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Sanctioning the settlements: A bullet bitten. A space opened up.
Governments long enchantment with, and fear of, the clamorous, pro-Israel Jewish Establishment has ended. This is the symbolic meaning of Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s announcing sanctions against the settlements of the West Bank. The substance of the sanctions proposed may not amount to much so far as agricultural products are concerned, but there is the… Continue reading
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Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Moral purpose shattered
A D’var Torah is a speech or text exploring a theme, verse, or idea spun out from the weekly Torah (five books of Old Testament) reading conducted in synagogues. A D’var Torah is essentially homiletic in character, seeking to convey a moral message, enjoining a congregation to right thinking and right behaviour. Moral purpose shattered… Continue reading
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A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, alongside something called the Jewish Leadership Council, had a meeting with the new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, on the 10 August. Those two organisations are part of a cluster of pro-Israel bodies that can fairly be characterised as the Jewish Establishment. Up until now, seemingly without shame, British… Continue reading
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You don’t have to succumb to…
You don’t have to succumb to conspiracy theories to assess that Israel, and its founding Zionist doctrine, is at the centre of a protective governmental, media, and judicial ring of mafia-like protection: a protection racket designed to eliminate any and all criticism of the rogue, eliminatory state of Israel. Those interests, thus far, are in… Continue reading
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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
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Recent Posts
- Sanctioning the settlements: A bullet bitten. A space opened up.
- Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Moral purpose shattered
- A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
- You don’t have to succumb to…
- Synod begins loosening the shackles that tied it to the pro-Israel Jewish Establishment
Bernard Spiegal 