Lene Rachel Andersen

BREAKING: The Philly Bike Boycott has reportedly ended early because of the overwhelming number of counterprotestors who showed up. Notice which side is fully masked to hide their identities.

Last night, I was criticised for saying that Birmingham City Council was putting Gaza before Birmingham. I wonder what could have possibly led me to that conclusion.

In september 2025 zei de Frans-Joodse intellectueel Bernard Henri-Levy (@BHL) het volgende: "Een genocidair leger doet er niet twee jaar over [ondertussen drie jaar] om een oorlog te winnen in een gebied ter grootte van Las Vegas. Een genocidair leger stuurt geen sms-waarschuwingen voordat het schiet en faciliteert de doorgang niet van de burgers die proberen te ontsnappen aan de aanvallen. Een genocidair leger zou niet elke maand honderden Palestijnse kinderen met zeldzame ziekten of kanker evacueren en ze naar ziekenhuizen in Abu Dhabi sturen, als onderdeel van een medische luchtbrug die direct na 7 oktober is opgezet. Spreken over 'genocide'in Gaza is een belediging voor het gezond verstand, een manoeuvre om Israël te demoniseren, en een belediging voor de slachtoffers van genocide uit het verleden en heden."

I AM HEARTBROKEN AGAIN. HOW MANY MORE TEARS MUST I SHED BEFORE THE WORLD HEARS OUR CRY? I am writing these words with a heart that is bleeding. Days ago, I stood beside a mass grave in Plateau State, Nigeria, weeping over the lifeless bodies of members of my congregation whose dreams, hopes, and futures were brutally cut short. I cried until I had no more strength. I thought those tears would be enough for one lifetime. But today, I am heartbroken again. Four more innocent people have been killed near my church. Four more families have been thrown into mourning. Four more homes have been filled with unbearable silence. Four more people who woke up with hopes and dreams will never return to their loved ones. WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS? How many more graves must we stand beside? How many more mothers must cry over their children? How many more children must grow up asking why their fathers and mothers never came home? And who knows whether I am next? Who can guarantee that tomorrow I will not be the one lying in a grave while my congregation gathers to mourn me? Who will stand beside my family if the next attack takes my life? I am a shepherd. My responsibility is to protect, pray for, comfort, and lead my flock. But what happens when the shepherd is constantly forced to bury the very people he was called to care for? My beloved, I am tired of burying my people. I am tired of seeing innocent blood spilled. I am tired of watching children become orphans and women become widows. Must our children inherit nothing but stories of killings, mass graves, and broken families? OUR ONLY OPTION LEFT IS TO FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL. We cannot simply fold our hands and watch our families, communities, and future disappear. If we do not stand together, protect innocent lives, and demand urgent action, we fear that one day there may be no one left to tell our story. Are we going to wait until an entire generation is wiped out before the world decides that our lives matter? I am therefore making another desperate appeal to the United States Government and the American people. Please, hear our cry. Please, help us. We are not asking for sympathy alone; we are asking for meaningful intervention to protect innocent lives, strengthen security, support displaced families, and bring those responsible for these killings to justice. How many more innocent Nigerians must die before the international community acts with urgency? To the world, I ask: If these were your children, your parents, your brothers, or your sisters, would silence still be an option? I am not asking the world to remember us only when another mass grave is discovered. I am asking the world to help us while there are still lives to save. I WILL KEEP RAISING MY VOICE. I WILL KEEP SPEAKING FOR MY PEOPLE. I WILL KEEP CRYING OUT FOR JUSTICE. Our lives matter. Our children matter. Our future matters. May God remember Plateau State. May God comfort every grieving family. May He protect those who are still alive and give us the strength to see another day. Because honestly, I do not know how many more funerals this broken heart can endure. — Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo

For the first time: The pilots who landed the Flydubai flight have been revealed. They entered the cockpit after the Indian pilot, Sumit Machhar, was attacked with an axe during an attempted suicide attack. They managed to land the Boeing in Saudi Arabia, despite part of its tail having been broken off. Following a commendation ceremony in the UAE—where they were honored alongside Machhar—the pilots' names have been disclosed: Hanson Stephen from Fiji and Rowan Toth from South Africa. "They acted with heroism and composure."

When I was young, I told my father I would have known what to do during the Spanish Inquisition or the Holocaust. “I would have lied. I would have said I was Christian. I would have said I wasn’t Jewish.” I thought I had solved the problem. A child’s answer to an unimaginable evil: say whatever lets you live. I understood the fear of dying. I had not yet understood what it means to have someone else dictate the conditions of your existence. I would never judge those who concealed their Jewishness to survive. They carried our people forward, too. Nor would a denial necessarily have saved them. The innocence of my answer belonged to someone who had never faced the question. But growing older, I began to understand why someone might believe there are things worse than death. Why a person might risk everything for the right to remain themselves. Because when you organize your entire life around what others will permit you to be, their authority follows you everywhere. You anticipate their objections. You edit your convictions. Eventually, they scarcely need to silence you. You have learned to do it yourself. That is a form of captivity. And I believe something essential about Jewish survival across three millennia lives in our refusal to accept it. A parent teaching a child. A prayer remembered. A community rebuilt after devastation. Generation after generation finding ways to remain Jewish when the surrounding world made that belonging costly. We inherited an identity because people kept choosing to carry it forward. That inheritance leaves room for argument, doubt, and disagreement. Our tradition is full of all three. It also leaves us with a responsibility: to decide what we will preserve when preserving it becomes inconvenient. I want the next generation to inherit more than an explanation of why I kept quiet. I want them to inherit the freedom to stand upright as Jews. My Jewishness is not up for negotiation.

This footage from the day after Entebbe is incredible. A freed hostage describes Ugandan troops hugging the hijackers and swapping weapons with them. Then, in the same broadcast, the Air France crew thanks Idi Amin for his help. Bonus points if you guess the UN reaction.

Spelling bee contestant is give the word "woman". He then asks them to define "woman". The rest is comedy gold 🤣

En los últimos días, me volví adicto (otra vez) a este video. Es como ver a Da Vinci pintando la Mona Lisa. Realmente es increíble que haya registro audiovisual de esta maravilla

Watch out America… a new Abdul El-Sayed campaign ad just dropped and this time Dave Smith and Ana Kasparian are the stars.

No more attics for me. No more gas chambers for me. No more ghettos. No more telling me who I am, what I should be, or what I should do, just so you can feel good about yourself. יאללה, יאללה, תתחפף! (Yalla, yalla, titchafef! — Come on, get lost! Get out of my face!) There’s a new Jew in the neighborhood. I’m the Israeli Jew, and I’m not going anywhere. GET USED TO IT! YOU WON’T FIND ME IN THE ATTIC AGAIN Music, lyrics and artistic direction by Yehuda Meitav.

Just to clarify, did the Jews travel to Palestine to kill Jesus, or was Jesus killed during a trip to Poland?

सऊदी अरब में बांग्लादेश के दंपति का सर कलम करके मौत की सजा देने के बाद उनके शव बांग्लादेश पहुंच गए जिसका अंतिम संस्कार कर दिया गया पता चल रहा है कि उन दोनों की एक 8 साल की बेटी भी है जो अब अनाथ हो गई अब जाकर बांग्लादेश के दंपति की मौत की सजा के मामले पर पूरी घटनाक्रम सऊदी अरब ने सामने रखा है बांग्लादेश का एक दंपति जो पति-पत्नी थे वह उमरा करने सऊदी अरब गए मक्का की एक मस्जिद में उन्होंने नमाज अदा किया और भाव विभोर होकर एक दूसरे से गले लग गए और एक दूसरे को kiss कर लिया और यह सब करते हुए उनकी आंखों में आंसू थे जाहिर सी बात है कि उनका एक सपना पूरा हुआ था कि वह उमरा पर आए हैं तो यह उन्होंने किसी अश्लीलता की वजह से नहीं किया था बल्कि भाव विभोर होकर किया था और एक पाकिस्तानी ने उनका वीडियो बनाकर वायरल कर दिया और उनका सर कलम हो गया ये जो सोच है ना कि दो लोगों के एक दुसरे को चूमने से खुदा नाराज हो जाएगा और गर्दन काटने से खुश हो जाएगा यही कट्टरपंथ की सबसे बड़ी बीमारी है। एक तरफ कहते हो इस्लाम अमन का मजहब है, दूसरी तरफ एक रील, एक चुंबन पर सर कलम? मक्का की मस्जिद क्या इबादत की जगह है या तुम्हारे अहंकार का कत्लगाह? अगर खुदा इतना ही कमजोर है कि दो लोगों के प्यार से उसकी मस्जिद नापाक हो जाती है, तो फिर वो खुदा कैसा? खुदा को तुम्हारी तलवार की जरूरत क्यों है अपनी हिफाजत के लिए? तुमने दो लोगों को नहीं मारा, तुमने ये साबित किया है कि तुम्हारी सोच आज भी 7वीं सदी के रेगिस्तान में ही अटकी हुई है। जहाँ प्यार गुनाह है और कत्ल इंसाफ। और फिर कहते हो दुनिया इस्लामोफोबिक है - दुनिया तुम्हारे इस कृत्य से डरती है, तुम्हारे मजहब से नहीं। बेटी अनाथ हो गई, दो परिवार खत्म, और तुम्हें लगा तुमने धर्म बचा लिया? तुमने धर्म नहीं, अपनी दरिंदगी का प्रदर्शन किया है। #SaudiArabia #BangladeshiCouple

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NETANYAHU ON EUROPE: “These are the same countries smashing us at the UN, vilifying us, telling us: ‘You lost the moral high ground. You stole the land.’ Then they come to me and say: ‘Can you help us with this anti-terror effort? Can you help us with this or that?’” Should Israel help? I say YES. But every meeting should end with a press conference where European leaders publicly thank Israel for the assistance and acknowledge that the country they condemn is the same country they turn to when they need help fighting terrorism.

“I feel like to be buried along with them” — Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo laments from a mass grave. “We have prayed but the government has abandoned us”