Yes, I am. Mirvis demeans his office (which, by the way, is only the chief rabbi of the United Synagogues, not of all British Jews) with his seemingly unconditional support for a violent ethnostate currently committing a genocide.

Yes, I am. Mirvis demeans his office (which, by the way, is only the chief rabbi of the United Synagogues, not of all British Jews) with his seemingly unconditional support for a violent ethnostate currently committing a genocide.

You can hear the Israeli military bombing Gaza from Masafer Yatta.

None of this is particularly new or interesting, but what I will say is that the situation on the ground in the WB is worse than you could possibly imagine.

We are far past the time for performative prayers for peace or token sanctions on individual politicians. The UK must end its complicity. That means a full ceasefire, a full arms embargo on Israel, and an end to systems of occupation and apartheid.

This violence is the predictable outcome of a militarised, ethnonationalist regime, backed by Western governments and fuelled by decades of impunity and arms trade profits.

Anyway, if you'd like to cynically comission me to exploit my familial trauma

Look around us. There are no "lessons from Srebrenica", no shade by the trench-wall of a mass grave.

The Board of Deputies is and always has been a project of internal regulation and external assimilation.

It cannot be reformed.

We must leave it behind.