"An official photograph of Cllr Brenda Puech (a newly elected Green) wearing a keffiyeh was taken down from the #Hackney council website after a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel (#UKLFI)."

#UKPol #GreenParty #London #Lawfare

https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/06/17/green-councillors-demand-reinstatement-brenda-puech-keffiyeh-photo/

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"Timing is everything. On the day #HelenGraham moved into a new flat in #Hackney she signed the deal on her #recipebook, #Centrepiece. On the day after she moved out she handed in the #manuscript.

“You could say that Centrepiece was bookended by the flat, which was the perfect place to do all the #recipe testing because it had a huge island in the #kitchen,” she tells me via Zoom from her new flat, which doesn’t have the same space.

Formerly executive #chef at famed #vegetarian #restaurant #Bubala, which opened in #Spitalfields in 2019, Helen, 38, had always wanted to write a recipe book. “After Bubala, I felt there was a gap in the market for a vegetarian entertaining #book."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/whatever-people-say-no-one-denies-that-jews-and-food-are-a-winning-combination/