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Security, just like we have done when ourjewish day schools have been receiving threats. we are not going to allow in the state of florida our h pcus to be targets for hateful lunatics like the guy yesterday. london s metropolitan police say they re angry and concerned, after a suspected data breach at one of the force s it suppliers. names, ranks, photos and vetting levels, of potentially thousands of officers and staff may have been hacked. a spokesperson for the met says the breach has been reported to the national crime agency. here s joe inwood. from protecting parliament to policing protests, met officers do some of the most difficult and sensitive jobs in any force. and so the news that some of their data could have been compromised has been met with fury by the police federation. their vice chair saying. ....
Writer about serious things and a serious documentary maker. you ve already told me a little bit about yourjewish family history, you ve explored in documentary form holocaust denial. you have written a book this one, jews don t count, which looks at what you see as the failure of the progressive left, particularly in the uk, to take full account of anti semitism as one of the discriminatory prejudices that taint society, you think somehow. ..as your title suggests, jews don t count. is it easy to tackle these serious subjects when your reputation is that of a very funny man? i don t know. i mean, for some people, it will be. for me, it isn t. the book has got quite a lot ofjokes in it. i don t really see clear boundaries between funny and, i guess, intelligent or whatever you might call it. that wasn t a very intelligent sentence, so it doesn t bear that out very well. ....
Writer about serious things and a serious documentary maker. you ve already told me a little bit about yourjewish family history, you ve explored in documentary form holocaust denial. you have written a book this one, jews don t count, which looks at what you see as the failure of the progressive left, particularly in the uk, to take full account of anti semitism as one of the discriminatory prejudices that taint society, you think somehow. ..as your title suggests, jews don t count. is it easy to tackle these serious subjects when your reputation is that of a very funny man? i don t know. i mean, for some people, it will be. for me, it isn t. the book has got quite a lot ofjokes in it. i don t really see clear boundaries between funny and, i guess, intelligent or whatever you might call it. that wasn t a very intelligent sentence, so it doesn t bear that out very well. but what i mean is ....
In their criticism. so i m meeting up with francesca. she s part of a group of britishjewish activists who campaign against the actions of the israeli government. so we see what is happening between israel and palestine as a moral crisis. asjewish people, we have values that are about loving other people, hasad which means kindness, and we feel that the occupation goes directly against those values so therefore goes directly against ourjewish identities. i wanted to find a space where i did not feel like myjewish identity was at odds with being a moral person. the goal is to shift the britishjewish community support for the occupation to be completely anti occupation. the kind of theory behind that being that there are various pillars that hold up the occupation, one of them being diaspora support. ....
Government can be criticised in the same way as the governments of other countries. but the familiar pattern that jewish people around the world are made to feel unsafe when israel is in the news is disturbing. manyjews do feel an affinity with israel. but for some, it s more complicated. i want to talk to someone for whom israel is a part of theirjewish identity but who is also outspoken in their criticism. so i m meeting up with francesca. she s part of a group of britishjewish activists who campaign against the actions of the israeli government. so we see what is happening between israel and palestine as a moral crisis. asjewish people, we have values that are about loving other people, hasad which means kindness, and we feel that the occupation goes directly against those values so therefore goes directly against ourjewish identities. i wanted to find a space where i didn t feel like myjewish identity was at odds with ....