The Drumlanrig jolly
Yesterday we heard that various minor British Muslim leaders had presented an ‘accord’ to the king that they had agreed with the leaders of British Judaism, including the Chief Rabbi, a major rabbi from...
Category: Palestine
Why people are deserting the BBC
Late last month it was reported on Bloomberg (archived copy here) that the government were considering making it compulsory to pay the TV licence fee to watch streamed on-demand entertainment online from providers such...
Elephant in the echo chamber
Since Donald Trump won a second term as US president last year and, with the help of Elon Musk, set about slashing the American federal government and sacking officials on the basis of personal...
Reflections on the fall of Bashar al-Assad
Last week the 53-year-old Assad dynasty in Syria was finally overthrown by one of the rebel militias which had broken out of Idlib, a city near the Turkish border in the north-west, two weeks...
The benefits of learning Jewish history
The other day I saw a tweet by Stephen Pollard, former editor of London’s Jewish Chronicle, columnist, TV personality and Zionist — no, not the one complaining about all the ads on dating websites...
There’s a genocide going on
Last Saturday in the British media I saw two articles, one on the BBC News site by a writer whose name I didn’t notice (on a second look, it’s their North America correspondent, Anthony...
The Holocaust, Gaza and “how genocide happens”
On social media this past week or so, in discussions about Israel’s stepping-up of its atrocities against the civilian population of north Gaza, there has been some talk of how genocides are allowed to...
Guardian caves in to racist pressure on Gaza
In today’s Guardian there is a review by Stuart Jeffries of a Channel 4 documentary about the October 2003 Hamas attacks on Israel; it is a four-star review (out of five) which praises the...
The irrelevance of the Blood Libel
Every so often, when an appalling atrocity of the Israeli occupation force against a Palestinian child is exposed in western mainstream or social media, there will be a Zionist loudly condemning the report as...
They weren’t protests
Last week I was listening to Eddie Nestor’s show on BBC London on my way back from a delivery run out to south Essex, and I heard him tell us he was going to...
Don’t mention the genocide
The last couple of weeks I saw a few articles on the Gaza genocide by Zionists, as well as a series of social media posts by a Canadian Instagram influencer who (although it’s not...
Seething with anger
Since Brexit, there has been a particular theory about why people voted the way they did: that it wasn’t about immigration or racism, it was about something called ‘identity’. It was to do with...
“Never such depravity”
Last week I listened to the BBC’s File on 4 programme about the murder of Brianna Ghey last year in a village outside Warrington after the two teenagers responsible had been sentenced. Brianna was...
Genocide shouldn’t be divisive
Last night the Green party group on Lambeth borough council in south London tabled a motion to the full council meeting calling for, according to My London (a website containing stories from local papers...
Ask a loaded question …
Over the years, a frustrating phenomenon for anyone writing about the oppression of Palestinians and the upsurge in hostility to Muslims in the West following 9/11 was an established race relations industry that was...
Thanks Wes, but take a stand on Gaza!
Last week a Muslim primary school in Ilford and a mosque also in east London received threatening letters. The letter sent to the school is addressed “Dear pedophiles” (sic) and signed “your terrorist friend”;...
On condemning the Gaza genocide without mentioning Hamas
In last month’s controversy over the open letter from Stella Maris, the student rector at St Andrew’s university in Scotland, I noticed that the authors of the open letter to Ms Maris complained that...
Zionist censors come for another student leader
Yesterday the BBC reported that the rector of St Andrew’s university in Scotland, Stella Maris (right), had faced calls to resign after writing an open letter regarding the ongoing genocide of Palestinian civilians in...
I was there (at the demonstration)
Yesterday I went to my first Palestine demo in London since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza following the 7th October Hamas raids. The past week, or more, there has been a...
“The Arabs of the land”
The other day I came across a long tweet ‘explaining’ why there are still refugee camps in Gaza and other Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab countries years after the wars that made them refugees....