April 08, 2007

The Pope is Catholic and two and two is four

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Great headline huh? Well, no. Stating the bleedin' obvious is not a great headline but surely it's no worse than the headline to t...

Abdelhadi's world

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One of the reasons I started a blog was because I was a director of Arab Media Watch which, as the name implies, monitors the media for cov...
April 07, 2007

Linda Grant and the anti-Jewish East End bar

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Remember the Jewish east end of London? I was in Brick Lane only today. Well apparently there's a "fashionable bar" where th...
April 06, 2007

Dershowitz truthful about Finkelstein?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education carries news of an attempt to deny tenure at De Paul University to Professor Norman Finkelstein . Needle...

Anti-zionism and antisemitism - no relations

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Here's an article by Arthur Neslen in the Guardian's misnamed Comment is free space. It's a response to the UK's National ...
April 05, 2007

While I'm away....

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Goodness, my hits are down from over 400 a day in November 2006 to 177 now and, I presume, falling . It's the not posting wot duz it. ...
March 17, 2007

Israel's use of human shields: HRW weighs in

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According to Reuters (though the article carries a Reuters disclaimer) , Human Rights Watch has followed B'tselem's lead in condem...
March 11, 2007

What did Tony Blair know and when?

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I'm a bit late with this, I know. It was in Friday's Guardian . I just can't sit down at the pc much these days so my posts (a...
March 09, 2007

Leon Rosselson at the Cellar Upstairs

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Leon Rosselson is appearing at the Cellar Upstairs tomorrow night - 10 March 2007. The Cellar Upstairs is at the Exmouth Arms , Starcross...

Israel still using human shields in Nablus attack

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According to B'tselem in yesterday's Ha'aretz Israel used an eleven year old Palestinian girl as a human shield during its raid...

Jimmy Carter "stands firm"

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Cor! this news just in from Ha'aretz is exciting. Under the headline, Carter stands firm on apartheid accusations against Israel : He s...
March 08, 2007

The Song of the Old Communist?

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Here's a letter from an old communist chap in today's Guardian : As an 88-year-old who joined the Young Communist League on leaving ...
March 04, 2007

Scots Palestine Solidarity on "Jewishness"

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That's a cheeky little headline. It's actually Scottish PSC on Gilad Atzmon but people (including me but excluding him) are sick of...
March 02, 2007

Israel still using human shields?

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Here's an article in today's Guardian suggesting that Israel is still using human shields: The young Palestinian man was dressed in...
February 28, 2007

Ethnically cleansing the West Bank Bedouin

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Here's a report in today's Guardian on the ethnic cleansing of Bedouin from their homes in the West Bank: For the 3,000 Bedouin liv...
February 25, 2007

Gulf states to let Israel use their airspace en route to Iran?

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I'm not sure how true this is. I was sent the Ha'aretz link by a "David Cohen," Three Arab states in the Persian Gulf wo...
February 24, 2007

Rally in Trafalgar Square today

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It should be starting round about now at Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park and march to Trafalgar Square. This is the Stop the War blurb: To...

Israel seeks "air corridor" over sovereign Iraq

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According to Ha'aretz , Israel wants the way clear for an attack on Iran but who is Israel negotiating with for this corridor? Israel is...
February 23, 2007

Israel's apartheid regime, but where?

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Another one of those irritating observations, reported in the Guardian , that Israel's regime in the West Bank and Gaza is like aparthei...
February 21, 2007

Which Israel?

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My friend Dina Turner offers a consumer's guide to Israel in today's Guardian . Which Israel would ambassador Zfi Heifetz like the P...