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18 Nov 20

There are hard left extremists who may be Jewish or have some kind of Jewish ancestry they assert as a shield against their support of antisemitic movements. Adored as tokens it’s cheque-mate if you engage with their “as a Jew” claims. Engage with them as the antisemites they are

And we don’t need to have any shyness or make any apology for putting up firewalls to protect our community from antisemites and Jews who’ve internalised antisemitism and gone over to assist of antisemites. They’re not fragile lost sheep. They’re antisemites.

I think our first responsibility is to protect the community - not to get bogged down in the icky fucked up psychology of those fringe Jews whose heads are screwed and help those who hurt us

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@leekern13

29 Jul 20

@Sethrogen

Hi @Sethrogen your work on Borat & Ali G helped influence my comedy. I went on to write Who Is America with SBC. I hope this thread might positively influence you to speak more to your Jewish cousins on other continents. Get in touch. Be nice to say hello
PS I know ur Canadian
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This is how it can seem: not only have some American Jews seen their connection to Israel erode, they’ve also forgotten their connection to other diaspora Jews. They can sometimes appear like our worst perception of Americans, ignorant of the rest of the world & uninterested

With a US-centric outlook they often assert what life is like for “the Jews”, believing their experience IS the default Jewish experience. But it’s not the case. Please look to & speak more to your cousins abroad whose reality past & present isn’t like that of American Jews:

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@leekern13

1 Jun 20

Doing the right thing shouldn’t be transactional. We should oppose anti-black racism. Jews who say “if we don’t stand up for black lives we can’t expect solidarity in return” make me cringe. We should oppose racism even if the “favour” isn’t returned. But on a deeper level...

...it speaks of a soul degraded by antisemitism. It speaks of a hurt soul, ostracised by an antisemitic world, & which wrongly believes that the right set of Jewish actions made visible to the world will finally lead to that mythical cuddle of acceptance...

How many other ethnic groups reflexively articulate that they must pass a test in order to expect dignity & friendship when hard times come their way? I wonder if there’s any test we can successfully “pass”? Antisemitism isn’t a test for Jews to pass. It’s a test antisemites fail

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@leekern13

22 May 20

https://twitter.com/zehahahava/status/1263491359031332867

This is the real barrier to ME peace. This culture of Jew hate. It’s far easier to redraw a line on a map or to relocate a town than it is to shift an inner world of hate so ideologically entrenched. But challenging hateful intent is the real necessary work that can’t be avoided

https://twitter.com/zehahahava/status/1263491359031332867

In 2005 Israel disengaged entirely from Gaza. There isn’t a single Jew there. Thousands of Jews were relocated yet Israel was still met with rockets & death tunnels. The barrier to peace is not Israeli action - it’s murderous intent from Israel’s neighbours.

Nothing will change unless the world stands up robustly to that intent, stops turning a blind eye to it and stops indulging in a fantasy that it will somehow dissipate of its own accord further down the line.

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@leekern13

17 Feb 20

@Baddiel

Not seen the @Baddiel Holocaust denial documentary yet but will say this:

The Holocaust is the most meticulously documented crime in history - not least by the actual perpetrators of the genocide - the Nazis

There is no crime that has been studied & researched in more detail 1/

To deny the Holocaust is not only an assault on the memory of six million Jews and others who were murdered - but it comes down to the question of whether we are going to live in a world where facts and anything approaching truth can be reached with any kind of consensus 2/

It gets down to the crunch of whether we can live in a world where there is something such as knowledge - or whether we live in a universe where conspiracy theorists reign supreme & where we share no common ideas and no certainty over anything with each other 3/

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14 Dec 19

HOW A MOTH WITH BOSOMS SHOWS ME THAT “STUPID”
PEOPLE ARE SMARTER THAN SUPPOSEDLY INTELLIGENT CORBYNITES

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When we made the Channel Four show Celebrity Bedlam I discovered that the most gullible people weren’t the most “stupid” - it was those who were more intellectual. They were by far and away the most easy to manipulate and lead a merry path towards utterly stupid propositions.

Those who were supposedly more “stupid” were much quicker to reject something that was obvious bullshit. “Whatever” they’d say and that was that. But the intellectuals had brains that sought to rationalise information they received.

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