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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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The most extraordinary thing I learned from Marilyn Garson
There are 30 million Christian Zionists in the United States, and there are only 16 million Jews on the planet. Therefore the colonialist project known as Zionism is not primarily a Jewish force. What’s more, with the rise of post-colonialist, anti-racist attitudes in the younger generation, the overlap between Jews and Zionists is getting steadily…
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An entirely selfish request
(A request from me that is, not Richard Medhurst, who is merely asking that random police forces could please stop arresting him and nicking his kit.) It’s like this: I’ve been reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. It’s the size of a brick, but not really the kind of brick you’d take…
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Hastings – How do we take back our town?
This week, a citizen who happened to be a councillor happened to be at an assemblies planning meeting I went to. She informed me that our borough council is doomed. ‘It’s done and dusted,’ she said. The last couple of years have been a rollercoaster of first-priority issues for anyone even remotely involved in politics.…
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Hastings Genocide Memorial Day
Like many people up and down the country, a group of us gathered in Hastings on Saturday 1st February 2025 in support of Palestine. It was a complex event. First and foremost, we were saying STOP ARMING ISRAEL. But as politicians and the media push us to ‘move on’, just because of an extremely fragile…
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Why planes crash – and why they usually don’t
Former airline pilot and media aviation commentator Terry Tozer discusses the Washington collision Thursday 30th January 2025 Reagan Airport Washington DC – Fatal Mid Air collision At around 8.50 pm, an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ regional jet on approach to Reagan airport was involved in a collision with a US Army Blackhawk helicopter. Both aircraft…
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Are we doing democracy?
The EU referendum was my first big dilemma after I’d got myself involved in Party politics. At very short notice, David Cameron was asking us for a vote on a complex topic most of us didn’t know much about, and most politicians responded with diatribes about how badly wrong other politicians were, with simplistic catch-phrases…
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Prepare to support your trans comrades
(This is a re-edit of a post from 2022 ( original here ) republished with a few notes in brackets because — well, here we are again, Trump and all, and a heck of a lot of people have learned nothing.) No, I am not saying be ‘a trans ally’. That’s identity-politics nonsense, it’s being…
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Kay Green 