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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It will not be a disaster if the Zionism is Racism motion passes or if it falls. It’s just a conference motion. Everyone needs to calm down. It was UNGA policy between 1975 and 1991 and didn’t lead to the liberation of Palestine or the sky falling in.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.

Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires

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greenhealthpolicy.bsky.social @greenhealthpolicy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What does the Green Party proposed new health policy say about #infectious disease? @greenparty.org.uk

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The cat is always really surprised when we come to the door 😂

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My partner got our cat his own personal doorbell. It's attached to a sensor on the wall that tells us when he's coming to the door so that we don't have to keep the door open all the time. Much cheaper and less work than a cat flap and also 200% more whimsy. 10/10.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do it! "Tsedoke saves you from death" as I often read in Yiddish literature, and honestly the Green Party is currently one of the few political forces that seems to be concerned with saving all the lives that are being lost and will be lost to genocide, climate change, etc

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If we are going to deal with even a fraction of the crisis we are facing we need politicians who say and do what needs to be done, not just what they think will make them popular and get them elected

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 21/09/2026

Yom Kippur. Jews fasting for Gaza in Westminster 40 young and old, on the pavement, demanding an end to Genocide

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seeing clips of Netanyahu at the UN proudly holding up a pager to celebrate his atrocities, it's not hard to understand why Zionists have become the new Disney villains of our world in many people's minds. We need to arrest that war criminal

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am an anti-Zionist but I do sometimes flinch when I see people describing Zionism as uniquely "evil", as if it was somehow worse than or wasn't a part of the widespread evils of capitalism, colonialism and nationalism...

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only way you can identify yourself as anti-Zionist and say that Israel has committed genocide in a shul and not be thrown out, is if you are standing for election and get invited to a hustings there. So shekoyech to @zackpolanski.bsky.social for speaking for all of us excluded from these spaces.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

and I also switched in the past two years from describing myself as a "non-Zionist" to "anti-Zionist". After three years of livestreamed genocide who wouldn't?

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Full of admiration for @zackpolanski.bsky.social after hearing about the Jewish community hustings yesterday. We need more political leaders who stick to their principles even when they know it won't make them popular. I'm proud to be a Jewish member of the Green Party this morning

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Polanski sparks anger after declaring himself ‘anti-Zionist’ at packed communal hustings - Jewish News

Green Party's Holborn and St Pancras by-election candidate is booed and heckled

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And now I learned that in Yiddish one word for caterpillar is dafke a gobble-upper!

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Was a mekhaye (joy) and a koved (honour) to be interviewed on the lefty Jewish podcast Bashert for their episode on the month of Elul, which began at sundown yesterday. Give it a listen tr.ee/2_wUOZJszB

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Bashert is a podcast that celebrates the magic of the Jewish calendar; weaving together ritual practice, astrology of the month ahead and doikayt.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

If you think it's hot where you are, it's 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Iran

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Cowleyforniadreaming @holybollards.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thames water have been discharging raw sewage into the river for more than 4 hrs today.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The year is 2036. A group of neurodivergent people with ME/CFS now live in Paris Chatelet metro because we lacked both the executive function and the energy to get more than halfway through the station

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

But Jerry Seinfeld himself is an ardent Zionist. I didn't read the essay as actually saying that all Jewish culture is Zionist, but rather that the links to Zionism always seemed to be present, at least to the writer. That's a perspective that's worth listening to, whether or not we agree it

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

French partner just read this and went "it's "tac" with a C" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Mimed the word "avekleygn" (put away) for my Francophone Yiddish students and I said "tak" as I placed the object down for clarity. Feeling proud of my cultural literacy 🥸 Also now coming up with a "hop mayne homentashn" exercise that involves moving some homentashn from one place to another

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Jewdastine Action @jewdas.org · 24/05/2026

Hey all just some admin for our Peysakh seder next year. Looking for ideas: What vegetable should @zackpolanski.bsky.social hold up and what ideology should he shout fuck at?

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

coucou la semaine prochaine c'est mon anniversaire #justsaying

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Saving this snapshot from Parisian Police Archives for when my dad says something "political" in the family group chat "It seems that English public opinion, always slow to react, is beginning to make itself known..."

Screenshot of a typed French document that reads "il semble, d'autre part, que l'opinion publque anglaise, doujours longue à s'émouvoir, commence à se manifester"

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I think a major reason for why Zionism has become so dominant among Jews is somewhere along the line—and thanks to clever manipulation by Zionist leaders—lots of Jews have started to see Israel's right to exist as synonymous with Jews' right to exist. Extremely dangerous and we need to challenge it

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is the only acceptable answer to "do you support Israel's right to exist" and it's frigging great to see a prominent politician say it

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Winslow Santé Publique @winslowsp.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

🎤 Un de nos membres, Julien, était sur les ondes sur RTL ce matin pour parler #CovidLong Il y parle de la fausse séparation en vulnérable / invulnérable au Covid, des inégalités face au diagnostic & à la prise en charge, et son expérience de la maladie👏

Faustine bollaert un jour une vie
Julien, le Covvid long a bouleversé toute sa vie.
Photo de Faustine bollaert fond rouge

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

"I went from a life of being able-bodied to a life of being disabled. And a disabled life is just as worthy as an able-bodied life, you can just can't do certain things, but what becomes difficult is society's gaze, which tells you that you are no longer worth much" So well put.

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Winslow Santé Publique @winslowsp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🚨🗞️ Must read : "Non, le yoga n’est pas la solution au Covid long" sur le Colloque Long COVID EU Project (nous confirmons!), "rapidement interrompu par des personnes vivant avec le Covid long, s’insurgeant des thèses défendues par certains des protagonistes

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Non, le yoga n’est pas la solution au Covid long

Christian Lehmann est médecin et écrivain. Pour «Libération», il tient la chronique d’une société touchée par les crises sanitaires et du service public. Il s’insurge contre ces praticiens qui pensent que le Covid long «c’est dans la tête».

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Great conversation with @josephfinlay.bsky.social and @vashtimedia.bsky.social editors Asha Sumroy and Evan Robins, trying to make sense of the recent antisemitic attacks and, as Joseph puts it, the 'utter, utter nonsense' of the state response to them www.vashtimedia.com/the-present-...

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The present crisis

A conversation on attacks and repression in London.

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Another day, another national newspaper publishing a cartoon with Zack Polanski with a massive hook nose. Another day of silence from mainstream politicians self-proclaimed great antisemitism fighters on the antisemitism faced by Zack. Solidarity with Zack and ALL the victims of antisemitism.

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Next Tuesday @ 7pm EST (midnight for Brits) @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social , Elissa Sampson and I discuss the interwar history of the IWO, an immigrant fraternal order associated with the CPUSA. Free, online, register at www.circle.org/events/iwo-p... Come for the communism, stay for the Yiddish.

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The event description reads: THE IWO: FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR a discussion with Dr. Elissa Sampson, Anthony Russell and Annie Cohen

MAY 12, 7:00-8:00 PM ET on Zoom

How did the International Workers Order navigate Jewish and leftist political communities and organize for justice before, during, and in the wake of the Second World War?

Join us and learn why the IWO's history and legacy remain compelling for all of us who wish to build "a better and more beautiful world for everyone."

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

One size fits all, if your bum is too big or too small then you should investigate yourself for left- or right-wing deviationism

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Going through 1930s Communist Press archives and a lot of it is very depressing and also Stalinist but then there is also this great guide by SUSAN to making your own knickers using cut outs from the paper as a template #history #praxis

Screenshot of a newspaper showing the title "SUSAN, the Home Page dressmaker, gives some useful tips on MAKING your own KNICKERS". Image of a knickers template with dimensions

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Thanks! And I see we overlap in two sub-groups 😷🕎

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tash @tashldn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Have you seen this from Herschel Gluck? He’s gone in pretty hard and taken up the hoohah over Zack Polanski too… bsky.app/profile/tash...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Herschel Gluck is a true mentsh <3 thanks for sharing

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm a Jew from Golders Green and I recently joined the Green Party in large part BECAUSE of their support for Palestinian liberation, and because they are the only major party that seems to be fighting to change the systems that lead to so much unnescessary violence and suffering

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

They've been playing these games for over a century, the only thing to do is to refuse to join in...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It's almost obscene the way antisemitic violence is manipulated by political pundits to attack their opponents—in this case the one major party that actually wants to change the system—but it's all too fucking familiar...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I found myself thinking about Medem today after reading the wild and somewhat unhinged accusations on @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party following the attacks in Golders Green. Reading the news this morning, you'd think that the Green Party were behind the stabbings...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

In Medem's day, that was a minority position in the Jewish world, but today it has become the dominant one. Those of us who stand up for Palestinian liberation are often attacked, like Medem was, with Zionists finding ways to demonstrate that we "aren't real Jews"...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Medem learned, lived and wrote in Yiddish, was the principle advocate of Jewish national autonomy, and famously fell out with the Bolsheviks over their refusal to recognise Jews as a nation. But for Zionists, his opposition to the Jewish colonial project in Palestine made him an antisemite...

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Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

And there was nothing he could do about it, his responses were ignored. In fact, Portnoy notes in a footnote that as late as 1972, almost 50 years after Medem's death, this was still being repeated by Zionist writers...

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