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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, controlled by the Greens, wrote to some Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them. I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety. www.jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-re...

Earlier this year we hosted at Highgate Synagogue a noted Palestinian campaigner Ahmed Fouad AlKhatib who lost more than 30 family members in Gaza. He told a packed synagogue - and it was really packed -- how he as a Gazan and a Palestinian believed that Hamas had brought nothing but disaster on the Palestinian people, and that those keffiyeh wearing sympathizers in the West who cheer for Hamas are doing more harm than good. He was no shill for Israel or its Prime Minister, but he at least acknowledged the attachment of Jews to this land, and the fact that non-Jews in Israel have rights that no-one, certainly not Jews or Christians, let alone Muslims can aspire to anywhere else in the Middle East. So no, we don’t accept your assurances that we are safe under your watch. You may see no connection between the ceaseless vilification of Israel, the blood libels that you and your party regularly trot out, and the hostility to Jews in this country, but we do. If this motion does not mean that Jews in Haringey who have family or friends in Israel, or who attend our synagogue, or who maybe aren’t religious but believe that there is a place for a haven for the tattered remnant of the most persecuted race on earth, are considered by you and your party as racists and by implication fair game for ostracism, intimidation, violence or worse, please explain to us what else it means. And if that is indeed what it means, and we are pretty sure that those who voted for it believe that is precisely what it means, how can we as Jews feel safe when the largest party of the borough we live in, entirely peacefully up to now, publicly align yourself with the most virulent jew-hating racists of all, Hamas and the Nazis. As it is, despite living in one of the most peaceful and crime free parts of the borough, we have had as a synagogue to invest substantial sums in building terrorism-proof fences round our premises, and employ both volunteers and professional security with stab vests to en

So your embarrassment is not enough. If you really want us to feel you do not agree with the racist and genocidal implications of your party’s policy, the least we can expect is for you to publicly resile yourself from that policy and commit yourself and your party colleagues to reverse that policy and to educate themselves about the realities of the Middle East conflict, and about Jewish life, before you pronounce on these matters with such unshakeable certainty again. Yours sincerely,

dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Red Elvises are back

dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hope ya'lls are having a good evening out there, while I ama gonna listen to the boss lady of blues.

dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Join us for Shred Day" means VERY DIFFERENT things depending on whether the email was sent by your bank or by your music store.

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dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Take-home message from Weird Al's show yesterday: in many an American accent "series" and "theories" rhyme.

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dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Montreal at night. #Montreal

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dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Every dish that involves cooking anything in a sauce (this one is beef in some Korean marinade) is instantly improved by adding potatoes.

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dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Second time today, two subsequent posts align.

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dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Two back-to-back posts in my feed. #ukraine

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dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today's thrift store book haul. #books.

dekhtyar.bsky.social @dekhtyar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thrift store haul