Letter now republished by #LeftRenewal leftrenewal.org/statements-e... and @ukfost.bsky.social ukfost.co.uk/holocaust-st... Cc @edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social @duhaut.bsky.social @evafrojmovic0.bsky.social @guesnet.bsky.social @clairelefoll.bsky.social @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social

Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ben @bengidley.bsky.social and I have put together this open letter urging Holocaust Memorial Day Trust to rehire Melanie Goldberg. We are proud to have a number of eminent scholars of Holocaust and Jewish studies in the UK as the primary signatories. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org

Israel has now allowed any food, water, and medicine to Gaza for over two months — and the U.S. is helping cover it up. They are starving the people of Gaza and famine is here. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

37 UK progressive rabbis – myself included – ‘unequivocally reject’ #Trump’s outrageous plan to ‘take over’ #Gaza & forcibly remove the civilian population. Read our statement here: www.reformjudaism.org.uk/statement-fr...

The Movement for Reform Judaism - Statement from Progressive Clergy on Donald Trump's Gaza plan

Progressive Judaism remains committed to a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestinian conflict. We believe that both Israelis and Palestinians have the right and deserve to live within secure and pe...

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Deeply depressing but not surprising. Will this enable Diaspora Jewish institutions to also back Trump’s Gaza madness? www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Majority of Israelis support Trump's Gaza plan, relocation of Palestinians in exclusive 'Post' poll

Trump's Gaza plan has large support from Netanyahu, coalition voters • 10% say plan is morally reprehensible, 35% want Jewish state 'from river to sea'

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The person most responsible for the (hopefully temporary) breakdown of the ceasefire / hostage release process is surely Donald Trump

Just finished reading @peterbeinart.bsky.social new book. I feel like buying 50 copies and just handing them out for free at my synagogue. It’s such an important contribution to how Jewish life and self-understanding needs to change. I can’t recommend it more highly.

I think it’s safe to say that the 2-State solution is now officially dead. Tonight has been an extraordinary news conference from the White House. Historic in all the worst ways.

President Trump is presenting the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza as driven by a humanitarian concern. The Western democracies will no doubt go along with this ruse of righteousness. 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu

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As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode

I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction? asks retired professor of transplant surgery Nizam Mamode

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🧵Shavua tov. I go offline on Shabbat & spend part of the day in prayer, Torah study, & listening to sermons (JTS & IKAR). Today, I also read @peterbeinart.bsky.social's brilliant new book, also a kind of Torah Study. It's concise yet expansive, honest, searing, & wholly necessary. Please read. 1/

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

A Reckoning

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May Hashem bless and keep the new editor of the Jewish Chronicle…far away from us.

An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead by @annsplaining.bsky.social for the week of Holocaust Memorial Day. vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...

The geometry of remembering

An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.

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‘No Other Land’ on Amazon Prime in the UK. It’s a heartbreaking, fury invoking and essential watch. Let’s hope it wins the Oscar. musicart.xboxlive.com/7/0ff16d00-0...

All change at the JC? Or no change at the JC? It shouldn’t take long to tell.

The Jewish Chronicle@jewishchron.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join us as we begin a new chapter in the JC’s story

Like an embarrassing superfan I have already bought @peterbeinart.bsky.social’s new book. It’s predictably excellent. I especially like this page from the prologue

My short speech for today’s (Gaza inclusive) Holocaust Memorial Day event in Leeds is posted on my Facebook page. ‘NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE, ANYWHERE’ www.facebook.com/share/1BFn2v...

Those who armed Israel must go to jail. Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed. If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all. New column 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too | Owen Jones

This unprecedented slaughter could not have happened without powerful cheerleaders. Hold them to account, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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I’ll be speaking at this vigil in Leeds this Sunday.

Our report for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social is published today and launched tonight. It’s the first publication on this topic by the Trust for 30 years. Please have a look, share widely and also share your responses and criticisms!

BISA at Birkbeck@bisa-bkk.bsky.social · 2y ago

Antisemitism is a stain on UK society. Current responses to tackling the problem are not working, and we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism – says a new report out today. Read the report here: ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. A thread.

In fact, there are more Israelis coming to live in the UK than Jewish Brits heading in the opposite direction. Important factual counter to the rhetoric we often hear. @jprdata.bsky.social www.jpr.org.uk/insights/dat...

The data is clear: there is no ‘Jewish exodus’ from the UK

It happens over and over again: alarmist headlines about how Jews are leaving the country in unprecedented numbers because of antisemitism. “Half of British Jews ‘considering leaving the UK’ amid ‘sta...

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British Jews explain their turn away from Israel and Zionism - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zionism-anti-jewish-british-jews-explain-their-turn-away-israel

'Zionism is anti-Jewish': British Jews explain their turn away from Israel

Israel's assault on Gaza has accelerated a move by many Jews in the diaspora towards anti-Zionism and pro-Palestinian activism

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UK Jews are mobilising to protect the right for the next national Palestinian solidarity march to keep to its previously agreed route. UK Jews can still sign the statement supporting the march. www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/poli...

Police must reverse BBC Palestine protest ban, 660+ Jews say

Prominent legal, cultural and academic figures are among more than 660 British Jews calling on the Metropolitan Police to reverse…

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GAZA - where ‘Western values’ and ‘international law’, are also numbered in the fatalities.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine@lshtm.bsky.social · 2y ago

Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates @france24-en.bsky.social covers LSHTM research suggesting Palestinian Ministry of Health underreported number of deaths due to violence, & that 59% were women, children & the elderly. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

On Dec 14 Diana Neslen, an anti-racist South African-born observant Jew, joined a 60-strong interfaith group singing carols for Palestine in central London, expecting to read out a statement on the atrocities going on in Gaza But the Met Police intervened https://archive.ph/W6Hai (1/2)

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns. My latest article can be read here: www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns

Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, and Medecins Sans Frontieres are all agreed. But the Gaza genocide is now just another routine news item, buried on the inside pages

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‘The danger now is that Palestinians die twice, once in physical reality and second in a moral one where the powerful diminish the very standards that shape the world as we know it.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik

It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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This will be interesting to watch play out: "Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel to close embassy in Ireland over 'anti-Israel' policies

The Republic of Ireland has crossed

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