18 May 2025 23:24:35
Appalling Lineker sacking from the BBC because of his defense to the genoside in Gaza! Given the rat reference I certainly didn't know either. The BBC and the UK needs to call out Israel to exactly what they are!
19 May 2025 03:00:17
Interesting exposé on the front page of the NYT yesterday about the Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther": in essence, a systematic attempt to criminalize all criticism of the Zionist apartheid state, implemented first under Biden and now more aggressively under Trump. The fact that this agenda never makes it into UK discussions of so-called "anti-semitism" is amazing to me. The discrediting of Jeremy Corbyn on these spurious grounds is the most egregious demonstration of Chomsky's "media control" thesis I've ever seen.
19 May 2025 04:49:24
Crying anti-semitism is a defense technique that's been going on longer than that CC. The UK gov is facilitating the apartheid and is quite honestly to blame for the state of Israel in the first place. Pandering to Washington and the influence of an Israeli lobby ensure that nothing will be done. It's a sad state of affairs as the good in the world can only watch on.
19 May 2025 07:34:28
I'm not great with politics and never have been but it all smacks of money and greed. They're more likely to get more business out of Israel than Gaza and to hell with morality and human suffering. Once the anger and vitriol has departed what's the betting that we'll be the first to throw our hat in the ring and say - We'll help rebuild Gaza on favourable terms. It just all stinks to me.
19 May 2025 08:20:31
It was a book by Chomsky, that later got turned into a documentary. It was titled "manufacturing consent" and outlined who owned the media, whose interests it served and how it was used to manipulate what people believed on a wide range of subjects. It is well worth a read/ watch for anyone who is not aware of it.
Getting back to the Zionist lobby in the UK. There was an interesting documentary on this, that exposed how it had infiltrated British politics and who it had targeted. Interestingly they also have links with Tommy Robinson and the far right in the UK.
19 May 2025 10:12:32
On a lighter note, tho very much linked, I see the British public voted for Israel as their favourite song at the Eurovision Song Contest ?, which btw I am reliably informed was one of the worst songs of the night. This love of Israel and all it stands for goes beyond politics.
19 May 2025 10:31:34
They all get buttered up on their way up the ranks, Joe.
19 May 2025 10:58:27
Lineker should actually be commended for calling out genocide, the world stands by and watches as innocent people are randomly slaughtered by Israeli coward's.
19 May 2025 15:08:46
Anti Irish anti Catholic anti Muslim is OK, the UK and US governments should hang their heads In shame funding this genocide.