Occasionally published short story writer, sometime lawyer, always proud British Jew and Zionist.🇬🇧🇮🇱
London, England
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Michael L Garrard retweeted
Last night a number of us spoke to people going in to watch the NAZA film at Phoenix Cinema.
We asked viewers to take a QR code which directed them to a second documentary, one that presents an alternative view.
Many people took the flyer and said they would watch the documentary, but some rejected the idea outright, deciding ahead of time that it would be 'all lies'.
If you are also prepared to consider all sides, then please watch and share the video at the link below.
nazadocumentary.com/
Video: @fatdafevy
Michael L Garrard retweeted
Oscar-winning ex-BBC producer Lucie Kon reveals horrific antisemitic treatment. Right after October 7 a BBC colleague said “Zionists are evil” and if she wanted to call the massacre an act of terror then Israel must be labelled a ‘terror State’. This is still going on. Shameful.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
Thanks to everyone who joined us this evening outside Phoenix Cinema to talk to people going in to watch NAZA.
All we asked of viewers was to be open-minded enough to watch the alternative view. We shared a leaflet with a QR code to find the free film.
Many people took the flyer and said they would watch the documentary, but some rejected the idea outright, deciding ahead of time that it would be 'all lies'.
And of course, as is increasingly the way nowadays, the venue called the police.
Reassuringly, the police had no problem with our presence and many customers were prepared to take a leaflet and keep an open mind.
If you are also prepared to consider all sides, then please watch and share the video at the link below.
nazadocumentary.com/
Michael L Garrard retweeted
📹 "In 1936, it was the left that came to the rescue of the Jews. 2026, it's sadly the left who are strongly opposed to the Jews."
Michael Bennett was a young child, sitting on his father's shoulders during the famous Battle of Cable Street. During this year's 90th anniversary he was proud to remember his father being among the crowds who stopped Mosley's Blackshirts, and spoke movingly about it at the Cable Street Jews rally on 4 October.
Yet in the build-up to the anniversary, the organisers of the 'official' march chose to tarnish those like Michael whose relatives fought so bravely at Cable Street, preventing them from joining the Unite march. As Michael says in this clip, many union leaders have taken up anti-Semitic stances, and 'it's just become a kind of cloak that's being put on by the left'.
The full interview with Michael will be available soon.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
“Doctor selling ‘Palestine poppies’ wrote books defending stoning, hand amputation and crucifixion”
@thetimes
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Michael L Garrard retweeted
If Salman Rushdie’s fatwa happened today, how many of these signatories would sign a letter supporting him? Most would be too afraid, many would think he deserved it. I doubt Rooney herself would support him.
The comparison is fatuous and disgraceful.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
Michael L Garrard retweeted
Meet one of the proposers of the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion. Her name is Rebecca Jones and she’s a suspended GP. She once said that a reading of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s last will and testament was “beautiful” and posted an Israeli flag on fire saying “Burn Zionism to the ground”.
Just to be super clear of the vileness of the motion’s pushers.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
Benjamin Netanyahu warned the world decades ago that every single nation in the West that thinks it can run away from terrorism is mistaken. No one can outrun it. The only thing you can do is face it and defeat it, and you can only do it together.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
A mother was referred to Prevent and visited by police at home because of her visit to Israel and her interest in“Jewish issues”.
In yet another shocking case, Holly Passmore, a mother of two from County Durham, was visited at home last July by two plain-clothes police officers who wanted to know why she had recently travelled to Israel.
The officers told Ms Passmore, who cares for her severely autistic nine-year-old son, that it was a “safeguarding issue”.
A police intelligence report seen by The Telegraph reveals that the referral said she “over-identified with the conflict between Israel and Palestine” and was “supportive of Israel to the point that she has travelled to Israel”. It also described her as having “MH” — meaning mental health — issues and being “vulnerable to negative influence”.
Three days after the visit, Ms Passmore lodged a complaint. Two more officers, including a superintendent, then came to her home.
“They said that, clearly, I’m not a terrorist,” she recalled, explaining that they were keen to reassure her that police did not consider her a threat or an extremist.
“I thought that was strange at the time. You don’t usually end up with a superintendent on your couch.”
Ms Passmore’s concerns deepened when she discovered that her NHS records had been updated to describe her as a “vulnerable adult”, before later being changed to say she was no longer vulnerable.
It is now even more clear that Prevent is being weaponised by activists to silence people for their lawful and legitimate views.
These vexatious complaints also waste police time and resources.
Enough is enough.
Read more in @Telegraph 👇
Michael L Garrard retweeted
I was on a flight to Israel and struck up a conversation with the lady beside me. She was Jewish; her family were Holocaust survivors. As we saw the coastline of Israel from the window, she burst into tears. It was her first time visiting. Tell me again how Jews have no connection to the land of Israel.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
City St George’s and Manchester Students’ Union have launched investigations following concerns raised by @UKLFI about student societies collaborating with the Palestinian Youth Movement, an organisation accused of links to terrorism. uklfi.com/universities-inves…
Michael L Garrard retweeted
CAA has obtained footage which appears to show a Thameslink supervisor downplaying the atrocities which Hamas carried out in Israel on 7th October 2023.
The exchange, which was caught on camera, allegedly occurred after a Jewish member of the public questioned why a different Thameslink staff member was wearing a divisive Palestine badge.
This needless politicisation of public transport has absolutely no influence over the situation in the Middle East – all it does is make many Jewish Londoners feel deeply uncomfortable.
Our polling shows that a staggering 70% of British Jews would not feel comfortable physically or verbally disclosing their Jewish identity on public transport.
You can see why.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
This is an accurate description and history of Zionism.
Do read
The history of Zionism includes varied conceptions of the Jewish state—and could offer a path for Israel’s future, Adam Kirsch argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
This is what true democratic protest looks like. When will British Police forces recognise that until they facilitate genuine engagement for both sides, they are letting our hard-won values down.
Yesterday, I found a chink in the armor of a pro-Palestinian antizionist march in downtown Boston. One, middle-aged woman (me) with an Israeli flag blew the march to pieces.
I wasn’t planning on leading a hate march with an Israeli flag. My friends had decided it was too dangerous for us as a group to do a counter demonstration against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at the steps of the Massachusetts State House in downtown Boston.
So I went by myself and for the first twenty minutes, I stood on the other side of their demonstration. The two hundred or so Fedayeen watermelon people scoffed at me. One spat on my shoes, many gave me the finger but mainly they laughed at me. I stood in front of ten apathetic Boston police officers.
But many Jews gave me the thumbs up and even some non-Jews clapped and took photos.
The marchers then proceeded down the main street of Boston, Beacon Street, with their loudspeakers, screaming “from the river to the sea” “Intifada Revolution, and “No to a Jewish state.”
It was then that I saw the chink in the armor, that is the American or let’s say the Bostonian obsession with the freedom to march, which the antizionists smartly exploit.
I realized that the Boston police would allow me to march directly in front of the terrorists with my Israeli flag.
The optics were fantastic. It looked like one brave Israeli woman, proudly holding her Israeli flag, was winning the battle against two hundred hated-filled terrorists behind her (I think the terrorists were completely stunned by my brazen act).
I fight in the style of the Hunger Games not The Matrix.
In Catching Fire, Wiress and Beetee realize the Quarter Quell arena is designed like a clock. Beetee uses the Capitol's own arena lightning trap to blow up the forcefield.
I single-handedly turned the anti-Israel march into a pro-Israel march. One person, by locating the chink in the armour.
Many Israelis came forward to ask me if I needed protection. Jews cheered me on and gave me a thumbs up.
And many non-Jews clapped on my behalf.
The non-Jewish Zionists, they were out there too. They watched me.
They were inspired by bravery and conviction.
Fight the way you know how. Find the chink in the armour.
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱🫶
Michael L Garrard retweeted
On this day – 12th October 1285 – around 180 Jews burned to death whilst hiding at a synagogue during a pogrom in Munich.
Since the early medieval times, Europe’s Jews had been subjected to horrific killing sprees and pogroms, fuelled by antisemitic conspiracies like the historic blood libel, which were gaining momentum.
One such case occurred in Munich, Upper Bavaria, which was then part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Jewish community was accused of performing the ritual murder of a Christian child, and drinking his blood.
An angry Christian mob then descended on the synagogue where 180 Jews had sought refuge, and set it on fire, killing those inside.
A later investigation, organised by King Rudolph I, found that the Jews were falsely accused of the blood libel, and the remaining Jewish prisoners were released. Those expelled were allowed to return to Munich two years later.
May their memory be a blessing.
Michael L Garrard retweeted
So @Ed_Miliband do you also support Hizbollah and Hamas. Is this person right too
