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David WP retweeted
6 Feb 2025
Iranian woman Pakhshan Azizi is going to be executed for standing against lslamic regime.
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21 Jun 2024
I just nominated THE BRIDGING PROJECT youth.movementforgood.com/in…

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Thanks to those of you who have pointed out that @AP 's Photos of Infiltration and Tragedy in Israel were shamefully awarded a Pictures of the Year (POY) Award by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute @RJI at the Missouri School of Journalism. I am happy to correct my earlier post. Like many of you, I hoped this was a creepy and sinister joke. Sadly it wasn’t. It is hard to know who is more repellent - @AP for using the product of a ghoul who rode with terrorists and rapists as they slaughtered women and children and then stopped to pose and snap this vision of heartless, diabolic triumph: the killers and abusers of an innocent girl of 22 pose with her naked broken body as a trophy. Or the Missouri School of Journalism that is rewarding that repulsive conduct. It suggests that both organizations have deep fissures of emptiness where their morality, humanity and indeed taste should be. Even if you are one of those amoral people who regard the Oct7 killraid with its rapine and butchery as a 'military operation', this picture does not show a military operation: for that you could have chosen Hamas fighters on captured Israeli tanks. Instead @AP @rji @mujschool are celebrating the posing of a picture snapped between the capture, rape and killing and gleeful parading of the naked body of an innocent girl in the middle of a process of unspeakable mutilation and mockery, the very photographing itself an act of indefensible abuse and atrocious inhumanity. Not to speak of an appalling corruption of the ethics of journalism. How would we feel if a photographer drove around with a serial killer and took snaps of him in action? Would you give him a prize for great journalism or for depravity? @mujschool@Mizzou and @Kurp Dean Professor Kurpius @RJI ? I make a point of this because from Oct7 onwards, there has been a campaign to deny and dehumanize the victims of Hamas butchery. This plays into that. Though it does expose and prove Hamas rapine and murder in all its brazen wickedness, it also treats the body of a young woman as a prop and a trophy and rewards collusion with the tormenters of her in life – and, horror of horrors, after her death. That’s the problem. What say our humanitarians of the enlightened media? Between your organizations @AP @mujschool you have pulled off quite a feat: the moral nadir of very flawed media coverage of this war and its horrors and tragedies committed and suffered by both sides. An ethical news organization would not accept such a disgraceful award. Hopefully @AP will now have enough decency left to refuse it. & hopefully @mujschool @Mizzou @RJI and Dean Professor Kurpius @Kurp the Missouri School of Journalism and Missouri University, who are giving a literally and metaphorically atrocious lesson on scavenging and carnage to its students in the giving of this award, have the leadership and morals to rescind it or even remove this photograph from it. Is this really the journalist and journalism that your founder would have revered @RJI? It is a terrible look for a news organization and a foundation. And worse for a place of learning. And it is not too late. Outrage as photo of Hamas parading victim's naked and mutilated body wins award mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/ou…

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David WP retweeted
1 Dec 2023
A must watch, and a must share. Mind-blowing. Comment and let me know your thoughts. Honestly, if there is one video you should watch today. This is the one. UNRWA - Askar (2023) a short but extremely revealing video by David Bedein. UNRWA have created a Palestinian terrorism education system. UNRWA school and "refugee camp" where they breed terror. It'll take 7 minutes 55 seconds of your time. Grab a coffee (or a cigarette, you'll probably need one) This is proof that the UN must be completely dissolved and all it's staff members fully investigated. I am stunned.
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14 Feb 2024
"Sometimes that will mean medicine sits in the passenger seat while other supportive types of care take the wheel." Andrew Goodhead - the long-standing Lead Chaplain of over 20 years at St Christopher’s Hospice shares why contemplative care is such an ehospice.com/editorial_posts…
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.@Harvard president: “it really depends on the context”
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This one day conference shines a new and different light on a process of future planning within healthcare, known as Advance Care Planning (ACP). It has often been made available for people facing a life-changing/life threatening diagnosis and ehospice.com/?post_type=ukpo…
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29 Nov 2023
Close to 100 doulas, physiotherapists, creative art therapists and clinicians packed out the St Christopher’s Centre for Awareness and Response to End of Life for the sixth Facing Death Creatively conference. ehospice.com/?post_type=ukpo…
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One of the clearest explanations of the conflict I've seen so far
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"We all know Hamas is committing war crimes in Gaza". Not my words, but true nonetheless. Watch until the end. @OneWorldCNN
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David WP retweeted
11 Nov 2023
The most worrying thing about this picture (today, London)? Not the people dressed as - and celebrating - Hamas terrorists. Not the absence of @metpoliceuk. It’s the hundreds, if not thousands, of fellow marchers who saw them, knew and understood - but said and did nothing.
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David WP retweeted
The House of Bishops has released a statement appealing for peace in Israel and Gaza. Read more at cofe.io/IsraelGaza.
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The best 7-minute explanation of the current war by @DouglasKMurray. Worth every second of it! Please watch and share.

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RT @WalidPhares: Reports from West #Darfur received today unveil that 773 African civilians including mostly teenagers, but women and elder…
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People have been spamming my comments with images of injured/dead Gazan children since I came out in support of Israel Yes I know these images are devastating and the children being harmed in this war are innocent I'm also not easily emotionally manipulated I wouldn’t have rooted for the Nazis or called for a ceasefire if I had seen images of dead German children A rational person realizes that yes the deaths are tragic and also that they are the fault of the government that began the conflict and put their citizens in danger (the Nazis in WW2 and Hamas now) Hamas shouldn’t have attacked Israel on October 7 and ended the ceasefire that was in place They shouldn't have built their military bases, tunnels, and weapons storage under schools, hospitals, and homes And they shouldn't have told/forced their citizens to stay in conflict zones after Israel gave them a warning to leave Anyone who actually cares about Gazan children is angry at Hamas and hopes that they will either surrender and end the fighting or that Israel will remove them from power quickly
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please watch this though it is utterly heartbreaking - and the images of these girls are among those the idiot monsters, grotesque in their ignorance and inhumanity, are tearing down, perpetrating a second vanishing
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David WP retweeted
This is what we are finding in Gaza. A building where children play is a Hamas rocket launching site. You have to see it to believe it:
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Wow, Bernie Sanders rejecting calls for a ceasefire and acknowledging Hamas would use it to eradicate Israel. This should put UK politicians calling for a ceasefire to shame.

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