Can't believe Labour didn't make an election poster where Starmer is pictured at the wheel of a ship, with the headline 'Steer Calmer'.

Just imagine. Far from what is suggested in this JC article, I argue here that communitarian 'Jewish Vote' campaign is precisely what Stephen Pollard led in 2019. toratalbion.substack.com/p/the-new-sect… thejc.com/lets-talk/imag…

Just published a review of the revised edition of Marc Dollinger's Black Power, Jewish Politics in Ethnic and Racial Studies - let me know if you need access. Includes reflections on wider political and scholarly issues. doi.org/10.1080/014198…

Statement on the UK government’s decision to drop its intervention with the International Criminal Court We welcome the UK government’s decision to drop its intervention with the Int'l Criminal Court questioning its jurisdiction in issuing arrest warrants against senior Israeli

SUSPENSION OF ARMS SALES TO ISRAEL MEANINGLESS IF IT DOES NOT INCLUDE F-35 COMPONENTS There is currently a lot of talk that the UK may be about to announce at least a partial suspension of arms exports to Israel. This is welcome, but as always, the devil is in the detail. A 🧵

T&F Social Sciences and Humanities Sonali Thakkar Ozge Onay Dr Erica Consterdine 'Dollinger's book is a rich work of archival history which reinvents the fraught history of US Black-Jewish partnership and conflict in the mid-twentieth century'. You can read Joseph Finlay's full review here: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

Would the people celebrating Israel assassinating Ismail Haniyeh be equally relaxed if Hamas or Hezbollah had assassinated Benjamin Netanyahu?

toratalbion.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a… The Politics of Progressive Judaism, and what it could learn from the Quakers

The term 'riots' doesn’t honestly describe attempts to break into and set fire to hostels housing asylum seekers, where they have been forced to reside by the state. These are attempted pogroms.

Wrote a quick note on last night's mobilisations substack.com/profile/220844…

Good thread

Days on which the Board of Deputies says its wrong for something it dislikes to be announced: Any Jewish festival, however obscure Any Shabbat Within a month of HMD or Yom Hashoah Any time there's a funeral in Israel Moses Montefiore's Birthday Evelyn Rose's Yortzheit

I would favour the march being moved to the next day, not because it's a threat to Jews but in order that Jews like me who will be in synagogue for Yom Kippur can go on it. thejc.com/news/uk/call-f…

Now moved, a very good decision. Would still like to have one on a sunday one time!

My new piece on diaspora Jewish fear and those who benefit from it toratalbion.substack.com/p/crossing-the…

Mankind Quarterly, a "go to" journal for those seeking an "an intellectual" veneer for racism, was edited by self-described "scientific racist" Richard Lynn until his death in 2023, David Miller adds a thin get out/caveat, but why is he sharing Lynn's work? 1/3