Passionate pragmatist. Doing diversity with a difference. From the other side : https://youtu.be/-RukTOHdTbY?si=zms7W_WtHfexuFN_ Posts are personal | Chief exec @newisraelfunduk | Repost ≠ endorsement | 🇮🇱🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #COYShttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mrpp22pzoc2uFriends I was marching with at London Pride were a few weeks later at Christopher Street Day in Berlin. Seeing some responses to an awful attack on our queer community, it feels needed but repetitive to encourage not expecting minorities to compete for compassion. https://medium.com/@david.brown83/queer-liberation-cannot-pick-whose-dignity-matters-fe83f4c694e328 Jul 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpp22pzoc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mqkmg2gwks2q“not that one minority should fear another…prejudice must be identified, challenged & addressed through education, leadership & sustained contact. Social media rewards outrage & enables misinformation and collective blame... Faith communities must challenge prejudice within their own ranks” [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jul 2026 21:15 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqkmg2gwks2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mppxv3kkls2fShared some reflections @jewishnews.bsky.social on five years @nifuk.bsky.social working with determined and inspiring Jewish and Palestinian colleagues @newisraelfund.bsky.social and people around the world who join them in striving for a safer shared future. https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/five-years-at-new-israel-fund-have-taught-me-that-empathy-cannot-be-rationed/03 Jul 2026 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mppxv3kkls2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mmvyvxyj2c2cPride should say come as you are. Queer activism should not be binary. Tired of explaining that caring about Israelis does not make us accountable for the Israeli govt. Fed up being quizzed on conflict overseas before being let in to local queer community. https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/there-is-no-pride-in-excluding-queer-jews/28 May 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmvyvxyj2c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mmce2cdx322yPowerful photojournalism nurtures nuance and encourages empathy. We at New Israel Fund UK are delighted to be working with Local Testimony and Dana Wohlfeiler-Lalkin to bring a selection of their annual exhibition — including award-winning press photography — to London from 10–12 June.20 May 2026 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmce2cdx322yhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mljm6gan6s24“let us invest deeply in interfaith friendship, education, and encounter. Because when communities truly know one another, fear begins to lose its power. We need coalitions strong enough, compassionate enough, and courageous enough to build a different future together.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 May 2026 20:32 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mljm6gan6s24https://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mjwlctfxi227‘Allies need to understand distinct ways anti-Jewish racism manifests, including around Israel. Jews & Israelis should be afforded compassion, not conflated with actions of Netanyahu’s govt. Jews shouldn’t have to disavow connection with Israel to be accepted in progressive spaces, arts or academia’ [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Apr 2026 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwlctfxi227https://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mhqefm35zs2uThose supporting Israel need to challenge violence against Palestinian communities in West Bank. Silence is complicity. Those aligned with the Palestinian cause must confront globally growing attacks on Jewish people, communities and property. Minimising that threat undermines justice. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Mar 2026 15:21 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqefm35zs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3mhd26lg67c2a‘Thousands of miles away, in activist and online discourse, Israeli civilians under missile fire – Jewish and Palestinian citizens – are reduced to symbols of a state rather than recognised as people seeking shelter. Jewish fear and grief are treated as inconvenient, or worse, simply ignored.’18 Mar 2026 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhd26lg67c2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3magg6dhcf22hWhilst worrying and being in touch with family and friends in Australia, I’ve been thinking about those murdered by terrorists and those whose loved ones were killed in terror attacks encouraging us not to succumb to rage and hate. @jewishnews.bsky.social https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/defiance-must-be-matched-by-compassion/20 Dec 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3magg6dhcf22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3m3fhntxkms2z“We are losing the ability to distinguish between critique and contempt, between condemning violence and condemning entire peoples. “We should be sceptical of commentary that sensationally casts aspersions on whole groups…beyond the noise lies a quieter, braver reality” https://medium.com/@david.brown83/ceasefire-abroad-can-we-heal-hostilities-at-home-d546130b85ec17 Oct 2025 14:18 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3fhntxkms2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3m2ow235qlk2nPainful to read and reckon with, powerfully and movingly written by Alona 🙏 For Israelis & Palestinians, those connected to them in UK, and cohesive communities everywhere, we have to hold multiple painful truths. We must avoid simple often hateful responses framing one “side” as innately evil. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Oct 2025 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ow235qlk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3m2kft5h7tk2cTommy Robinson is a thug and no ally to Jews. He is a criminal dressing up prejudices as courage. We cannot fight hatred by legitimising those who thrive on it. Security for Jews cannot be built on scapegoating our neighbours. https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-british-jews-must-reject-tommy-robinson-and-those-who-welcome-him/ @jewishnews.bsky.social06 Oct 2025 20:03 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kft5h7tk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3m2eff2zyfs27Like all of us, I am frightened, angry and upset after the Manchester attack. If we allow fear to turn into hatred of Muslims or immigrants, terror will brought bloodshed & poisoned our society. Jews know we can stand firm in who we are, not allowing fear to define us. https://medium.com/@david.brown83/manchester-reminds-us-hate-is-terrors-greatest-weapon-4adf656f575204 Oct 2025 10:39 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2eff2zyfs27https://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3lwrc6l6x722yWhat homophobia taught me about holding communities together I’ve spent decades working with and for those who believe my love is wrong. That experience taught me we can overcome divisions if we stop using “unity” to silence dissent @jewishnews.bsky.social https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-what-homophobia-taught-me-about-holding-communities-together/19 Aug 2025 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwrc6l6x722yhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3lv6k3o76r22e"Calls are growing for an end to war in Gaza and urgent action to address a worsening humanitarian crisis, including widespread hunger affecting children." “It is possible—indeed essential—to hold commitment to Israelis alongside compassion for Palestinians.” https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-recognition-of-a-palestinian-state-wont-end-the-war-but-it-might-end-the-silence/30 Jul 2025 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv6k3o76r22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3lukkn2lv4c2vNuanced essential reading for all seeking future with Jewish & Palestinian collective & individual rights upheld. “question is not whether Israel has the right to exist. It is whether Israel has the right to dominate…domination by the ethnic majority is what Jews have been taught to fear most” [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Jul 2025 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukkn2lv4c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3lu7weaytqs23“when actions that kill and maim Jews have some connection to Israel and Palestine, too many pro-Palestine progressives contort themselves to argue that we cannot truly know…intent...When Jews, Jewish events or Jewish sites are attacked…the impact is the same: Jews are terrorized.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Jul 2025 07:29 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu7weaytqs23https://bsky.app/profile/daviddavidi-brown.bsky.social/post/3lu7tvblqek2pRacism is not skin deep. Instead of competing over who is the most discriminated against, we could instead find connection and compassion in the contradictory stories that make us who we are. #Racism #Diversity #Equality18 Jul 2025 06:44 +0000at://did:plc:fxrmi2grdgkqv34b7dnx3wyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu7tvblqek2p