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Editor, Jewish Chronicle. Author of Israelophobia (Telegraph book of the year). Columns for Sunday Telegraph and Spectator. Sky broadcaster
Aug 24, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
Scoop in @JewishChron today: We expose a judge at the European Court of Human Rights who has spread the most blatant antisemitism online. It has led for calls to re-examine cases over which he presided involving Jews (thread) As @DavidRoseUK reports, the European Court of Human Rights (@ECHR_CEDH) is facing calls to re-examine cases involving Jews after its longest-serving judge was exposed for sharing extreme antisemitic content on social media
Aug 10, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Hizb ut-Tahrir, a jihadi group that advocates the violent destruction of Israel, has been speaking on UK campuses despite being banned from universities, @JewishChron reveals today 🧵 As @DavidRoseUK reports, activists from the jihadi group have been the keynote speakers at ten separate events at universities in the last 18 months
Aug 3, 2023 16 tweets 3 min read
Scoop from @JewishChron: IRGC chiefs tell UK students at meeting in Hammersmith to join ‘apocalyptic war’ on Jews (thread) As @DavidRoseUK reports with @KasraAarabi, senior commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are using a London-based student organisation to pipe extremist antisemitic propaganda and calls for violence into British universities
Jul 13, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
Marmalade-dropping scoop in @JewishChron: UK scientist revealed advanced jet research in Tehran lecture. Aerospace expert gave a lecture to a sanctioned college with links to the IRGC. Thread... As @DavidRoseUK reports, a top aviation scientist at a British university linked to the Ministry of Defence shared “the latest ideas and research” on Western jet engines at an Iranian college sanctioned for its role in the regime’s nuclear weapons programme
Jul 8, 2023 14 tweets 3 min read
To cap off a disturbing week of #Israelophobia in the media, The Times has weirdly run a lengthy piece glorifying Islamist killers. It’s basically Jihadism as Che Guevara🧵thetimes.co.uk/article/625208… Headline: “I was ready to die, says Palestinian fighter hit by drone strike” (“fighter” huh? these terrorists share the same roots as Al Qaeda. Would this have been written about 9/11?)
Apr 20, 2023 18 tweets 4 min read
Terrorist propaganda broadcast from Britain: MPs demand to know how Egyptian journalists who ‘incite hate’ to millions could take refuge in the UK (thread) Two exiled Egyptian television presenters who found a safe haven in Britain are using it as a base to wage a “jihad of words”, glorifying terror and broadcasting anti-Israeli propaganda to an audience of millions, a @JewishChron investigation has revealed.
Apr 20, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Heartbreaking new pictures of Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, who were killed by a terrorist on the West Bank, have been released by the family (thread) Image It comes as Lucy's family sit shiva for their murdered relatives in St John's Wood Image
Apr 19, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
A dozen former cabinet ministers have signed a letter to Rishi Sunak in support of British-Iranian Vahid Beheshti who is on the 57th day of a hunger strike outside the Foreign Office in an attempt to persuade the government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps 🧵 The letter, which has been signed by 125 MPs and peers from each of the main parties, was handed in by Beheshti, his wife Mattie Heaven and Conservative peer Lord Polak after Beheshti, who now uses a wheelchair, was joined by some of the parliamentarians on Wednesday Image
Mar 17, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
What's going on with the UK in Israel? Britain's top diplomat in Jerusalem met cleric who had compared Jews to 'apes and pigs', the @JewishChron reveals (thread) As @DavidRoseUK reveals, the UK Consul-General, Diane Corner, held a formal meeting last week with a senior Palestinian cleric who has claimed on television that Jews are “cursed by Allah” and comparable to “apes and pigs”.
Mar 17, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Ousted NUS president Shaima Dallali has launched employment tribunal proceeding against her former employer, claiming her sacking was discriminatory, @JewishChron reports (thread) The former City University student leader was dismissed after a months-long independent investigation into allegations of antisemitism found "significant breaches" of the union's policies.
Mar 17, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
Remember when Labour MP Kim Johnson was forced to apologise for calling Israel "fascist" and "an apartheid state"? Well, here's a surprising story for you about British diplomats in Jerusalem (thread) theguardian.com/politics/2023/… A leading diplomat at the British Consulate General in Jerusalem, together with Foreign Office colleagues, took part in a West Bank fun run “in defiance of the Israeli foreign occupation” and in protest against the “apartheid wall”, the @JewishChron reveals
Mar 16, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
OK. One of the trustees of Manchester’s Islamic Cultural Centre is facing questions after he praised terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani at a regime event in Iran, where the audience chanted “death to England” and “death to Israel” (thread) As @JewishChron reveals, the preacher, Farrokh Sekaleshfar — who called for homosexuals to be put to death while preaching in Orlando, Florida, in 2016, shortly before a terrorist murdered 49 people at a nearby gay nightclub — is a trustee of a Manchester charity
Mar 16, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
A Leeds University student whose degree was marked down because she didn't blame Israel enough has been awarded a payout, the @JewishChron can reveal (thread) The sociology graduate was awarded an undisclosed sum after her coursework was wrongly failed because it did not blame Israel for the crimes of Hamas against Palestinians
Mar 14, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
A Holocaust-themed novel by bestselling author @jodipicoult was among dozens of books removed from a South Florida school district library’s circulation last month (thread) ‘The Storyteller’ was removed from the library last month at a high school in Martin County, a southeast Florida district, after just one parental complaint, @JewishChron reports
Mar 14, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
The former chairman of the FA has said that we are living in a era of "diktat by celebrity" after the BBC dramatically u-turned on its suspension of Gary Lineker, @JewishChron reports (thread) David Bernstein, the Jewish former chair of England's football governing body, described the corporation's response to Mr Lineker's tweet and the ensuing furore as "embarrassing in the extreme" and added that the BBC "needs to sort out its leadership".
Mar 14, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
A Muslim group has issued a fatwa against Hamas, accusing it of “unIslamic” treatment of millions of Palestinians (thread) The Iraq-based Islamic Fatwa Council issued the fatwa, or legal opinion, last Thursday.
Mar 13, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
Humza Yousaf, the frontrunner to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s First Minister, met Holyrood officials with a former senior Hamas commander (thread) As @DavidRoseUK revealed for @JewishChron, Yousaf, 37, now the Scottish Health Secretary, attended the high-level meeting with Hamas leader Mohammad Sawalha, also known by nom de guerre Abu Obada.
Mar 13, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
The BBC is accused of dodging a complaint about a tweet by Gary Lineker that mourned the killing of a Hamas fighter, @JewishChron reveals In December, the Match of the Day presenter lamented the death of a member of a West Bank Palestinian football club, Ahmed Daraghmeh, who was killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers in Nablus.
Mar 9, 2023 13 tweets 5 min read
The leader of the @NEUnion (the teachers’ union shutting schools across Britain next week) posed by Yasser Arafat’s grave during a trip to the West Bank, the @JewishChron can reveal today Louise Atkinson and other members of a UK delegation were photographed standing alongside a monument to the late PLO chairman. Posing with the British representatives were two Palestinian men in military fatigues.
Mar 9, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Soas Palestine Society has posted a quote from Hezbollah’s terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah predicting the end of Israel — hours after promoting a video that declared, “Jews are hateful”, @JewishChron can reveal (thread) The quote from the Hezbollah chief, which the London university society shared on Monday, read: “The law of executing Palestinian prisoners will increase the faith, courage and willingness of the Palestinian youth to carry out operations, and this measure is a foolish one...
Mar 9, 2023 13 tweets 3 min read
A preacher who claimed that Jews celebrated the 9/11 attacks has been invited to speak at an Islamic centre described as the Iranian regime’s “London office” even as it faces a Charity Commission probe, the @JewishChron reveals today (thread) As @felixpope_ reports, Ahmed Haneef, a Canadian Shia scholar, was due to address a special event at the Islamic Centre of England (ICE) in Maida Vale last night