Storyville BBC now Nova Music Festival

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It's on now. Awful.

Imagine if it was Glastonbury or Reading festivals. Just dancing and having fun.

Totally @ella

Look after yourself 💐

The clip I saw on the news was distressing enough

I don’t think I could watch the whole thing

I know that’s really cowardly

Wow. That's awful, why on earth.

Personally vile creatures is how I refer to them.

I watched the programme and cannot remember what they called them if not terrorists. What a ridiculous decision by the BBC were they worried the supporters of the terrorists would become upset 😡

I watched the interview on Newsnight with Victoria Derbyshire, Noam, girlfriend of David Newman, and Ben, a wonderful young man who helped a mother of three children to escape the Nova Music massacre. Considering English is their second language, these courageous young people told the audience what happened to them and their friends. But I don’t think you can describe in words alone the utter terror and carnage of the events of that day.

This is why I am pleased and surprised that the BBC Storyville commissioned this film, Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again. However painful and disturbing it is to watch. We need to remind the world of these atrocities and acknowledge the pain and suffering. I am sick and tired of watching these far-left activists marching in London shouting out their hateful, antisemitic remarks and this sick, false narrative of the oppressed and the oppressor. How we have allowed these hate marches to continue in central London and throughout the country is unforgivable. All the people who attend these marches are complicit in supporting and encouraging a terrorist organisation whose only priority is to murder every single Jew in Israel. This war isn’t about securing land for Palestinians; this is a hateful Islamic ideology. It is a religious war led by right-wing Islamic Jihadists and ironically supported by the far left in the West.

If you want to do something to help, I’d suggest you attend the communal memorial event on Sunday 6th October in Central London. The Board of Deputies of British Jews is organising the event. Let’s stand up to antisemitism, show our solidarity for humanity and support British Jews in a time of need. https://bod.org.uk/october-7-commemorative-weekend/

Absolutely. Let's keep this thread on topic... so if people could stop referring to 'left wing nutters' and the peaceful pro Palestine marches as terrorist supporters, that would be great, and there would be no need for any response. Thank you.

I'm glad it was shown, horrific as it was, it needs the widest audience possible.

There is no justification for 7/10.

All those taken on 7/10 must be released and returned.

Well, at the risk of hurting people's feelings, let's say it loud and clear here: Hamas, and the other groups and individuals who took part in those atrocities, are terrorists.

Oh please! You've got some nerve.

And actually terrorists and terrorist supporters are pretty relevant to this discussion, including those who show support for them.

Some nerve? Trying to keep the thread on track, when it's full of goady posts? Absolutely respect the dead of Nova, but don't goad others while you're at it. Otherwise you're the one making the thread disrespectful

The whole thing is deeply deeply depressing. I’m coming off Mumsnet ( not least because I’ve been threatened with suspension for hurting someone’s feelings on the Israel part 4 thread -something of a surprise considering all that has been said on there )

I was looking for something else, and I found this project. https://my.israelgives.org/en/fundme/BringThemLight#tab3_sec1 (this is the fundraiser - I am just linking as it gives a bit of info about the project, I haven't personally donated, so can't vouch for it). It looks like they are planning a light installation of 1400 bulbs.

I came across it just now, as they have a second part of the project, where they are creating videos about the lives of each of the victims, to share how they lived, who they were, which I have been following. https://www.instagram.com/p/DAWGVsqtbv7/?locale=zh-TW&hl=am-et

Thank you for the info about the memorial service, I didn’t know anything was planned

I’ll be there with one year old, partner and my parents.

Am Yisrael Chai!

We Will Dance Again, just so so poignant 😞

I had missed that, so good to know at least one festival honoured those beautiful young people.

I will be there too. I feel its important for those of us who are not Jewish to show our love & solidarity.

Were you at Glastonbury? Because I was.

There was a gathering for the victims of the Nova festival on the hill on one of the evenings (I want to say Thursday). Chris Martin (the biggest set of the weekend) acknowledged both the people of Israel and Gaza during his set.
There were both Palestinian and Israeli flags in the crowd all weekend.

Thats good to know. Somehow the tv footage managed to exclude the Israeli flags as they were extremely rare in a sea of Palestinian flags in any footage I saw. dont think the festival organisers expressed any solidarity though, it would have been appropriate to do so.

With all due respect, the bbc shows a tiny fraction of an enormous festival. If your only experience of it is what you see on the tv, then you have no idea so it’s probably best not to comment.

The TV footage was BBC....who can't even bring themselves to call Hamas terrorists.

Thanks, Im happy with my observation & comfortable with my comment which acknowledged your experience.

Have just finished watching the film It is outstanding and needs to be seen by as many people as possible

Quite agree that this reality of what happened needs to be broadcast far and wide