No one should doubt the power of the lobby but, and this is the point, no one should doubt either that this power derives in the last analysis from the alignment, for reasons given here and here, of US deep state agendas with … Read More »
On my way back from Saturday’s Palestine Action mass defiance in London’s Parliament Square – very well covered by Crispin Flintoff, btw – I was struck by the noravirus and have been in bed ever since. Hence my radio silence, … Read More »
“We are all morally obligated to do everything we can to oppose a live-streamed genocide that’s being facilitated, supported and defended by the western power structure under which we live. Nothing besides tooth-and-claw ferocious opposition satisfies that moral obligation.” Mum, … Read More »
UK home secretary Yvette Cooper The Guardian today … Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’ Exclusive: Home secretary ‘breaching duty to court’ by making claims about reason for group’s ban that she has not disclosed in … Read More »
Four days ago, in Georgia on my mind, I referred to the talented but indefatigably absurd Julie Burchill as “morally insane”. A pugnacious Zionist and wannabe Jew, she defends Israel not by the denialism most Western apologists resort to, but … Read More »
The Guardian yesterday, August 26 * If you’re wondering why on earth Iran would want to direct antisemitic attacks on synagogues down under – or whatever term is used for the antipodes in Western Asia – you’re not the only … Read More »
I start with Owen Jones. In ten minutes he moves from the disastrous findings for Keir Starmer and his Labour Government of last week’s Ipsos, YouGov and other pollsters, to the unnamed new party of Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana. … Read More »
Terrorism in red paint? Palestine Action leaves a calling card at RAF Brize Norton Last Sunday, August 17, while I strolled the shores of Derwentwater, UK home secretary Yvette Cooper took to The Observer with an opinion piece. Here it … Read More »
The Devil’s greatest victory, believers tell us, lies in his convincing our secularist age he doesn’t exist. The same goes for the Israel Lobby. Even to speak of it as a thing invites McCarthyesque charges of wild-eyed conspiracism by antisemitic … Read More »