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Synod begins loosening the shackles that tied it to the pro-Israel Jewish Establishment
The previously published article below, ‘Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod’, focused on the Jewish Establishment’s campaign to quash the possibility that the York Synod, 10 July – 14 July, would agree to ‘hear’ the Palestinian Christian Initiative: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, also… Continue reading
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Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod
The Church of England’s General Synod – the Church’s highest governing body, essentially its Parliament – is meeting in York from 10 to 14 July 2026. It has a key, controversial, question to address, namely, will it ‘receive’ – not ‘approve’ – the Kairos Palestine – Palestinian Christian Initiative A Moment of Truth: Faith in… Continue reading
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Chinks in the Zionist edifice
Only delusional seers, along with the very foolish, would try to predict, with any degree of certainty, how the bloody saga of the USA/Israel aggression against Iran will ultimately unfold. What can be said, however, is that it’s as near to certain as one can get that neither the USA, nor Israel, can have imagined… Continue reading
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Responsibility shunned
The resignation of Wes Streeting as Health Secretary in the Starmer government prompts questions about what it means to take responsibility. What does it require of a person, what is entailed, always accepting each situation is context specific. By his own account, Wes Streeting, the now former Health Secretary, while still in Government was much… Continue reading
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Falsehoods and fabrications: tools of the Zionist lobby
The architecture of suppression has been well constructed, narrowing the legal and physical space within which public protest can find expression. And the primary, present target for curtailment and suppression is pro-Palestinian, Israel-critical demonstration. In Kettled: The control and shrinking of democratic space I set out some of the legislative measures – those in place,… Continue reading
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Kettled: The control and shrinking of democratic space
We are living through an extended period of comprehensive assaults on our civil liberties. We – the citizens of England and Wales – are being legislatively ‘kettled’. Hemmed-in by an architecture of interlocking laws and regulations the effect of which is to place in jeopardy the practical application of the Human Rights Act which enshrines… Continue reading
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Jews: Isn’t it time?
The Israeli parliament – the Knesset – has passed into law the Penal Law (Amendment – Death Penalty for Terrorists) Bill (2025) mandating the death penalty by hanging for Palestinians convicted of carrying out alleged terrorist acts. This law captures in its blooded maw Palestinians of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as well as Palestinian… Continue reading
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The war on Iran: A wicked folly
It is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty the final outcome of the USA/Israel war on Iran. What one can say, however, is that looming through the fog of war, there is the only too real prospect of uncontainable turmoil in the Middle East. That turmoil to reverberate through the rest of the… Continue reading
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Erasing Palestine: Part Two
UK Lawyers for Israel: The enemy within? An obsessive, multi-faceted erasing entity Here in the UK we have our own homegrown – but substantially supported by Israel and its fellow-travellers – UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). It is committed, to the point of zealotry, to supporting Israel by the particular method of seeking to erase… Continue reading
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Erasing Palestine: Part One of two
In Part One, I look at Israel’s sustained and wide-ranging mission – for mission it is – to erase all and every trace of Palestinian identity, history and presence in the land between the river and the sea. I focus on Israel’s approach to archaeology, education and tourism as three exemplars of Israel’s eliminatory purpose.… Continue reading
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Bernard Spiegal 