Recently retired but still seeking a more science based, socially aware, self critical & public health oriented physiotherapy.
Manchester, England
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Today we remember the victims of the October 7 massacre – the killing of innocent Israeli people, the torture, mutilation, rape and kidnapping, parading of the dead, the wanton cruelty and the depraved celebrations of murder, the gleeful delight in brutality, the degeneracy of its perpetrators and supporters. It is a day that stands out for its unparalleled sadism and nihilism.
The scale of the killing of people of all sorts, all races, Jewish and Arab and others, is unequalled in a single day in modern times.
It was the greatest murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust.
Its cruelty and barbarism seem to belong to cruel times long ago – this was a lurch back to the raids and slaughters of the Mongols or the Huns - but it is unique too in its 21stcentury hi-tech modernity: it was filmed live by its perpetrators and other cameras and so unlike any other atrocity in all of human history, its details are beyond question.
It is the most documented butchery and sadism ever perpetrated – and therefore the reactions to it are simply the clearest and most unequalled test of humanity available to us, reactions that will be remembered in the future.
It was also a crime against peace: its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for Palestinians and the innocent people across the whole region who perished in the wars it unleashed.
More than that, it was an atrocity against humanity itself - and the humanist values that mark all decent people, the values of liberal, free, kind societies and communities everywhere.
Its effects were utterly destructive for Israelis but also for the Palestinians and the rest of the region.
Today we remember those who died, those who were wounded, those who were kidnapped, tortured, raped and killed in the tunnels of Gaza, those who lost friends and compatriots.
It was a crime of annihilation to launch the liquidation of an entire people and nation, to kill and torture Israelis and Jews.
Am Yisrael Chai.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
Zionism is both historic and spiritual; the ancient connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel and their right to self-determination in their historic homeland.
I am British by birth, belonging and love; Jewish by inheritance, memory and faith. Britain is my country. Israel is not a competing loyalty, it is the homeland of the Jewish people to which I am bound by ancestry, memory and identity.
For millions of Jews, that is the heart of Zionism. Not supremacy, dispossession or the killing of Palestinians and not a colonial claim to a foreign land but the self-determination of a people with an ancient and continuous connection to it. In practice, it must mean two peoples entitled to self-determination both living in security and freedom with neither people’s future purchased with the lives, rights or humanity of the other.
That is why declaring “Zionism is racism” is not merely wrong, it tells most Jews that their understanding of their own history, identity and collective freedom is itself morally suspect. The Greens should ask themselves whom they are trying to please by adopting a slogan that turns Jewish self-determination into a moral stain. If your politics of inclusion requires millions of Jews to renounce a central part of their history and identity before they qualify for your solidarity, it isn’t inclusion. You are telling Jews: you may belong here but only if you disown Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. That is not anti-racism. It is imposing a political test on Jews that no genuinely progressive movement would dream of imposing on any other minority.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
So often the complex multi ethnic multi sect reality of the Middle East defies the parochial, simplistic ideologies that Westerners try to impose on the Middle East.
The Mayor of Haifa Yona Yahav @theTimes Writes:
"Last week, the Green leadership of the London borough of Hackney announced its intention to end its twinning agreement with Haifa, bringing to a close a partnership that has lasted nearly six decades. The announcement was accompanied by a series of grave accusations against the state of Israel and portrayed Haifa as a city that no longer reflects the values Hackney seeks to uphold.
At a time when facts are so easily replaced by slogans, and complexity reduced to political soundbites, it is important to pause and consider the reality. Haifa is an exceptional model of coexistence in the Middle East. For more than a century, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze and Bahá’ís have lived alongside one another here, not as an abstract ideal but as a way of life.
They study in the same schools and universities. They care for one another in our hospitals, work side by side, establish businesses together, meet in the same cafés and restaurants, and co-operate in local government and community life. This is the everyday reality of my city."
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
Exposing Hamas’s Use of a Primary Gaza Hospital for Repression: Hamas’s intelligence and internal security services are in full fascist mode across the Gaza Strip, beating, interrogating, and threatening anyone they suspect may join the June 26 protests against their rule. A few friends of mine in Gaza City have already been summoned. They were told explicitly by al‑Qassam Brigades operatives, Hamas police, and internal security officers that if they post anything supportive of the protests on Facebook or offer any help to protestors, they will be executed under “revolutionary conditions” and treated as collaborators with Israel; no trial, no process, just immediate death.
And where were some of my friends interrogated, threatened, and placed on house arrest? Inside Al‑Ahli Arab Hospital or the Ma'amadani/Baptist Hospital in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. Yes, the same hospital that grabbed global headlines early in the war after a faulty Islamic Jihad rocket fell and caused an explosion, which killed hundreds of people. That hospital is now a central hub for Hamas’s intelligence, militancy, and internal repression.
This is criminal on every level. And it raises a basic question: if overwhelming, well‑corroborated evidence shows Hamas using Gaza’s medical facilities to hide among civilians and enforce its armed rule, violating the October 2025 ceasefire, why have the UN and international medical and humanitarian NGOs and charities remained silent? Why has no one suspended operations until Hamas withdraws from the hospitals they support?
I want every follower and every official who sees this to contact and tag the World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNRWA, the United Nations, Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and any organization supplying Gaza’s hospitals. Demand that they confront Hamas’s presence in the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital/ Ma'amadani / Baptist Hospital and every facility they fund, staff, and sustain. Even though the Episcopal Church/Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem manages Al‑Ahli, every medical facility in Gaza depends on international aid, equipment, and expertise, during the war and even more so since the ceasefire.
It is time to get Hamas out of Gaza’s hospitals. It is time to support Gazans risking their lives to protest the Islamist fascists who have destroyed their society for twenty years. And it is time for the international community to finally recognize that Hamas cannot be trusted to uphold any agreement. The group is committed to a last‑stand ideology – much like Hitler in his bunker – regardless of how many civilians in Gaza suffer or die as a result.
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In the nick of time for the celebratory weekend in the USA, here's "Trumpy Doodle" - our 250th anniversary version of "Yankee Doodle" that you can also download as a song on Bandcamp, with the lyrics:
themarshfamily.bandcamp.com/…
#nokings #america250 🎶🚫👑✊
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
There were two tiers of possible response to the express wishes of Henry Nowak's dignified family in the light of his traumatic murder. One humane and empathetic, the other inhumane and exploitative. This version of "Lyin' Eyes" (Eagles) is for @JDVance and those in the second.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
Here's a 🎶 twist on @coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque disrespectful media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with @ZelenskyyUa 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
🔥 MUST WATCH: A Bedouin absolutely shreds a viral post claiming he & his community are ‘Palestinians.’ This is what they don’t want you to hear—how the world is erasing entire identities to push their narrative. 🚨👀 Don’t let the lies win. Watch, share, and repost.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
My Dad understood pain and he understood the ridiculousness behind it.
But, more than anything, he understood how real it all was in that moment.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has illuminated Downing Street with the Israeli flag in a show of solidarity with Israel.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
I have to say that if anyone is looking for a role model for a Jewish comedian able to get serious when necessary, look no further than Volodymyr Zelensky.
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RobMandelPhysio retweeted
This moved me to tears. Humans are amazing, I miss them. Art is important.
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To celebrate the premiere of Puccini's Turandot #OnThisDay in 1926, a flashback to our 'Nessun dorma' flashmob with tenor Rafael Rojas @TrinityLeeds
Hopefully we'll be back with more performances like this before too long! #Leeds
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
The physiotherapy team at this rehab hospital are kind, committed, knowledgeable, adaptable, inventive and thorough. This is social medicine, social health at its best.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
From the moment I was spotted as having the virus to where I am so far must have pulled in the work and skills of over a hundred people working long hours. The NHS was and is a great leap of the human imagination designed to help us all. Forever grateful and believing in it.
RobMandelPhysio retweeted
Thank you for putting this up here. This is the piece in which I comment on structural racism, as well as deprivation an dCovid-19 mortality.
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RobMandelPhysio retweeted
This virus is going to be with us for the foreseeable future & nobody wants to go on having lockdowns as we have at the moment
#COVID19 tracing+containment+neighbourhood health watch will be necessary even once the present wave of outbreaks is gone
We need #COVIDready societies