helen eldon

FBDO CL .....🕷️🇪🇺

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@DanNeidle are you on bluesky?

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

BlueSky is nice...
Helen.Eldon
🤣🐦🐦 Just like original twitter.... No Elon

[Jammer @acrossthemersey]

Does everyone remember when an Infectious Disease Specialist renown for her work in HIV said that the damage SARS-CoV-2 causes and LongCOVID are eerily similar to HIV and then we did nothing about it?

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@iD_Mobile_UK I still have my dm open.

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@iD_Mobile_UK your network dosent work in Honley Holmfirth, your company doesn't care that my daughter doing GCSE year and currently mocks has no service for teams and homework... I want to cancel her mobile data and swap providers... You want to charge a cancel fee!!!!!

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@iD_Mobile_UK I think i might prefer to talk in public

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

#oftel @iD_Mobile_UK
Im tired of trying to deal with on line chat to get my daughter a fair deal. Her current data coverage is so poor /a known fault yet im tied to a contract i dispute ever having agreed to.. Theres 3 months left i want out they want to charge me!!!!!

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@iD_Mobile_UK Not good enough.. I have apparently got 3 months left on a contract i dispute and i want to swap her to a different network... Your coverage is failing and has been for months.

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@iD_Mobile_UK my pay monthly kids mobile data package apparently itsnt pay as you go, but a contract.. Its used for school connections to teams etc in her GCSE year BUT there is virtually no signal in Honley Holmfirth (a known issue) so its useless I want it closed & my money

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@iD_Mobile_UK HD96PP

[David Noble 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @DavidPNoble63]

@RobertJenrick Meet Robert Jenrick, he has a selective memory.

Jason Hoganson was released at the halfway point of his sentence.

Releasing prisoners at 50% of sentence served was Conservative Party policy.

Who introduced the early release scheme because they'd overcrowded prisons?

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@1goodtern Optician here... Boosted a month ago and still masking 😷... I will NOT be ill like everyone around me 😕

[Gina 😷 SARS2isAirborne #VoteGreen 💚 @Saffiya_Khan1]

Still waiting…

[les paul junior 🍔🍺🎸🚍🐕 @lespauljunior3]

@1goodtern What both depresses and enrages me, is that air filtering and cleaning in schools and hospitals would remove most of the infection circulating and save billions in lost labour costs and disruption, and yet governments are still not doing anything.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

@1goodtern This chart showing the number of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) incidents by virus type is quite telling…

🟣 Purple represents ARI incidents due to COVID

🟢 Green represents ARI incidents due to FLU. You might have to get your magnifying glass 🔎 to see those ones though!

[sarah murphy @13sarahmurphy]

@Jeremy_Hunt You cut NICs utterly cynically and irresponsibly just so you could peddle this line when Labour got into power. Once again soiling the place then whining about how people have to go about clearing up after you.

[Archie the terrier @SuzanneatSavvy]

@Peston @romillyweeks I don’t care… all I know is we need to raise taxes… if I was taxed an extra penny in the £1 I’m not really likely to notice my pay shrinking… but I would notice my public services and community and the NHS improving! Stop trying to say tax is bad. Tax is needed!

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

How Stevie Nicks responds to mask-shaming 🔥

"I dare anybody to give me a dirty look. I would just say, 'Hey, you know what? I’m Stevie Nicks. And if I get sick, my entire thing goes down. Forty families are out of work. So that’s why I have a mask on, asshole.'"

[helen eldon @heleneldon]

@UKLabour

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

…because when you *do* show comparable metrics, it’s not nearly such a rosy story in terms of the current Covid situation, is it?

Can someone please remind me what the point of a ‘Health Security Agency’ is?

Isn’t it to keep the public informed about potential health risks?