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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.
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
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
‘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
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’

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January 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I’ll be speaking at this vigil in Leeds this Sunday.
January 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
January 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
December 25, 2024 at 9:46 AM
Just finished reading @rachelshabi.bsky.social new book on Antisemitism. Highly recommended to anyone wanting a nuanced, comprehensive and very readable account of how this form of racism shows up on the right and the left…and what we can do about it.
November 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
This is the Board of Deputies response to the ICC arrest warrants. They go with ‘counter productive’ rather than ‘antisemitic’ which I guess is better than what we are seeing coming out of Israel and the US. It’s still a lousy response though 1/3
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Hoping this is the place to organise the resistance.
November 15, 2024 at 11:49 PM