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A Dublin hotel which I had planned to stay at in December has reportedly cancelled a booking for attendees of a conference on antisemitism.
I certainly won’t be staying there now. I stand with my Jewish friends and refuse to give my money to any hotel that treats Jews this way.
The Herbert Park Hotel in Ballsbridge, Dublin cancelled a booking for 70 rooms upon learning the booking of the rooms was for a group of people from 27 EU states attending a conference in Dublin this week on antisemitism associated with Ireland’s EU presidency. A vile illustration of the issue to be addressed.
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When he is rejected and betrayed by those once called friends. When allies grow weary, politicians negotiate, and some are already poised to shake the hand of the executioner. When his life and the life of his country are daily targets for rockets, drones, bombs, and lies. I have no idea how this man has endured all this. And continues to endure it.
He does not look like a movie hero. He looks like a man who hasn't slept in years. He has been cast aside. With eyes burning for the homes of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odesa. With eyes that see all of Ukraine. He asks for no pity. He courageously asks for weapons. He does not flee. He stands his ground and bares his chest. When offered evacuation, he says: "I need ammunition, not a taxi." And this is not just a catchy phrase. It is a choice proven over years. Every day. Every night. Right now.
He has been betrayed and continues to be betrayed. He has been underestimated and continues to be underestimated. He has been insulted and continues to be insulted. He has been put to the test and continues to be put to the test. And he stands tall. In the shadow of ruined cities. With weary soldiers. In the shadow of a world that is also weary—a world that wants to forget this war in Ukraine and think of something that causes no suffering or stress, something pleasant. Yet he reminds everyone. He speaks to people as if holding their hands. And there is something in that which brings a lump to one's throat.
In all my life, I have never admired any public figure more than him. And I think, perhaps, I never will again. Because such admiration is not about politics. It is about a man who, when everything is falling apart, does not ask "Why me?" but—like a knight—does what must be done. I am certain he will stand firm, even if it costs him his life. Even if all his friends leave. Even if the whole world turns its back on him. He will not betray his principles.
The entire world respects him—not because he is perfect, but because he is the strongest of them all, because he has raised the banner of the highest values: human dignity, freedom, and democracy. And all of Ukraine stands with him—weary and wounded, yet unbowed. Perhaps in the future, you will vote for someone else in the presidential election. That is your right. But today, let us respect him. We have a president who deserves respect and of whom we need not be ashamed. May he have strength and patience.
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych deserves kind words and every form of support today. So let us give it to him—it is our duty!
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If you tell the electorate in say Makersfield you’ll not revisit Brexit (because they voted for it) then do exactly that… where does that leave you? Especially when you’re a PM the country did NOT vote for. I’m sick to death of political lies. From all sides. Anyone else?
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Instead of hiding his daughter with Down syndrome, Charles de Gaulle raised her proudly, and she became the heart of his life.
When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he made a quiet request that surprised many. He did not want a grand state funeral in Paris. He asked to be buried in the small village of Colombey les Deux Églises, beside his daughter Anne. For him, that resting place mattered more than any monument.
Anne was born on New Year’s Day in 1928, the youngest of three children. She had Down syndrome, a condition surrounded by fear and misinformation at the time. Doctors and society often blamed parents and urged families to hide children like her from public view. For families of power and status, sending such children away was considered normal.
Charles and his wife Yvonne refused. They raised Anne at home with her brother Philippe and sister Élisabeth. There was no secrecy, no shame, no separation. She was simply their daughter.
To the world, de Gaulle was distant and unyielding. A leader shaped by war, discipline, and command. But inside his home, Anne revealed a side few ever saw. With her, he laughed freely. He sang songs, told stories, and played games. Friends noticed that the man who rarely showed emotion softened completely in her presence.
He called her my joy. Anne asked nothing of him except love, and in that simplicity, he found peace. She was never treated as fragile or inferior. She was respected fully, included always, and loved without condition.
That love did not end within the family. After the war, Charles and Yvonne founded the Fondation Anne de Gaulle. They turned a château into a home for young women with intellectual disabilities, many of whom had been abandoned. At a time when support barely existed, they chose action over silence.
Anne’s life was short. She died of pneumonia in 1948, just after turning twenty, in her father’s arms. In his grief, de Gaulle whispered that now she was like the others, finally free from the limits the world had placed on her.
After her death, he carried her photograph everywhere. He believed her presence protected him, even during an assassination attempt years later. Whether faith or fate, he never doubted her importance in his life.
Charles de Gaulle found his deepest calm not in leadership or victory, but in loving a child the world did not understand. His family showed that dignity is not about ability. It is about how fiercely we choose to care.
We should never be ashamed of the people we love.
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I was in a bomb shelter in Be'eri with 18 federal judges from America.
A young woman who had grown up in that kibbutz in a peaceful border community told me that on October 7th she was at her army base and all the members of her family had gathered in this house in the bomb shelter for safety.
She said, "They all died here."
She asked us to come inside of the bomb shelter. The entire house was charred black and burned to the ground and the bomb shelter was still standing.
We were standing in the rubble of this home around this bomb shelter. She was inside and so a couple of us went in.
She said, "No, all of you."
So then a couple more went in.
She said, "No, all of you."
And then all 18 of us federal judges got into this bomb shelter where she had slept as a little girl. It used to have pink and purple walls and unicorn pictures. And we were packed in like sardines.
She said, "A terrorist opened the window and threw in a grenade. And all eight members of my family—grandparents, parents, and children huddled together— were blown to pieces."
It took weeks for them to take all the physical material off the walls and the ceilings.
And they did this house after house after house. Hundreds of houses.
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There are two million Arabs - Muslim, Druse, Beduin and Christian living freely in Israel.
There are NO Jews living under Palestinian rule. Every cm of land that the Arabs captured - the Jews were murdered and the rest chased out.
But yeah - the Jews are the racsits.
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Assimilation has become a dirty word. But you know what? If someone avails themself of coming to a new country, then they should learn the customs and obey the laws of the place they chose! This nasty bastard should have been dressed down there and then. Had you said “I refuse to be shown around by a black girl” he would have been told to leave in no uncertain terms. The reason why these pieces of shit can act like that toward a little Jewish girl is because the authorities do nothing to stop it.
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Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland.
I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity.
For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither people’s future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other.
That is why declaring “Zionism is racism” is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isn’t inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.
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How can you bail 5 foreign inspired terrorists, who were prowling a billion dollar military base, and deny bail to a Brit who slashed a £500 dinghy, bringing illegal immigrants in?
And why are you keeping him in a cell for months, when he hasn’t been convicted…..yet you are releasing already convicted criminals instead?
#TwoTierJustice
#DannyTommo
#PoliticalPrisoner
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Funny how an entire planeload of supposedly genocidal war criminal Israelis, who'd detained a literal terrorist that tried to kill them, didn't beat him to death with their bare hands.
Instead they gave him first aid and handed him to authorities.
That is the difference between a civilised society and a barbarian one next door.
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Sir Simon Schama on Ed Miliband: “Any foreign secretary who went out of his way to shake the hand of the foreign minister of the Republic of Iran, whose regime murdered 40,000 people, has not got the authority to sermonise about anything, ever again!”
jewishnews.co.uk/miliband-ha…
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Here is the actual letter if you want to add your name: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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I am happy to join 6,000 prominent scholars, legal experts to sign a letter rejecting Gaza genocide charge. jpost.com/israel-news/articl…
include historian Niall Ferguson, Israeli historian Benny Morris, Holocaust historian and former US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, Tel Aviv University professor emerita and former Yad Vashem chief historian Dina Porat, historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore, UCLA professor Judea Pearl, and Brandeis University professor emeritus Jonathan Sarna.
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Did you know that Egypt controlled Gaza from 1948 until 1967, but didn’t turn it into a State called Palestine? Israel hoped to return Gaza to Egypt as part of the Sinai Peace Accords, but Egypt was uninterested in taking responsibility for the Gazans.
After a group of jihadists (including some Gazans who entered Egypt via tunnels) slaughtered a bunch of Egyptians in 2014, the Egyptian government closed the border, fearing for their own safety. It’s still closed today. They literally sacrificed a huge chunk of their land for safety from Gazans.
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We told you so.
For years we have been telling everyone that outlets like @bbcnews were spreading Hamas propaganda
Now the truth is out. All those Gazan journalists BBC News relied on were just Hamas terrorists in press jackets.
How many Hamas lies did BBC News send viral?
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Unlike @AbdulElSayed, I’m an Arab who is actually from Israel. My family lived through the establishment of the state of Israel and what he calls the “Nakba.” The Holocaust was nothing like the events of the “Nakba” where my grandfather was told to flee by Arab leaders (not Jews) so the Arabs could “defeat the Jews.” He refused, and all the Arab residents who stayed were given citizenship. Those who fled, a large number by choice, were not permitted to return, as often happens in war. That is a catastrophe, a “nakba” of their own making. But there was no choice in the Holocaust, there was no citizenship for those who stayed. You are intentionally comparing a war and a genocide. They are not the same.
Your vile attempt to co-opt the largest massacre of the Jewish people in history, the systematic murder of six million people simply because they were Jews, for your own dystopian pro-terror Muslim Brotherhood agenda is despicable. I see through you Abdul. You may be able to fool Western Americans with your garbage, but we know who you really are.
یا کذاب ابن کذاب
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Très TRÈS GRAND RESPECT !!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
En 1936, devant les yeux d'Adolf Hitler aux Jeux de Berlin, un jeune homme de 20 ans fend l'eau à une vitesse phénoménale et fait taire tout le stade. Sept ans plus tard, en novembre 1943, il monte dans un wagon à bestiaux direction Auschwitz avec sa femme et leur fillette de deux ans. Ce soir-là, privé de son nom et réduit à un simple numéro gravé dans la chair, personne ne sait encore que cet homme brisé accomplira après l'enfer l'un des plus grands miracles de l'histoire du sport.
Son nom était Alfred Nakache.
Avant la guerre, Alfred est le roi des bassins, l'un des nageurs les plus rapides de la planète et le fierté de toute la France. Mais en 1941, sous l'Occupation, un article de presse le désigne publiquement comme « le Juif Nakache » et exige son bannissement immédiat des compétitions. Par solidarité, d'autres nageurs français refusent de plonger sans lui et se retirent des championnats. Ce geste magnifique ne suffira pas à le protéger de la haine.
Dénoncé, Alfred est arrêté avec les deux êtres qu'il aime plus que tout au monde.
Dès leur arrivée sur la rampe d'Auschwitz, sous un ciel gris et glacial, la sélection sépare la famille en quelques secondes. Alfred est envoyé aux travaux forcés. Sa femme Paule et leur petite Annie, âgée de deux ans à peine, sont exécutées dès le premier jour. Alfred l'ignore et continue d'espérer chaque matin, trouvant la force de survivre dans le seul souvenir de leurs sourires.
Il a perdu sa dignité.
Il a perdu sa femme.
Il a perdu sa petite fille.
Après avoir survécu aux travaux exténuants et aux marches de la mort en plein hiver, il est enfin libéré au camp de Buchenwald. Il n'est plus qu'un squelette vivant, pesant à peine 40 kilos, les yeux creusés par le chagrin lorsqu'il apprend la terrible vérité : il ne reverra plus jamais sa femme et son enfant.
N'importe quel homme se serait laissé mourir.
Mais un peu plus d'un an après sa libération, en 1946, Alfred s'avance au bord d'un bassin. Ses bras sont marqués par les cicatrices, son corps porte les traces de la faim, mais il plonge. Dans l'eau, il ne ressent plus la douleur des camps ni le poids de l'absence. Il bat le record du monde du relais. Deux ans plus tard, aux Jeux Olympiques de Londres en 1948, il est le seul survivant des camps de la mort à s'aligner au départ, nageant non pas pour la gloire ou la vengeance, mais simplement pour se sentir encore vivant.
Alfred a consacré la suite de sa vie à transmettre sa passion aux enfants de Toulouse, leur apprenant à flotter, à respirer, à ne jamais abandonner face au courant.
Un après-midi de 1983, alors qu'il effectuait sa traversée quotidienne dans la mer, son cœur fatigué s'est arrêté. L'eau, qui lui avait tout donné et qui l'avait aidé à traverser le pire, l'a emporté paisiblement.
On croit souvent que le courage consiste à se battre contre les autres, alors qu'il s'agit parfois simplement de trouver une raison de continuer à respirer quand on a tout perdu.
Si ce destin hors du commun vous a touché, partagez-le pour que le nom d'Alfred ne soit jamais oublié. On a tous en nous une force cachée pour surmonter nos plus sombres épreuves.
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It is now clear that the Government almost certainly allowed extremists to help draft its Islamophobia definition — now repackaged as "anti-Muslim hostility".
The Free Speech Union exposed, at the start of the year, that all five members of the Working Group tasked with drafting the definition had troubling links to organisations associated with Islamist extremism, including the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND.
It has now been revealed that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has deleted all responses to the Working Group's consultation.
Why would the department delete all the submissions if it had nothing to hide? Did extremists influence the definition? Did ministers direct officials to delete all evidence, contrary to Government data policy?
The Shadow Justice Secretary wrote to Angela Rayner over a month ago. She is yet to reply.
Angela Rayner must come clean. The public deserves to know the truth.
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Regardez bien cette armoire.
Le 7 octobre, Michael, 9 ans, et Amalia, 6 ans, s’y sont enfermés pour échapper aux terroristes.
Pendant des heures, deux enfants sont restés là. Cachés. Silencieux. Terrifiés.
De l’autre côté de cette porte, leur mère, Smadar, venait d’être assassinée. Leur père, Roy, sera lui aussi tué.
Imaginez avoir 6 et 9 ans et comprendre que, pour rester en vie, il ne faut surtout pas pleurer. Il ne faut surtout pas faire de bruit.
Ils sont restés cachés près de 12 heures.
Cette armoire n’était pas un meuble.
C’était tout ce qui séparait deux enfants de la mort.
Michael et Amalia ont survécu au 7 octobre.
N’oubliez jamais ce qu’ils ont dû faire pour survivre. 🕯️
