Esther Woolfson @EWoolfson Twitter profile

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7 months

@hilarybennmp I am Jewish and find it profoundly offensive that a man who served in a military force engaged in genocide is deemed suitable to be a religious mentor. He is a disgrace to Judaism.

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Miriam Margolyes speaks for me. Maureen Lipman doesn’t.

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@DrHananAshrawi This is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen. A man who has no soul, no morals, no imagination, no compassion. He is not a Jew, he is just a destructive, odious Zionist.

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@TalulaSha Have a look at some of the other stuff on Rosenbaum Communication’s Facebook page. Perhaps this is where some Israeli politicians get their inspiration.

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@ireallyhateyou This is against all principles of Judaism.

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@LordIanAustin It’s an anti- genocide march. Unlike you, some people-many of them Jews, oppose genocide.

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@nicolelampert Mayim Bialik? The same one who laughed hysterically at the thought of slaughtered Palestinians? That one?

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@LordIanAustin Israel is not a democracy. It is an apartheid state. You are a liar.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox Please do not address Jews in this way. If you mean Zionists, say so. Many Jews attend demonstrations in support of Palestine.

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@CllrTKerr Please do not speak for me. The only people for whom I feel fear are the suffering people of Gaza. I attend demonstrations with a sign saying that I am a Jew who stands with Palestine and have never met anything but warmth and kindness.

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@LordIanAustin No, it’s not. He served with a genocidal army. You are an apologist for genocide and nobody will forget it.

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8 months

@antisemitism How dare you suggest that support for Palestine and outrage at Israeli murder and genocide is anti- semitic. How dare you.

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4 years

I’m thrilled that the book’s out today!

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10 months

@Jebadoo2 I am a British Jew and I deeply resent the suggestion that we are all cowed and terrified. More of us than you would imagine will be attending demonstrations today to express our support for the people of Gaza and Palestine. We are not responsible for Israel’s crimes.

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@BBCPolitics Grateful to Stephen Flynn, my MP, for raising this.

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@RozRothstein You are a Zionist. Please speak for other Zionists, not for Jews. You DO NOT SPEAK fOR ME.

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@simonmontefiore I support Jonathan Glazer’s statement unequivocally but then I’m a Jew, not a Zionist.

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@NHSAntisemitism Stop suggesting that anti-Zionism is anti- semitism. You know very well that this is mendacious and dangerous.

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Esther Woolfson

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4 years

Love you to death: how we hurt the animals we cherish

The long read: Something has gone badly wrong with the way we keep pets. Our casual cruelties are a symptom of our unhealthy relationship with other species

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

The proof of my new book!

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3 years

The paperback of ‘Between Light and Storm’ will be published tomorrow. Here’s its lovely cover.

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7 months

@BoardofDeputies @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @JewishTelegraph @JTAnews @JNS_org @TimesofIsrael @Jerusalem_Post @WorldJewishCong @Algemeiner You are quite disgusting. You represent only Zionists. YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME.

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@SpiritofLenin @nookyelur Israel assassinated Ghassan Kanafani over 40 years ago but his words are not forgotten. Perhaps that should be a lesson to Israel. You cannot destroy words.

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@kmckenna63 Please, refrain from speaking for Jews. We can manage to express our views quite well without you.

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Esther Woolfson

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4 years

Lovely,lovely corvids!

Jane Tomlinson - Artist 🌻⭐️

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4 years

I've just finished my #painting of all 8 species of 'British Crows'. Such intelligent, adaptable, tenacious creatures. If you like my painting, pls RT the corvid love. More corvid than covid, this can 'go viral' quite safely! #OxfordshireArtweeks

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@antisemitism Why is it gross? Because it’s true?

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@chiefrabbi You do not speak for me. A righteous Jew would condemn all murder. You have failed to do so.

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@kmckenna63 I’m a Scottish Jew and have been attending demonstrations opposing Israeli cruelty for many decades . I carry a sign saying that I am Jewish and deplore Israel’s action but have never experienced any anti- semitism- the opposite in fact.

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4 years

It’s a book about how we came to view and treat other species as we do-about cruelty but about love, devotion and compassion too.

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8 months

@chiefrabbi By your racism and failure to speak out against genocide, you dishonour the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

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@_LFI @UKLabour Oh please fuck off. I am Jewish and despise Zionism because it’s a racist, thieving, colonialist, murderous ideology and I don’t require your pathetic, patronising excuses for your having no decency and no morals.

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@HarvardPSC @AlanDersh Years ago when I worked in a bookshop, I used to hide Dershowitz’s books to save people from being faced with his hatred, racism and evil.

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@Natasha_Walter In fact, it’s anti- semitic to suggest that Jews, just by virtue of their being Jews, will invariably support the grotesque actions of a genocidal state, Israel or not.

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2 years

Published today!

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4 years

I’ll be defending the reputation of corvids on Out of Doors, Saturday 6.30 am @BBCRadioScot

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@eurojewcong You are wrong. You are conflating Judaism and Zionism, always a mendacious effort to undermine justified criticism of Israel. Herzog had plainly called for genocide. Any moral Jew is impelled to oppose this.

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@FaithQuintero7 May I suggest you read this.

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@persianjewess No, it’s not. How dare you even suggest it. I am a Jew. I am not a Zionist.

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7 months

@Malka_Simkovich As you should know, being Jewish does not mean that you are necessarily a Zionist. Stop conflating Judaism with Zionism.

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10 months

@BenzionSanders Israel’s representative is dishonouring victims of the Holocaust while condoning, abetting and encouraging genocide. I can’t express the anger and contempt I feel for him.

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@MaxBlumenthal I carried a sign yesterday at the demo in Aberdeen saying that I am a Jew who supports Palestine. My daughter did the same in London. We were both met with warmth and (quite unnecessary) gratitude. What has happened to this lady is a disgrace.

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@EylonALevy Realm of facts? From someone sacked for lying? And by Israel?

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7 months

@broseph_stalin How dare she? I am Jewish and have opposed Zionism for over 50 years. I abhor everything that Israel is doing. They are committing genocide and I will be happy to confront and defeat the hideous views of Rachel Reeves and the execrable ‘Labour Friends of Israel’.

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9 months

@chiefrabbi Have you forgotten the march you went on in Jerusalem when people shouted ‘death to the Arabs’, the march described by Haaretz as representing ‘arrogance, xenophobia , brute domination and racist hatred’? Did that represent light or darkness Rabbi Mirvis?

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@jewdas Because ‘ just not saying it’ is cowardly and wrong. Many Jews do not regard it as anti- semitic. In fact, many Jews- like me-regard the suggestion as nonsensical Zionist propaganda, something we have an obligation to refute. It is an attempt to deny Palestinian rights.

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@chiefrabbi @BBCr4today You have not yet condemned the hideous murder of Palestinians. You are not a righteous Jew. You do not represent me or any of my family, all of whom are horrified by this abject failure. You bring further darkness to a dark world.

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@Freedland No, it’s not because of one man. It’s because of a long and vicious occupation, because of Israel’s apartheid, because of the willingness of their society to participate in genocide. It’s because of a lack of justice, decency and compassion inherent in Zionism.

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4 years

The lovely cover of my new book. I’m very grateful for the kind endorsements.

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1 year

@OurSacredGrove @WaterVole @Conservatives @RishiSunak @ConHome Totally unacceptable, unnecessary and viciously cruel. A backward step. Buy cruelty free and nothing else.

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@margarethodge @AbrahamfundUK It might be preferable if you and the odious Labour Friends of Israel spoke out against genocide. Attempting to whitewash genocide is truly shameful.

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7 years

A beautiful Pesach moon. The message of Pesach- ׳you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger...'

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9 months

@giles_fraser Please, stop speaking for Jews. We can speak for ourselves. I don’t want to live in a country which was violently stolen from the people of Palestine. It is not my country. Palestine belongs to the Palestinians despite the mendacious claims of Zionism.

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@BellaWallerstei Sounds like bollocks.

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@LordWalney If only you had the integrity to condemn genocide and the hideous acts of murder being carried out by Israel, and the decency to persuade your craven colleagues not to ally themselves with Zionist crimes. If only.

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@chiefrabbi One supporter of genocide supporting another. Disgraceful men, both of them. Racist, Zionists. Not Jews.

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4 years

Our mistreatment of other species has consequences, both for them and for us. Fur ‘farming’ is still widespread throughout the world. It is vile and cruel and, as this shows, dangerous. It should be banned everywhere.

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@emtravelodge Herzog’s brother is an indicted war criminal. Clearly runs in families.

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6 months

Clearly terrified to be in London this afternoon!

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4 years

Just a few of the 3,200 face masks made by my daughter Bec and sent out free to the public and charities, including to every food bank in Scotland. #acanthusinteriors #teamtrussel #rowanalba @AcanthusHome @osborne &little ⁦ @DesignersGuild ⁩ ⁦ @gpjbaker ⁩

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Esther Woolfson

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5 years

I’ve just sent the draft of my new book to the publisher. Chick,Zik and I will celebrate quietly.

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4 years

Mink cannot be ‘blamed’ for coronavirus mutation @FT . Humans can.The link between animals kept for fur and zoonotic diseases is well known.

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4 years

Tomorrow morning, around 10.40, I’ll be talking on @BBCRadioScot about the ethics of keeping pets. So complex, between responsibility and love...

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@helensclegel @antisemitism Well I haven’t. I have opposed Zionism and stood in solidarity with the people of Palestine for more than five decades. Zionism is a grotesque violation of Jewish values.

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@chiefrabbi @UJS_UK @JewishChaplain You know nothing of Jewish values. Supporting a genocidal regime IS NOT A JEWISH VALUE. You are a stain upon Judaism.

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@drdhiggins

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4 years

Delighted to see my article on human attitudes to other species in the new @BigIssue !

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4 years

This is shocking. Animals are not mere commodities.

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What are the BBC thinking commissioning such a programme promoting puppy breeding to make money during lockdown @NickyAACampbell @scanme_tukslaw @DeborahMeaden @GaryLineker @rickygervais @dotslondon @RSPCA_official @bbcthree @theJeremyVine @emeliobedelio @DogsTrust @LeagueACS

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@mikekatz Judaism is NOT Zionism. Stop trying to suggest that it is.

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8 months

@LordIanAustin @RobertJenrick Austin and Jenrick- two disgraceful supporters of genocide.

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4 years

Might it be time for @aberdeenshire to reconsider their decision to do business with a dangerous fascist, and allow him to destroy even more of Scotland’s land and wildlife? @KevinStewartSNP @antbaxter

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@EylonALevy @stateofapod Or you can be aware that Levy is paid to lie, paid to diminish the scale of a genocide, paid to relinquish all semblance of humanity.

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@ytirawi Completely disgusting. A repudiation of Jewish values and a stain on humanity.

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@JamesEFoster It’s total dangerous nonsense. The Board of Deputies is not a Jewish organisation, it is a Zionist one. It doesn’t speak for anyone except Zionists.

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@chiefrabbi A word decrying genocide? No, I thought not.

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@OwenPaintbrush @JohnBooth2017 It’s not a religious organisation although it is everything else mentioned. They’re a bunch of more or less self -appointed bullies whose purpose is to vilify and intimidate anti- Zionist Jews. They’re horrible.

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@MiddleEastEye A fascist, criminal Zionist thug-how dare he even mention the word ‘Jew’.

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@TalulaSha Unsurprising, sadly.

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2 years

The Spanish edition of ‘Between Light and Storm’! #carbrame #granta

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@ytirawi The man who said, ‘Burn Gaza!’ And then said he didn’t say it when reminded about the ICJ.

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@Baddiel Is this a joke?

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@LTCPeterLerner Completely detached from all morality. A disgraceful man.

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@LordIanAustin And I suppose it’s completely normal behaviour to sit silently watching genocide.Or to support a country whose president, prime minister and politicians openly call for genocide. Totally normal.

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4 years

I’m sad that this delightful bird couldn’t visit for Christmas. Still, I hear she had a lovely time at home in Edinburgh.

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4 years

How amazing!

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1.7 million readers and counting! Check out one of the most popular Guardian articles of the year, an extract from BETWEEN LIGHT AND STORM by Esther Woolfson. 🐶Pre-order the book: 🐱Read the piece:

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@chiefrabbi You are a disgusting, disgusting man. YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME.

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In Aberdeen in the pouring rain, demonstrating against Israel’s murderous violence in Gaza.

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People think that the refusal of some designers to use fur means that the trade no longer exists but it does, on a very large scale. Fur auctions have continued throughout the pandemic. It’s one of the topics I write about in ‘Between Light and Storm’.

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Esther Woolfson

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@tastefullysaucy Absolutely correct. Last year, Israelis turned out in force to protest against Netanyahu’s judicial proposals, the same people who have silently watched , encouraged and participated in oppression, apartheid and occupation. Shame on them all.

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@BirdgirlUK birds could teach them something about living cooperatively. Keeping birding!

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@chiefrabbi @UJS_UK @JewishChaplain You are a disgrace. You support an apartheid regime committing genocide. Shame on you!

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4 years

Happy Hallowe’en everyone!

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Esther Woolfson

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10 months

A large demonstration in Aberdeen today- there are more people every week, all of us calling for freedom for Palestine.

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11 months

I have, sadly, over decades, attended many demonstrations against Israel’s vicious crimes against Palestinians but until today, I’ve never been at one where trays of dates were handed out. Thank you to the Frederick Street mosque in Aberdeen for a gesture of such grace.

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@chiefrabbi Not a word about the slaughtered of Gaza. Shame on you- you dishonour Judaism.

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@hearnimator Stop suggesting that all Jews are Zionists. I find it offensive that anyone should think I support the genocide of the Palestinian people because I’m a Jew. I oppose it because I’m a Jew.

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Esther Woolfson

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4 years

My article on the horrors of fur farming in @NewStatesman now.

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Esther Woolfson

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4 years

The Crowtographer, for truly wonderful crow photos.

The Crowtographer

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4 years

Need a little distraction from what’s going on in the world right now? Check out two of my favourite Corvid themed books of all time. One fiction-Mink River, fall in love with a crow named Moses), one non fiction, fall in love with Chicken, Spike, Ziki + their human family. ❤️

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@BareLeft @FisunGuner Does she know that creep Mirvis took part in the hideous racist ‘March of Flags’ in Jerusalem where people chant ‘death to the Arabs’? Perhaps she doesn’t care but I do.

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@acailler It’s quite accurate as you know.

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@EylonALevy Sacked for lying but still lying. Please just go away.

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