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Omri Gal

@omrigal.bsky.social

Comms and Content Specialist. Loves Orit, breathes music, adores animals and is an avid fan of NBA basketball. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh" (George Bernard Show)

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Omri Gal@omrigal.bsky.social · last mo.

You can't win a fight without intel. If we wish to combat antisemitism. we need more intel. We need it to be academically robust. We need it to be sustainable. We need to connect it to policymaking. NERON is the first step, and it just took its first step.

Institute for Jewish Policy Research@jprdata.bsky.social · last mo.

Last evening in Vienna, the European Commission Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, launched '𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐍' - network for researching antisemitism and Jewish life, to be led by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) and the European University Institute (EUI).

Omri Gal@omrigal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you keep calling these platforms 'social media'. I don't think it means what you think it means... Let's, at least, call it what it is: DIGITAL ADVERTISING PLATFORMS. www.omrigalcomm.com/post/social-...

Social media isn’t public opinion. It’s not even social media.

Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram – almost all of us have a least one account on one of these platforms. In fact, according to Statista.com, the UK was home to 57.6 million active social media user...

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Institute for Jewish Policy Research@jprdata.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, in a joint session of the WJC Governing Board and the Special Envoys and Coordinators Combating Antisemitism Forum, Dr Jonathan Boyd delivered a presentation on responding to antisemitism, calling on leaders and policymakers to adopt a more strategic approach to researching and policy-making.

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Omri Gal@omrigal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Years ago, a griffon vulture was detained in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of being an Israeli spy. I turned that into an international story that set the bird free - a reminder of what comms can do in complex environments: make people stop, care, and act. (Watch the video, it’s hilarious)

Omri Gal@omrigal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Don't stop them - expose them! Expose those who mourn the death of a murderous dictator. Expose those who support the totalitarian Ayatollah regime. Expose those who root for the IRGC. Place those who support darkness in the light.

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Institute for Jewish Policy Research@jprdata.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Purim is here. A festival of masks, paradoxes and noisy joy, marking the story of how Persian Jews thwarted the evil Haman’s plot to annihilate them. A tale that takes a real form in current events. Compared with other key festivals, Purim is among the least widely observed by British Jews...

Institute for Jewish Policy Research@jprdata.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In his latest op-ed for @jewishnews.bsky.social, Dr Jonathan Boyd asks: Can we move beyond “permanent crisis” in 2026, and create space for long-term vision, growth and resilience? Read the insight here: www.jpr.org.uk/insights/bey... Shabbat shalom from JPR!

Beyond permanent crisis: Rebalancing Jewish communal priorities in Europe

Everything feels urgent right now. Across the UK, Europe, and indeed, the world, Jewish communities have been living since 7 October 2023 in a state of near-permanent alert: following events in Israel...

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Institute for Jewish Policy Research@jprdata.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The wider atmosphere surrounding Jews has been febrile for at least two years now, with one in three British Jews reporting feeling unsafe as Jews in the UK today, compared to 9% before October 7. Read Dr Jonathan Boyd's insight: www.jpr.org.uk/insights/wri... Shabbat shalom from JPR 😞

The writing was on the wall, and in the data

Two weeks ago, on the eve of Rosh Hashana – the Jewish New Year – I spoke to one of the senior teams at the European Commission involved in combating antisemitism across Europe. We were mainly discuss...

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