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@DavidLammy Not only have you given it free reign, but you have exacerbated, ignited and invited Jew hate

I heard the pain, anger and grief at today’s vigil after the horrific terrorist attack. We stand with the Jewish community in grief and solidarity against antisemitism. We are surging security at synagogues and supporting victims. Hate must never and will never divide us.

@natscs29 So pleased to hear. Shana Tova ❤️

@karmabread we had the most delicious Challah last night, thank you. Shana tova.

@gilescoren The damage has been done I’m afraid and the woe is me response didn’t cut it. Anyway, it will come out in the wash, whereas this current level of anti semitism is not abating

A more detailed apology for the things I got wrong in my column on Tuesday as well as an explanation of what I was trying to say, and some reflections on the risks attached to airing one’s opinions publicly, and what the Charlie Kirk situation tells us… thetimes.com/article/0cf084…

@GideonFalter @antisemitism @gilescoren @thetimes Agreed.

Despite the fact that mine was the only letter on behalf of @antisemitism, the organisation that organised Britain’s March Against Antisemitism, which @GilesCoren berated in his recent column, @TheTimes chose not to publish it. So I will. Sir, I was revolted by Giles Coren’s brag that he had not attended one of the largest ever British marches against antisemitism because the Jews don’t deserve any sympathy right now. Had he attended our march, he would have heard some of the stories of antisemitic incidents that he now dismisses as so much graffiti: Jews shot at with air rifles, synagogues repeatedly daubed with faeces, Jewish families rammed by racists on scooters, a threat to a Jewish nanny and the baby in her care – all of which took place in just in the last few days and of a piece with almost two years of surging hatred. And, yes, swastika graffiti scrawled onto a rabbi’s house which, once upon a time, would have triggered an alarm in the West. It no longer does because people like Mr Coren prefer to virtue-signal about a conflict a thousand miles away than address the fact that antisemitism in Britain has reached its highest levels in modern times, doubling in less than five years. Mr Coren has joined the ranks of those who think that we Jews in Britain deserve isolation and whatever comes our way. He has written more generously of shellfish than he does of us. That The Times should not only publish such a sneering and callous review – which one doubts it would in relation to any other minority – but that this would be the totality of its coverage of such a major event raises worrying questions about its editorial line. Yours faithfully, Gideon Falter

@gilescoren You’ve caused deep offence and real hurt. In fact, you have actually become a gas lighting anti semite yourself. You haven’t bothered to respond to me here or on Instagram. For 10 years I wanted you to review my bakery. It’s too Jewish for you, that’s the bottom line.

Listen, I fucked that column yesterday. I thought I had something to say but I fucked it. I’ll apologise for what I got wrong on Times Radio at 9am (no need to listen) and again, briefly, in the paper next week. Not because anyone’s told me to (no one has). But because I’m sorry.

@stephenpollard We can’t unhear. Too bad @gilescoren - you are not excused. You have disgusted the community that you clearly despise. And yet we revered you !!!! Ps my bakery is way too Jewish for you

I read Giles Coren's Times piece today so you don't have to: "Hey you – Jew. Shut up with your moaning. Those faeces on the wall of your synagogue? It’s YOUR FAULT. Those guards outside your kids’ school? YOUR FAULT. The calls for you to be slaughtered? The shrieks that Hitler was right? YOUR FAULT. Those people kicking you in the street? YOUR FAULT. All of it is YOUR FAULT, Jew. If only you were more like me – metropolitan, savvy, comfortable in my own skin. Morally superior. Decent. Ugh, look at you with your ‘it’s complicated’ attitude to Gaza. I’ve translated Giles Coren’s latest Times column so you don’t have to subject yourself to reading it. But if you really insist on some of his own words, this is the gist of it, on why he stayed away from Sunday’s march against antisemitism: “One friend I called said to me: ‘Not only am I not going; but I don’t even know what antisemitism is any more. It used to be making up lies about the Jews to incite stupid people to kill us. But they don’t have to make up lies any more. The shit we really are doing is bad enough.’” Not exactly original, is it? The Jews have been blamed for antisemitism since the Jews were the Jews. The specifics vary, but the theme is always the same: if only Jews would stop doing Jewy things then no one would hate them. But because they keep doing those Jewy things, it’s no wonder they’re hated. You only have to spend a minute on social media to see it: the Jews have been chased out of everywhere they’ve ever been, so there must be a reason why everyone hates them. Etc. Coren has now joined that chorus. It’s the Jews’ fault that there’s antisemitism. Welcome to the community of the good, Giles. But I’ve some bad news. When push comes to shove, they won’t think of you as “the good Jew". The operative word will always be “Jew”. You might now tell the world proudly that you go to church, not synagogue, but that’s just semantics to them. Just look at what is happening to Jeremy Corbyn. His new Your Party is splitting, with one of the fault lines being Zionism. And – this is objectively hilarious – he is being attacked as being too pro-Israel. Jeremy Corbyn is being attacked as being too pro-Israel! One writer on their in-house journal, Electronic Intifada, wrote this weekend how, “In a 2018 opinion piece for the Guardian, Corbyn claimed there were ‘honourable’ Zionists and that it was ‘wrong’ to describe Zionism as racism”. He then attacked “Corbyn’s pandering to the Israel lobby within the Labour Party”. For these people, even Corbyn is an example not of a man discredited because of his attitude to and tolerance of antisemites, but because he was too nice to the Zios. Since Coren’s piece was published this morning, he has backtracked, with apologetic posts on social media such as: “I thought I had something to say but I expressed it clumsily and regret the effect it’s had.” As a fellow columnist, I can empathise with him over clumsy expression; we’ve all been there. But there’s nothing clumsy about his central argument: the Jews are getting what they deserve. It’s an argument we’ve faced for millennia. And it’s no less foul just because you say you wished you’d expressed it better." thejc.com/opinion/jews-a…

@Daniel_Sugarman His absence was duly unnoticed. He has disgraced himself

I don't normally write pieces taking aim at other opinion writers (especially ones who have a much larger follower count than I do). But I felt that I couldn't let Giles Coren's diary piece in today's Times go unanswered.

@Salonikiboy @gilescoren @Ncknwmn I’m so disgusted by that statement

@gilescoren @Ncknwmn 'Those Jews marching against antisemitism are the reason there is antisemitism' May God forgive you.

From @Ncknwmn

@gilescoren Down with Jews ?

Down with cyclists! Down with drivers! Down with ebike nutters! But most of all, down with rented ebike bastards! thetimes.com/article/356704…

@nicolelampert @gilescoren It’s a desperate and sad attempt to save himself from being cancelled. His absence from the solidarity march went unnoticed. He is irrelevant and arrogant

So @gilescoren converts to Christianity and follows that well worn path of blaming the Jew for the fact that he is hated.

@mishtal @BBCNews @gilescoren you and your celeb .. your absence wasn’t noticed but column in the times will give traction and popularity .. well done. But you failed dismally on understanding a damn thing about being a Jew right now

There was a massive march against antisemitism in London today. @bbcnews haven't bother reporting it. Every week, the BBC report on the anti-Israel marches, but when masses protest antisemitism - the BBC go silent. If it doesn't help Hamas - seems the BBC won't publish it.

@TracyAnnO @mrjamesob Jew centric Israel centric .. he’s exposed himself as the Jew hater he is

@GhorbaniiNiyak I’m laughing my arse off

Getting your Challah on for a Shabbat Shalom @karmabread

@JakeWSimons I’m actually laughing out loud at how deluded they are

Good grief

DON’T forget the 53 hostages. DON’T forget the 53 hostages. DON’T forget the 53 hostages. DON’T forget the 53 hostages.

@HeidiBachram They are so far gone .. I’m sure there is a diagnosis for their madness

I see the left is very upset about the Iranian regime being targeted by Israel. How did these people get so emotionally enmeshed with the monsters who murder women for showing their hair?

@cgmkucera @IanMackintosh04 @JoosyJew Right !!!! That’s exactly what I was thinking !!!!

@IanMackintosh04 @JoosyJew @karmabread Looks like it went over to the dark side...

#AllEyesOnChallah 🍞👀

@HeidiBachram @Dawn_French Thank you Heidi. You did it for us all

A polite request to @Dawn_French Dear Dawn, Thank you for deleting and apologising for that cruel video that seemed to mock the atrocities Hamas committed on October 7 including the kidnap and murder of my relatives. You said in your statement that you intended to criticise the leaders on both sides, yet what was transmitted presented only as blame for Israel and sympathy for Palestinians. In fact the suffering of victims in Israel were either absent or minimised. The same day you deleted the video, the body of Thai national Nattapong Pinta was recovered from Gaza. He was taken hostage alive on October 7 and killed in captivity. One of dozens of agricultural workers and students who were targeted that terrible day. Those words “killed in captivity” mask horrors you nor I can imagine. The terrorists responsible were the same ones who murdered 9 month old baby Kfir Bibas, his 4 year old brother Ariel and mother Shiri. Their family do not want the details shared but you can probably discover the brutality of their murders. There are still 55 hostages held by monsters, 20 are believed to be alive. One is Omri Miran who was kidnapped along with my husband’s cousin Tsachi. Both fathers, both ripped from their lives. Omri is a Shiatsu practitioner and a stay-at-home Dad to his young daughters. A healer. A loving father. A soulmate. Now he languishes in tunnels, starved and abused. His wife Lishay fights for him every moment, screams his name at the border with Gaza. Hamas did not just perpetrate these horrors on one day. They continue every day, every minute, to torture hostages and their families. They hold them as human shields and execute them as though they were nothing when no longer of use. So I have a simple request. If your commitment to condemning Hamas is genuine, please consider speaking up for the hostages. I see you have a Palestinian flag in your bio. Please put a yellow ribbon there too. This would concretely signal your claim that you see suffering on both sides. It is not political, it is humanitarian. It justifies nothing. It elevates everything. That is all I ask.

@sirwg202110 What an absolute abomination she is

The absolute state of Diane Abbott in the Commons this afternoon.