Communitarian social democrat. Roman Catholic. Interests in literature, history, philosophy and collecting vinyl records.

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Cake day: July 31st, 2024

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  • Haviv Rettig Gur put it very accurately and concisely, if brutally, in a lecture he gave recently:

    For Jews In the 21st century, you either learned English or Hebrew or you were killed.

    As a Brit myself (English, Catholic, English as far back as Ancestry can tell etc.) I’m really ashamed of this country since October 7th. It’s as if we felt that we had been impervious to the very deep, ancient cancer of antisemitism due to WW2. And that seems to have left us even more defenceless than many other European states which have at least tried at points to contain this.


  • Have you read the article?

    You mean the plan accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs, right before they launched a war which in the words of Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and close friend of Adolf Hitler, they would “continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated” and, in the words of one of the most senior leaders of Jerusalem, Jamal al-Husayni, that “the blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East”?

    That’s the war you’re referring to re: “The UN’s right to defend itself”?

    Because of course, it could have done at the time, and defended itself against the side that rejected the UN plan: the Arabs. And it didn’t.

    So what’s your point here, if not spreading Jew-hatred?