LucyB

Wife and Mum to 2 girls. Tech startup enthusiast. Amateur netball player.

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

@BriannaWu Hard to read, but thank you for sharing

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

https://t.co/9uyRnpKSZ2

[Rabbi Shmuel Reichman @ShmuelReichman]

“I am Stephen Fry and I am a Jew.”

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

@Ostrov_A @ShaykhSulaiman Wishing you a speedy recovery, Arsen.

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

This, 100* this.

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

It's quite interesting to see how many people who claim to be against bombing hospitals are not actually against bombing hospitals if they are Israeli hospitals.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Israel, I’m so sorry evil hit you on October 7th. I’m sorry your men, women & children were raped, killed, & kidnapped. I’m sorry you’ve been forced to respond. I’m sorry you’ve lost so many soldiers in this war. I’m sorry that so much of the world hates that you’re simply defending yourself. I’m sorry you’re surrounded by neighbors pledged to your extermination. I’m sorry you have to constantly explain & defend how you’re fighting this war. And Israel, I’m sorry you have to repeatedly justify your existence.

It may not seem like it right now, but most of us support you. Most of us stand with you. And most of us believe in you. Israel, you have more friends than foes on this planet. Many more. Keep up the fight.🇮🇱

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

About this time, Jews have kind of had enough and there’s a major shift in their culture. If you’ve ever been to a Black Lives Matter protest, or a trans rights march, you’ll probably notice there are a lot of Jews there. This cultural attitude, though not universally shared, can be attributed to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment - where the fostering of civil rights becomes a major part of Jewish identity. They focus on education, they focus of working within the political system for protection. And unfortunately, all this advocacy leads to the rise of modern antisemitism.

An irony of “Zionism” being used as a slur against Jewish people is the desire for a homeland comes from the political consciousness of this era, which heavily focused on civil rights for themselves and others.

Listening to Twitter, you’d think Zionism is a bloodthirsty war cry. The reality is, Jews were working through various civil processes to find legally codified safety - and as they became prominent enough to have a voice in European affairs, they garnered the political influence to begin to dream of a nation to call their own. Zionism was also fostered by the exploding antisemitism of the era. Pogroms (violent riots that target and slaughter Jewish communities) become widespread. Discrimination also becomes widespread, especially in Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe.

One of the many horrors of the Holocaust is that Jewish success in Germany formalizing their civil rights led many to think it was a safe place for them. Many Jews migrated to the Weimar Republic and contributed to political, cultural and artistic life. They thought they were safe, and the reality is there are fewer Jews alive today than before the Holocaust, despite the explosion of the world’s population.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

1/ Why should Israel exist? It’s a “settler-colonialist” atrocity, right? Didn’t they just steal the Palestinians' land in 1948?

No. The truth is, no one knows more about getting genocided and kicked out of their homes than the Jews. I’m not a historian, but with all the heated Twitter conversation, I thought I’d read a book or two to have an informed opinion about Israel/Palestine and whose home the region is. Is Twitter’s portrayal of Jews as warmongers who stole the Palestinian’s land accurate? Or is this a selective, one-sided history?

It is wildly one-sided and ahistoric.

If you truly care about people living in peace and safety and not getting “settler-colonized” you should STRONGLY support the existence of Israel. This thread will educate you on the 2,500 years of history BEFORE 1948. It will explain how the land of Israel is the historic home of Jews, how they were slaughtered and evicted repeatedly in an event called the Jewish Diaspora. And as long as this thread is, it’s going to be a FRACTION of a FRACTION of the atrocities.

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

Heart-wrenching footage of a mother and her 2 babies, taken by Hamas evil Monsters from their cots and kidnapped to Gaza #HamasislSIS #bringthemhome

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

Breaking:

The @IDF released footage showing the moments after Shiri and her children Ariel (4) and Kfir (1) Bibas were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and abducted to Gaza.

We pray for the safety of the Bibas family and all of the hostages and are doing everything to bring all of our loved ones home.

#BringThemHome

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

@DougieFalconer @youceepauloo @AdamJackman3 @Humanityclouded @mishtal Allister Heath expressed it so well in The Telegraph today that I've borrowed his words https://t.co/pIYXZlj5IG

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

@DougieFalconer @youceepauloo @AdamJackman3 @Humanityclouded @mishtal the obsessive interest in, & delegitimisation, of Israel, a state that accounts for just 0.25% of the Middle East’s landmass, is its only multi-religious democracy & which is fighting for survival against neighbours that reject its very existence, stink of a replay of the 1930s.

[Robert Halfon 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @RtHonRobHalfon]

A 203% increase in antisemitic incidents in universities is shameful.

While universities are independent organisations, they have a responsibility to protect Jewish students.

Unfortunately, far too many are failing in this duty.

1/3

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

These are dark times...

[Karen Pollock 🎗️ @KarenPollock100]

These front pages are shocking and should be a major cause for concern for us all - for the Jewish community and all of society.
Antisemitism has surged by nearly 150%. On our streets, in our schools and universities, in our workplaces and online.
This has to stop.

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

@mrsDugskullery They are not makeshift. They are extremely well funded by billions of dollars of misused aid money that Hamas stole from the Gazan people over the years. They are also pretty well documented at this point, so not sure how you can seriously be denying them.

[LucyB @LucyBlec]

@PabloEmilio786 @Humanityclouded @mishtal There is no comparison to be made between Isis and Zionism and it feels absurd to contemplate equating them. If Hamas terrorists were to return the Israeli hostages and surrender, this war would be over TODAY. This is a war that Israel did not want but Oct 7 left them no choice.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'On stage, he turned to me and waited for me to apologise. He shouted and cursed at me before ordering me to leave and began chanting 'ceasefire now.'

Israeli audience member at a Paul Currie show, Liahav Eitan, reveals he was kicked out for not clapping a Palestine flag.

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

I rarely do personal on here but I've noticed a phenomenon which mixes personal and political.
I'm divorced, and on a couple of dating sites (feels very odd but it's the way it's done nowadays). I noticed a few weeks after October 7 that some profiles started to show the 🇵🇸 flag . I didn't think much of it.
But something has happened more recently. It's not - yet - the majority but many profiles I see now say 'No Zionists'. It is now, it seems, a normal thing for people to declare publicly that they refuse to consider dating a Jew (which is of course what 'No Zionists' means ).
This is where we now are.
These are dark times.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

So @PeeVeeSee I just spoke to one of the Jews you and your audience abused out of your show Saturday and about the @sohotheatre manager’s woeful response. This man was dignified, shaken, but defiant. JEWS WILL NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE OSTRACISED FROM PUBLIC SPACES.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

Hi @PeeVeeSee, word on the Jewvine is you kicked a bunch of Jews out of your @sohotheatre show whilst the rest of the audience were screaming “Free Palestine” and “Get out” at them?! Would love to hear your side of the story.