Talisa Ross

ENT registrar, North Thames Deanery

[Rachel Riley MBE 💙 @RachelRileyRR]

This is what I love about the Jewish community and the people of Britain, within hours of a hate driven arson attack, over 1,800 people have donated £480k and counting to rebuild.

[Hatzola @Hatzola]

We’ve received many messages asking how to support our life-saving work following the devastating arson attack in Northwest London.

If you would like to help Hatzola Stamford Hill continue responding to emergencies you can donate here:

https://t.co/ULh1g97oa1

Your support at this time means more than ever.

Thank you for standing with us.

[LaryngolAndOtol @LaryngolAndOtol]

New FirstView article: Local anaesthetic Eustachian tube balloon dilatation: a prospective case-series analysis of 31 patients https://t.co/UaYEL4Z4HE

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Adverse Effects of Steroid Therapy in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss: A Scoping Review - Achanta - Clinical Otolaryngology - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/N09WA0v691

[LaryngolAndOtol @LaryngolAndOtol]

New article: Is there still a role for nasal closure in hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia? https://t.co/uJngwUiIDF

[ENTelligence @ENT_elligence]

🚀 ENTelligence has officially launched at the Royal Society of Medicine! A fantastic event with inspiring keynotes, cutting-edge AI in ENT, and big plans for the future. Excited to drive innovation in the field—check out the highlights! ⬇️ #ENT #AI #Innovation

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Nasal complaints: recognising common presentations Online course | BMJ Learning https://t.co/nbYsDLwUDN

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Now for Frontal Sinus Masterclass with Prof PJ Wormald #OTOMTG24

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Great talk on contemporary uses of AI in Otolaryngology #OTOMTG24

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Creating a health informatics data resource for hearing health research

https://t.co/G5nV6GaGMG

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

UK ENT Surgeons and ENT Surgical Trainees 🚨🚨
Please complete our survey on the impact of left-handedness on operating in ENT:
https://t.co/KNH8D4oZRu

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

An Unusual Case of Reinke's Oedema

https://t.co/7brgwiod5Y

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Magical #Auroraborealis

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

Deep Learning for Automated Image Segmentation of the Middle Ear: A Scoping Review - Ross - Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/rg3BkuA1dA

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Since I tweeted this earlier Saturday afternoon, former BBC colleagues have contacted me to say it’s “grim” and “frightening” to be Jewish at the BBC at the moment. Grim and frightening. At our national broadcaster. In 2024. I can’t think of anything more shameful. Or depressing. Where’s the Director General and his army of BBC executives paid large salaries to get a grip of matters like this? Why is Dawn Queva not suspended pending a speedy inquiry which must surely lead to her sacking? Pre-judging? I’ve screengrabs of her Facebook page. She refers to Britain as the “genocidal UK-KKK” and Israeli Jews as “Nazi apartheid parasites” who have no right to any of their country. She comes across as deranged and probably needing help. But that should come after she’s fired. @BBCNews

[Rachel Riley MBE 💙 @RachelRileyRR]

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, where we remember the 6 million Jewish men, women and children, the thousands of Roma and Sinti, black, gay, disabled and other groups, systematically murdered in the Holocaust, as well as in subsequent genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia and Darfur, where people were persecuted and killed in masses, with the purposeful intent of their total annihilation.

Currently in China, between 1-3 million Uyghur Muslims are in concentration camps, in the first genocide recognised by the British government while it is happening.

27th January is the date chosen to mark this, as the date of the liberation of Auschwitz, a death camp where Jews had to pay for their own travel in cattle trucks for days, from as far as Greece and Norway, to Poland to be killed. Approx 1.1m people were murdered there alone.

This morning, I’ve already seen Holocaust charities, messages from survivors, and mourners, trolled online in their pain and remembrance, with taunts of being ‘the new nazis’ and cries of ‘genocide’ in Gaza.

Let me be clear, the humanitarian disaster in Gaza is awful. The loss of innocent civilian life is devastating, and every decent person wants an end to the suffering of innocent people, whoever they are and wherever they come from, as soon as possible. But however much pain this situation is causing, it is not genocide, and it is not comparable to the Holocaust.

This is a new form of Holocaust denial, which distorts the nature of genocide, and minimises the intentional dehumanisation, planning and scale of evil it takes to reduce individuals to members of an group deserving of mass torture and killing.

War is horrific by nature, and the pain and suffering it causes I hope never to experience myself, or for my family, and I can’t claim to know how that feels. I empathise with all those suffering due to the accident of where they were born in the world, in the hands of violent and extremist regimes.

In other conflicts, just in and around that region, 377,000+ Yemenis, 236,000+ Afghans, 5,400,000+ Congolese, 500,000+ Sudanese, 500,000+ Syrians, 500,000+ Somalis, 300,000+ Iraqis, 50,000+ Libyans have been killed. None were labelled genocides, none were compared to the Holocaust, perpetrators weren’t called nazis. These victims are barely spoken of.

This call of genocide is saved for Jews, and for Israel alone, because of the pain this accusation specifically causes them. It has been shouted maliciously for decades, yet is particularly painful in the wake of the Oct 7th pogrom, with 136 hostages still captive, and nearly 1,300 brutally murdered in cruel and celebratory style, in the single biggest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust.

Latest Hamas figures say around 24,000 have been killed in Gaza. Israel says 9,000 are combatants. Reducing this to a numbers game is uncomfortable when it comes to the suffering of real people, and I repeat, every innocent death - every innocent man, woman and child suffering is a tragedy. But ignoring or inverting the truth of the situation and its cause, does nothing to help those suffering now, and will only encourage other rogue groups around the world to do the same in the future, should it be globally sanctioned or ignored.

Hamas has designed and planned for this style of war, spending years and stealing literally billions of aid money to protect its terrorist organisation and weaponry by building tunnels up to twice the length of the London Underground system underneath hospitals, schools, mosques and civilian infrastructure with its specific aim of using human shields to protect itself after provoking its neighbours.

Genocidal antisemitism whether from the nazis or Hamas, brings only death and destruction to both Jews, and those under living under these regimes. For the sake of everyone wanting only to raise their families, have careers, build, move forward and live, this needs to be acknowledged and tackled by all of us.

Never again is now. #HMD2024

[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

Today, in between sips of tea, @StephenFry delivered @Channel4’s #AlternativeChristmasMessage. 🫖

“I am Stephen Fry and I am a Jew…Knowing and loving this country as I do, I don’t believe that most Britons are okay living in a society that judges hatred of Jews to be the one acceptable form of racism. So, speak up, stand with us.”

Beautiful.
Brave.
Needed.
Thank you Stephen Fry.

And if you think that he is exaggerating in any way, search for “Stephen Fry” on 𝕏 right now and see the antisemitic pile-on for yourself.

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

@ModernTalmud @OliviaHirst

[Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie @BMWE_]

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.

[Talisa Ross @Talisa_Ross]

@metpoliceuk if holocaust denial is a crime in the UK, surely this is too

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Bumped into Piers Corbyn who was taking part in latest Palestine demo in central London. Happy as Larry to deny the crimes of Hamas.