There was #never #genocide in #Gaza The #opposite actually, #Israel vaccinating, feeding, helping with all services (medical, drinking water, power) while taking extraordinary steps to protect civilians & #Hamas doing everything it can to get civilians killed, stealing food, terrorizing civilians.

Titter thee not, there's already a bit of a stramash going on, Darren Jones (not hiding behind unnamed sources) pointing out the cut in VAT on energy bills cannot come from the scrapped digital ID as it wasn't funded. What larks.

An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #58

I’m convinced leftists don’t actually care about Gaza but they need it to latch onto bc what they really want is to light the wildfires that kill us all bc of their own misery and distorted thinking

"Remember, when you leave this Earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received—only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage." ~ St. Francis of Assisi

"WE DON'T SERVE ZIONISTS" In Andros 🇬🇷, a café displayed a sign stating they don't serve Zionists, along with a Free Palestine sticker. The coded language against Jews has become a casual outlet for people to express their hate.

Happy Birthday, Carlos Santana! 🎶 What's your favorite Santana song or album? 🎶 Born in Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico, on July 20, 1947, Santana pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American Jazz in the 1960s. His father was a mariachi musician who taught him violin and guitar by the 👇

Andy Burnham is currently being given the access codes for the national computer. It was designed by Charles Babbage inn 1867, is made out of zinc, crystal, and the heart of Lord Nelson, and is located seven miles below the crypt of Westminster Abbey.

19 July 1931 An Austrian Jewish girl, Rosa Kress, was born in Vienna. She emigrated to the Netherlands. She was deported to Auschwitz in September 1942 and murdered in a gas chamber. #WW2 #History #HistoryMatters

Between 12m and 27m people were murdered in 12 years. The Holocaust was the only preplanned, industrialised attempt to eradicate a whole people in history, 6m out of 9m Jews. They were identified, numbered, transported, sorted, enslaved, murdered and burnt. There are no comparisons.

Well, this is the dilemma which diaspora Jews find ourselves in. We're increasingly no longer safe outside of Israel due to right-wing AND left-wing antisemitism...but we're beginning to wonder whether we'd be safe *in* Israel due to their increasingly ultra-right wing government. So we're fucked.

Yes, we've survived after having huge portions of our people slaughtered every century or so when horrific antisemitism flares up around the world. The whole point of the modern state of Israel is to be a safe space for us when the shit hits the fan...which is clearly happening again right now.

Congrats to Professor Junia Amer Al-Sheikh of Abu Snan, #Israeli #Arab #Muslim woman, on her appointment as Associate #Professor at Bar-Ilan University. She is a senior surgeon, internationally recognized researcher & leading expert in urogynecology & reconstructive pelvic floor surgery.

She also serves as a senior #clinical #lecturer at the #Technion #Faculty of #Medicine. With the exception of the #UAE, there is no other place in the entire #Middle #East and #North #Africa where #Muslim #women enjoy this much opportunity. Real #Apartheid #Israel ! ? !

Bukayo Saka and Bradley Barcola after the game between England and France last night. Agent Bukayo… 👀

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

18 July 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish boy, Ervin David, was born. In June 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- ▶ WEBINAR: Deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

Last night I watched Argentina play England on TV and England won. No it wasn't a dream. It was a Rugby Nations League game. The same argumentative, thoroughly nasty Argentina side turned up as the football side on Wednesday. No "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" banner, just a bunch of sore losers.

Dead proud 🥲 #nufc

Stolen from the other place - credit belongs to Twig and Toad Soap.

Those "second class citizens" have served in the Knesset and the IDF for the entirety of Israel's modern history😗

No. Just no! 🧶 #knit

Congratulations England on securing a bronze medal at the FIFA World Cup – our best finish at a World Cup since 1966. 🥉 You’ve made the nation proud and inspired millions.

Distribution map of 3,300 oaks in England with a girth greater than 6 metres The UK has more ancient oaks than all other EU countries combined There are around 170 million oaks with almost 1 million in London alone Map: Justin Moat, GIS Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏

Spain win, and Messi doesn’t get the golden boot nor the WC scoring record you say ?

A touch of King Cnut.

there is nothing more formidable in sports than an English team with nothing left to gain

Dear people who are saying that tonight's 3rd/4th place #WorldCup match is meaningless. Have you stood in a wet stand at Griffin Park in the 70s watching Brentford play an end of season match, and loved it? You probably have not. So fuck off you spoiled dilettantes.

So in today/tonight's FIFA World Cup final. FIFA are breaking they're own rules by holding a half hour long half time show just to apease the Americans. The United States should be barred from holding any more World Cup finals.

Argentina not being VAR checked once. A red card ignored,Champions "rings" ,the disgusting treatment of the Iranian team, the Argentina sign about the Falklands. This has been the worst worl cup finals I have seen. Fifa are corrupt, making money from football but ruining the game for their own ends

The fixation on genocide is two fold: 1. It's Holocaust inversion. Accusing Jews of committing a genocide let's antisemites compare Israelis to Nazis and dehumanize them. 2. It lessens collective guilt for the Holocaust by minimizing its scope. Antisemetism 2-for-1

I’m convinced leftists love this bc they hate women and children They want legalized pedophilia which is why they don’t have as much problem with republicans either

Jews have lived in Israel since c. 993 BCE—David’s reign, Solomon’s Temple (957 BCE), Babylonian exile (586 BCE), return & Second Temple (516 BCE–70 CE). After Rome’s destruction, Jews remained in Galilee, Jerusalem, Tiberias. Under Muslim, Crusader & Ottoman rule, Jewish communities endured

True!!!

It has been already announced that the break will last 25-30 minutes. Here in Europe we hate what the USA are doing to football.

18 July 1930 | An Italian Jew, Sami Modiano, was born on Rhodes Island (then part of Italy). In #Auschwitz from 18 August 1944 No. B-7456 He was liberated on 27 January 1945. Today, he turns 96.

Sad news today that Sir Gary Sobers has passed away. When I was a youngster he was one of three sporting superstars alongside the peerless Pele and the Greatest, Muhammad Ali. To me, Sobers remains the ultimate cricket all-rounder who could bat and bowl with the best. #RIP

Night 🌒 falls upon Stonehenge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We have a new elephant in the room - Gibraltarians now effectively have their freedom to move around Europe freely back - the rest of us deserve and need to as well... #RejoinEU #FreedomOfMovement

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Hugs to Salomon Bogeleisen, his friends and family. Never forget what Hitler did Jewish people & many others.

Look at that sky Edinburgh Castle, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

New on our website: a blogpost welcoming the recommendations of the Chief Social Worker for England following a rapid review of safeguarding in the children and young people's secure estate. https://howardleague.org/blog/the-trowler-review-a-thoughtful-and-detailed-report-with-much-to-welcome/

When lies take the elevator, truth takes the stairs. It may arrive later, but it always gets there. The truth has a way of revealing itself, no matter how long it takes. One by one, the false narratives are being exposed and debunked. Facts matter, and in the end, truth prevails

On this day in 1933, a Czech Jewish girl was born. On the 26 Oct 1941, she was deported to the Łódź Ghetto with her parents. They all perished in the Shoah. Her name was Eva Jana Eisnerová