Enid Shelmerdine
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She/her. Socialist, ex-Labour. Retired journalist, enjoy a good story; telly addict; theatregoer. Waiting for the Ocado man. All views/comments my own
Early this morning, Israeli settler fanatics stormed the Huwara Secondary School south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, raising an Israeli flag over the building and spray-painting the Star of David on a wall at the building.
🚨 BREAKING: Antisemitic arson attack reported in Golders Green, London. At least four ambulances belonging to Hatzola Northwest—a volunteer Jewish emergency service providing 24/7 medical aid—have been destroyed. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.
JUST IN🇱🇧❌🇮🇱🔥 Israelis are fleeing to Cyprus after massive Hezbollah’s Strikes across Northern Israel.
A former NATO commander just said the quiet part out loud. Trump is trapped. The military logic of this war has collapsed into a binary no one in Washington wants to say clearly: either launch a ground invasion of Iran – a country of 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and three decades of asymmetric warfare doctrine – or declare victory over rubble and go home. Neither is winning. One is catastrophe. The other is theatre. The Strait of Hormuz is still contested. Iranian proxies are still operational. The nuclear program is dispersed, hardened, and possibly accelerated. Air strikes didn’t end the threat. Every day this drags on, the gap between what was promised and what is achievable gets wider. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
The BBC describes Israel demolishing homes in Lebanon as a “path to peace.”
IDF strikes on over 100 medical facilities in Lebanon kill 40 medical workers, Health Ministry says haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the "Jewish community will not face up to this hatred alone" and has promised the government will replace the damaged ambulances following an arson attack in Golders Green. trib.al/GYRcGNm 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
In Margate. My cheeks are red. I am shaking. I popped into an exhibition that turned out to be the insane fever dream of an artist called Matthew Collins: ‘Drawings Against Genocide.’ The exhibition is described as ‘drawings… raising consciousness about hell…. Israel is the pure encapsulation of it. Zionism is this terror state’s ruling ideology.’ Shocked by the use of Nazi imagery - the room is full of the Star of David pasted around figures meant to be Israelis and the Jewish ‘lobby’ spewing blood, to say nothing of blonde yummy mummies wearing ‘globalise the intifada’ shirts, I spoke to the artist to share my reaction as a Jewish person. He was instantly aggressive. As soon as I started to say I was shocked and threatened by what I was seeing because it was Nazi imagery, the artist started yelling at me that I didn’t mean anything I was saying. Anytime I tried to speak (calmly) he said: ‘you don’t mean any of what you said, you’re just repeating ‘hasbarah talking points’ because ‘you’re defending a genocide’. On and on he yelled, in my face. I said: ‘if I was a Black person…’ but couldn’t finish the sentence because: ‘you’re not are you?’ On the Nazi ideology point he said: ‘yeah. Why do you think it’s there. Israel are the Nazis’. His breath was disgusting. The crowd began booing and closing in around me, making to shoe me out. I said: ‘fine, get the Jew out’ and he yelled more across the room at me, ‘repeatedly jeering ‘call the police, go ahead, call the police’. I said I would, and the community security trust, which features as a devil in his exhibition. This was met with even more jeering. ‘Yeah, call the CST’ was the last I heard before leaving. Someone snapped pictures of me while I was being shouted at. Short video shows the artist. The longer video, of our final almost surreally disgusting exchange, didn’t record.
This is Nazi enthusiast Mathew Collings. Matthew dehumanizes Jews with his vile child-like drawings. Matthew is an abomination.
