Simon Platman

#British #Ashkenazi non-Zionist #atheist. It’s poss to hold that 2 things r true simultaneously: #Hamas is barbaric & #Israel is merciless towards its enemies.

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@simon_schama @stephenpollard Simon, like u, I grew up thinking that Israel was “a land without people for a people without land”. Later on, I dropped all preconceptions & did a deep dive into it. Tho emotionally draining, I’ve emerged with an utterly different mindset.
One that’s wholly liberating.
Try it.

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@RabbiRomain Ahem… u don’t suppose wealth, celebrity & rampant narcissism have anything to do with it?

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@RabbiRomain Dear Rabbi
Pls remind me what’s “progressive” abt a religion which practices ritual genital mutilation on baby boys?

Btw if u don’t answer, I shall take it that u CAN’T answer.

(FYI For every 10 Qs I’ve asked u, I’ve been lucky to get a single response. R u sure ur a rabbi?)

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A confused Jew writes…

Dear Lord Mann
Was not so long ago the BoD and other leading Jewish bodies were telling the world that non-Jews have no right to define what is or isn’t AS.

Have you converted?

[John Mann @LordJohnMann]

‘Actually standing up to antisemitism’. That’s a big inference. Perhaps you can identify which antisemitism you have dealt with inside your party as leader? And every manifestation of antisemitism that I have chosen to ignore.

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The buck stops here

[Agatha Chocolats @AgathaChocolats]

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo.
#sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

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@rupertbu @MichaelRosenYes Does Slough have a National Year, too?

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@RabbiRomain NOTHING justifies Bondi. But…
“Israel is the nation state of the JEWISH people”. Netanyahu says action in Gaza not just for Israel but ALL Jews. Jewish leaders continually declare Israel central to Jewish identity. & Mirvis describes the IDF as “OUR heroic soldiers.” Pls explain

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Donald John Trump.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Go👇

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Life mirroring art…

[dave ainsworth @daveainsworth63]

A very Happy 100th Birthday to the legendary American actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke who was born on this day in 1925. #DickVanDyke #TheDickVanDykeShow #MaryPoppins #ChittyChittyBangBang #TheMusicMan #ByeByeBirdie #Columbo #TheCarolBurnettShow #DiagnosisMurder #Murder101

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@drawbinista @MichaelRosenYes @Freedland @JewishNewsUK Interesting clip. Thanks.

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@MichaelRosenYes @Freedland @JewishNewsUK “My enemy’s enemy is my friend.”

As the fight against AS by the UK Jewish Leadership has always been about survival not principles, there’s really nothing to see here. Their almost unequivocal support for Israel’s destruction of Gaza attests to that. At least they’re consistent.

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@RabbiRomain Rabbi, pray tell (see what I did there?) one reason why Judaism should be chosen above any other religion, save for intermarriage or school entry. Just one will do.

But pls don’t say “sense of community”, as this is provided in spades (I’m told) by many niche religious sects.

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@RabbiRomain How do u know it was because they were Jewish per se and not apologists for Israel’s disproportional brutality in Gaza?

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@MichaelRosenYes @frankcottrell_b Someone should put a stop to that.

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@adam_louis52328 Adam, you know what comes from “ignore”?

Ignorance.

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@RabbiRomain Failure of imagination…

Perhaps, for some, children being blown to smithereens trumps children living in relative poverty. Wherever they live.

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@RabbiRomain Did u discuss how discriminatory religious circumcision is against Jewish girls?

I mean, what’s their emblem of their “covenant with the Almighty”?

Or, to paraphrase @Baddiel, is it that female Jews don’t count?

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@DrGuddiSingh @BBCRadio4 Dear Guddi, fyi the UK is NOT the 6th RICHEST country in world — it is 6th largest economy —but only about 20th richest. If u begin ur pgm by asking why the 6th richest country can’t to better by its population, this small fact might go a little way to explain it.

@BBCNews

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@benj_kerstein @acandidworld @z3_project @davidhazony Ideal reading for self-hating Zionists…

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@RRussellDavies @MichaelRosenYes You’re only saying that coz it’s true…

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@RRussellDavies @MichaelRosenYes Gotta be Eamonn Andrews.

They were all guests on This is Your Life.