Joseph Finlay
@josephfinlay.bsky.social
Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער. Writing on Jewish issues at www.toratalbion.org.uk
Is there a good platform for community groups where members can login and share content, debate issues, maybe vote on things, hold video calls? A bit like Facebook groups before Facebook became unusable.
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Is there a good platform for community groups where members can login and share content, debate issues, maybe vote on things, hold video calls? A bit like Facebook groups before Facebook became unusable.
Keep them coming
new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Keep them coming
Reposted by Joseph Finlay
This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is an incredibly powerful article by Peter Ettedgui. I hope people listen to him and to the others who are brave enough to come forward.
I wrote here about the BBC resignations, Farage’s schoolboy racism and the Government’s disgraceful asylum reforms, and why it is deemed legitimate to bring up Jewish experience and antisemitism in some of these cases but not others. www.toratalbion.org.uk/when-is-it-a...
When is it, and When is it Not About the Jews?
The Beeb, Farage, Asylum and Us
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November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I wrote here about the BBC resignations, Farage’s schoolboy racism and the Government’s disgraceful asylum reforms, and why it is deemed legitimate to bring up Jewish experience and antisemitism in some of these cases but not others. www.toratalbion.org.uk/when-is-it-a...
I really think this stuff can bring down Farage. It certainly should www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I really think this stuff can bring down Farage. It certainly should www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.toratalbion.org.uk/when-is-it-a...
'With the BBC story, people tried to make the story about Jews when it wasn’t. Re Farage's racism, nobody wanted to make the story about Jews even though it clearly was. And with the asylum reforms, those who connected the story to Jews got condemned for it.'
'With the BBC story, people tried to make the story about Jews when it wasn’t. Re Farage's racism, nobody wanted to make the story about Jews even though it clearly was. And with the asylum reforms, those who connected the story to Jews got condemned for it.'
When is it, and When is it Not About the Jews?
The Beeb, Farage, Asylum and Us
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Three people are asked to write an essay about elephants. The English person writes ‘Hunting Elephants’, the French person pens ‘The Love L...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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'With the BBC story, people tried to make the story about Jews when it wasn’t. Re Farage's racism, nobody wanted to make the story about Jews even though it clearly was. And with the asylum reforms, those who connected the story to Jews got condemned for it.'
'With the BBC story, people tried to make the story about Jews when it wasn’t. Re Farage's racism, nobody wanted to make the story about Jews even though it clearly was. And with the asylum reforms, those who connected the story to Jews got condemned for it.'
Reposted by Joseph Finlay
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
If you are outraged at people protesting outside a synagogue maybe you should also be outraged at external political organisations hosting their events there and creating the conditions for said protest.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
If you are outraged at people protesting outside a synagogue maybe you should also be outraged at external political organisations hosting their events there and creating the conditions for said protest.
The JC report does as predicted, ignoring the Jewishness of the protestors and omitting the reason for the protest. It also, celebrates the vigilantism of the counter-protestors, saying that they blocked the tube exit to stop people joining the protest. JDL 2.0 www.thejc.com/news/uk/we-h...
November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The JC report does as predicted, ignoring the Jewishness of the protestors and omitting the reason for the protest. It also, celebrates the vigilantism of the counter-protestors, saying that they blocked the tube exit to stop people joining the protest. JDL 2.0 www.thejc.com/news/uk/we-h...
Just got round to reading this excellent essay by Barnaby Raine salvage.zone/what-do-peop...
What Do People Panic About When They Panic About Anti-Semitism? - Salvage
In the streets for Palestine, today’s hated Semites are found. They are the children and grandchildren of Asia and Africa and Ireland and the Caribbean. In the multiracial city, they meet and forge ne...
salvage.zone
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Just got round to reading this excellent essay by Barnaby Raine salvage.zone/what-do-peop...
In case it makes news: there was a World Zionist Org aliyah fair at a London synagogue today and Jewish pro-Palestine groups protested against it. Various right wing or pro-Israel groups are pretending they were just protesting a synagogue for the sake of it and that the protestors were not Jews.
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In case it makes news: there was a World Zionist Org aliyah fair at a London synagogue today and Jewish pro-Palestine groups protested against it. Various right wing or pro-Israel groups are pretending they were just protesting a synagogue for the sake of it and that the protestors were not Jews.
This is a horrendous story that I’d never heard of before. Unless they are in physical danger or suffering abuse I don’t think the state should be taking away children from their parents in any circumstances, let alone due to some dubious parenting test www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This is a horrendous story that I’d never heard of before. Unless they are in physical danger or suffering abuse I don’t think the state should be taking away children from their parents in any circumstances, let alone due to some dubious parenting test www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@jprdata.bsky.social suggests that the 18% of British Jews that support the Green Party do so in spite of its positions on Palestine. I'd say that many support it because of them. After all, JPR recently found that 23% of British Jews identify as non- or anti-Zionist. www.jpr.org.uk/reports/end-...
The end of two-party politics? Emerging changes in the political preferences of British Jews
www.jpr.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@jprdata.bsky.social suggests that the 18% of British Jews that support the Green Party do so in spite of its positions on Palestine. I'd say that many support it because of them. After all, JPR recently found that 23% of British Jews identify as non- or anti-Zionist. www.jpr.org.uk/reports/end-...
If only there was some way to work out if Farage still holds these views, some political positions taken since then perhaps
This is damning and rings absolutely true. It ought to prevent Farage ever holding office but I fear it won't. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If only there was some way to work out if Farage still holds these views, some political positions taken since then perhaps
So rather than condemn the government's far right immigration policy, one that has clear Nazi overtones, @jewishnews.bsky.social and the Holocaust Education Trust is condemning those who have made such connections? Absolutely disgraceful. www.jewishnews.co.uk/polanski-and...
Polanski and Novara Media condemned for making appalling Holocaust comparisons - Jewish News
The Green Party leader and the far-left website both conflate new government asylum measures with the Nazi seizure of Jewish victims jewellery
www.jewishnews.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
So rather than condemn the government's far right immigration policy, one that has clear Nazi overtones, @jewishnews.bsky.social and the Holocaust Education Trust is condemning those who have made such connections? Absolutely disgraceful. www.jewishnews.co.uk/polanski-and...
This is damning and rings absolutely true. It ought to prevent Farage ever holding office but I fear it won't. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is damning and rings absolutely true. It ought to prevent Farage ever holding office but I fear it won't. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
Reposted by Joseph Finlay
I fully agree Old Jezza’s failure to clock the very dodgy mural reflected badly on him. I do however contrast the reaction to this against e.g. Sir Keir cribbing from Enoch Powell, the billowing sixty foot union flag crackdowns and Suella Braverman summoning fash football thugs to attack protestors.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I fully agree Old Jezza’s failure to clock the very dodgy mural reflected badly on him. I do however contrast the reaction to this against e.g. Sir Keir cribbing from Enoch Powell, the billowing sixty foot union flag crackdowns and Suella Braverman summoning fash football thugs to attack protestors.
Has the Board of Deputies, which issues statements on absolutely everything, made a statement on the government's new immigration policy, one which has been welcomed by the far right and and has explicit echoes of Nazism?
November 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Has the Board of Deputies, which issues statements on absolutely everything, made a statement on the government's new immigration policy, one which has been welcomed by the far right and and has explicit echoes of Nazism?
Am delighted to discover that ‘tunicked’ is an actual English word.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Am delighted to discover that ‘tunicked’ is an actual English word.
This might be optimistic but Starmer and McSweeney won’t be in office much longer, and a very easy way for the new leader to signal change would be to abolish these asylum reforms.
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This might be optimistic but Starmer and McSweeney won’t be in office much longer, and a very easy way for the new leader to signal change would be to abolish these asylum reforms.
Of course it came from within no.10, this is laughable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PM 'assured' anonymous briefings did not come from No 10
Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting are urging the PM to take action over briefings to media about a challenge to his leadership.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Of course it came from within no.10, this is laughable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I called this a month ago
Ed Miliband for PM. It’s time.
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I called this a month ago
Hell yes
Verdict of one Labour grandee I just bumped into: “Ed Miliband is the person most likely to be the most next Prime Minister”.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hell yes
Happily Keir Starmer is determined to stand by Morgan McSweeney, thus ensuring that he will go down with him.
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Happily Keir Starmer is determined to stand by Morgan McSweeney, thus ensuring that he will go down with him.