Against: totalitarianism. For: Liberty, Secularism, Enlightenment, Cats.
Some words ought to retain their weight, and genocide is one of them in my view. The word has a clear etymology and commonly understood definition. It has a serious and sober history behind it, as befits such a subject. There is a vast scholarly literature that attends to the word in its legal, historical […]
Read More THIS IS NOT A GENOCIDECritical – as though those who accuse Israel of every known crime against humanity, of being more Nazi than the Nazis, more fascist than the fascists, more apartheid than apartheid South Africa, are simply exercising measured argument and fine discrimination. —Howard Jacobson It would be ridiculous to think of any country as above criticism, especially […]
Read More EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT ISRAEL IS WRONGSince the atrocities of 7 October 2023 I’ve been wearing my Israeli flag lapel pin alongside my Ukrainian one. This tends to bring certain sorts crawling out of the woodwork, and on Saturday I got into a rather heated debate about Israel and Palestine. The woman in question told me the “worst” thing Hitler ever […]
Read More A MESSAGE TO THE GENTILES REGARDING SOLIDARITY
THE VIEW FROM DIAMOND TOWERS 