Today marks 10 years since the murder of Imad Ibn Ziaten (30) in Toulouse,
and the ensuing murders of Abdel Chennouf (25) & Mohamed Farah Chamse-Dine Legouad (23) in Montauban
and Jonathan (30),Arieh (5) & Gabriel Sandler (4) & Myriam Monsonégo (7) at Jewish school Ozar Hatorah
Imad was murdered at the Hers gymnasium.
Abdel and Mohamed were murdered while withdrawing money near their barracks.
Loïc Liber was seriously injured, his spinal cord severed by bullets - he became quadriplegic.
They were Muslims.
Jan 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
On Tuesday I had the pleasure of meeting with @nadhimzahawi MP in his capacity of Secretary of State for Education at the @educationgovuk.
I outlined antisemitism at university and we discussed the importance of creating initiatives to combat it @UKLFI.
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I began the meeting with the conclusion of my speech on November 8th in Krakow at the EJA’s delegation to Auschwitz where I declared, in the presence of the SoS, that requiring universities to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism is insufficient to combat antisemitism. 2/7
Dec 6, 2021 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
What does antisemitism in academia look like you ask?
Here are a few quotes from my undergraduate course material at a UK university:
"Despite Zionism's chronic addiction to territorial expansion, Israel's borders do not preclude the option of removal(...its surprising that a nation that has driven so many of its original inhabitants into the sand should express fear of itself being driven into the sea"
Nov 9, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Yesterday in Krakow, Poland, at the European Jewish Association’s 83rd delegation to Auschwitz gala dinner I addressed European vice-presidents, ministers, state secretaries, members of parliament, & Jewish leaders about the hostile anti-Jewish environment on campus
Speech below
Part 1
Mar 23, 2021 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
3 years ago today, 85-year-old French Jew and Shoah survivor #MireilleKnoll z"l, was slaughtered in her home in Paris by two antisemitic Islamists.
She was found with 11 stab wounds in her back, throat, and stomach, her body partially burned and her apartment in flames.
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In July 1942 she narrowly escaped the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup which was ordered by Nazi occupiers and resulted in the mass arrest of 13,000 French Jews by the French police. Those detained were held at the Vel’ d’Hiv cycling track and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp