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Right – MKs Zahalka (Balad) and Tibi (UAL) during meeting (Photo: Dudi Vaaknin) Above – Tibi and other Arab MPs have opposed Israel’s aerial and ground assault on the Gaza Strip [File: EPA] Israel proclaims itself as the Middle East’s ‘only democracy’. The reality, as Avi Shlaim wrote in last Saturday’s Guardian, is somewhat different.…

Mordechai Eliyahu is the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel. His statement that according to ‘Jewish war ethics,’ [surely an oxymoron?] ‘an entire city holds collective responsibility for the immoral behavior of individuals’. is the purest distillation of the Nazi idea of warfare that one could hope to articulate. Gone is the wisdom of Jeremiah…

Michael Rosen, the Children’s Laureate, read this moving poem at Saturday’s mass demonstration in London when an estimated 100,000 people braved the below-zero temperature in order to express their fury at Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and their contempt for the British government’s complicity. Michael Rosen, the Children’s Laureate, read this moving poem at Saturday’s…

Today saw the largest demonstration I have ever seen in Brighton, apart from the demonstration over the Iraq War on the day it started. And I’ve lived here 34 years. I counted 1,350 people. Not including those on the sidewalk or who joined later or indeed left early for different reasons. Well over one and…

Racism is of course the handmaiden of imperialism. And there is no more potent symbol of British imperialism, however fading and decadent, than the Royal Family. Which is why Prince Harry, those stupidity is clearly the result of years of in-breeding, is such a good representative of the Windsors (nee Mountbattenbergs). As people will remember,…

I am happy to carry the statement below, although it doesn’t go far enough in pinning the blame for the war crimes that are taking place on the Israeli state. Independent Jewish Voices, which Brian co-founded, was formed about 2 years ago as an alternative voice to the ‘Israel right or wrong’ brigade. The late…

Again, I make no apologies for these utterly horrific pictures of dead children and in one case a mother. They are the pictures the BBC won’t show. They need to be show because what we get on BBC are pictures from cockpits with precision bombing and automatic guidance systems. The reality is of course different.…

No don’t adjust your eyesight. You don’t have double vision. That’s right. Yup, that’s right. The fascist British National, whose leader believes that the Nazi holocaust is a hoax, is overjoyed at the genocide in Gaza. And why not? They’re killing Muslims so it can’t be bad. For all the nonsense about it being ‘anti-Semitic’…

I’ve just received the following e-mail from Sameh A Habeeb inside the Gaza Strip. Random shelling and Compulsory Migration For Thousands in Gaza Strip By: Sameh A. HabeebNote: I might stop reporting either if I die or I flee my home. Shellsrain down beside my house now. Pray for me…Pray for Me…. Our hearts are…