Aliza scott @therecycla

WOW!! Well done UK!! @denbypottery is now SO close to the 100k signatures the petition needs! If you care about British craftsmanship, about handmade over mass-produced, please sign and share this petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7647…

Want to ‘save the planet’? Support farmers. 🚜 The real environmentalists. 🚜 The providers of our food. 🚜 The cultivators of our green and pleasant land. No farmers, no food. No farmers, no beautiful countryside.

Israeli researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem have achieved a major breakthrough in cultivated meat production - developing a method that reduces the cost of growing steak-like tissue by up to ten times, potentially making lab-grown meat viable for global consumers. The innovation uses a plant-based cellulose scaffold to attach growth factors directly to cell structures, dramatically lowering the expense of proteins that have historically been the bottleneck in scaling production. When cooked, the cultivated tissue exhibits browning, texture, and mechanical properties nearly identical to conventional beef. The breakthrough addresses a critical challenge: feeding a growing global population without expanding livestock farming. @HebrewU

Fizzy drinks were invented by a Yorkshire chemist… who made nothing from them. In 1767, Joseph Priestley suspended a bowl of water above a fermenting beer vat in Leeds. The carbon dioxide rose and dissolved into the water. He tasted it. He liked it. He had just invented carbonated water. Priestley published the method as "fixed air water." Jacob Schweppe later refined it and built the business in London. Today, in Britain, Schweppes is owned by none other than Coca-Cola. A story with a common theme: English ingenuity. Global success. Foreign ownership.

Israel has unveiled an ambitious National Energy Plan for 2035 designed to triple its renewable electricity generation and reshape the country's energy infrastructure, with a target of 26 gigawatts of installed renewable capacity by the end of the decade. The plan, presented to President Isaac Herzog, would expand Israel's current eight gigawatts of installed renewable capacity - which accounts for roughly 16 percent of national electricity consumption - to meet growing demand and reduce reliance on conventional energy sources. Another bright idea from the Jewish nation! 🇮🇱💡

Educational achievement in Israel: female Muslim students outnumber their male counterparts by more than double in university enrollment! The statistics according to Central Bureau of Statistics, show that nearly 50,000 Muslim students are enrolled in Israeli higher education institutions. Over three-quarters of Israel's approximately 409,000 Muslim students are eligible for their high school diploma, with women leading the way in university enrollment. The Muslim population comprises nearly 19% of Israel's total population with a growth rate of 1.8%; the largest Muslim population resides in Jerusalem.

@MichaelARothman Ask @AndyBurnhamGM …. He who sees and condones all this sort of stuff in Manchester 🤮🤮🤮🤮@gmpolice @GMPCityCentre … At least you arrested them - good luck if it goes before a Jury …‼️

𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎: 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐍 “𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒” 𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐄, 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒-𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 Amateur footage out of Manchester shows Greater Manchester Police officers tasering and detaining 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 who were walking through the area 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. The men reportedly claimed the blades were carried for “𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭” or religious purposes — the standing UK exemption that lets certain ceremonial blades be carried in public. The bystander narrating the clip flagged the operational detail that should matter to every Briton: the suspects were on the phone for 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 before officers moved in. Police hustled them out of the area, the videographer speculated, on the assumption that “𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱.” The political context the British press is finally catching up to: the religious-carry exemption is at the centre of a national debate after the m∗rder of 𝟏𝟖-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐤 by 23-year-old Vickrum Singh Digwa. Per court evidence, Digwa was carrying 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 — a Sikh kirpan AND a separate 21cm knife. The court found the 21cm blade was the m∗rder weapon. Hampshire Police later apologised for 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐜𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐤 after Digwa falsely told officers HE was the racial-abuse victim. An IOPC investigation is open. Reform’s Robert Jenrick has pledged to scrap the religious-carry exemption. The Sikh Federation UK has clarified the exemption was never intended to shield violent use. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: (1) at what point does a “𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭” 18-inch blade in the open stop being a religious symbol and start being a public-safety event, and (2) 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭? 𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲. 𝐅𝐢𝐱 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲.

ISRAEL WINS THE GOLD MEDAL AGAIN! 🥳 Congratulations to Israeli windsurfer Tamar Steinberg for winning the iQFoil European Championship in Portugal.🥇 Israeli Shahar Tibi won the silver.🥈 Let’s go Israel! 🇮🇱

The Jews lived in the Holy Land for centuries, even before the Romans named the land “Palestina.” During the Ottoman occupation, Jews lived legally in Jerusalem and major cities in the Old Yishuv. Ottoman Jews were there long before the rise of the Zionist movement in Europe. Even during the British colonial rule, a.k.a. the British Mandate of Palestine, which started in 1917, the Jewish community prospered. Jews bought land legally and turned the desert into a paradise. When Britain returned the mandate to the UN, the Jews accepted the partition plan and agreed to establish a Jewish state next to an Arab state and live in peace with their Arab neighbors. But the Arab Muslims rejected it and repeatedly started wars to destroy the State of Israel and ethnically cleanse the Jews. They lost all the wars they started. Somehow, they managed to convince people in the West that Jews are “illegals” in the Land of Israel and that Israel has no right to exist. This is the big lie. Please share to destroy their false narrative.

ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו: לישראל יש זכות מלאה למנוע ממשטים פרובוקטיביים של תומכי טרור חמאס להיכנס למים הטריטוריאליים שלנו ולהגיע לעזה. עם זאת, האופן שבו השר בן גביר נהג בפעילי המשט אינו עולה בקנה אחד עם הערכים והנורמות של מדינת ישראל. הנחיתי את הגורמים הרלוונטיים לגרש את הפרובוקטורים בהקדם האפשרי.

The holiday of Shavuot starts on the evening of Thursday, May 21st this year. Here is a Dry Bones cartoon from 2018 by Yaakov Kirschen. Posted by Sali

🇬🇧 Not a day goes by without news about antisemitism across Britain. Last week StandWithUs UK made headlines, releasing its "Voice of Students" report. Those voices are telling us that Jewish and pro-Israel students are being shut down, shut out and intimidated. 💪 StandWithUs is committed to fighting back - but more than that - to ensuring that the next generation of British Jews are vocal and proud - and that they, and our allies, are strong in their identity with, and support of, Israel. 📺 TV journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer and so many others are standing with us. PLEASE take a moment to click on the link and support the vital work of StandWithUs UK for our young people today! Since October 7th, StandWithUs UK have already educated and supported over 30,000 people 🎓, most of them under the age of 20, and engaged more than 40 million across social media 🌍. StandWithUs UK proactively educates, mentors, and empowers communities with knowledge about Israel 🇮🇱. They do the daily, grassroots, hard work. Strengthening the community’s connection to Israel and helping people stand proudly in their identity - and they do it at scale. 💙 Please help via the link: fundnation.org/standwithusuk/… - every donation will be doubled today by a kind supporter like you. THANK YOU🙏✡️🇮🇱🇬🇧

This is just INSANE 😳 Israeli biotech company, NanoGhost, has created one of the most advanced targeted drug-delivery systems on Earth. Spun out of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology by Prof. Marcelle Machluf (former dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering), NanoGhost developed Nano-Ghosts (NGs) which are tiny nanovesicles made from the emptied membranes of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs). These Nano-Ghosts retain the natural tumor-homing ability of stem cells. When injected, they act like biological Trojan horses. They travel through the bloodstream, infiltrate tumors and inflamed tissue, and deliver powerful drugs, proteins, mRNA, or gene-editing tools directly inside cancer cells, while largely sparing healthy tissue and dramatically reducing side effects. Proven effective in preclinical studies against multiple aggressive cancers (melanoma, prostate, lung, glioma, pancreatic). The technology is now in advanced preclinical development, with human clinical trials expected in the coming years. This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s Israeli innovation turning your own cells into precision-guided missiles against cancer. Proud every single day. 🇮🇱 #NanoGhosts #Nanomedicine #CancerTreatment #Technion #IsraelInnovation #StartupNation

Hate makes the unbelievable feel true

The Great British supermarket farmwashing scandal. Giving off the impression of food being from British farms, but the food is often not from Britain, but from overseas. It’s time to end supermarket farmwashing that cons shoppers into thinking they are buying British farm food, when it’s foreign food. It’s not just a con. It hurts British farmers by consumers being tricked into buying foreign food rather than British food. It’s time for clear country of origin labelling on all supermarket food.

Palestine Action protesters could be sentenced as TERRORISTS after violent raid on Israeli defence firm Four activists Charlotte Head, 30, Samuel Corner, Leona Kamio and Fatema Rajwani, 21 were convicted of criminal damage at Woolwich Crown Court last week over the 6 August 2024 raid on Elbit Systems UK near Bristol. The group rammed the factory gates with an old prison van, then used crowbars and sledgehammers to smash computers, drones and equipment while spraying red paint across the site in red boiler suits. Samuel Corner was also found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm after fracturing a police sergeant’s spine during the clash. Judge Mr Justice Johnson ruled the offences have a “terrorist connection” because of their link to Palestine Action’s campaign against the Israeli-owned arms firm. Sentencing is set for 12 June 2026 and could carry much harsher terrorism-style penalties.

The world’s biggest tech companies are betting big on Israel. 10 of the world’s 11 most valuable companies now operate major R&D centers in Israel. NVIDIA Corporation alone plans to employ around 10,000 people locally and build a massive new campus, while Apple Inc., Google, Microsoft and others continue expanding their presence. Startup Nation is becoming Scale-Up Nation. 🇮🇱

An 8-year-old Israeli boy looking for "special things" to show his classmates made the discovery of a lifetime - a rare 1,700-year-old Roman statuette fragment in the Negev Desert!

Luisa Zissman is branded 'rude and entitled' by small business owners after moaning about unwanted PR packages left at the gates to her £8million mansion trib.al/wfgEmRA