I have taken this from my Facebook page, posted in January 2022. I am sharing it now because current circumstances encourage me to do so.It is a useful example of how too many Israeli Jews all too often think and of what they have been taught. They have been subjected to Hasbarah all their lives, … Continue reading WHERE IS ISRAEL’S NESHAMA?

Here is a handy summary of Israel's position in response to the world-wide calls for a cessation of the bombing of Gazan refugees and the settler's violent insurgence into the West Bank: 'Israel is not interested in a negotiated peace. Nor will Israel accept criticism of its current actions in relation to Palestine. Israel has … Continue reading ISRAEL’S CURRENT PALESTINIAN POLICY MADE SIMPLE

I am a Jew, trying to deal emotionally both with what Hamas may have done to distant members of my own family, and also with the great cruelties inflicted by Israel, the country they went to at the time of Nakba, on an innocent people who have done nothing to deserve the horrors they faced … Continue reading AN ENGLISH JEW PRAYS FOR PALESTINE

(I started this piece as a satire, with a sense of irony; but now I read it through I realise it makes my point in a quite unsatirical way. Its central thesis, that Zionism makes no sense, must be clear, if not agreeable, to everybody, and those who espouse the Zionist cause, should any read … Continue reading ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM: HOW LOGICAL IS THE ZIONIST VIEW?

Here is a comment made on Facebook in response to my open letter Keir Starmer, and the exchange that resulted from it. It is as classic a piece of Hasbarist gaslighting as I have yet come across.My friend comes across as a rational man putting forward a halfway rational answer.It is an answer, however, which … Continue reading A HASBARIST IN FULL FLOW