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Dr Jaime Ashworth

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Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him www.framingthequestion.blog

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · Jul 11

A small announcement: if you feel that my blog posts and contributions have made a difference to your thinking, please consider Buying Me a Coffee via the link. Expertise doesn’t come for free! framingthequestion.blog/2025/07/11/t...

The Price of Memory

What’s passion worth? Image: one of the many coffees that have contributed to my productivity. Reconciling passion and productivity is a challenge. My wife will tell you that I don’t ta…

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 23h

The last sentence is true in so, so many ways…

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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Can we hope that when (if?) the war in Gaza in over the world, and especially the West will finally turn their attention to this mass murder. The violence is bankrolled by the West's closest allies/partners, it's not like there is no leverage and it is just a local fight. Or am I just too naive?

Sacha de Wijs @sachadewijs.bsky.social · 1d

El-Fasher, Sudan — besieged by the RSF since May 2024 — has become “an open-air morgue” for starving civilians. The world’s silence is shocking. Since 2023 Sudan has seen 150k civilians killed, 15 million displaced & 25 million people facing acute hunger www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

RSF attack on hospital in Sudan’s el-Fasher kills 12, medics say

The attack by the paramilitary on the hospital wounded 17 others, and is the second such attack in 24 hours.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 1d

If the reports are true that Hamas are releasing the remaining living hostages, that is good news. But that’s just the beginning of a peace.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 1d

Well let’s stop using AI then. I have a feeling that the corporations involved are used to making hard decisions for *other people*…

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d

I always think of the party conference in David Hare’s ”The Absence of War”: one character hears the fanfare and says “I didn’t know Hitler composed”…

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d

They are unable to conceive of things having a value other than monetary, and they are oblivious to what goes into the culture they consume. The sense of communing with someone else’s creativity appears to be totally alien to them.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely. I’m also concerned, though, that if the security is provided by the private sector we are going to sell the past to corporations.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Share widely, especially with US Federal employees.

Esther Ciammachilli @estherc.bsky.social · 2d

OMB has deleted the reference on its website to the 2019 law that mandates back pay to all federal workers who were not paid during a government shutdown. This is like when babies play hide and seek but only cover their eyes because if they can’t see you, you can’t see them.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. framingthequestion.blog/2025/07/13/c...

Cracked Mirror: Holocaust Unconsciousness

My post the other week about the use of AI to generate images purportedly of the Holocaust has had quite a lot of attention. Some of this has been derived from my posting a link alongside critiques…

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2d

Arguing with the Tories over their "we're going to make a British ICE gestapo and deport 150,000 people a year" plan over the cost and practicalities is a bit weak.

Shout it down for the immorality not the "you'll have to increase VAT to pay for the barbed wire" bullshit

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 2d

It is so important to acknowledge that some of those most directly involved in 7 October are some of the most reluctant to endorse its consequences. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 3d

Problem is, journalism discovered that it would lose half its audience if it did that, and everyone stays for the argument.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 3d

It’s never about what RJ “thinks” or even says, it’s about who he is trying to suck up to.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick’s comments are shameful, but his total lack of principle means what we really need to worry about is his ambition. If he’s saying it, it’s because he thinks someone wants to hear it.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just over halfway through, and I’m rationing the pages.

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 3d

And the like to yourself!

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 3d

As the festival of shelter begins, it seems appropriate to remember the hostages taken two years ago. We need their release and we need peace. Chag #Sukkot Sameach.

Two yellow ribbons on black circles: the words “Bring them home” on the ribbons.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Looking at different parts of my timeline and seeing violence and hate against both Jews and Muslims. Solidarity is crucial.

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 5d

These cases of extreme, far-right racist violence targeting Muslims and people seeking asylum are being blithely ignored by most media and politicians because they see no political capital in addressing them.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man arrested after fire at London asylum seekers' hotel

The blaze is being treated as a hate crime by officers investigating.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Scary isn’t it?

Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 5d

And the really scary bit is the way our electoral system translates noisy minorities into seats giving people virtually unlimited power.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Yep, that’s true. But ten years ago could we have imagined a party promising mass deportation even in the polls, much less leading them?

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 5d

Until 2016 I was confident of that. But now I really wonder.

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Dr Jaime Ashworth @drjaimeashworth.bsky.social · 6d

After a shocking and frightening day yesterday, wishing one and all #ShabbatShalom, but especially those families whose Shabbat tables will be missing people.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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