Adam LeBor relates more strange goings-on at the London Review of Books, the publication which ran John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s original essay on “The Israel Lobby”.
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So says Yvonne Ridley, Iran’s very own Lord Haw Haw, in a response to a post on this blog about the boat trip to Gaza. Yvonne does not, sadly, answer any of the points about the character of Hamas rule in Gaza - currently being challenged by a strike wave which began in the school sector and has now spread to medical staff. Readers who want to respond to her can do so at the original post - “Eyeless in Gaza” - here.
Another day, another set of histrionics from Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of Tony Blair and activist with the “Free Gaza” movement - a group which, despite its name, is careful not to make any criticisms of Hamas.
Hot on the heels of the Jenna Delich affair, yet more leaks from the UCU’s activist list have made it into the blogosphere, allowing those of us who are not members to gasp and marvel at the increasingly bizarre state of debate inside the UK’s academic union.
When Palestine solidarity activists tried to disrupt a concert by an Israeli string quartet in Edinburgh, members of the audience were having none of it.
Welcome back, Harry’s Place. Thanks to Modernity for maintaining such detailed updates. Also, our friends at Engage have three important posts about the source of all this rot - the UCU. The email which they’ve reproduced from one Keith Hammond demonstrates both shocking politics and shocking disrespect for the basic rules of grammar.
if you are having problems logging onto HP, Modernity in the comments points out: “The DNS’s might take a bit of time to propagate the IP address, they are there. You might try the IP address directly, 64.13.233.3.”
In the hours that have elapsed since Harry’s Place was unceremoniously ripped from the internet, this blog and many others have declared their solidarity, mainly by expressing their disgust at the underhand methods adopted by the boycotters inside the UCU and by linking to this back-up site. Again, please go there and tell your friends and colleagues to do the same.
Readers of this blog may have noticed that Harry’s Place is down, apparently because of a complaint made by Jenna Delich, or someone associated with her, to their service provider. Please go here for more information. We’ll keep you posted with further developments.
In the end, Israel handled it expertly. The two boats carrying a motley crew of Palestine activists - including Yvonne Ridley, a propagandist for Iran’s Press TV and Lauren Booth, Tony Blair’s embarrassing sister-in-law - docked in Gaza without fuss.
In 1975, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the leading postwar film directors and writers in Germany, wrote a play entitled “Garbage, the City and Death.” Set in a desolate urban landscape of prostitutes and seedy nightclubs, the play cemented Fassbinder’s infamy largely because of the inclusion of a character named “The Rich Jew.”
Female passengers aboard the two ships travelling to “break the siege of Gaza,” be warned: should you get there, showing any flesh will be frowned upon by the Hamas masters of the territory.
Eamonn was saying in an earlier post that he hadn’t seen any left-wing demonstrations outside the Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires protesting events in Georgia. It’s a safe bet that there’s the same degree of invisibility in other metropolises.
This is a guest post by Contentious Centrist
The reactions to the death of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, as always when a controversial figure passes away, can be arranged along a continuum, from the most rhapsodic to the most satirical.
It looks like the fighting in the Caucasus is over, at least for the moment. It’s hard to know how many people have been killed or driven from their homes in recent days but the figure must run to thousands in the former category and tens of thousands in the latter. Let me mention a few of the things I haven’t seen in Buenos Aires in the last seven days.
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