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[RLK @RLK303303]

We went to the Nova exhibition today. On the one hand I am listening to the video testimony of ZAKA talking about decapitated heads in bags and women violated in unspeakable ways and on the other hand I see the complete indifference to any of this from much of the rest of the world. Indifference at best, or denial or at worst, saying that what happened was 'resistance'. Today this completely blew my mind - again.

The Nova exhibition was profoundly affecting in so many ways despite already having been immersed in nothing but this for nearly three years. There were many tearful people there. We also heard live testimony from Ariel, the brother of Anita Lisman who was killed with her boyfriend Segev Shushan, at Nova. May their memories be a blessing 🕯️🕯️

Watching all of these atrocities again was heartbreaking and I'm glad that the organisers put it all together so incredibly well.

It was in fact the first room of the exhibition which I'll never also forget. It was a film of the Nova rave. People were dancing to trance having the time of their lives. They were my tribe, I've been going to these parties for maybe 25 years. The feeling of dancing to the beats, everyone loving everyone else, being as high as a kite and everything being just perfect. And then a sunrise where everything sparkles and looks beautiful and love and music is all around. There's no feeling like it and then I tried to imagine the horror and the terror descending, people not really understanding what's going on, being terrified whilst still trying to protect each other. I'd only ever seen those party clips on my laptop screen but being there, immersed in those scenes and knowing what was coming for those beautiful people was painful beyond words.

And the worst thing is that most of the people I've danced with for years have turned their backs on us and that's something I'll never forgive or ever forget.

Everyone needs to see and to understand what happened on 7th October and subsequently. Israel needs to do whatever is needed to make sure that this never happens again, with or without the approval of the rest of the world.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

In 1840 an American slave ship ran aground in the Bahamas.

On British ground, the 38 people below deck could not be owned. 🇬🇧

Free Black boatmen rowed out, magistrates came aboard, and all 38 walked ashore free.

19 October 1840. The Hermosa, a schooner out of Richmond, Virginia, bound for the slave markets of New Orleans.

Below deck, 38 enslaved people. Her papers listed them as cargo.

She struck a reef off Abaco, in the Bahamas. British ground.

Bahamian boatmen rowed out through the surf, free Black men who worked these reefs for a living, and carried all 38 safe to Nassau. Britain had abolished slavery 6 years before.

The captain refused to let them ashore. He called for another ship to carry them back to bondage. Then British magistrates came aboard, armed men at their backs. No fleet. No proclamation. A local court doing its ordinary work.

In Virginia, paper made those 38 people property. On British ground, no paper on Earth could. One by one, 38 people stepped ashore at Nassau. Free.

The owners demanded them back for years. They never got them.

Nobody famous freed those 38. Boatmen rowed out. Magistrates climbed aboard. Ordinary hands, keeping Britain's word.

In Virginia, paper made them property. On British ground, thanks to the British citizens, it could not. 🇬🇧

This is the revival of British culture. Be part of it.

👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 Jeremy Clarkson had a fiery clash with BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire at the farmers’ protest against Reeves’ inheritance tax raid on family farms.

Victoria went straight for the gotcha:

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

Clarkson, visibly stunned:

“Classic BBC there, classic. The ‘fact’ that I bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax? The ‘fact’?”

Victoria doubled down: “You told The Sunday Times in 2021 that’s why you bought it?”

Clarkson, laughing in disbelief:

“These people… BBC. Let’s start from the beginning. I wanted to shoot. That’s even worse to the BBC. Which comes with the benefit of not having to pay inheritance tax.”

He pointed out the tax isn’t even an issue for him personally as he can simply put the farm in a trust, but he’s standing with ordinary family farms that will be hammered.

After sparring over the real numbers affected, Clarkson urged the government to U-turn.

Victoria: “And get the money from where?”

Clarkson: “Walk into any of the offices around here and if you don’t understand what somebody’s job is, fire them.” 😂

Classic Clarkson.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Nova Exhibition @novaexhibition]

A festival. A moment in time.

Then everything changed.

The Nova Exhibition shares the human stories behind that moment, told through those who experienced it.

Opening in London from 20 May.

Purchase your tickets now: https://t.co/Hb3W0Vk5DD

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

The last person whose name I mentioned in this interview was Mohammad Abbasi. And today, the Islamic Republic hanged him.

I cannot stop thinking about his daughter.

Before killing Mohammad, the regime arrested his daughter and sentenced her to 25 years in prison. Imagine being a father in a prison cell, knowing your child is suffering because of you. Knowing the people interrogating you are using your daughter’s life to break your spirit.

They tortured him. Threatened him through his own child.

Somewhere tonight, a daughter is living with the nightmare that her father was taken to the gallows while she sat helpless behind bars.

This is the cruelty of the Islamic Republic. They do not only execute prisoners. They torture families. They turn love into punishment.
💔

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

He died with 200 children in a gas chamber, holding their hands until the end.

He was a father to 200 souls who had no one else in the world. As the soldiers shouted and the world collapsed into madness, he looked at his children and smiled, telling them not to be afraid because they were going on a trip together.

Janusz Korczak was a famous doctor and a brave Polish military officer who spent his entire life proving that children are the most important people on Earth. This wasn’t just a job for him—it was his life’s mission.

In 1912, he founded a very special place called the Orphans’ Home in Warsaw, designed specifically for children who had lost their parents and had nobody else to protect them. He didn’t just look after their health; he respected them as complete human beings with deep feelings and big dreams.

He even created a “Children’s Republic” inside the home, where the orphans had their own small government and even their own court to settle arguments fairly. To him, every child was a “precious gift” and a “creative flame” that adults were lucky enough to protect.

He lived by one simple, powerful rule: you haven’t done enough for a child until you have done everything you possibly can.

Because he lived by that rule, his responsibility grew even heavier when World War II began. When the Nazi occupation forced the Jewish population into the walled-off Warsaw Ghetto, Korczak moved all 200 of his children there to keep them together.

In a place filled with hunger and disease, he became their father figure, their doctor, and their only shield. He spent every day begging for food and medicine just to keep them alive.

Because Korczak was so famous and respected, he was offered several chances to escape to the “safe” side of the city and hide. He refused every single time.

He knew that if he abandoned those 200 children to save his own life, everything he had ever taught about loyalty and love would be a lie. He stayed because a father does not leave his children when the storm arrives.

The day they were taken away to the death camps, the streets witnessed something that looked more like a happy school parade than a march to a tragedy.

Korczak wanted to protect the children’s hearts from the terrifying truth, so he told them they were finally going on a trip to the countryside. He had them wash their faces and dress in their very best clothes. They marched through the ghetto singing songs and carrying a bright green flag.

Korczak walked at the very front of the line, standing tall in his military doctor’s uniform, carrying the two smallest children in his arms while the others clung to his pockets to stay close.

Even the enemy soldiers watching them at the train station were moved to silence by the sight of such incredible dignity. When a soldier recognized him and offered him one last chance to walk away, Korczak didn’t even hesitate.

“You do not understand,” he told the officer. “The children are not just my work. They are my life. I will not leave them now.”

In the end, he followed his children all the way into the dark gas chambers of Treblinka. He stayed true to his word until his very last breath, holding their hands so they wouldn’t be afraid of the dark.

When the chambers were opened later, they found him still leaning forward, surrounded by the sea of children who had huddled close to him for safety in their final moments.

Janusz Korczak was a man who had every excuse to run, every reason to save himself, and every opportunity to look away, yet he chose to stand in the fire so his children wouldn’t have to stand there alone.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

Repost. Save his life. The Islamic regime wants to execute student Erfan Shakourzadeh. His crime? Using the internet. No global outrage. No UN emergency. No protests in London. Because he is not Hamas. Not Hezbollah. Not a terrorist. Not a killer of Jews in Israel. Just an Iranian student whose life may end in silence while the world scrolls past his name.
Do not let him disappear quietly.
Speak his name.
Erfan Shakourzadeh.

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Conservative Party, delivered one of the most powerful speeches, completely shattering the Labour and Green parties' narrative on the Middle East conflict.

[Ben Brittain @BenABrittain]

Profound and moving monologue from Trevor Phillips - one of Sky’s greatest assets and the country’s increasingly bravest journalist.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

All these three Iranians have been hanged today. This is a campaign of terror and the world is watching like it’s just another Netflix series, waiting to see how many episodes it takes before anyone actually does something.

The Islamic Republic has executed three more men, Ebrahim Dolatabadi, Mehdi Rasouli, and Mohammadreza Miri.

After gunning down tens of thousands of protesters in the streets, the regime is now systematically executing those it once detained.

[Kevin Hollinrake MP @kevinhollinrake]

Kemi’s media interview today was interrupted by the kind of people that shout loudest at the Hate Marches. You know, the ones that aren’t polite enough to wait ‘til the end, then ask a question, then to actually listen to the answer.

This is what happened.

[Trevor Phillips @TrevorPTweets]

Back to school! Reposting this for no other reason than that it gives me joy.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Another life taken. Another young man hanged by Iran’s regime. Another family destroyed.

Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, 27, arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, was tortured for over 40 days and forced into a false confession.

He told the court he was innocent. He asked for evidence to be reviewed. They ignored him.

How many more lives until the world takes a stand?

#Iran
#DigitalBlackOutIran‌

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Arrested. Silenced. Hanged at dawn.
This is Iran in 21st-century: A photo of the lifeless body of the heroic martyr Sasan Azadvar, who was executed for protesting.
Imagine building a life for 21 years and losing it to a system that treats human beings as disposable.

Twenty-one. That’s not a criminal mastermind. That’s someone who should be figuring out life, not losing it.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

.@zarahsultana I assume this is a different Zarah Sultana MP to the one who was recently filmed clapping along to loudspeaker chants for intifada, on a street in Surrey.
https://t.co/J9nLlYtw59

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

After the Golders Green Jew stabbings, BBC radio invited me on to discuss the alarming levels of Jew hatred in the UK. As usual, they muted my mic near the end. As usual, I recorded it myself and restored the sound. Here’s what they tried to silence as soon as I mentioned the Green party…

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Iran’s Regime Sentences 21-Year-Old Karate Champion to Death for Protesting، Execution Imminent!

So let me get this straight;
Sasan Azadvar goes to a protest… and the regime’s response is not a debate, not reform, but a rope?

He isn’t a criminal. He’s a kid with medals, a future, and apparently the dangerous idea that freedom should exist.

Iran’s Supreme Court looked at this and said, “Yeah, execution sounds about right.”

And now the family gets the message from the judicial system:
“Come say goodbye.”

This is a regime so weak, it has to kill its own young people to feel strong.
#StopExecutionInIran

[Noor Dahri - نور ڈاہری ‎ 🇬🇧 @dahrinoor2]

🇮🇱 Today in Auschwitz, we bow our heads in memory of the Jewish men, women, and children who were brutally murdered by the Nazis.

We stand with the Jewish people, today, tomorrow, and forever.

Never Forget. Never Again. 🕯️

[Lisvane Panthers FC @LisvnePantherFC]

New women’s walking football team looking for players. Training at Maes Y Coed community centre on Tuesdays 8-9pm from 28th April onwards. Contact Rach [phone] for more details.