Hostages Home and Holocaust Memorial Day | Events Newsletter
The Our Fight newsletter issued on January 25th, 2025.
The sickening spectacle of tooled-up Hamas terrorists, backed by a huge mob of Gazan men, taunting the three Jewish women who were released from captivity last weekend, must have been almost too much to bear for the watching Israelis.
The joy we all felt when Emily, Romi and Doron finally came home after 471 days in hell was dampened right down by the images that showed Hamas is determined to pursue its forever war against the Jews regardless of what Israel does. But we always knew this. We must remember the incredible gains that the IDF has made to leave the Iranian regime fearing for its existence, Hezbollah seriously degraded and humiliated, and Hamas virtually destroyed.
Hamas’ show of strength is mostly a sham, like all the images we’ve seen projected from Gaza in the last 15 months. But it’s sickening because we know the vile death cult with its anti-Semitic ideology, is not defeated.
Morally bankrupt Western governments continue to fund UNRWA when they know it teaches Gazan kids that murdering Jews will send them to heaven. And ‘educated’ Western youth have embraced ‘Palestinianism’ because they’ve been taught to believe–as the Islamists do–that the West is the root of all evil.
In the year that we commemorate 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, we can and we must start to win the political war against the enemies of civilisation. Please join us in our campaign by making a regular donation and sharing this email with friends.
We aim to publish this newsletter more regularly, and so would welcome information about upcoming events around the country, as well as submissions, such as activity suggestions and original articles for publication.
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Upcoming Events
Holocaust Memorial Day Weekend
On Saturday January 25th in London's Parliament Square, at 11.30am, Our Fight and Stop the Hate will be taking the Yad Vashem exhibition Auschwitz - A Place on Earth: The Auschwitz Album to the public, to provoke conversation and to educate.
The exhibition comprises 16 posters, which together document the process of arrival and selection–for either slave labour or the gas chambers–of Hungarian Jews on the trains into Auschwitz-Birkenau, during the summer of 1944. During the eight week period from mid-May to early July, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp; most were murdered on arrival.
On Monday January 27th–Holocaust Memorial Day itself–Our Fight and Stop the Hate have arranged a commemoration in North London at which candles will be lit in the memory of those that were murdered during the Shoah. Those joining will also be bringing photographs of someone who lost their life or was affected.
You'll be able to find events in your area on the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website.
Remaking the Promise of Never Again
On Sunday February 9th we will be holding our first symposium, on the theme of Remaking the Promise of Never Again, in partnership with British Friends of Israel and Spiked.
In the afternoon there will be two sessions, one on the academic study of the Holocaust, addressed by Professor Philip Spencer, and the other on the representation of the Holocaust in the arts. These discussions will be followed by an evening plenary, where Brendan O'Neill, author of After the Pogrom, will be in conversation with Our Fight founder, Mark Birbeck.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, this event is more necessary than ever.
Recent Activities
On Thursday January 16th, Our Fight supporters joined activists outside the offices of Save the Children to draw attention to hostage Kfir Bibas, who was two years old a few days later–which means he has spent more of his life captive by Hamas than in freedom.
Michelle Rosenberg
On Saturday January 18th, Our Fight supporters infiltrated the latest Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) demo in Whitehall and held up the placards that they find so offensive–reminding everyone that Hamas is a terrorist organisation. The response was continual shouts of "Zionist scum off our streets", illustrating exactly why the PSC march was prevented from assembling near a synagogue.
Today, @PSCupdates and @STWuk wanted to assemble near a synagogue.
— OurFightUk (@OurFightUk) January 18, 2025
The @metpoliceuk stood firm and would not let them.
Here we can see why.
Anyone entering that synagogue, who supports Israel, would have been met with this aggressive behaviour. pic.twitter.com/vr0t6bFOfk
Nearby, other Our Fight supporters joined the larger Stop the Hate rally, to counter the PSC and to mark Kfir's second birthday in captivity.
The Police have finally done the right thing and stopped the hate march! 🇮🇱🥳🇬🇧
— Stop The Hate UK (@StopTheHate_UK) January 17, 2025
Join us tomorrow *January 18th* for a counter-protest t the PSC National Hate Rally*, coinciding with a solemn milestone: *Kfir Bibas’s 2nd Birthday. 💔
Kfir was just 9 months old when he was taken… pic.twitter.com/tQqaOHVhWs
On Sunday January 19th Our Fight joined other campaigners at an impromptu rally in Golders Green, to welcome home Emily, Romi and Doron.
Gaby Wine
Jenni Frazer
Worth a Read
Tim Black
Daniel Ben-Ami
