Tag Archives: Palestine

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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Please do whatever you can to defend the human rights of Palestinians (letter to my MP)

Posted on May 14, 2021 by biowrite

Dear Ms Cherry I struggle to express how upset I am at the horrific ongoing events in Israel-Palestine. I was born in Scotland but grew up in erstwhile white-majority-rule Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and apartheid South Africa, and am aware of … 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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Gaza: BBC admits hiding the horror @BBCr4today

Posted on July 29, 2014 by biowrite

The BBC, de facto ally of the murderous Israeli regime, has possibly come as close as it ever will to admitting that its coverage of what is happening in Gaza is…. ahem… partial. Someone’s head may roll for not considering the … 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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The distinction between Judaism and Zionism

Posted on June 29, 2010 by biowrite

I thought this was very well expressed: Making waves – Rabbi Pete Tobias on the Flotilla Incident (Pete Tobias is rabbi of The Liberal Synagogue Elstree and chairman of Liberal Judaism’s Rabbinic Conference) The Israeli assault on the Gaza flotilla … Continue reading →

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The truth about Israel and its actions

Posted on June 6, 2010 by biowrite

This has no direct relevance to my writing, but I feel compelled to highlight two articles in the Sunday Herald. The first is an interview with Theresa McDermott, someone I have had the privilege of meeting on several occasions.  It’s … Continue reading →

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