As support for Palestine at Glastonbury ’25 is met with an explosion of media hypocrisy, phony indignation and straight-ahead hysteria, here’s a voice I cite sparingly.
There’s a rich tradition of Christians Against Corruption. My city has its Deacon Dave; routinely seen leading fellow drummers for justice at demos on genocide in Gaza … the slow torture of Julian Assange as ‘liberals’ looked the other way … the ‘austerity’ of voodoo economics for the many while the super rich get super richer …
That wing of Christianity has also given us a seemingly inexhaustible supply of silver tongued, fire-breathing sermonisers. We have the Reverend Chris Hedges, his searing rhetoric twinned with piercing analysis, and we had Arthur Scargill, at his best a spellbinding orator with facts at fingertips and a streetfighter’s ability to think on his feet.
And we have George Galloway: like Arthur a medicine best in small doses – lest counterblast turn to tub-thump – but, at the right time, most efficacious in every way.
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In the forty six years since Thatcher – and subsequently Reagan – came to power, we have ‘progressed’ from privatising utilities and building societies to privatising Genocide:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/revealed-uk-labour-israeli-military-planes-land-gaza
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/palestinians-israel-united-nations-hamas-gangs-b2781518.html
Sick but true.