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Historian. Jerusalem: a History of the MiddleEast.The World:a Family HIstory. StalinRedTsar. YgStalin. TheRomanovs. CatherinetheGreat. Novels:the Moscow Trilogy

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2 years
My new book #TheWorldaFamilyHistory is out now. A small thing I wrote in Lockdown, it's the most challenging but also most satisfying book of my writing life. I hope you enjoy it.
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W&N
2 years
Today we publish #TheWorld, @simonmontefiore's extraordinary history of humanity viewed through the lens of the families who have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis, Kennedys, Kims, Zulus, Incas, and many, many more.
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Today in 1940 Stalin & Beria (see below) started the murder of 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. It took 28 nights & the chief executioner wore a butchers apron over his NKVD uniform. As we absorb todays Russian killings of Ukraine civilians, it’s hard not to think of the past.
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As always the sharpest questions and justified criticism of Hamas are made by decent, moderate Arab voices. Not by the West's Decolonialisation ideology apologists. .
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Egyptian journalist Abraham Eissa has a really good question for Hamas:
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The transformation of Amnesty and a handful of other soi-disant 'human rights' charities into anti-semitic, anti-Western activist campaigning fronts captured by illiberal ideologues is complete. If this is their stand now, they are completely discredited. Tragically so.
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Amnesty UK
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It didn’t start one year ago. #CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael #EndIsraeliApartheid
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2 months
This is it: “China, Russia. Iran and North Korea are working effectively together. What has happened is that they have perceived us, the US, to be weak and that we have lost the political will to confront them,” says General Jack Keane.
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Amazing that on night of such important events in Russia / Ukraine, the @bbcnews is running 15 minutes of reports about covid. Inc exciting report on reactions of people in Eastbourne. Astonishingly insular.
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This - the greatest European speech on the Hamas murder raid, Israel war vs Hamas, rising antiJewish racism and toxic sham ‘history’ of Decolonisation - is deeply moving. Its decency and moral clarity is striking….
@BMWK
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz
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It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
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Reading a couple of @theguardian articles in a last few days, I feel we may be seeing its final departure from the pluralistic liberal tradition that made it a great newspaper, thanks to its capture by – or its morally fuddled editorial cadre - surrender to, an activist,
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The anti-colonial’ ideology, powerful in the academy but long overdue for serious challenge, applies a toxic but historically nonsensical mix of Soviet propaganda, US anti-racist jargon & traditional anti-semitism to a complex history.
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2 years
Quite a night in Israel. As in any democracy one has to support people demonstrating to defend liberal democracy under threat
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1 year
Good for them. Jewish BBC staff defy ban to attend march against antisemitism.
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1 year
The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous Inhumane Toxic and Historically False. And it rejects totally indeed makes impossible the two states of Israel & Palestine that is the only way. this is important but do read whole article b4 you condemn it.
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Tragic day!Many civilians killed.Its complicated but the coverage is baffling @Bbcworld @bbcnews r not reporting plentiful footage posted by Hamas itself: housetohouse killings of women kids,hostages paraded,naked bodies desecrated b4 crowds, yet only debating Israeli response. .
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The Illegals. In a scene straight out of that classic drama The Americans, the children of these deepcover Russian spies only learn they are Russian as they fly in to Moscow to be greeted by the autocrat VV Putin in Spanish. Extraordinary.
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max seddon
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The children of Anna and Artem Dultsev, the Russian deep cover spies returned home as part of the prisoner exchange, didn’t know they were Russian until their plane took off for Moscow for the swap, the Kremlin says. They don’t speak Russian, so Putin greeted them in Spanish.
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As Zelensky visits Poland,today 1940 Stalin & Beria were murdering 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. It took 28 nights; chief executioner Blokhin wore a butchers apron over his NKVD uniform. Aim: to liquidate Polish elites who might later resist Soviet Russian imperium over Poland…
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1 year
Vive la France ❤️Heartening.
@eurojewcong
European Jewish Congress
1 year
Thousands gathered in Paris today to stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, in the wake of an alarming rise of antisemitism. Thank you ❤️🇫🇷
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My mother April died at 92 last night. Exuberant, cultured,literary, witty, acute & Rabelaisian, a RADA-trained actress,author of 6 novels, doctor's wife,Jewish matriarch,mother of 4, grandm of 11, ggm of 8, my dear friend interested in all things, she had the gift of happiness
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150k killed in Sudan war over last 9 months. 500k killed in Syria in recent years. Yet no protests; scant coverage. Surely every civilian killed in the regional wars - Syrian Israeli Palestinian Sudanese Lebanese - should count equally. Yet clearly for many they dont count.
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Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
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I always wondered at leftist intellectuals who supported Stalin’s Terror & rightists who excused Hitler. Today’s Hamas apologists w their bloviations re ‘colonialism’ belong to that tradition but worse: after abundant evidence of gleeful slaughter of civilians they persist.
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A class in why the familial power of monarchy endures and works. It was fascinating to see the regal dignity personal courage & admirable grace under pressure of Felipe VI King of Spain visiting the enraged heartbroken people of Valencia …while the head of government Sanchez
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The greatest speech on the Hamas terror attack, Israel’s war vs Hamas & antisemitism & decolonisation has come from the German vice-chancellor, Robert Habeck. Do watch.
@BMWK
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz
1 year
It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
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The moral contrast betw courageous people oft women in Iran (Syria and Afghanistan Russia) risking their lives. & our spoiled posh selfrighteous activists who promote their own ‘courage’ while kidnapping unguarded statues, shouting at jewish pensioners or throwing paint at
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What to do when your irrepressible 92 year old mother starts writing to The Times about Death . @thetimes
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Damian Lewis’s brilliantly repellent narcissistic petty reptilian vain capricious murderous tyrant stole the show in .#WolfHallTheMirrorAndTheLight @BBCOne …. Its v hard to play a character everyone feels they know but he recreated H8 somehow closer to real thing. What an ogre
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1 year
May her memory be a blessing.
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1 year
Proud to be marching tomorrow against antisemitism.
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Board of Deputies of British Jews
1 year
📢Tomorrow, there will be a National Solidarity March Against Antisemitism in Central London. The march will start at 13:30 from the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL. The route will be policed. We encourage people to attend. #MarchAgainstAntisemitism
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On this anxious day i want to thank those nonJews who supported us calling out Lab racism,regressive hatred of W values, support 4 terrorists & evil tyrants like Kadaffi Assad Iran.We r so grateful for yr courage & decency when so many enabled /appeased Corbyn. Thank u.
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Gunmen snatch nearly 300 Nigerian schoolchildren from morning assembly. More than 350,000 civilians have been killed in Nigeria by Islamist extremists; 2 million displaced, say the UN. And now this. Not unlike the Hamas raid on Israel. Attackers, probably Islamist militias.
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Alot of people seem to be reading this on plane journeys at the moment. i keep getting photos like this. Its MiddleEast history that tries to respect both nations both narratives both histories Israel and Palestinians. Which is why i wrote it. Two states is the only way
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3 years
As the war rages, some of the bravest people tonight are those in Russia risking everything to protest against this Ukraine war and sign petitions.
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Сергей Бойко
3 years
В Новосибирске шествие. Скандируют: "Нет войне!"
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Twitter is sometimes repulsive, sometimes inspiring and this is one of the latter: here we can watch the funeral of #Navalny is real time. & celebrate real courage not just in him but in all these brave people daring to attend his funeral under the jackboot of brutal tyranny.
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Команда Навального | ФБК
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1 year
In this crisis @bbcnews has squandered its reputation for both neutrality and reliability.
@BoardofDeputies
Board of Deputies of British Jews
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We are absolutely appalled by @BBCNews footage which appears to show a newsreader misquoting a Reuters report. The Corporation must issue a public apology without delay for this egregious misreporting.
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How to commemorate the Holocaust. Without mentioning Jewish people at all.
@antonioguterres
António Guterres
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Today, we honor the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. We pledge never to forget – nor let others forget the truth of what happened. And we recognize the horrific resonance this day of commemoration finds in our own times. #HolocaustRemembrance
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Just a word on Coates's book. It is entirely permissible to hate Israel and the book is pervaded with that hatred which is now very fashionable and Coates is nothing if not a dedicated follower of fashion. Equally the preposterous Pooterish pomposity and self-importance are.
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Aizenberg
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Here is recap of 10 of Coates' lies, underpinning his entire thesis that Israel practices Jim Crow, apartheid, a caste society. There are many more lies & misrepresentations not listed in this thread, this is just a sample from 100 pages of falsehoods. Read CONCLUSION next. 23/
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I wrote @TheAtlantic: this sham ahistorical inhumane ideology based on Marxist dialectic Soviet progaganda & medieval antisemitism that is taught in our unis, justifies killing civilians,doesnt describe the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of Palestinians & rules out 2states.
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The Atlantic
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"Much of the justification for killing civilians is based on a fashionable ideology, 'decolonization,' which, taken at face value, rules out the negotiation of two states . and is as dangerous as it is false," @simonmontefiore writes:
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I hate writing letters about anti-Jewish racism in Britain.I thought that time was over. But @guardian's editorial in defence of Corbyn was too appalling to leave unchallenged. Heres my letter
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Heres something that gave me joy today: can you guess what is?. The shopping list of Michelangelo. Fish bread fennel soups, a herring, anchovies, tortelli, and wine! Sketched for his illiterate maid. A friend sent it from Florence where its in Casa Buonarroti
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1 year
The malignant moral moronism of this interviewer takes the biscuit @skynews . Many of the Hamas prisoners in this swap are terrorist killers of civilians inc children. The Israeli hostages are civilians and children.
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Eylon Levy
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The first question that left me speechless (but only for a second):
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Exploiting Anne Frank like this is truly despicable. And it is also basic anti-Jewish racism, anti-semitism, the appropriation theft and inversion then deployment of Jewish history against Jews. And for Hamas genocidal programme. It doesnt get sicker than this.
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Hen Mazzig
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Anne Frank was a real person, who was murdered in the Holocaust, a genocide of Jews. Using her image to represent any movement is a disgrace, let alone one that harbors the same genocidal intentions as her murderers.
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One of the telling pictures of today
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On way to march #MarchAgainstAntisemitism
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Its not just @BBC looks an ass refusing to say ‘terrorist’, its sad to see @JohnSimpsonNews plead BBC rules & reliability when its reporting of Hamas atrocities wasn’t reliable,aiding deniers, & now Gaza hospital. If not for platforms X & whatsapp we wouldn’t hear the real news.
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Disgusting. Unforgivable. And the Israeli state must prosecute the perpetrators.
@IhabHassane
Ihab Hassan
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Rasheed Abdel Qader Sada, 23 years old, was brutally murdered by terrorist settlers during a pogrom targeting the village of Jit in Qalqilya, West Bank. The settlers shot Rashid while he was trying to stop them from setting his home on fire.
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I wrote an article @TheAtlantic on History of Israelis & Palestinians, the urgency of 2 states, the use of Decolonialization to back Hamas barbarity dehumanize civilians & stop 2-states of Israel & Palestine. Plse read it all. Its key to be able.to hold 2 thoughts at one time.
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Hamas's Western Apologists Have Become Hamas Enthusiasts. As a Gazan, I'm Horrified
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Important to Listen to moderate Arab voices, not Western Hamas apologists who know nothing of the region or its history. Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad of Bahrain condemns Hamas: their October 7th massacre of Israelis was barbaric & demands release of the Israeli hostages.
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Middle East Monitor
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Bahraini Prime Minister Condemns Hamas Actions at IISS Manama Dialogue. Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain, condemned Hamas’ actions on the 7th of October. His condemnation came during his speech at the 19th IISS Manama Dialogue. He described
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Proud of the civility of British democracy - in contrast to US. Gracious sober realistic speech by Starmer w compliments to Sunak ‘first British Asian PM’; gracious goodbyes fr Sunak & Hunt. ‘One of the great strengths of this nation always been our ability to navigate a way
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Here @BBCWorld explains they translate Hamas 'Kill JEWS' as 'Kill Israelis.' "We need to translate what the speaker means to say not the literal words". Absurd! Like accepting Hamas cadres as trustworthy BBC stringers. BBC protects Hamas fr itself. Translate what they say.
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Khaled Hassan
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In a BBC 2019 documentary, a Gazan said "The revolutionary songs, they excite you, they encourage you to rip a Yehudi's (Arabic for Jew) head off.” The BBC translated 'Yehudi' to 'Israeli'. The BBC wrote to my MP who raised the matter with them at my request. This was the answer:
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Twitter is like spending time in the square of a cosmopolitan city where in a corner-cafe, one meets wits who talk books/history,inform you of war & revolution;some become friends;& across the square in dank alleys gangs of masked reptiles attack. The skill is to stay in the cafe
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Horrific sexual violence committed by Hamas against Israeli women on Oct 7th, and the lack of global outrage. “Why would the international community and @UNWomenWatch be silent about these crimes? They seem to be vocal about so much else?”.
@TheLeadCNN
The Lead CNN
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Israel investigates claims of sexual violence on October 7. CNN's @jaketapper reports
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The New Rape Denialism . On Oct. 7, Hamas invaded Israel and filmed itself committing scores of human-rights atrocities. Some of the footage was later captured by the Israeli military and screened to hundreds of journalists, including me. The “pure, predatory sadism,” as Atlantic.
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Amidst so much darkness, wishing everyone peace and lightness! Happy hannukah. Hannukah Sameach 🕎
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1 year
Nothing constructive is possible while the Netanyahu Catastrophe is in power.
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Sky News
1 year
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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Huge numbers at London #MarchAgainstAntisemitism .Great to be here
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10 months
This extraordinary image marks a new moment and a new era in the history of Jerusalem and the Middle East.
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Sometimes X is priceless.
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When I was writing my history of Jerusalem and the Holy Land, I was rung by a 'friend' who said 'I ve got a history of the Jews that you'll find v useful for your book'. When i opened the envelope, I found the Elders of Zion. At the time, I was relatively kind to this friend.
@Holocaust_Irl
Holocaust Awareness Ireland
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The Protocol of the Elders of Zion is a forgery, forerunner to contemporary antisemitic conspiracy theory.Its sole purpose is to demonize Jews & provoke anti-Jewish hatred. Are @Hodges_Figgis Dublin selling this document to profit from the explosion in antisemitism since Oct 7th?
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Thanks to those of you who have pointed out that @AP 's Photos of Infiltration and Tragedy in Israel were shamefully awarded a Pictures of the Year (POY) Award by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute @RJI at the Missouri School of Journalism. I am happy to correct my.
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Today in 1938 mobs of German civilians & government SS & SA militias attacked German Jews & their homes businesses synagogue in the pogrom of Kristallnacht. 191 were murdered. 600 killed themselves. 30ooo Jews arrested. 115ooo emigrated. A step towards darker & diabolical times
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This says alot
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Those elderly civilian Hostages not ‘killed by Israeli bombardment’. As Hamas claimed. & like most Hamas claims as was repeated across the world. Hamas lied. As usual.Hamas shot them.
@Jerusalem_Post
The Jerusalem Post
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Bodies of hostages who were returned to Israel after being killed in captivity were found to have bullets inside the corpses.
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Senior BBC worker who called Jews an 'invader species' SACKED.
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So the war unfolds tragically. Just as we deplore the killing of Israeli civilians, we deplore the killing of Palestinian civilians. We reject Hamas, evil & unfit to govern , but we do not mistake Hamas for the Palestinian people whose losses we mourn as we do our own.
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CNN fires freelance photojournalist who was embedded with Hamas.
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This country once had the best universities in world. Now it produces students who threaten to rape a rabbi’s wife & are told by their friends/tutors they’re on the right side of history.Gaza is a tragedy. What’s happening on British campuses is shameful.
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The distortion, mockery, commandeering and exploitation of Jewish history against Jewish people now is a classic trope of anti-Jewish racism and this image of Anne Frank, a young Dutch girl who was murdered by the Nazis for being being, draped in a keffiyeh in Norway, is.
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Alarming. NHS staff reported over ‘free Palestine’ badges and shirt. And staff threaten to stop dialysis treatment to make patient delete photo of staff wearing ‘free Palestine’ shirts.
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1 year
Just to say thank you and express admiration to the decent passengers on London public transport who stood up to this vile & violent racist yday. Its gives one hope.
@edleonklinger
Ed Leon Klinger
1 year
‘ARE YOU A JEW?’ .This video was recorded yesterday by a friend of mine in London. Welcome to the new reality for British Jews.
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Finished The Wire. I realize: it is the greatest masterpiece of tv drama of all. The dialogue. The characters inc the villains PropJo Omar Mcnulty the scary Snoop. the worlds told. The flawless acting. the courage. It does resemble the 19C novel cycles of a balzac or a zola.
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May I propose this a rule of discourse: the making of solemn parallels between minor, annoying measures, health or otherwise, by well-meaning democratic governments AND the liquidation of the entire Jewish people in Europe by the Nazis aka the Holocaust displays crass.
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Esther McVey
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First they came for the Communists.And I did not speak out.Because I was not a communist.Then they came for the Jews.And I did not speak out.Because I was not a Jew.Then they came for me.And there was no one left.To speak out for me. Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban.
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Recent months of the Hamas kill-&-rape attack against Israeli civilians & Israel's war against Hamas have been marked by so much tragic killing and suffering of civilians, Palestinian & Israeli and the suffering of both populations must be told, all crimes exposed . but.
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The Guardian
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I asked colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They said there is no precedent for what is happening | Devi Sridhar
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Real courage. True astounding courage. We shld bow before these amazing women in Iran. V different from our self-congratulatory Western ‘activists’.
@AlinejadMasih
Masih Alinejad 🏳️
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In Iran, a student harassed by her university’s morality police over her “improper” hijab didn’t back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful
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1 year
If true, a disgrace. And if these r the stringers for major Western news organizations, it explains the appalling reporting.
@NoahPollak
Noah Pollak
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🚨🚨🚨🚨.Important expose by @honestreporting: Photographers working for AP, CNN, NYT, and Reuters were EMBEDDED with Hamas on 10/7 and accompanied the terrorist group into Israel. They knew the attack was coming, and participated in it.
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Proud to be in HydePark now remembering the dead & hostages of the October7 killraid by Hamas remembering grieving for many innocents suffering & killed in Gaza Lebanon Israel w a big crowd @chiefrabbi @simon_schama @BoDpres @TracyAnnO ably presiding. Shalom & shana tova to all
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S Sebag Montefiore
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Columbia revolutionary students push limits of satire in demand for humanitarian fooddrops of sushi, acai,electrolyte water & glutefree croissants fr uni. ‘This is crazy to say because we’re on an Ivy League campus but this is, like, basic humanitarian aid we’re asking for’.
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The Post Millennial
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Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:. "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
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S Sebag Montefiore
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This is a superb important piece about the distortion and denial of Jewish and Israeli history by Yossi Klein Halevi, author of the great Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor. After all history is everything in this conflict but it has to be the real history, not an invented one.
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S Sebag Montefiore
2 months
My Emily is the last UK hostage in Gaza. Every day’s a death sentence.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Just show some character & apologize. Even in a maelstrom of indecent malign and smug ignorance, unreliable reporting & brazen prejudice, your performance stood out. Even in a storm of hypocrisy & bias yr haughty and oblivious justification stands out.
@KayBurley
Kay Burley
1 year
Morning everyone,. We often put one side of an argument to a guest so they can offer a counterclaim. Yesterday, I raised a controversial view from an earlier guest to allow another to respond. Each morning we’re dedicated to presenting fairly the news of this war. #IsraelHamasWar.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
BBC admits to British Jews it made mistakes in Israel-Gaza coverage.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Today marks Departure & Expulsion of Jews from ArabCountries/Iran. A neglected piece of the history of 1948: 850,000 Jews lived in places like Iraq,Morocco for milennia.Most expelled. Now.Israelis are: .50% MiddleEasternJews. 20% Arab/Druze. 30% descent fr EuropeanJews.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
It sometimes seems there r more decent people on the streets of Teheran than in many of the academies, media & ‘humanrights’ organizations of the west.
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Maryam Aslany
1 year
Iranians honking to obstruct regime’s pro-Hamas gathering in Tehran.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
United Arab Emirates says it will teach Holocaust in schools
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S Sebag Montefiore
6 months
Who decides? What is hateful what is admirable? Who casts the stone? Who guards the guardians?. Dangerous.
@SkyNews
Sky News
6 months
Home Office to crack down on people 'pushing hateful beliefs' . Read more🔗.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
If @bbcnews has done it again, they need to investigate and apologize.
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Elliot Cohen 🎗
1 year
Jeremy Bowen on @bbcnews blaming the shot people on the road south of Gaza City on "Israeli snipers". There ARE no Israeli soldiers south of Gaza. You are utterly shameless, Bowen. Shame on you. Shame on the BBC.
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S Sebag Montefiore
2 months
Here is a classic, somewhat absurd case of progressive presentist inversion and distortion of history in the captioning @britishmuseum: 'by the beginning of the first century millennium the Israelites occupied most of Palestine'. Canaan is probably the right word here. Or.
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Nicole Lampert
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This is apparently from a new @britishmuseum exhibition but it appears factually wrong - dangerously so (not sure if historians are able to intervene here). At the beginning of the 1st millennium BC the Israelites didn’t ’occupy Palestine’. They were the natives who were
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Just the last disgraceful and totally unacceptable outrage from this appalling Israeli government that seems hellbent on damaging inflaming and menacing not just Palestinians but also Israel itself.
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Benzi Sanders
1 year
The masks keep coming off. Israeli Communications Minister from the ruling Likud party admits tonight that his plan for “voluntary migration” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip will actually be coerced migration or in other words ethnic cleansing.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
The enthusiasm on Tiktok for Osama bin Laden shows where the enthusiasm for jihadist terrorist killers Hamas leads, much based on a zombie ideology that applies simple but brutal eliminationist gibberish Decolonisation to a complex world without knowledge of history or present.
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S Sebag Montefiore
4 months
Today we remember the 1200+ Israelis, Israeli Arabs and Bedouin, Thais and others slaughtered and mutilated by Hamas terrorists in their diabolical invasion of Israel a year ago and the hostages taken and those who have died since and the 100 who remain in Hamas tunnels. May.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Surely this is a spoof, @guardian?. A malignant, ahistorical and amoral one but a spoof nonetheless.
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
These female hostages walk fearlessly as they r paraded thru this baying crowd. The definition of courage.
@HenMazzig
Hen Mazzig
1 year
BREAKING: the 10 Israeli hostages, girls and women, released from Hamas captivity now, being paraded across an angry crowd of Gazans shouting Allahu Akbar as they cross into the Red Cross car with armed terrorists surrounding them. Vile.
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S Sebag Montefiore
7 months
Proud of the civility of British politics wherein after the sovereign Charles III read Labour’s #KingsSpeech, the new PrimeMinister & DeputyPM banter with exPM in the Mother of Parliaments. Despite extremist thuggery in the election, much to contrast w US, much to celebrate here
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S Sebag Montefiore
4 months
Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
So glad I went #MarchagainstAntisemitism moving inspiring huge around 100k:Jews nonJews BritsArabsPalestinians IraniansKurdsItalians utd by celebration of Brit tolerance&democracy, rejection of antiJewish racism,Hamas terrorism but also empathy to Israeli & Palestinian civilians
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Still amazed to see this level of antiJewish racism in London….
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Aviva Klompas
1 year
At today’s London protest, a sign calling for a “Final Solution” to Israel and the Jews. 📸 @__jacker__
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S Sebag Montefiore
4 months
Here is al-Jazeera’s contribution to today. An anchorman with 2m+ followers says: The Hamas Massacre of Jews on 7 October ‘is the day that restored the umma's [Muslim community's] dignity and status."
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S Sebag Montefiore
11 months
"How could we have guessed that our attack where we slaughtered civilians and subsequent admissions that we planned to repeat this attack again and again until Israel has been destroyed would lead to a war to remove us from power?????".
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MEMRI
11 months
Senior Hamas Official Mousa Abu Marzouk: Nobody Could Have Anticipated the Consequences of October 7; We Did Not Expect a Barbaric World War against Us, in Violation of International Law #Hamas #Palestinians #October7massacre
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
The definition of moral weasel-ism! "Lost and found"? Was she playing hide & seek? Or was this Israeli child, 9, abducted by Hamas terrorists in the Kill Raid when 1200 civilians slaughtered, girls raped, babies beheaded."Our prayers answered"? Were yr prayers this dishonest?.
@LeoVaradkar
Leo Varadkar
1 year
This is a day of enormous joy and relief for Emily Hand and her family. An innocent child who was lost has now been found and returned, and we breathe a massive sigh of relief. Our prayers have been answered.
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S Sebag Montefiore
7 months
Proud of the civility of British democracy - in contrast to US. ‘Dont be sad- its the magic of democracy’. Touching gracious goodbyes fr Sunak & Chancellor Hunt. Gracious welcomes to Keir Starmer ‘decent man’ & ‘unremarkable’ in 21stC Uk for PM to light DowningSt Diwali candles
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Why’s the #MeToo crowd silent on Hamas rape?.
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S Sebag Montefiore
6 months
As Hezbollah kill Druze kids play football in attacks on Israeli civilians, @bbc & its weird culture cant name Iran-terror-sect Hezbollah as perpetrators. Balance never perfect but we need neutral coverage of complex region. @bbc @bbcnews bias has degraded this institution
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S Sebag Montefiore
1 year
Courage is.
@visegrad24
Visegrád 24
1 year
Masked anti-Israel protesters attack a man carrying a sign in London saying “Hamas are terrorists”
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