This time last year, we were campaigning for Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s freedom. Today he is with his family, where he belongs.

This is thanks to the extraordinary courage, determination and campaigning of Alaa’s family, led by his mother Laila. ❤️

Since no-one appears to be talking about it on here, just letting you know that the the PM, Foreign Secretary and various other Government Ministers have expressed their “delight” in an Egyptian “pro-Democracy” activist being freed in Egypt and allowed to come to the UK. Here are some of his views.

17 December 1931 | Dutch Jewish boy, Emile Joost Jacobs, was born at the Hague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

I am horrified by the attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia. My thoughts are with the victims and our Jewish communities in NYC mourning. As antisemitism rises across the world, we have a moral obligation to stamp it out everywhere it exists.

#FindsFriday A mystery stone head on display at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort in Pembrokeshire, found locally in north Pembrokeshire

Not a typical 'Celtic' head but nonetheless possesses many features which could suggest an Iron Age date 🧐🤔

📷 My own, last week

Excellent piece www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-bluesk...

‘It’ll be carnage’: why Sydney Sweeney’s risky political moment may backfire

Dawn French is criticised for 'dismissal' of Israeli Hamas victims

Harvard University is offering FREE online classes right now to educate people. Here is a list of those classes. Knowledge is power.

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Marcel Ophuls, the German-born filmmaker whose powerful documentary “The Sorrow and the Pity” exploded the myth of widespread French resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II, has died.

Donald Trump, "We have a situation with Iran that something is going to happen soon, very very soon"

"I'd rather see a peace deal than the other, but the other will solve the problem"

Did Trump just suggest that Iran is going to be attacked?

Shaping a Sustainable Future for Vienna 🏛 💡
How can young researchers effectively learn to communicate evidence-based, scientific recommendations to policymakers? 🤔 
This question was at the core of the 'Science for Policy Hackathon'. 👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬
Read more about it here: ⤵
ech.univie.ac.at/story/shapin...

Daily Briefing Feb. 19: Day 502 – Hamas fights for survival with ‘grand gestures’ https://www.timesofisrael.com/daily-briefing-feb-19-day-502-hamas-fights-for-survival-with-grand-gestures/

Alice Weidel, Germany's far-right leader, lives in Switzerland and is raising two sons with her Sri Lankan-born wife.

Her party, the Alternative for Germany, campaigns on a platform that is anti-immigrant and defines family as a father and a mother raising children.

Jüdinnen und Juden erleben #Antisemitismus täglich – doch ihre Sicht ist in der Forschung massiv unterrepräsentiert. Ein EU-Bericht von 2023 zeigt: Nur 5 % der Studien stellen ihre Perspektive ins Zentrum. Ohne die Betroffenenperspektive bleibt die Forschung aber unvollständig. Zeit, das zu ändern!