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[Lia @liabogod]

@TrumpTruthOnX Campaign against antisemitism

[David Collier @mishtal]

The Arabs in British Palestine, rejected peace, started a war against the Jews - and lost.

They have since convinced much of the world they were the innocent victims of violent Jewish militia.

This fictional tale is what they call the "Nakba".

It is ahistorical nonsense.

[Lia @liabogod]

@jonsac You were excellent . Thank you.

[UK Lawyers For Israel @UKLFI]

A controversial Matthew Collings art exhibition due to open in south-west London has been cancelled after concerns were raised by @UKLFI about alleged antisemitic content. https://t.co/hJ0mpjQRsy

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

Being a Jewish student in Britain today means living a kind of double life.

I go to lectures. I take exams. I navigate seminar rooms and library queues like any other student. But unlike most of my peers, I do all of this while calculating: am I in danger because my Star of David or Kippah is visible? Will speaking up in this discussion make me a target? Is today a day there'll be a demonstration outside?

Going to university is supposed to be a student’s main job. Right now, for many British Jewish students, it feels like a side gig - squeezed in around the exhausting, full-time business of simply being Jewish on campus.

My great-grandmother was Lily Ebert. She arrived at Auschwitz at just 20 years old. In a single day, her mother, her younger sister, her youngest brother, and over 100 members of her extended family were murdered - gassed and cremated, their ashes scattered with no grave, no place to mourn. That was July 1944.

She survived. She came to Britain to rebuild her life, and she did more than survive; she thrived. She built a large and loving family: ten grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and even a great-great-grandchild in her final year. She believed Britain would be a safe haven. A place where her family could live openly, proudly, as Jews. A country that had learned the lessons of history.

For decades, she travelled across the UK speaking in schools, and in her later years she used social media to warn young people that the Holocaust did not begin with violence. It began with words. With small actions. With a shifting atmosphere.

In her final months before she passed away in October 2024, my great-grandmother was horrified. Horrified to see the country she had trusted - after the greatest crime in history beginning to fail its most basic duty.
She was right to be horrified. And this week, her warnings feel more urgent than ever.

British counter terror police are today investigating a wave of arson attacks on Jewish sites across London - four in as many days - probing whether Iranian proxies are responsible. Two synagogues and a Jewish charity torched. And an Iran-linked group threatening to fly drones carrying hazardous substances at the Israeli embassy. This all coming only a few weeks after Jewish ambulances were set alight in Golders Green – one of the most Jewish areas in the UK. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned that "a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the UK is gathering momentum."

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed surprise and called the attacks "abhorrent." But how can he possibly claim surprise? If you tolerate chants of "Globalise the Intifada," don't be surprised when the Intifada is globalised.

And throwing money at the problem simply is not a solution. You cannot pay your way out of an Intifada. And we cannot continue to besiege ourselves with security – living behind ever thicker doors and higher fences with barbed wire.

This violence doesn't begin with arson. It begins with ideology - and until Britain starts tackling the ideology, no amount of policing or security will stop the flames.

That means banning the IRGC, who may well be behind this very campaign of attacks. And it means confronting the Muslim Brotherhood, who are radicalising young people across this country - on campuses, in mosques, in community centres - and may well be recruiting the people lighting these fires.

And it starts closer to home too, on campuses like mine, where week after week, masked demonstrators flood university spaces, chanting slogans that go far beyond political protest into something far darker. Jewish students are singled out in lectures, booed, shouted down, accused of being "baby killers" simply for being Jewish. Many now tuck away their Star of David necklaces and think twice before speaking up in seminars. A Jewish professor had his lecture stormed by masked protesters who screamed abuse, branded him a "war criminal," and - according to witnesses - threatened to behead him. His only crime was being Jewish and refusing to be intimidated.

And it is not just coming from the students. Too often, academics themselves are part of the problem. On my own campus, the medieval blood libel - the conspiracy that Jews use non-Jewish blood in their rituals - was repeated to students as fact, at one of supposedly the best universities in the UK.

Beyond campus: an NHS doctor posts "gas the Jews" online and faces no meaningful consequence. Jewish artists are quietly dropped from programmes. Jewish events are cancelled without explanation. Protests where chants cross into open hatred are allowed to continue unchecked by police.

Individually, each moment can be explained away. Together, they reveal a slow and steady normalisation of dangerous jew-hatred.

In the past year alone, the UK recorded the highest number of violent antisemitic assaults per capita anywhere in the diaspora - roughly one for every 2,500 Jews. Jewish schools have warned students not to wear visible symbols on their commute. Jewish teenagers have been assaulted on public transport. Every Jewish institution now sits behind security barriers, guards, and locked doors. We are a community under siege.

My great-grandmother spent her life warning that these things begin not with violence, but with silence. With the small capitulations. With institutions that hedge, qualify, and reach for the language of "context" and "balance" - as if balance is possible when a minority is being targeted.

Britain has a choice. It can honour the lessons it claims to have learned. Or it can allow that silence to continue - and discover, too late, where silence leads.

My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. It is shameful that she lived to see Britain begin to echo the very hatred she had survived - and thought she had left behind in Eastern Europe.

[Lia @liabogod]

Unbelievable

[Lia @liabogod]

https://t.co/olPgnjd9Xe

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🚨 LEBANESE TV HOST TO HEZBOLLAH: “LEAVE”

Lebanese TV host Walid Abboud delivered a blistering message to Hezbollah:
“Leave us. Take your weapons, your drones, your rockets, your flags, your Supreme Leader — your Iran — and go.”
This isn’t coming from Israel.
This is coming from inside Lebanon.

[Lia @liabogod]

@aliceTTimes thanks for your column in the Times today.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

I struggle to find words strong enough to convey the utter contempt I feel for the person who perpetrated this disgraceful act of vandalism — and for anyone who condones it.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Why has the global Left swallowed glue about #IranProtests?
A young Iranian 🇮🇷 woman bluntly and brilliantly explains the Left’s brazen dishonesty.

[David Collier @mishtal]

A few days ago, former Israeli hostage Romi Gonen spoke publicly about a string of horrific sexual assaults she endured during 471 days of captivity.

Among her attackers were “medical staff” in a hospital and a “journalist” - the very "Palestinian" professions routinely lionised by outlets such as @BBCNews and @guardian.

Perhaps I’m naïve, but I would have assumed that sexual assault by a gang in a hospital, attacks involving medical staff, or a journalist, would be considered newsworthy.

Romi Gonen experienced all three.

And yet, while the mainstream media churns out daily demonisation of Israel - including rushing to publish unverified and false allegations of sexual abuse whenever a Palestinian prisoner makes a claim - all of that same media has remained silent about Romi.

The @BBCNews front page still carries a recent (long and vindictive) article accusing Israeli soldiers of sexual assault without any evidence at all. Yet two days after Romi Gonen’s brave and harrowing testimony, the BBC has not written a single word about her. Not one.

Neither has the Guardian - or any of the other media outlets who's journalists always rush to write demonising articles that spread lies about Israel.

In a media landscape saturated with falsehoods, it also matters to acknowledge those willing to give these victims a voice. The @Telegraph has been the only major British newspaper to report Romi’s story. Thank you Daily Telegraph!

As for the rest - this is a shameful moment.

A Jewish woman is repeatedly sexually assaulted - by a gang in a hospital - by medical staff - by a journalist - and you cannot bring yourselves to write a single word.

[Chris Philp MP @CPhilpOfficial]

It appears West Midlands Police made up intelligence as a pretext for capitulating to the threat of antisemitic mob violence by banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. Unless there’s a good explanation, the Chief Constable should resign.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

https://t.co/YQ5VGiK8QX
Top British attorney Natasha Hausdorff stunned the audience by destroying the Palestinian narrative about the conflict.

Palestine never existed as a sovereign Arab state. The British Mandate of Palestine was a British regime that gained control of the Land of Israel after the Ottoman Empire's fall in 1917.

Jews lived in the Holy Land (the Old Yishuv) for centuries, including under Ottoman rule when they were Jerusalem's majority.

Before 1909, Tel Aviv was desert land legally bought by Jews, who turned it into a prosperous city. No Arabs were thrown out; Jews legally purchased desert lands and built kibbutzim (agricultural towns).

After the British returned the mandate to the UN, the Arab-Muslim world rejected the partition plan and declared war on Israel and their own Jewish populations. Arab states ethnically cleansed most Jews, who fled to Israel. Armies from Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, plus local Arabs, aimed to "push all Jews into the sea."

During the War of Independence, Arab armies ordered local Arabs to leave combat zones to annihilate Jews. Some Arabs were forcibly evacuated to Gaza and the West Bank under Egyptian and Jordanian control.

Israel has never committed genocide and never will. By defending itself, Israel prevents another Jewish genocide.

Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s regime are the obstacles to Middle East peace!

Retweet if you support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself. 🙏

[David Collier @mishtal]

In the last two weeks.

Jews murdered in Manchester for going to a synagogue

Jews banned from entering Birmingham to see a match

Jews arrested in London for wearing a star of David

This is the UK in 2025.

And NOBODY in government wants to name those causing the problem.

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

@spikedonline
Dissecting the disinformation war and taking stock, after the return of living hostages from captivity in Gaza, with Brendan O'Neill.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Numerous reports and videos of Hamas conducting public mass executions across the Gaza Strip.

[Lia @liabogod]

🚨 'Son of Hamas' WARNS: What Everyone’s Missing About Trump’s Gaza Deal https://t.co/0NcKVmwhsH via @YouTube

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

As a Palestinian who refuses to parrot our leadership’s lies, I have to say it bluntly: Telling Mizrahi Jews - Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and the rest of the Arab world, that they are doing “ethnic cleansing” to us is the gaslight of the century.

Let’s start with facts. Mizrahi Jews didn’t “come from Europe.” They lived in the Middle East for thousands of years, long before Islam, long before Arab conquest, long before any modern state. Their ancestors spoke the same ancient Hebrew mentioned in the Qur’an’s stories, they prayed facing Jerusalem, and their communities in Babylon, Damascus, and Sana’a existed for over 2,500 years. They are as indigenous to this region as the olive trees, as native to the Middle East as we are.

When Arab states turned against them in the 20th century, after Israel was established, they were ethnically cleansed: homes looted, businesses seized, citizenship revoked, synagogues burned, people lynched. Nearly a million Jews were expelled from Arab lands. Most fled to Israel with nothing.

And now, decades later, our leadership dares to call them the colonizers? The same families who were driven from Baghdad, Aleppo, and Tripoli - who rebuilt their lives from refugee camps in Israel, are accused of committing the same crime that was done to them. That’s not just hypocrisy; it’s historical amnesia.

If we truly want justice, we have to stop gaslighting our neighbors and start acknowledging that their story is Middle Eastern too.
Our liberation won’t come from denying theirs.