Jacky Summerfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Visual Arts. Jew, Londoner, English. Photographer and Social Media Manager. My Insta @j_bella_s

The job of the artist is to see the blindingly obvious.

[Jacky Summerfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @J_Bella_S]

Thrilled by 2021's highlights
https://t.co/p4OSLXMjHd
Artwork for @MarkFarrellyUK's "JARMAN" in the METRO.
Photo on ICONIC Piccadilly Circus in the #PiccadillyLights #LetsDoLondon campaign.
#Photographer
still feels new but the job of the artist is to see the blindingly obvious

[Missing People @missingpeople]

Everyone at Missing People wants to note the sad passing of Dame Esther Rantzen.

Dame Esther's commitment to children and young people is a legacy that will continue; she was the driving force for services like SafeCall which Missing People provides.

We honour her in the children this service can reach and help, every day, as do the many other vital services she helped establish.

Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this difficult time.

- Ross Miller, Interim CEO at Missing People

[Mark Braxton 💙 @BraxM]

Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026).
Pictured in 1978, sifting through some of the thousands of letters that poured into the That's Life office. Photo by Dmitri Kasterine for @RadioTimes.

[lee harpin @lmharpin]

Touching statement from @TheAJR_
on the death of Dame Esther Rantzen:
“Dame Esther holds a special place in the hearts of many AJR members. Through That’s Life!, she brought Sir Nicholas Winton together with the children he rescued from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and, in doing so, helped bring their extraordinary story to the attention of the world.
“The AJR was honoured to bring together members who had journeyed to safety on Winton’s transports — Lord Alf Dubs, Hana Eardley, Alexandra Greensted, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, Vera Schaufeld, Renate Collins, Emanuela Norton and Lia Lesser, alongside Rev. John Fieldsend — to thank Dame Esther for taking their story to a global audience’.
“Their final words to her feel especially poignant today: ‘Having stood up to thank him, we are now standing up to honour you.’
“Today, the AJR stands with them in honouring Dame Esther and the remarkable role she played in ensuring their story would never be forgotten. May her memory be a blessing.”

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

If you ever wake up one day and find yourself responding to a terrorist plane hijacking with “It’s bad, BUT…” you really should no longer be entitled to an opinion.

[BAFTA @BAFTA]

We're saddened to hear that Dame Esther Rantzen, the renowned broadcaster, journalist, campaigner, and founder of Childline and The Silver Line has died, aged 86.

Well known as the host of consumer programme That's Life! which launched in 1973 and ran for 21 series, Rantzen received multiple BAFTA nominations, and was the recipient of the Richard Dimbleby Award in 1988 for her outstanding contribution to television in the factual arena.

[Matthew Lumby @MatthewLumby]

Goodbye to Dame Esther Rantzen.
Thanks for this all time great TV moment…

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

30 September 1928 | Elie Wiesel was born in Romania. A Jewish writer, Auschwitz & Buchenwald survivor, Peace Nobel Prize laureate.

"Indifference is the epitome of evil." / „We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented"

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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live
as long as God Himself.
Never.

[Andreas @sf_andreas]

Woody Allen über den Judenhass heute, und wie kaputt Schreihälse und Mitläufer sind.
Und das auf unnachahmliche Art.

„Wissen Sie, ich habe immer gedacht, der größte Vorteil von New York sei, dass man dort neurotisch sein kann und niemand es bemerkt. In anderen Städten wird man zum Arzt geschickt, wenn man mit sich selbst spricht. In Manhattan bekommt man dafür eine Kolumne in einer Zeitschrift angeboten.
Gestern bin ich losgegangen, um Lachs zu kaufen. Das ist übrigens die einzige stabile jüdische Tradition, die Babylon, Rom und meine Beziehungen zu Frauen überlebt hat.
Ich lief durch Brooklyn und dachte über den Tod nach. Nicht, weil ich Philosoph bin. Sondern weil ich inzwischen über neunzig bin, obwohl ich ursprünglich höchstens bis siebzig geplant hatte.
Und plötzlich – eine Menschenmenge vor einer Synagoge. Zuerst dachte ich, dort tritt ein berühmter Psychoanalytiker auf. In New York stehen Menschen stundenlang Schlange, um zu hören, warum ihre Mutter an allem schuld ist. Obwohl Juden das eigentlich auch ohne Vortrag schon wissen.
Aber nein. Sie schrien etwas über „Intifada“. Und wissen Sie, was mich am meisten erstaunt hat? Wie viel Energie diese Leute haben. Woher nehmen sie die? Ich will nach zwei Treppenabsätzen schon mein Testament schreiben. Und die sind bereit für eine Revolution, ohne vorher auch nur einen anständigen Kaffee getrunken zu haben.
Ein Typ schrie etwas von „Dekolonisierung“. Mein Gott. Als ich jung war, bedeutete „Kolonisierung“, dass Tante Frieda drei Monate lang unser Sofa besetzte und sich weigerte auszuziehen. Heute ist es plötzlich ein zionistisches Komplott.
Überhaupt ist moderner Antisemitismus viel zu intellektuell geworden. Früher hasste man uns einfach. Ganz direkt. Heute nicht mehr.
Heute erklärt Ihnen irgendein Mann mit Schal, der aussieht, als würde er Gedichte über seinen eigenen Bart schreiben, mit Hilfe von Heidegger und Nietzsche, warum die Existenz von Juden eine Form von Aggression und eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit sei.
Und ich stand da und dachte: Früher wurden wir wenigstens von Leuten ohne Hochschulabschluss verprügelt. Heute kommen die Pogrommacher mit Diplom von der Columbia University.
Dann sagte ein Mädchen neben mir: „Wir sind gegen Zionismus, nicht gegen Juden.“ Das ist ungefähr so, als hätte meine Exfrau gesagt: „Ich habe nichts gegen dich. Ich bin nur gegen alles, was du sagst, tust, fühlst – und besonders gegen den Sex mit dir.“ Die Bedeutung bleibt dieselbe.
Und dann schrie jemand: „Zionisten sind Nazis!“ In diesem Moment hatte ich das Gefühl, meine Großmutter hätte sich im Grab so schnell umgedreht, dass sie einen Teil von Queens mit Strom hätte versorgen können.
Meine Großmutter hat übrigens echte Nazis erlebt. Sie versteckte sich in einem Keller in Polen mit einem Mann, der so schrecklich hustete, dass die Deutschen sie allein am Bronchialgeräusch hätten finden können.
Und jetzt erklärt mir irgendein Junge aus einem Elite-College, dessen größtes Trauma im Leben ein kalter Kaffee bei Starbucks war, was Faschismus bedeutet.
Ich lebe wirklich in erstaunlichen Zeiten.
Heutzutage sprechen alle wie Menschen, die versehentlich eine Universitätsbibliothek verschluckt haben. Niemand sagt mehr: „Entschuldigung, ich bin ein Idiot.“ Nein. Heute heißt es: „Ich dekonstruiere das dominante Narrativ.“
Hören Sie, ich bin unter Juden aufgewachsen. Wir dekonstruieren keine Narrative. Wir erschaffen Narrative.
Ich kam nach Hause und schaltete den Fernseher ein – denn wenn man Angststörungen hat, wirkt Fernsehen wie eine ausgezeichnete Idee. Das ist ungefähr so, als würde man Alkoholismus mit einem Martini auf Eis behandeln.
Dort erklärte Roger Waters wieder einmal die Welt. Rockmusiker machen mir immer Angst, wenn sie älter werden und plötzlich anfangen zu reden wie Paranoiker, die beim Anblick einer schwarzen Katze eine Verschwörung wittern. 1/2

[Brian Carlton @Spoonyman]

For those who don’t remember, the concept of hijacking commercial aircraft and killing passengers for political reasons was developed and implemented in the 1970’s by the PLO.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

Andy Burnham isn't Keir Starmer with a northern accent. He's Jeremy Corbyn with a northern accent. He's taking Labour and the country down a truly dark path.

[Stephen Phillips 💻 @uk_sf_writer]

Our new PM is a sentimentalist: driven to this wild lurch to the Left by an adolescent loathing of Mrs Thatcher.

Why is it that the only people blind to the misery that rampant Socialism causes to ordinary people, are ... Socialists and Marxists?
https://t.co/WX3tsn4nW5

[Rod Mason @Rod__Mason]

Andy Burnham grew up under Thatcher. His parents were able to buy their home, like millions of working class people under Thatcher’s ‘right to buy’ were.

He was schooled under Thatcher, got to Cambridge (for free,) got his first job, & started in Labour politics, under Thatcher!

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

After FlyDubai emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, Saudi medical teams offered care to the 150 Israeli nationals on board.
Saudis should be proud of these teams. Arab tradition teaches that “rescue of the distressed” comes before anything else. This was a great time to show it.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Not a miracle. It was awe-inspiring heroism and courage displayed during the attempt to hijack and crash Flydubai flight FZ1073 traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv, Israel.

Hero: pilot and Indian national Smit Machchhar, who was attacked with a knife by his Omani co-pilot. While fighting his attacker, he was able to notify the crew and passengers (possibly by hitting the PA button). Lying in a pool of his own blood and still fighting, he was able to allow access to the cockpit while the plane was taking a violent nosedive, losing 17,000 to 18,000 feet in about two minutes. He fought like a lion and deserves so much respect and honor. @IndiaToday @ndtv @gauravcsawant @ShivAroor

Heroes: the ordinary Israeli citizens who did not hesitate a second and jumped to assist the crew in fighting their way into the cockpit and subduing the co-pilot. This level of heroism and courage cannot be dismissed. People often miss that Israel has a citizen defense force made up of doctors, artists, college students, grandparents, business owners who all serve to defend their homes and nation against attacks by other nations, terrorist armies, and decentralized terror campaigns.

Heroes: the flight crew who joined the passengers to get into the cockpit, subdue the attacker, and manage the passengers and chaos throughout the cabin.

Heroes: off-duty pilots on board who were able to get the plane under control and safely land it in Saudi Arabia.

It takes a village/tribe/community to keep each other safe, with people willing to fight evil when it comes to their doorstep. I have huge respect for all involved in this event.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

George Galloway posted this photo today with the caption "What if this was your Dad? #Gaza."

This man is not in Gaza and he is not Palestinian. He is Syrian, like me.

His name is Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, known as Abu Omar. AFP photographer Joseph Eid took this photo in March 2017, in the ruins of Abu Omar's bedroom in al-Shaar, eastern Aleppo, the neighborhood devastated in the regime's 2016 offensive to retake the city. Abu Omar was a collector of antiques and vintage cars. The war took his home and most of his collection. He came back anyway, sat on his bed in the rubble, lit his pipe and played a record. The whole world knew this picture as the face of Aleppo's destruction.

And Galloway knows exactly who destroyed Aleppo, because he was on their payroll.

In 2012, Galloway began hosting a show on Al Mayadeen, the Beirut channel that has never disclosed its backers and is widely seen as the voice of Iran's "Axis of Resistance." He was reportedly paid around £3,000 an episode. He also presented on Iran's state channel Press TV, and spent nearly a decade on Putin's RT.

The Axis: the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hezbollah, the Iraqi militias, the Houthis and, until December 2024, the Assad regime. For over 13 years after the 2011 uprising, Assad survived only because the IRGC, Hezbollah and Russia fought his war for him. When the regime finally collapsed, he fled to Moscow and was granted "humanitarian" asylum. The same humanity he denied every Syrian he bombed.

Who doesn't remember the barrel bombs on bakeries and markets? The sarin in Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun? The chlorine in Douma?

Galloway remembers. On his show he called Assad "the last bastion of Arab dignity." When Assad gassed Douma in 2018, Galloway pushed the "staged attack" conspiracy, even though the OPCW confirmed chlorine was used.

None of this is new. This is the man who stood before Saddam Hussein in 1994 and saluted his "courage" and "indefatigability." He was suspended from the House of Commons after an inquiry found strong circumstantial evidence that Saddam's regime, with his connivance, used the Oil-for-Food program, meant to feed starving Iraqi children, to fund his Mariam Appeal campaign.

In 2014 he declared Bradford an "Israel-free zone": no Israeli goods, no Israeli academics, not even Israeli tourists. Police logged it as a hate incident.

Last year he flew to Tehran to accept an award named after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, called him a "martyr," and boasted that his most treasured possession is Haniyeh's personal passport. Then he flew straight to Moscow to applaud Putin's Victory Day parade.

Today, the self-proclaimed anti-imperialist lives in what he calls "exile," broadcasting from Russia and China, lecturing the West about freedom.

This is not an honest mistake. It is the method of Galloway and his camp, and it is what they mean by "by any means necessary." When the truth doesn't serve the cause, you invent a new one. A Syrian father, ruined by Assad and his Iranian and Russian patrons, becomes a Gazan victim of Israel. The real killers get erased, and the propagandist who defended them on their payroll gets applause from a Western audience that never bothers to check.

Syrians remember who bombed Aleppo. They remember who went on TV to defend it.

Abu Omar is not your propaganda, shameless George.

@georgegalloway

[Karen Ievers 🇮🇪🇺🇸🇮🇱 @karenievers]

.@ZARA what the fuck is this?

Why are you selling Halloween costumes for kids that look like concentration camp uniforms?

You even put barbed wire on it 🤬

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

Paul McCartney says he loves John Lennon “to this day and always will” dlvr.​it/TVjQrR

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Was Caen in 1944 a genocide?

5% of the civilian population killed in two months (3% in 3 years Gaza).

75-80% of the city destroyed (50.44% destroyed in Gaza, per UNOSAT).

Rubble is not a metric of genocide.

[Richard Ferrer @richferrer]

I’ve written about the grim trend of people asking @JewishNewsUK to remove their names from old articles because they no longer want to be publicly identifiable as Jewish.

This morning was the saddest yet. The children of a remarkable man, honoured by the late Queen, asked us to remove his obituary because it mentions them.

Britain has been enriched for generations by stalwarts of our community who were proud to put their names to what they built, created and contributed. Now their children are asking for those names to disappear.

The question is no longer whether British Jewish life is in retreat. It is how much of it will soon be left. This is not a country where my children can build their lives.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Edward Hopper painted this house in 1925.

35 years later, Alfred Hitchcock turned its image into a nightmare.

Hopper’s House by the Railroad became a visual reference for the Bates house in Psycho.

Same house.
Very different story.