Stuart

King Charles III is now Patron of the CST, an organization of community safety that has become sadly essential for the security of ordinary Jewish people in Britain, the schools, the kids, the synagogues. This is an example of the immense symbolic moral power of the British monarchy deployed to protect and reassure a small, beleaguered section of the British people. It may seem a small gesture but it has touched and heartened the Anglo-Jewish community. It is symbolic of course but monarchs have a special ability to make such symbolic gestures over the heads of politicians - Queen Victoria and Franz Josef did so in their own way - and so did, in much worse circumstances, the King of Denmark, The Duke of Edinburgh's mother, the Sultan of Morocco and Bey of Tunisia, and in perilous, murky circumstances monarchs in Bulgaria and Romania. The recent spasm of antiJewish hatred that has swept the country has shocked and scared many - a spasm that included the attack on a synagogue and murder of Jewish people on Yom Kippur the holiest day of the year, the terrorist burning of Jewish ambulances who serve all communities this week, the Birmingham police Maccabi football scandal, the marchers who celebrated October 7, who praise Hamas, Iran and promoted blood libels and incited the massacre of Jews and Israelis, the repeated harrassment and attempt to drive out 'Jewish' restaurants Gails and Miznon, the intimidation of Jewish students and professors at universities, the arrest of Mancunian jihadist terrorists planning a massacre, the arrest of Iranian state agents scoping out CST and Bevis Marks for attacks, the NHS bigots spreading vile racism and threatening patients and much more.... The Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood along with police leadership - especially Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson in Manchester @gmpolice - anti-terrorist units and Mi6/Mi5 have been excellent and foiled many plots: we are so grateful. And to Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP Health Sec @wesstreeting and former deputy premier @AngelaRayner and Sir Mark Rowley @metpoliceuk who attended CST last night in solidarity after the ambulances attack. So appreciated. At the same time, police forces have often gaslit Jewish communities, been intimidated and coopted by aggressive activists and failed to protect basic human rights - until forced to do so by publicity or law; university authorities have embraced or submitted to the bullying of small cadres of bigots - or looked the other way. (See @kent_police) None of this means that people cannot criticise the actions of the Israeli government. That is a right we all hold. But noone kills Russian, Emirati, Iranian, Ukrainian, Saudi, Sudanese, Chinese, Pakistan, Indian or American people or attacks their communities because of the actions of their governments and they certainly do not do so in terms of cosmic evil. Only in this case. That is why CST is unfortunately so important to the tiny Jewish population - 250,000 - that is so proud to be British. That is why the King's gesture signals so much.

The Left don’t want you to know what is happening in your own nation - and what will happen if we don’t change direction. I don’t mind being attacked so long as you get the truth amazon.co.uk/Suicide-Nation…

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.