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Mubarak ‘Our Democratic Friend’ – Jo Biden, US Vice President Jo Biden, the vacuous Vice-President of the USA, a position that Harry Truman once described as not being worth a bucket of warm spit, just doesn’t get it. He couldn’t understand the grouse of the Egyptian people. Why they didn’t like going hungry whilst the…

This is an important article by well respected Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah who was granted access to the 1,600 documents that were leaked to Al Jazeera. The article analyses how Obama has reneged even on the Bush administration’s pathetically weak Road Map and effectively accepts the Israeli position of a swap of peoples, i.e. Israeli…

The term ‘cleanse’ has a particular resonance in terms of the Holocaust. After the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 an area was ‘cleansed’ when there were no Jews left alive. For example according to a situation report by Himmler in February 1942: ‘While the Jewish question in the Ostland can be seen as…

The Overthrow of Mubarak is the Best Present the Palestinians Could Receive Egypt is, after Saudi Arabia and Israel, the United States closes ally in the Middle East and the recipient of the largest amount of US aid after Israel itself. The Tunisian revolution, itself only half-finished, is beginning to take off. These are early…

Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Should Cut All Links with PA This shocking report comes from the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain and the London-based Middle East Monitor. It outlines abuse of detainees in the West Bank, including the types of torture used by Palestinian Authority (PA) security services against detainees, as well as a…

At least one can one thing of Israel’s best. They have learned well from their elders. ‘Death to the Arab’s didn’t come from nowhere. As recent posts have shown, Israeli rabbis are throwing off the inhibitions of the diaspora and talking of death camps for Arabs. Having already shouted racist abuse at a group of…

The Genocidal Rabbis It has always been said in defence of Zionism and Israel, when comparisons are made between the treatment of the Palestinians and Jews under Hitler, that however bad Zionism is they have not called for or undertaken the planned extermination of the Arabs. The editorial of the ‘family’ magazine Fountains of Salvation,…

PSC Largely Irrelevant to Solidarity Work in Britain It is sometime since I last posted an article on the goings on Palestine Solidarity Campaign nationally and in particular the efforts of a small neo-Stalinist group, Socialist Action, to retain control by stifling debate and fixing votes. At last year’s AGM, PSC Executive went to extraordinary…

Israeli ‘Family Magazine’ Fountains of Salvation Advocates Sending Arabs to Death Camps No sooner have I finished blogging on one set of Nazi rabbis than another lot pop up. And whilst I’m teasing out the links between a religious ruling forbidding rent an apartment to Arabs and Nazi laws to do the same to Jews,…

Tutu’s life has been lived in the spirit of “never again” – the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust The South African Zionist Federation, which never, not once, criticised Apartheid until it was on its way out, and indeed which fully supported Israel’s military support for Apartheid, is now criticising one of the real heroes of…