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Jewish not Zionist: an invitation from JVL
Leah Levane, Co-Chair of JVL (Jewish Voice for Labour) kindly wrote the introduction to the UK edition of Marilyn Garson’s latest book, Jewish not Zionist. Her introduction summarizes how the situation we are now challenging in Israel / Palestine came about. It covers the Balfour Declaration, and the likely motivations behind it, and how the…
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Hastings connections
(Hastings loves fireworks) Hastings, UK, has twin town relationships with Béthune (France), Oudenaarde (Belgium), Dordrecht (The Netherlands), and Schwerte (Germany), and Hastings in Sierra Leone, West Africa. I think we’re twinned with the first three because councillors have friends or trade links there. I guess with the last one, it’s because of the name, although…
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What’s a fiscal black hole, and how do you fix it?
It’s what you get when the magic money-tree suffers a crop failure. I don’t know whether our old MP Amber Rudd was the first one to claim “there is no magic money tree”, but she was most definitely one of those stashing their income in tax havens whilst telling us there was no magic solution…
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Rule One: Don’t give up
There’s lots to do, and plenty of people are in action, learning more every day about how it’s done. First, how it’s not done: I think most people have worked out that our party-political system is – if not broken, certainly captured, and not doing what it says on the tin. It’s taking us a…
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Hastings needs a strong voice
On the probable demise of HBC, and a possible citizens’ answer In the first week of the New Year I said this on FB… I was in a towering rage. Sure, the utterly destructive nature of party politics in recent years had pretty much disabled our local council and yes, a dysfunctional council is hard…
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The day I got Twit-mobbed
Or, Munitions, mobs and mobile phones So here’s a blog I never got around to sharing much back in November 2023… I am posting it now because of a sudden, someone somewhere is sharing it and it reminded me of the way that day went, and how that story links up what I think are…
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How stupid are they?
The debate is everywhere — in the newspapers, on telly, in the pub and round the dinner table — not so much whether assisted dying is a good idea as how on earth did team Starmer manage to handle it so badly? The question I hear again and again in debates over what our MPs…
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Help! I’m being repressed!
I wrote an article this morning about anti-Palestinian racism. There were the tags WordPress recommended… They clearly don’t have any recommendations for ‘Palestinian’ or ‘anti-racism’. Facebook immediately took it down as against community standards, and this is what they did when I objected…. They have done this many times when I write about Palestine, and…
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Why I am wearing that Palestinian badge today
An appeal from a Palestinian woman A year ago we were all shocked (well, those of us paying attention were shocked) to hear of a Palestinian boy reprimanded for turning up at school with a Palestinian flag badge on his coat. Yesterday, I heard Dr Zahira Jaser talking about what it’s like being a Palestinian…
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To AirBnB or not to AirBnB…?
Murder and theft in Palestine is the question. In November, I wrote to the London office of AirBnB. I said… I signed up as an AirBnB host a couple of years ago, partly because I had a bedroom I could spare for a while and it answered the problem of rising household bills, partly because…
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