KatieThomas

Parish priest, trying to live faithfully with compassion, wonder and gratitude. Sorry no DMs.

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

Our church orchestra - first concert. Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Beaming with joy to be their vicar.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Think this one through. Beautiful olive trees that grow and mature and serve as the livelihoods of families. People who think they are righteous and devoted to an all-seeing god, burn them down. And it happens again and again and again.

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

People are more important than beautiful buildings but nevertheless I am deeply grieved at what is at risk and being lost in Lebanon. A beautiful country with Christians as one third of its population. The Israeli military action must stop.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

“When heritage is destroyed anywhere, moral standards are undermined, social cohesion is eroded.”

How Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon devastates centuries of history https://t.co/ZiCiPtPoNy

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel planted explosives in a school for disabled children at dawn today in South Lebanon and blew it up.

Not a military target.

A school for disabled children — perhaps the only one in the country.

In what universe is this considered “self-defense”?

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Australian female doctors making a statement in Gaza:

📍We are filming this video because we could die at any moment.

📍70-80% of our patients are children and pregnant women.

📍 I delivered a baby from a woman who was 9 months pregnant and whose head had been severed.

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

May God forgive us that we did not do more to stop this. We need world leaders to step up and do their job - to protect international law and human rights.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.

These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

After winning an Emmy, Al Jazeera’s @joshrushing dedicated the award to colleagues and journalists killed by Israel in an emotional speech.

@AJFaultLines documentary on Kids Under Fire won ‘Outstanding War or Violence Conflict Coverage’ at the 2026 News Emmys.

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

@JamesMelville Tech has not been the blessing it promised. And tech replacing jobs and farmers is particularly concerning.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute horror. Sky News confirms Israel ordered all 300 towns in southern Lebanon to suddenly evacuate, sparking a mass exodus.

The Zionist military then systematically peppered the heavily populated areas and brave rescue workers with massive drone strikes.

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

@SaintFrancisLib Because he can only speak to those he has authority over - to do more would perhaps be seen as over-reach? There is nothing to stop us joining in with this important moment of prayer though - either with a rosary or in our own way. We all need to be praying for peace.

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

I've thought long about sharing this - but it is one of the most prophetic things I've heard in a long time. Tucker is an Anglican - and I might not agree with him on everything - but he is a courageous (perhaps surprising) voice for Palestine right now - and this episode on Genocide is well worth listening to. The evidence from the doctor is especially compelling. We can't remain silent.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[KatieThomas @revkatiethomas]

Wise man - we didn't value him enough as ABC.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“What I'd like to happen is a kind of reshaping of the NHS… that would guarantee more people a death with dignity.”

Bishop Rowan Williams calls for changes to healthcare instead of legalised assisted dying.

#Newsnight

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

What is the theological argument for spitting at Christians. Anyone step forward?

[The Church of England @churchofengland]

Pentecost is when we mark the birth of the Church and the beginning of its mission to the world. 🔥🕊️

Today we reflect on the moment when the Holy Spirit came upon Jesus’ apostles and followers, as recorded in Acts 2.

📍 St Lawrence's Church, Evesham/Julian P Guffogg

[Travis @NihiloX]

Israel's war in Gaza is absolutely a genocide. Israelis have been the aggressor for nearly a century.

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

That Bible must've been written after 1948?

[Melanie Ward MP @melanie_ward]

The expansion of Israeli settlements is designed to wipe Palestinian villages off the map, as I said in Parliament.

Enough hesitation - it’s past time for:
➡️ fresh sanctions
➡️ ban on trade with Israeli settlements
➡️ ban on British charities funnelling money to settlements

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨 The real masterminds and backstage geniuses behind the rose petals falling from the Pantheon’s oculus on Pentecost Sunday?

The Rome firefighters!

Italy at its finest 🇮🇹🔥

[Sky News @SkyNews]

An Israeli strike captured on camera has killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Just 12 hours earlier, four other medics were killed.

Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports

https://t.co/MTDOQ3T0vB

[Shaun King @shaunking]

If 9 Jewish paramedics were killed ANYWHERE in the world it would be called terrorism.

And we’d never hear the end of it.

Israel slaughtered 9 paramedics in 72 hours, most of which we’ve seen on film, and we only hear their names on Twitter.