Maria Medhurst

Llanita and proud.

[Simon Wiesenthal Center @simonwiesenthal]

Mayor Mamdani did not simply express a personal political opinion. He used the authority, symbolism, and credibility of the mayor’s office to issue what amounted to an official public address declaring that the democratically elected leader of the world’s only Jewish state is a ‘war criminal’ who is ‘not welcome in New York City.’ That is a profound misuse of the office entrusted to him by all New Yorkers.

After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.

Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.

This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the world’s only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.

Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.

New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.

#Mamdani #MayorMamdani #Israel

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Defence Secretary does not need to be ex-military. With deeply specific insight, I can say that being an ex-Para Major does not qualify you for the job.

However: in 2 days, Streeting weaponising his position to push antisemitic blood libels makes him utterly unfit for the role.

[Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Kᴇᴍᴘ ⋁ @COLRICHARDKEMP]

I would like to hear from Mr Streeting in exactly what way Israel fell short of UK military standards in Gaza. I witnessed the @IDF’s actions first hand there (unlike him & his staff) & I found the opposite to be true.

[Cristo @cristo_radio]

Congratulations @UKLabour @Heidi_Labour on the policy of bringing in a £2 bus fare cap, thereby reversing the @UKLabour policy which removed the £2 bus fare cap just last year.

Fixing your own mistakes is hardly something to be celebrated is it?

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

'This policy will disproportionately impact women from the global South.'
Yes it will.
Female athletes from the global South will now be able to represent their countries on the world stage.
Instead of losing their careers to athletes with male DSDs. https://t.co/Bps96522mp

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Can somebody ask @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani why he isn’t plannning to arrest Pezeshkian, the president of the Islamic Republic, who is attending the same UN conference as Netanyahu in September?

Tens of thousands of Iranians murdered in two days.

The worst massacre of our time.

No speech?

No arrest?

No performance?

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

I’ve been to Gaza 3 times during the war, I’m writing my PhD on it, and I have a book coming out early next year.

I did 16 years in the British Army, three tours of Afghanistan. The IDF operates to the same standards we do.

Streeting doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Every morning I write about someone Iran just executed, within minutes, a message arrives a mother, a sister, a friend, begging me to write about their loved one who is on the death row. Before it's too late.

This is why I want to write before the execution of this young woman, not after. Arghavan Fallahi. 24 years old. Evin Prison. Sentenced to death.

Judge Salavati one of Iran's most notorious hanging judges, sentenced her under "Baghi," armed rebellion.

During months in solitary confinement, she was subjected to severe psychological torture and pressure to make forced confessions. But she refused. So they sentenced her to death anyway.

Fellow female prisoners who were with Arghavan inside Evin say her situation is urgent. The torture has left her with severe psychological trauma and physical illness. She is not just facing the death sentence, she is suffering right now, inside that cell. But is still alive and is still time to save her life.

Please join me and help us Iranians to say her name now and demand international community and the leader leaders of the world to put pressure on these that republic to stop them from executing her and other political prisoners.

#StopExecutionsInIran

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

Truly disgraceful that @wesstreeting, newly appointed Defence Secretary, would make this false claim in the face of all the evidence to the contrary. I’ll take General Sir John McColl's 53 years’ military experience, and his observations from on the ground in Gaza, over a politician’s unfounded allegations, any day of the week.

[Maria Medhurst @MariaMedhurst]

@JohnHundeslit @lewis_goodall He's not as knowledgeable about the situation as Natasha @HausdorffMedia is and is doing what anti Israel journalists do, speaking over her, conflating one issue with another. Joke!

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Why did Angela Rayner receive £17K severance for resigning as a Minister in the scandal over failing to pay HMRC £40K in stamp duty and why hasn’t she been forced to give it back now she’s back in the Cabinet 10 months later.
Socialist fiddle their taxes and get rewarded. Sickening.

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

No. Some mentally ill women taking testosterone have given birth - with surprisingly little regard for the health of their babies. No man ever has nor ever will.

[Haim gozali @HAIM__GOZALI]

Mark Ruffalo says he’s done talking to Jewish actors.

Hey Mark, if that’s really how you feel, maybe you should stop playing the Hulk too.
After all, the character was created by two Jewish legends, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Or is that different because it works in your favor?

Pretty hypocritical.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

I need everyone to share this, please. This is Diana. She is only 16, and the Islamic regime of Iran wants to execute her for protesting for freedom. Be her voice. Help make this go viral. She deserves to live.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Jeremy Bowen hammering the idea of the illegality of ‘Jewish settlements’.
Surely he means ‘Israeli settlements’?
But he says it too many times for it to be a slip of the tongue.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

Andy Burnham’s rules:

Boris receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice = Resign!

Rishi receiving a Fixed Penalty Notice = Resign!

Louise Haigh with a conviction for fraud = Welcome back to the cabinet!

Different leader. Same hypocrisy.

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Riiiiiiiight…

[Maria Medhurst @MariaMedhurst]

@ZackPolanski Genocidal???

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

If the state can force you to accept men as women, they can force you to accept anything.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Two Iranians in the city of Shiraz have been sentenced to death for giving medical care to injured Iranians in the January Uprising.

Their names are Mojtaba Dehbandi and Kianoush Kazerooni.

Yes, you read that right.

They will hang for the crime of saving lives.

I feel sick.