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The Attacks on the Occupy Movement & Police Brutality
How the ‘Democracy’ in the West is Skin Deep We often hear lazy reference to the ‘democracies’ in the West. It is true that there are certain long-standing democratic rights that have been won against the ruling classes, but democratic freedoms, especially in the United States, has always been skin deep. As the reports below…
Read MoreDefend Marc Ellis – Jewish Dissident and Hate Target for Jewish Zionist Fundamentalists
Please join co-chairs Cornel West, Rosemary Ruether and Archbishop Desmond Tutu signing this petition. Ken Starr, former prosecutor of Bill Clinton, and currently President of Baylor University, to dismiss dissident Jewish voice Dr. Marc Ellis. For more than three decades the prophetic voice of Marc Ellis has influenced generations of academics and activists. His dissident…
Read MoreIsraeli Military Courts Achieve a 99.7% Conviction Rate
Even Nazi Germany Did Not Achieve This Rate of Conviction Until Special Peoples Courts Were Set Up Under Ronald Freiser What kind of state achieves a 99.7% conviction rate in its Military Courts? Even Hitler only managed 90.3% in the Saaar plebicite, although to be fair, in 1938 with the Anchluss in Austria he improved…
Read MoreEven Ha’aretz Accepts the Legitimacy of Comparison with Apartheid
This is an interesting article in Ha’aretz, all that is left of Israel’s liberal press, after Conrad Black took over the Jerusalem Post over 20 years ago and turned it into another right-wing nut job. It is interesting not least because of the comparison made with Apartheid in South Africa, however inadequately, and the belief…
Read MoreWhy the Washington Post is happy for the Racist Rubin to Continue as a Columnist
Jennifer Rubin is the Washington Post’s conservative columnist. She is also an out and out racist who repeats every single racial insult that comes into her head when it comes to Arabs and Palestinians in particular. You wouldn’t get scum like this focussing on Israeli rabbis and how Jewish blood is more precious than that…
Read MoreUnholy alliance: Israel’s right and Europe’s anti-Semites
Another article, this time in Israel’s Ha’aretz about the love-in between Zionism and the far-Right in Europe. This is of course the natural state of affairs and it is no surprise that with one or two exceptions, Hungary’s Jobbik and Germany’s NPD, most other fascist and far-right parties in Europe support Israel and Zionism. After…
Read MoreOpen Letter To Israel’s Prime Minister Re Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Article On “Zionist Colonisation” – Lenni Brenner
Is Zionism Still a Form of Colonialism Lenni Brenner needs no introduction. He exploded on the scene in the early 1980’s with his book ‘Zionism in the Age of the Dictators’. He’s written a number of books since, including a compilation of documents relating to the collaboration of the Zionists with the Nazis ’51 Documents’.…
Read MoreEDL – A Good Example of how Racism and anti-Semitisn go hand in hand with pro-Zionism
EDL Officially Announce Ties To Zionist State of Israel Jul 1st, 2011 | By Keelan Balderson Although many people have had their suspicions that the English Defence League are in cahoots with the Zionist state of Israel (both being vehemently anti-Muslim), a recent statement by EDL chief Tommy Robinson leaves no doubt as to the…
Read MoreYear’s End Stories
Throughout the year a backlog of stories accumulates. Some just become out of date but others retain their relevance even so. In the next few days I hope to clear that backlog with a minimum of commentary, leaving the article to speak for itself Tony Greenstein
Read MorePrentis and the TUC Leadership are Desperate to Avoid a Battle with the Government
Over 2 million people struck on November 30th. Despite Eton toff Cameron’s attempt to dismiss it as a ‘damp squib’ it is clear that the day of strikes was very successful. And that is why the Trade Union leaders – from Brendan Barber on the Right to Len McLuskey on the Left – are desperate…
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