Tag Archives: Israel

Issues which will decide my local election vote: Gaza twinning and fossil fuel divestment

Posted on April 3, 2022 by biowrite

I just sent an email along the following lines to several of the council election candidates in my ward (Edinburgh: Sighthill/Gorgie). When I receive replies I’ll post these as comments below. Dear ______ I am considering voting for you in … Continue reading →

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BBC fails to mention anti-Semitism interviewee is Friend of Israel

Posted on March 2, 2019 by biowrite

This morning BBC Radio 4 featured a long interview with Catherine McKinnell MP about the Labour Party’s supposed mishandling of the supposed crisis of anti-Semitism within it. (The real crisis, of course, is one of infiltration by hard-line Zionism.) As … Continue reading →

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I support the new HAIR definition of racism. Do you?

Posted on October 3, 2018 by biowrite

I support the new HAIR definition of racism in full, including the examples. #HAIRdef Racism is defined as: The belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority. … Continue reading →

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GMB and Unison leaders betray trade union values and urge Labour Party to adopt pro-Israel antisemitism definition

Posted on August 11, 2018 by biowrite

I am extremely distressed to hear that the leaders of both Unison and GMB – large UK trade unions – have joined the pro-Israel bandwagon and urged the Labour Party to adopt the pro-Israel IHRA definition of antisemitism in full … Continue reading →

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Manchester Dogs’ Home fire should remind us what the UK is capable of and why we should vote Yes

Posted on September 13, 2014 by biowrite

A caring lot? The fire at the Manchester Dogs’ Home is receiving significant coverage at the moment. The million pounds donated to date would seem to suggest that the great British public are a caring lot. However, the vast amount of … Continue reading →

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History will judge us. Which side are you on? Compassion and humanity, or terrorist apartheid Israel?

Posted on August 1, 2014 by biowrite

History will judge us all History will surely judge the Israeli Zionist state as among the most evil of the present era. It will also judge those who sought to support or appease this terrorist regime as complicit in its crimes against humanity. The … Continue reading →

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Partial victory against Israel in Edinburgh, but the struggle goes on.

Posted on July 31, 2014 by biowrite

Unbelievably, in view of Israel’s record on human rights and the ongoing slaughter of innocents in Gaza, the management of the Underbelly venue at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival somehow thought it a good idea to book and then not cancel a show … Continue reading →

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Israel’s “right to defend itself”: repeat a lie often enough…

Posted on July 28, 2014 by biowrite

UPDATE (16 APRIL 2018) I just came across this interesting article on the international Israeli propaganda machine: How Israel and its partisans work to censor the Internet. If you think it’s OK to say “Israel has a right to defend … Continue reading →

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Please, BBC, fair coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict!

Posted on November 19, 2012 by biowrite

I have just sent the following email to the BBC: I just heard the 10 a.m. news on BBC Radio 4 and was shocked that a significant portion of it was given over to a statement from an Israeli spokesman, … Continue reading →

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Italy admits guilt. The full depleted uranium story will blow soon!

Posted on December 16, 2011 by biowrite

Italy has just admitted that the deaths of 98 of its service personnel were due to exposure to depleted uranium (DU).  (Former MSP Bill Wilson and myself campaigned to get the UK Ministry of Defence to take this issue seriously.  … Continue reading →

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