Islam: The Untold Story

   Islam: The Untold Story  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm8xKh8eQqU Blasphemy is a Medieval Idea – Religion is a Belief System we are entitled to criticise  That there are racists from Nick Griffin to the latest Islam: Innocence of Islam who attack a religion as a means of attacking its adherents is undeniable.  But the right to criticise religion…

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Eric Hobsbawm – An Obituary

  Eric Hobsbawm was someone who stayed with the Communist Party till the end.  Whereas many intellectuals deserted the CP at the time of Hungary, Hobsbawm stayed the course.  He was, of course, criticised for his attitude toward Stalinism but whatever faults he had he was a great historian and equally importantly, he didn’t abandon…

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Ecostream & BDS – A Double Whammy

First a video showing the group Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods protesting outside Sodastream.  THus giving the lie to any allegations that to Boycott Israeli Stolen Goods has anything to do with anti-Semitism. Batsheva Dance Company Forced to Cut Performances in Brighton! Those who play for settlers can’t complain if they’re not wanted in the…

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Greta Berlin’s Racism & the Gaza Freedom Movement

Or How I was Taken in by Greta Berlin’s Protestations of Innocence After my first post on the anti-Semitism and the Free Gaza Movement and the distribution of a link concerning an anti-Semitic video  by a Eustace Mullins, which claimed that the Zionists had basically organised the holocaust in conjunction with the Nazis, I received…

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The Beginning of the End for the Israeli State It is, what you might call, the beginning of the end. For years Zionist sophists have used the slogan of a Jewish Democracy, when what they meant was a Jewish Demographic Majority. Because given the choice between democracy and demography most Israelis and Zionists will choose…

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Between anger and denial: Israeli collective memory and the Nakba A new documentary aims to decipher some of the anxiety that accompanies the Israeli debate over the events of 1948. By Noam Sheizaf Ruins of Palestinian Nakba village Qula, 2010 (photo: Deborah Bright / Zochrot.org) A strange thing regarding the debate on the Nakba: the…

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