Sarah Maxwell Bishop

NYC based fashion photography producer. London born and raised. Loves Arsenal, Shopping + Miracles curly fries.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Mayor Mamdani devoted only 49 words of a 211-word statement to commemorate the worst single day attack on Jews since the Holocaust, in a city that is home to the largest Jewish population outside Israel. He avoided any real description of what happened on October 7, including mass murder, burnings, beheadings, executions, and sadism toward Jews, Arabs, and foreign workers, including women, children, teenagers, and the elderly. He refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization or acknowledge that none of this would have happened had the group honored the ceasefire it unilaterally broke. There was no assignment of agency or responsibility to any Palestinian actor.

Yet he used the remaining 162 words to describe in detail what happened in Gaza after the attack. He showed full capacity to recognize Palestinian suffering, which is real and must be acknowledged, but his statement was tone deaf, inconsiderate, and antagonizing to millions who deserve their trauma recognized on its own terms. He has spoken endlessly about his anti-Israel views and will continue to do so, but this was the one day in which he could have offered unconditional compassion to the victims and survivors of October 7 and their loved ones, many of whom have deep roots in New York.

This type of statement ignores basic logical principles like cause and effect, choices and consequences, actions and reactions, priorities and implications, further infantilizing the Palestinians and ignoring the failures of Hamas and Palestinian leadership that have harmed their own people. It hardens attitudes toward Gazans and reduces empathy for the vast and unspeakable suffering in the coastal enclave, rather than increasing it.

@NYCMayor: sometimes less is better. You should have stayed with your first 49 words, especially as unhinged “pro-Palestine activists” are celebrating October 7 today across the country. Stand up to your base, Mr. Mamdani. You have already won and do not need to appease radicals at the expense of Jewish New Yorkers. And please stop pretending that this is about helping Palestinians or caring for Gazans.

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

Remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many - including the millions of children given free books through her Imagination Library. We will always ❤️ you.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy sh*t.

KAITLAN COLLINS: So you agree that people who break in and vandalize a building should be prosecuted?

JD VANCE: Yes

COLLINS: Ok, I'm just checking, because you helped raise money for people who did so on January 6.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.

I like to remember this every Jan 27th.

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

@joshxhowie @BBCNews 180 fucking ballisitic missles isn't fucking rational!!

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

These venues shutting down from London to NY & beyond to not air a 20 year old Israeli girl singing in the Eurovision really is a cultish, xenophobic, immoral, racist, dystopian flex. We’re living in a time where the cruelest, most bigoted people genuinely see themselves as light warriors. Our collective consciousness at this juncture is so catastrophically bleak.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Let me tell you something: if you're demanding that Hillel be fully removed from UC Santa Cruz, you're an antisemite.

Hillel is a cultural lifeline for Jewish students.

If you want it gone - that means you want Jews gone.

There's no negotiating on the antisemitic nature of this demand.

Also, I am intentionally not mentioning other demands because I think it's important to focus solely on Hillel here, as the demand is so plainly antisemitic there isn't even room for a nuanced discussion.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

They made it so unsafe to be a Zionist (a person who believes Israel has the right to exist, which it obviously should do alongside a Palestinian state, as opposed to believing the only Jewish nation in their ancestral homeland should be eradicated) from slurs, to violence, to attacks, to ostracizing, to blocking access, to dehumanization, to abuse -

then they celebrate anti-Zionist Jews as if they gave them permission to be anything else.

And this all from the “empathy and humanity” crowd - the living embodiment of maximum moral confusion.

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

Horrific. Take your hate and shove it!

[Moms Demand Action @MomsDemand]

Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ali Ahmad—Palestinian students who attend American universities—were shot and wounded by a white man while walking to dinner near the University of Vermont.

While a motive is not yet known, the local police chief said, “In this charged moment, no one can look at this incident and not suspect that it may have been a hate-motivated crime.”

Our hearts are with Hisham, Kinnan, Tasheen, and their loved ones, who are now among the growing number of people whose lives have been devastated by our nation’s senseless and preventable gun violence epidemic. https://t.co/KArk9JS98z

[All Football App @allfootballapp]

Arsenal's travelling supporters chanted Kai Havertz to Shakira's hit song Waka Waka😂

Last-gasp goal sent Gunners to the top, He totally deserved it👏

#Arsenal #Gunners #KaiHavertz

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

Sharing Misinformation has deadly consequences

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

tens of millions were fed algorithmically promoted disinformation about this strike

but this headline is far less outrage inducing, and won’t anywhere near the same traction (just like this post of mine)

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

@shannonrwatts Awful. Hoping they pull through. Enough with all the hate

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

@RoniRoth609 @cbouzy https://t.co/3Mnuvd9xYB

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

Good! Send directly to the people who need and not to Hamas!

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

I just announced $100 million for humanitarian assistance in Gaza and the West Bank.

This money will support over 1 million displaced and conflict-affected Palestinians.

And we will have mechanisms in place so this aid reaches those in need – not Hamas or terrorist groups.

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

Continual posting of extremist social media content from people with no fucking clue about Israel / Palestine is contributing to this. Stop retweeting unverified information. Stop inciting more division.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Europe antisemitism: Berlin synagogue hit as attacks rise https://t.co/ISYfSPFip9

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Europe antisemitism: Berlin synagogue hit as attacks rise https://t.co/ISYfSPFip9

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

A group of Chicago area Rabbis attended the funeral of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six year old Palestinian-American boy who was brutally murdered by his landlord due to his ethnicity and religion.

Rabbi Ari Hart explains why the Rabbis attended the funeral:

“The Jerusalem Talmud teaches that the Jewish people are obligated to comfort the mourners of our people and of all people because of darchei shalom - the paths of peace.

Today, a group of rabbis of us went to the funeral of Wadea Al-Fayoume, a six year old Muslim boy who was killed in his home by his depraved landlord because he was Palestinian and Muslim.

This picture is with the imam of the mosque where the funeral was held. We met with the Imam, heard from the father, and stood with the boy’s community as they mourned this horrific loss. We witnessed the pain. We expressed our shock and condemnation of the attack. We wept.

I can’t say that it was simple to be there.
These are not simple times.

But the murder of a six year old because of his faith and his identity is not complicated. It is a heinous crime. And that’s why we went today.

These days it really feels like the world has lost its way.

But I can’t give up on trying, yearning, dreaming, even right now, of finding the way to shalom. The way to peace.”

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

@HadleyFreeman 💙 The things I’d seen posted this week, by people we’ve stood with in solidarity. The scale of the marches not a day after the massacre. The joy I’ve witnessed. The “but well you deserve it” rhetoric. Bone chilling. As you say, now we know.

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

@IlhanMN Giving warning to civilians to move south within your borders is NOT ETHNIC Cleansing. If they gave no warning to civilians to MOVE SOUTH WITHIN GAZA you would say the same. Shame on your rhetoric.

[Sarah Maxwell Bishop @smax1980]

@Microlambert Really?