Zionism
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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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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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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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Trump’s peace plan. Really?
It’s over one hundred years since the then League of Nations, in 1922, bestowed upon Britain a mandate over Palestine. Much has come to pass in the intervening years, yet the spirit of the Mandate, and its anchor point, the 1917 Balfour Declaration, is with us still, finding expression in Trump’s so-called Gaza peace plan.… Continue reading
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They know what they do
I’ve said it myself: ‘there is one person who can stop Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the West Bank too, simply by picking up the phone to Netanyahu.’ That is President Trump. But that statement is not entirely correct, for there is another potential force that were it to be so minded has the capacity… Continue reading
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No hindrance placed in their way
Victory is near. So at least must the West Bank Israeli-Jewish settlers’ assess as they consume by fire, bullet and bulldozer Palestinian land, livelihoods – and lives. No hindrance placed in their way. In Gaza, too, the death knell sounds as Israel busies itself with the dirty – but it must be done! – business… 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 