Musician, Pianist, Professor @RCMLondon, recordings @hyperionrecords, #OnyxClassics https://xitter.cf/t.co/JAbAyiMBzE
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Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
After the Green Party's "Zionism is Racism" vote, the Leader of Haringey Council, which is controlled by the Greens, wrote to various Synagogues in the borough to "reassure" them.
I want to show you Highgate Synagogue's reply. I believe it is worth reading in its entirety.
Synagogue rejects Green council leader’s attempt to ‘reassure’ them after “Zionism is Racism” vote
jewishnews.co.uk/synagogue-r…
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
The BBC put out a spiteful propaganda tale deliberately to demonise Israel on October 8.. Turns out it was just another Hamas family.
Full story here david-collier.com/the-bbcs-s…
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
The 7 October attacks were a barbaric act of terror. Today, we stand with Israel in remembering every life taken and destroyed at the hands of the Hamas terrorists.
Our thoughts are with the victims, the survivors, their families and all those who continue to carry the pain of that terrible day.
We must firmly reject any form of antisemitism across Europe. Jewish communities must be able to live openly, safely and without fear.
Hamas brought unspeakable suffering to the Israeli people and left devastation in its wake. Hamas must disarm so that the Gaza Peace Plan to move forward.
Danny Driver דני דרייבר 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.
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
I am feeling very, very suspicious right now.
Having read the dreadful Green Party motion, it struck me that it has a strong similarity to the 2017 Hamas charter. Same demands. Same language.
So read this and tell me if it rings your alarm bells as much as it does mine.
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Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
The Greens will now target Jews for attending synagogue. Whether you are Jewish or not this is deeply disturbing. The Greens are now a problem for Britain itself.
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
Thank you @DannyDriver_ for a breathtaking recital, bringing your intense and electrifying @wigmore_hall Variations III programme of Gubaidulina, Medtner, Leighton & Beethoven to St Mary's Church Cratfield. Mesmerising. concertsatcratfield.org Photos:Darrel Charles
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
Former AP journalist Matti Friedman admits that they had no choice but to be complicit with Hamas, and NOT admit that many of their dead were in civilian clothes.
I’m certain that ALL networks had no choice but to do this for fear of Hamas in Gaza.
Very much looking forward to another reprise of the Medtner Improvisation here, along with Beethoven’s final piano sonata and spicy works by Sofia Gubaidulina & Kenneth Leighton.
Our summer season runs July 5 to September 13 featuring @TDEDionysus @DannyDriver_ #CatherinaLee @j_ferrucci @EngegardQ @ndanielmusic @WatkinsHuw @buschtrio concertsatcratfield.org #suffolk
Coming up on Monday 27th in London, my next installment of ‘Variations’ at the beautiful @wigmore_hall, focusing on Nikolai Medtner’s hauntingly beautiful and incomprehensibly underplayed ‘Second Improvisation’ Op 47 (well it is difficult I grant you…)
wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on…
Meeting the piano 🎹 I’ll be using @cadoganhall on Monday to play Robert Schumann’s wonderful Piano Concerto. Tickets almost all gone!
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
We are deeply saddened and shocked by the senseless attack in the early hours of this morning at the Hatzola Northwest ambulance base.
Hatzola NW, along with all Hatzola organisations, provides life-saving services without discrimination, regardless of faith or background. It is extremely distressing and difficult to comprehend that such a vital service could be targeted and attacked in such a way.
We are working closely with the police and relevant support agencies to ensure the safety and security of our premises and resources, so that we can continue to respond swiftly to emergencies.
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
We are absolutely heartbroken that this is how low Britain has sunk. This horrific act truly plumbs new depths.
Hatzola is a volunteer-run ambulance service run by the Jewish community but catering to everyone, Jews and non-Jews alike, working with the NHS to save lives as fast as possible. They provide outstanding medical care at lightning speed every hour of every day, and fundraise to buy ambulances and equipment. They are truly a shining example of the Jewish community coming together to help everyone in the most fundamental of ways by giving the gift of life.
Burning their ambulances in an attempt to put them out of action is a truly repulsive act of antisemitic hatred in a Britain where Jews now have to keep everything from schools to synagogues under constant guard. Our society has become infested with the sickness of antisemitism.
In this case it is not only about catching the perpetrators and restoring the ambulances, but about politicians accepting that by tolerating everything from hate marches to hate preachers, they have created this sickening mess, and time has run out for them to act. The law must change, fast, but so must society.
The people spewing obsessive conspiracy theories about Jews, Zionists and Israelis are not social justice warriors, they are hateful bigots who are feeding this madness and must be stood up to and told as much by ordinary decent people.
Weekend listening - I enjoyed talking to Erica Worth at Pianist about my variations series @wigmore_hall and other musical matters.
Pianist Danny Driver joins The Pianist Podcast to talk with Erica Worth about his current Variation Series at Wigmore Hall, the lasting influence of lessons with Maria Curcio, and his passion for Ligeti.
pianistpiano.com/DannyDriver @dannydriver_
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
🚨 The humanitarian disaster continues to unfold inside Iran right now with tens of thousands already killed, hundreds of thousands with injuries, many life threatening. They are not victims of a natural disaster. It is a government trying to wipe out their own people for protesting against them. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is most of the country. I get asked ‘why is this not in the news now?’ The answer is stark: the government has shut down the internet. Even @elonmusk Starlink satellites have been jammed. So hear it from an Iranian simply trying to amplify faint voices coming out of Iran: worse is yet to come.
#IranMassacre
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
Iranian protesters:
“Death to the Islamic Republic!”
“This is the year of blood, Seyed Ali (Khamenei) will be toppled!”
“This homeland won’t be a homeland until the Mullahs are buried.”
U.S. Media & Analysts:
“Well, Jim, it seems they’re upset about the economy.”
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
From my dear and amazing friend, @TAMARA_SUJU . Tamara is a human rights lawyer, persecuted by the regime and exiled in Europe. She’s director of the @caslainstitute and works day and night to put the criminals behind bars and fights for the release of political prisoners in Venezuela.
#Venezuela: Cuando usted vea esta foto recuerde cuantos jóvenes fueron asesinados en manifestaciones por pedir y querer vivir en Libertad; cuando niños y niñas, jóvenes, mujeres y hombres, civiles y militares han sido secuestrados por fuerzas de seguridad, desaparecidos, detenidos arbitrariamente, Torturados y Agredidos Sexualmente, por Órdenes de este Tipo, si por Órdenes de Nicolás Maduro, quien asumió todas las funciones policiales además de ser el Comandante en Jefe de la FANB y Jefe del DGCIM
Recuerden cuántos venezolanos han sido perseguidos Sistemáticamente, siin piedad, sus familias secuestradas y/o encarceladas, madres, hijas, hijos, abuelas, abuelos, torturados en centros clandestinos por ser familiar de un perseguido...
Recuerden cuántos presos politicos han muerto en las cárceles inducido por una estructura Criminal Represiva
Yo tengo 25 años recopilando Testimonios del HORROR.. y en los años que tiene mandando la Estructura Criminal encabezada por Nicolás Maduro, la evolución de los métodos de Torturas utilizados contra venezolanos y extranjeros han sido perversos, crueles, sádicos, con la intromisión de agentes extranjeros como los enviados por la dictadura cubana.
La Tiranía Venezolana tiene una investigacion abierta ante la @IntlCrimCourt
por Crímenes de Lesa Humanidad que han multiplicado desde Julio 2024 contra toda la población que votó contra ellos y que se han atrevido a denunciar y protestar
Donde estaban todos aquellos que hoy hablan del Derecho Internacional que no los he oído pedir por los venezolanos torturados y perseguidos contundentemente? Donde estan las protestas mundiales por los seres humanos que en Venezuela han muerto y han sido víctimas de una Tiranía Cruel que los ha colgado, electrocutado, ahogado, violado, y que los ha ido asesinando poco a poco en sus campos de concentración?
Yo quiero ver a los Altos Responsables, a Todos, ante la Justicia, para que rindan cuenta ante sus víctimas, sus familiares, sus amigos y eso va a llegar.
Hoy es Nicolás Maduro y Cilia Flores
Mañana les tocará el turno a Ministros, Fiscales, Jueces, Jefes de Organismos de Seguridad e Inteligencia, Ejecutores de órdenes, y todo aquél que conociendo como ciudadanos fueron víctimas de las más viles Torturas que la mente pueda imaginar, dio su firma cómplice para borrar la realidad.
Venezuela necesita Justicia, y que la Estructura Criminal rinda cuentas. Ese tiempo llegará....
Ya su "Comandante en Jefe" está Preso.... Faltan los otros camaradas ...
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
A layered quote from fellow Venezuelan, Michel Hausman: “You can oppose Trump and still applaud the removal of Nicolás Maduro. You can hold two thoughts in your head at the same time. Trump is not the moral compass of the universe, and Maduro still belongs in prison.”
I’d like to add that I greatly appreciate the risks the US servicemen and women faced to successfully complete the extraction. They removed the head of the monster- now there’s the rest of the criminal structure to take care of. They all belong in jail.
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
Iranians continue to risk their lives to oppose one of the world’s most brutal regimes. Yet there are no mass marches for them in the West - perhaps because too many who shout loudest prefer Iran’s rulers to the brave people resisting them.
Danny Driver דני דרייבר retweeted
One year ago today, Hamas militias shot and killed a Palestinian critic of Hamas in Gaza — Ziyad Abu Hayya — right in front of his children, inside the tent where the family was living, after he appeared in a video pleading with the world to save Gaza from Hamas.
A full year has passed, and not a single human rights organization has documented Zyad’s story or spoken with his family. His name has been left in silence.
What his family wants is simple: justice for Ziyad. His killer has never been held accountable.
Over the past two years — and throughout 17 years of Hamas’s rule — they have tortured, killed, and terrorized countless Palestinians who dared to speak, criticize, or resist. Ziyad’s story isn’t an exception; it is part of a brutal, systematic pattern of silencing any Palestinian who dares to speak out.
