Lucy Heath

painter, printmaker and still learning!

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

Fahima, a woman from Afghanistan’s Ghor province, miscarried on her way to the city because there was no doctor in her area. With a severe shortage of female medical professionals, the Taliban’s new ban on 30,000 women studying nursing and midwifery will only deepen the crisis.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Two Iranian women have been sentenced to death by the lslamic regime for advocating for women’s rights.

Bakhshan and Sharifa were found guilty of ‘spreading corruption’ and are now going to be hanged by the Islamic regime.

[Mariella Frostrup @mariellaf1]

How can we support and facilitate this women’s revolution? Words are not enough and gender issues need to move up the agenda. The silencing of an entire nation of women is a failure of the worlds. #UNWomen

[Nazanin Nour @NazaninNour]

This is Woman Life Freedom 💚🤍❤️

I cannot overstate how dangerous and brave this young girl’s act of protest was today.

Her whereabouts are currently unknown.

May she, and the great people of Iran, be free of the Islamic Republic soon.

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

This iconic photo is now part of Iranian history, capturing the deep frustration of women with the regime—a powerful statement against repression.

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

Women disappear from Afghanistan and UN is silent!

[Lucy Heath @lucyheath19]

https://t.co/a8qg44YiDM

[Lucy Heath @lucyheath19]

@RevRichardColes I’ve

[Shabnam Nasimi @NasimiShabnam]

This makes me sick to my stomach.

How can we allow women to be “stoned to death in public” in 2024? The world’s silence is deafening. Where is the humanity?

We can’t let the Taliban do this to the women of Afghanistan. Time to speak up!
https://t.co/Ft7vKssdiS

[Lucy Heath @lucyheath19]

Together for Humanity

[Marlon Solomon @supergutman]

Arab Israelis rescued dozens of Jewish Israelis on October 7th. This is some story.

[Daniel Finkelstein @Dannythefink]

I’m so upset by this graffiti attack on my grandfather’s library. Alfred Wiener had a PhD in Islamic studies and cared deeply about Arab people. To see his Holocaust archive vandalised in this way suggests an attack on Jews not a critique of Israel. It’s dismaying.

[Stroke Europe @StrokeEurope]

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[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

Today, Israeli government held a screening of raw footage of Jews being slaughtered by terrorists from Gaza, for 200 journalists associated with global publications

Israel held the event after facing “Holocaust-denial-like phenomenon happening in real-time”

Many journalists have written threads on this platform about the 43-minute footage. The killers reportedly attached go pro devices to their bodies to record the killings, and sent celebratory messages to their parents about killing many Jews in a go. Over 1400 Israeli civilians died in the 7 October terror attack by Hamas

Just a couple of days ago, many of these publications had amplified Hamas’s claim that an Israeli airstrike killed 500 people in a Gaza hospital. It turned out to be a wholly unverified claim, and Israel has since released footage saying it was a Palestinian rocket that burst and caused casualties

Will the global media finally stop acting as Hamas spokespersons and propagandists?

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Not behind the paywall!
Please share widely.
And sign The October Declaration to stand by British Jews at this dark moment: https://t.co/8SMOIjtw6y

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel.
For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids.
The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas.
Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better.
As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves.
Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

[Lucy Heath @lucyheath19]

@RevRichardColes With honey I hope…

[Lorelei 🌕🧙🏻‍♀️🕸🍄 @hatpinwoman]

We’ve long said that if you replace the word “terf” with the word “woman” you see what trans activism really is

When you replace the word “transwomen” with the word “men” the same revelation applies

Here’s a quick thread of examples:

[Lucy Heath @lucyheath19]

@RevRichardColes Got my lovely - non-religious - candles there for 40 plus years.