Rebecca Dale

“Proud Brit, wife & mum. Milker of cows, knitter of woollies, and lover of good food & wine. Passionate about local,sustainably produced food.
soft spot for 🐄

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

If you want to understand a major problem within our society, watch this.

While ordinary people have been left heartbroken, furious and terrified for their own safety & that of their loved ones by the utterly horrendous murder of Rhiannon Whyte….

…This government minister ‘hasn’t even heard of her’🤯

Absolutely atrocious.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

A British jury could not agree that this attack on a female police officer that broke her spine was Grievous Bodily Harm. Sgt Kate Evans was off work for 3 months and couldn’t shower or get into bed unassisted. So is it open season on police now? Shocking

[Biology Rules Ok @OkayBiology]

The NHS would rather persecute a hard working black nurse than hurt the feelings of a violent white paedophile.🏳️‍⚧️
Nurses uses to be revered in this society, now they're treated like trash by woke society.
@WesStreeting needs to speak up for nurses, or shut up and resign.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Arnika Dabbagh - only 15.
A three-time swimming champion.

SHOT IN THE HEART.

Fifteen years old.

WHERE IS THE GLOBAL OUTRAGE?

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

This year, Holocaust Memorial Day, on the 27 of January, will pass quietly in hundreds of British schools.

Not because the Holocaust is no longer relevant, and not because it is no longer important, but because too many educators now fear the reaction it might provoke, from parents in their communities and even from colleagues in their own staff rooms. According to new figures released by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, the number of schools marking Holocaust Memorial Day has more than halved since October 7.

That fact alone should trouble us deeply. It is a stain on this country.

Holocaust Memorial Day exists to remember the six million Jewish men, women and children who were systematically murdered for no reason other than that they were born Jewish. It is not a political gesture. It is not a commentary on today’s conflicts. It is an act of human memory, and a moral one at that. When we begin to treat remembrance as something that must be justified, balanced or quietly avoided, we reveal how fragile our commitment to it has become.

My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. For decades of her life, she devoted herself to speaking to people all over the world about what she had witnessed and endured in what she called “hell on earth.” She answered their questions, listened to their fears, and tried to explain, with remarkable strength and gentleness, how ordinary societies slide into extraordinary evil. When she said “never forget,” she did not mean “unless it becomes uncomfortable.”

The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers and death camps. It began with words. With lies. With the spread of conspiracy theories. With the slow normalisation of hatred. With the othering of Jewish people. With people deciding that certain lives mattered less than others. And, crucially, with silence, with decent people looking away because it felt easier than speaking up.

This is precisely why Holocaust education matters. It teaches young people where prejudice leads when left unchallenged, how democracies corrode from within, and what happens when lies become louder than truth. My great-grandmother always believed that education was the solution, that knowledge could be a shield against hatred.

But what happens when education itself becomes the problem?

What we are seeing now is that the sharp rise in antisemitism is not happening despite decades of Holocaust education, but in part because so much of it was never truly believed in to begin with. For too many academic institutions and teachers, Holocaust remembrance and education about anti-Jewish racism became a tick-box exercise, something done because it had to be done, not because it was understood, valued or defended. It was procedural, not principled. Now, when that education becomes inconvenient, when it carries social cost, when it risks controversy, when those teachers have an excuse and a reason not to teach it, it is quietly dropped. And that tells us everything.

At a time when antisemitism is at its highest level in decades, and becoming increasingly violent, we should be strengthening Holocaust education, not retreating from it.

Too many teachers are being forced into silence by pressure from their communities and from colleagues. They are being told they must “balance” Holocaust remembrance with unrelated political narratives, as though the murder of six million Jews requires qualification, as though Jewish suffering must now come with footnotes.

Soon, there will be no survivors left. No living witnesses. Only last week, we lost Harry Olmer, a Holocaust survivor who endured multiple Nazi forced-labour and concentration camps. He was a personal hero of mine. I travelled to Poland with him in 2023 and heard his story first-hand. Soon, there will be no one left who can say, simply, “I was there.”

When that moment comes, all that will remain is what we chose to teach.

If we allow Holocaust education to wither now, at precisely the moment antisemitism is rising, distortion is spreading, and Jewish students increasingly report feeling unsafe, then we are not just failing the past. We are betraying the future. Because history does not repeat itself. People do.

And when we abandon the responsibility to teach our children the past with truth and integrity, we abandon the future too. If we teach children that history can be set aside when it becomes uncomfortable, we teach them something far more dangerous than any lesson about the past, we teach them that moral clarity is negotiable.

That is a lesson no school should ever impart.

[Josh Howie @joshxhowie]

I’ll be marching today to support the brave Iranians standing up to the Islamic Regime and to remember the thousands murdered. Hopefully I won’t get beaten up by the police.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

“The Sunday Times has obtained a new report from doctors on the ground, which says at least 16,500 protesters have died and 330,000 have been injured, most of them in two days of utter slaughter in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.”

- Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’.

- The Times and The Sunday Times https://t.co/B9eDyi6ppD

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

This is quite extraordinary. Unison doesn’t mention the word “woman”. Doesn’t mention that a workplace policy was found to be unlawful. Doesn’t address the question of dignity and safety at work for the nurses. This is what complete capture looks like.

[Oli London @OliLondonTV]

This was Melina Asadi.

She was 3 years old.

Shot dead in the streets in front of her father.

This is what Khamenei’s regime does to his own people.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

This is the worst daily massacre since the Holocaust, and the world is silent...
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[Venice Allan @roseveniceallan]

Sack the diversity managers, ban the rainbow lanyards, shut down the LGBT staff networks, tear down the progress flags, make changing rooms, wards and intimate care single sex and stop experimenting on children and vulnerable adults and make the NHS safe again @wesstreeting!

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

I spoke to Jewish teachers inside the @NEUnion - which helped cause the banning of a Jewish MP in the school about what it is like when the union meant to protect you is obsessed with the Jewish state:

One said: ‘It was after the NEU representative at my school told me that Israel didn’t exist that I started having doubts about the union I had been a member of for nearly a decade.
I had gone in to talk to the rep in her office – we were good friends. It was soon after Oct 7, and I was quite sad about it as I have family in Israel. She was sympathetic, but then just told me that Israel didn’t exist. When I challenged her and said, “What do you mean it doesn’t exist?” She told me, “I’ve been to a union meeting, and they’ve shown us the maps, and it’s Palestine, not Israel.” This was an intelligent woman.’
She added that the union’s obsession with Israel was dangerous: ‘NEU WhatsApp groups were pushing the narrative that Israel isn’t a legitimate country. It is almost like it is a mental illness – this post-truth place where Israel doesn’t exist. I never went to any branch meetings or conferences, but I saw that the NEU general secretary had called to “globalise the intifada”, and I don’t think someone like that should be running a union.

A second told me how this hatred has been taken into our schools:

‘In my local group, when the union has one of its regular days of action for Palestine, teachers post photographs of themselves holding up Palestine flags in front of their children. They discuss how to integrate Palestine into their lessons, they encourage children to colour in Palestine flags and they even say “intifada revolution”. I have seen reading material in which teachers are encouraged to tell pupils to watch Al Jazeera – which is paid for by Qatar, the state which sponsors Hamas.’

She explains why most Jewish teachers have left the NEU saying:
👇🏼

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

The Commissioner has turned a once noble force

Into a bunch of masked thugs who hide their faces, scream abuse and beat innocent old men

You absolute disgrace @metpoliceuk

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

🚨UK media keep parroting the regime narrative that “we know that in Iran itself things have calmed down on the surface.” It is far from calm.

What we know of the situation in Iran right now:

A brutal mass slaughter has taken place. The country is in trauma - and at a standstill. In the cities no one is on the streets for fear of being shot by marauding gangs of militias brought in from neighbouring countries to do the regime’s dirty work.

Other than some videos of an incredible number of bodies piled up at make-shift outside morgues, the world cannot see the scale of humanitarian disaster as after 8 days the internet is still shut down. Reports suggest the streets are full of bodies and the gangs finish off the injured with shots to the head. The bodies are slowly being cleared up and fears are that worse is still to come to an unarmed civilian population.

Narratives are being spun online and on media outlets that intervention by the international community is somehow worse than what the regime has just inflicted on its own people. Accounts of 12,000 dead we are told wildly under estimated and the killings continue as we speak.

What is urgently required is extraordinary feats of statesmanship - leaders in the free world to speak out and take serious action. The people of Iran need a coordinated international response. Governments cannot remain silent. They must act now.

Even if outside help does not materialise the people of Iran are unrelenting in their wish to depose this regime. As this banner above a highway in Tehran indicates: “deegeh nemitarsim meejangim” (we are no longer afraid we fight).

#IranianRevolution2026
#IranMassacre

[TheFamousArtistBirdyRose @TheFamousArtBR]

Today I saw two videos:

In the first one there’s a video of a young women in Iran singing in the streets (something that is illegal there, women are not supposed to be heard, let alone sing), it is beautiful, and poignant - she is risking her life as this could get her murdered like other young girls and women have been before her…

On the same day halfway across the world - there’s a video of a rich and famous woman (Ellen Page) who’s about to be fourty years old, pretending to be a man, standing outside the Supreme Court.
She’s standing with a man who’s pretending to be a woman, they are both making a speech about how they “exist regardless of what people say” - Ellen is expressing how oppressed she is because some people refuse to pretend she’s a man.

What a fking bizarre world we live in.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

I am a committed trade unionist of 35 years standing. I am proud of everything the trade union movement has achieved throughout history. But its abandonment of women fighting to defend their sex-based rights makes me ashamed. Whenever there is a successful tribunal or court result for women - such as today, with the Darlington nurses - mainstream unions are nowhere to be seen. And invariably they lament the outcome. Women are being forced to rely on the Free Speech Union and Christian groups to fight their corner. It’s an utter disgrace.

[Rebecca Mistereggen @RMistereggen]

The UK has borders after all. They’ve banned @Martin_Sellner @DVanLangenhove and now @EvaVlaar

The UK government can enforce borders and entry bans when it wants to.

It’s about political will.

[Prof Norman Fenton @profnfenton]

Compare and contrast. @EvaVlaar or Mohamad Baajour?

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The guy is Alaa Abd El-Fattah, he posted on social media that he hates white people, he wants to murder police and native British.

The woman on the right is Eva Vlaardingerbroek. She posted some mild criticism of British PM Keir Starmer.

Guess which one is banned from Britain?

[Revd Canon Fr Phil Harris† 🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸 @PhilHs10]

Three days after criticising the Prime Minister, @EvaVlaar is banned from entering the UK.

No charges.
No violence.
No incitement.

This isn’t about border control — it’s about silencing critics.
When the state decides who may speak, free speech is finished.