Hamas strike on Israel

The hand-wringing by the media and the politicians here is the UK is sickening and each of those who say they are offended by what was said in Glastonbury over what Israel are doing everyday is absurd. The bloodlust from Israel is not imagined and is happening everyday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Shabi

Rachel Shabi (Hebrew: רחל שאבי) is a British-Israeli journalist and author. She is a contributing writer to The Guardian and the author of We Look Like the Enemy, Israel's Jews from Arab Lands.

What will be interesting is any potential defence in a court case for hate speech against Bob Vylan.

The extreme right flexing their power through cancel culture having spent the last decade decrying cancel culture, isn’t the win they think it is.

One thing that's clear is that Zionism is very much a right wing / far right phenomenon in the UK. You have ageing cranks like Andrew Neil, Richard Littlejohn and Nick Ferrari shouting from the rooftops about Bob Vylan. If that's where the support is coming from, it already looks like a busted flush.

I'd say that it's more akin to support for Israel becoming a right wing/far right endeavour, not only in the UK, but across the board and you only have to look at the sliver of examples on here to understand that. A handful of posters who demonstrably lean to the right ( and who have probably never even met an Israeli) have continually wrapped themselves up in knots to excuse what Israel has been doing. And for what? To get one up on "the left", whomever that may be in their heads? Because to be against Israel's murderous campaign in Gaza and its continued stealing of land that isn't theirs, not to mention its antagonistic aggression all across the region, has somehow become a "left wing" thing…that needs to be opposed at all costs?

How simplistic a mind must one have to view world affairs in such a binary manner?

And this has morphed into a real problem in our world today in a lot of aspects. People are far too quick to take a side and are far too willing to dig their heels in for that "side", regardless of how low it makes them. They take their cues and talking points from the people you mention and discard anything that may cause discomfort with those talking points. Right up to the level where they will disregard the idea of a genocide being carried out by "their side", but are quite alright with ethnic cleansing being enacted.

How debased does one have to be when that's the level you've reached and all in the pursuit of trying to get one up on somebody else, who you don't even know, but you have deemed is the "other side"?

We are edging closer and closer to a very concerning precipice where one day certain people's willingness to acquiesce themselves to what should be appalling realities, and their ability to abandon their basic humanity, will have truly devastating results on a global level.

A new ceasefire proposal from the US. Its to be sent to Hamas for their approval. So those that say Hamas has no power and are now ineffective, think on this. The details to come I suppose but Hamas to be disarmed and dismantled is part of the deal apparently.

this is just more of the projection bollocks I talked about earlier and to be honest, a touch anti semetic, albeit hidden behind the veil of calling it anti Zionism. It isn’t a coincidence that the left wingers are the ones desperately clamouring to blame the right etc and in particular Starmer for something that is happening in a country thousands of miles away, but I guess this is just a continuation of the abuse and vitriol directed at several labour candidates during the last general election.

The idea of a 'temporary' ceasefire at the end of a two year onslaught is very problematic. Means the Israelis could restart the bombardment and cut off aid to the region again at any moment of their choosing and on the flimsiest of pretexts - Hamas clearly have no intention of recommencing hostilities at any point in the near future.

Saying something is even 'a touch' anti-semitic is a serious allegation. Seeing as I was somebody who mentioned Starmer, can you please point out where I have said something that is even a touch anti-semitic?

Feel free to explain, in detail, how it's anti-semetic.