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I only returned last night from a holiday with my kids to Europe.  What greeted me was the Olympic mania with Union Jacks (the Butcher’s Apron) everywhere.   We may be suffering cuts, old peoples’ homes closing, increased unemployment and poverty, but at least we have the bread and circuses that the Olympics and the Tories…

As Israel Breaks the Prisoner Agreement it is clear that      There is No ‘Partner for Peace’ Despite Western hypocritical attacks on Political Islam, the true enemies of Zionism and the Israeli state have always been secular and radical Palestinian and Arab nationalism. The Muslim Brotherhood have often provided a cover for imperialism, as in Egypt.…

The West’s and Israel’s Iraqi Recipe for Syria – Sectarian Conflict and Confessionalism Syrian Christian Church – Threatened by Political Islam and Salafism An excellent interview with Sami Ramdani, the exiled Iraqi lecturer at London University on how the West has subverted the Syrian revolution. Despite all the rhetoric about Al Quaeda, the United States…

Progress Was Back to the Past Counterpunch – A Mockery of his Communist father Claude Cockburn Cockburn – His radicalism deserted him I promised not to write any blogs on my vacation.  Kids and all that plus lack of adequate facilities.  This is a blog without graphics as the Gottenberg youth hostel’s computers have only…

The Tragedy of Moshe Silman Should Not Blind Us as to the Culpability of Zionism Moshe Silman It is more than a terrible tragedy, that a 57 year old son of holocaust survivors died after setting himself on fire in protest at the way the Israeli state treated him.  There are lessons as well as…

The racist cartoon heading the site of fellow racist Rabbi Fischer.  Arabs are barbarians who hide behind their babies whereas Israeli soldiers defend them (whilst shackling Palestinian kids). trying to find the mike! Ross Benjamin’s life mission is to prevent others speaking their minds.  It is ‘unlawful’ to use state resources to host an academic’s…

MK Michael Ben-Ari tearing pages from the New Testament (photo: Itamar Ben-Gvir) An interesting little story.  Whilst a lunatic American pastor insists on burning the Quoran, his counterpart in Israel – far-right religious party MK Michael Ben Ari, demonstrates the hatred of the religious Jews and Talmud for Christians. Here we have one particular Neanderthal…

Court demands secret files on US ‘black jails’ Abd al Rahim al Nashiri was detained at a Polish prison for six months Photo: GETTY Mihail Kogalniceanu air base. Romania. @ 44.36043300, 28.49149700 Black Site, Kabul, Afghanistan. Trevor Paglen: This site was brought to my attention by Afghan journalists and human rights activists in Kabul. The code…

The answer of course is that J Street and Peace Now aren’t progressive.  J-Street’s only claim to be progressive is that it isn’t as far to the Right as AIPAC – the main Zionist lobby group in the US.  As for Peace Now.  They barely exist in Israel and outside Israel function as one of…

The Treatment of Palestinian Children Says Everything about Zionist Racism   Israeli soldiers stand guard over Palestinian children arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron. Photograph: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA     If there is one thing that demonstrates, beyond doubt or debate, that Israel is a racist society, then it is the shackling, abuse…