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Don’t believe that there’s antisemitism in the NHS or that #JewsDontCount?
Look at the difference here. The left tweet rightly calling out a racist trust governor got tons of supporters & immediate action, the right tweet doing the same on antisemitism got 4 likes & no action.
Look at the difference here. The left tweet rightly calling out a racist trust governor got tons of supporters & immediate action, the right tweet doing the same on antisemitism got 4 likes & no action.
Here she is still accusing Jews of having ulterior motives, still attacking those who spoke up on racism.
@DCHFT @DCHFT_inclusion @NJJohno
This is Sarah Carney, a governor at DCH. This does not fit with an anti-racist NHS.
@DCHFT @DCHFT_inclusion @NJJohno
This is Sarah Carney, a governor at DCH. This does not fit with an anti-racist NHS.
This is age old racism she’s supporting here
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Louis Farrakhan gave his annual Criterion speech & it was again filled with antisemitic attacks on the Jewish people.
Ticketmaster, which is part of Live Nation Ent, handled ticket sales for the event despite being alerted to what the event was about. #JewsDontCount
Louis Farrakhan gave his annual Criterion speech & it was again filled with antisemitic attacks on the Jewish people.
Ticketmaster, which is part of Live Nation Ent, handled ticket sales for the event despite being alerted to what the event was about. #JewsDontCount
(1/7) David Baddiel says that he doesn't care about Israel and feels no connection to it. But his indifference does not mean that #jewsdontcount and antisemtism have nothing to do with Israel. A thread...
(2/7) Baddiel holds 'progressives' responsible for contemporary antisemtism, even that coming from the far right, on the grounds that they treat other forms of racism differently and largely ignore anti-Jewish racism.
(3/7) It is deeply ironic to make this argument in a prime time show on the most progressive of the UK's main TV channels, and citing the Royal Court as evidence given they've just staged 'Jews in their own words', and demonstrating culpability by focusing on two black women.
The worrying thing about David Baddiel's book isn't the content (myopic nonsense) - it's the promotion of it as THE definitive account of modern antisemitism.
An account totally focused on "progressives" - with scant mention of the Radical Right - is a grotesque misdirection.
An account totally focused on "progressives" - with scant mention of the Radical Right - is a grotesque misdirection.
Baddiel can write a solipsistic screed about Twitter beefs if he wants. His book makes no attempt to be a general overview of the threat faced by Jews. That's not his project.
Yet it's treated by the media circus as if it is the ultimate account of antisemitism.
Yet it's treated by the media circus as if it is the ultimate account of antisemitism.
If you took Jews Don't Count seriously, you'd think the main source of antisemitism today is lefty-liberals.
That antisemitism springs from a lack of recognition of Jews as non-White.
That antisemitism is just a lack of sympatic twitter campaigns.
That antisemitism springs from a lack of recognition of Jews as non-White.
That antisemitism is just a lack of sympatic twitter campaigns.
Most minorities: I feel afraid and victimised
The Left: I'm sorry to hear that, let us help
Jew: I feel afraid and victimised
The Left: let me explain why you are wrong
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The Left: I'm sorry to hear that, let us help
Jew: I feel afraid and victimised
The Left: let me explain why you are wrong
(Read comments)
"Stop talking about antisemitism, it's offensive to those of us who are fighting the REAL battle"
"You're only upset that people have sent you death threats because really you HATE MUSLIM WOMEN"
Over the weekend, I read #jewsdontcount by David Baddiel. I read the whole book in one sitting late one evening - from beginning to end (it’s 123 pages) - and then read it again. If you haven’t bought it, buy it and read it.
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I originally wrote this as a post on my own personal Facebook account. I wasn’t going to tweet it. But the comments & support on there prompted me to change my mind. So here it is (in a shorter form)... *loses her 6K followers*
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As a proud Jew, I believe that - as David Baddiel says in his book - while Jews are not viewed as part of the BAME community, we should be. It’s so difficult to explain what it’s like to be a British Jew when people don’t view us as an ethnic minority group.
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Today I was thinking about my university’s equality, diversity, and inclusion workshop, where I learned we shouldn’t hire the best person for the job if that person happened to be #shomershabbos . Classic case of #jewsdontcount @Baddiel
I’m really pleased to say this tweet made it to the head of staff inclusion, who informed me that @BristolUni has ceased using this awful training (an external product used by many universities).
I also want to say that despite this generic external training, on the ground, I have been very well supported. I asked not to teach in person on Friday afternoons because I have a very long commute and the sun sets very early in the winter.
🇬🇧🇮🇱 // Keir Starmer speaks at Labour Friends of Israel:
"Anti-Zionist antisemitism is the antithesis of the Labour tradition. It denies the Jewish people alone a right of self-determination"
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/keir-starmer-a…
@Keir_Starmer
@_LFI
"Anti-Zionist antisemitism is the antithesis of the Labour tradition. It denies the Jewish people alone a right of self-determination"
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/keir-starmer-a…
@Keir_Starmer
@_LFI
Starmer told LFI that anti-Zionist antisemitism "equates Zionism with racism, focusses obsessively on the world’s sole Jewish state and holds it to standards no other country is subjected.“
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/keir-starmer-a…
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/keir-starmer-a…
.@Keir_Starmer paid tribute to his wife Victoria’s Jewish family as he admitted his work on tackling antisemitism was not complete
“We will not give up this fight against this kind of racism, bigotry, and hatred….until it is finally won".
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/keir-starmer-a…
“We will not give up this fight against this kind of racism, bigotry, and hatred….until it is finally won".
jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/keir-starmer-a…
Let me tell you an illustrative story of just how very much #JewsDontCount as ably explained @Baddiel. On 10th June while violent antisemitic attacks were at their peak a kid's book writers' society @scbwi posted a really moving post against antisemitism.
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The non-political post came from SCBWI's Equity & Inclusion Officer April Powers, a Black Jewish woman. Unfortunately for some, merely *referencing* antisemitism is an affront. Enter Razan. Razan *really* doesn't like people talking about antisemitism as her tweets to SCBWI show.
As Razan explains, the fact that SCBWI had the temerity to mention antisemitic violence across the globe without mentioning Muslims/Palestine was anathema to her. Apparently #AllLivesMatter after all! (note her equating US Jews with white supremacists)
I read @Baddiel #jewsdontcount this weekend. It's a quick read, but not light reading. David takes a whistlestop tour through the many, many occasions where - largely people from the progressive left, often people like me who champion anti-racism, downplay anti-semitism.
It's depressing that anyone could discount any form of discrimination. "Because they're white" and "because they're rich" are unacceptable (often false) reasons to consider that anti-semitism is in any way less intolerable than any other form of racism. David makes this case well
Most of all, if we learned any lesson from the last year and BLM, it's that the lived experience of a person - any person - has value. If they feel it is discrimination, it is discrimination. If a Jew tells you they find the Y-word offensive, who is anyone to say they shouldn't?
