Debby Taylor

Israel produced forensic evidence, videos, and 1000s of photos documenting the sexual violence of Oct 7. The world stayed silent. A handful of activists get off a boat making up sexual abuse claims against Israel. And it becomes headline news. Make it make sense.

The Iranian threat has been exposed once again. According to an investigation conducted by The Times, an Iranian intelligence operation is allegedly attempting to recruit British people to openly protest against Israel in order to stir up anti-Israel fervour in this country. The intelligence services are reportedly using public Telegram channels in order to recruit. The investigation found that money was offered in exchange for planning and organising anti-Israel rallies. We have also seen similar means used to recruit British people to commit arson against Jewish targets. We have seen where rhetoric posing as “just” anti-Israel activism can lead. It leads to the radicalisation of British people. It leads to Jewish people being stabbed. It leads to Jewish schoolchildren routinely subjected to abuse. Incitement dressed up as anti-Israel activism has real consequences for British Jews. At a worrying time of heightened antisemitic violent attacks – several of which have been claimed by an Islamist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, which experts say has links to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – the Iranian threat can no longer be ignored. A step in the right direction would be banning the IRGC now. Sign our petition: antisemitism.org/BantheIRGC thetimes.com/article/dcdd0e…

Israel did not make Eurovision political. The boycott campaign against it did. Israel did not make believing rape survivors political. The people who mocked Hamas victims did. Israel did not make Hebrew, the Jewish language, political. Authors who refuse to translate their books for Israelis did. Israel did not make Jewish safety in the diaspora political. Politicians who ignore violent hate against Jews when it disguises itself as ‘criticism of Israel’ did. Israel did not make freeing civilian hostages political. The terrorists who took those hostages, and the world that ripped down their posters, did. Israel did not make the word genocide political. The people who insisted, long before October 7th, that Israel’s existence constitutes genocide, did. Jews exist. Israel does too, and half of us live there. And we are going to keep existing. You can make it “political,” or you can learn to accept we are human beings.

Gal Abdush, originally known as “the woman in the black dress” was one of Hamas' victims of sexual assault and murder. Her body was found burned beyond recognition, exposed, alone, with her right hand over her eyes. But she was so much more than what they did to her. She was a mother, wife and a beautiful soul who did not deserve any of this. No one does. May her memory be a blessing and may we remember her as the beautiful person she was.

My @Telegraph column on how the dominance of the October 7 rape denialists has capped off the ruination of the (always flawed and motley) movement Why I can no longer call myself a feminist telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…

On This Day — May 17, 1939: Britain Appeased the Arabs & Condemned Europe’s Jews to the Holocaust As Jews across Europe were being beaten, robbed & deported after Kristallnacht, Britain joined the side of their persecutors by issuing the infamous White Paper of 1939 — one of the most disgraceful acts of appeasement and betrayal in modern history. First they appeased Hitler at Munich. Then they appeased the Mufti of Jerusalem and Arab violence. At the worst possible moment, Britain illegally slammed the last escape door shut on Europe’s Jews. The White Paper drastically restricted Jewish immigration to a trickle and made any further entry subject to Arab consent — which the Arabs had already made clear would be zero. Jewish land purchases were brutally restricted. This was not policy. This was betrayal. Britain had been granted the Mandate for Palestine by the League of Nations via unanimous international treaty specifically to establish a Jewish national home and encourage close Jewish settlement. The League’s own Mandates Commission reviewed the White Paper and declared it illegal — a clear violation of the Mandate. Britain simply ignored the League and enforced it anyway. The Jews begged for their lives. Britain gave them a death sentence. Hundreds of refugee ships were turned away. British forces fired on many. The Struma — carrying 769 Jews, including 70 children — was refused entry and later sunk. One of many such tragedies. Britain’s policy trapped Jews in Europe with nowhere to run as the Holocaust began. By closing the gates while the Nazis prepared the gas chambers, Britain became complicit in the scale of the systematic, industrialized genocide. At least hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have reached safety in the Land of Israel were instead exterminated. The British didn’t just fail the Jews. They actively helped ensure that when the Nazis came for them, there was no place left in the world to which they could escape. That is why a strong, sovereign Israel is not optional — it is an existential necessity. Never again will Jews depend on the mercy of empires that appease our enemies and abandon us to slaughter. Never again will we trust “guarantees” from powers that fold, betray, or look away when it matters most.

After more than two years of independent investigation, the Civil Commission has released a comprehensive report documenting sexual and gender-based violence committed by Hamas on October 7 and during hostage captivity. The report is not only a historical record — it is a call for recognition, accountability, and justice. Please read and share: civilc.org/silenced-no-mo… #October7 #NeverForget #HumanRights #Justice

I took pictures of those black IDF soldiers at the train station in Tel Aviv because they reminded me of something I experienced years ago in Lebanon. After my divorce, my Lebanese ex husband hired an African maid. In Lebanon, domestic workers often have barely any rights and are routinely mistreated by employers, especially because they live inside the homes and work from morning until night, usually without a single day off. When my son grew older, he once told his paternal family that even if people called them “helpers,” they were in reality treated like slaves. When he was two years old, we were in Beirut and he wanted the maid who looked after him during visits with his father to come with us to the beach. We went to the military academy beach, and a soldier instructed my cousin where to park. Then he told us to leave the maid in the car. It was 32 degrees Celsius outside. I told him that in Europe, if I left a dog locked in a car under that heat, I would get into trouble. “Maids are not allowed,” he replied. I asked him why he assumed she was a maid. He said it was obvious. I asked why it was obvious when we were both wearing jeans and a T shirt. “Because she is black,” he answered. I then asked him whether the wife of the Sudanese ambassador would be allowed in. He said that if she arrived in a diplomatic car, he would let her enter. We asked him whether he understood how degrading and disgusting what he was saying was to another human being standing right there, hearing every word. His answer was simple: he did not make the rules, he just followed them. We left the beach immediately, and after trying several places, we eventually found a beach in Jounieh that allowed black people to enter. The fact that this even had to become a search tells you everything you need to know. The Lebanese culture I know can be deeply racist, sectarian, antisemitic, homophobic, and misogynistic, among many other problems. That said, I also know many Lebanese who are trying to improve their country and challenge those attitudes. But there is still a lot, I mean a LOT, that needs to change. Of course Israel is not perfect. No society is. But whenever I say that Israelis and Lebanese are in some ways very similar, I also have to add that in many ways they are profoundly different. Those two soldiers at the train station are proof of that. #lebanon #Israel

Walking back genocide claims against Israel... Too late, the damage is done. A whole tiktok generation bought what they were selling.

Posting again, please 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 because it seems the phrase “Genocide” is still being redefined by people who don’t have a clue. The ICJ did NOT find that there was a Genocide in Gaza, not even a “PLAUSIBLE” one like they keep saying Don’t believe me? Hear it from the President of the ICJ

These are Libyan-Jewish survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp returning home after the liberation of the camp. The Inscriptions on the train reads "Going Home" and "To Tripoli." As soon as they returned, 140 Jews were murdered and hundreds were injured in a pogrom in Tripoli. A dozen more were murdered in a smaller pogrom in 1948. In 1967, massive anti-Jewish violence erupted and at least 18 Jews were murdered. Soon after, the Libyan government expelled the remaining 5,000 Jews and confiscated their property. Today, no Jews remain in Libya and all synagogues have been repurposed to destroyed.

Who runs the Aberdeen SPSC, you might ask? Fiona Napier is the main public face and longstanding head/organiser of the Aberdeen branch of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, also known as Aberdeen SPSC or ASPSC. Investigative journo/blogger David Collier (@mishtal) in a 2017 report, accused the Aberdeen SPSC branch under her leadership of promoting or tolerating antisemitic tropes and imagery. This includes protests targeting a Jewish-owned business in Aberdeen, which have been described as "Jew hate" or intimidation by opponents. Collier identified Napier in photos and gave the branch shit for standing alongside alongside people sharing antisemitic content, all while denying antisemitism exists in the group. Link to the article from NINE YEARS AGO, warning us in Scotland how this was going to go, right here 👇🏻. david-collier.com/antisemitism-s… Obviously the AberdeenSPSC have all the links to the usual islamomarxists/antifa links you see up here, Mick Napier, Sarah Flynn, Tommy Greenstein, etc. They're always linked through "solidarity" 💀. These links come from shared activism on Palestine, Kurds, unions, anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism 💀. Their campaigning has been crossing into antisemitism and extremism for more than a decade, and no doubt the patriots of Aberdeen have had many a run in with them. People like this are a danger to society as a whole, not just Jews. When they're finished with them, they're coming for you next.

It’s very simple: the Intifada was a campaign of suicide bombings, shootings and stabbings that killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Calling for it to be “globalised” means bringing it here. That isn’t “criticising Israel”. It’s inciting violent hatred.

“Antisemitism begins with Jews, but it never ends with them. A world without room for Jews is one that has no room for difference, and a world that lacks space for difference lacks space for humanity itself.” ~ Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (z’l)

Please feel free to share these posts making basic points.

When i was young we knew that there were people who hated us just for being Jewish. We could recognise them instantly, shaven heads big boots etc. Now they are just as likely to be your GP, your kids school teacher, your local MP. The former were honest, they made it clear they hated us. The latter? they will look down at us and find every excuse for any attack. They will say they are shocked and stand by us. But they don’t and won’t. This current wave of antisemitism is the result of years of journalists repeating lies, of politicians failing in there duty, of police and courts refusing to do there’s. We have been telling everyone for years that this was going to happen. We were ridiculed ignored and belittled. Thanks goodness for groups like @CST_UK @Shomrim

Dropped wife at work, a few helicopters in the sky from when two Jewish men got stabbed earlier. Off to pick up kids from school that was scoped out most likely by a terrorist last week. On the way I’ll drive past two synagogues that have been firebombed. This is being a Jew in the UK in 2026.

Worth a read: Our Nakba open.substack.com/pub/thatjew/p/…