tara spring

Celeb Producer and mum of three not so little ones. Shallow yet Cultured.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

.@SkyNews: “Over the last 80 years, there’s been tensions between Iran and Israel.”

No, there haven’t.

Israel and Iran were allies until the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

And Hezbollah isn't firing rockets at “settlements” in northern Israel. It's attacking towns and villages inside Israel's internationally recognized borders.

Bad history. Bad geography. Bad analysis, @seanbellanalyst.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

The director of the La Scala theatre in Paris, Frédéric Biessy, has apologized for making a long-winded speech about Netanyahu and Gaza at an event attended by high school students, saying, "Political remarks have no place in front of first-year classes and I regret having made them."

But is that really the problem, Biessy? Or is the problem that you whipped a bunch of high schoolers into a frenzy about Palestine so they felt vindicated in shouting slurs and hate at Jewish students who just wanted to perform the play they'd worked so hard for?

Is the problem that "kids can't handle politics," or is the problem that you watched Jewish kids leave your "inclusive" theatre dejected as other students booed and spat on them?

[Martien 🇳🇱 @MartienBall]

Dear Gabriel,

You can’t imagine how much joy and happiness you’ve brought to millions of people around the world.

On behalf of Football Twitter, thank you for this legendary moment. We will never forget it ❤️

[Ed Abrahamson @abrahamson_ed]

According to UEFA rules the only circumstances in which a team can refuse to play their home match in their home country is because of security concerns or war.

Here they are saying to UEFA we cannot guarantee the safety of the Israel team.

Therefore, they should be stripped of Euro 28.

[tara spring @taraspring]

@Billie_T My first thought too. FFS.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

This is an art installation in Bosnia.

Why do you people constantly lie?

[tara spring @taraspring]

@dannykellywords Have missed your voice Danny. Sorry you've had such a rough ride. Wishing you only good news and a beautiful & replenishing Summer . X

[Laurie @LFCLaurie]

Arsenal fans really thought they’d be able to spend the entire summer gloating on here about winning the title, when now every other video you see is Gabriel’s missed penalty 😭😭😭

[SissiEmperatriz 🇮🇱 @GabyLob]

Durante la masacre del 7/10, palestinos asesinaron a la hija de 18 años delante del resto de la familia.
Luego secuestraron al padre, y lo asesinaron en cautiverio.
Estas escenas que estás viendo, las filmaron live, y las vimos por redes sociales.

[tara spring @taraspring]

So sad

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

This piece suggests that because a German hotel had had a bad week with fake bookings, they somehow, when they *meant* to say, “sorry can we just run an ID verification check?” said instead “No Jews allowed”.
An easy mistake to make I guess.
NARRATOR: This is not an easy mistake to make.

[Parted Beard @PartedBeard]

A thread of Arsenal fans stealing pictures from the Liverpool parade pretending they are from the Arsenal parade. Typical.

1/5

[• dave ellis • @fullback03]

Only one winner here…

[N17 🦘 @N17WHI]

Levels

[tara spring @taraspring]

Cry more 🤣

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

To see Spurs and Chelsea fans mocking Arsenal after the seasons they had is beyond parody. We’re the best team in England, and the second best team in Europe. You lot are global laughing stocks.
So pipe down, you wastrels. 🤣

[tara spring @taraspring]

@piersmorgan Cry more!

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

The world still doesn’t appreciate the bravery of the Iranian people

[Oliver Brown @oliverbrown_tel]

Instead of truly chasing victory in their most consequential game for 20 years, Arsenal were too preoccupied with trying not to lose.

Piece from Budapest on a jarring clash of styles https://t.co/0Ug6Y3goGF

[Biggies Malls 2.0 @Biggies_MaIIs]

Liked it when “Fletch” said it would be ironic if Arsenal won on penalties given that they haven’t been awarded one all season.

Absolutely mind-boggling levels of ineptitude. They’ve had 8.