mum of 3. Loving my life and making the most of it! Huge Spurs and George Michael fan... and especially in these current times as always stand with Israel
@HenMazzig That’s a bit unfair. He was positive about the song and said it had a good reception in the hall. Would be weird not to mention the missing countries.
Tonight I will be at Borehamwood vs Forest Green waving my Israel flag high and calling Dale Vince, a huge instigator in all this hatred, a wanker. Come and join me
We can't win this fight on our own.
As Jews, we don't have the numbers. But we're British Jews. It's instilled in us from an early age that the 'British' part always comes first. It's why Jews are considered a success story of assimilation and integration within British society.
Please understand, this isn't a war only against Jews.
We're just at the front of the queue.
It's a war against British values and British way of life.
We need all your help.
I used to volunteer for St John Ambulance, a charity with its own fleet of vehicles providing volunteer first aid services across the country.
It traces its origins back to an 11th-century hospital established in Jerusalem to care for sick and injured pilgrims.
If their fleet had been attacked I do not think we would have the same number of people asking about the premise of the organisation rather than condemning the action itself.
Now comes the social media double whammy.
Four ambulances of a volunteer service for north west London, staffed and financed by the Jewish community for everyone's use, are destroyed.
That's followed by social media posts attacking Jews for having their own ambulance service...which we don't have. Because they are an act of charity. For everyone.
It's like saying St John's Ambulance is 'for Christians'. Which it isn't. It's also for everyone.
But it's Jews, so what does the truth matter?
@slyowusu It’s a charity. It’s for everyone. It is run by trained volunteers. Similar in structure to St John’s Ambulance.
It is a free and highly valued service provided by the Jewish community to the whole community.
It’s not hard to understand
I have a lot of journalists following me and I am imploring you, if you are writing about the antisemitic attack in Golders Green, *please* emphasise these two things:
- Hatzola is a volunteer-driven, no-cost service that is *entirely* self-funded. It relies 100% on private donations and community fundraising rather than government or public NHS funding.
- While operating in largely Jewish areas, it services Jews and non-Jews equally.
You may not deem it necessary to include this information, and in a perfect world it would not be. However, these are the two lies being spread by antisemites in order to justify the attack and use it to spread even more hostility against the Jewish people. Please include these facts.
This is honestly unbelievable, and at this point it's impossible not to notice the pattern.
For two straight years during the Israeli–Gaza war, the entire “podcast news” ecosystem wouldn't shut up for a minute about how there are supposedly no journalists in Gaza. No reliable sources. No way to verify anything. And yet, somehow, minutes after every strike, they knew exactly how many people were killed. Not just that, they also knew exactly how many were women and children under the rubble, and how every single one of them was innocent, with not even one combatant among the dead.
They didn't even hesitate repeating it. They showed no skepticism. They didn't even bother pretending to have basic professionalism by saying, “Let’s wait for confirmation.”
They treated Hamas press releases as if they were God’s words to Moses, while still lecturing everyone else about misinformation.
Now look at Iran.
For over two weeks, there have been mass protests. It wasn't a war or a battlefield. These were protests by civilians against their own regime. There was a near-total blackout of information. The internet was completely shut down. Journalists were silenced. And suddenly, the same voices who “knew” everything in Gaza know absolutely nothing. How come?.
No interviews. No “heated” debates. No wall-to-wall outrage. No urgency to verify numbers. No repetition of the horrific death tolls being rumored, numbers ranging from 20,000 to 30,000 people killed, and possibly more. Not even curiosity. Just silence.
And again, let’s be very clear about the difference here. These aren't war casualties. These are Iranian citizens protesting. Doing the most basic thing people believe is a universal human right. The kind of protest that is endlessly celebrated when it happens in Israel against Bibi, “see, they hate Bibi too,” or anywhere in the West. But in Iran, protesting gets you shot, beaten, disappeared, or executed. And somehow, that doesn't move the needle at all.
And let me add this: I am not someone who believes every issue has to be compared to every other issue. I don't believe in whataboutism. But after two years of nonstop moral lectures, selective outrage, and absolute certainty about facts that were impossible to know, it's more than fair to ask a few very simple questions.
Where did all that confidence go?
Where did all that moral urgency go?
Where did all those voices suddenly disappear to?
Because although I hesitate to call people antisemitic when it comes to Israel, I'm stuck here, because it's very transparent that when Jews are defending themselves, everyone suddenly knows everything, and knows exactly how evil and demonic they are. But when Iranians are being slaughtered by their own regime, the same people suddenly know nothing at all.
So to all the podcasters who claim the mainstream media failed because of bias and inconsistency: what’s up?
Fascinating to observe the almost total silence from loudly pro-Palestinian celebrities & media figures re the courageous Iranian protestors
risking their lives for freedom and democracy. Suggests their hatred of Israel overrides intellectual honesty and principle.