A collection of 34 posts
People readily recognise Nazi discourse, but remain largely deaf to Soviet anti-Zionist, antisemitic propaganda.
Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization.
A conversation with British-Palestinian peace activist John Aziz.
Many of the questions that have arisen since October 7 have been raised before.
A conversation with author and free-speech advocate David Bernstein.
For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.
Not all of those who advocate for a single state “from the river to the sea” have genocidal intent, but their recommendation, if acted upon, is very likely to result in either the genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jews.
Western countries are seen as colonizing nations and imperialists, while foreign autocracies and sectarian extremists like Hamas are perceived as freedom fighters and even forces for good.
For Western LGBT rights activists to support Hamas's continued rule over Gaza is hypocritical in the extreme.
The pro-Hamas demonstrations are driven by the identification of Israel with “colonialism” and the idea that the Palestinians are anti-colonialists. This approach is based on ignorance.
For more than a generation, defence policy and much else has been increasingly determined by the dictates of Israel’s religious settler lobby and its Messianic visions.
There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.
The libel that Israel is engaged in genocide attempts to do the unthinkable—to link the Jewish state with Nazi Germany. This cynical calculus is as wrong as it is obscene.
In Palestine, they’d be killed.
Sometimes, we simply have to stop the bad guys—even at the cost of civilian casualties.