… and I said nothing because I was not Palestine Action. I’m not political, you see.” Not political. Here’s 25 year old US airman Aaron Bushnell, on FB eighteen months ago … MANY OF US ASK OURSELVES, “WHAT WOULD I … Read More »
Yesterday I was up at 05:30. Nothing odd about that, I’m a dawn animal. But on this grey morn my conscience bothered me. I’d meant to drive to the capital the evening before, then overnight on one of those North … Read More »
It is undoubtedly true that our universities are in crisis. But that crisis is not just financial. It is existential. They have helped create the conditions for their own decline by swallowing the neoliberal promise of efficiency, competition and ‘value … Read More »
Last week, I reported on the move by Yvvette Cooper – UK Home Secretary, expenses cheat and wife to rottweiler for Israel Ed Balls – to designate non violent Palestine Action a terrorist organisation, making membership or support punishable by up to fourteen … Read More »
Smart people know not all Jews are Zionists. Smart people who do their homework know not all Zionists are Jews – The dangerous idiocy of Piers Morgan In February this year, an Israeli investigative webzine, The Hottest Place in Hell, reported … Read More »
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; … Read More »
Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, aka Mo Chara of Irish rappers, Kneecap, at Glastonbury last week Here’s a piece of advice, its provenance investigated here, traditionally handed down at night school for cub reporters but now adopted with relish by such … Read More »
I host this meritless screed partly for entertainment value, funny if you’re in a good mood, but mainly as one of a myriad ways in which Israeli hasbara, whether from inside the settler state or without, becomes its own caricature. As … Read More »
TO KILL A WAR MACHINE is screening Monday June 30th and on various July dates in towns as far removed as Derry (itself no stranger to Occupation) and Penzance, Bristol, Newcastle, London and divers UK venues between and beyond. Since … Read More »