Richard Beckwith

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

A classic example of how playing the ‘both sides’ card is a means of avoiding, or even denying, obvious truths.
“We can never allow conflict overseas to divide us at home”, Khan says.
But only one side imports the conflict here. Only one side targets the other on British streets every week.
The two sides are not, in fact, the same.

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

The meaning of the phrase Jews Don’t Count is often misunderstood. It means: as a vulnerable minority. A minority that has suffered, like all minorities, extreme violence and discrimination. The assumption remains, despite history, that Jews are too powerful really to be seen in that way. Drawing attention to Jewish suffering is seen as only another example of their power, of Jews' ability to highlight their own suffering at the expense of others. Jews are not granted specificity in suffering: it must always be compared to the suffering of others, and found wanting. And if you want to see that in action, have a look at some of the responses on here - or no doubt, below this message - to the various attempts to commemorate one acute example of Jewish suffering, that took place three years ago today.

[Jamie Susskind @jamiesusskind]

The people marching against Israel on the anniversary of the 7 October massacre are presumably doing so because they support that massacre. It’s not an insensitive coincidence. The date is the point.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Imagine doing this outside a Jewish organisation on October 7 and the thinking you are good people.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Let them march. Let’s see who they are. These people with 364 other days to exercise their freedom to legitimately protest a genuine cause, but chose today - today, the day the terrorists came to a festival & to kibbutzim to slaughter, to rape.

Let them march. Let’s see them.

[greenjacket93 🇮🇱 🇬🇧 @greenjacke51992]

Brendan O'Neill sums it up

[Sabrina Miller @SabriSun_Miller]

Jewish students in Leeds gathering for their Oct 7 vigil found the pavement where the gathering was due to be held vandalised with the message “Zionism = Racism”. This is intimidation. This is bullying. I hope the Greens are ashamed. Let Jews mourn their dead in peace.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Three years ago, I opened my phone in a Paris hotel room and watched the horrors of 7 October unfold. Then I saw people celebrating the massacre on London’s streets. I had grown up believing we understood what “Never Again” meant. Those celebrations left me wondering how much of my own country I had failed to understand.

Speaking up for Jewish friends took me to the massacre sites, into Gaza and eventually a change of career. Today, I’ve written about that journey, with the victims and the families I have met foremost in my thoughts.

It has been an honour to stand with the Jewish community these past three years. Nobody should need courage simply to walk to synagogue in Britain. We owe our Jewish neighbours considerably more than sympathy on an anniversary.

https://t.co/4erDvLQcHC

[Chris Deerin @chrisdeerin]

If you're marching tomorrow, on the anniversary of October 7, you are a moral scumbag and beneath contempt

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

It's hard to see how the Green party's motion today will avoid an investigation by the EHRC, given Labour was previously found in breach.

[Jonny Best @JonnyWorst]

If Zionism means affirming the Jewish people’s right to self-determination and statehood in Israel, then as a British non-Jew, I’m happy to call myself a Zionist.

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

.@JoshAllenQB making memories. 🥹

#GoBills | #BillsMafia

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

Yep. I don’t ever want to see these people in government and neither should you.

[choppa 🛝 @choppaslide]

Hope she get every penny

[Adam Langleben @adamlangleben]

Handy guide this. All British political parties to have adopted the policy of Zionism is Racism. 👇

[Ben Green @BenGreenJeru]

Brendan O’ Neill sums up all the discussion surrounding Israel vs Ireland on Sunday night.

Every word. Nailed it.

“There is no way to explain this mania and hypocrisy…”

🎯🎯🎯

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

This is a proper WTAF story. This country has a death wish. Stop letting in Islamists and people likely to support them. It’s really not terribly complicated.

In this case a judge gave a Hamas man 100 years of anonymity before it was challenged by the Sunday Times. Utterly retarded. The courts are a conspiracy against the nation.

Indefinite leave to remain granted under Theresa May as Home Secretary. Ye Gods.

Read it and weep

[London New Liberals @LondonNewLibs]

Standard US investment advice: put your money in an S&P500 tracker. Net returns: 9% annual.

Martin Lewis advice : if you switch between these four 1.2% savings accounts in this specific order, you can get an extra £200. Net returns: £200

[Seamus Hughes @SeamusHughes]

Honestly, I’d quit lawyering if I got this order

https://t.co/aKsGNnNP3o

[Richard Beckwith @richardbeckwith]

Yeah that’s not great

[Michael Brown @MrMBrown]

UK economy in a nutshell...can only end in tears...