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EU In-Out Referendum: We Wanna Break Free!
With a week to go, the UK’s referendum on whether to stay in or leave the EU (European Union) is finely balanced and, some pollsters say, leaning towards ‘Leave’. This has caused consternation in the marbled corridors around Westminster.
Schoolgirl Leanne Betrayed
In a highly-regarded public speaking competition 15 year-old Leanne Mohamad, a pupil at Wanstead High School in London, stood up and gave an impassioned speech about the appalling situation back home in the Holy Land.
Israel’s tiresome exceptionalism
As the whole world and his dog knows by now, former London Mayor Ken Livingstone was suspended from the Labour Party for expressing an uncomfortable truth (uncomfortable, that is, for Zionists).
Cold light of dawn for Corbyn
The Party’s performance once more was dismal despite the unpopularity of Cameron’s Conservatives and the irrelevance of the Liberal Democrats. Jeremy Corbyn will be surveying the election wreckage and wondering where he goes from here.
Get Corbyn!
With important local government elections a few days away the campaign against alleged antisemites reached a crescendo over the weekend, with the press and TV corps in full cry.
UK Labour Party in grip of Zionist Inquisition
The orchestrated smear campaign against pro-Palestine sympathisers sent me reaching for my pen. But Gilad Atzmon too was eyeing the Labour Party’s crazed witch hunt for “antisemites” with misgiving and had already declared, in his usual robust way, that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn was not so much a party as a piece of Zionist-occupied territory.
The humbug of ‘shared values’ and What it really means to be a friend of Israel
Once again the AIPAC annual pantomime in Washington DC has played itself out while the world outside watches aghast at the gullibility of America’s political elite. And how they flocked to hear the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech.
Gaza, this uninhabitable planet… I want to run away from this madness
There is little joy in writing about the plight of the Palestinians, as I have done for the last 10 years. But one of the rewards is that, occasionally, I receive a letter from someone who’s living the nightmare and prepared to share their innermost fears.
US theatre squelches play about Israeli siege
So the ‘The Siege’ has been cancelled in New York. Well, there’s a surprise!
Falk reprimands Ban Ki-Moon over truth about Israel’s crimes
With obvious relish Richard Falk, former professor of international law at Princeton and UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Occupied Palestine, has issued a well deserved slap on the wrist to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon for his naivety.
UK’s leading pro-Palestine campaign group blocks call to expel Israel from the UN (again)
At its Annual General Meeting last weekend the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) threw out a proposal to seek Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations.
Ethical Co-op Bank leaves Palestinian cause in the lurch
The bank until recently was part of the well-regarded Co-operative movement and famed for its business ethics. After running into financial difficulties it was rescued in 2013/4 by, among others, US hedge fund outfit Perry Capital which now has a seat on the board. Billionaire Richard C. Perry has served as a director of the Israel Project.
UN supports sovereignty for Palestine and slams Israel
Something important and, freedom lovers may think, rather wonderful seems to have happened at the United Nations, and it went largely unreported in mainstream media.
UK activists’ clarion call to civil societies around the world: Expel Israel from the UN
At least some people are determined to kick off the New Year on a positive note. A motion to expel Israel from the United Nations is to be put to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s AGM. It reads as follows:
Global Pacification, the Matrix of Control and other nasties
The author, Jeff Halper, is an American-Israeli Jew who trained as an anthropologist, joined the anti-Vietnam war movement and eventually moved to Israel.
“You have better things to do than captain a sinking ship”
After his very public humiliation by pro-war rebels in the House of Commons, and with more to come from the dysfunctional Blairite rump of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn might do well to cut his losses and go his own way.
379 to 223 for more war – Cameron wins the vote to bomb in Syria but not the argument
David Cameron came to the Commons today with his master-plan for confronting ISIS, having told his MPs: “You should not be walking through the lobbies with Jeremy Corbyn and a bunch of terrorist sympathiser.”
Is it curtains for Corbyn?
Disarray is putting it mildly. Coming to a collective view on war and death and what to do about Syria was never going to happen in the Labour Party.
It looks bad for Corbyn as UK strains for war
“I am writing to consult you on what you think Britain should do. Should Parliament vote to authorise the bombing of Syria? Let me know your views…”
ISIS terror causes Church leader to question God’s existence
Welby was speaking in the aftermath of the terrorist killing spree in Paris in which some 130 people were murdered.
God help the Palestinians!
Watch this horror movie…. if you can bear to. It stars Palestine’s top negotiator in action. And it’s not pretty.
Look who’s in charge of UK government cybersecurity
Sure enough, the UK Government’s website confirms that Gould is now Director of Cyber Security and Information Assurance at the Cabinet Office.
Yes, Bibi, get with the programme
Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu is trying to prod Palestinian president Abbas back to the negotiating table for talks to damp down the escalating violence in the Palestinian Occupied Territories.
Cameron shows bad form hurling insults at Corbyn
British politics hit a new low last week at the UK Conservative Party conference when David Cameron made an unseemly personal attack on Jeremy Corbyn, the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition.
What if you don’t wish to recognise Israel?
During last week’s Labour Party Conference new leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed a Friends of Israel fringe meeting. Pro-Israel propaganda outfit Engage, in an email to all and sundry, complained that Corbyn failed to mention ‘Israel’ at all.
Prospect of endless disarray dooms Labour
Next year Britain will decide whether to replace her four Vanguard-class Trident submarines.
UK Labour Party Conference – Corbyn shifts into reverse to avoid Conference car-crash
At the Labour Party Conference there was no debate on Trident even though non-renewal of the nuclear deterrent was central to Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaign.
What the Church could learn from Harley-Davidson
There are always exceptions, but in general the Church seems to have lost the plot
New Labour leader is smeared by panic-stricken Tories as Corbyn blows away the Blair/Brown minions
As expected, the Tory Dirty Tricks Department were ready and waiting to put the boot in. No sooner had news of Jeremy Corbyn’s amazing leadership victory, with nearly 60% of first-choice votes, trickled through than Conservative Central Office began emailing all and sundry with their ludicrous smears.
Help Nail Netanyahu!
The image of a small child washed up on a Mediterranean beach like flotsam has finally shocked the Western world into action to help the refugees surging across Europe.
As demands increase for Netanyahu’s arrest and Gaza becomes unliveable
A petition calling for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he arrives in London next week is nearing 100,000 signatures. If it reaches that magic figure it must be considered for debate in Parliament.
While Jeremy Corbyn is attacked for past links to Hamas and Hezbollah
They are now throwing everything they can at Jeremy Corbyn and even trying to discredit him with ridiculous anti-semitism slurs.
UK Labour Party leadership contest: Could Corbyn save the good ship Britannia from the wrecking crew?
The comedians of the British political ‘establishment’ are out in force desperately trying to block Jeremy Corbyn, who is streaking ahead in the Labour Party leadership race and leaving his rivals spluttering in total disarray.
UK Labour Party: A sad end, or a bold new beginning?
UK Labour Party bosses are on a suicide mission to block support for its most likely saviour, Jeremy Corbyn who has emerged as the front-runner in the leadership contest.
Towards a more sensible foreign policy
Some polls are showing Jeremy Corbyn forging ahead in the Labour Party leadership race by as much as 20 points. The political Establishment is shaken and quite definitely stirred.
‘Fluffy’ Mundell flees the food bank
It was not your usual celebration to mark the launch of a new venture.
Light at End of Pro-Israel Tunnel?
Britain suffered another disappointment last week when Tim Farron, a lightweight with the gift of the gab, landed the job of leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrats.
Gaza is a recurring threat to peace!
It has no nukes, no navy, no air-force, no tanks, no phosphor bombs, no subs, no guided missiles, no exits, nowhere to run.
Untouchable Israel continues to cripple Gaza with its sea blockade
Welcome to the latest chapter in a long tale of unspeakable cruelty.
A challenge to Hamas/Fatah:
Eighteen months ago Hamas announced it was upping its game by appointing bright, attractive 23 year-old Isra al Modallal as the media face of the Resistance movement.
Re-enactment of murderous assault on Christendom’s holiest site condemned
Play depicting 40-day military siege of the world’s oldest Christian Church “sympathises with Palestinian terrorist groups”, “glorifies extremist ideology” and is “a grotesque white-washing of the Second Intifada”, claims pro-Israel lobby
UK General Election: The Dust Hasn’t Settled Yet
Why the Labour Party thought they could impose Ed Miliband on the British public is a puzzle. One reason for Labour’s crash is the likelihood – unspoken of course – that Joe Public resented the idea of having a Jew as prime minister.
“It’s time for Palestine,” says Abbas as corruption runs out of control
He starts by saying: “The Palestinian people’s struggle for freedom and national independence has reached a decisive moment.
UK general election: Not a pretty sight, no cheery prospect
I said it would be bad, and it is. Worse than bad. The British people have given the Zionist tool Cameron another 5 years, and he’s off the see the Queen.
How on earth do they survive in that ‘hell called Gaza’?
Nearly every Palestinian I have met over the years has urged me to tell their story when I get home. Some have written to me with very moving accounts of life and hardship under Israel’s brutal occupation, confirming the appalling truths I’ve seen for myself.
UK General Election: Democracy hits the bottom
It’s polling day and Britain faces a miserable choice. Whichever way it goes it’ll be disastrous.
Campaign against anti-semitism or else…
Amnesty International’s annual conference has rejected a motion to fight the rise of violent anti-Semitism in Britain. Studies show violent anti-Semitic attacks rose 48 percent in Britain in 2014.
UK election: What the parties say about Palestine
Britain’s ferocious warmongering in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, and efforts to destabilise Syria, caused havoc in those countries and earned us a reputation for human misery making.
Breakaway SNP strikes fear into Westminster parties
The SNP (Scottish National Party), is scaring the daylights out of Labour and Conservatives
University wimps buckle under Zionist pressure to kill ground-breaking conference
In an earlier article, “Don’t argue, don’t engage, just ignore”, I said the University was a case in point. And a very sad case it turns out to be.
The Day Tower Bridge was so Rudely Violated
In 1968, on April Fools’ Day, its 50th was a miserable affair. Nothing befitting such a momentous occasion was planned, much to the disgust of many serving officers and public.
Church of England’s hidden Zionist agenda
What happened to Stephen Sizer was foul play and intolerable.
Priest sent to the Naughty Corner
The Rev Stephen Sizer is an outspoken priest in leafy Surrey, England. He has a long history of standing against the Israeli regime, its policies and its sheer nastiness.
Boycott Hamas, brand Hezbollah terrorists, don’t trust Iran…
Every general election brings the task of reading political manifestos. This year we have the Board of Deputies of British Jews with their own (surprise)…“Jewish Manifesto”.
They won’t silence George with half-truths
BBC TV are being bad-mouthed for inviting MP George Galloway onto the Question Time panel in the Finchley and Golders Green constituency next week.
Scramble to conclude suspicious EU-US trade deal
Critics claim that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently being cooked up between the EU and the United States could:
A challenge for the Pope: seize the chance for religious ‘renewal’
During his May 2014 visit to the Holy Land, Christianity’s top man was (presumably) prevented from bearing witness to the human suffering in Gaza.
Watch Your Language!
Poor Tim Willcox, now terrorised for doing a professional job at the Paris anti-terror march.
Taking the mickey: war crimes suspects led Paris anti-terror march
17 dead at the hand of Muslim terrorists. And how many thousands of Muslims slaughtered in their homelands by French military?
Wait, says Ross. No need for a UN resolution
Dennis Ross, writing in The New York Times, criticises Mahmoud Abbas for using international institutions to put pressure on Israel
Seeking justice is counter-productive, US tells terrorised Palestinians
“The one who needs to fear the International Criminal Court in The Hague is the Palestinian Authority, which has a unity government with Hamas, a terror organization like [the Islamic State group] which commits war crimes.” So says Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Perpetuating Christmas misery…
When I criticised one of the 12 MPs who recently voted against Palestinian statehood, I found myself immediately under attack in the press from a local churchman for my “anti-Israel outburst”. His own outburst was a catalogue of misinformation.
“When Ancient Theologies Are Used For Modern Political Ends…”
In a House of Lords debate on the Middle East the other day Lord Risby, who opened proceedings, set the tone and spoke of moving to “a final acceptance of the Palestinian reality”.
The Dirty Dozen MPs who want to prolong the Palestinians’ misery…
In the local newspaper where I used to live somebody wrote in demanding to know why local MP Jonathan Djanogly was one of the 12 who voted to deny Palestinians their statehood and right to self-determination in the recent House of Commons debate.
‘Recognising a Palestinian State Would Inhibit The Peace Process? What Peace Process?’
Last Monday the House of Commons voted emphatically to “recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel as a contribution to securing a negotiated two state solution.” So decisively, that the motion was carried by 274 to 12.
Debate to Recognise Palestine Statehood
Despite all the veiled threats and the loony posturings of the pro-Israel lobby, Parliament voted 274 to 12 on Monday to recognise Palestine as a State.
Which way will the UK Parliament jump when it votes on Palestinian recognition?
On Monday the House of Commons in London will debate and vote on a parliamentary motion to unilaterally recognise the State of Palestine.
Is This Palestine’s Last Chance?
Ever since I began taking an interest in the Palestinians’ struggle – nearly ten years ago – those brave people have been cursed with rubbish leadership that has taken them steadily backwards instead of forwards…
The Gaza medical aid scandal: Suffer, little children….
The indifference shown by Messrs Obama and Cameron to the slaughter and unimaginable destruction that Israel – the self-styled “only democracy in the Middle East” with “the most moral army in ther world” – inflicted on Gaza a month ago is beyond sickening.
Scots Kiss Goodbye to Independence
As voting day neared, the “Yes” to Independence campaign was seriously threatening the unity of the realm by arguing that the only guarantee of self-governing powers for Scotland was to vote for independence.
As the Referendum Reaches a Crescendo…
Thanks to Gordon Duff of MacDuff, for Scotland: Vote Yes “Anyway” http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/09/14/scotland-vote-yes-anyway/ , an entertaining piece mourning his lost heritage in that magical land.
UK Independence Party Hugs Another Friend of Israel
The UK Independence Party (UKIP), which hopes for a big breakthrough in next year’s general election, has been wining and dining potential Conservative defectors one of which has actually come across.
Western leaders ‘nobble’ the International Criminal Court
Was anyone surprised to hear that the International Criminal Court is under pressure not to investigate Israel’s war crimes in Gaza?
Freedom To Live Ordinary Lives…
I have just received a very disappointing reply from my true-blue Tory MP to pleas for real government action over the slaughter in Gaza.
Gaza: “Raw Power Is Killing Those Who Struggle For Justice”
Whatever happened to the US-Quartet Agreement , signed by Israel, ‘to give the Palestinian people freedom to move, to trade, to live ordinary lives’?
Toleration of Israel’s Inhumanity Condemns UK’s Leaders
– What’s the latest score in this shoot-fish-in-a-barrel spectacle enjoyed by beer-swilling Israelis in deckchairs from the hills overlooking Gaza?
Some Not Amused by Palestinian Flag Projected Onto Parliament Building
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has projected an image of the Palestinian flag onto the Houses of Parliament in London. The image includes calls for sanctions against Israel and an end to the massacre in Gaza.
Palestinians Claim UN Protection and Prepare Lawsuits
As Gaza and its lovely people were being blown to smithereens by Israel’s state-of-the-art weaponry, paid for by the grotesquely unlovely US administration, I put what I thought was a simple enough question to Dr Hanan Ashrawi on Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute and the International Criminal Court (ICC) after her remarks in this TV interview
What More Horrors Are In Store for Gaza?
I wonder what Hamas and Israeli leaders are thinking as they survey the devastation in Gaza and review the death-toll and casualty figures?
Britain Dies of Shame
Today in London crowds are gathering to vent their anger in a mass demonstration and march to Parliament to “stop the massacre in Gaza” and call for an arms embargo against Israel.
Hamas Pricks Israel’s Soft Under-Belly, Ben Gurion Airport
Hamas has hit Palestine’s bloodthirsty occupier where it could hurt real bad — in the soft under-belly that is Ben Gurion airport.
It’s the new ‘self defence’
Britain’s newly-minted foreign secretary Philip Hammond has lost his shine already. A few days ago he warmly welcomed Egypt’s bogus ceasfire proposal which hadn’t even been shown to Hamas.
Seize The Moment!
There was never a better moment for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement to mass-mobilise for a mega-campaign to not only impact more heavily on the lawless Israeli state but also unmask those in business and public life who shamelessly support the criminal programme that was embedded in its DNA while on the Zionists’ drawing board.
Exit Agent Hague
William Hague has quit as British foreign secretary. We thought the fawning Zio, Miliband D, was bad enough but his successor, Hague, probably made us even more enemies around the world.
What if Hamas dumped all their rockets in the sea tomorrow?
The slaughter of innocents is necessary to stop Gaza rocket-fire. That’s what Israel says. “This isn’t about rockets from Gaza,” says Unite.
Dear PLO… Take Your Case To The ICC
As I write, the Israelis have slaughtered 160 Palestinians in their latest mad-dog military adventure, the vast majority being civilians including 35 children. 934 others have been wounded, including 280 children.
Dead teenagers: Netanyahu Put Them in Harms Way
The BBC, that paragon of broadcasting, repeatedly fails to give the necessary context when reporting events in occupied Palestine.
UK Methodists Still Half-Hearted About BDS
The UK Methodist conference has ducked the opportunity to extend BDS to the whole of Israel. They are content to limit it to firms that operate in the illegally-occupied Palestinian territories for the timebeing.
Will Jewish Meddlers Be Allowed To Dictate Church Policy?
At its conference four years ago the Methodist Church in the UK set a brave example.
US Presbyterians Under The Cosh for Doing Their Christian Duty
I’ve been reprimanded for being too critical of the Presbyterian Church (USA) which has taken 10 years and 5 general assemblies to deal with its objectionable investments….
Timid US Presbyterians punish American companies, shun BDS and let Israel off the hook
Pro-Palestinian campaigners are cock-a-hoop over the Presbyterian Church USA’s vote to divest from Caterpillar Inc, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions.
Palestinian Ambassador Hotly Denies ‘Recognising’ Jewish State
Israel’s elaborate hasbara (propaganda) machine has done a sterling job over the years of distorting the truth and re-framing the Holy Land narrative to make the regime in Tel Aviv appear blameless and its war criminals sweetly innocent.
Why boycotting Israel is so important and necessary
Nothing, it seems, is too ridiculous for Nick Clegg, UK Deputy Prime Minister, to contemplate. See him in this painful video ‘Nick Clegg welcomes the Jewish Manifesto’ Here aimed at EU election candidates and voters.
Bethlehem Uni Gets a New State-Of-The-Art Library
Bethlehem University is a very special place which I have been fortunate to visit several times.
Is Palestine ‘Solidarity’ Going Soft?
In the run-up to the EU elections the UK’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) emailed supporters urging them to use a specially worded form for MEP candidates to fill in.
“Unhelpful” to blame anyone for peace talks breakdown…
Britain’s Foreign Office, presided over by William Hague, has come up with the most fatuous response so far to the collapse of the latest peace talks stage-managed, as always, by Israel’s partner in crime, America. Here it is……..
Is UKIP the ‘White Knight’ of British Politics
UKIP (UK Independence Party) is poised to cause an earthquake in British politics at the European elections on 22 May. The mainstream parties – Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats – are panicking as they watch UKIP surge ahead in the polls.
A Palestinian ‘Resistance’ View
– As expected, the ‘peace’ talks farce has ended in disarray with all parties utterly discredited again. Do they never learn? Expect more acrobatics…
Peace Process: PLO Ignores Interview Request
The futile exercise reviving peace talks between Mahmoud Abbas’s half-baked puppet administration and the Israelis comes to its scheduled climax in a few days, after which we wait with bated breath for US Secretary of State John Kerry’s much-trumpeted “framework” for even more lopsided peace talks.
Fail to Nail The Warmongers And…
Secret mafia-like cabals are systematically wrecking our planet to feed their greed. They do so with impunity and without regard to human misery.
Meet Dave, Your Christian ‘Dyno-Rod’
Over the Easter holidays the UK’s prime minister, David Cameron, was on his knees “doing God” in the run-up to European elections. And he sparked a great commotion in the media by claiming Britain is “a Christian country”.
Ed Miliband The Latest Western Politician ‘Taken in’ By Sderot
Ed Miliband, UK Labour Party leader and younger brother of former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, has just been on a visit to Israel and occupied Palestine. Ed, who is Jewish, is a wannabe prime minister.
More Threats From Palestine’s Nasty Neighbor
US-brokered negotiations with Israel, which started on 29 July 2013 and were to last nine months, are nearing their ignominious end.
“BDS is Irrelevant.” Oh, Really?
What maddens Zionists most is that they cannot control civil society like they can pull the strings of the spineless political élite.
£50 For An Audience With Israeli ‘Justice’ Minister On War Crimes Wanted List
…and basking under the special protection of Her Majesty’s Government.
Time To Target The Worst Villains of All
Last week David Cameron, addressing Israel’s Knesset, pledged to defeat any boycotting of Israel.
Anger as Cameron Tries to Superglue Britain to Israel
The other day I signed a ‘Get Well’ petition for Palestinian youngsters Adam and Johar who were viciously maimed and crippled by the British Government’s ‘friends’ in Israel.
Football Association gets its anti-racist knickers in a twist over Quenelle
West Bromwich Albion’s star player Nicolas Anelka recently landed himself and his club in hot water when he allegedly performed the Quenelle after scoring a goal. It blew up into a furious storm in a Zionist teacup.
BDS, this is your big chance….
– In the coming elections, Boycott would-be MPs who are Friends of Israel
Holocaust Hullabaloo: Another MP Intimidated
The head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, has once again succeeded in wringing an apology from a British MP for remarks about what happened to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and what is happening now to Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank.
“We Must Impose Sanctions,” says MP.
I’d like to share, especially with American readers, a great moment in the British Parliament on 5 February when the MP for Gorton, Manchester, Sir Gerald Kaufman rose to speak in a debate on the humanitarian situation in Gaza
The Quenelle: blame Dr Strangelove and the Bomb
When West Bromwich Albion’s star player Anelka performed the Quenelle after scoring a goal in a match on 28 December he was immediately lashed by a frenzied storm in a Zionists’ teacup.
Hague, sworn enemy of criminal impunity, still soft on Israel’s war crimes
A few days ago we were talking about Agent Willie Hague’s self-proclaimed commitment to smoke out war criminals, bring them to account and support the International Criminal Court in its investigations.
So When Will International Justice Save Palestine?
Eighteen months ago UK foreign secretary William Hague delivered an important speech at the Hague, home of the International Criminal Court …
Let’s shine a light into the ICC’s dusty corners…
I watched the Palestinian ambassador, Prof Manuel Hassassian’s performance before a session of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee enquiring into ‘Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: prospects for 2014’.
Sharon took ‘brave decisions’ for peace, says Agent Cameron
In a statement marking the death of Ariel Sharon, British prime minister David Cameron said he was “one of the most significant figures in Israeli history and as Prime Minister he took brave and controversial decisions in pursuit of peace, before he was so tragically incapacitated.”
Help Prod The ICC Into Action Over Israel’s Illegal Settlements
Unbelievably, President Mahmoud Abbas and his hapless crew in Ramallah promised the US not to file charges against Israel in the International Criminal Court.
Erekat Wakes Up to The Peace Swindle
– Abbas is Still in Cuckoo Land…Israel continues to pretend it is negotiating.
Friends of Yours, Mr Cameron?
The Palestinian Embassy, for once, has done something useful and released figures that paint a shocking picture of Israel’s mega-crimes against their helpless Palestinian neighbours over the past year.
Walled in by Zionist Ugliness
London’s Christmas was made gloomier this year – and rightly so – by the appearance in the courtyard of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, of a replica of the hated Israeli annexation Wall that threads its thieving way around the Palestinian West Bank…
Xmas greetings to the UK Government…
Hello, the holly-decked halls of Westminster. Be of good cheer, all you chaps in your little festive bubble. I thought you might enjoy this Xmas message from Lennon/Ono…
RICHARD FALK interview
Creeping annexation, ethnic cleansing and ‘the politics of fragmentation’ inflicted by criminals who strut the world stage and thumb their noses at international law
After The Humiliation of the Last Papal Visit
Or should he, too, boycott Israel until Jerusalem and the Christian and Muslim communities are freed from occupation?
So Iran is Britain’s Enemy…
Whenever a Western leader expresses adoration and undying support for the Zionist state the Jewish Chronicle can be relied on to make the most of it.
If Sanctions Work Against Iran, Why Not Israel?
UK foreign secretary William Hague was recently halted in his tracks by Parliament when he and Cameron were straining at the leash to assault Syria.
So Have Peace Talks Collapsed?
In an earlier article I said that if the Palestinian Authority suddenly beamed information at me I’d view it with grave suspicion.
Just How Real is Hamas’s Transformation?
I wish 23 year-old Isra al Modallal all the luck in the world in her new and important job as the media face of Hamas – important, that is, if Hamas allows it to be. It’s a courageous move on her part… and a curious innovation by Hamas.
BDS Won’t Work, Zio Leaders Tell Methodists…
Of course, it wasn’t going to be long before the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) stuck their oar into the Methodists’ big debate on BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel http://www.methodist.org.uk/bdsbriefing, which included a public consultation questionnaire.
Appeasement Dooms Palestinians to Everlasting Misery
Later this month Palestinians will be celebrating an important anniversary, namely the decision by the UN General Assembly a year ago to recognize Palestine as a non-member observer state.
UK Government’s Devotion to Racist Israeli Regime Continues
A letter from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign recently flopped into my Inbox for forwarding to MPs, urging them to write to the Foreign Office and ask what action was being taken to address the growing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
Jerusalem the Red Line
The other day Hamas’s political chief, Khaled Meshaal, criticised the Palestinian Authority for “criminalizing armed resistance”.
Will Western Churches Unite and Fight?
The Methodist Church in Britain has invited individuals, NGOs, faith groups and government organisations in the UK, Israel/Palestine and beyond to take part in a consultation exercise and answer questions on what it calls “the wider context around BDS“.
Are Jewish communities to ‘annex’ north London?
‘Eruvs’: coming soon to a nice neighbourhood like yours, as Jewish exceptionalism stakes out its territorial gains on English soil (symbolically, of course)
“Dear Henry…” (Continued)
My MP Henry Bellingham has replied promptly to a letter on 26 August about the US and UK’s eagerness to “jump the gun” on Syria.
They Don’t Want Us to Know About Israel’s Nukes
UK Foreign Office ministers seem to have great difficulty answering simple questions about Israel’s terror capabilities.
Punishment for Syria, Rewards for Syria’s Neighbour Israel
US Secretary of State John Kerry accuses Syrian government forces of killing 1,429 people, including 426 children, in a chemical weapons attack in Damascus last week described as an “inconceivable horror” and “a crime against conscience”.
Syria: Parliament and the British People Tell Cameron and Hague to Cool It
Gung-ho prime minister Cameron and his sabre-rattling lieutenant, William Hague, were so eager to crank up their war machine that they’d lost all caution and reason. They’ve paid the price with a quite brutal Commons defeat.
Jumping The Gun on Syria
British people woke for a second morning to the chilling realisation that the US and UK were not waiting for the results of the UN’s enquiries in Syria before launching military intervention.
Brand Israel Self-Destructs
“Israel’s brand image does not serve its interests right now,” said Ido Aharoni, head of brand management at the foreign ministry, five years ago.
Quit Meddling, Kerry, Leave the Israel Problem to the Proper Authorities
No sooner had peace talks restarted under the warped patronage of the United States than Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu published bids for the construction of more than 1,000 new housing units in Palestinian East Jerusalem and existing illegal West Bank squats.
Walk Away, Palestinians!
While a fanfare of trumpets announced the resumption of so-called peace talks between Israel and the trampled Palestinians, to be held under the watchful eye of America’s Zionist ‘facilitators’, the Israelis were awarding special priority grants and other government funding to a number of their outlying West Bank “settlements”.
How UN Schemers Screwed up Middle East Peace Prospects For All Time
Why, after 65 years, is the Palestinian homeland still under foreign military occupation and total blockade when international law and the United Nations say it shouldn’t be?
Letter to Another Dishonest “Peace” Broker
The whole world has heard about your brilliant breakthrough – persuading trigger-happy US-subsidised Israel and the strangulated, unarmed Palestinians to agree “in principle” to resume the one-sided negotiations abandoned three years ago.
UK MP and Israel Critic David Ward is Suspended From Party
Back in January the Liberal Democrat leadership threw a mighty wobbly when MP David Ward made this remark on his website: “I am saddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza.”
Israel lobby tries (and fails) to intimidate another UK MP
On 8 July British MP ‘Battling’ Bob Russell was speaking during a House of Commons debate on the national curriculum in schools
Quo Vadis, Palestine?
The Palestinian embassy in London has just issued a rare media briefing.
Archbishop Makes False Start in Holy Land
Before he left for the Holy Land I telephoned Justin Welby’s office for details of his first visit as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, only to be told none were available in advance. So I emailed a list of questions….
The Unbearable Shame of Cameron’s ‘Torah’ Government
Ten years ago Tam Dalyell, the ‘Father of the House’ (i.e. the most senior member of the House of Commons in the British Parliament), sparked a huge row by accusing the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of “being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers”
Failed ‘Hasbara’ Insults Just Bounce Off Alice
Hasbara has become a dirty word, thanks to it’s dirty practitioners and the dirty job they are trained to do.
UN Justice Champion Richard Falk Targeted (Again)
US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has branded Richard Falk as “unfit to serve in his role as a UN Special Rapporteur.”
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