Aspiring good person and good Jew. username was Yeshivish-ish until i married a chassid. old tweets do not represent the person i am today after years of work
While we discuss child safety during the Walder debacle, I'd like to take this time to educate people - not just parents, but also educators, childminders etc and even the average bystander on what to do in various situations based off of British Law and halacha.
Hello, all. An extremely important post.
In the wake of the Israeli embassy closing, there was an aggressive Irish media campaign to deny antisemitism in Ireland. I don’t know how else to describe it other than propaganda-esque.
In the wake of being accused of wronging a minority, Ireland did not allow that minority to speak. Our politicians and most reputable television/newspaper outlets spoke about Jews without input from the mainstream Irish Jewish community.
They prioritised our country’s image rather than the well-being of a vulnerable minority. A minority that goes back generations and whose outsized contributions to Ireland are woven into the fabric of Irish society. They jumped to pushing an image campaign featuring foreign token voices, instead of amplifying Irish Jewish perspectives. I don’t need to tell you what the reaction online was like. Complete denial of any problem.
If you want to know what the Irish Jewish community has been experiencing, please read this article.
It is a profound shame on our country—and example in and of itself of institutional antisemitism—that the Jewish community was not offered a platform to speak in an Irish newspaper on an issue that directly affects them. A UK publication provided that offer.
Thank you @Telegraph for giving the Irish Jewish community the platform that Irish outlets shamefully did not offer.
https://t.co/fGWwMoWQey
If you see a person whose "connection" to HaShem doesn't lead them to greater compassion for others, you've got to wonder what kind of path they're on:
"HaShem's mercy is upon all His creatures" (Tehillim 145)
As an Irish Jew, as in, actually halachically jewish and frum, AND grew up in Ireland, can you all stop for two seconds with the absolutely rotten posts about Irish people. It’s pathetic and stooping to bigots level. I can assure you 99% of Irish people are normal and have
Maybe im particularly bothered because i live in the UK where for some reason people make jokes about Irish people (as if this country isn’t the bigger joke, or the education system which leads to people who couldn’t find Ireland on a map let alone their own country)
no weird obsession with israel. Stop making people pick between being Irish or Jewish. Had to do that for years. You don’t define me, nor do antisemites, nor do anti-Irish
@shevereshtus I hate to inform you of this but he is very much so a yank and we don’t claim him. Irish publications comments are all full of people mocking him
At the dentist with my kids and the hygienist asks:
"why are you wearing a white shirt?"
"Cuz it's rosh chodesh"
And from the other room I hear the dentist say:
"*$#@! I forgot ya'ale v'yavo."
I appreciate the solidarity but I have to emphasize that never in my lifetime have I seen such appalling mob-incited unbridled Jew hatred being endorsed and emboldened by one of the most respected institutions in academia. The entire debate was a type of Dreyfus trial and it was rigged to intentionally make Jewish students unwelcome. The courage exemplified by @jonsac opening the debate almost brought me to tears. In the face of snickering and mocking at mentions of antisemitism — the constant interruptions, insults, racism, cursing and screaming, all in an attempt to silence a proud Jew…who refused to be silenced. 💪 One of the ugliest scenes I have ever witnessed. We should not need 7 security guards with us to be proud of who we are. We should not have to scream over bloodthirsty lunatics to have our voices heard on a forum like the Oxford Union.
If that’s not enough, when @YosephHaddad spoke, they did worse, with more disruptions and insults in Arabic from the audience. When he raised awareness for the hostages — Arab Muslim hostages — the Arab Muslims in the Oxford Union insulted them, grabbed the photo and stomped on it. The woman behind me who had been cursing “Zionists” the entire time, did so proudly right in front of me while the chair, the president of the Oxford Union who ARGUED ON THE SIDE OF THE PROPOSITION HIMSELF, refused to kick out the woman cursing us.
Meanwhile, when @MosabHasanYOSEF stated the Palestinians are pathetic in their behavior during his speech, that same chair tried to kick him out of the debate as well for “insulting Palestinians.” So you see, they have the right to insult Jews and Zionists, but they also have a right to not be insulted. All the while, they are gaslighting and claiming that what they seek is simply “equality.”
This is a bald faced lie. What they are advocating for is Islamic supremacy.
Mosab was also attacked by the President of the Union (incidentally an Egyptian), the other speakers, and the audience for being a “collaborator”. Yet when he revealed what his “crime” was, giving information on an imminent suicide bombing targeting civilians, and asked the audience who would come forward to the police if they were in the same position, only about 25% of the students raised their hands. That means 75% of the audience would not tell the police if they had knowledge of an imminent terror attack that will kill civilians. Can you imagine!? This is not pro-Palestinian, it’s Islamist terrorism.
Thank God for people like @HausdorffMedia who spoke with courage, facts, and fearlessness in the face of unbelievable harassment and threats, to close the shameful debate with dignity.
While all of this was happening, anti-Israel protesters were screaming for the end of the Jewish state outside the debate hall. And that doesn’t even get into what happened on the lead up to the debate where Oxford Union staff gave the pro-Israel side almost no information and refused to speak to the pro-Israel side even about logistics. At the beginning of the debate, Miko Peled and Mohammed El Kurd refused to shake hands with their opponents and all 4 of them refused take the traditional photo. El Kurd also stormed out of the debate after he spoke like the petulant little coward he is, despite the fact this is totally unacceptable conduct in this forum. Yet the President did nothing. At the dinner, they refused to sit with the opposition debaters. Pathetic, racist, childish, and empowered by the institution that is Oxford Union.
The entitled zombies who debated in favor of the proposition aren’t angry at injustice for Palestinians, they are angry that a Jewish and Democratic state exists.
Well we aren’t going anywhere, so I got one word for them: Cope ✌️ 🇮🇱
@TfL you folks have left me over an hour outside with no coat, fix yourself. Freezing after a long day of work where I haven’t eaten or drank. I’ve spent over two hours today waiting on “regular” busses. FIX YOURSELVES!!!
@Chabad Broken beyond belief by this but we have to be strong and continue on for him, for Aviv Brock, for everyone else we’ve had taken away from us recently. The last thing they’d want is for us to stop fighting for Moshiach to come NOW
🇦🇪 ✡️ The Jewish community is raising funds for the Rivky Kogan, the Widow of Rabbi Tzvi Kogan of Abu Dhabi, UAE, whose life was so suddenly and tragically turned upside down.
She now has to navigate life and its new challenges alone. Rivky could definitely use all of our support.
Please give generously: (I personally verified this with the family.)
https://t.co/Bp5PujyNeu