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I write and talk about antisemitism. Waiting impatiently for to win the league again. Personal account.

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  1. Mar 3

    A group of Holocaust survivors send a message to Putin from their Kyiv bomb shelter: "Get out of Ukraine!" Heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure.

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    "We want peace" Ukrainian Holocaust survivors sheltering in a basement in Kyiv record a message to Vladimir Putin
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  2. Mar 2

    As Jeremy Corbyn once said, If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

    When the troops have gone, the bitterness stays and the refugees are still displaced. The poor pay for the rich’s game — be of strength and determination in standing for peace for the people of Ukraine and Russia.
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    Mar 2

    Interesting evening inside the Stop The War Coalition rally. Corbyn speech ended by shouts of ‘shame on you’ by protester holding Ukrainian flag who was marched out of Conway Hal

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    Mar 2

    And what is remarkable, truly mind-blowing in the long sweep of history, is that his Jewishness has not stood in the way of his being embraced as a symbol of the nation.

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  5. Mar 2

    Rather than still insisting Hershel Fink was not a Jewish character, better to accept that the name "Hershel Fink" means the character was 'Jewish' in an antisemitic sense, even if he wasn't Jewish in a normal sense. Then ask yourself what you can learn from that.

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  6. Mar 2

    The apology from is welcome but their report reminds me of the Chakrabarti Report: lots of attention to process to resolve a 'mistake', without real examination of the culture or thinking that led to the mistake in the first place

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    Feb 28

    We condemn this senseless aggression that flies in the face of justice and decency. We continue to both be inspired by the resolve of the Ukrainian people, and to pray for peace. Please support and in their aid efforts.

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    Feb 28

    We are appalled at the Russian aggression against Ukrainian sovereignty and our prayers are with all those affected. We are proud that some of our members are supporting those impacted. Thread ⬇️

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    Feb 27

    Prominent historians of WWII, Nazism & genocide condemn Russia’s propagandistic use of history to justify war of aggression. Among signatories: Tim Snyder, Francine Hirsh, Jeff Herf, Jan Grabowski, Christopher Browning, Joanna Michlic, Omer Bartov et al

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  10. Feb 28

    This series & podcast from is essential listening if you want to understand how Covid conspiracy theories affect people's lives.

    Tune into Death by Conspiracy? on Radio 4 from 0945. And big thanks to the Observer and Times for the reviews! “More power to Spring for her truthful, empathetic reporting and for creating such an interesting series” “The best thing on BBC Sounds this year, I want a sequel”
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  11. Feb 27

    Ukraine is now the frontline of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. It is fighting for its life, and for the preservation of the European idea. Where does the Left stand in this fight? It's time for it to draw a similar border of its own.

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  12. Feb 27

    As ever there is a Jewish element to this. What is bad for Jews is rarely good for wider society. Like many British Jews I trace part of my family to Ukraine, a land of Jewish culture and Jewish tragedy. A Jewish Ukrainian President leading this fight is a symbol of hope.

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  13. Feb 27

    A truly internationalist Left with a moral compass has no place for this politics. The Labour Party now understands how toxic and corrosive it can be. There are trade unions and universities that need a similar process of self-examination.

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  14. Feb 27

    All those Labour MPs who nominated Corbyn for leader in 2015 to 'broaden the debate'? This is what you were inviting in, and it nearly destroyed your party.

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  15. Feb 27

    People who think of themselves as anti-imperialist lecturing Ukraine to give up full sovereignty in return for the privilege of not having Russian tanks on their land, and don't see the irony.

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  16. Feb 27

    And now Russia. People who spent years ignoring, denying or equivocating over Soviet crimes now do the same for Putin, whether it is individual murders on British streets or mass murder in Syria and Ukraine.

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  17. Feb 27

    The ones who denied the massacres in Kosovo while inventing one in Jenin. The ones who pretended jihadist terrorism wasn't a problem until they started calling every Syrian rebel a jihadist.

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  18. Feb 27

    The ones who supported the Iraqi insurgency that was killing British troops and Iraqi trade unionists, and who gave guerrilla warfare books to Saddam's government to help them fight it.

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  19. Feb 27

    The "We are all Hizbollah" crowd. The part that thinks Hamas is a progressive left wing movement fighting for social justice. The ones who take swastika placards to protests against the world's only Jewish state, and all the others who stand by and say nothing.

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  20. Feb 27

    You know, the part of the left that said America brought 9/11 on themselves. That published Osama bin Laden on the opinion pages of the Guardian. That made excuses for the Taliban.

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