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Alex Maws

@alexmaws.bsky.social

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Head of Education & Heritage at the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR). IHRA delegate. Podcaster. Bagels/humous. Guitar/vox. US/UK. He/Him.

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Apr 24

Check out this @unesco.org video about antisemitism that I wrote and narrated. They gave me the brief: explain antisemitism in four minutes! I hope you find it useful, and please do share it with anyone who might benefit from it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZgD...

What is antisemitism

YouTube video by UNESCO

www.youtube.com

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 1d

The phrase "successive governments" is having a moment.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7d

Not for the first time Netanyahu prefers the global far right to the Jewish diaspora

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Which is to say: If you are suggesting that the attack was somehow deserved because all Jews support Israel, you're being antisemitic.

And if you think that the attack shows why the state of Israel is behaving as it is in Gaza, you are being awful.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

The attack on the Manchester synagogue was antisemitic violence.

If you're talking about Israel (from any perspective) in conjunction with it, you're either being awful or antisemitic or both.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8d

It's good to be on a platform where people express normal human empathy and dismay at the horrific synagogue attack rather than on one where they weaponise it for their grubby, divisive purposes and try to turn a tragedy into an opportunity

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 9d

You've stirred up your share of controversy before, but are you sure you want to do this?

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 10d

This is important.

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CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Elon Musk’s X is the “go-to platform for antisemitic posters,” according to a new year-long study shared exclusively with CNN: https://cnn.it/3Wbsj0W

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 11d

Back in the day there was a freeview channel, I think maybe More4, that was essentially 24-hour Friends reruns. Meanwhile hardly anyone here has ever seen Seinfeld. It's just wrong.

Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 15d

Seriously. If DiBlasio could win as a proud Red Sox fan, then clearly there is no answer that is disqualifying.

Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 24d

Certain scenes get scratched into your soul
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The Final Homerun - The Natural (8/8) Movie CLIP (1984) HD

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 25d

I've created an epic playlist that will go from "private" to "public" so that my impeccable taste in music will continue to inspire people long after my passing.

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · 25d

I travel a lot for work and do this all the time. Songkick is what you're looking for. Add a new city to your list of tracked places. Then just un-track it once you're done.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 25d

Really not sure why any British politician or UK government department is still posting on X. Closing all those accounts would be actual, and instant, "consequences".

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 26d

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Sep 10

Someone send the Big Papi signal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 10

Homan to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: "We're coming. We're gonna be there tomorrow. We're gonna be there the next day. We're gonna be there next month. We're gonna be there next year. You're not stopping us from what we're doing."

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s amazing the mistakes you can make when you’ve never read a single thing about the history of antisemitism and have your head all the way up your arse

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Sep 3

NatCon leader Yoram Hazony says he did not expect to see anti-semitism on the Right. I guess he somehow missed the pro-Trump “alt right” movement boosted by NatCon speaker Steve Bannon in 2016. 🙄 😡 1/ x.com/natcontalk/s...

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Aug 26

You’ve got to be f**king kidding me.

Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · Aug 26

[rings bell] We got another one!

Cover of the book 'The Ballet Teacher of Auschwitz: An Emotionally Heart-Wrenching WW2 Historical Fiction Novel'

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's good when people interviewing Reform politicians about mass deportations and consigning vulnerable people to torture and death don't just ask "How would this work?" but "Isn't this immoral?" Like, the main issue with concentration camps isn't the construction logistics

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Aug 22

Always read @daverich1.bsky.social.
everydayhate.substack.com/p/same-wine-...

Same wine, different bottles

London, 1962: the National Socialist Movement, a bunch of Nazi wannabes and Hitler worshippers, held a rally in Trafalgar Square under the slogan “FREE BRITAIN FROM JEWISH CONTROL.”

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Aug 21

Counterpoint: Stephen Miller

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Aug 19

Will you be reporting on the Red Lion pub quiz results next?

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Aug 18

All flags should be banned from
Auschwitz.

Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · Aug 18

At the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site, a woman tried to shame Jewish teens carrying an Israeli flag as they honored the 1 million Jews murdered there.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Aug 18

Is any politician going to say anything about this or is this just fine now?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 18

Far right veteran Eddy Butler who was the BNP lead election guru boasts on Facebook that he is "riding shotgun" for the next Tory leader by being in such proximity at the Epping protest

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Alex Maws @alexmaws.bsky.social · Aug 13

I'm sure all of the DC residents who frequent the Washington Monument were duly impressed.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Aug 10

Imagine thinking the author of The Boy in the Striped Panamas has literary talent.

Lols

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