Robert Cohen
@edgyjewishthinking.bsky.social
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.
Pinned
Hoping this is the place to organise the resistance.
Join 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
Jews Demand Action
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September 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Join 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
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Israel has now allowed any food, water, and medicine to Gaza for over two months — and the U.S. is helping cover it up. They are starving the people of Gaza and famine is here.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
May 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Israel has now allowed any food, water, and medicine to Gaza for over two months — and the U.S. is helping cover it up. They are starving the people of Gaza and famine is here.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
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37 UK progressive rabbis – myself included – ‘unequivocally reject’ #Trump’s outrageous plan to ‘take over’ #Gaza & forcibly remove the civilian population. Read our statement here: www.reformjudaism.org.uk/statement-fr...
The Movement for Reform Judaism - Statement from Progressive Clergy on Donald Trump's Gaza plan
Progressive Judaism remains committed to a two-state solution to the Israel/Palestinian conflict. We believe that both Israelis and Palestinians have the right and deserve to live within secure and pe...
www.reformjudaism.org.uk
February 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
37 UK progressive rabbis – myself included – ‘unequivocally reject’ #Trump’s outrageous plan to ‘take over’ #Gaza & forcibly remove the civilian population. Read our statement here: www.reformjudaism.org.uk/statement-fr...
Deeply depressing but not surprising. Will this enable Diaspora Jewish institutions to also back Trump’s Gaza madness?
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
Majority of Israelis support Trump's Gaza plan, relocation of Palestinians in exclusive 'Post' poll
Trump's Gaza plan has large support from Netanyahu, coalition voters • 10% say plan is morally reprehensible, 35% want Jewish state 'from river to sea'
www.jpost.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Deeply depressing but not surprising. Will this enable Diaspora Jewish institutions to also back Trump’s Gaza madness?
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...
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The person most responsible for the (hopefully temporary) breakdown of the ceasefire / hostage release process is surely Donald Trump
February 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The person most responsible for the (hopefully temporary) breakdown of the ceasefire / hostage release process is surely Donald Trump
Just 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.
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Just 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.
I 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.
February 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I 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.
President 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
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza
President in effect endorses ethnic cleansing of territory before hosting meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
President 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
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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🧵Shavua tov.
I go offline on Shabbat & spend part of the day in prayer, Torah study, & listening to sermons (JTS & IKAR). Today, I also read @peterbeinart.bsky.social's brilliant new book, also a kind of Torah Study.
It's concise yet expansive, honest, searing, & wholly necessary. Please read.
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I go offline on Shabbat & spend part of the day in prayer, Torah study, & listening to sermons (JTS & IKAR). Today, I also read @peterbeinart.bsky.social's brilliant new book, also a kind of Torah Study.
It's concise yet expansive, honest, searing, & wholly necessary. Please read.
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
A Reckoning
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February 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
🧵Shavua tov.
I go offline on Shabbat & spend part of the day in prayer, Torah study, & listening to sermons (JTS & IKAR). Today, I also read @peterbeinart.bsky.social's brilliant new book, also a kind of Torah Study.
It's concise yet expansive, honest, searing, & wholly necessary. Please read.
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I go offline on Shabbat & spend part of the day in prayer, Torah study, & listening to sermons (JTS & IKAR). Today, I also read @peterbeinart.bsky.social's brilliant new book, also a kind of Torah Study.
It's concise yet expansive, honest, searing, & wholly necessary. Please read.
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May Hashem bless and keep the new editor of the Jewish Chronicle…far away from us.
January 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
May Hashem bless and keep the new editor of the Jewish Chronicle…far away from us.
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An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead by @annsplaining.bsky.social for the week of Holocaust Memorial Day.
vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
The geometry of remembering
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead.
vashtimedia.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
An essay on genocide, collective memory, and talking to the dead by @annsplaining.bsky.social for the week of Holocaust Memorial Day.
vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
vashtimedia.com/the-geometry...
‘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.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
‘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.
musicart.xboxlive.com/7/0ff16d00-0...
musicart.xboxlive.com/7/0ff16d00-0...
All change at the JC? Or no change at the JC? It shouldn’t take long to tell.
January 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
All change at the JC? Or no change at the JC? It shouldn’t take long to tell.
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Like an embarrassing superfan I have already bought @peterbeinart.bsky.social’s new book. It’s predictably excellent. I especially like this page from the prologue
January 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Like an embarrassing superfan I have already bought @peterbeinart.bsky.social’s new book. It’s predictably excellent. I especially like this page from the prologue
My short speech for today’s (Gaza inclusive) Holocaust Memorial Day event in Leeds is posted on my Facebook page. ‘NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE, ANYWHERE’
www.facebook.com/share/1BFn2v...
www.facebook.com/share/1BFn2v...
January 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
My short speech for today’s (Gaza inclusive) Holocaust Memorial Day event in Leeds is posted on my Facebook page. ‘NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE, ANYWHERE’
www.facebook.com/share/1BFn2v...
www.facebook.com/share/1BFn2v...
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Those who armed Israel must go to jail.
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too | Owen Jones
This unprecedented slaughter could not have happened without powerful cheerleaders. Hold them to account, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Those who armed Israel must go to jail.
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’ll be speaking at this vigil in Leeds this Sunday.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’ll be speaking at this vigil in Leeds this Sunday.
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Our report for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social is published today and launched tonight. It’s the first publication on this topic by the Trust for 30 years. Please have a look, share widely and also share your responses and criticisms!
Antisemitism is a stain on UK society. Current responses to tackling the problem are not working, and we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism – says a new report out today. Read the report here: ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. A thread.
January 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Our report for @runnymedetrust.bsky.social is published today and launched tonight. It’s the first publication on this topic by the Trust for 30 years. Please have a look, share widely and also share your responses and criticisms!
In 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
www.jpr.org.uk/insights/dat...
www.jpr.org.uk/insights/dat...
The data is clear: there is no ‘Jewish exodus’ from the UK
It happens over and over again: alarmist headlines about how Jews are leaving the country in unprecedented numbers because of antisemitism. “Half of British Jews ‘considering leaving the UK’ amid ‘sta...
www.jpr.org.uk
January 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In 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
www.jpr.org.uk/insights/dat...
www.jpr.org.uk/insights/dat...
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British Jews explain their turn away from Israel and Zionism - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zionism-anti-jewish-british-jews-explain-their-turn-away-israel
'Zionism is anti-Jewish': British Jews explain their turn away from Israel
Israel's assault on Gaza has accelerated a move by many Jews in the diaspora towards anti-Zionism and pro-Palestinian activism
www.middleeasteye.net
January 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
British Jews explain their turn away from Israel and Zionism - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/zionism-anti-jewish-british-jews-explain-their-turn-away-israel
UK 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.
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/poli...
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/poli...
Police must reverse BBC Palestine protest ban, 660+ Jews say
Prominent legal, cultural and academic figures are among more than 660 British Jews calling on the Metropolitan Police to reverse…
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk
January 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
UK 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.
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/poli...
www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/poli...
GAZA - where ‘Western values’ and ‘international law’, are also numbered in the fatalities.
Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates
@france24-en.bsky.social covers LSHTM research suggesting Palestinian Ministry of Health underreported number of deaths due to violence, & that 59% were women, children & the elderly.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
@france24-en.bsky.social covers LSHTM research suggesting Palestinian Ministry of Health underreported number of deaths due to violence, & that 59% were women, children & the elderly.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Gaza death toll 40 percent higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates
A study in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that 64,260 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which would mean the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Stri...
www.france24.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
GAZA - where ‘Western values’ and ‘international law’, are also numbered in the fatalities.
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On Dec 14 Diana Neslen, an anti-racist South African-born observant Jew, joined a 60-strong interfaith group singing carols for Palestine in central London, expecting to read out a statement on the atrocities going on in Gaza But the Met Police intervened
https://archive.ph/W6Hai (1/2)
https://archive.ph/W6Hai (1/2)
December 26, 2024 at 5:17 PM
On Dec 14 Diana Neslen, an anti-racist South African-born observant Jew, joined a 60-strong interfaith group singing carols for Palestine in central London, expecting to read out a statement on the atrocities going on in Gaza But the Met Police intervened
https://archive.ph/W6Hai (1/2)
https://archive.ph/W6Hai (1/2)