CNN just staged a feel-good story about Tauqir Sharif, whose UK citizenship was revoked for his ties to al-Qaeda.  A formal Islamophobia definition could’ve made taking terrorists like him off British streets much harder. Here's why 🧵: youtu.be/7N-mvmbeX2Y?fe…

“We deplore the way a section of the crowd treated the Co-Chief Executive Rabbis of Progressive Judaism today, and that they were asked to leave the stage.” Our full comment on scenes at the hostage rally today:

Not only is the headline here utterly misleading - it was a march for the hostages, not some generic “pro-Israel” rally - the implication is that if you care about the hostages being released, you are “pro-Israel”. I can assure you that there are many, many, people who care

🚨Rescued hostage Shlomi Ziv reminds the world that he was held in captivity by a so-called journalist (Abdallah Aljamal) who is still officially listed as a legitimate journalist killed by Israel. He was held in a so-called civilian apartment by a so-called doctor.

The murder at the Nova music festival of Lior Asulin, a striker who played at the highest level in his home country for Hapoel Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem, passed entirely without Uefa comment 22 months ago, despite Israel falling within its orbit. telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Balloons filled with ‘urine’ hurled at Jewish groups attending Montreal Pride. A 35-year-old woman was arrested for armed aggression Sunday after police say she threw a “container containing a liquid” at participants of the Montreal Pride parade. The woman targeted members of

The University of Edinburgh commissioned a Race Review into its colonial past. The report came back with various recommendations which included unadopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism. One of the people who wrote the report is Zaki El Salahi. On October 9th 2023 he

El-Salahi's name, along with the other members of the working group is on the first page of the report. He also posted of the release of Israeli hostages that "The Zionist Supremacism is so clear in the ratio of human beings released within these 'prisoner exchanges'..." He

NEW VIOLENT ANTISEMITIC ASSAULT IN FRANCE 🇫🇷 Last Saturday, a 65-year-old Jewish man wearing a kippa was brutally beaten by three men on his way to synagogue for Shabbat. The attack took place around 10 am in Livry-Gargan. On the short walk from his home to the synagogue, a

"Free Britain From Jewish Control" The banner of the National Socialist Movement at their rally in Trafalgar Square in 1962 “End Zionist Control of the UK Government” The banner of Palestine Action outside the High Court in 2024.

My The New Statesman article on Israel's impossible dilemma in Gaza.

Read the whole thing here. newstatesman.com/world/middle-e…

Alex Hearn The historical echoes are deafening.

habibi They most certainly are.

Alan Lamb, leader of the Tories in Leeds, on tomorrow's hatred rally. "Allowing messages of hatred and antisemitism on the streets of Leeds does nothing to promote peace, rather it makes the Jewish Community of Leeds the victims of hate in their own city" Thank you. 1/8

The day after UEFA allowed the display of the anti-Israel propaganda banner, "Stop Killing Children – Stop Killing Civilians", the brother of Rom Braslavski, an Israeli hostage, was banned from bringing an "I want my brother" banner into a UEFA game. telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…

Here's ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ statement on Trump-Putin - key parts circled #slavaukraini

SAVE THE DATE As we approach two years since the horrific events of 7th October, 2023, when Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel, murdering 1,200 innocent men, women, and children and taking 251 people hostage, we invite you to join us in remembrance. Please join us for a

It’s not every day a government official invites you to write a lead essay criticizing speech restrictions. In this piece for the UK’s Commission for Countering Extremism, I argue that when democracies silence dissent, they don’t create safety—they create a pressure cooker.

What do eccentric American rapper Tyler, the Creator & Jihadi John have in common? For Commission for Countering Extremism & published on GOV.UK I wrote an essay about how the two reshaped the contours of free speech, & the direction of the countering extremism/terrorism field: