antisemitism
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Have you noticed? The assault on democratic space
Not as part of a grand conspiratorial plan, notwithstanding what some might wish, but incrementally, step by separate step, the architecture of a repressive, authoritarian state is slowly being erected before our eyes. A multi-dimensional pincer movement comprising laws, processes, procedures, and rights-denying rhetoric, thematically laced together by the extraordinary growth in the concentration of Continue reading
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Self-induced antisemitism
The words and deeds of the self-proclaimed Jewish state -Israel – are prime progenitors of antisemitism. International civil society, as distinct from so many governments, look on in horror, and perhaps in disbelief, as the Israeli state – via the words and deeds of its leaders, its officials, its military, its deranged, Old Testament-wielding, Settler 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
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Bernard Spiegal 