Two items in my inbox caught my eye this morning. One, by Caitlin Johnstone, refers to a piece two days ago in Israel’s liberal Haaretz, under the self explanatory title, Israeli Settlers Filmed Torturing Lambs in a Palestinian-owned Pen in … Read More »
On a tip off from reader Nick Hefferman, a few posts back, I’m reading Aaron Good’s American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. It does what it says on the tin – or, six chapters in, holds out every promise … Read More »
The idea that Israel dictates US policy against its own interests, erroneous for reasons set out in several posts including US Neocons & Israel’s far Right, is not confined to antisemites, though the birth and subsequent behaviour of the self … Read More »
I hope the “WHY AREN’T YOU CELEBRATING?” crowd have their answer. We aren’t celebrating because we know more than you. We’ve actually been paying attention, so we know Israel will seek every excuse to kill Palestinians and torch this “ceasefire”. … Read More »
MANY OF US ASK OURSELVES, “WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WAS ALIVE DURING SLAVERY? OR THE JIM CROW SOUTH? OR APARTHEID? WHAT WOULD I DO IF MY COUNTRY WAS COMMITTING GENOCIDE?” THE ANSWER IS, YOU’RE DOING IT. RIGHT NOW Aaron … Read More »
Israeli supporters in London, October 11 2025 The government of Israeli-funded Sir Keir Starmer criminalises Britons holding pieces of paper in support of a non violent direct action group, even as it flouts international law by actively aiding a genocide. … Read More »
Having overnighted in Bedford on that beautifully tree lined boulevard by the Great Ouse, I’m in Muswell Hill on Saturday just after eight for breakfast, coffee, then 134 to Mornington Crescent. From there it’s a stroll past Euston then down … Read More »
London, July 2025 When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think “Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing”. When Israelis get one they go, “This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people … Read More »
Yesterday, two years after Israel launched its pre-announced genocide … … five UK factories were targeted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign as making components for the F-35s used by Israel in its mass murderous ethnic cleansing of Gaza. I’d planned to … Read More »
Before steel city scribblings was even a gleam in my eye, I’d mused for years on the dialectic played out by power and morality. But in those incubational days between the criminality of Iraq and Afghanistan, and that of Libya … Read More »