Oliver Engelen

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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Every human person is planned and willed by God to enter into communion with Him, with others, and with creation. Human dignity does not depend on a person’s abilities, wealth, or position in life, nor on the right or wrong choices made. Instead, it is a gift that precedes and transcends each person, endowed by God as an expression of His unfailing love. #MagnificaHumanitas #GeneralAudience

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/TiAu0mIMyJ?
"My Oxford-educated wife, Lucy, and my British-educated daughters, Maia and Rina, were brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Jordan Valley in April 2023. Since their murders, the terrorists’ families have been eligible for payments from the Palestinian Authority under its notorious “pay-for-slay” system. The terrorist organisations responsible for so much bloodshed have also flourished in an environment sustained for decades by international funding, including British support for the PA and UNRWA.
And now you propose boycotting products made by Jews living in the West Bank.
You insist that you are not against Israelis. Yet you are prepared to single out Jewish Israelis like me for economic punishment."
Message to Andy Burnham from "West Bank" resident Rabbi Leo Dee

[Oliver Engelen @oegn85]

@CNathusius @schnellenbachj Die alte Haltung der Gruppe, die sich zum Führen berufen fühlt, gegenüber den great unwashed — Unverständnis, Abscheu, Überheblichkeit. Klassisch bourgeois

[Clara *Optimismusbeauftragte* Nathusius @CNathusius]

Das Bürgertum nennt Populismus, was es selbst nicht mehr kann: verstanden werden.

[Oliver Engelen @oegn85]

@AlexSchaumburg 👍🏻

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

I know no one posting about PISA score declines actually checked to see if they were real because equating across years requires real effort and I haven't been able to get LLMs to do it properly yet.

No one has had the time for this unless they got the data early.

[Luke de Pulford @lukedepulford]

Mao Zedong died on this day, 1976.

The low-end estimates for the number of people who died under Mao (based on census data) exceeds 30 million people. The high end aggregates reach to 70 million.

The biggest killer of the 20th century, and one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, which continues to rule China.

It is a bizarre cultural anachronism that his name passes anyone's lips without the same shudder of the worst villains of history. Politicians still cite Mao without shame. It wasn't that long ago that John McDonnell threw the Little Red Book across the Dispatch Box as if it were something other than a death credo. His face is still emblazoned on revolutionary t-shirts. It would be less offensive to wear a Harold Shipman T-shirt.

Nobody has suffered more at the hands of the CCP than the people of China. The fact our history curriculum does not reflect Mao's mass murder of the Chinese people exposes a prejudicial attitude towards his victims. Chinese lives matter, and this historical amnesia has to stop. It is distorting history and giving Mao a free pass. I hope political parties and education secretaries worldwide will commit to accurate education regarding Mao - one of the most hideous characters ever to walk the earth.

Only God could have mercy on his wretched soul.

[Oliver Engelen @oegn85]

@garstigergerrit @philippduerr Sehr richtig.
Und — als warteten andere Parteien nicht ebenfalls dauernd mit „einfachen Antworten und verkürzten Erzählungen“ auf

[Wolfgang Munchau @EuroBriefing]

It took the CDU two days after their election disaster in Saxony-Anhalt to jump on the “Lets Ban the AfD” bandwagon. The chances of this happening are next to zero because the strict constitutional hurdles for a party ban are not met. What we are seeing here, is the political centre in search of new ways not to solve the problem.
https://t.co/xhrTyJS1Hq

[Benjamin Weinthal @BenWeinthal]

Kein Witz: Die deutsche Stadt @stuttgart_stadt stellt auf ihrer städtischen Website einen Link bereit, der eine Demonstration des Palästina-Komitees Stuttgart gegen Israel am 10.7. im Herzen Stuttgarts bewirbt. Siehe das Bild unten. Die antisemitische Gruppe nannte sie einen Protest „gegen den Tag des Völkermords“. Einfach gesagt: Die Stuttgarter Antisemiten unterstützen den Hamas-Völkermord an Juden und Deutschen u. a., der sich am 10.7. in Israel ereignete.
Der Oberbürgermeister von Stuttgart, Frank Nopper @CDU_BW, und der antisemitische Beamte Michael Blume @beauftragtgg @RegierungBW ermöglichen dieser pro-Hamas-Gruppe, auf der städtischen Website Spenden zu sammeln und am 10.7. zu protestieren. Der Ministerpräsident des Landes @cem_oezdemir und @digstuttgart haben nichts unternommen, um den Oberbürgermeister zu zwingen, die pro-Hamas-Informationen von der kommunalen Website zu entfernen. Die Landesregierung könnte das Palästina-Komitee Stuttgart rasch als terroristische Vereinigung verbieten. Sie weigert sich, das zu tun. Warum?
cc: @ZentralratJuden @DIGeV_de

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

'Through the power of not testing our lower-performing students, we've become a top-10 education system!'

Strangely, this is being chalked up to hard work. I guess it's hard work messing up the sampling.

[Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis @chiefrabbi]

This is truly a dark day for British Jews.

Today our Government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us.

The measures announced amount to little more than political flag bearing for mendacious anti-Israel rhetoric and those who harbour a dangerous obsession with the Jewish State. These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target.

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah and at a time when our community is more vulnerable than ever to the wave of extremism that has been building over recent years, these sanctions do nothing to advance the cause of peace. Nor do they make anyone safer – quite the contrary.

Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel, and the cumulative effect of such punitive policies is to further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.

[Eugene Kontorovich @EVKontorovich]

I call on the U.K. to apply international law as it has declared it to the building of settlements in the West Bank. London knows its not illegal, and here are the reciepts from N.Cyprus and W.Sahara.

[Oliver Engelen @oegn85]

@FabioDeMasi Auch sprachlich eine ziemliche Katastrophe, dieser Beitrag

[Oliver Engelen @oegn85]

Shout it from the rooftops!

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Did student ability plummet on the PISA examination this year?

No, they did not experience any meaningful change. The large observed change is due to two factors:

1. Measurement issues (which could not be fully corrected due to a format change)
2. Sampling changes

[Oliver Engelen @oegn85]

@Volker_Beck @spdberlin @gruene_berlin @dielinkeberlin Dass eine Partei nicht regieren kann, weil ihre Versprechungen nicht finanzierbar sind, erscheint allerdings weit hergeholt …

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Pundits who look at educational statistics and think that changes in them are even reliable are some of the most annoying people around

They basically never ask 'What changed?'. Instead, they assume changes are real and reason poorly afterwards. They don't care to be circumspect

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Two things can be right at once:

1) For the British state to sanction Israel is retarded and malicious. It's obviously done in a desperate attempt to gain muslim votes, which won't work.

Andy Burnham thinks he's doing something, but all he does is piss off a country who not only benefits Britain in trade and intel sharing, but also saved British-Israeli hostages because the British government didn't give a fuck about their lives. The Yookay is ruled by hostile awful people who hate the British and Israeli people alike.

A future British right wing government needs to reverse all these moronic decisions on day 1.

2) For Israeli ministers to retaliate with the Falklands is also retarded. As I have explained many times, the British government hates itself and its people. If they could give away the Falklands without the backlash, they would.

So they're not the ones who get burned by "Malvinas belong to Argentina" statements.

However, the British right wing who opposes these sanctions and who also has stood with Israel this entire time, do get burned by it. It's not the entire country of Britain doing this to you, but a horribly unpopular minority government. So for these ministers to question all of Britain's territorial integrity in return only hurts their own allies.

Direct your anger where it belongs - at Labour and the Far Left. Don't attack the entire country. I live here and can assure you have more friends than you think. Don't turn those friends against you when they are the ones who will hold power in a few years.

[Lizzy Savetsky @LizzySavetsky]

Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria (often inaccurately called “the West Bank”) for over 3,000 years. The UK, France, Canada, and nine other countries just sanctioned Jewish farmers and business owners for living there. This isn't politics. It's discrimination against Jews.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

On most issues, the distribution of views among European MPs and European publics was pretty similar.

On immigration, though, there was a large unmet demand for very restrictionist views on immigration so new parties that share those views are gaining.

https://t.co/5pJmGddVrq