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 […]
‘Gaza will haunt us’
Mirjana Spoljaric’s words are prescient. ‘Gaza has become worse than hell on earth’ the President of the ICRC tells the BBC. World leaders ‘will be haunted’ by their collective lack of action to stem the bloodbath in Gaza, she says, because there is no justification for the Israeli government ‘stripping Palestinians of [their] human dignity’. […]
