Apartheid
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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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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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Trump’s Board of Peace: a cracked vessel
On the 17th November 2025, the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted on Resolution 2803 to endorse President Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict. Thirteen states voted in favour, the UK among them, with no votes against. China and Russia abstained. That same resolution included the establishment of a Trump dominated Board of Peace… Continue reading
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Phase two of Trump’s peace plan: A charade is being enacted before our eyes
It is important not to be misled by what we might call the surface activity that Trump’s plan for Gaza has prompted. Surface activity: a charade Beneath the flurry of international activity directed at taking Trump’s plan for Gaza into its second phase, lies another reality. The reality that Israel has not deviated from its… Continue reading
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Brief account of my (and others) court hearing under Terrorism Act 2000
Yesterday, I was one of a number of people who had their plea hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court – that is, to formally plead either ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’ – in respect of charges brought under Section13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Statement denied I aimed to make a statement to the court before entering… Continue reading
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Football anyone? Travels in irony
It’s an odd sight, PM Starmer falling over himself to seek additional resources to enable Birmingham police to cope with the ‘high risk’ possibility that were Maccabi football fans allowed to attend their November Europa League game against Aston Villa, violent disorder emanating from the Maccabi fans was a realistic possibility. The ‘high risk’ designation… Continue reading
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Two-states: solution or chimera?
This seems to me to be axiomatic: It is not possible to construct a viable, and just – note ‘and just’ – independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. The so-called ‘two-state solution’ is no solution at all. I have rehearsed the arguments supporting the propositions above, here and here and here and here, and therefore will… 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 