Mike Short @MikeShort8

UNISON local government and education. Streatham resident. School governor. Amateur musician. Liverpool fan. JLM member. Personal capacity. London Joined January 2012

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Mike Short @MikeShort8

2 days ago

@ZackPolanski Actually you are not just calling for those "involved in war crimes" to be held to account. This list-making is unbelievably sinister.

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The letter calls for *all* Israeli nationals to be subjected to extra screening and *all* British/Israeli dual nationals to be monitored. It goes much further than investigating individuals accused of crimes - it’s a call for discrimination against an entire nationality.

Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski

3 days ago

The IDF has been accused of horrific war crimes in Gaza by the UN Human Rights Council & Amnesty International. It is just common sense that those involved in war crimes should be held to account.

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Mike Short @MikeShort8

2 days ago

@Never_Again2020 This is clear incitement to the kind of violence we are seeing. I've reported him to the police.

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UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion

6 days ago

Voting in the 2026/27 higher education pay consultation is quick and simple: 📧 check your email 🗳️ decide whether to accept or reject the offer 👍 submit, and done! Make sure you do this before noon on 5 June to demand the pay you deserve unsn.uk/4uZCtkH @UNISONinHE

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UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion

a week ago

Local government unions have rejected the 2026 pay offer and are demanding meaningful pay negotiations in a letter to employers signed by all three unions - UNISON, Unite and GMB. UNISON are balloting members for strike action from 9 July.

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Jewish News @JewishNewsUK

3 weeks ago

Police investigating new ‘violent attack’ in Golders Green during the early hours of Monday morning as an antisemitic hate crime jewishnews.co.uk/police-investi…

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Shomrim (London North & East) @Shomrim

3 weeks ago

🚨 Threats To Behead Jews 🎥 @Shomrim are aware of the horrific video circulating on social media showing a gentleman threatening to behead Jews and much more. This was taken outside 82 Whitechapel Road, Tower Hamlets, London, E1 1JQ. 👮‍♂️ This has been reported to @MetPoliceUK @MetCC who are taking it very seriously and have started an investigation to identify and arrest the male and mitigate the immediate threats. ⚠️ We are aware of the fact that the Orthodox Jewish community is exceptionally concerned about these threats and want to reassure the community that we are working closely with @MPSTowerHam @MPSHackney and will be stepping up patrols till he is caught. 📞 Anyone with information is asked to contact @MetCC quoting CAD 4911/15MAY26.

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Jewish News @JewishNewsUK

3 weeks ago

Jewish community ‘withdrawing inwards’ amid rise in antisemitism, MPs told jewishnews.co.uk/jewish-communi…

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Mike Short @MikeShort8

4 weeks ago

Interested to know how antisemitic you'd have to be to get suspended from X. Reported loads of posts recently, none of which were deemed to have broken the rules. I was going to give examples of the nasty, de-humanising, racist, filth that X is ok with, but what's the point.

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LBC News @LBCNews

a month ago

The Met Police are investigating reports a car was driven towards three 14-year-old boys near a Jewish school in Barnet, north London on 20 April, which they are treating as a religiously aggravated assault.

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Well said.

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Tom Holland @holland_tom

a month ago

It’s all too clear that a country in which Jews are attacked on the streets simply because they are Jewish, synagogues need to employ security, & anti-Semitic slogans & images are paraded through city centres or exhibited in art galleries is exactly what we’ve become.

S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore

a month ago

Here come the cliches….. ‘This is not who we are as country’ ‘this has no place in british society’ and the rest…. Aptly done @JewishNewsUK

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Robert Peston @Peston

a month ago

On my show last night, in the hours after the assaults in Golders Green, I talked to the transport secretary about the under-reported rise of antisemitism among young people. Heidi Alexander made a point of saying that education and the classroom is where much of the struggle against antisemitism must be focussed - because hatred of and contempt for Jews is prevalent in too many communities, social classes, ethnicities and faiths. The trigger, the proximate cause, is fury at Israel’s destruction of Gaza - for which Jews in general are often and wrongly held accountable. This notion that Jews should be blamed for the actions of Israel’s government is totally irrational and hateful. It is antisemitism, pure, simple and cancerous. But like the virus it is, antisemitism is manifesting through tropes that are new and centuries old. That’s why there is an imperative to engage with young people in schools, to help them understand why hatred of Jews is so destructive. The government has recently launched a review of antisemitism in schools, chaired by Sir David Bell. If you are in doubt that such an investigation is badly needed, read below what one teacher told me this morning (this is just one teacher and one school, but it is profoundly shocking and I doubt it’s anomalous). I teach at a London secondary school. The otherwise kindhearted children, empathetic and intelligent, bandy casual antisemitism about the classroom constantly. During a history lesson covering Hitler's Holocaust, a student deemed it "interesting" that "no country has ever wanted the Jews." With this in mind, the child was confused as to why, then, "we don't blame the Jews." He reckoned: “They must be doing something wrong.” I regularly remind students that Jews did not, and do not, "steal all the money!" I had to explain that Weimar Jews did not cause hyperinflation. Even 'old school' antisemitism is back, thanks to TikTok revisionism. And with great frequency, students remark that "Jews control the world" or that "Israel controls America." I was, above all else, distressed to catch students emailing each other pictures of Orthodox Jews "as a joke" because "they look funny." This, more than anything else, frightens me. For, in mockery of something as basic as appearance, a line is crossed; misinformation is dwarfed by the purest, most ancient form of contempt: one that lessons on economics or history will struggle to defeat.

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UNISON - UK's largest union @unisontheunion

a month ago

🏫🚨 Government plans to force every school into an academy trust risk diverting money from pupils and creating a more complicated, less accountable system, warn education unions. Read here ⬇️ unsn.uk/4t8jNOn

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Jemimah Steinfeld @JFSteinfeld

a month ago

If you want to know how to support British Jews today one of the simplest things is to just check in with us and ask if we’re ok. So few have & it’s one of the things that has upset me most.

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Mike Short @MikeShort8

a month ago

@chrimack @HadleyFreeman That's just an absolutely appalling thing to say.

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Mike Short @MikeShort8

a month ago

@HadleyFreeman This is just so bad. Hope you're ok.

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Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi

a month ago

Please join me in praying for a swift and complete recovery for the victims of today’s attack: Nachman Moshe ben Chaya Sarah and Moshe Ben Baila.

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Sonia Sodha @soniasodha

a month ago

This is horrific. Imagine what it must feel like being Jewish in the UK right now - it's shaming. bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3ve…

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Steve Cooke @Steve_Cooke

a month ago

Green Party candidate Tina Ion condemns "discriminatory language" and explains how, if elected to Newcastle City Council, she will have a "zero tolerance policy for anyone who uses harassment and bullying". Some may view these noble sentiments as incompatible with her also running a spoof Anne Frank Threads account that calls for Jews to be eliminated.