Imagine…

You live in a land that is at the crossroads of Empires.

You started off as a group of nomads, and developed into a nations.

You built a civilization & a small empire.

You had an idea that freaked people out: God is one, beyond limits.

britannica.com/topic/Israel-O… Eventually the large occupying power burnt your capital, took your people away into exile. Shortly before this disaster you started pointing your hearts to the holiest city in prayer: though it was too far to go to your temple, it was that direction.

timesofisrael.com/ancient-herita…

@PeterTatchell is the most unfortunate child safeguarder ever.

He was tricked by a friend into writing an article in a book aimed at making paedophilia more acceptable, which was published in 1986.

He had known this friend Warren Middleton, an important Paedophile, for years…

Having been tricked by this devious man into writing the chapter on reducing the age of consent to assist paedophilia, poor @PeterTatchell was so unfortunate as to write an article praising the book.

Apparently he says it was written by someone on his behalf…

1/8
Let’s unpack the daft @HackneyAbbott letter published in the Guardian and her apology a few minutes ago:

What are the issues?

1. How on Earth could the Guardian publish this? Don’t they know about Nazi race theory?

2. She lumps three ethnicities together to minimise us. 2/8
3. She then says that Irish, Jewish and traveller people are oppressed like redheads.

The Nazis didn’t feel that way about us and Roma people. They murdered us.

Irish suffered terrible oppression by the British from before Cromwell onwards, were repressed into the 1970s

@HadleyFreeman on @BBCWomansHour to tell us why she resigned after 22 years at @guardian.
I wonder what she’ll be talking about?
🤔
Must listen. 7 years ago Hadley says the Guardian became a conspiracy theorist.
Gender identity was the theory.
Hadley wanted to write a long piece about Susy Green and #Metmaids and the reasons kept changing.
Post Telegraph’s expose they refused to report.

@nicolelampert Give them money for a travel card, and three targets to see and go inside, each day.
Packed lunch too.

They’ll live the travel

Walk along the Thames with info on various sites.

Proms at Royal Albert Hall.

Find and visit 5 famous Old Masters?

Visit Greenwich?
Thames Trip? @nicolelampert I was a teen in London.

Walk Covent Garden visiting famous theatres.

Covent Garden Opera House.

Visit Windsor, Kenwood, Handel House, Greenwich Observatory.

Visit and climb St Pauls dome.

Visit Sir John Soane’s house and Freemasons’ Hall.

Kew.

Imagine for a moment that you’re an ordinary Russian.
You suddenly discovered that you can’t go on Twitter and Facebook.
Your government says it’s fighting fascists in #Ukraine, but nobody is allowed to call it a war; yet there are captured UA soldiers they call prisoners of war. Imagine you’re a Russian. Your friends in #Ukraine called you to tell you the Russian army invaded.
Perhaps your neighbour’s son rang to say that he’s been taken prisoner and that his CO pretended they were on exercizes and then told him to gun down families.
You can’t fly to EU

There is a daft idea going around beloved of antisemites that Israel is an Apartheid State.

Let’s look at this on a factual basis.

Here you have a beach in Apartheid South Africa. These signs are typical.

Apartheid separated people by race.
Thread👇🏼1/14 Of course this doesn’t happen in israel because it’s not an Apartheid State. Nobody bans Arabs from the beach, they’re citizens.

Israel is quite content even to have burkini clad women on the beaches.

These are normal Israeli scenes. 2/14

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The weird argument over #womenrabbis in Orthodoxy, particularly @LSJS_Hendon.
They knew Lindsey T-G was studying for three years. If yeshivat Maharat were treif, they couldn’t have allowed her to continue to teach.
She taught there!
They knew she was learning to be a rabba…

1/7 If that course of study were prohibited, they should have sacked her there and then. They didn’t.
This 👆🏼 indicates that studying at Yeshivat Maharat for the rabbinate is not prohibited.
They sacked Lindsey TG for passing semicha exam.
They disagree only w the qualification.
2/7

Today is the יום הזכרון, Memorial Day for israelis, commemorating the war dead and those murdered in pogroms and terror attacks.

23,928 soldiers have died since Independence in 1948.

Israel is still at war with 3 of the original belligerents.

idf.il/en/minisites/o…

1/4 A siren sounds at 8 the day before.

Originally this day coincided w Independence Day (tomorrow) but the bereaved families wanted to separate the mourning from the joy of freedom.

11am a siren stops all traffic for 2 minutes silence.

2/4

Thread, sparked by @Eve_Barlow👇🏼

I feel ambivalent about HMD.

On the one hand it allows us to talk about Shoah w non-Jews, as well as other evil in the works.

On the other, it focusses on this exceptionally evil period in our history, gives impression that Jews = victims 1/7

https://twitter.com/eve_barlow/status/1354124756165922816

The hard left define antisemitism as what happened in the Holocaust, comfortably ignoring the lesser firms of prejudice that infest their, and every extreme ideology.

Holocaust may be jackboots marching down the street kicking in our heads; antisemitism can be a look. 😯 2/7

This is a mezuzah. You’ll see it on the doorposts of Jewish homes. It is a small box - this in our inner hall - with a scroll inside it. Deuteronomy mandates to write its words “on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates”.
Two of the three sections of the Shema.
1/4 Here is an example of what we find inside.
Written on parchment, using a quill, these words are a •creed• for Jews. They detail the unity of God, love of God, education, reward and punishment, etc.
It’s in all doors except toilets 🤢 and bathrooms (😱nudity).

2/4

To avoid doubt:

This photographed tweet is not true. 

juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/nazi-r…

The article says •what I said•: the law does NOT require Jews to add to their names, but they have not filleted out the Nazi era terms. Terms such as Reichs Minister are still in this law. In fact the text of this article reads as translated below.

The Reich (Jews are all too familiar w this) was the Nazi term for the country. It has deeply painful resonances. 

The Federal law does not say Jews add an extra “typical” name on changing names. That’s untrue.

#Brexit #EndIfWithdrawal

Imagine 2 de merged companies desperate to trade w each other, but unable to come to an agreement let alone a contract.

What do they do?

Stopping trading not an option - they are heavily interlinked. Rely on each other. They just can’t sign yet 1/6 So they carry on trading and negotiating.

Both sides know and trust each other broadly. They are very close, have worked together for decades.

They just can’t agree on formalities. The practicalities are not a problem.

We are here at present.
#Brexit #EndOfWithdrawal
2/6

Interesting little known fact: many Christmas songs were composed by Jews.

(I’m dreaming of a) White Christmas was written by Isidore Beilin (Irving Berlin) which broke all records in 1942 as the first great Christmas hit.

In fact Jews wrote or co-wrote many such hits.
1/11 Jews don’t do the Christian Christmas thing. We do our own, Jewish thing - even if we are not religious. Chanukah time of year.
But we love a party. This phenomenon represents the desire to join in the fun w/out compromising, most of these songs don’t mention religious stuff.2/11

Tonight is the first of the eight nights of Chanukah.
The season of the winter soldsticr has always been a time for lighting lights.
From 176-160BCE, my ancestors rebelled against the oppressive Syrian Greek Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV, who tried to homogenise his subjects. 1/8 The Maccabees, under the direction of the priestly family of Hasmonean priests from Modi’in, won, and recaptured Jerusalem.

The Holy Temple there has been defiled do they set about cleansing and rededicating it. 2/8