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Packed house at @limmud to hear Abby Stein’s journey from a chassidic rabbi to a transgender woman
This is only half the crowd
Should have tagged @AbbyChavaStein. She is warm, witty and engaging on gender, sexuality and the extraordinary context of a fundamentalist community. She has a book out - I imagine it’s great
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This is really upsetting. Have been ill in bed today (thanks @limmud!) but we were talking about taking the kids to Hampstead today. Would have been a seriously awkward conversation if they saw the graffiti
It has been a difficult few years for British Jews. A tiny community (300,000) having to face down a rise in anti-Jewish racism, exacerbated by factionalism and conspiracy theories which are on awful display here - 911 probably refers to a conspiracy theory that Jews caused 9/11
It has been illuminating to see who has stuck up for Jewish people and who has not. The fusion of political factionalism and anti-semitism has been a pernicious development as a sizeable group of people now believe it is inherent in their political identity to mistrust Jews
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Check the responses to this. Welcome back Jews! Says nobody
I'll let @tom_watson say it about brutlity and hostility. Until it is no longer part of Labour culture, there is no hope for the party theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
@tom_watson I know it's only Twitter but crikey some people really *hate* the Jewish Labour Movement, until a couple of years ago an entirely welcome part of the Labour movement established for 100 years, now despised and blamed. Talk about transference!
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The thing that frustrates me is that Policy Exchange have, for years, been producing these reports arguing for a watering down of human rights/judicial review. Where is the think thank countering it with as much media and political savvy?
There is a huge gap for this. The Conservative “commission” are blatantly going to take whatever Policy Exchange tell them to do becuase on rule of law issues that’s what’s been happening for years.
There just isn’t a counter narrative - becuase to develop one you need people, money and lobbying expertise like Policy Exchange have to bang the drum for years. And people will wonder after the human rights act is dismantled why we couldn’t get our stuff together
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1/Short thread alert.

On Sept. 20, a transgender woman was shot six times on the streets of Dallas. For more than a week, we didn't know who she was or how she was faring.

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Warm applause. So much for “Trump supporting fanatics”. (That said, there are just one or two around mind...)
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