PhD’ing at Kings College London. Researching Jewish identity and Israel/Palestine. Trustee at Amos Trust. Formerly at BBC News and The Co-operative Group.https://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lzsfiqf53c2mJoin me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org https://jewsdemandaction.org27 Sep 2025 06:53 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzsfiqf53c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lhwn3cs4os2aDeeply depressing but not surprising. Will this enable Diaspora Jewish institutions to also back Trump’s Gaza madness? https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-84169311 Feb 2025 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwn3cs4os2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lhlrugpu3c2dJust finished reading @peterbeinart.bsky.social new book. I feel like buying 50 copies and just handing them out for free at my synagogue. It’s such an important contribution to how Jewish life and self-understanding needs to change. I can’t recommend it more highly.07 Feb 2025 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhlrugpu3c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lhfcq63yak2gI think it’s safe to say that the 2-State solution is now officially dead. Tonight has been an extraordinary news conference from the White House. Historic in all the worst ways.05 Feb 2025 00:26 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhfcq63yak2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lhf4as7dyk2gPresident Trump is presenting the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza as driven by a humanitarian concern. The Western democracies will no doubt go along with this ruse of righteousness. 1/3 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/trump-netanyahu-gaza?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other04 Feb 2025 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhf4as7dyk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lh7nwcavpk2ahttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/02/surgeon-gaza-children-britain-sniper-fire-drones-labour-arms-israel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other02 Feb 2025 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh7nwcavpk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lguv4ntvi223‘No Other Land’ on Amazon Prime in the UK. It’s a heartbreaking, fury invoking and essential watch. Let’s hope it wins the Oscar. https://musicart.xboxlive.com/7/0ff16d00-0000-0000-0000-000000000002/504/image.jpg29 Jan 2025 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lguv4ntvi223https://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lgup4iltik23All change at the JC? Or no change at the JC? It shouldn’t take long to tell. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jan 2025 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgup4iltik23https://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lgo25x3gjs2iMy short speech for today’s (Gaza inclusive) Holocaust Memorial Day event in Leeds is posted on my Facebook page. ‘NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE, ANYWHERE’ https://www.facebook.com/share/1BFn2vuEQy/?mibextid=wwXIfr26 Jan 2025 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgo25x3gjs2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lgbww5ihg22jI’ll be speaking at this vigil in Leeds this Sunday.21 Jan 2025 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgbww5ihg22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lfxez2bzck2rIn fact, there are more Israelis coming to live in the UK than Jewish Brits heading in the opposite direction. Important factual counter to the rhetoric we often hear. @jprdata.bsky.social https://www.jpr.org.uk/insights/data-clear-there-no-jewish-exodus-uk17 Jan 2025 18:04 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfxez2bzck2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lfsacgyuvs2415 Jan 2025 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfsacgyuvs24https://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lfmklanxt22xUK Jews are mobilising to protect the right for the next national Palestinian solidarity march to keep to its previously agreed route. UK Jews can still sign the statement supporting the march. https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/police-must-reverse-bbc-palestine-protest-ban-660-jews-say/13 Jan 2025 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfmklanxt22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3lffszwc4722vGAZA - where ‘Western values’ and ‘international law’, are also numbered in the fatalities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jan 2025 18:27 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3lffszwc4722vhttps://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3le4ogwjxqs2525 Dec 2024 09:46 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3le4ogwjxqs25https://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3ldxrynokyk23‘The danger now is that Palestinians die twice, once in physical reality and second in a moral one where the powerful diminish the very standards that shape the world as we know it.’ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/israel-gaza-war-genocide-where-is-the-action?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other23 Dec 2024 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldxrynokyk23https://bsky.app/profile/edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social/post/3ldeb72teac2zThis will be interesting to watch play out: "Israel will invest its resources in advancing bilateral relations with countries worldwide according to priorities that also take into account the attitudes and actions of these states toward Israel." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62mge27r0o15 Dec 2024 16:45 +0000at://did:plc:t2h4gactvpih43b5hpsythyv/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldeb72teac2z