Martyn Redstone🎗️

Head of Responsible AI. Specialising in AI governance and policy, responsible innovation and modernising employment in the new world of work.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

There are reports that document events.

And then there are reports that expose moral collapse.

Silenced No More is the latter.

For nearly two years, Jews around the world have watched people try to minimise, sanitise, relativise, or outright deny what happened on October 7.

Now comes a 298-page evidentiary record that systematically documents the sexual atrocities committed by Hamas and their collaborators.

Not rumours.
Not “claims”.
Evidence.

More than 430 interviews. Thousands of photographs and videos reviewed. Detailed legal analysis. International jurists, prosecutors, human rights experts, and archivists involved throughout the process.

And the findings are horrifying.

Rape. Gang rape. Sexual torture. Mutilation. Deliberate targeting of genital areas. Forced nudity. Postmortem desecration. Sexual violence against men and boys. Family members forced to witness atrocities against one another.

The report concludes clearly that sexual violence was not incidental to October 7.

It was part of the operational method.

And perhaps most grotesque of all: much of it was filmed by the perpetrators themselves and distributed deliberately as psychological warfare.

This matters enormously.

Because over the last two years, parts of Western society have attempted to reframe October 7 into something politically digestible.

“Resistance.”
“Context.”
“Decolonisation.”

No.

This report destroys that lie.

And we also need to talk honestly about what happened afterwards.

Women who should have been believed instantly were instead doubted, interrogated, politically filtered, or erased altogether because the victims were Jews.

Some of the very organisations and activists who claim to stand against sexual violence suddenly became hesitant, evasive, or silent when Jewish women were the victims.

Jews noticed.

Jews noticed who demanded “more evidence”.

Jews noticed who instinctively searched for reasons not to believe.

Jews noticed who suddenly discovered nuance when confronted with medieval barbarism committed against Israelis.

And Jews noticed how quickly some people became more concerned with protecting a political narrative than protecting the dignity of victims.

That rupture will not disappear quickly.

One line from the report captures the last two years perfectly:

“The victims were never silent - the world was.”

Exactly.

That silence was not neutral.

It was moral failure.

And in many cases, it was driven by a simple reality people still struggle to admit openly:

When Jews are the victims, parts of society apply a different standard.

People ask why Jews feel frightened, isolated, or abandoned right now.

Read this report.

Then remember how many people spent the last two years trying not to.

https://t.co/bo4HU2luBS

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Orange Manchester NOC team - IYKYK

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@owenjonesjourno Soon to be declared a no-go zone for Jews.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Shame on you @reformparty_uk

This is childish politics and you are trying to both blackmail and hold the electorate hostage.

I'm not voting for either Reform or Green, you are childish and they are antisemitic.

I'll be voting for a grown up party, with grown up policies that actually cares for my community - the @Conservatives

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Thank you Rob Barratt and Industry Leaders for listing me in their Top Recruiters & Talent Acquisition Leaders 2026 list.

Honoured to be listed alongside some incredible industry legends.

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[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

I watched this and found it hard to shake.

Rabbi Doron Birnbaum describes being in Auschwitz with Jewish teenagers when his phone pinged with the news that two Jews had been stabbed in Golders Green, minutes from his home.

Think about that for a moment.

He was standing in the place where Jewish communities were turned into memory, teaching young people what happens when antisemitism is allowed to metastasise.

And then he had to step outside, open his family WhatsApp group, and ask whether his own family were still alive.

He describes Jewish families zooming in on images from the scene, looking at clothes, shoes, bodies, trying to work out whether the victims were people they knew.

That is the part many people do not understand.

For British Jews, these attacks are not abstract news events.

They land in family WhatsApp groups.

They land in schools.

They land outside synagogues.

They land in the minds of children being taught about Auschwitz while wondering whether their parents are safe in London.

This is why “words are not enough” matters.

Because Jewish communities in this country are not being dramatic. They are not overreacting. They are not confusing history with the present.

They are recognising a pattern that history taught them never to ignore.

And the rest of the country needs to start recognising it too.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Every single person needs to watch this. And listen. Really listen.

Take it in. Think about it. And think about it again.

Take a few minutes out to listen to this Rabbi and Educator answer one question about this week's antisemitic terror stabbing in Golders Green, London.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

@Henry3Studios2 Sorry, that was probably my hangover.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Well that was a fun journey this morning.

Making my way through Farringdon station from Thameslink to Elizabeth Line and get evacuated.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Full read in @thetimes 📰

https://t.co/uEuI5eHZxa…

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Here we go...

Mothin Ali is urging legal action against the Green Party due to his antisemitic mates getting found out. The little thug isn’t used to not getting his own way.

Remember this is the guy who forced a Rabbi into hiding.

This is going to get delightfully messy 🍿

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

What happened in Golders Green, London, yesterday has forced something into the open that many have been reluctant to say plainly.

This is no longer a series of incidents.

It’s a security issue.

@KemiBadenoch has called it what it is: a national emergency.

And she’s right to raise the temperature of the conversation.

Because for months, the response has been statements, condemnations, and carefully worded concern.

Meanwhile, the reality on the ground has continued to escalate:

• Synagogues targeted
• Emergency vehicles set on fire
• Jewish premises attacked
• And now, Jews stabbed in the street for being visibly Jewish

At some point, we have to bridge the gap between language and action.

“Words are not enough” isn’t just a political line. It’s an observation of failure.

Failure to deter.
Failure to protect.
Failure to treat antisemitism with the seriousness it demands.

And we also need to be honest about something else.

For 30 months, large-scale marches have been allowed to continue on our streets where rhetoric has crossed from protest into something far darker. When chants normalise violence, when slogans blur into calls that target or intimidate, that does not stay contained within a march.

It shapes the environment.

It lowers the threshold.

It tells people, implicitly or explicitly, what is acceptable.

And eventually, that spills over.

When a minority community cannot go about daily life without fear of being targeted, that is not a community issue. It is a national one.

And it requires a national response.

That means:

• Visible, proactive policing in affected areas
• Consistent application of the law, without hesitation or caveat
• Treating antisemitic violence with the same urgency as any other form of terrorism
• And a clear signal - from Government and institutions - that this will not be tolerated, full stop

There is also a broader question here.

How did we get to a point where this could escalate so far?

Because this didn’t start with violence. It started with narratives that were excused, minimised, or reframed.

And when that happens, escalation is not a surprise. It’s the outcome.

You don’t have to be Jewish to see where this leads.

You just have to be paying attention.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

What happened yesterday in Golders Green, London, should not be treated as an isolated incident.

Two visibly Jewish men were stabbed.

Let that land for a moment.

Because when you step back, this isn’t random. It’s a pattern.

Over the past year in the UK Jewish community, we’ve seen:
• An attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur resulting in the death of two Jewish men
• Arson targeting Hatzolah ambulances
• Multiple fires set, or attempted, at synagogues and Jewish premises
• And now, violent assaults on Jews in broad daylight

At what point do we stop pretending these are disconnected events?

This is what sustained, normalised antisemitism looks like.

Not always in slogans.

Not always online.

But in escalation - from rhetoric, to intimidation, to violence.

Here’s the reality we need to face:

When antisemitism is tolerated in “acceptable” spaces - dressed up as politics, activism, or selective outrage - it doesn’t stay there. It spills over. It always has.

History is very clear on that.

You don’t have to agree with every position held by every Jew to recognise this for what it is.

You don’t have to be Jewish to say: enough.

Because if people can be attacked in London for looking Jewish, we have crossed a line that should concern everyone.

This isn’t about abstract debates.

It’s about whether a community can live openly and safely in this country.

Right now, that answer is becoming less certain.

And silence, at this point, isn’t neutrality.

[Luca Bertuzzi @BertuzLuca]

AI Act omnibus: After 12 hours of negotiations, EU policymakers failed to reach a deal on the law's interaction with sectoral rules. Center-right MEPs blame the Council for a lack of flexibility, while the center-left blames the EPP and Virkkunen. New trilogue in two weeks.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Well this is pretty good profiling. I presume it's due to how well known I am for my coiffured locks.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Current situation in the UK...

6am de-ice the car
12pm sunbathe and reapply SPF
8pm put heating on

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

A stunning morning in Bricket Wood. 🌳

​Walking through these bluebells is a reminder of why I’m standing to be your District Councillor for St Stephen’s. Our local green spaces are the heart of St Albans - they deserve a representative who will fight to protect our heritage and preserve our environment for the next generation.

​We need a "common sense" approach to local planning that prioritises our beautiful countryside while supporting our community.

[Martyn Redstone🎗️ @mredstone]

Polanski is a danger to society.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski suggests Donald Trump is worse than Vladimir Putin

“As horrendous as Putin is… I’ve never seen him threaten genocide. I've never seen him threaten to wipe out a civilization… Starmer’s so-called special relationship is more of a danger than what Putin is doing in Ukraine”

[@antoguerrera]

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski suggests Donald Trump is worse than Vladimir Putin

“As horrendous as Putin is… I’ve never seen him threaten genocide. I've never seen him threaten to wipe out a civilization… Starmer’s so-called special relationship is more of a danger than what Putin is doing in Ukraine”

[@antoguerrera]