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Dr Jaime Ashworth
@drjaimeashworth.bsky.social
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Educator and Researcher. Holocaust History, Memory, and Education; Polish History; Photography and Visual Culture; Jewish Studies. Reform Jew. COYS. He/him www.framingthequestion.blog
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The inscription “Light for the Nations” on the memorial to Aachen synagogue, destroyed during the November Pogrom (#Kristallnacht), 9-10 November 1938.
Layers of glass, shifting in colour (though image is b/w) both very and horizontally: LICHT FÜR DIE VÖLKER in the centre.
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I feel this is the best summary of Cheney’s career (by Tom Lehrer, who sadly died earlier this year, though he had long outlived satire when Kissinger got the Peace Prize.)
From Tom Lehrer’s “The Hunting Song”: PEOPLE ASK ME HOW I DO IT AND I SAY “THERE’S NOTHING TO IT: YOU JUST STAND THERE LOOKING CUTE, AND WHEN SOMETHING MOVES, YOU SHOOT.”
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A lemon and blueberry cake with a ”3” candle on top.
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Yup: provisional results…
A1. 31% A2. 59% A3. 11%
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Glad to see YouGov tackling the big questions. I’m sure we’ll all abide by the result. Answers on a postcard please.
YouGov question: Do you think history is primarily shaped by the actions of major individuals, or do you think history is primarily driven by broader social, economic, cultural and technological changes? A1. Primarily by the actions of major individuals. A2. Primarily by broader social, economic, cultural and technological changes. A3. Don’t know.
October 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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The return of the hostages is beyond wonderful news. If they are all home, and no bombs fall tonight, that is all that matters for now.
Yellow ribbons hang from a fence in North London.
October 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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#ShabbatShalom one and all. Please let the negotiations be fruitful. Homemade challah made in hope…
Two challot, shining and fresh from the oven.
October 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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As the festival of shelter begins, it seems appropriate to remember the hostages taken two years ago. We need their release and we need peace. Chag #Sukkot Sameach.
Two yellow ribbons on black circles: the words “Bring them home” on the ribbons.
October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Shabbat Shalom one and all. May your weekend be as sweet as this honey cake I made this afternoon…
Succulent honey cake on tin foil. Mmmmmmm….
September 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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An ID card scheme “to keep our borders secure” is a scheme designed to exclude; which means it can be used to exclude other groups as required.
Guardian: Starmer says government will introduce digital IDs to ensure Britain’s ‘borders are more secure.’
September 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Shana Tova! Wishing those who celebrate a sweet New Year, and peace to everyone.
Apples on the table for Rosh Hashanah.
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Wow. Say what you like about Corbyn, but he’s a fast worker. He produces splits in parties like a Stakhanovite meeting quota.
Guardian: Corbyn clashes with Sultana over new party’s membership portal as split emerges.
September 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Apparently the Trump administration is attempting to remove this and other images of enslavement. Even WaPo is concerned. I think we know what to do.
A black man faces to the left, showing his back covered in scars resulting from abuse while enslaved.
September 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Well it wasn’t the fall that killed him. RIP Robert Redford.
Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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@lavietidhar.bsky.social it’s here!!
The cover of Lavie Tidhar’s novel, Golgotha, concluding (sob) the trilogy begun with Maror (bitter herbs) and Adama (earth).
September 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Has anyone else noticed that YouGov is polling on how to implement a horrendous policy of repression for “illegal immigrants”?
Would you support or oppose the UK suspending visas for citizens from countries which do not agree to return deals for illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers? Strongly support: 50% Somewhat support: 21% Somewhat oppose: 9% Strongly oppose: 11% Would you support or oppose housing asylum seekers in prison camps with only basic facilities? Strongly support:31% Somewhat support: 21% Somewhat oppose: 14% Strongly oppose: 21%
September 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I got so much **** for making this point. It’s just shamefully weak and stupid.
JA post: The ideas at the end of this race to the bottom between Labour and Farage are truly horrific. At some point, we have to remember that *human rights* must be protected for all, or the abyss beckons.
September 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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#ShabbatShalom one and all. If you can find it, enjoy it.
Clouds split by a blue sky reflected on the film of water over the sands at Snettisham in Norfolk. JA, August 2025.
August 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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@iandunt.bsky.social getting to the heart of the problem this morning. Subscribe if you don’t! Reform must be opposed on every level, beginning with the implications of their policy.
Back in the 90s, triangulating to the right on asylum meant promising strict controls. Today, it means murdering asylum seekers. The environment has simply changed too much to allow for a replication of the same tactics. Talk of mass deportation is Nazi fucking bullshit. You can pretend otherwise, but that's what it is. In order to even countenance it, you must reach a point of hatred towards a minority group which is reminiscent of the very worst moments of human history. In order to implement it, you would need a system of control and surveillance which goes well beyond any traditional notion of what this country, or indeed any free society, is about. In order to enact it, you need to split people into valid and invalid categories, round them up and concentrate them in advance of deportation, necessitating the use of camps. And yes, if you're going to land those planes at their destination, you will need to do deals with tyrannical governments so that they can murder the people who tried to escape them.
August 29, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Following the abuse I received yesterday for suggesting that Labour can be compared with Reform. This was the response to proposed *mass deportations*. Not exactly rejecting the premise of the question, is it?
Labour: Whilst Nigel Farage moans from the sidelines, Labour is getting on with the job of delivering for Britain. (Farage) SHOUTING FROM THE SIDELINES. (Starmer) REMOVED OVER 35,000 PEOPLE FROM THE UK WITH NO RIGHT TO BE HERE.
August 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Things fall apart. Ever more swiftly. Human Rights must be, by definition, supranational. Or they mean nothing.
Telegraph headline, 21 August 2025. First Labour MP calls for withdrawal from ECHR. Graham Stringer urges Sir Keir Starmer to leave convention and says UK needs laws that apply to “current situation”.
August 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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@silenceinpolish.bsky.social St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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@floellabenjamin.bsky.social it’s so wonderful that my daughter can experience your kindness and fun just like I did. Bless you.
The back of a child’s head, watching Baroness Floella Benjamin on television.
August 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The response today to challenging AI fabrication of Holocaust images. Onward

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Facebook post by ”Zyk Lonb”: Jaime Ashworth yes we can’t have anyone except for Jews making $$$ from the holohoax industry. (Cover of Mein Kampf)
August 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM