Very happy (and slightly trepidatious) to say that I’ve been elected as the new Chair of the Lancaster & Lakes Jewish Community!
Thanks to
@WorldJewishCong
NextGen for your invaluable support.
If you’re Jewish and in the region, please get in touch!
honoured to have been elected to .
@nusuk
NSC! with all that’s been happening, it’s so important that jewish voices are heard at the highest level and now there are two of us! i can’t wait to get start holding the FTOs to account and fight for the best future for all students.
i’m terrified of what’s happening in israel atm. i’m terrified for my family. i’m terrified for my friends. i’m horrified by the actions in Sheikh Jarrah and at AlAqsa. what is needed, over everything, is deescalation of violence and coexistence. peace must come first. 🕊🕊🕊
i was going to spend my train journey today reading .
@BenMFreeman
’s book,
#JewishPride
, but i’ve decided against it in the off chance of, well, i don’t think i need to finish that sentence….
i am so beyond proud to be Jewish, to be zionist but, today, i’m scared.
💙🕊💙
I am Jewish. I am part of the Trans* community. JKR is not a friend to me in the slightest.
Stop saying it’s ok that she used antisemitic tropes in her work bc everyone else does - it’s still antisemitic.
Don’t even get me started on the transphobia…
modern hebrew is a coloniser language and must be abolished. yiddish, ladino, judeo-marathi, judeo-arabic, bukhori, and ancient hebrew (there’s a v important difference) + many others are amazing jewish languages. modern hebrew was intentionally developed as a tool for colonising
cw for a modern day pogrom in
russia.
i've been avoiding sharing footage since 7th october but i felt i couldn't not share what's in this thread.
my family fled russia because of antisemitism in the both the 19th
& 20th centuries.
1/2
Insane footage on Russian social media from Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region, where there have been several anti-Semitic protests this weekend.
A crowd of people, some with Palestinian flags, broke into the airport in search of passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv.
“The existence of the Jew merely permits the antisemite to stifle his anxieties at their inception by persuading himself that his place in the world gives him the right to occupy it. Antisemitism, in short, is fear of the human condition.” Sartre, 1946
After spending an amazing few days in New York, I’m so excited to be able to announce that I am one of the
#LauderFellows2023
with
@WorldJewishCong
! It’s an immense privilege to be part of this esteemed organisation with an incredible cohort of fellows
after an incredibly difficult year, i’m beyond humbled to say i’m finishing my second year at
@LancasterUni
with a first and the
@DeLCLancaster
prize for exceptional contribution to student life, DeLC and the wider university community 🥺
We now write antisemitism (n.), antisemitic (adj.), without a hyphen and with no capitalization.
This is a change from AP's previous style: anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic.
#ACES2021Online
I’m beyond delighted to be nominated for .
@UJS_UK
Liberation Activist of the Year Award alongside four other phenomenal activists. It truly is an honour to just be nominated!
We’re asking everybody in the Labour movement - Labour members, CLPs, elected reps, councillors, YL branches, Labour Clubs, TU branches - to sign our open letter to Wes Streeting, showing we’re united in opposition to this retrograde ban 👇 (2/6)
I am totally and utterly disgusted that there are two
@LancasterUni
@LancsUniLEC
academics that have signed this vile letter. We will be raising complaints.
Voted no on wasteful defense spending. When so many families in MI13 and across the country are struggling due to the COVID pandemic, it simply makes no sense that we are authorizing even more than
@POTUS
requested. We have to do so much better on behalf of our communities.
this is such phenomenal work. i know how much of her soul
@juliajassey
(and the whole JOC teams) puts into absolutely everything
@JewishonCampus_
does. proud isn’t even the word.💖
Yesterday, I had the honour of hosting the
@BoardofDeputies
Under 35 Assembly’s first in person event, our Leadership Seminar with support from
@WorldJewishCong
NextGen! We heard from experts to build the skills needed to succeed in co-creating a vibrant future for our community!
i literally cannot comprehend how people are brave enough to just walk around with naked phones?!? like, how are you not terrified of it smashing to pieces?
everyone knows what a powerful person amy winehouse was.
that power came from such tragedy. about 3 days before she passed, she joined her goddaughter on stage at a gig i was lucky enough to be attending. i was only 10 but i knew i was in the presence of someone special.
crying screaming throwing up as i remembered a tiktok i saw last night of someone cutting an entire challah horizontally and filling it with pork coldcuts and cheese
You can’t see I/P thru a westernised lens of oppression. Or as
@EinatWilf
puts it “In an act of blatant neocolonialism, the American story is viewed as the universal prism through which all societies should be understood and analyzed”. I can’t wait to read more from
@SapirJournal
"Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs are not there to serve as props and collateral damage in the domestic morality tales of other countries, giving an outlet for people to channel negative emotions with which they should be dealing on their own."
And so, as is the case every time Francis talks about LGBTQ issues, we get one step forward, two steps back. LGBTQ people need more than nice-sounding words in a newspaper interview in order to be safe in the Catholic church. We need doctrinal change.
being Jewish in student politics is really bloody hard at times. the report is a difficult read but the findings are totally unsurprising. i love the student movement and we have so much potential to make positive change. i hope we can make the needed internal change happen.
The longer I study Yiddish, the more I notice the pervasive Hebraisation – itself a product of Zionist hegemony – of British Jewish culture. "Shabbat shalom"? No thanks, it's "gut shabbes" only for me now.
Incredibly proud to have played a small part in this by writing policy for UJS Conference. The threat of this act made life hell on campuses over the last year for minorities, rendering universities paralysed. Really glad to see Labour making positive change for the sector.
UJS welcomes the decision of the Secretary of State for Education to revoke the commencement of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act.
This is a demonstration of profound commitment to the welfare of minority groups.
i don’t know anywhere near enough about foreign policy & afghanistan to give an educated take. what i will say is this: watching the situation unfurl on the news today has been deeply, deeply upsetting. i hope to g-d it’s safe and that the rights of women & girls are protected.
Had a productive meeting w/
@CatSmithMP
earlier.
We spoke about advocating for peace rather than stoking division, the hostages, & community cohesion in Lancaster.
My community has adopted with Bibas family with the
@BoardofDeputies
&
@UJS_UK
’s
#SederSeatforaHostage
campaign
just had to block someone that i thought was a friend who was accusing me, a british jew with no current legal standings in israel (other than family cowering in bomb shelters), of ethnic cleansing. how’s your thursday evening?
had such an amazing day training 200+ of our new
#AcademicReps
! it’s days like today that remind me why i ran for
@LancasterSU
VP Education and would i be a 22/23 sabb if i didn’t use bereal to document to occasion?
Today is Halloween and this is your reminder that witches, vampires, and other monsters from European folklore were shaped by antisemitic depictions of Jews.