Noga Levy-Rapoport

After almost two years of genocide, the Palestinian flag is finally displayed on the stage of the Royal Ballet & Opera. It is deeply symbolic & shameful that Oliver Mears then attempts to forcibly remove it. This brave performer is showing us what the sector can & should be.

Bank accounts of two pro-Palestine groups have been frozen, following the proscription of Palestine Action. The High Court said this would not happen, yet local protest groups are now being targeted. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

This desperate attempt to erase Palestine by Royal Opera @rbo_org Director Oliver Mears exposes the lengths that those at the very top of the classical music industry will go in their effort to repress all expression of Palestine from the concert stage. After two years of…

Correction: not security staff but Oliver Mears, Director of Opera attempting to physically prevent the display of solidarity with starving Palestinians

It is worth noting that, for some time, every production at Covent Garden was preceded by the Ukrainian national anthem.

A spokesman for the Royal Ballet and Opera said: “The display of the flag was spontaneous and unauthorised action by the artist. It was not approved by the Royal Ballet and Opera and is not in line with our commitment to political impartiality.” Impartiality regarding genocide

For the first time in nearly two years of genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian flag appeared onstage at the Royal Ballet and Opera in London. The symbolic moment was disrupted when Oliver Mears, Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, attempted to forcibly remove it, prompting…

i have received some version of this notification everyday for the last several months. what are we doing

Royal Ballet and Opera supported this disgusting letter in the Financial Times in May: a defence of UK arts institutions providing reputational cover for those directly implicated in war crimes removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft…

.@ROH_London is sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies that co-funds training of Israeli municipal officials incl those governing illegal settlements Modiin Illit & Mateh Binyamin operating thro war crimes of land theft & forced displacement of Palestinians rbo.org.uk/support/royal-…

Oliver Mears is the Director of Opera - this is a really serious personal intervention. It highlights for all of us that there are active attempts to censor performers from speaking up against the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The classical world must speak out.

Let this performer’s courage and defiance be an inspiration. We can all do this.

Palestine took the stage at the ‘Royal’ Opera House, and they couldn’t tear it down A cast member at the ‘Royal’ Opera House protested by unfurling the Palestinian flag. Staff scrambled to shut it down, but they couldn’t. That flag was held defiantly as the audience cheered in…

BREAKING: Five more join the Filton18 today, charged with the same offences as our loved ones. Having been the 6, the 10, the 18, they are now the Filton 23 💔 1/6 🧵

Do not be surprised when we journalists stop covering news here. I swear by God that today I could not get up from the hunger. There is no food. Even if someone has money, there is nothing in the market to even purchase. We are all starving. We are all dying.

Suspending Dianna Abbot, the first Black female MP, and the longest serving, for stating that different people experience racism differently tells you all you need to know about Starmer’s Labour (in case you were under any illusions).

“When the political and media class wish to leave disabled people hungry and dirty, the disabled community must explain why we should be allowed to eat and be clean.” Today’s col. reflects on a tough month and what it all means for disability in the U.K. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

97 months since Grenfell. 97 lives lost at Hillsborough. On Friday, Ian Byrne's attempt to pass the Hillsborough Law was blocked — yet again denying families the justice and truth they deserve.

This should be a major story. But when everything is outrageous, nothing is outrageous theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…