Eve Barlow

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In the end, what we take with us is what we have given to others. Just heard that and it resonates…

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.

The fifth knife attack in the city of Barcelona in less than 24 hours. Comes just after Sanchez naturalized 500,000 migrants from Islamic countries.

The "Free Palestine" movement is boycotting Jewish British thespian Maureen Lipman by depicting her with devil horns. Once again, antizionism is a hate movement. Free Palestine is racist. And if you still have a watermelon emoji in your bio, you're telling the world you're a Jew-hating bigot.

Quinto apuñalado en Barcelona en 24 horas. El Real Instituto Elcano, que analiza el terrorismo, enfocándose actualmente en la evolución del yihadismo global, lleva tiempo avisando de que los atentados ocurrirían en vacaciones o puentes.

Ireland is supplying the Russian military with aluminum. All that talk about anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism and here we are…. I hope this is dealt with swiftly. occrp.org/en/investigati…

The only minority forced to hide their identity. It’s like being made to get into the closet.

@abelmike Jew hatred is libel. Zionism has become defined by Jew haters who have imposed libels upon a concept rooted in basic human rights for Jews. It’s like allowing misogynists to defame the concept of feminism.

I’ll be honest, I’m really confused. I keep seeing the word “Zionism” show up and used in ways that I genuinely didn’t know had anything to do with the word at all? It’s now seemingly being used to describe colonialism, oppression, subjugation, even global manipulation and control. A whole catalogue of ideas that feel vast, loaded, deeply political, and entirely implausible. Yet, when I step back and look at where the word actually comes from, the definition seems surprisingly simple. The term “Zionism” emerged in the late 19th century (ie in the 1800’s). At its origin, it referred to one specific idea: the movement for Jewish self-determination in their ancestral homeland of 3000 years. That’s it. That was the meaning. So I find myself trying to reconcile the two. How does a word that began with such a clear and contained definition, come to carry such a wide and negative set of interpretations? Are any of those meanings rooted in the word itself? Or have they been layered onto it over time, through politics, conflict, agenda and narrative? Because if the same word now holds many very different meanings, then perhaps some of the intensity around it isn’t just about disagreement, but about people using the same word specifically to mean entirely different things. And if that’s the case, then no wonder the conversation feels so fractured and confusing. It may then be that many aren’t arguing about the same idea at all? I certainly can’t follow one term having different meanings, depending on who is using it? It’s unprecedented. And perhaps the most confusing part of all is also this: How such devastating and sweeping accusations can be directed at a tiny people who make up just 0.2% of the global population, and in relation to a country that occupies roughly 0.4% of the Middle East. That, more than anything, is the part I’m also truly battling to understand. It literally makes no sense that this is even a conversation, based on these minute numbers?

Because they want us dead.

Aberdeen (Scotland) "pro-Palestinian" activists are demanding a Jewish actress - who they portray as the devil - not be allowed to perform in a local theater production This is gutter-level stuff

The Free Palestine movement is the Nazi party. It’s the reason Jews are being hunted. It’s the wall you’ve all hidden behind while you’ve banished us from public life. Scum of the earth.

Will the West ever wake up?

"There are people in this nation now hunting Jews, for no other reason than they are Jews. Everything else is just a way of justifying their persecution." MUST WATCH monologue by @TrevorPTweets on Sky News, as he reflects on the unrelenting explosion of Jew-hatred in Britain.

‘Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why? [-] Because she never let them in, Mr Deasy said solemnly. [-] She never let them in, he cried again through his laughter…that’s why.’ James Joyce, Ulysses

The conversation in Jewish families is, as Trevor Phillips said this morning, “who among our friends would save us?” We are in an undeniable crisis of antisemitism, and many are asking whether they need to leave Britain. Many have already done so. This is heartbreaking, but the time for weak words is over. We need to be unsparingly honest about what is happening, and what we can do about it. Antisemitism is an ancient disease, and there is no point pretending it does not come from several sources. We saw the surge in antisemitism in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn. It has been partly purged, but there are some - like Naz Shah - on the Labour benches who have made antisemitic statements in the past. We saw in the Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal that Labour are up to their necks in corruption and communalism in places like the West Midlands. Starmer and Mahmood got away with this - but they knew the police and council had worked together to ban the Israeli fans. They didn’t intervene to stop it because they didn’t see the problem. But the scandal happened because the authorities took the side of Islamists over Jews. Now we see the surge of the Greens - a party absolutely riven with sectarianism and antisemitic candidates and activists. And on the online right, we’re starting to see some of the antisemitic language we’ve seen emerge in the recent years in America. It’s not at all of the same scale - but that could change and it would be wrong to ignore it. Above all though - and this is where too many find it difficult to tell the truth - we have an undoubted antisemitism problem among the Muslim population. Polls show among British Muslims: - Around half say “Jews have too much power over UK government policy.” - Four in ten say the same for the media and the financial industry. - Only one in four believe Hamas committed rape and murder on 7 October. - Only one in four believes Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland. - Around half feel more sympathy with Hamas than Israel. When people ask why Britain - for so long previously a welcoming place for Jews - suddenly has such a problem, this is obviously the most significant change. The official Muslim population here has doubled from 1.6 million in 2001 to over four million today. Some studies suggest seventeen per cent of our population will be Muslim by 2050. Only around half of Muslims in Britain today were born here. And the countries from which Muslim immigrants are coming often have entrenched antisemitic cultures. Pakistan, Somalia, the Middle East. We are importing hatred that should never be welcome here. We are faced with a choice between keeping our Jewish citizens and receiving more and more people from these places. The choice we should make ought to be obvious. We should deport any foreigner who espouses this hatred. We should show zero tolerance to any British nationals who incites hatred and violence. We have to clamp down on the hate marches, and lock up those who are guilty of public order offences and incitement - including anybody who calls to “globalise the intifada” and chants “death to the IDF.” Above all, we have to stop importing hatred and extremism and antisemitism from countries where we know these things are rife. I waited a few days after the Golders Green attack before commenting because I wanted to see what the reaction would be. Unfortunately it was exactly as anticipated: weak words, no action, promises to build higher walls around our Jewish citizens. But I am not willing to sit here and watch as my friends discuss with their loved ones whether they should give up on Britain and emigrate. As a country, we have a choice to make - and my choice is to stand unequivocally with Britain’s Jews.

Patrick Kielty embroiled in anti-Semitism row after linking Golders Green attack to 'horrors in Gaza' when Boy George defends Jewish community in interview trib.al/Z9TyENg

This post puts it so well: Jews are a provocation by merely being Jews. No other groups are held to account for wars in another country, just Jews. Golda Meir said it years ago, this is about the right of Jews to exist. That right was taken from them in Europe and the ME.

Maureen Lipman is currently the target of a campaign of personal vilification and antisemitic abuse intended to secure her cancellation. For those committed to dismantling racism, it must be stated with absolute clarity that such tactics have no place within our cultural life. This campaign of intimidation is an attempt to force a lawful production off the stage through organised pressure. As venues face increasing pressure to exclude Jewish artists, our research in The New Boycott Crisis demonstrates that this is part of a broader, damaging pattern of informal cancellation across the arts. We must respond with calm, lawful clarity and stand in firm solidarity against such intimidation. @Freedom_in_Arts

"In seven minutes he did not once identify the perpetrator’s ideology that leads him to walk down the street wielding a knife and looking to hunt as many Jews as he can" Keir Starmer, "Jew Harmer", by @Eve_Barlow open.substack.com/pub/evebarlow/…