Given the plethora of information now available to anyone taking a little effort, and possessed of the capacity to join the dots and reflect on that information, it is unacceptably naive – yet for reasons beyond my scope here dismally … Read More »
An opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post yesterday: December 21, 2025. Bondi massacre was not about free speech – it’s the cost of normalizing antisemitism It’s written by one Sharon Pardo, who begins: The Hanukkah attack in Sydney was a terrorist … Read More »
Screengrab: Novara Media on fake, AI generated podcasts * For several weeks I’ve been aware of fake videos purporting to be talking head podcasts from pundits who, while I have my differences with them, get my respect as useful contributors … Read More »
Says the Mail yesterday: Police have made their first arrests after two people allegedly shouted chants involving ‘calls for intifada’ amid a crackdown after the Bondi Beach shooting. Five people were taken into custody yesterday at a pro-Palestinian demonstration held … Read More »
Unless you’re one of them there coincidence theorists, you might suspect co-ordinated effort to capitalise on Bondi Beach to delegitimise protest at Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. Several of my posts – here and here and here and here – since Sunday have in different ways warned of precisely that. … Read More »
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Guardian, December 15 2025 * David Rich is director of policy at a Community Security Trust described three days ago by the Guardian, apropos the Primal Scream brouhaha, as “offer[ing] security, advice and training to protect British Jews”. In an opinion … Read More »
Before I get to Owen’s magisterial twenty-five minute take, let me summarise the five point response I gave yesterday, just minutes after learning of the Hanukkah murders. One, it’s a terrorist atrocity. Two, so is the Gaza genocide whose daily … Read More »
Guardian, December 14 2025 * I only learned of this minutes ago. Initial thoughts: It’s a terrorist atrocity. So, on a vastly more industrial scale, is the Gaza genocide whose daily war crimes must massively exceed a dozen slain to … Read More »
Those who wrote trade deals to profit from underemployment of U.S. workers and sweatshop labor overseas are omnipotent. The insurance and pharmaceutical industries that run healthcare for profit are omnipotent. The intelligence agencies that spy on the public are omnipotent. … Read More »