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Jewish News @jewishnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'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'
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Synagogue rejects Green council leader’s attempt to ‘reassure’ them after “Zionism is Racism” vote
'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'
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 12h
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 10h
if you're not Jewish you might not be familiar with Hillel, its the largest Jewish student organization in the US, it helps Jewish students meet and also celebrate holidays away from home (since we don't get our holidays off)
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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...
Dear Mark Thank you for your emails to us. We take it from both the tone and the content of your email that you are deeply embarrassed with the decision taken by your party to not only brand Zionism as racism but to call for the eradication by any means necessary including violence, of the only Jewish state, the only practising democracy in the Middle East, and also home to half of the world’s Jewish population.  We are not surprised you are embarrassed. The policy decision which has not just been endorsed by but was publicly celebrated by the Haringey branch of the Green Party, of which we assume you are a member, is thus aligning itself with Hamas, a genocidal, homophobic and misogynistic Islamist terrorist organisation not only responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, but countless murders and torture of its own people. You may not be aware that members of our synagogue have close relatives and friends who perished in that pogrom - of which today is the third anniversary - not to mention other horrendous terrorist atrocities carried out in the name of the resistance that your party supports. We also adopted Emily Damari, a British Israeli hostage who was kidnapped by Hamas from her home at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, suffered terribly at the hands of her Hamas jailers and had to keep her sexual orientation secret from her kidnappers or else would have been murdered, along with 87 others including the Bibas children, four year old Arieh and nine month old Kfir who were killed in cold blood for the sole crime of being Jewish children born in their ancestral homeland.  Our synagogue along with the majority of British synagogues recites weekly Sabbath prayers for both the Royal Family of the United Kingdom and the State of Israel and will continue to do so, irrespective of what you or other Green Party members think. 

 Love of Zion and a hope to be able to return to live in our ancestral homeland is integral to all streams of Judaism, as, it so happens,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 enSo 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,
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They wanted a conduit for bullshit. They got one.
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Gingit @gingit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Not comfortable” talking about anything that doesn’t fit their little racist narrative.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this is banana nut butters insane and you wish you could say it was one distressing one off, but bonkers Jew hate in higher education and academia is uh... a real fucking problem.
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Chris Neville-Smith (not theatre) @ohno-itschris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For what it's worth, I thought Zack Polanski was a wanker before it was cool.
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The Bear Jieux @thebearjieux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Gingit @gingit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Allies. We need you to speak up more than ever.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's time to remove frothing antisemites from all decision making about people's leisure activities.
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Peter Swallow MP @peter4bracknell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We've lost over 150 social homes in Bracknell Forest through disposal We need tougher measures to limit how social housing providers can sell off the homes Bracknell Forest families badly need
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Duchess Traci Deecee @tracideecee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon
Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The smug self-approval of the Jew hating, marching, rape apologists. Fear. How to summon a refusal to buckle to fear. Is there a way to feel hope when facing mobs? How does group-think fed on propaganda, spread like Covid? How to offer antidotes when people so gleefully enjoy the virus? Despair.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And now we're permanentlly surrounded by the unmasked hate.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oct 7th as a Jew outside Israel, was a uniquely bizarre and traumatizing thing because you were just glued to watching it happen, and so were all the Jews in your life, and all your Goyish friends had no idea or worse were unmasked invasion of the body snatchers style as Jew haters
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Euronews @euronews.com · 07/10/2026
Celebrating The October 7 massacre is inhumanity, not solidarity ➡️ l.euronews.com/OJpv
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good grief, they have a slimeball "leader" too? Are they proliferating? Is there a vaccine?
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This and another post are the first I’m seeing of this and idk what the actual context is but Tom Morello fucking rocks. The one time I met him he nearly spit out his drink when I mistakenly said he “campaigned for John kerry” in2004 lol
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Rachel Blake MP @rachelblakemp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It is incumbent on all of us to confront antisemitism where it appears. A statement on the Green Party motion passed yesterday.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you. It is appalling, yes, and bleakly frightening.
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Masato Jones @masatojones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hearing elected politicians spouting propaganda-created tropes is dismal. Sort out the ignorant hate culture that's attracting mob thinkers and forcing thoughtful people to quit the Green Party, rather than adding to it ffs Sian.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I suppose that's a tiny light in the bleak darkness.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yeah right Sian. Sure you will.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026
This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter). And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yup. "Risks alienating" is hardly an adequate description of being on the receiving end of the endless hate tropes these ignorant nitwits spit at Jews who won't submit to them.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. 🧵 He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And today many people in the Green Party choose to promote the same hatred as Mosley...For people who enjoy marching, flags and mob think, plus ça change plus c'est la meme chose. #neveragainisnow
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Grow up.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And today many people in the Green Party choose to promote the same hatred as Mosley...For people who enjoy marching, flags and mob think, plus ça change plus c'est la meme chose. #neveragainisnow
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hearing elected politicians spouting propaganda-created tropes is dismal. Sort out the ignorant hate culture that's attracting mob thinkers and forcing thoughtful people to quit the Green Party, rather than adding to it ffs Sian.
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Wushówunan @wusho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read to the end 🙃
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because the small group of violent settlers are fanatic nutcases, perhaps. The groups I mentioned to you all want them stopped. Just as I want the racist thugs who mob and attack refugee hotels in UK, stopped. Standing Together are there right now, in real life solidarity with West Bank Arabs.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, doesn't it work? Sorry. If you want to find or join up with some of the many peace activists there, please Google Standing Together, or The Parents Circle, or The Mothers Call. They all have active international support groups, online and in person meetups too.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dyou know where those stats come from? And I loathe the war. Just think the Western noise-makers' current obsession with demonising Israel while ignoring the Qatari and Iranian puppet masters, ignores both Gazan and Israeli normal citizens and the people trying to survive in brutal theocracies.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.standing-together.org
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They continue to live there just as they do now.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Repeating a propaganda trope doesn't make it into a fact. Or help create dialogue. Only supporting true peacemakers will shift the terrible status quo the theological fanatics, arms profiteers and warmongers want to maintain. Eldritch bog is a more pleasing cover name than the other anons, though.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heard of Trump? Some voters like bastards.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
True. Look at the thoughtful people who have critical thinking skills, moral and physical courage reaching out to one another in Israel, Gaza and to the world. 'Comrades' sharing hatred are ideologically far behind the amazingly brave Palestinian and Israeli joint peacemakers like Standing Together.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dear oh dear. Yet another anon with a silly cover name who posts hate propaganda tropes.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dear oh lor, I neither support Carla's position, nor care a jot what an anon on social media thinks he/she needs to know about a total stranger.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Would be better if you didn't use the genocide accusation while making no mention of Hamas' culpabilty or the massive opposition in Israel to Netanyahu, or the amazing Palestinian-Jewish groups working together for peace. Surely the Green Party should be supporting them, not spreading hate tropes.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sitting out the rise of hate mobs really doesn't help.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's interesting and hopeful. I left the Green Party, relunctantly, because the democratic discursive culture had turned into frequent refusal to accept different views or encompass dissent, even shouting down or forcing people into silence. I'm glad if that stuff has stopped or is turning round.
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Helpful and creative mindset, non?
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Lizzie 🌱 @espringw11.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There isn't a sensible choice. Our country seems in a pre-war frenzy of escalating blame: of cartoon Jews by the left, cartoon immigrants by the right, old and young set up as enemies.Hence marches, mobs, narcissists courting voters via populist hate. Thank whatever god exists for chocolate and gin.
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