I am troubled by Trump and Hegseth. But I am even more troubled by the Christians who support them.
You cannot follow the Prince of Peace and rejoice in death.
We cannot love our enemies as Christ commands and simultaneously prepare to kill them.
Jesus blessed the peacemakers not the warmakers. He blessed the merciful not the merciless.
Follow Jesus. Not Trump and Hegseth.
@annapetrickova@Tiempodetenis1 Asking them politely is irrelevant. Also it has nothing to do with disliking Zverev. He does that all by himself as he has a sense of entitlement and arrogance. His team should not put it with it. It seems that his behaviour in his domestic life transfers on the tennis court.
Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland.
I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity.
For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither people’s future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other.
That is why declaring “Zionism is racism” is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isn’t inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.
@the_traitors_ It shouldn’t have been either of these two. They attract viewers. Compliwrong choice. I will be sad for either to go. The traitors have made a big mistake. Hope it backfires.
#CelebrityTraitors
A disappointing start. I know it’s only a game but to murder James or Amol at the start is no fun as they are it would be so good to see how they would play the game as it went on.
@authorscherry@steven67hartley These students prepare themselves for university challenge. They don’t just turn up. So one area to read up on would be pop culture.