Tanya Gold

🐙 @observerUK @spectator @harpers @unherd

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly just elected the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran to its Committee for Program and Coordination, the main body shaping the world organization’s priorities on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Disarmament and Counter-Terrorism. 144 voted for Iran. 🧵

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

Women around the world need to speak up about this. We cannot stay silent.

In Afghanistan, women are effectively being denied access to medical care.

The Taliban prohibits male doctors from examining women unless a male guardian or a female nurse is present. Even in medical emergencies.

At the same time, women have been banned from pursuing medical education.

Women should not have to fight for the right to receive medical care. It is a basic human right.

[Jean Hatchet @JeanHatchet]

A woman has been raped, allegedly by a 53 yr old man on a walking trail in South Yorkshire in the middle of the day. He has now been caught and arrested.

Women know the risk is not only from Celebrity men abusing their power and status, it’s also an unknown violent man taking his opportunity in the middle of a Thursday afternoon too.

Thankfully she is alive. But he has now taken something from the rest of her life. She is never free of what he has done.

Women walk with that risk every single day and all over the place. https://t.co/6dI8ewx9oQ

[נדב איל Nadav Eyal @Nadav_Eyal]

Gadi Eisenkot, the frontrunner to become Israel’s next prime minister and the Knesset member currently holding the mandate to form a new government, issued a statement just before Shabbat here in Israel. One particularly important passage addresses Israel’s Arab citizens:

"Arab Citizens of Israel make up 21% of the country's population. Since the beginning of the election campaign, they have faced a racist and vicious campaign of delegitimization, fueled by the outgoing prime minister and those around him for political gain.

The prime minister of Israel is the prime minister of all its citizens, including those who did not vote for him.

Arab citizens of Israel are an integral part of the Israeli story. The attempt to marginalize and vilify them as a group is an affront to the very foundations of our state, dishonoring Israel's Declaration of Independence and the values we take pride in as a Jewish and democratic nation.

One can disagree with the representatives of the Arab parties. One can even profoundly disapprove of some of them. But smearing an entire community is unacceptable, unjustifiable, and something I will not allow.

Important and challenging weeks lie ahead.

I am determined to overcome every obstacle and challenge to form a government and steer Israel back to safe harbor.

As always, these efforts will be accompanied by a barrage of political spin and falsehoods, aimed at thwarting the formation of a government. I urge everyone to treat such claims with a healthy dose of skepticism.

When there is something to announce, you will hear it directly from me, without intermediaries.

This is the kind of leadership I believe in.

And this is the leadership I intend to bring to the government I will form".

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

@Husker_Ju @mehdirhasan WOw

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

@AlexCrawfordSky @misanharriman @GaryLineker What's shocking is that you think that Jews who highlight and campaign against antisemitism are sinister creatures: itself an antisemitic trope.

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

Jewish fear is, by itself, a conspiracy.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

This forensic look at the pile ons targeting high profile figures like @misanharriman and @GaryLineker is shocking reading
‘Habibi': The Anatomy of an Influence Operation on X – Byline Times https://t.co/vCE1Aaxb3y

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

In June 1941, a mob in Baghdad killed almost 200 Jews in two days.

My grandmother hid in the back of a café while a man shot a mother’s seven children in front of her.

In 1948, Iraq made Zionism a crime punishable by death.

In 1950, it let Jews leave only if they gave up their citizenship.

In 1951, it froze their bank accounts and took their homes. My grandparents arrived in Israel that year with nothing.

In 1969, Iraq hanged nine Jews in a public square and invited crowds to celebrate.

A 2,500-year-old Jewish community didn’t just “disappear.”

It was ethnically cleansed.

Why can’t CNN acknowledge that?

[TheStandUpHistorian (Crispin Thomas) @CrispinThomas]

I’ll be in conversation with @DrHelenFry on 4th March 2027 at the Salisbury Arts Centre, discussing the life of Howard Triest.

Tickets are limited, so secure yours today: https://t.co/wh5Hdj0PV0

[Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer]

2 weeks since the election and with a new Knesset sworn-in, we’re still no clearer on when Israel is going to have a new government and what shape it will be. But actually, quite a lot has happened, some of it quite encouraging.
1. Netanyahu’s blatant campaign to disqualify the Arab vote and the election result has fizzled out. In the process his appointee as Shin Bet Chief has been revealed as farcically out of his depth (which is a mixed blessing).
2. The IDF General Staff managed to fend off Netanyahu’s attempts to provoke another war with Iran, long enough for the midterm results and Trump, to put an end to such ideas, at least for a few more weeks.
3. The Netanyahu camp is beginning to fray, with his Haredi allies UTJ formally breaking with him and refusing to endorse any candidate for PM. I’m not sure it’s going to last and I doubt they will be part of an Eisenkot government, but it’s potentially a change in the political landscape.
4. Lieberman is being Lieberman. Inscrutable, cynical and maddeningly impossible to predict. Is he really trying to form a new alliance with the Haredim? Is he preparing the ground for another move? If so in which direction? No surprise there, but it’s frustrating nonetheless.
5. Eisenkot so far hasn’t made any beginners mistakes and seems to be handling the difficult situation well. He hasn’t tied himself down to any position he will have trouble abandoning and gives every impression of being resolutely committed to replacing Netanyahu, so far at least not falling into Bibi’s “unity” trap.
6. Netanyahu is losing his cool very visibly and wasn’t even seen in public for nearly two weeks since election night, until the Knesset inauguration today, where he went ahead and ruined his own “unity” pitch in a hysterical speech.
7. Significant parts of the “Eisenkot camp” (not just Lieberman) still have trouble contemplating a government including, or with the support of the Arab parties. But the entire opposition, all 67 MKs, today signed letters calling for an immediate vote on a new Knesset speaker. Looks like they can work together on some things. Who knows where that may lead.
The bottom line remains. It takes a while to form a government in Israel. It took 80 days after the 2021 election and 60 days in 2022. We’re just 14 days in, so savlanut.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Mansour Abbas, leader of the Arab-led Ra’am party, has reportedly agreed to recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization in exchange for “real coalition partnership.”

[Israel Elects @israel_elects]

Israeli Arabs on Eisenkot's 4 conditions for Arab parties joining his government:

Recognize Hamas as a terrorist group
✅Accept: 43% | ❌Reject: 30% | ❔DK: 26%

Recognize Israel as Jewish & democratic
✅54% | ❌38%

Nonmilitary national service for Arab youth
✅68% | ❌28%

Commitment to Declaration of Independence Values (universal equality)
✅95% | ❌4%

via Statnet/Chan13, Nov. 2–5

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

@StellaOShea1 weird

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

It's rare that men who sexually assault women face justice. Today is different.

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

@StellaOShea1 i don’t know why you would think that

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

@fishpawz Internalising.

[Tanya Gold @TanyaGold1]

I hope Georgina Baillie gets everything she wants in life.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

"I was full of shame and self-hatred."

Georgina Baillie speaks to @MinnieStephC4 about 'Sachs-gate' and her relationship with Russell Brand.

Her grandfather, Andrew Sachs, was prank-called by Brand in 2008 and told his granddaughter had slept with the comic.

[Bennett Arron @BennettArron]

A fantastic week of gigs including Congleton, Bury, Port Talbot, Ilminster and Prestwich for the @JewishMCR. Worked with some fantastic acts and met some wonderful people. What a lovely job this can be.

[Marc 🇫🇷 @marcsplainter1]

URGENCE ABSOLUE : Saghar Gholami, 19 ans, condamnée à la pendaison en Iran.
Arrêtée en janvier 2026 à Gonbad-e Kavus pour avoir manifesté pour sa liberté, elle risque le gibet à tout moment. Le silence tue, brisons l'isolement !
Partagez massivement son nom.
#SagharGholami

[Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer]

President Herzog just announced he’s going to confer tomorrow on Gadi Eisenkot the mandate to form a government.
That doesn’t mean Eisenkot can do so. He wants to go ahead as soon as possible and form an “emergency“ minority government which will replace Netanyahu’s. Such a government will need the tacit support of the Arab or the ultra-orthodox parties to pass its inaugural confidence vote and for not it’s far from clear he can get the other parties of the “Change Bloc” to go along, especially not Lieberman who has publicly ruled out a minority government and seems to be trying to build his own alliance with the ultra-orthodox.
Eisenkot has now 6 weeks to get it done.

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Very important thread on an anti-harassment injunction granted to Russell Brand (and then girlfriend Jemima Khan) of breathtaking scope which once again threatened free press reporting and the rights of a victim claiming sexual assault. Do read the thread and great work, Dan!