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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.

At Aspen, Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes laid out her vision for ‘the day after’: “Israeli security first and foremost,” followed by “some kind of autonomy” for Palestinians. But she made clear she shouldn’t be mistaken for someone calling for an equal Palestinian state. And said it should not be run by the PA but by a “less corrupt, more effective” body that manages “some form of self-government.”

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Israeli military says they will destroy main coastal bridge into the city of Tyre south Lebanon, to stop “Hezbollah from moving its members south”. This will effectively cut off the city of Tyre and much of south Lebanon from the rest of the country and will take years to repair

Been quite a week…
 ✅ Pothole Blitz - 7,000 Fixed ✅ New Vision for Year-Round Outdoor Dining ✅ 15 MPH School Zones ✅ End of Criminal Summonses for Cyclists, New Training for Delivery Workers ✅ Bold Redesign of Ninth Ave ✅ Pedestrian & Cyclist Upgrades at Prospect Park 🧵

A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don’t have words.