Alex Brummer
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Alex Brummer
@albrummer
City Editor Daily Mail, former Assistant Editor the Guardian and author of 'Great British Reboot' published by Yale
London W8 Katılım Mayıs 2012
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Terrific piece my Melanie Phillips in Times on #Gails row and virulent antisemitism.
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We have now reached the stage where the @Guardian is proud to be the Der Stürmer.
the caped joo sader@capedjoosader
apparently this guardian journalist believes that smashing the windows, and throwing red paint over a cafe simply because it was founded by a Jew is just ‘acts of petty symbolism’ I suppose Krystalnacht when nazis smashed the windows of Jewish businesses and daubed them with slogans was symbolic. Now if someone had done this to the #Palestinian food store he also mentioned i suspect that wouldn’t be petty but a savage islamophobic incident. A reminder that @Gails_Bakery is nothing more, nothing less than a cafe. It is responsible for providing coffee, cake and rather good bread. It does not control world events, the weather, the price of heating oil. It’s a cafe, started by a Jewish woman. And that is its crime. In a world where middle class metropolitan elites like Jonathan exist then Jews are a provocation, not for what we do but simply because we exist
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The Guardian publishes a surprising amount of openly antisemitic content. I'm pretty sure if the Sun or the Mail was churning this vile stuff out, they would be smugly up in arms about it.
Christian JB@christianjbdev
The Guardian: Even tho a bakery which had a Jewish founder is a British business (technically, we guess), it’s clearly an act of aggression for a Jew-store to open near a salt-of-the-earth independently owned Palestinian cafe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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If Gail’s was a Jewish business, this would be antisemitic enough. But today it is owned by a private equity firm founded by a Mormon & led by a man named John Patrick Connaughton. The mere fact that it was founded by Jews makes it a target. The @guardian should be ashamed.
Christian JB@christianjbdev
The Guardian: Even tho a bakery which had a Jewish founder is a British business (technically, we guess), it’s clearly an act of aggression for a Jew-store to open near a salt-of-the-earth independently owned Palestinian cafe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Wear an extra jumper — just don’t ask for an energy bailout
thetimes.com/article/d164a6…
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@CharlieHuggins_ @HTVIOLA @FundFanatic @Gerald_Ashley @xGeorgeCooper @PolemicTMM @MarkDampier @John_Stepek @Jam4u_75 @conkers3 @annabelbrodies @PETERMINIHAN @copytaster @LondonSouthEast @DianaEPatterson @GeorgeO @wheeliedealer @claudiohfox @Bouncetrade @MY21_Oracle @purestockfacts @marxnd @sanjkareer @TheReluctantIn2 @achildofthe70s @AlgyHall @TheIdleInvestor @ShareScope @IChronicle @fei5al @RegHoare @NickBritton_ @YstoneAdvisory @jerskillington @PoolbegPharma @Schroders @rwstone1 @n20investor @AICPRESS @harrimanhouse @masterinvestor @YahooFinance @MenphysUK @BlueWhaleCap @HowardMarksBook @Trust_EWIT @rosaltmann @jeffprestridge @WatcherGuru Good morning! Maybe take a look at The Mail on Sunday today...This from @PatrickTooher #privatecredit
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Blimey look at this...Sometimes perhaps the very existence of tne Guardian comment page feels like a heavy handed act of aggression if you're Jewish...
Christian JB@christianjbdev
The Guardian: Even tho a bakery which had a Jewish founder is a British business (technically, we guess), it’s clearly an act of aggression for a Jew-store to open near a salt-of-the-earth independently owned Palestinian cafe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Appalling journalism, repellent views. The clue is in our name - hospitality provides a welcome to all and none of our teams deserve this
Sebastian Payne@SebastianEPayne
New contender for worst column of the year: "[Gail's] very presence 20 metres away from a small independent Palestinian cafe feels quietly symbolic, an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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As we wake up this weekend, news of yet another violent attack on Jewish children.
These are just some of the violent acts aimed at Jewish communities in the West this month.
Where is the outrage?
A warning: antisemitism will always bring down the society that tolerates it.
Mossad Commentary@MOSSADil
🚨 EXPLOSION AT JEWISH SCHOOL IN AMSTERDAM The mayor calls this a deliberate attack on the Jewish community. The incident comes one day after four suspects were arrested over an explosion outside a synagogue in Rotterdam. At least nine Diaspora synagogues have been targeted this month. Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.
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Incredible cutting of the screenshot here. This is the whole paragraph - one that makes clear Gail’s complicity.
Giles Coren@gilescoren
Wow, this is some mad fucking antisemitism from @guardian - and a truly honking piece of restaurant writing into the bargain.
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Jonathan Liew opinion column "A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war" in The Guardian, is an astonishing exercise in bigotry disguised as moral commentary.
Beneath its surface lies a familiar and ugly trope: the re-packaging of antisemitic prejudice in fashionable political language.
One cannot help but wonder what Palestinian intellectual Edward Said would have made of this curious revival of the “noble savage” narrative. The piece romanticises one group while casting another as shadowy outsiders, manipulating local life from behind the scenes. That framework is not insightful social commentary. It is a very old prejudice wearing new clothes.
Liew, a sports writer, attempts to turn North London cafés and shopfronts into a symbolic battlefield of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In doing so, he falls into a trope that has echoed through centuries of European discourse: the insinuation that Jewish success or presence represents some form of encroachment by powerful “global” forces.
This is not sophisticated political analysis. It is a caricature.
What emerges from the column is a narrative in which local shopkeepers are implicitly cast as victims of vaguely defined “Zionist” or “global” influence.
That framing has a long and deeply troubling history. It has been used repeatedly to stigmatise Jewish communities as alien economic actors rather than ordinary members of society.
For a newspaper that presents itself as a guardian of liberal values, publishing such rhetoric is deeply disappointing. Opinion pages should encourage debate and scrutiny. They should not revive centuries-old stereotypes under the guise of social commentary.
This piece should never have been written, and it certainly should never have been published.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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So let me get this straight:
1. Petty activism against a Palestinian-owned cafe is bad (agreed!)
2. But *violent* activism against a cafe that people associate (wrongly!) with Israel is justified and understandable
Update your rule book accordingly
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Disgusting to see @guardian and @jonathanliew use @Gails_Bakery to dog-whistle about Jewish elitism and power. Calling a bread shop "symbolically aggressive" because of a shareholder’s heritage is textbook antisemitism.
They’ve traded journalism for tropes that should have stayed in the 1930s. 🍞⚖️ #Antisemitism #TheGuardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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