I can't put this strongly enough. Howard Jacobson's article in today’s Observer newspaper may be one the vilest pieces of journalism published in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel's documented slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a "blood libel" and antisemitic. It is pure genocide apologism.
But far worse is the fact that the Guardian Media Group signed off his column. This isn't the work of one Zionist loon. A whole army of journalists brought it to print.
And note: Jacobson, odious as he is, isn't responsible for the choice of photo. That is entirely down to the Observer newsroom.
I worked at both the Guardian and the Observer, its Sunday sister paper, for many years. The comment editor, the photo editor, the revise sub-editor, the Observer's chief editor and all the section heads would have approved not only Jacobson's text but that photo too.
What on earth did they all imagine that "illustrative" photo of a blood-smeared doll suggested?
That the many thousands of children blown to pieces by Israeli bombs are a fiction.
That all the children decomposing under rubble are made up.
That all the unidentified children buried in Gaza's sands are a lie.
That all the children dying of epidemics like polio or starving to death from Israel's aid blockade are an invention.
That any single journalist imagined for a moment that this was an acceptable article or photo in the midst of a genocide is astounding enough.
But that a whole phalanx of the most influential and “liberal” journalists in the country backed it without a second thought tells us something about the depraved culture that passes for journalism in the western establishment media.
These elite journalists are completely divorced from reality. They have no moral core, they live and work as fanatical ideologues for western supremacism. They are as racist as their forebears who cheerled Britain's subjugation and colonisation of the rest of the globe.
There is no hope of ever having a healthy world as long as these war-mongers and genocide apologists are allowed to remain in charge of shaping our consciousness.The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
Laith Marouf on ANN talks about the depleted Uranium that the US/"Isreal" are salting Lebanon with
An anti-dote to the hysterical western msm insanity,
there were massive demonstrations in Morocco, its one of the major Compradors , Algeria also seething, my relatives in Cairo say there are rumours about a putsch by some army officers but they are sceptical, who knows, Egypt is crawling with CIA and other agencies, empire of chaos
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Re: Laith Marouf on ANN talks about the depleted Uranium that the US/"Isreal" are salting Lebanon with
I haven’t listened to this yet but thanks for posting it. Commentators like this are perhaps the only thing that allows me to hang on to my sanity in this terrible time of genocide and gas lighting.
Re: Laith Marouf on ANN talks about the depleted Uranium that the US/"Isreal" are salting Lebanon with
Firstly I am the diversity what is your strength, in the fucking flesh,
I am partly a bedouin from the eastern delta and mummy was from a family of east end gangsters, my greatgrandfather was union man, stevedores, so they never worked again and took to crime, i loved them.
I am old, I was born in the far east during an anti-colonial revolt and then grew up till my teens in an African war, the Biafran, and then was dumped into 1970's south lonndon.
It was a violent racist kind of revolutionary place I had an absolute ball, I am big people don't bother me usually, and i fell in with the Jamaicans but because of Arab connections I got a job with an organ of the LIbyan gov
The reason i agreed to work with them was because Libya was the most democratic country ever to have existed, those policies which you may recall, married couple get free flat and 50k usd all those were proposed by representative committees made up largely of women, the grandmothers,
I have never seen a situation like the one we are facing now, the covid crisis allowed the govt to deploy what were war powers, whatever ones view of the coverage and illness, the old welshman died can not spell his name, always a bit melancholy for what happened to him
i live in a remote house in Eire and they had checkpoints even out here, staffed by charming young ban gardai, where i had to explain what i was doing
this current crisis is going to escalate this is a war between the Africans, Arabs, Iranians et al versus the collective west, but Russia and China are going to get involved they will not allow Iran to be destroyed and Iran anyway is formidable we not in 2003
America and Europe and Zionism are going to be expelled from the Arab world and oh well blood a gonna run
Muamar Ghadaffi once said "this will be a heroic age for the Arabs" which is kind of like the chinese curse but we the west are long overdue a reckoning
and even though i am a professional in two religions with a commendation from the Rastas i ready to see the shithouse that the west has turned this world into burn down
i have yabby you "run come rally" on the system and plenty of version which i am going to play
i talk a lot of nonsense but i am very grateful for the friendliness that you have shown towards me and i will dedicate the merit of your kindness,
may all beings find happiness in the inconceivable vastness and luminosity of their very own minds emaho
Re: Laith Marouf on ANN talks about the depleted Uranium that the US/"Isreal" are salting Lebanon with
Thanks for posting that Subhi, I'm old enough to remember the ghastly end of the Biafran War and the neo-colonisation of Africa after independence and I studied African history 1830 to 1910 at college, which is why I have a soft spot for Ghana.
In the English midlands, the 1970s took place on the television (except for the power cuts during the pit strikes) but I took an interest in the world and was rather puzzled to see Harold Wilson on the telly calling the deal to send 2/3 of the Ugandan Asians to India despite them having British citizenship a success. How naive I was at the callous hypocrisy of the British state.
Now they've done it again to the Chagos Islanders - in 2024 for fuck's sake. I used to put my money where my mouth was; now I'm retired I still manage the odd bung; it's not much but it is more than nothing. Stuff Thatchler and her 'there is no society' lies. I hope things are well with you. The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
An Egyptian acquaintance said the same about Egypt. Good luck to the decent people of Egypt and bad cess to the CIA sell-outs.The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
I can't put this strongly enough. Howard Jacobson's article in today’s Observer newspaper may be one the vilest pieces of journalism published in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel's documented slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a "blood libel" and antisemitic.
I completely agree with him. I've never seen anything as vile as this in the British msm. How is this possible?! and yet .. here we are. Israel delenda est .. and free Palestine!
The Graun: officially now too toxic to even wipe your arse with (nm)
It's either Observer or Fraudian. Observer is credited with this story, as it happens. So. I can just imagine a poor sod waiting for the newspaperman to ditch his Saturday's edition hardcopy and cut it into manageable bits
The fraudian has been far too toxic since July 2016 - NM
I thought that it was shite in the 70s. Then it was the paper of the corduroy-trousered, 2CV driving pseuds who read Private Eye and voted Liarbour because they wanted to keep the Tory out (?!?).The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
1066 :-) nm
Posted by Shyaku on October 7, 2024, 5:26 pm, in reply to "1973"
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The dawn of time?
Posted by t on October 8, 2024, 12:50 am, in reply to "1066 :-) nm"
hehe
2CV driving pseuds ..
Posted by t on October 10, 2024, 12:03 am, in reply to "1973"
I had a lot of respect for 2CV. It got me from London to North Wales and back one time. Very slow, clunky, and a *very* cheap motor. In other words, delight.
I think you have skewed notions about class and beliefs. Off the scale .. just saying ..
on October 6, 2024, 6:56 pm