S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) / X

S Sebag Montefiore

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S Sebag Montefiore

@simonmontefiore

Historian. Nxt: The Cauldron: Making of the Modern Middle East. Jerusalem. TheWorld. StalinRedTsar. YgStalin. Romanovs. CatherinetheGreat. Novels: MoscowTrilogy

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Born June 27

Joined March 2012

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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Feb 20
Amidst the whirlwind of horrible scandals and atrocious wars that is our world today, here is a v small but troubling manifestation of our crazy times. A day ago, my attention was drawn to a photograph posted on X that showed a local bookstore in Oslo, Norway where the staff
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
May 12, 2025
Greek mythology never more relevant… New Airforce One arrives from Qatar
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Apr 3, 2022
Today in 1940 Stalin & Beria (see below) started the murder of 22000 Poles in Katyn Forest. It took 28 nights & the chief executioner wore a butchers apron over his NKVD uniform. As we absorb todays Russian killings of Ukraine civilians, it’s hard not to think of the past...
S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Oct 31, 2023
As always the sharpest questions and justified criticism of Hamas are made by decent, moderate Arab voices. Not by the West's Decolonialisation ideology apologists...
Laura Ben-David 🇮🇱🎗️
@LauraBenDavd
Oct 31, 2023
Egyptian journalist Abraham Eissa has a really good question for Hamas:
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Jan 27, 2025
During the Holocaust a Jewish family in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine were almost all liquidated by the Nazis. The parents and three sons were killed. Only one Semyon survived. His grandson is Volodymyr Zelensky… Something to know.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
@ZelenskyyUa
Jan 27, 2025
There are very few survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp left. Today, they spoke to the leaders of almost 60 countries and to the entire world. They spoke about how ruthless people can be when their minds are poisoned by hatred. About what the camp's prisoners went
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Nov 5, 2025
This cannot stand. Now we have the evidence. The BBC knowingly helped spread Hamas lies & hate even when they knew they were false. This applies not just to the BBCArab but to flagship Newsnight & BBCnews. ⁦@lisanandy⁩ ⁦@10DowningStreet⁩
Now we have the evidence. The BBC knowingly helped spread Hamas lies and hate
From telegraph.co.uk
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Oct 8, 2024
The transformation of Amnesty and a handful of other soi-disant 'human rights' charities into anti-semitic, anti-Western activist campaigning fronts captured by illiberal ideologues is complete. If this is their stand now, they are completely discredited. Tragically so
Amnesty UK
@AmnestyUK
Oct 6, 2024
It didn’t start one year ago. #CeasefireNow #StopArmingIsrael #EndIsraeliApartheid
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Nov 23, 2024
This is it: “China, Russia. Iran and North Korea are working effectively together. What has happened is that they have perceived us, the US, to be weak and that we have lost the political will to confront them,” says General Jack Keane.
thetimes.com
West facing greatest peril since Second World War, says ex-general
US military adviser Jack Keane, a retired four-star general, says Russia, China and North Korea see America as weak — and Donald Trump must address the threat ‘rapidly’
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Feb 21, 2022
Amazing that on night of such important events in Russia / Ukraine, the @BBCNews is running 15 minutes of reports about covid. Inc exciting report on reactions of people in Eastbourne. Astonishingly insular
S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Nov 4, 2023
This - the greatest European speech on the Hamas murder raid, Israel war vs Hamas, rising antiJewish racism and toxic sham ‘history’ of Decolonisation - is deeply moving. Its decency and moral clarity is striking…
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie
@BMWE_
Nov 2, 2023
It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Oct 10, 2024
Reading a couple of @theguardian articles in a last few days, I feel we may be seeing its final departure from the pluralistic liberal tradition that made it a great newspaper, thanks to its capture by – or its morally fuddled editorial cadre - surrender to, an activist,
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Oct 3, 2025
A few thoughts the morning after the fast. I awake like many Jews all over the world with a strangely sorry feeling. Why is this Day of Atonement not like others? Then I remember. This, Yom Kippur, is not one that the Jews of Britain will ever forget. As we were fasting
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Oct 14, 2023
The anti-colonial’ ideology, powerful in the academy but long overdue for serious challenge, applies a toxic but historically nonsensical mix of Soviet propaganda, US anti-racist jargon & traditional anti-semitism to a complex history.
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S Sebag Montefiore
@simonmontefiore
Mar 5, 2023
Quite a night in Israel. As in any democracy one has to support people demonstrating to defend liberal democracy under threat
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