Adam LeBor - wordsmith of all trades

Few people know this, but all Hatzalah members have to train as Mohels. If the patient is a non-Jew, they have to get an emergency circumsion before they can receive treatment.

The amount of goysplaining on this site over the last 30 hours following the Golders Green arson attack. Never have so many non-Jews explained so much about antisemitism to Jews. Is there any other minority group who gets lectured like this?

Hatzola felt personal. Just a few weeks ago they were on the scene to help my dad in his last minutes. And to help my mum through the hellish hours. Piece below with giftlink.

What kind of maniacs attack a fleet of ambulances? The culprits must be caught and punished with exemplary severity - to show that antisemitism has no place in Britain.

Here’s what globalising the intifada looks like. And London will carry on with its day.

Waking up to see people blowing up four ambulances. In the UK. Because the ambulances are connected to Jews. How very 2026. How very tolerant. How very ‘anti Zionist.’

this is appalling

Increasingly, Britain is resembling Germany of 1935 combined with jihadism

This is like one of those film scenes when you accidentally stumble into the mild mannered helper’s lair, and realise that he’s actually the serial killer

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.

fellow-historians help me out here- any other cases of a country at war helping to fund the enemy it's at war with? 🤡🤡🤡

Modern media would describe the Normandy landings as a massacre of Germans on a beach.

It’s a shame the UK is allowing this regime to operate on its soil while around 12% of Europe’s trade flows through the Strait of Hormuz that the regime is blocking at the moment. Europe’s critical lifelines energy, food supply chains, industrial materials all depend on stability in that corridor, yet there’s little willingness to seriously defend those interests. Instead, the expectation is that the US will step in and carry the burden. At some point, that stops being strategy and starts looking like dependency on terrorism.