Nike is getting blasted for its insensitivity in using a phrase associated with the Holocaust only three days after Yom HaShoah, when Jews around the world mark the murder of six million Jews by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
Nike installed signs along the London Marathon route emblazoned, “Never again, until next year.”
“As a Jew living in London, I felt shocked, hurt, and angry to see the use of words in this context, even if no doubt in reference to the temporary pain of running 26 miles,&#8221; retired British judge Nigel Litman <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-851847" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Walla.
He continued:
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“Never Again” is a phrase related to the Holocaust and the murder of six million Jews. It is directed as a prayer to the world that it will not allow such a horror to repeat itself. And over the past 18 months, it has been used more than ever, as we mourn the barbaric slaughter of more than 1,000 Israelis and long for the return of hostages kidnapped to the tunnels of Gaza. The fact that the phrase is used as a marketing tool for the marathon is very indicative of the way it is treated. In fact, to chant ‘never again, until next year’ is exactly what Hamas promised: to repeat October 7 over and over again.
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“I am not arguing that Nike meant an antisemitic act, but it demonstrated how a serious and important comment is thrown aside as of little importance, despite the fact that for many Jews it is of enormous importance,” he concluded.
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Boycott Nike <a href="https://t.co/sntTQ9Fg9W">pic.twitter.com/sntTQ9Fg9W</a>
&mdash; Eye On Antisemitism (@AntisemitismEye) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntisemitismEye/status/1916873782381203492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The idea that <a href="https://twitter.com/Nike?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Nike</a> would make light of the holocaust using Hitler-red imagery in a post-October 7th world is stunning. 
Heads need to roll. 
WTF Nike? <a href="https://t.co/5kHx3sdB7a">https://t.co/5kHx3sdB7a</a>
&mdash; Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1916929342296166809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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I will &quot;never again&quot; purchase anything from Nike. <a href="https://t.co/lPx99oOsqV">pic.twitter.com/lPx99oOsqV</a>
&mdash; Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) <a href="https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/1916862588282904667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Nike&#39;s ad at the London Marathon — to Never Again buy Nike. <a href="https://t.co/Egs4M06vfL">pic.twitter.com/Egs4M06vfL</a>
&mdash; dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1916841999136604413?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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One month after the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, a &#8220;digital media marketing specialist&#8221; at Nike accused Israel of “massacring civilians.”
“Much of what is Israel claims about Palestinian resistance is pure projection. The killing of children, massacring civilians, the r*pe, torture, hostage-taking, and imprisonment that Israel accuses of Palestinians of occurs on a much greater scale by the Israelis,” James Rehwald wrote, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-nike-marketing-specialist-who-says-israel-not-hamas-is-massacring-civilians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, adding, “Nike CEO John Donahoe nearly a week after the attack sent an internal email to employees decrying the &#8220;horrific attacks in Israel&#8221; but did not mention Hamas, prompting pushback from some Jewish employees.”

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Trans-identified activist Dylan Mulvaney has joined in on the trend of threatening to leave the United States for good.
“I’m trying to move here permanent [sic],” he <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIolRogP_CQ/">told</a> the U.K.-based outlet Pink News while discussing his lead role in the musical stage play “We Aren’t Kids Anymore,” which is playing at the Savoy Theatre in London.
“There’s something about being here that makes me feel like, people have been so kind, and the theater culture’s amazing, and Percy Pigs are my favorite,” Mulvaney continued. “So honestly, that makes the move worth it.” 
This isn’t the first time Mulvaney, best known for partnering with Bud Light in what became one of the biggest PR disasters in history, has discussed leaving his home country. The trans activist fled to Peru in 2023 to “feel something” and “feel safe,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dylan-mulvaney-flies-to-peru-to-feel-safe-participate-in-shaman-ceremonies-amid-bud-light-backlash">reported</a>.
“I’ve seen a lot of llamas. The people here are so kind. I feel very safe here,” Mulvaney said at the time. “It’s a little sad that I had to leave my country to feel safe but that will get better eventually.”
Anheuser-Busch lost billions of dollars in market value after a partnership with Mulvaney, in which the activist was sent a Bud Light can with his face on it. Mulvaney later blasted Bud Light, saying that the brand did not do enough to “publicly stand” up for him. 
“I took a brand deal with a company that I loved. And I posted a sponsored video to my page,” Mulvaney said at the time. “And it must have been a slow news week, because the way that this ad got blown up, you would have thought I was like, on a billboard, or on a TV commercial or something major, but no, it was just an Instagram video.”
“And I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me, but they never did. And for months now, I’ve been scared to leave my house, I have been ridiculed in public, I’ve been followed,” Mulvaney added. 
Sales of Bud Light plummeted following the Mulvaney partnership, and the beer has since lost its place as one of the country’s 10 most popular beers. Years later, its reputation still hasn’t fully recovered.
Meanwhile, Mulvaney might not find the absolute acceptance he’s seeking in London. The United Kingdom’s highest court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uk-supreme-court-rules-trans-identifying-men-are-not-women">ruled last week</a> that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biology and does not include trans-identifying men who say they are women.
In the landmark judgment, the British Supreme Court ruled that the meaning of “woman” in equality legislation is a “biological woman and biological sex,” and the “concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.”

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Global travel was disrupted on Friday as London’s Heathrow Airport shut down due to a fire that broke out at an electrical station. 
Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports, announced it would be closed until midnight due to a fire that caused two terminals to lose power. The fire, which broke out Thursday, has already <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/londons-heathrow-airport-closed-all-day-friday-after-fire-causes-power-outage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impacted</a> more than 1,300 flights, with authorities telling travelers not to come to the airport. Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-heathrow-airport-experiences-power-outage-due-fire-substation-2025-03-21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the closure could impact up to 290,000 travelers.
“Due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the airport, Heathrow is experiencing a significant power outage. To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, Heathrow will be closed until 23h59 on 21 March,” the airport posted on X. “Passengers are advised not to travel to the airport and should contact their airline for further information. We apologise for the inconvenience.”
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Due to a fire at an electrical substation supplying the airport, Heathrow is experiencing a significant power outage.
To maintain the safety of our passengers and colleagues, Heathrow will be closed until 23h59 on 21 March.
Passengers are advised not to travel to the airport… <a href="https://t.co/7SWNJP8ojd">pic.twitter.com/7SWNJP8ojd</a>
— Heathrow Airport (@HeathrowAirport) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeathrowAirport/status/1902911632679805313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The airport later <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/business/money-report/britains-heathrow-airport-closes-friday-after-substation-fire-causes-significant-power-outage/4140238/?os=io....dbr5yxkr%26ref%3Dapp&amp;ref=app" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it did not estimate when power would be “reliably restored.” 
&#8220;We expect significant disruption over the coming days and passengers should not travel to the airport under any circumstances until the airport reopens,” a spokesman said. 
The London Fire Brigade <a href="https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2025/march/fire-at-electrical-substation-hayes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the blaze involved around 6,600 gallons of cooling oil. London Police said it was working with firefighting authorities to determine the cause, saying the investigation was ongoing. 
“While there is currently no indication of foul play we retain an open mind at this time,” the police said in a statement. 
The investigation is being led by London’s Counter Terrorism Command because of the location of the power station and the “impact this incident has had on critical national infrastructure,” the Metropolitan Police <a href="https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/1903058191736549865" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
In addition to the airport disruption, more than 67,000 homes in the area lost power due to the fire, and around 179 people were evacuated from the area by firefighters and police. 
&#8220;I would like to take this opportunity to thank firefighters and Control officers for their courage and professionalism to bring this incident under control in what were very challenging,” said Deputy Commissioner at London Fire Brigade Jonathan Smith.

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The Science Museum in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/london">London</a> is getting dragged on social media due to a tour they have which promotes the idea that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lego">Lego</a> blocks can be anti-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbt">LGBT</a> by reinforcing “heteronormative” relationships.
The London attraction is running a self-guided tour called “Seeing Things Queerly,” per <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14368303/Science-Museum-Lego-anti-LGBT.html">The Daily Mail</a>. This tour is said to explore “stories of queer communities, experiences and identities” in the museum&#8217;s collection. 
The tour was created by a “gender and sexuality network” at the museum, the outlet noted, which includes staff and volunteers who promote  visibility and inclusion for the LGBT community. The guide was published on the museum&#8217;s blog more than two years ago, but just now went viral after The Telegraph published an article today about the tour and its claims.
One of their complaints has to do with Lego bricks being “described in a gendered way.”
“The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating,” the blog says. 
“This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) shapes the way we speak about science, technology, and the world in general.”
Elon Musk tweeted his reply, sending a clown face emoji in response to the Telegraph’s article. 
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro also mocked the notion, writing on X, “Wait until the Science Museum finds out that human beings have male and female parts that are made to mate with each other.”
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Wait until the Science Museum finds out that human beings have male and female parts that are made to mate with each other <a href="https://t.co/XU2HPmxdPC">https://t.co/XU2HPmxdPC</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1887516341814349854?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The funny thing is that removing the male or female parts from Lego bricks means nothing works and everything collapses,” another person <a href="https://x.com/manofmitten/status/1887521519657529388">observed</a>.
Another replied, “Seatbelts are also bigoted.”
“Just wait until they hear about nuts and bolts,” another commenter chimed in.
A Science Museum spokesperson gave Daily Mail a statement on the controversy, saying, “This blog post was published online in 2022 to highlight a small number of objects on display at the museum that relate to LGBTQ+ individuals, experiences and communities.”

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Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global warming</a> protesters who threw cans of tomato soup over the glass frame of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflower&#8221; painting have been sentenced to time in prison for their actions.
On Friday, a London court sentenced Anna Holland, 22, and Phoebe Plummer, 23, from the activist group Just Stop Oil, to two years and 20 months in prison for their so-called protest against fossil fuels at a museum in London in 2022, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/27/climate/just-stop-oil-climate-activists-prison-van-gough-soup-intl/index.html">CNN</a> reported.
Both Holland and Plummer were found guilty of criminal damage to the pieces of art&#8217;s gold-colored frame.  Judge Christopher Hehir blasted the two for their actions against the “cultural treasure,” which he said could have been “seriously damaged or even destroyed” by them by throwing soup on the paintings and then glueing their hands to the museum wall. The “Sunflowers” painting is valued at nearly $85 million.
“Soup might have seeped through the glass. You couldn’t have cared less if the painting was damaged or not,” Hehir said in court. “You had no right to do what you did to ‘Sunflowers.’”
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⛓️ Phoebe and Anna have just been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison respectively after throwing soup over the glass frame of Van Gogh&#8217;s &#8216;Sunflowers&#8217;.
🚔 Phoebe received a further 3 months for… <a href="https://t.co/JBjCgObiic">pic.twitter.com/JBjCgObiic</a>
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Plummer was also sentenced to an additional 3 months in prison for her part in a “slow march” in the road in October 2023 in London.
“You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel like it,” Hehir said. “You do not.”
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Shortly after the sentences were handed down, more vandals from the same protest group shared a clip of three peeople  throwing cans of soup over the glass on not one but two Vincent Van Gogh paintings “in the &#8216;Poets and Lovers&#8217; exhibition at the National Gallery,” per the post on <a href="https://x.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1839670072530317423">X</a>.
The London judge is the same person who handed down sentences in July to five other so-called climate activists in the U.K. from Just Stop Oil or its allied group, Extinction Rebellion.
The court found the vandals guilty of “conspiring intentionally to cause a public nuisance,” after it had recruited people to climb structures along the M25 — a major traffic route around London — in November 2022, the outlet noted.
Hehir sentenced four out of five of the activists to four-year jail terms, while the group’s co-founder, Roger Hallam, was handed a five year sentence.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World’s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces</a>

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Alicia Silverstone</a>’s followers are begging for her to provide an update after she posted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok">TikTok</a> video of herself ingesting what appears to be poisonous berries on Monday night.
The video caption <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@aliciasilverstone/video/7404981177574067499">says</a>, “What the heck is this!? I’m in England and can’t figure it out.”
Silverstone shared the clip of herself walking the streets of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/london">London</a> and foraging a yellow berry out of someone’s yard. “OK, I’ve discovered something that I can’t figure out what it is and I need your help,” the 47-year-old actress began.
She held up the small orange-red fruit and continued, saying, “I just bit into it because it was on the street, and we were discussing whether this was a tomato or not.”
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“It’s definitely not because look at these leaves,” Silverstone said while including a shot of the bush she plucked the berry off of. “Those are the leaves, so what the heck is this?”
The “Clueless” star took a bite of another berry and said, “I don’t think you’re supposed to eat this. It’s almost like a pepper. Does anybody know what this is? I don’t know what it is; I need somebody to tell me. I’m in England.”
Followers flooded the comments with messages of concern, pointing out that the berry she was questioning looked a lot like solanum pseudocapsicum, otherwise known as a “Jerusalem cherry” or a “winter cherry.” 
This toxic nightshade species can cause <a href="https://www.poisonsinfo.health.qld.gov.au/plants-and-mushrooms/jerusalem-cherry-solanum-pseudocapsicum#:~:text=All%20parts%20of%20the%20plant,Death%20has%20been%20reported.">symptoms</a> including fever, sweating, vomiting, stomach pain, headache, and increased heart rate when ingested, especially when the fruit is unripe.
Symptoms may be delayed and persist for several days. While ingesting these berries is not usually fatal, death is possible. 
“WOMAN! UPDATE US. ARE YOU ALIVE AND WELL!?!” one popular comment says. 
Many others urged for a follow-up post, with one TikTok user writing, “Okay it is 7am in England, can you give us an update PLEASE. just a quick ‘hey I’m okay!’”
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Plenty of other followers questioned Silverstone on her decision to eat something without having any idea what it was.
“Girl! berries are either great or freaking poisonous! Don&#8217;t eat rando bush-things,” one commenter wrote.
“More to the point- Why are you eating random things from someone’s garden?!” another follower agreed. 
“You bit into something you don’t know what it is? On the street!!?” a third echoed.
As of Tuesday morning, the actress had not posted any additional videos on TikTok.

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The head of London England’s Metropolitan Police Force is threatening to extradite Americans and arrest them for saying things he doesn’t like.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh, Klavan, you elfin merchant of merriment, how on earth do you always manage to reach into your imaginational grab-bag of zany jocularity and pull up such mirthful gems of goofi-tudinous effervescence as the absurdly hilarious idea that a police commissioner in a country whose imperial army we kicked in the bum so hard it flew all the way back to their tiny irrelevant island of funny-talking homosexuals, would be crazy not to mention stupid enough to take time out from watching through his office window as a once-great nation of free Englishmen devolves into a violent hell-hole of teen-raping, machete-wielding, bomb-blasting Muslim extremists, in order to threaten a United States of individuals who seriously cannot fart in his face loud enough to express our disdain for him and his now-crappy little country?”
But no, so help me, I am not making this up.
While there are still many great police detectives solving serious crimes in Britain, like Inspector Morse and Inspector Morse when he was a younger man, they are limited in their jurisdiction by the fact of being imaginary. Whereas Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, who would be imaginary in a better world, is in this world and ridiculously real. And while in this world, Muslim gangs in the U.K. have repeatedly groomed teenage girls as sex slaves while authorities looked the other way, and Muslim honor crimes such as murder, punitive gang rape and forced genital mutilation have risen 200 percent in the U.K. since 2016 while authorities looked the other way, and while Islamic terror accounts for nearly 70 percent of U.K. terror attacks while authorities let illegal Islamist immigrants swarm in unchecked, Sir Mark has been dispatching his officers to arrest Britons for having opinions and posting them on Facebook. And now, he&#8217;s threatening to extend this oppressive idiocy to people in our country where we just feel Sir Mark should, to translate this into his own language, bugger off and stick to arresting women who pray silently for abortion victims while his country turns into Afghanistan except full of funny-talking homosexuals, like in Afghanistan.
Sir Mark — who along with being the Metropolitan Police Commissioner also serves full time as a gormless twit — made his remarks after riots broke out across his country in the wake of a horrible murder. After years of being told that the massive illegal flood of immigrants into Britain was not causing the crime, abuse and terrorism it was causing, Angry White British People assumed the police, who had lied and lied and lied and then lied, were lying when they said the murders had not been committed by an illegal Muslim immigrant. Furious, the Angry White People stupidly clashed with Muslim people who did not kill anybody, since it turned out in this case, the police had broken with long-standing police protocol and were telling the truth.
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The Angry White People then decided that while they were stupidly rioting, maybe they should keep at it in the hopes that the authorities would stop the illegal immigration that was causing all the crime, abuse and terrorism. After all, the man who is now Prime Minister had been in favor of stupid race riots when British people stupidly rioted over the death of George Floyd as if they lived in America instead of their crappy little gay country. So the Angry White People figured, hey, we’re white, the illegals are brown, so this will be one of those stupid race riots the Prime Minister loves so very much.
Unfortunately, the Angry White People had not read the stupid race riot small print which says brown stupid race riots are great but white stupid race riots are so bad that even if you live in America and post about them on Facebook, Police Commissioner and Gormless Twit Sir Mark Funny-Talking Homosexual will come to America to arrest you, which would, in fact, promote brotherhood by bringing Americans of all races, colors and creeds together to kick Sir Mark in the bum so hard he goes flying back to Londonistan where he bloody well belongs.
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Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. He is the bestselling author of the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The third installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/House-Death-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0BW1ZTVP9?ref_=ast_author_dp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The House of Love and Death</a>,” is now available. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Kansas City Chiefs star <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/travis-kelce">Travis Kelce</a> made a surprise appearance on stage at his girlfriend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taylor-swift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taylor Swift&#8217;s</a> “The Eras Tour&#8221; concert show in London on Sunday.
In <a href="https://x.com/BAHjournalist/status/1804974599672918521">videos and clips</a> posted on social media from the third show at Wembley Stadium, Kelce appeared dressed in a tuxedo and top hat as part of the outfit change introduction to the 34-year-old singer’s hit song “I Can Do It With A Broken Heart” from her new “The Tortured Poets Department” album.
Kelce stepped in for one of her dancers as he carried Swift across the stage and pretended to do her makeup and get her ready to perform the song. 
The NFL football star was greeted by loud applause and cheers as fans went crazy seeing Kelce and Swift together on stage, with both grinning from ear to ear, before the superstar singer took the mic from another dancer and started singing the popular song.
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🎩 SURPRISE! Travis Kelce came onstage and carried Taylor Swift during her outfit change skit for “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonTSTheErasTour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LondonTSTheErasTour</a>
🎥: <a href="https://twitter.com/people?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PEOPLE</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Kirsty_Hatcher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Kirsty_Hatcher</a> <a href="https://t.co/5KadoRpl52">pic.twitter.com/5KadoRpl52</a>
— Brian A. Hernandez (@BAHjournalist) <a href="https://twitter.com/BAHjournalist/status/1804974599672918521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
On Monday, Swift posted a couple pictures on her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C8myZeBOoV6/?img_index=1">Instagram</a> from the latest Wembley show and mentioned how she was still &#8220;swooning&#8221; from the interaction with Kelce in her show.
“Wembley Stadium round one was so surreal,” Swift captioned her post. “Looking out into crowds of 90,000 fans each night and hearing that VOLUME … Those were some of the loudest crowds I’ve ever heard.”
“Acoustic sections went OFF. I got to sing ‘Castles Crumbling’ with<a href="https://www.instagram.com/yelyahwilliams/"> @yelyahwilliams</a> for the first time — hadn’t performed with her since 2011 and man my heart was just so full of love for her and our friendship,” she added. “Then the impossibly gifted and wonderful<a href="https://www.instagram.com/gracieabrams/"> @gracieabrams</a> came and surprised the crowd with the first performance of our song ‘us.’”
“And I’m still cracking up/swooning over <a href="https://www.instagram.com/killatrav/">@killatrav</a>’s Eras Tour debut,” Swift continued. “Never going to forget these shows. Can’t wait to do it 5 more times in August. Up next: Dublin!!&#8221;
It was only the second time she’s posted on her Instagram about her NFL star boyfriend. Days earlier, the “Shake It Off” hitmaker went Instagram official with their relationship when she posted a picture from her first London show posing with Prince William, Princess Charlotte, Prince George, and Kelce, who were all at her show.
She captioned the post, “Happy Bday M8! London shows are off to a splendid start <a href="https://www.instagram.com/princeandprincessofwales/">@princeandprincessofwales</a>.”
The Kansas City tight end and “Blank Space” hitmaker have been linked together since last summer.
It was previously believed the two had their first date after she attended his game on September 24. However, Swift later made it clear their relationship started weeks before and they were a couple by the time she went to his first game, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-swift-finally-spills-details-about-travis-kelce-romance">reported</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/travis-kelce-jokes-he-has-no-idea-how-he-won-over-taylor-swift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Travis Kelce Jokes He Has No Idea How He Won Over Taylor Swift</a>

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Travis Kelce Makes Surprise Appearance In Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ Concert Show

Travis Kelce Makes Surprise Appearance In Swift's 'Eras Tour' Concert Show

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“Lord of the Rings” actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Ian McKellen</a> was hospitalized after falling from the stage during a Monday performance at the Noël Coward Theater in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/london">London</a>.
The 85-year-old lost his balance and fell during a battle scene in “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/theater">Player Kings</a>,” a production of Shakespeare&#8217;s &#8220;Henry IV, Parts One and Two,&#8221; per <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx88v15r41jo">BBC</a>. McKellen reportedly cried out in pain after his fall, prompting staff to rush over and assist him. The report said the theater was &#8220;evacuated&#8221; and Tuesday night&#8217;s performance was also canceled.
McKellen is expected to make a full recovery.
“Thank you to our audience and the general public for their well wishes following Ian’s fall during this evening’s performance of ‘Player Kings,&#8217;” a statement from the theater said. 
“Following a scan, the brilliant NHS team have assured us that he will make a speedy and full recovery and Ian is in good spirits,” it said. “The production has made the decision to cancel the performance on Tuesday 18 June so Ian can rest. Those affected will be contacted by their point of purchase as soon as possible tomorrow. Thank you to doctors Rachel and Lee who were on hand in the audience and to all the venue staff for their support.”
An audience member told BBC the fall was “very shocking.”
“As far as I saw, he was conscious because he was asking for assistance,” the witness explained.
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London-based journalist Charlie Johnson was in the audience and shared his account of the fall with an X post. “Just witnessed Ian McKellen severely injure himself after falling off stage at Noel Coward Theatre. Sir Ian could be heard screaming in pain as ushers rushed to his aid. Show cancelled as he is treated by ambulance crews. Wish him all the best,” he <a href="https://x.com/cejohnson99/status/1802787738250363025?s=46&amp;t=7dEMLEvmtKbqI2lGLTp4lQ">wrote</a>.
McKellen frequently acts in Shakespearean plays, including productions of “Macbeth,” “King Lear,” “Richard II,” “Coriolanus,” “Iago,” and “Richard III.” He is the winner of a Tony Award and six Olivier Awards, which are the British equivalent awarded for excellence in professional theater. 
The actor became internationally known for his portrayal of Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” McKellen also played Magneto in the “X-Men” films.

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‘Screaming In Pain’: Ian McKellen Hospitalized After Falling Off Stage

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A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777-300 ran into severe turbulence on its flight from London to Singapore on Tuesday, resulting in one death and at least 30 injuries.
Flight SQ 321 was diverted to Bangkok after hitting turbulence and landed at 3:45 p.m. local time, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8889d7x8j4o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. There were 211 passengers and 18 crew aboard the aircraft. It remains unclear if the person who died was a passenger or part of the crew. Airline tracking data showed that Flight SQ 321 dropped around 6,000 feet after hitting an air pocket, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>.
The airline confirmed the incident in a <a href="https://x.com/SingaporeAir/status/1792866501713891682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> posted to social media.
&#8220;Singapore Airlines offers its deepest condolences to the family of the deceased,&#8221; the airline said.
“Our priority is to provide all possible assistance to all passengers and crew on board the aircraft,” the airline <a href="https://www.facebook.com/singaporeair/posts/pfbid024n7Be8fKTkdtpDKhCtwvCA6tRN1VJfUXrS5NFnHNGceCTaDWX2Z3d7r5VqSSTvuRl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. “We are working with the local authorities in Thailand to provide the necessary medical assistance, and sending a team to Bangkok to provide any additional assistance needed.”
Singapore Airlines didn&#8217;t specify how many people had been injured in the incident, but multiple <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">outlets</a> have <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/05/21/world-news/one-passenger-killed-30-injured-after-london-singapore-flight-hit-by-severe-turbulence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that 30 people were hurt.
Thai authorities and first responders were on the scene after the Singapore Airlines plane landed at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.
Turbulence occurs when an aircraft is hit with &#8220;an irregular motion of the air resulting from eddies and vertical currents,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/turbulence_stuff/turbulence/turbulence.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Weather Service</a>. Turbulence is common for all commercial flights and can happen anywhere regardless of weather conditions, but it can be &#8220;associated with fronts, wind shear, thunderstorms, etc.,&#8221; NWS says.
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&#8220;Severe&#8221; is the second most intense form of turbulence an aircraft can encounter. It results in &#8220;large, abrupt changes in altitude and/or attitude,&#8221; which can also cause the aircraft to &#8220;be momentarily out of control.&#8221; Only &#8220;Extreme&#8221; turbulence is worse and results in an aircraft being &#8220;violently tossed about and practically impossible to control.&#8221;

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Paris and London are &#8220;no longer recognizable&#8221; thanks to the inundation of &#8220;jihad,&#8221; according to former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, who warned on Wednesday that the U.S. must guard against following a similar path.
Trump made the remarks at a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Wednesday night where he said his comments would get him &#8220;into a lot of trouble with the folks in Paris and the folks in London.&#8221;
“We’ve seen what happened when Europe opened their doors to jihad. Look at Paris, look at London — they’re no longer recognizable,&#8221; Trump said, adding, &#8220;They are no longer recognizable, and we can’t let that happen to our country.”
“We have incredible culture, tradition — nothing wrong with their culture, their tradition — we can’t let that happen here and I’ll never let it happen to the United States of America,&#8221; the former president continued.
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Trump says London and Paris are &quot;no longer recognisable&quot;. Obviously due to the invasion of fake asylum seekers. Do you agree with Trump?<a href="https://t.co/IcN6DLa0AB">pic.twitter.com/IcN6DLa0AB</a>
&mdash; RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) <a href="https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1786099154575343811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Anti-Israel protests have broken out in both London and Paris in the months following Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel. On November 11, also known as Armistice Day, tens of thousands of anti-Israel demonstrators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-fill-london-on-armistice-day" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flooded</a> the streets of London, waving Palestinian flags. Paris has also seen recent anti-Israel <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/students-block-paris-sciences-po-university-over-gaza-war-2024-04-26/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protests</a> pop up at universities in the city, during some of which police have had to step in to prevent any violence.
France has seen an explosion in Muslim migrants since the early 2010s with over half a million coming to the country between 2010 and 2016 alone, according to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2017/11/29/europes-growing-muslim-population/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pew Research</a>. The U.K., meanwhile, took in nearly 700,000 Muslim migrants over the same time period.
Trump caused outrage with his comments in 2015 when he said after a terrorist attack took place in the French capital, “They have areas in Paris where it is so radicalized and so vicious … that the police refuse to go there,&#8221; POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-says-paris-london-are-no-longer-recognizable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;That’s what’s going to happen with our country,” he added.
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He made a similar comment about London at the time, saying, “London and other places … are so radicalized that the police are afraid for their own lives.”
Upon entering the White House in 2017, Trump signed an executive order either suspending or severely limiting people from multiple Muslim-majority countries from being admitted into the U.S. Last year, Trump <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-bring-back-travel-ban-muslim-countries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to bring the travel ban back if he wins a second term in the White House.
&#8220;When I return to office, the travel ban is coming back even bigger than before and much stronger than before,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want people blowing up our shopping centers. We don&#8217;t want people blowing up our cities, and we don&#8217;t want people stealing our farms. So it&#8217;s not gonna happen.&#8221;

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Trump Says Paris, London ‘No Longer Recognizable’ Because They ‘Opened Their Doors To Jihad’

Trump Says Paris, London 'No Longer Recognizable' Because They 'Opened Their Doors To Jihad'

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This isn’t the first time Columbia University president Minouche Shafik has faced questions over how she will discipline an anti-Semitic mob on her campus, and her past performance has critics in Congress concerned that Columbia’s protesters will get off unscathed.
In 2021, with Shafik at the helm of the London School of Economics, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely was swarmed by a mob of protesters after she was invited to speak at the prestigious university’s Debating Society.
Video from the November 9, 2021 incident shows police had to hold back a mob of Palestinian flag-waving protesters who attempted to swarm her car — protesters reportedly chanted the genocidal “From the River to the Sea” chant and waved the flags of U.S.-designated terror organization, Kata’ib Hezbollah.
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Disturbing display of antisemitism: 
Israeli Ambassador to the UK <a href="https://twitter.com/TzipiHotovely?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TzipiHotovely</a> was evacuated from an event at the London School of Economics last night on the anniversary of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kristallnacht?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kristallnacht</a>.
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&mdash; Julie Lenarz 🇮🇱🎗️ (@MsJulieLenarz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsJulieLenarz/status/1458359595152429058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Though the university, similar to Columbia, called intimidation and threats of violence “completely unacceptable” and warned that “students identified as being involved in making such threats will face disciplinary action,” there’s no indication that any such action was taken. Neither the university nor Shafik, who had been president of the school since 2017, responded to requests for comment on the incident.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who has been one of Shafik’s harshest critics and has called on her to resign, said the incident gives her “zero confidence” that there will be consequences for the “pro-terrorist” students.
“Columbia University President Shafik&#8217;s history of allowing students who perpetrate antisemitic attacks to go unpunished gives me zero confidence that Shafik will follow through and hold Columbia students accountable for their role in the antisemitic, pro-terrorist mob that has seized control of the university,” Stefanik told The Daily Wire. “Shafik must be terminated immediately, and Columbia University must make public the names of every student suspended or expelled for taking part in this antisemitic mob.&#8221;
Columbia’s Hamilton Hall and South Lawn were cleared of anti-Israel protesters after nearly two weeks of the school engaging in negotiations with students and refusing to clear the encampment permanently by force. While the school has continually threatened disciplinary actions, some worry that the students will avoid consequences.
Similarly to the ongoing protests on college campuses across the United States, there was overt anti-Semitism present at the 2021 incident at Shafik’s London School of Economics.
The 2021 mob coincided with the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht — also known as the Night of Broken Glass — when Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were vandalized by Nazis across Germany.
Ahead of the event, an Instagram account called LSEclasswar encouraged violence, according to <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/uk-ambassador-evacuated-after-pro-palestinian-activists-crash-debate-kan-news-684537">The Jerusalem Post</a>, writing “Whoever smashes the Ambassador [sic] car window gets pints.  Let’s f**king frighten her.”
Several of the students who hosted Hotovely were followed home, harassed, and threatened with violence, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10190223/Pro-Palestine-protestors-followed-students-home-calling-war-criminals-LSE-event.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
“At the end of the talk I waited for my friends to leave the premises so that I could walk with them,” a student reportedly said. “More worryingly four to five individuals began to follow us as we walked down Lincoln park and these individuals in particular began to verbally harass the organizers by saying the ‘Kashmiri people are ashamed of you’ and that ‘&#8217;you are war criminals.’”
“One individual in particular began to physically threaten the organizers by saying ‘I will f*** you up, p****holes’ and ‘come on, fight me, p****holes.’” the student added.
The event was the first of a series which included a subsequent event with the Palestinian ambassador to the U.K., Husam Zomlot.
Hotovely thanked the British government for support following the ordeal, and said she would not be intimidated.
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I’m thankful for all the support I have received from the British government, many friends and partners. 
I had an excellent event at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LSE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LSE</a> and I will not be intimidated. I will continue to share the Israeli story and hold open dialogue with all parts of British society. <a href="https://t.co/12xFp87Kc2">pic.twitter.com/12xFp87Kc2</a>
&mdash; Tzipi Hotovely (@TzipiHotovely) <a href="https://twitter.com/TzipiHotovely/status/1458401734842363907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Shafik and protester in Columbia University

FLASHBACK: This Isn’t The First Time A Minouche Shafik-Led University Allowed Anti-Semitic Mob To Take Over

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