Hannah Weisfeld
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Director of @YachadUK - working to mobilise British Jews in support of a political resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Tweets personal & work.
Joined July 2009
Context: this was organised by @TagMeir an organisation set up to encounter extremist violence towards Palestinians from far right Israelis who act with impunity. It’s not a random act of ‘cordiality’. It’s a deeply political act in the face of gvt sanctioned far right violence.
Jews offer Muslim worshippers dates outside the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. A simple, ancient scene of cordiality that the crowds who will take to the streets tomorrow in the name of Hamas will never understand
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Have you been to the West Bank where Palestinians are subject to a different legal system? Where they do not receive building permits for homes while settlers do. Where settlers commit violence against Palestinians with impunity. Oh no I forgot you don’t need to, you got on a bus.
On a bus in Israel. Muslim woman in hijab chatting on her phone. No one cares. Israel is not a racist country. It is not an “apartheid” state. There is no ethnic conflict here. From Israel’s perspective the conflict is a political one over land. It’s the other side that is racist.
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The Israeli ambassador does not represent the Jewish community of the UK. She is the ambassador of another country that the vast majority of British Jews are not citizens of.
I have been horrified to see the rise in antisemitism in our education system since 07/10. @Halfon4HarlowMP and I are clear: antisemitism must not be tolerated. A pleasure to meet @TzipiHotovely to discuss our continued efforts to support the Jewish community across education.
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This is where zero-sum opinions lead you. To a place where you justify the kidnapping, rape & murder of civilians. It is perfectly possible to stand against Hamas & the evil it perpetrated & in support of the rights of the Palestinian people against policies of the Israeli gvt.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire. A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas. This was the reaction…
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Imagine being neither Jewish or Muslim and thinking it’s a good idea, when tensions are high, and Jews and Muslims are scared, to try and play these two communities off against each other. Thankfully most Jews and Muslims.are allies in pushing back at this kind of behaviour.
Imagine you're a British Jew. You've just witnessed the worst atrocities against Jews since World War Two. And then a wave of anti-Semitic & pro-Hamas chants on Britain's streets. And now your national leaders fall over themselves to warn the country about "Islamophobia".
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Shocking to see this in mainstream Israeli press. It’s like saying there are Israelis sitting in cafes so no one is traumatised in Israel. What do you want @ynetnews? For every child to stop smiling & be starving to believe there is a problem? That’s called collective punishment.
Poor Gaza civilians having fun at the beach, not too far away from where Israeli women, children and elders are being held hostage. Horrific genocide, famine and other old wives' tales. Full story and more video footage: #nofamineingaza #nogenocideingaza
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I’ve just returned from Israel. There are 3 options 1) stay silent in face of a gvt of extremists 2) decide there’s nothing worth fighting for - both of which entrench the status quo - or 3) get behind the people like @AlonLeeGreen & @omdimbeyachad. I choose option 3.
It is not only a battle over the aid to the starving people in Gaza, it's also a battle over the soul of our society. Today we confronted settlers that attacked the aid trucks AND WE WON: all the trucks passed successfully to Gaza. We need your support:
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Except there’s nothing in Emma Watson’s post that suggests she’s expressing solidarity with rockets, unless you assume all Palestinians are responsible for them.
Left: How not to respond to the latest idiocy from Emma Watson .Right: How to respond to the latest idiocy from Emma Watson
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The discussion on the Israel Palestine conflict is infantile enough without wilfully misrepresenting people’s words. It’s like me saying ‘I don’t work in a school’ and someone saying I said ‘I don’t work’. People who can’t engage in good faith shouldn’t bother engaging at all.
I simply cannot fathom the moral rot in someone's soul that leads them to win an award for a movie about the Holocaust and with the platform given to them, to accept that award by saying, "We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness.".
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Huge opposition building against moving the UK embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. I'm compiling a thread here. I hope @JamesCleverly & @trussliz will take note of the potential damage it will cause in the region & UK. @BoardofDeputies cred is hugely undermined supporting it.
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💔💔 Those who murdered Vivian wanted to destroy any hope of a decent future for Israelis and Palestinians. I hope her life will be avenged by peace. That would be a true testament to her legacy.
My friend Vivian Silver, who helped make ALLMEP a reality & founded members @AJEECNISPED & @WomenWagePeace is dead, murdered by Hamas. This is pic of Vivian with me & ALLMEP board, 5yrs ago last week. Overlooking a Gaza she wanted to be free, & at peace. Rest in power, Vivian 💔
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When did it become the mission of the @BoardofDeputies and @JLC_uk to ensure companies sell their products in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories and what does this have to do with Jewish life in the UK?.
The Chief Executive of @Unilever has today written to us and the @JLC_uk, confirming that it has “never expressed any support for the BDS movement” and that “Ben & Jerry’s will be sold under its Hebrew and Arabic names throughout Israel and the West Bank”.
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There is an absolutely legitimate basic right for people get out onto the streets in solidarity with Palestinian people. This is not that. It is a call for violence that will wholly delegitimise the legitimate right to protest. Not to mention making Jews feel extremely unsafe.
Calls for Intifada today on the streets of London. I have to say, Socialist Appeal do not appeal to me.
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So what is between the river and the sea? A non- democratic horror show?.
BREAKING: Israeli ambassador @TzipiHotovely rejects the idea of a two-state solution. "The answer is absolutely no", she says. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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This is a ridiculous article. The Palestinians are not citizens of another country. They are citizenship-less living under Israeli occupation.
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1/Today I'll be holding onto the notion that humans are capable of complex thoughts. Hamas is an evil bloodthirsty terror org that has committed indefensible atrocities. Israeli policy towards the Palestinians is a systemic failure & immoral. The latter doesn't justify the former.
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Please read & listen to this. @LaylaMoran is an unbelievably brave & principled advocate of the rights of both Israelis & Palestinians to live in security, freedom & dignity. Her family are starving in a church in Gaza. Hard to see what security looks like in the wake of this.
This is the haunting voice of the daughter of one of my cousins in the Church. Tanks still outside. Down to almost no provisions. I’ve been told food and water was delivered by the IDF but no sign of it yet. When will this nightmare end?. Transcripts below:
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Israeli Diaspora minister meets the most antisemitic leader in Europe and claims.he makes the world safe for Jews. A lesson in how to show diaspora Jewry how much you don’t care about their welfare and security.
I had the honor of meeting @PM_ViktorOrban. The responsible immigration policies he led have made Budapest the safest European capital for its Jewish community.
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1/ Before the last chinks of light disappear it’s important to say: it’s possible to support the humans of this conflict. Israelis who have suffered a terrible tragedy at the hands of Hamas, & Palestinians in Gaza who are suffering a terrible human tragedy as a result of the war.
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Really @BoardofDeputies - please explain where your mandate comes from to push for the UK gvt to move it’s embassy? Moving the embassy has nothing to do with British Jewish life & everything to do with destabilising Jerusalem and Israel-Palestine. This is deeply irresponsible.
.@BoDPres Marie van der Zyl speaking at the @CFoI reception, about the need to proscribe the IRGC and the hope that the UK embassy will soon move to Jerusalem, as Israel’s capital.
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There is so much denial of the extent of the crisis in Gaza. Meanwhile, I am receiving updates like these from colleagues I know and trust, about what is happening in Gaza. This one as of 4pm on Friday. I challenge anyone to read this & not be horrified.
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This is Rachel Goldberg, mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin held in captivity by Hamas since Oct 7th. What a woman - to be able to see the humanity in the other in the face of unspeakable pain. I hope the future of Israel-Palestine will be shaped in the image of people like Rachel.
Rachel Goldberg: "I have cried a million tears in the last 67 days. We all have. And I know that way over there, there's another woman who looks just like me because we are all so very similar and she has also been crying. All those tears, they all taste the same."
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Imagine what would be said if someone said this about a doctor with very outspoken ‘pro-Israel’ views. Apparently it’s now the job of the editor of the JC to not only edit a paper, but try and ruin careers based on assumptions that cannot be backed up with evidence.
Meet @NizMhani. He is an NHS consultant in orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery….Not that you’d know it from.his timeline. The man is also an extremely outspoken pro-Palestine activist. Take a look at his Twitter account. Intense. Ten days age, he set himself up as a
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What kind of terrible take is this. Blaming Jews for antisemitism. Solidarity with @AmiKaufman. Sorry you had this experience and this truly deplorable reaction.
@AmiKaufman Co founder of the anti Zionist 972 mag creates a mag that spends decades spreading poison about Israel and Zionism. apartheid, Jewish supremacy - he deployed all the smears . And now he seems shocked to see where the hate leads.
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Or how about: Giving the Palestinian people a shred of possibility that politics and diplomacy can advance their national cause will help diminish the space for extremism to fill the void. Unless your preference is for Israelis and Palestinians to live in a permanent state of war.
Palestinians must not be allowed to look back at the October 7 Massacre and think, "Gee, burning this whole family alive really advanced our national cause.". Because then they will do it again. And that is what you are encouraging them to do.
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It’s hard to understand why all these voices - who are not exactly the usual suspects- are being completely ignored.
Moshe Ya'alon, former Minister of Defense and former Chief of Staff, says that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza. This is of course accurate but very surprising coming from him.
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The @JewishChron has disgraced itself all the whilst why purporting to be ‘representing’ the British Jewish community. In fact many British Jews have long been embarrassed by its increasingly extremist stance funded by a ‘secret’ donor. Unrepresentative & undemocratic.
I have today told the editor of the Jewish Chronicle that I can no longer continue my relationship with the paper. Here is my letter to him
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I feel so ashamed watching this. Where is the condemnation @BoardofDeputies and other community orgs? You can’t credibly claim to be antiracist and ignore this extreme racism. If it was Palestinians marching through the streets you’d the first to condemn.
"Death to Arabs"."May your village burn"."Shuafat is on fire"."Mohammed is dead"."Shireen is a whore". This is only a small selection of the racist and violent chanting that took place at yesterday's Flag March in Jerusalem. Video by @OrenZiv_
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When the son of the Israeli PM wishes the biggest far right sympathizers in Europe good luck in the elections, you know something is truly broken between Israel and the Diaspora.
To all the liberals who went bananas over this twit: you are crazy! These leaders are true friends of Israel and the Jewish people. Unlike Jeremy Cornyn, Rashida talib, Linda sarsour etc that you adore who are actually antisemites and racist!.
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The default of many diaspora Jewish orgs is to not publicy break rank with Israel. Meanwhile, the Israeli PM, who claims to be the leader of the Jewish people (which he is not), happily sits in a room smiling with a promoter and defender of antisemitism. It's time for a rethink.
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Hard to really understand what’s been achieved. As many new Hamas recruits as numbers killed, hostages being negotiated out rather than ‘won’ through military means. The deal could have happened months ago saving lives of hostages & thousands of Palestinians. Unforgivable.
Maybe the most astounding part is that strategically, little if nothing has changed.
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This morning I spoke to @NickFerrariLBC about the danger of creating a reality where Jews and Palestinians are pitted against each other & people are forced to ‘pick’ a side. We need to dial down the rhetoric and find a way through this.
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🧵Jewish orgs all over the world are calling for their governments to sanction Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two emboldened far right extremist Israeli ministers calling for permanent displacement of Palestinians, annexation and reoccupation of Gaza. A summary below👇🏼.
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Eisenkot, former member of the war cabinet today:. 'All the heads of the security establishment told me 3 months ago that conditions are ripe for the return of the hostages'. He added there was 1 opponent – PM Netanyahu'. Not one more person should lose their lives to this war.
The bodies of 6 Israelis kidnapped, alive, by Hamas on Oct 7th have been returned to Israel. May their memories be a blessing. A stark reminder that this war is failing to achieve long term resolutions, with too many Israelis and Palestinians dying. End the war now.
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The definition of a true hero. @YonatanZeigen chooses to honour his mother’s name by feeding the people of Gaza. It’s humbling to call you a partner.
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🧵Today with @haaretzcom and @newisraelfunduk, @YachadUK hosted upwards of 650 people at a conference at @JW3London. The place was packed as speakers discussed how to bring an end to the war and build a future based on freedom and dignity for Israelis & Palestinians.
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This is so very grim. When you reduce the world to black and white you somehow end up in a place where rape, murder and hostage taking - all war crimes- are justified. These people make the world much less safe.
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Right wing journalist @elchangr hopes that @David_Cameron will be assassinated for sanctioning of far right extremist settlers, proving why right wing extremists should be sanctioned. Is that what it means to support Israel? Support our far right ideology or we’ll kill you?.
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Unconsciable that anyone could fail to condemn this. Kidnapping 18 year old children in the most brutal & horrific circumstances & then refusing access. Anyone who wants freedom dignity & equaltiy between the river & the sea should be shouting from the rooftops about this.
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Wow this is quite something. A Palestinian flag being likened to a Nazi flag. Unhelpful is an understatement.
They are not the same but we do see echoes in our history because in every generation there will always be those who seek to destroy us. On the left, @ucl 2024 where Palestine flags suddenly appeared after the arrival of the Chanukiah, on the right 1932 Germany where a rabbi’s
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2/ Israel has a right to defend itself from this horror. The death of many innocent Palestinians is a tragedy that won’t bring calm or peace for Israel. We can live with competing thoughts, that's what differentiates us from other mammals. We need to hold onto to our humanity.
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‘to mindlessly hanker after a 2-state solution is like believing in fairies’ is hardly an appropriate thing to say to @maozinon, His parents were murdered on Oct 7th & is literally doing the exact opposite: he’s building bridges & sowing seeds of a better future. A hero I’d say.
@JakeWSimons You could have just deleted your first tweet rather than lecturing me on how to manage a conflict which I have lived experience of. Conflict is something we resolve not manage, as we have proven is possible in the past. Managing the conflict got us to October 7th.
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My piece in the @JewishNewsUK - A Palestinian flag is not an existential threat to Jewish life
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This is possibly the most insane thing I have ever watched.
💥First Hamas propaganda video documenting the release of the hostages, complete with masked Hamas guy putting his arm around 9-year-old Ohad Munder.
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This was the only mainstream Jewish space where Israeli & Palestinian voices were platformed to mark the anniversary of the past horrific year. The room was packed & we turned away many people. To the Israeli & Palestinians that took part, thank you for your bravery & dignity.
Thank you to everyone who came to our Oct 7th memorial event with @newisraelfunduk. Amidst ongoing devastation, we wanted to create a space for our community to hear from Israelis & Palestinians about their loss, and also to discuss how we can work together for a better future.
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Equality before the law - a basic tennet of democracy- seems to no longer exist in Israel. Not for Palestinians & not for Jews. For the past year those protesting the gvt have been water cannoned, dragged across the streets & injured by police. These guys on the other hand….
Israeli right wing activists blocked aid trucks which were on their way to Gaza today at the Tarqumiya crossing in the West Bank
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Seems like now might be a good time to highlight to people the voices @antisemitism is trying to silence. Watch this interview with @hamzeAwawde and @Magen_Inon and then decide if you think we want more or less of these voices .
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This man is an antisemitic ghoul. Bullying someone for being a former Jewish day school pupil & a member of a synagogue. If your benchmark is someone being a member of a synagogue, it turns out you actually just don’t like Jews.
Meet Joel Salmon who is one of the leaders of the Civil Service Jewish Network (J-Net). He is a fully radicalised Zionist ideologue and works.at the Department for Levelling Up, where he states he “leads” on “international race and equalities policy.” It beggars belief that
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Vivian is now confirmed kidnapped and in Gaza. No words. A woman who has dedicated her life to the pursuit of peace and justice.
💔💔heartbroken for all the people I know in the south of Israel. Vivian is one of many brilliant partners I’ve had the privilege to get to know over the past 10 years.
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Of all the horrific stories coming out of Israel and Gaza over the last 7 gruesome weeks, I cannot stop thinking about this child and my heart breaks each time 💔.
After postponing the ceasefire in a day, Hamas now announces that 3-year-old Abigail won't be released tomorrow. Abigail was kidnapped to #Gaza alone, and still doesn't know that she's an orphan after Hamas murdered her parents on October 7. #HamasislSIS #BringThemHomeNow
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In light of the shooting in a synagogue in San Diego apparently inspired by the New Zealand mosque attacks & the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, everyone should (re)read this piece by @Freedland & @mehdirhasan on the threats Jews and Muslims share
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This is one of the most disturbing pieces of footage I think I've watched. These children don't need incitement in text books to grow up hating - living under military occupation is quite enough.
Video footage of the moments preceding the arrest of the 5 children yesterday: The children gathered Akkoub (a type of wild Artichoke) near the settlement Havat Maon, 2 masked settlers approached them, scared them away and took the buckets and plants they left behind.
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2/ Showing support for Israelis can be divorced of your opinion of the Israeli gvt & its response. Showing support for Gazans does not mean you are showing support for Hamas and the atrocities they committed.
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Hard to understand the scale of what’s happening in Israel. But two things are clear: those celebrating or failing to condemn a situation where the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent civilians are under direct threat are not allies in the pursuit of peace & justice.
Channel 12 reporter: “Hamas now controls several population centers in southern Israel. I can’t believe I’m saying this. The residents are begging for help.”.
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What an absolutely horrendous 24 hours. 24 dead Gazans, 200 rockets fired at Israel, thousands of far right nationalists dancing in front of a fire on Haram al Sharif/ Temple Mount. No one can sleep easy in their beds and there are no winners here.
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To those having trouble understanding why this is not ok: Jews are not responsible for the actions of the Israeli gvt. It wouldn't be ok to write F*ck Hamas on a building for Muslim student. It's breeding hatred & fear & delegitimsing support for Palestine.
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We're very quick - and rightly so - to complain when non-Jews conflate Israeli gvt policy with Jews. But we're perfectly happy for our community institutions to do it on our behalf.
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Imagine this being your reaction to this tweet. This is from someone who think they are an antisemitism warrior standing shoulder to shoulder with the Jewish community. We really don’t need this kind of ‘help’.
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Apparently the Occupied Palestinian Territories are part of Israel - you better let the British govt know.
When did it become the mission of Yachad, an organisation that claims to “support Israel” and “support a political resolution to the Israel Palestine conflict” to support divisive campaigns that single out Israel and treat it in a way Unilever wouldn’t do with any other country?.
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This is sickening. I don’t know how his family can survive this horrific ordeal. Anyone who thinks this is legitimate or can’t bring themselves to criticise what happened on October 7th is so deeply part of the problem.
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@RichMillett The uk gvt says the settlements are illegal as does the rest of the world. Do you think the uk gvt is made up of Palestinian terrorists?.
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Not many words can do justice to this last horrific year. But if there’s one sentence that encapsulates the future, it’s this from @YonatanZeigen who I’m proud to call a partner. ‘Israelis & Palestinians…either flourish together – from the river to the sea – or perish.’.
"It is a year since my mother was murdered at her kibbutz. Out of this horror, surely peace must come".My latest op-ed @guardian.I’ve found a political reawakening, and learned that the only way this will end is if we turn our enemies into our partners.
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The stupidity of this is immeasurable. Israelis & Palestinians were coming to campus to talk about how to move forward together to a new better reality in the region. Instead a bunch of students & academics in London have decided to boycott Palestinians as an act of solidarity.
The @ucu is now actively and explicitly opposed to Israeli-Palestinian co/existence and is implicitly supporting the Hamas and Iran-backed genocidal rhetoric .
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Solidarity with our partners @AlonLeeGreen and @uriweltmann who have been arrested this evening in Tel Aviv for protesting the war. These are the people that are fighting for a just and peaceful future. You can support them here
מעוכב עכשיו על ידי המשטרה (שלא החרימה לי את הטלפון, חובבנים) בגלל ההפגנה שלנו נגד המלחמה ופשעי המלחמה בעזה ובעד עסקה להחזרת החטופים. שום משטרה של שר גזען ופשיסט לא תעצור אותנו מלהיאבק נגד הפקרת החטופים, נגד הרג ילדים בעזה ונגד יישום תכנית ההשמדה. זה הזמן לפקוח את העיניים ולהצטרף.
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End the war. 201 days of hell. Heartbroken for Khalil who I’ve got to know recently & for the @BringHershHome family who I’ve thought about every day since I met them several months ago, all of whom are living through hell. What will all of this achieve? Not peace or security.
With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an
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It’s right that people are celebrating the safe return of 4 living hostages. And it’s right that people are decrying the massive loss of Palestinian life in the military operation to free them. Israelis & Palestinians deserve freedom & security. The war can’t bring that.
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Thousands of people outside Downing Street this afternoon to say we can stand united in the face of unspeakable grief and horror. Proud to have been part of making this happen #Together4Humanity.
We’re live!. 👏🏼Incredible to see so many people gather on Whitehall to stand together against antisemitism and Islamophobia, and unite over our shared grief for all those impacted by the Israel/ Palestine conflict. #Together4Humanity
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Hersh’s bedroom. Jerusalem Is Everyone’s. I hope he will be remembered by the values through which he lived and believed in 💔.
I will not share the gruesome last video the Hamas psychopaths forced Hersh to record. I will however take some semblance of comfort, that his final, defiant words, were: "My name is Hersh Goldberg-Polin. I currently live in Jerusalem, Israel.". To me, especially the reference
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If this settler violence is allowed to continue, with the Israeli gvt green -lighting it, and the international community turning a blind eye, all the talk of recommitting to an actual resolution to this conflict will, yet again, be empty words.
[1] BREAKING: Now in Tuba (Masafer Yatta, Firing Zone 918) Settlers accompanied by soldiers arrived at the village, opened water tanks of the Awad Family and emptied them to the ground.
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Over 1000 British Jews have signed statement in just over 24 hours, including large nos of Rabbis & community leaders - an indication that the binary way in which some have tried to present the opinions of UK Jews is just not representative of the actual opinions of the community.
"We refuse to give up on the vision of Israel and a Palestinian state one day existing side-by-side.". A statement addressing the Israel-Gaza war, signed by British Jews of different denominations, background and political beliefs. Please read and sign:.
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Article 56 IV Geneva Convention: 'Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring. public health & hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to. application of the prophylactic & preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases & epidemics'.
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Hard to imagine how Netanyahu’s legacy could be more toxic. Worst security breach in Israel’s history, abandoning the hostages, hollowing out of democracy, handing power to fascists, damaging Israel’s relationship with USA & that’s before you mention Gaza.
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‘They don’t speak on our behalf and they hijacked the Palestinian flag’. Thank you @hzomlot for condemning the antisemitism from those that are exploiting the legitimate fight for Palestinian rights.
Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot condemns the “disgraceful acts” in the streets of north London where anti-Semitic abuse was shouted from a convoy of vehicles bearing Palestinian flags. @IainDale | @hzomlot
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1/Tonight, after a tough week, I made a donation to @newisraelfunduk & @MedicalAidPal both working to provide essential support for Israelis and Palestinians. I refuse to give up on the belief that one day Israelis & Palestinians will find a way to live together.
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We cannot let the people using this conflict to reap further fear, hatred & division win.
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Sorry, you mean watch a video in which someone *laughs'* at the fact farming Falahi communities live in tents? Or conveniently ignores the history of the Palestinian communities living in the West Bank?.
@YachadUK @hannahweisfeld. You really need to watch this ⬇️ & then retract your lies from last week. You deliberately ignored the truth to attack Israel. We wish we could say it was surprising but sadly it is not.
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The Israel-Palestine twitter-sphere is awash with chat about Danny Danon calling Emma Watson an antisemite for expressing solidarity with Palestinians. Meanwhile houses are simultaneously being demolished in east Jerusalem.
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I am honoured to call @hamzeAwawde a partner & friend. Just two weeks ago he sat on stage with me speaking to 200 members of the UK Jewish community about the need to reconcile difference. @antisemitism is undermining the serious work of fighting antisemitism. Shame on them.
A response to this hideous accusation on behalf of me and my brother @Magen_Inon :. Since we lost our parents in the Hamas Oct 7th massacre, we have advocated for peace. Hamze Awawde has been a friend, a partner for peace, an ally and a shoulder to lean on in a time of
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So the Jewish community in the USA voted overwhelmingly and in bigger numbers than any other religious community for Biden. That will no doubt be a source of great frustration for parts of the British left. Doesn’t fit the narrative.
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These are the voices we need to elevate - they are the future.
I AM SPEECHLESS. Many thousands of Jewish and Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel are marching now in the Tel Aviv, demanding peace and an end to the occupation. THE BIGGEST ANTI OCCUPATION RALLY IN YEARS. We have a peace and equality movement in Israel: @OMDIMBEYACHAD. WOW.
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This is so painful it’s almost unwatchable. How will subjecting hundreds of thousands of people to this helping? It won’t bring security or the hostages back. Or get rid of Hamas. But it’s destroying countless lives & undoubtedly creating another generation of fear & hate.
“I don’t want all of you to go, I want one of you to be alive.”. Photojournalist Ali Jadallah discovers his family home has been bombed in an Israeli airstrike, leaving his family trapped underneath. Watch @C4Dispatches Kill Zone: Inside Gaza - streaming now on @Channel4.
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Hi @TwitterSupport how is it possible that your response to me reporting this is to say it doesn’t violate your rules? Peddling antisemitic conspiracy theories is ok is it?
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Pleased to have the opportunity to talk to @AndrewMarr9 this evening about the urgent need to refocus the international community’s attention on finally bringing this conflict to an end. Ultimately there can only be a political resolution.
'The international community has failed the Israelis and Palestinians'. Director of @YachadUK, @HannahWeisfeld tells @AndrewMarr9 there's 'no alternative' to a two-state solution between Palestine and Israel.
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The Israeli ambassador to the UK can't say she supports two-states. It puts her at odds with the vast majority of Anglo-Jewry and its institutions, not to mention the British government. What kind of state does she support? Presumably not a democratic non-Jewish one state?.
"Are you in favour of the two-state solution?". "I'm in favour of peace.". @maitlis presses the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, on whether she believes in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. #Newsnight
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This is amazing - asking the police to arrest Jews and Israelis protesting a far right gvt. And this man calls himself a friend of Israel. And for the record, yes the Israeli gvt has terrorists in it. Guess if it’s terrorism against Palestinians it doesn’t count?.
This is a hate crime outside Downing Street today during PM @netanyahu’s visit. Branding Jews as terrorists. Don’t do business with Jews. Could have been Kristallnacht Berlin 1938. @metpoliceuk should arrest. @SuellaBraverman
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Think the framing of this article is really problematic. It presents this entire protest as somehow being motivated by antisemitism and hatred. People are angry - with legitimate reason - and they have a right to protest.
Exclusive: Organisers say 100,000 attended protest against #Israel targeting #Hamas terrorists - during which demonstrators made antisemitic chants, compared Zionism to Nazism and ripped up Israeli flags.
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David ‘I am not an antisemite׳ Miller just casually making the point that . ‘there is a massive over representation of Jews in business’. I’ve heard that somewhere before.
THREAD: Let’s check in with David Miller, here speaking at an event in Tower Hamlets on the 6th of October alongside Aaron Maté. Here Miller talks about the ‘Zionist billionaire class’, Jewish over representation, Zionist infiltration and Jewish economic privilege…. 🧵 🎥
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The problem with Twitter is that it allows people who know nothing about the thing they are talking about to talk about it anyway to lots of people. 👇🏼.
Incredible that Britain is considering sending troops to Gaza for aid. The quickest way to deliver peace for Palestinians and Israelis is to allow Israel to get on with the job of eliminating Hamas.
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Really? Surprised to see @BoardofDeputies make a statement like this with such little thought about the political consequences. Suggesting this is about a 'simple truth' is the most simplistic statement you could possibly make about Jerusalem.
Great to see recognition of the simple truth of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital gaining pace. Thank you Australia 🇦🇺! Time for @foreignoffice to follow suit! @AusHouseLondon
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This afternoon I joined this demonstration calling for the release of the 209 hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It should be entirely possible to get behind this basic message, regardless of anything else you think about this conflict.
1/2 We joined today’s solidarity rally in London calling to release Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. There are wounded hostages who the Red Cross aren’t allowed to treat. Many of the hostages are children - some saw their parents being murdered. Over 200 people taken.
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The response to this tweet is a barrage of tweets decrying that I am not tweeting about Palestinians. When I tweet about the abuse of Palestinian rights I get the same response in reverse. Has humanity really evolved to that level of unsophisticated thinking? . Shame on us.
Unconsciable that anyone could fail to condemn this. Kidnapping 18 year old children in the most brutal & horrific circumstances & then refusing access. Anyone who wants freedom dignity & equaltiy between the river & the sea should be shouting from the rooftops about this.
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4 days in Israel & Palestine meeting victims of Hamas atrocities, hearing Gaza from afar, talking to aid agencies & witnessing settler violence is simultaneously horrifying & uplifting. Israeli and Palestinian voices fighting for a different future need allyship & support.
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I do not understand why there has been no media reporting of this. The horrors that people are living through is going devastate this region for a generation.
As others have said, the lack of media attention in this is absolutely outrageous. The Israeli military forced staff to abandon these babies, and left them to die alone on their hospital beds. How can any human heart bear the thought of it?.
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Alliance between @netanyahu & far right Otzma Yehudit has been condemned by @AIPAC @AJCGlobal and Rabbi Lau. Silence from @BoardofDeputies & @JLC_uk is deafening. Not good enough to say ‘it’s not their normal policy to comment’. It’s not a normal situation
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The IDF pull down Palestinian flags regularly in the West Bank and the police in Tel Aviv violently arrest hostage familes & survivors of Oct 7th for protesting the gvt. Time to stop the inane hasbara & get behind people on both sides trying to change the disastrous status quo.
@HowidyHamza Israelis long for peace, every week Israeli peace activists wave Palestinian flags in Tel Aviv. In contrast, there’s no Palestinian peace movement. If someone waved an Israeli flag in Ramallah, they’d be lynched. Sadly we need many more Hamzas….
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Not seen one word of condemnation from any UK establishment Jewish community organisation about the fact that the deputy mayor of Jerusalem stood in Sheikh Jarrah last night telling a Palestinian he wished he’d been shot in the head.
Watch: Deputy Mayor of #Jerusalem, Arieh King, tell a Palestinian activist "it's a pity" he wan't shot in the head, last night in #SheikhJarrah
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Such an embarrassment. Not only is it entirely untrue - the communities here pre-existed the Firing Zone - but what kind of take is it to support the demolishing of a school in illegally occupied territory? Thankfully it’s been condemned by the international community inc UK gvt.
Illegally putting up a building in a firing zone and calling it a school is naughty. Placing children inside it is awful. Doing so *knowing* the kids will face a trauma - just so you can get propaganda images is disgraceful. Tearing the damn thing down? That's not the problem.
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Inspiring to be out on the streets in Tel Aviv this evening. There is another way.
Today in Tel Aviv Yachad’s @hannahweisfeld @daniellebett were honoured to join the calls for a ceasefire, to bring all hostages home and against an endless war. At a time of such despair, there is hope. Also great to run into the ever inspiring @AlonLeeGreen of @omdimbeyachad
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