Things I like: Tech topics. Arsenal. Books. Movies. History. Edinburgh. Calvin & Hobbes. Melting Pots.
Things I don't like: Antisemitism. Extremists. Cabbage.
It's Glastonbury time. A weekend of music, fun and dancing. It's been a few years since I was last there, but I'll still catch up with some of the BBC shows.
And I'll think about how hundreds of kids went to another music festival to dance & never came home 💔
#ShaniLouk
David Baddiel talking about Jewish primary schools in the UK in his documentary, Jews Don't Count.
This was filmed before the current Gaza war.
I challenge anyone from Britain to watch this and not die a little inside.
#Jewsdontcount
@guardianopinion
I'd say the problem is the need to be seen as separate from others. Humza was the 6th First Minister of Scotland, but he's the only one who talks about his religion. He failed in his job, not because of Islamophobia (or because of Islam) but because he wasn't up to the job.
@Elad_Si
Putting up a poster that said "Whites only" would, rightly, be a crime. "Men Only" = crime. "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish" = crime. But "Let's make Leith a Jew free zone" is ok? This is outrageous
@Edinburgh_CC
@PoliceScotland
@emilykschrader
@MrRBourne
Anybody who has ever said anything or tweeted anything about Rosa Parks should be on your side with this. Every one of those drivers should be fired.
@jk_rowling
Why is it that so many people feel politically homeless right now? Lots of different people, for many reasons, can’t find a party that is worthy of their vote. I have no idea who to vote for on July 4th.
@AvivaKlompas
For anyone who doesn't know. Emily's mum died of cancer when she was 2. Her adopted mother, Narkis Hand, was murdered on Oct 7 by Hamas. Emily spent her 9th birthday held captive by these murdering, paedophile rapists. She's been through hell, and she's only a baby 💔
@ScotGovFM
@HumzaYousaf
@IntlCrimCourt
@scotgov
This is an outrageous abuse of the First Minister account. I understand if you have personal feelings towards Gaza but that's what your own account is for. This is for Scottish Government business.
@HumzaYousaf
@guardian
You don't confront the far-right by highlighting differences. You were the 6th FM of Scotland. I have no idea what religion the other 5 are. All I care about is that you're Scottish. Stop talking about the church you go to & using that as an excuse.
@algore
Don’t worry. There’s another one next year. And the year after that. And the year after that. It’s hard to believe that anything gets done at these when there’s another country already preparing the hotel rooms for the next one.
Ireland. The land of a hundred thousand welcomes. The land of Yeats, Joyce and Behan. Is now the kind of country where a gifted student at the best University in the country is made feel like she’s not wanted, because she’s Jewish.
We talk a lot about how there used to be signs
@yaelbt
@jlgolson
Can I add a couple of things about Israel that I have seen from afar?
Israel is not 1 person. It’s many, many people who have different opinions. It’s not one political party. It’s not even one religion.
Jewish people are not Israel. (The grammar of that sentence hurts me 😬).
@ChrisHarihar
@tabatkins
@duolingo
In the UK we can go one further. She _is_ a victim of domestic abuse. A court here found that he assaulted her several times.
@habibi_uk
@JakeWSimons
Let me guess. Lewisham’s meals on wheels service for pensioners has been cut. Their library budget has been cut. And they’re struggling with housing homeless people because of lack of money?
@leekern13
That’s not even a little bit funny. It’s absolutely crazy that you don’t feel safe in the UK. My experience of this country has always been welcoming. Even while the IRA murdered British kids in Manchester, I never felt anything but welcome. So to hear that Jewish people feel
@SamanthaLibreri
@rtenews
Why are they “Irish citizens” when Emily Hand is always “Israeli Irish”? I’m genuinely interested. I’ve never seen so much distance put between our country & a passport holder before in my life.
It’s clear that people don’t really know about the Holocaust any more. It was not just “a lot of Jews” being murdered. It was murder on an industrial scale.
Using figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs we get the total number of Gazans killed by
@TalkTV
I hope
@emilyhewertson
takes legal advice and is able to get some of the "journalists" (those who desperately tried to link her to the assault) on this website to make substantial donations to charity.
@antisemitism
@SuellaBraverman
What's happening here? Who is in charge of the policing in the UK? "Don't show the faces of kidnapped children in case those who sympathise with the kidnapper's plight are offended"?
@CherylWroteIt
I often think there is a lack of confidence in the Muslim faith. They project chutzpah but it’s so rare to hear a Muslim leader say, “what they’re doing is not based in Islam”. It’s almost as if they’re afraid that any objection to their religion will pull a thread that exposes a
@habibi_uk
@BiologyLover31
For a religion forbids betting, this seems like one hell of a wager. That life is just the prologue and everything starts when you die...
What if that's wrong and this is all there is? What if, instead of wishing away your life, you enjoyed the beauty that is everywhere 🤷♂️
"Nicola Sturgeon is doing a great job on COVID" - let's unwrap that a little.
Looking at testing.
England and Wales test approx 50% more people than Scotland every day. If you test less, then automatically you will have less cases, because asymptomatic cases are never caught.
@MarinaMedvin
How any country can progress by treating half the population as little more than property is beyond me. Truly it’s the dark ages for them.
@BellaWallerstei
I think you’re wrong. The exit polls show that Labour has got a smaller % of the vote than they did in 2017 under Corbyn. There wasn’t a switch away from the pro-Brexit Tories of Boris. This is a switch away from people like Rishi Sunak running the party.
@FinnClodagh
@medievalgill
So, he basically works for the State and is paid for by tax-payers. He should expect his dishonourable discharge papers in the morning.
@marcoarment
You know what’s worse than having to pay hundreds of $$$ to try out Apple’s new ad scheme? Seeing that they’re advertising online gambling on
@OvercastFM
’s page on the App Store.
@JustStop_Oil
@ST0NEHENGE
You guys are the only people worse at campaigning than Rishi Sunak. You need to bring people on side so that they start listening and start evangelising.
All this does is alienate decent people.
@leekern13
@Eve_Barlow
So for 6 weeks, Jews have had to stand there and take all sorts of nonsense. Context. Proof. War Crimes. CeaseFire. UN says Warcrimes. Warcrimes. Ceasefire. Babies. Not your babies, they don't count. Premature babies.
And now we all know what UNRWA and Gaza Medics, and Foreign
@petemart1954
@BriannaWu
In the UK we were always told that everything in America is huge. We have bowler hats. You have 10 gallon hats. We have the Mini. You have SUVs.
Imagine what size an American Empire would be... Yeah, you guys don't have one. Hawaii & Puerto Rico do not an empire make.
@antisemitism
I remember feeling really proud when we protected Salman Rushdie’s right to say & write whatever he wanted. We didn’t say, “please stop writing your book, we’re worried about the reaction”
Enough is enough.
@rcowe
@outofcontextars
I have a soft spot for Giroud but if we had had someone like Aubameyang when Özil was at the height of his powers, we could have got so much closer to Leicester...
@Baddiel
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this scene. It feels like it should have been one of those moments in history where everyone came together and said, This is wrong. It's 💔
@BriannaWu
It's not just your country. It's all over the place. I just assumed that the world was completely different than the 1930s and 40s. I knew that Israel was a controversial subject, but I never imagined that people could get away with saying the things that they have since Oct 7.
@RevRichardColes
Let me just check what William Pitt the Younger did. He introduced a temporary measure called “income tax” to pay for the Napoleonic wars. You probably haven’t heard of income tax because of its temporary nature. 🙄
@SohailSNAhmed
@leekern13
Now that it’s been said, can they start helping? Let them fill Gaza with Aid for Seder. Let them exert pressure on Qatar / Hamas to release the hostages. Let them sign an agreement with Israel to normalise relations. And then let them come out and say that rape is Haram. Taking
@MarinaHyde
It’s 2023 and we’re still blaming the victims. Jenni Hermoso: dropped from the team. For no reason other than a man forced her to kiss him and she had the strength to call him out.
@PatBrennanIII
Also Che: ‘At the Sierra Maestra, we executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation’
@RachelMoiselle
@SazuBurns
Just 4 days before the attack she’s talking about victims of Russel Brand. She says that victims should be able to come forward in a safe space and not be targeted. Now she says “believe all women” was always wrong 😳
@DMiliband
Calls for a unilateral ceasefire without even mentioning why the war started, i.e. the kidnapping of Israeli children, are so obviously just vacuous slogans for your followers to like.
Stand up for children on both sides of the border.
@RevRichardColes
I was in Cologne last month. They have a Lindt factory there that you can tour. There wasn't quite enough free chocolate for my liking but you did get to see the whole process and buy some that was freshly prepared.
@daverich1
@HeidiBachram
As James Joyce wrote in Ulysses:
I just wanted to say, he said. Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?
She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter
@KNEECAPCEOL
mar is amadan thú. Because you have no sense of history outside of rebel songs.
Answer me one thing. Who is more Irish? Ian Paisley or Shane McGowan?
One was born on the land. One was born elsewhere but came home.
And that’s how it is with Jewish people. They’ve been coming
@WayneGb88
@TogeoffH
If you don’t want someone to be your MP just vote for the other person. Tweets don’t count as votes.
Register to vote and then vote for the person you want to represent you.
If you don’t vote, know that someone else will. And you might not like who they vote for.
It’s clear that people don’t really know about the Holocaust any more. It was not just “a lot of Jews” being murdered. It was murder on an industrial scale.
Using figures from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs we get the total number of Gazans killed by
@EitanChitayat
@Eve_Barlow
"2 million Israeli Arabs" is like 20% of the population. That's more Muslims than live in the UK or the US or Australia etc.
Don't tell me that Israel is an ethnonationalist wet dream (someone did), because this is the real melting pot. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Straight or
@JustStop_Oil
Don't muddy the waters. Stopping oil is the message. It's more important than everything else.
But now, you're saying that ensuring migrants have a better class of hotel room is worthy of your time?
Just stop oil!
I am now the proud owner of “An offering of Swans”, by Oliver Gogarty. It’s signed & dedicated to the then (1945) editor of The Strand magazine, Reginald Pound.
Not long afterwards there’s an article in The Strand, written by Gogarty about Oscar Wilde. How can I read that
@HeidiBachram
I’m sorry that you’re going through this. That your family is going through this. I hope that you’re also receiving a lot of love through messages. ❤️
@habibi_uk
@HeidiBachram
Recorded on phones where the main chip was almost certainly designed in Israel. Watched on laptops, where the main chip was almost certainly designed in another part of Israel.
It's easier to shout at minimum-wage staff than actually live without the things Israel gives us.
@jeremycorbyn
Corbyn’s point here is that scientific progress is a danger to Gaza.
Why? Because the current government there is so inextricably stuck in the Middle Ages that if the rest of the world moves forward, they’re going to look even more archaic and out of touch.
@AndyHa_
It feels like every King called Charles is epic. The first one brought about Oliver Cromwell. The second one had 2 sons fight on the battlefield against each other. I wonder if this one will see that repeated 😃🤔
@JacobMagid
This will be why the US soldiers in WW2 stopped in Belgium and didn’t go into Germany, right? They did just enough to significantly deplete the Nazis….
Of course not. When faced with an ideology like the Nazis; like Hamas, you go in and keep going until they surrender. And then
There is a real risk that the people of Scotland will think that this is an English disease. If we close the border we'll be safe. But our risk is the same as England's. So, First Minister, can we stop the dangerous, xenophobic, massaged figures that were peddled out on Saturday.