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@MarcelVos256908 Productieve mensen brengen welvaart. In NL is een groot gebrek aan werkers op allerlei gebied. Waarom zou je alle buitenlanders willen tegenhouden?

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

URGENT: Germany’s collective punishment of my family continues. They’ve now frozen my pensioner mother’s bank account, claiming I somehow “control” it too. Her savings are inaccessible — yet she has received no official notice from any German authority. No charges no due process

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@WKCosmo We are seeing longstanding conjectures turn out to be false. Such things happen all the time. In mathematics conjectures are seldom used as a foundation for other work, and if they are used they are always mentioned explicitly: assuming ...

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@MarionKoopmans @angoffinet If the properties of a virus change slowly in the course of its evolution, then before the moment it is very well adapted to humans there is a moment where where it is somewhat adapted. Now minor outbreaks will occur. We have not seen those for SARS2.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm Jewish, British & 64

All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?

NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I think I have my answer and it is profoundly disturbing

[Paata Ivanisvili @PI010101]

A remarkable moment in mathematics publishing: almost the entire editorial board of the Journal of Approximation Theory has resigned simultaneously, declaring that “the journal, as we knew it, has ceased to exist.”

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

IN PRAISE OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE

There is a question that visits me in the small hours, when sleep will not come and the mind turns over old stones. The question is this: “What would I have done in the 1930s, on the morning after Kristallnacht?"

Not what I say I would have done. Not what I hope I would have done. But what would I actually have done—when the trains began to run, when the neighbours grew quiet, when the cost of decency became the loss of everything?

Most of us, I think, would have done little. Not from malice. From fear. From the soft, creeping conviction that someone else will speak, that the situation is complex, that we must be 'reasonable'. Lest we forget, the ordinary is the extraordinary's alibi. And how we have clung to that alibi! How we still cling to it!

And then, every once in a terrible while, someone appears who does not cling. Someone who steps forward when others step back. Someone who speaks the name of the thing when everyone else is busy naming something else.

Francesca Albanese is that someone.

She stands before the world—alone, unarmed, armed only with law and language and a rare courage—and she says what the centrists will not say, what the foreign ministries will not say, what the editorial boards will not say. She says: "This is a genocide. And we are watching it happen."

Do not tell me that is hyperbole. Do not tell me the term is contested. She has not used it lightly. She has used it as a physician arrives scientifically at a diagnosis—not to wound, but to warn. Not to inflame, but to name.

And for that, they have come for her. Oh, how they have come for her. Smears. Investigations. Vicious editorials. Frozen bank accounts. Dispossession of the only apartment she had ever owned. The machinery of the respectable turned to crush her. Because the respectable cannot abide what she represents: a mirror held up to their complicity.

Let us, once again, travel back to the 1930s. Back to the few who stood up when the trains began to run laden with Jewish people.

There was Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul in Bordeaux. He defied his own government. He signed thousands of visas, by hand, for hours, until his fingers bled. He saved more lives than Schindler. And he died penniless, disgraced, erased.

There was a German officer in Warsaw named Wilm Hosenfeld. He hid a Jewish pianist in the rubble. He did not save thousands. He saved one. But that one—Władysław Szpilman—carried the memory. And memory is "the only haven from which we cannot be expelled."

There was Raoul Wallenberg. There were the villagers of Le Chambon. There were the anonymous, the quiet, the furious few who said: “Not on my watch.”

Francesca Albanese is their heir. Not because she carries a gun. Not because she hides refugees in her basement. But because she does something equally dangerous in a world that has perfected the art of not seeing. She sees. And she speaks.

She does not speak as a diplomat. Thank Goodness she doesn't! Diplomats have given us the language of "there are arguments on both sides" and "restraint" and "proportionality." Diplomatic language is the perfumed grave of moral clarity. No, she speaks as a jurist. As a human being. As a woman who has looked into the abyss and refused to call it a "complex geopolitical landscape".

Edna O'Brien once described a character who "had the recklessness of those who have already lost everything worth losing." Francesca Albanese has not lost everything. She has her dignity, her office, her voice, her family. But she has calculated the cost of speaking truth to power. And she has decided that that cost is infinitely less than the cost of silence.

What is that cost? Let us name it. She has been called antisemitic—she, who stands on the ground of international law forged in the ashes of Auschwitz and the fires of Nuremberg. She has been called a conspiracy theorist—she, who cites every source, every footnote, every UN resolution. She has been called naive—she, who understands better than most the machinery of realpolitik.

These accusations are not arguments. They are the spittle of the threatened. Because Francesca Albanese threatens something very precious to the powerful: the right to commit atrocity without being named.

Friends, the 1930s did not arrive with jackboots and pogroms on day one. They arrived in small increments. With "reasonable" restrictions. With "proportional" measures. With the silence of the respectable.

We tell ourselves that we would have been different. That we would have been Sousa Mendes. That we would have been Wallenberg. But most of us, I fear, would have been the neighbours who later said, "I didn't know."

Francesca Albanese knows. And she refuses to pretend otherwise.

So let us praise her. Not with statues or awards she does not seek. But with something harder: with our own refusal to look away. With our own voices, raised in places that are safe for us but dangerous for her. With our own bodies, if it comes to that.

A brave woman, who was injured while demonstrating outside a US nuclear military base in 1982, the infamous Greenham Common, had told me that "the heart is a hunter for what it cannot have." But I say the heart is a hunter for what it will not lose. And what we will not lose is the memory of those who stood up when standing up cost everything.

Francesca Albanese is standing up now. In our time. In our name. Under our indifferent sky.

Let us stand with her.

Not tomorrow. Not when it is safe. Now.

[Extract from a speech in Athens on Sunday 3rd May 2026]

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

More Jews are marching on pro-Palestinian marches pro rata than any other community.

Stop calling opposition to genocide hatred.

Listen to the esteemed Rabbi Herschel Gluck, president of the Shomrin in North East London.

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@AddyHarska94537 @CIDI_nieuws Het hakenkruis was het symbool van een massamoordenaar tachtig jaar geleden. De Israelische vlag is het symbool van een massamoordenaar vandaag. Steunt u dit moorden?

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@CIDI_nieuws Israel moordt op grote schaal. Elk fatsoenlijk mens protesteert hiertegen. CIDI doet alles wat zij kan om zulk protest antisemitisch te noemen, en om Israel te identificeren met "de joden". Op deze manier draagt CIDI sterk bij aan jodenhaat, en wordt antisemitisch een eretitel.

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@overlistener @BartDeMeulenaer Je hebt volkomen gelijk. Maar Bart voert een andere discussie. Hij schetst de nazi denkbeelden van Blut und Boden, waarbij bevolking en land bij elkaar horen.

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@E_Hunyadi @claudiavz Walgelijk, om te spreken over winkeldiefstal waar de politie dat ontkent. Waarom verzin je zoiets?

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@maryderuiter1 @ReneDercksen @POL_Utrecht En die winkeldiefstal heeft u er zelf bijverzonnen?

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@SteigstraHerman Uit je grafiek zou ik juist afleiden dat er minder oversterfte is na vaccinatie. Grote pieken in 2020, voor de eerste vaccinatie. Kleinere pieken later. Die oversterfte is vast in de winter.

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@geddz65 @MarionKoopmans @mkeulemans Het tegendeel is het geval. MK is een competent wetenschapper. Bovendien is iedereen vol bewondering dat iemand die zoveel haat over zich heen krijgt toch vriendelijk en zinvol blijft reageren.

[ಯುತಕ ಕವಸಕಿ @suhamma]

アッカド語辞典全21巻が無料でダウンロードできますよという話．紙媒体を買うと$1,945だそう．

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online

https://t.co/Lmv2cVdxHc

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@ReinBijlsma Wat een rare reactie. Daatje (7) is vermoord en dat is vreselijk. Samira (7) wordt vermoord en dat is niet vreselijk?

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@MamedovGyunduz Do you think the objects of the "Gold from Crimea" exhibition belong in Kyiv?

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@Rainmaker1973 A deluge of medical posts without pointers to the original studies. Unsubscribed.

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@NieuwRechtsNL A judge in Ireland ordered the arrest and jailing of teacher Enoch Burke in November 2025 for contempt of court, not for refusing to use a transgender pupil’s preferred name and pronouns, contrary to misleading online posts.