Loraine Midda MBE

Stopped trying to be superwoman Living in the moment Loving life. Ready to fly to the next challenge. Trustee Openly Jewish

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Our Mayor, quoting a Qatar propaganda sheet, making false claims about an event. I think this is his third post on it.

[Loraine Midda MBE @lolmid]

@HeleneMartinGee many congratulations. Extremely well deserved recognition and honour. See you on 1st to raise a glass 🥂

[Loraine Midda MBE @lolmid]

@FatSideburns mazeltov, well deserved x

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

U.N. insider now confirms what I had heard then: among the 86 UN human rights experts, Francesca Albanese had led a group of pro-Hamas U.N. special rapporteurs that bullied others into signing joint statements accusing Israel of genocide, and whitewashing Hamas atrocities.

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

BREAKING: UNRWA just fired 70 employees in Gaza over their ties to Hamas, in wake of UN Watch's latest revelations and the investigation by the U.S. Inspector General of USAID.

See our new UNRWA Terror Network map here, identifying 400 culprits: https://t.co/39bbQpruFe

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

The organisers of the Israel property sales event have stated that this does not include anything outside Israel proper. Yet Sadiq Khan and Zack Polanski continue to agitate against the event. Starting to look xenophobic lads.

[Loraine Midda MBE @lolmid]

Just spent two & a half hours at the Nova Exhibition. It was so extremely well curated.
Everyone should go.
The atmosphere, the artefacts, the testimonies both recorded & live, make you stop and think.
Go
Don’t miss it

https://t.co/FxmX2Ftxju

[MummyisTired @MummyisT]

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[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

"Change medication."

Carolin Bohl was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7. In a new article, her mother recounts the harrowing details of her final moments. She also speaks about the humiliation she faced in a room with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and many Free Palestine activists.

In response to a post with the quote, Francesca's writes to a mother who lost her innocent child, "Change medication."

This is not some random person spreading hate on the internet. This is a United Nations Special Rapporteur, who would rather post a retort to a grieving mother than condemn terrorists who murdered, raped, and kidnapped civilians.

[⭕️Faerie ❤️ @LiquidFaerie]

The account of Tair and Hodaya David is one of the most harrowing testimonies to emerge from the Nova Music Festival massacre on 7 October 2023. It is a story defined by a family's profound bond, an agonizing 40 minute telephone call, & an enduring tragedy that devastated a household.

Tair David, 23, & her older sister Hodaya, 26, were the youngest children of Edna & Uri David. The sisters shared a relationship that went beyond standard sibling ties. Their family described them as inseparable best friends.

Tair was known for her vibrant, free-spirited nature & a passion for dancing. Hodaya was widely regarded as charismatic & empathetic, serving as a reliable pillar of support for her friends & relatives.

At the time of the attack, both young women were entering new chapters of their lives, having recently established clear professional & personal goals for their futures.

On the morning of 7 October, the sisters were among thousands of young people attending the Nova Music Festival near Kibbutz Re’im. When sirens began warning of incoming rocket fire at approximately 06:30, the sisters attempted to flee the site with friends.

As they drove out of the festival parking area, shrapnel struck their vehicle & disabled it. Forced to abandon the car, Tair and Hodaya ran into the open, exposed agricultural fields nearby. Hamas terrorists pursued those fleeing through these fields & the sisters were caught in the crossfire of the unfolding assault.

During their flight, the sisters managed to contact their father, Uri David. This phone call lasted for nearly 40 minutes, providing a real time record of the attack.

From his home, Uri listened to the sounds of heavy gunfire & shouting in the background. He repeatedly instructed his daughters to lie flat on the ground, control their breathing & pretend to be dead to avoid detection.

Tair & Hodaya attempted to follow this advice while seeking cover in the terrain.

The communication abruptly terminated after Tair informed her father that armed men were in immediate proximity to their location.

Following the loss of contact, the David family spent a week without definitive information regarding the fate of the sisters. Given the large number of individuals taken during the incursions, Uri initially hoped that his daughters had been kidnapped.

Seven days after the attack, forensic teams confirmed that both women had been murdered at the festival site. Due to the severe condition of the remains, identification relied primarily on personal effects & forensic analysis.

Consequently, authorities advised the family against viewing the bodies prior to burial, a protocol implemented to spare relatives further trauma.

Tair and Hodaya David were laid to rest together in a joint funeral service. In his eulogy, Uri David expressed the profound grief & helplessness experienced by parents unable to protect their children during the assault.

The story of the David sisters remains a prominent example of the civilian toll of the 7 October attacks, highlighting sudden violence encountered by the festival attendees & the specific psychological trauma experienced by families who witnessed the events remotely through digital communication.

In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, Uri David channelled his immense grief into international advocacy to ensure the global community fully understood the reality of the atrocities.

During the critical week when his daughters were still classified as missing, Uri spoke at emotional international press conferences, directly pleading with global media outlets & foreign governments for answers & action. By sharing the harrowing details of his final forty-minute phone call with Tair and Hodaya, he put a deeply human face on the civilian toll of the festival massacre. His testimony has since been prominently featured by international human rights bodies & global diplomatic missions, serving as an enduring historical archive of the events of 7 October.

[Loraine Midda MBE @lolmid]

Heartbreaking 💔

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Protesters in Iran continue to be executed by the regime. But not always by public hanging. Take Amir Davoodabadi who was injected with a poisonous substance into his testicles when held in prison which led to his death soon after release.

#امیر_داوود‌آبادی was born 1980 in Arak and one of tens of thousands who took to the streets January 8th and 9th to protest.

Days after the protests Amir was identified and arrested. After a month of interrogation and torture, he was released from prison in early March. Just before release he was injected with unknown chemicals into his testicles.

A few days later Amir's body began to react. His entire body swelled up and his kidneys and liver failed. His family were forced to transfer him from a hospital in Arak to Tehran where doctors where were unable to help him.

The family was then informed that toxic substances had entered his body. Amir lost his life 25 days later. He played the violin and was full of life. Like so many others with so much to give, murdered by the Islamic Republic.

Amir Davoodabadi is buried in the village of Gavkhaneh, next to another murdered protestor of Arak, Amir Mehdi Nemati Nejad.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Protesters in Iran continue to be executed by the regime. But not always by public hanging. Take Amir Davoodabadi who was injected with a poisonous substance into his testicles when held in prison which led to his death soon after release.

#امیر_داوود‌آبادی was born 1980 in Arak and one of tens of thousands who took to the streets January 8th and 9th to protest.

Days after the protests Amir was identified and arrested. After a month of interrogation and torture, he was released from prison in early March. Just before release he was injected with unknown chemicals into his testicles.

A few days later Amir's body began to react. His entire body swelled up and his kidneys and liver failed. His family were forced to transfer him from a hospital in Arak to Tehran where doctors where were unable to help him.

The family was then informed that toxic substances had entered his body. Amir lost his life 25 days later. He played the violin and was full of life. Like so many others with so much to give, murdered by the Islamic Republic.

Amir Davoodabadi is buried in the village of Gavkhaneh, next to another murdered protestor of Arak, Amir Mehdi Nemati Nejad.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

By putting this interview out with a known Islamic regime lobbyist (despite his protestations) - and thus with the full knowledge and blessing of the regime before it’s broadcast to the world - @Channel4News are trying to tell us “hey everyone, news from inside Iran: true, they don’t like the regime but they think the way forward - despite all the massacring, executions and everything they’ve endured - is to wait a few years until the current regime reforms”.

Which is like saying “you know that bloke who slaughtered his family and tens of thousands more? Before stopping him, how about waiting a bit to give him time to see the error of his ways?”

This is where the press are complicit. The vast majority of UK mainstream media outlets lean rabidly anti-Trump. To them that’s who the real enemy is, not the murderous, repressive regime like the Islamic Republic. Which is insane.

Wittingly or unwittingly they are now pushing an Islamic regime clearly stated aim to ride out the war, to wait and stall until Trump is no longer US president, knowing full well that the next one won’t have the courage to get rid of them once and for all. For the good of the planet. Which is utterly insane.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

What the hell is @ZackPolanski doing wearing a shirt to free the Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti who murdered 5 civilians. This is TOO FAR.

h/t @habibi_uk

[David Collier @mishtal]

Dear @bbcnews @skynews

Yesterday a @UN peacekeeper was killed in Lebanon- and two others were injured - yet oddly you mostly ignored it. No outrage - no headlines.

Is your silence because they were killed by Hezbollah and you couldn't blame Israel?

Asking for a friend.

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

The mission and the price paid.

Today, in 1944, these men were en route to Normandy to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.

Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha, Utah.

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

May they rest in eternal peace.

[Dr. Hans Jakob Schindler @CEPschindler]

I am not using my account here to comment on things often, but this news story needs a comment:
How is it possible that a professional European politician in 2026 does not see the very obvious historical parallels of supporting the idea of creating lists of Jews?

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Once again we ask:
Why has the UK STILL NOT designated the IRGC as a terrorist organisation? It was embarrassing before, it’s off the scale now. Great article by @potkazar https://t.co/quRRGykrfO

[Stephen Pollard @stephenpollard]

Here's my @Telegraph column, 'Zack Polanski wants a Jew register. What could be more sinister than that?'

https://t.co/l1z6YW44ez

I’ll say one thing for Zack Polanski: he knows a winning strategy when he sees one. When he became leader of the Greens last September, he spotted straight away that the secret to boosting the party’s poll ratings – and thus electoral success – was straightforward. Dump the green stuff and focus on Gaza.

There was a ready-made group of voters for whom Gaza is the only issue that really matters, waiting to be courted by any party which turned itself into the anti-Israel train. That group fell into the Greens’ arms when Polanski arrived on the scene.

He has been masterly in his care of them, not least in his skilful elision of being anti-Israel with being Jewish himself. It provides a much-used “get out of jail free card” when the Greens’ professed anti-Zionism slips into accusations of barely disguised anti-Semitism.

But even by Polanski’s standards, his demand that any dual British-Israeli citizen who has fought for Israel against Hamas in Gaza has their name listed on a database – a list, in other words, of bad Jews – is breathtakingly blatant.

The Green leader has signed an open letter sent to Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, which calls on the Government to act in the name of “public safety and justice” to “track the movements of Brits who have served in the IDF” and “subject them to secondary screening where necessary at ports of entry”. Britons, that is, who just happen to be Jews.

Israel has national service, and all Israeli citizens (with the exception – which is deeply controversial in Israel – of some religious groups) are conscripted to the IDF at 18. Many have been called up as reservists when they are older.

Polanski is thus calling for a large proportion of British-Israeli dual citizens to be listed on a database. “Nobody wants to live next to a potential war criminal,” the letter organised by campaign group Declassified UK states. Presumably then, Polanski wishes to refuse entry to or deport any British-Israeli who has served in the IDF.

You will notice one obvious element to this demand. There are wars on every continent. There are accusations of war crimes in all those conflicts. But Polanski has said not a word about British dual citizens – or even those of sole UK nationality – who have fought in any of those wars, either ongoing or historic.

I wait, for example, for Polanski to demand a list of dual-nationality Britons who fought in one of the most brutal post-1945 conflicts, the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence. The nine-month conflict led to the death of up to three million Bengalis and the displacement of 10 million refugees into India.

This is not merely historic. War crime investigations are still going on. But no Israelis were involved (let’s be honest: no Jews). So Polanski is silent – not least because many new Green voters are drawn from those communities.

By signing the letter, Polanski doesn’t only demand that Britons who have fought in Gaza be put on a database. He goes far beyond that. The letter calls says “travellers with Israeli travel documents or arriving from an origin of Tel Aviv airport” should be subject to “potential secondary screenings at ports of entry”. For Polanski then, any Israeli should be marked out for special screening.

As for the allegation of genocide against Israel, it is, at the very least, hotly contested. But there is a well-founded allegation of genocide against the Chinese in its treatment of the Uyghurs. Does Polanski demand that any Chinese national arriving in the UK is deemed a suspected war criminal? Of course he doesn’t.

If Jews aren’t involved, neither Polanski nor any of his fellow Greens could give a damn. Polanski may be Jewish, but his party’s strategy could hardly be clearer.