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 »
The needless darkness of this world can get to the best of us – even Jonathan Cook, a writer I hold in the highest esteem and who has always eschewed showy prose in favour of quiet but forceful reason. I … Read More »
Guardian, December 11, 2025 * Sometimes linguistic nuances matter. (Ask the ghost of Derek Bentley.) What did the Guardian mean by London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig ? That the image is unquestionably antisemitic … Read More »
Another AI generated synthesis – I shudder at the implications – in this return, in the context of US thuggery in the Caribbean, to Yanis Varoufakis. This crisp and powerful analysis of the stakes and implications, delivered in a shade … Read More »