Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know too that not all Zionists are Jews. Keep this in mind if, like me, you’ve been dazedly picking yourself off the floor courtesy Piers Morgan’s recent efforts to push back against the ethno-state’s more embarrassing apologists.
Jonathan Cook yesterday arrived with smelling salts and reality check.
Piers Morgan just can’t stop himself inciting against the Palestinian people
Through his dehumanisation of Palestinians, his racist incitements and mindless conflation of “Israelis” and “Jews”, Morgan continues to add fuel to the fire of genocide
I already had a very low opinion of Piers Morgan. But I was stunned by his display of racist ignorance last night while interviewing the Palestinian journalist Ahmed Alnaouq, who showed great fortitude and dignity throughout.
Outrageously Morgan berates Alnaouq, whose entire family in Gaza was wiped out by Israel early on in its genocide, for insisting that there is a distinction – recognised by Palestinians, if not Israel – between Israelis and Jews.
Alnaouq points out that Palestinians have a problem, not with Jews, but with Israelis for violently occupying and colonising their land for many decades, and for putting Palestinians in Gaza under a brutal 17-year siege that has now been transformed into campaign of starvation.
The exchange has to be heard to be believed, starting at 59 minutes and 50 seconds …
Read his 738 worder in full. Me, I’m taking a couple of days out to rubber tramp the English lake district.
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I read Jonathan’s piece a couple of days ago.
I just don’t get why, for instance, a Palestinian journalist, or any reasonable person for that matter, would even talk to Piers Morgan.
Was it the Private Eye that named him Piers Moron?
Hi Margaret. Private Eye coined exquisite phrases: “not a million miles from” for glaring correlations that push the boundaries of coincidence … “tired and emotional” to avoid the litigatory risks of saying a royal or senior politician was, in cockney parlance, Brahms and Liszt …
Piers has high viewer ratings, so voices like Lowkey, Roger Waters, Norman Finkelstein Mohammed Marendi and Palestinian spokespersons find it worthwhile to appear on his channel. They have my respect for taking the fight onto hostile terrain, and their case to a wider constituency.
Yes Phil tired and emotional is one of my favourites.
I get the point you make about why certain people go on his show but Piers Morgan falls into the category of horrible fucking twats I can’t stomach the sight or sound of. He’s just so beyond the pale. And there are plenty more like him.
How’s that for a mouthful on an early Saturday evening!
I could name a few more but I’m starting the feel sick.
I wonder these days if we’ll live long enough to see peace given a chance. Sounds almost quaint putting it like that.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
You’re too restrained Margaret. Why not drop the politeness and tell us what you really think of Morgan?
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