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’. […]
The Normalisation Doctrine, making mass killing old news
I once met the journalist Patrick Cockburn, and he was a bit grumpy. Which made me sad because I have a long-term crush on Patrick. His sharp often caustic analysis, especially of violence and conflicts across the Middle East, has guided and inspired me for many years: I call him my intellectual crush, and there’s […]
When Weapons Trump Aid
I once experienced the quite terrifying sight of a man outside my gate with a machete in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. He wasn’t a guard – and the single guard who worked the gate fled. I still vividly remember watching the armed man as he paced back and forth; I knew […]
