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Josh Alston

@joshalston.bsky.social
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Historian of Jews in South Africa. Penguin enthusiast. Unenthusiastic about neoliberalism. Green Party England and Wales.

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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rabbi Lev Saul argues that Green Party conference has been "forced to choose between chasing out its Jews or appearing indifferent to Palestinian suffering".
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The Zionism is Racism motion has left the Greens with no good options
Conference has been forced to choose between chasing out its Jews or appearing indifferent to Palestinian suffering
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
George Galloway's Worker's Party endorsement of zionism is racism is an excellent reason not to vote for it. #gpconf
Geogre Galloway workers party calls on greens to pass the zionism is racism motion
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Kris (he/him) @portlandkris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Intriguing to hear of the bigot Galloway's party outside Green Party conference handing out leaflets exhorting people to support a particular motion. Surely that can only hurt?
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Staggered at the number of supposedly intelligent, right-thinking people who still think they are immune to X’s powers. Boromirism.
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've been saying for years that being a Bolton Wanderers fan is morally the right thing to do and this is just more evidence in my case
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue. The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
youtube.com/shorts/imTAE... The reception here demonstrates the weakness of Zionism is Racism's political strategy. We should be talking about Israel's crimes and how to stop them. If we start from an abstract and tenous philosophical contention and work backwards we close off the conversation.
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Zack Polanski booed at communal hustings after identifying as “anti-Zionist” for first time.
YouTube video by Jewish News
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DdtlBgkDAY... happy sukkot from the Jewish greens
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George @georgewalton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We seem to have ended up in a weird position where a Zionist is both defined within ZiR but also literally anyone who disagrees on any point within the motion. The motion text is completely at odds with the actual behaviour that is being encouraged in the party. I don't know what the solution is.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An under theorized aspect of generational loyalties to Zionism among Jewish boomers has been the historic way in which Zionism opened up previously elite and exclusively German-Jewish non-profits to parvenu Eastern European ostjuden: nationalism was a great leveler for a generation of U.S. Jews 1/2
Arguably, this shift also allowed the ADL to move concretely away from its outdated construction as a German Jewish institution (as it had begun already to do in the 194os) to an institution inclusive of upwardly mobile, rightward-moving Eastern European Jews, embracing a more democratic vision of community without diminishing its hold on class and political respectability.
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/18/s... Thanks to my co officer for writing most of this statement
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Some thoughts as we approach Yom Kippur 5787 - Jewish Greens
For religious Jews, Yom Kippur is a day of divine reckoning, when God judges humankind, punishes those who have sinned and considers whether we have proven ourselves worthy of continued life in the wo...
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026
I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.
Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.
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Barry Combo @barry-combo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
local news on the state broadcaster. A former elected politician from the main opposition party has just been jailed for more than five years for terror. But a black footballer committing a driving offence was on the front page and in all their news bulletins. Scum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Former councillor from Stafford jailed for terror offences
Ivan Jennings was an “active participant” in extreme right-wing groups online, a court hears.
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very proud that Jewish Greens first action of the new Jewish year was to join @camdengreenparty.bsky.social to campaign with and for @zackpolanski.bsky.social. We liked it so much we are going again join us actionnetwork.org/events/jewis...
5 Jewish Greens in Camden
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Actually one of the things that makes me particularly proud to be a Green is that we produce campaign materials in the languages that our residents and constitutents most comfortably speak. We're for everyone!
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026
One million 16-to 24-year-olds are unemployed. They deserve jobs, hope and a future not to be abandoned to the far right. Speaking at TUC Congress today, UCU’s Sean Vernell laid bare the crisis in further education: pay down 29% in real terms, 25,000 jobs lost. We need investment in our youth.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 11/09/2026
We wish our Jewish members and Jewish communities across the globe, a very happy new year, with warm wishes for the year 5787 ahead. However you celebrate, we hope you have a joyful, uplifting and peaceful Rosh Hashanah. Shanah tovah! #RoshHashanah2026 l #RoshHashanah5787
ROSH HASHANAH
HERE'S TO A HAPPY, WEET, GREEN NEW YEAR!

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/0 PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/11/j...
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JG statement on the election results in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany - Jewish Greens
Jewish Greens are deeply concerned and alarmed by the electoral success of the far-right AfD (Alternative Für Deutschland) in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. For the first time in post-war German history, a ...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/09/2026
A joint statement from our Green MPs on being banned from entering Israel
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Amos Schonfield @ajschonfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today is a great day to remember that 75% of British Jews see Israeli settlement expansion as a "major obstacle to peace" and 68% said they have a "sense of despair" every time further expansion is approved. (2015 survey)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our Green MPs have consistently spoken out and voted on the right side of history. Standing up against ethnic cleansing, occupation and genocide, as all MPs should be doing. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Israel bans 12 British MPs from entering country after West Bank sanctions row
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar unveiled the counter-measures in response to sanctions on illegal West Bank settlements
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If I were a used car-salesman in financial trouble I would spend less time publishing libellous attacks on the Green Party members and more time paying my workers.
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/04/s...
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Statement on the suspension of gender affirming care in Wales - Jewish Greens
The suspension of all gender affirming surgeries by the Welsh NHS is the latest in a series of brutal assaults on the rights, bodily autonomy and dignity of trans, non-binary and intersex people in th...
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The staggering increase in arrests over the past year is the clearest indicator that the UK’s counter-terror laws are not fit for purpose. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Almost half of terrorism arrests in Great Britain since 9/11 have been in past year
Increase coincides with proscription of Palestine Action last year which has led to thousands of arrests for allegedly supporting the protest group
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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Again, this argument (here made by the Chief Rabbi) is so bogus. Israeli proposals may have envisaged E1 remaining part of Israel. No Palestinian or international proposal did. The Oslo process blocked any settlement building in E1 because they it would prevent any contiguous Palestinian state.
The stated justification for punishing an ally in this way, is Israel's long-planned construction of homes in the E1 area. Yet successive peace efforts, from Oslo to Camp David and beyond, have envisaged a final agreement in which this area would remain under Israeli sovereignty.
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Jewish Greens have responded to David Miller's article of the 25th August. It made several false claims about us, including the central claim that we co-ordinated a campaign to filibuster the Zionism is Racism motion. jewishgreens.greenparty.org.uk/2026/08/28/j...
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Jewish greens response to inaccurate canary article - Jewish Greens
Jewish Greens are deeply disappointed and angry about The Canary’s decision to publish an attack on our group, written by the Iranian state television co-host David Miller. He states that Jewish Green...
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Daniel Mang @danielmang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Who Names the World? Anti-Imperialism and Iran’s Political Prisoners, by Farah Mokhtareizadeh – 24 August 2026 leftrenewal.org/articles-en/...
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Who Names the World? Anti-Imperialism and Iran’s Political Prisoners, by Farah Mokhtareizadeh – 24 August 2026 – Left Renewal Blog
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This network has been running for many years now and has big American money behind it. Cofnas is just one of their guys and they are all over the world.
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Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings reveal
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DcSw_PwsnT... Our committee member @joshalston.bsky.social has written this article for Left Foot Forward: leftfootforward.org/2026/08/refo...
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jewi.shgreens on Instagram: "Our committee member Josh Alston has written an article for @leftfootforwardonline on the inclusion of Jews in the radical right an…"
Our committee member Josh Alston has written an article for @leftfootforwardonline on the inclusion of Jews in the radical right and the growing split between Reform and Restore on this. View the article here: https://leftfootforward.org/2026/08/reform-restore-and-the-debate-over-jewish-inclusion-in-the-radical-right/
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Sam Alston @moosealston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
To add to the deeply strange discourse on if @zackpolanski.bsky.social is somehow a tratior to the Jews comes this timely article from Jewish Greens Committee member @joshalston.bsky.social on a real threat to UK Jewry.
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Reform, Restore and the debate over Jewish inclusion in the radical right
Division has emerged about the involvement of Jews in far-right politics
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Delighted to be in LFF this week writing about splits between Reform and Restore!
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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Rabbi Yirmeya did nothing wrong!!
Sefaria screenshot of Bava Batra 23b: 

Rabbi Yirmeya raises a dilemma: If one leg of the chick was within fifty cubits of the dovecote, and one leg was beyond fifty cubits, what is the halakha? The Gemara comments: And it was for his
question about this far-fetched scenario that they removed Rabbi Yirmeya from the study hall, as he was apparently wasting the Sages time.
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bugs xo ↙↙↙ 🐞 @psyllobora22.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Anti zionism is not antisemitism - I'm an anti zionist and have been one for a long time! but there are a subset of anti zionists that are, and it doesn't do anyone any good to deny this - I actually think tackling this is one of the best ways to fight Zionism itself
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
For those of you who are cool and trendy and on instagram Jewish Greens are now there too! www.instagram.com/jewi.shgreens/ Give us a follow!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
luckily toilet demons are easy to avoid!! simply conduct yourself with modesty and silence, and don't bring a goat (bring a lamb)
The Gemara relates: There was a particular bathroom in the city of Tiberias, where, when two would enter it, even during the day, they would be harmed by demons. When Rabbi Ami and Rabbi Asi would
each enter alone, they were not harmed. The Sages said to them:
Aren't you afraid? Rabbi Ami and Rabbi Asi said to them: We have learned through tradition: The tradition to avoid danger in the bathroom is to conduct oneself with modesty and silence. The tradition
• to end suffering is with silence and prayer.Because fear of demons in bathrooms was pervasive, the Gemara relates:
Abaye's mother raised a lamb to accompany him to the bathroom.
The Gemara objects: She should have raised a goat for him. The Gemara responds: A goat could be
interchanged with a goat-demon.
Since both the demon and the goat are called sair, they were afraid to
• bring a goat to a place frequented by g demons.
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One of my favourite fun facts from my research is that the idea that Israel is an apartheid state is actually older than both Israel and apartheid.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 20/07/2026
Grief can bind a community together. It can also reveal what that community has refused to face. Andrue Kahn and Dania Rajendra reclaim Tisha B’Av as a rupture from Zionism and a path toward solidarity, abolition and Palestinian freedom.
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The Possibilities of Grief as a Rupture
Abolition Judaism and rethinking the holiday of Tisha B’Av
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 11/07/2026
they’re doing straight-up judeo-bolshevik antisemitism against the supposed arch-antisemite
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm so proud of Yassin. He made Bristol and Britain his home. He has contributed so much as a Green Party Cllr to his city and to the community in Lawrence Hill. Solidarity in the face of this Reform fuelled racist hate. Hope always wins!
Matt Goodwin complaining about Yassun Mohamad - the law mayor of Bristol. Saying that we shouldn't have former refugees running our cities.
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The idea that real jobs are where men hit things with hammers and we should get rid of the girly jobs that actually exist in a 21stC service economy is an insane maxim for an industrial strategy - yet it seems to have been government policy for most of the past 15 years and will continue to be so.
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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This week Tucker Carlson platformed another hardline antisemite-- a pastor who told Carlson 'the Jews killed Jesus' and whose writings rail against 'international Jews'. But unlike last fall's interview with Nick Fuentes, this time the media hardly noticed. My latest at @religiondispatches.org:
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Tucker Carlson's Latest Foray Into Far-Right Antisemitism Flies Under the Radar
On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson hosted Jordan Daniel Hall, a Christian nationalist blogger, for a wide-ranging interview criticizing the fundamental tenets of Christian Zionism. Carlson, who recently trade...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Elon Musk is apparently going with "the Lancet study that proved I am responsible for the deaths of millions of children was concocted by the evil Jewish puppet master." Because Elon Musk is ideologically a neo-Nazi.
Tweet from Elon Musk: "He’s just another Soros puppet. 

It was Soros who funded the bogus study in the Lancet and told his minions to parrot it nonstop."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It's obvious to point out attacks against Muslims get ignored - but still needs repeatedly calling out. An Antisemitic attack should be reported and action taken. But where is the same media outrage, cobra meetings and calling of national emergency when 5 Muslims are attacked?
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LiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
But this isn't new. Such a forever war mentality has been the "iron wall" mindset of revisionist zionism from before Israel even came into being
“I was hoping for an end to wars but I think we are always going to have to live by our swords,” she said. “We understand now that we have no friends and we cannot trust anyone.”
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it. I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it. This needs to be escalated immediately.
During Mayor's Question Time last week I asked you to put pressure on the government to ban the “unlawful” ‘Great Israeli Real Estate.’

You clarified that you had discussed the event with the Metropolitan Police Service and stated that any allegations of criminality relating to the potentially unlawful sale of property at the event would be assessed by the Met as part of an investigation.


It has since come to light that materials handed out at the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event included properties in Ma'Ale Adumin and Givat Zeev in the West Bank and
Ramat Eshkol and Givat HaMatos in East Jerusalem. 

These settlements are illegal under international law. This event should never have been allowed to happen in our city.  There was substantial evidence ahead of the event that organisers were advertising properties in illegal settlements. More than 100 organisations, including human rights groups, as well as over 100 MPs called for the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event to be cancelled.

The UK Government has repeatedly affirmed that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. 

With horrific settler violence against Palestinians on the rise, it’s more important than ever that those involved in hosting this deplorable event in our city are not allowed to act with impunity.

The Proceeds of Crime Act makes it illegal for promoters and estate agents operating in the UK to facilitate the sale of land acquired through illegal conduct. 

Yvette Cooper has confirmed that the Advertising Standards Authority will investigate Sunday's event but that response is completely inadequate. This needs to be escalated to the Metropolitan Police Service immediately, anything less fails to reflect the
seriousness of the situation.

Following your discussion with the Met, why was a decision not made to ban the event given the clear and mounting evidence that justified its cancellation and how was it assessed that the event should go ahead? Could you also confirm whether t…
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I read this the other week and it made me very, very sad
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The left shouldn't ignore poltical and moral red flags because someone shares a broad alignment. Partly, this is because we shouldn't be governed by reprobates. But also it leads us to make reprehensible arguments like the below. Defending people like Platner will morally debase us all.
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Josh Alston @joshalston.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If guidance to forcibly segregate trans woman was implemented - it would not only be a attack of trans rights - but also on religious freedom. LGBT+ inclusion is a fundemental tenet of progressive Judaism, and to force us to segregate would be a denial of our right to practice our religion freely.
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