Sarah Deech ☕️
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Freelance journalist & media trainer after an astonishingly long time @ BBC News. “Many agree with her” - Private Eye. Frustrated artist. Helps kids read. 📚
London, N8. Oxford towny roots
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Nazis invade Polish village 1942. My gt aunt Helena grabs silver &gives to catholic neighbour for safekeeping,she’s taken to a death camp,he stores it for 65yrs, til historian finds my family. We meet man in Krakow age 102.Silver returned. He dies 4mo later.
#tellastoryinonetweet
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Bloke next to me in a Crouch End cafe just casually took out a humungous iMac, bent down on the floor to plug it in, ordered a coffee, and carried on as if that was totally normal.
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Lenny Henry’s best joke:
“Enoch Powell says he wants to give me £1,000 to go back to where I came from. Which is great, because it’s only 20p on the bus from here to Dudley.”
#ComicRelief2024
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As well as being brilliant, brave reporters,
@bbclysedoucet
and
@CliveMyrieBBC
are also two of the nicest people you could come across. And I’ve worked with a lot of broadcasters.
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I see it’s open season for Auschwitz jokes. Well done Gary. Well done everyone.
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As a former BBC journalist it gives me no pleasure to say that BBC Arabic is a stain on BBC News.
It’s beyond shameful that scandals like this keep happening. Are
@BBCArabic
managers asleep at the wheel?
BBC plunged into new bias row after journalists behind damning report accusing Israeli soldiers of beating and humiliating medics 'like' videos celebrating Hamas terror attacks
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You honestly have to wonder what on earth was going on in that Shropshire Manor house in the 1950s to produce these two equally hideous brothers.
Piers Corbyn claims that the 7th October Hamas terrorist attacks were a “false flag operation” and that the Israeli government “wanted it to happen”.
He goes on to talk about the “baby beheadings that didn’t happen” before wondering if the hostages are paid actors.
Grotesque.
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Q: What was the first Dickens character that stuck in your head as a child?
A: Oh Fagin, without question. Jewish and vile <Audience laugh>. I didn't know Jews like that then, sadly I do now. <Audience laugh>
Really,
@BBCFrontRow
?
This is plain and ugly racism, from a woman
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Middle East expert & peace activist Gary Lineker usually has a lot to say when young kids playing football are killed.
We’re all waiting, Gary.
#Golan
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I was once a producer on the BBC Ten o’Clock News, with
#HuwEdwards
presenting. He was a class act.
Whatever your views on the sorry mess last year, his departure is still a huge loss for the BBC - very few people can anchor at that level. I sincerely wish him the best.
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This is the most powerful riposte to
@GaryLineker
's tweet I have seen. In fact it was so good I had to write to down.
Listen to journalist John Ware on why Lineker's Nazi comparison was so utterly misguided. 👇
#Linekergate
🗣️”If you’re given a publicly funded £1.35m platform, you need to stay off politics. No race laws, no homes ransacked then packed off to a labour camp”
A staunch defender of BBC impartiality, this is
@johnwaretv
on the Gary Lineker row.
🎧PLAY PODCAST ▶️
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“The BBC has developed an apparent habit of accepting at face value what it is told by people presenting as Palestinian civilians…in too many cases these people turn out to be representatives of or sympathetic towards terrorist organisations.”
@DannyCohen
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Labour’s Lisa Nandy tells Times Radio there is “a sense of relief” amongst their international sister parties that Corbyn has gone and Lab are no longer in turmoil.
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And here's the great man himself: Polish painter Eugeniusz Waniek in his Krakow flat in 2008. If you speak Polish, there was apparently a TV documentary about him a few years ago (featuring this story).
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Dear former BBC colleagues
@spinderella2
@abbiedjones
, how can you have written a long piece about a Jewish child rescued by Nicholas Winton but fail to say she’s Jewish?
The reason these refugee children needed help is precisely because they were Jewish. Extraordinary omission.
In this
@BBCNews
piece centred on 1 woman who was rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton & her reaction to the One Life film, guess what crucial piece of her identity & that of the other children has been disappeared?
Yes, no Jews here.
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Broadcasters have failed us today.
They’re tip-toeing around the repellent Galloway by describing him as “maverick” or “controversial”.
He’s not.
He’s an Islamist supporting, terror glorifying, Jew hating extremist who should have no place in mainstream politics.
#Rochdale
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The silence from those who made a huge song & dance about Tommy Robinson showing up at the antisemitism demo last Nov (only to be arrested) but have absolutely *nothing* to say when hundreds of racist, genocidal placards are displayed on the streets of London today is..deafening.
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@NoContextBrits
Shaun of the Dead quite obviously, because it was filmed in a house down my road
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Incredibly disappointing to see the BBC1 news bulletin's short item about
#HolocaustMemorialDay
fail to mention Jews *at all*.
If Jews & antisemitism are continually eradicated from the narrative around HMD, you will never teach future generations the lessons of the Holocaust.
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My dad is turning 80 and has worked at the same Oxford law firm since…1977. Unbelievably he still works there full time. Retirement is for wimps, folks.
This afternoon -after weeks of subterfuge- they threw a surprise birthday party. He was quite emotional (for a solicitor)
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Incredibly brave letter by
@Cambridge_Uni
undergrad Devika Shah:
“The rhetoric – that Israel and Zionism are Western constructs built exclusively on colonialism – is at best a complete ignorance of Jewish history and at worst thinly-veiled anti-Semitism”
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I am fairly recently single (& childless). Is it just me that finds bank holidays a solitary nightmare - *everyone* seems to be with kids/partners/family. It’s one of a handful of times in the year when you’re reminded society isn’t really designed for single people. Moan over.
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BBC London's main image tonight looking like an ad for the Socialist Workers Party.
The audience deserves to know who exactly the SWP are. Unfortunately we were not told.
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Thinking also of everyone working in the BBC newsroom right now - my old colleagues and friends. No matter how many years we prepared for this moment, it is an immense responsibility to get everything exactly right. The audience must be vast. Good luck
#RIPQueenElizabeth
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How can anyone look at this image of Corbyn with a young female reporter and think this is a man of peace and "gentler politics"? A man who was leader of his party? It actually sends a shiver down my spine.
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Ps I realise this ruins the hashtag but we think a love story may have been involved too 💕 ... so *obviously* needs to be made into a film. FYI My mother wants Rachel Weisz to play me. Only Maureen Lipman can play her.
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Love the fact that my grandfather, as a representative of the foreign press in London, attended the Queen’s coronation in 1953, and actually sat inside the Abbey. For a Jewish refugee from Vienna who’d only been in the country 14 years, I think that’s pretty cool
#Coronation
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This evening's
@BBCLondonNews
apologised on-air for describing yesterday's anti-Israel protest outside
@Phoenixcinema
as a "vigil".
The cinema was showing a documentary about the Supernova music festival massacre on Oct 7.
@sonjajessup
: "We should have been clearer it was a
🎥 Watch: BBC describes pro-Palestine protest outside London cinema as a ‘vigil’
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It breaks my heart to agree with this tweet but as someone who spent many yrs producing on the BBC News Channel, I care about it a lot. It’s now clear that *neither* audience (home & global) is being served well. I cannot see it lasting in its current format. What a mess
The BBC News channel is a shadow of its former self. A weird mix of home and foreign news that seems to have no journalistic brain behind it. Tim Davie's biggest error.
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Thoughts and prayers for Reginald D Hunter’s agent. Very few ways back after you go full David Icke.
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Horrified to hear a well known columnist tell an audience this evening that he’d heard an acquaintance say they didn’t want to go to a certain cafe in London because it was “owned by a Jewish woman”.
What the hell has happened to us?
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I've never felt more ashamed of my alma mater. This is a call for violence.
When
@ucl
was founded by Jeremy Bentham in 1826, it was the first university in England to accept Jewish students, alongside those of all faiths & none. Bentham would be horrified by this divisiveness.
BREAKING:
@ucl_ucu
academics voted for “Intifada until victory” and a “mass uprising” against Israeli civilians. This is a horrific incitement to violence and terror.
We have written to UCL’s Provost to express disgust at the motion & call for urgent action in the wake of this.
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For a man who tweets incessantly about Israel/Palestine, it is more than a little odd for
@jeremycorbyn
to be completely silent about the brutal murder of three British citizens in Israel this week. Isn’t this your favourite subject, Jeremy?
#DeesDay
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This is absolutely ridiculous.
@LordIanAustin
was quite obviously making a sarcastic comment about Hamas tunnels under UNRWA in Gaza.
For people to chose to misinterpret that and then pile on to his employer
@MidlandHeart
is pure bullying and intimidation.
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The threats against female MPs now feels like a national emergency.
We didn’t spend decades fighting for women’s votes and for more women to enter Parliament to end up with them quitting over safety.
Something has to change and very quickly.
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I find it immensely depressing that when the victim of a conflict is a journalist, fellow journalists think this permits them to abandon impartiality. This is not how the BBC’s most senior correspondent should be tweeting.
Appalled by the killing of the excellent Shireen Abu Akleh of
@AlJazeera
, while covering a raid by Israeli security forces on a West Bank refugee camp. Many journalists will question the Israeli claim that she died from Palestinian fire.
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Shouldn’t this GP declare an interest here, namely that she’s married to The Sun’s lawyer?
Seems more than a little relevant.
#BBCPresenter
#mentalhealth
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The silence from
@JohnBishop100
after dozens of heartfelt, exasperated replies to his Loach tweet is absolutely deafening.
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.
@TracyAnnO
: “I had a lot of support from people in the industry, but they were scared to say anything in case they lost work. You don’t criticise Corbyn. Well, I said something & I’m busier than ever.”
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“Every week it gets a little harder being a Jew at the BBC..and harder to go home at night and speak to friends & family who hold me responsible for the BBC contributing to the rise in antisemitism, because I am an employee and so guilty by association.”👇🏼
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Rule no.1: someone, somewhere, will find a way to blame Jews.
God almighty. 🤦🏻♀️
#GaryLineker
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In which
@Matthew_Wright
tells a caller on
@LBC
that Israel’s actions in the West Bank are comparable to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“So land grabs are ok by Jews, but not by Russia?”
Ignorance and aggression: what a hideous mix.
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This is dangerous, malicious, ignorant bullshit. I thought
@Keir_Starmer
had changed the Labour Party. Maybe I was wrong.
The link between the daily inhumanity being metted out to Palestinians and rising Islamophobia in the UK, are not unconnected.
The inhumanity being shown to one is giving ‘permission’ for the other.
These actions diminish us all.
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Anyone at the London demo, please post photos/videos of:
Calls for the hostages to be freed
Calls for Hamas to be eliminated and Gazans to live in a democracy
Calls for a two-state solution
Any criticism of Hamas whatsoever
Genuinely interested
#ArmisticeDay
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“It feels like Hitler is reaching out beyond the grave and upsetting everyone.”
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry
#Plymouth
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@Becky_Sunshine
@BBCFrontRow
Never realised the great British public would accept swearing, farting, overt racism and performative eccentricity as worthy of national treasure status. What a time to be alive!
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Just trying to process that right now, in 2023, there is a Professor of Sociology - who until v recently held a post at
@BristolUni
- compiling a “detailed list” of UK Jews who wield too much power.
My grandparents lived through this the first time around, and it didn’t end well
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I don’t know the truth about that Oxford St antisemitic bus attack audio - I think it’s impossible to say for sure either way. But what I do know is that I’ve never heard a reporter comment on what the victims of an attack might have been saying *while* being attacked. 1/2
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This is how utterly juvenile, pathetic and offensive Corbyn’s favourite Jewish group really are:
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I stubbed my toe three days after my Pfizer jab. What can this mean?
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It sounds like you don’t think one Israeli killed in Tel Aviv was enough, Alex
Israeli govt posts pix of its jets and another after bombing Yemen’s Hodeida port. Their response to Houthis attack on Tel Aviv which killed one. Fuel tanks were hit and the power station supplying Hodeida’s electricity. Yemen’s one of the world’s poorest countries
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My issue with
@GaryLineker
is that it’s hard to take the moral high ground now when your tweet on Oct 7th was this.
#IsraelHamasWar
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This video is really disturbing.
If you dare show up in central London on a Saturday holding a placard calling Hamas terrorists, a baying mob shouts “SHAME ON YOU!” and tries to destroy your placard.
To anyone claiming these marches are peaceful: this is why they’re not.
Who should I complain to when the law enforcer speaks "lies"!
Shameful
@metpoliceuk
#HamasTerrorist
#IraniansStandWithIsrael
I have many evidence!
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Hi
@devinderbains
@BritishVogue
Do you not employ subs?
Firstly, 41k Palestinians are not “confirmed dead”. The figure is from Hamas, includes terrorists & is widely disputed.
But most egregiously, you’ve repeated a complete lie - the Lancet never claimed 186,000 Gaza
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I’ve just exchanged on a house! An *actual* house. I’ve never owned a house. And it has a garden! I’ve never owned a garden. I’m a proper adult now.
Bye bye flats, hello burbs... 🏡
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Looks like a pop-up children’s summer holiday exhibition organised by London’s (homeless) Jewish Museum at a
@CamdenCouncil
library has been pulled because of security fears about a Jewish-themed event.
What an incredibly sad sign of the times.
In the light of recent events we have made the difficult decision to postpone Creating Connections at Swiss Cottage Library. The security and wellbeing of Library & Museum visitors and staff are of the utmost importance.
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How on earth is this woman, who I’ve never heard of before, used as a commentator - allegedly - by
@bbcsml
@theJeremyVine
@gmb
@TalkTV
@JeremyVineOn5
? I’ve rarely seen such malicious, divisive, ignorant rubbish. And also completely, flagrantly, untrue.
Give me strength 🤦🏻♀️
All white ? All pensioners ? All supporting war crimes?
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The funniest thing on the internet at the moment,bar nothing.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man.
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Thought I’d misheard but I didn’t. A caller on
@bbc5live
@StephenNolan
show just came out with this shocker, and Nolan let it go.
“..the right wing Tory press is dominated by certain people, of a faith.”
Full quote below.
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This is jaw dropping.
A Met police officer tells a man simply wearing a Jewish skullcap that his *mere presence* at a pro-Palestine demo is “antagonising to the crowd” and that if he stays he’ll be arrested. WTF?
I thought London was supposed to be safe for Jews,
@SadiqKhan
?
“You are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. I am not accusing you of anything, but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”
Enough is enough. It is time for a major change.
On Saturday 27th April — the next anti-Israel march — we are asking you,
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Current BBC news story on the orthodox Jewish man stabbed today in Stamford Hill: not one mention it’s a Jewish man. Why is this not relevant,
@BBCNews
?
Stoke Newington: Man stabbed on busy high street
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This is not a parody 🤦🏻♀️
Since when has reporting like this been acceptable
@TheOxfordMail
@NoorJQurashi
- ‘Zionist husband’ …
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Does a day go by without Owen Jones writing or talking about Jews? They must occupy his every waking thought.
Starting to feel sorry for the guy tbh - he can’t get much time to eat or sleep. Will people close to him (if he has any) stage an intervention?
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Gary Lineker, everyone’s favourite Middle East expert, has a considered message for October 7th
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@robinlustig
.I don't agree Robin. Why must someone not be allowed to campaign against antisemitism without declaring their views on Israel? Do we ask other anti-racism campaigners to first state their views on an issue of the day before we will take them seriously?
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This is priceless.
People have been buying loo roll and cleaning products from a *dolls house furniture* company, thinking they’re real. 🤣
#panicbuying
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“Is there anyone here tonight who owes their life to Nicky Winton?”
Incredibly moving to witness this - at the premiere of
#OneLife
in the Royal Festival Hall, a recreation of the momentous 1988 That’s Life with Sir Nicholas Winton.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
#LFF
We’re honoured to be joined by the Kindertransportees, who were among the 669 children transported on the Winton Kindertransports, as well as Kinder Descendants and the families of Nicholas Winton and his daughter Barbara Watson, the family of Trevor Chadwick and the nephew of
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As a former long-serving BBC correspondent, I am genuinely interested to know what you think Hamas would do in a ceasefire, Hugh, and if it would prevent them from doing another Oct 7th?
How will long term peace be achieved for Gazans & Israelis if Hamas aren’t rooted out?
#Gaza
@Labouruk
#CeasefireNOW
#Starmer
"We have to be able to agree to disagree."
-
@NazShahBfd
(shadow home office)
flying the flag
for MPs with minds
- and moral compasses -
of their own.
And actually answering the questions!
@Channel4News
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Venn Diagram heaven> “
@SCNathan
: “
@AndyTarsy
: In case you were wondering too..
http://t.co/AGpXpfrs9m”
Love this.What Venn diagrams are for!”
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Absolutely staggered that after 7 years covering Corbynism and antisemitism in Labour,
@BBCLondonNews
still don’t know who JVL are. Speechless.
Genuinely pretty grim leading your news coverage on the subject by citing the views of a crank group on the fringes of the Jewish community. The BBC should really be asking themselves some serious questions about how this happened.
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A good summary of what Nasrallah has been up to for the past few decades
NB it’s not basket weaving
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My issue with
@GaryLineker
is that it’s hard to take the moral high ground now when your tweet on Oct 7th was this.
#IsraelHamasWar
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“Period-having”?
Do you mean “women”??
The all-white sportswear isn't exactly ideal for period-having tennis players
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I thought I’d seen a lot of conspiracy theories but this is impressive:
The Board of Deputies of British Jews (BOD) is controlling “production companies” and comedians like
@Dawn_French
to support
@jessphillips
for Labour leader.
9 likes. 🤦🏻♀️
#LabourLeadership
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My dear grandfather Josef Fraenkel would have been 117 today. I think about him every day. Fled Nazis, arriving by boat on Sep 1st 1939 - the nick of time. A gentle, bookish, chain-smoking, coffee guzzling journalist, historian & founder member
@WorldJewishCong
. Miss you grandpa
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Former director of BBC Television
@DannyCohen
calls on BBC News CEO Deborah Turness to “consider her position” over repeated mistakes in recent Israel/Hamas coverage:
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This is a bit like saying:
‘The magnificent Nigel Farage defends GB News’ coverage’
Rosen is a lifelong far-left anti-Zionist activist. And a BBC presenter.
Just 2 days after the BBC DG said it would not go into “auto-defence” over BBC bias claims, this is a v bizarre post.
The magnificent Michael Rosen defends the BBC’s coverage of Israel/Gaza by pointing out that no one accuses the Israeli newspaper Haaretz of anti-semitism when it reports honestly and objectively about Netanyahu and his war. Thank you, Michael.
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Have you ever heard: “And if you listen carefully you can make out the victim screaming “F*CK OFF!”. I haven’t.
So for that to become such a focal issue is just plain weird, to my mind. And for that reason alone, surely the BBC must apologise and move on. 2/2
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I find this profoundly depressing.
How can someone have so much education and be in such a caring profession but hold such medieval, uneducated, toxic views? It truly beggars belief.
Holocaust denying Junior doctor leader joked on Twitter about gassing 'the Jews' is suspended from BMA.
He was deputy chair of the junior doctors' committee and a member of its executive
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Clive Lewis: “We haven’t even seen [Johnson] in Parliament, he’s still on Mustique as far as I know, texting his responses, it’s outrageous”
Fiona: “well except he was at PMQs yesterday..”
CL: “Well I know but I just wanted to get a joke in about Mustique”
Embarrassing.
#bbcqt
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🤣 “I used to hire people for the Conservative Party. If you hire people for a political party you do not need to bother putting “weirdo” in the job description.” -
@Dannythefink
on
#TheNewsQuiz
#cummingsandgoings
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📻"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party and some fairly unpleasant, hardline Free Palestine activists.. I think they will rue the day when they threw open their doors to all these people." - Lord Mandelson
#GreenParty
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The man who welcomed every shade of Islamist extremist to the UK writes:
I have written to the Home Secretary to express grave concerns over the recent visit of Spanish far-right extremist, Isabel Peralta, to the UK.
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How depressing to see the legendary Comedy Store - birthplace of anti-racist, anti-misogynistic humour, about to host George Galloway. Shockingly,
@comedystoreuk
seem quite excited about it. Wtf.
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Woman in a
#CrouchEnd
cafe just reached peak north London:
“I’ll get a latte please”
Waiter: “With milk?”
“Do you have oat milk?”
W: “Yes sure”
“What kind of oat milk is it?”
W: “errr, I’m not sure..maybe Oatly...”
“If it’s Oatly then yes I’ll have that”
#whatkindofoatmilk
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