your precious israelis chant through the streets of jerusalem whilst they smash up palestinian businesses
@AscendedYield there is no way except for straight up banning it from being installed on apple/android devices (a la huawei being banned from using google services)
@leekern13 you are a racist lunatic lee. maybe you should live in a bunker disconnected from the world since you think everyone and everything is out to get you