Daily review 29/02/2024

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  1. ianmac 1
    29 February 2024 at 5:46 pm

    Just watched the passionate beautifully constructed anti tobacco speech by Chlöe Swarbick via David Slack.

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  2. lprent 2
    29 February 2024 at 5:49 pm

    Site has been having a lot of scanners running against it today. Seems to be slowing it down.

    I'll change the rules this evening to increase the lockouts to educate the newer bots that it isn't their site.

    Also looks like there are some new vulnerabilities out there in wordfence. The WPVivid backup bug is new – used to be on the site, but I dumped it off a couple of months ago – poor performance on a site this size.

  3. Jilly Bee 3
    29 February 2024 at 8:18 pm

    Being the cricket tragic that I am, I still get more than slightly annoyed when I see the name of Scott Kuggeleign on the Black Caps playing team. OK, I know that he was charged with rape and found not guilty, which should be the end of it. I still struggle with what happened. He had a brilliant KC defending him – I pretty much knew when his defence team was announced that he would most probably be adjudged to be not guilty. My conumdrum is that if I was to get myself into more than a spot of bother, I know straight away who I would want to represent me – having known that particular KC for many years.

  4. Joe90 4
    29 February 2024 at 11:10 pm

    Weaponising antisemitism to excuse the inexcusable.

    Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם

    @yuval_abraham

    A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech – where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid – as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages – empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue – and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust – I don’t want your guilt.

    https://twitter.com/yuval_abraham/status/1762558886207209838

    An Israeli film-maker who won one of the top prizes at the Berlin film festival has said German officials’ description of the awards ceremony as “antisemitic” has led to death threats and the physical intimidation of family members, causing him to hold off plans to return to Israel.

    Yuval Abraham, 29, was on Saturday awarded the Berlinale’s best documentary award for No Other Land, which charts the eradication of Palestinian villages in Masafer Yatta in the West Bank.

    Abraham’s acceptance speech, in which he decried a “situation of apartheid” and called for a ceasefire in Gaza, was one of several moments during the closing ceremony in which film-makers expressed solidarity with Palestine. It sparked an outcry in German media the following day, with several politicians alleging the speeches had been “antisemitic”.*/em>

    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/27/israeli-director-receives-death-threats-after-officials-call-berlinale-antisemitic

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