No-one knows how many Palestinian children have died in Gaza since October 2023. Save the Children says at least one child has been killed every hour during the last 23 months, meaning at least twenty thousand girls and boys are dead. The UN estimates seventeen thousand, with more than thirty three thousand other children injured, […]
Israeli government drones on, but not about starving Gaza
Even in these sad days of being held in near-total contempt by our own Government, they excel themselves. Take the recent announcement that the Israeli delegation will not be invited to the forthcoming Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) show in London that will run 9-12 September. This my friends is our country’s ‘flagship defence […]
When victims are perpetrators
This week an organisation called B’tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied [Palestinian] Territories, published two words on the front of its website; our genocide. The accompanying text reads, ‘For nearly two years, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, acting in a systematic, deliberate way to destroy Palestinian society there […]
Deeply offensive and totally unacceptable, indeed
So, Bob Vylan. The death-chant rap followed by Bobby V doubling down on defending ‘Death to the IDF’. Said he regretted only that the rap became the story. The apocalypse that is daily life and mass killing in Gaza got lost amidst immediate near-hysterical political condemnations and BBC panic attacks. BBC Director General Tim Davie’s […]
