Harry's Place

A selection of some recent offerings from the Israel haters’ favourite ‘proud self-hating Jew’, courtesy of Palestine Think Tank:
November 18th 2008:
Miliband should be in London in time so he can join President Peres and unveil a special plaque at the Foreign Office, honoring British diplomats who helped save Jews during the Holocaust. I wonder how [...]

The lead story in the Indie today is this:
British soldiers are engaged in “a surreal mini civil war” with growing numbers of home-grown jihadists who have travelled to Afghanistan to support the Taliban, senior Army officers have told The Independent.
Interceptions of Taliban communications have shown that British jihadists – some “speaking with West Midlands accents” [...]

Denmark is an example of a tyranny. Since 1968 all Danish citizens have been assigned personal identification numbers by the Det Centrale Personregister. It seems incredibly oppressive.
The centralised civil register (CRS), which has existed in Denmark for more than 25 years, is a nationwide civil register whose purpose is to administrate the personal identification [...]

We’ve all heard the very sad news that David Cameron’s son, Ivan, has died. He was six years old: the age of my own son.
David Cameron’s family were staying last summer in a guest house run by a family friend, while my parents in law were also guests. Ivan Cameron was clearly profoundly disabled, and [...]

This is a guest post by Ben Cohen of Z Word
A cordial invitation to all of you to visit Z Word for Michelle Sieff’s extensive interview with Paul Berman, author of “Terror and Liberalism” and “Power and the Idealists.” Issues covered include the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, western perceptions of Hamas, the outlook [...]

A Labour peer who sent and received text messages minutes before he was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 has been jailed for 12 weeks.
Lord Ahmed, 51, was driving his Jaguar when he hit a stationary car in the outside lane of the motorway on Christmas Day 2007.
The driver of the other vehicle, [...]

Holocaust  denier Bishop Richard Williamson, who had his excommunication lifted by the Pope despite the cleric’s denial of the full extent of the Holocaust, is back in London after being threatened with expulsion by Argentina.
The Times reports that Williamson, a member of the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X, is believed to have contacted “historian” [...]

This is an interview of a Palestinian Communist, Mohammed Hassan, by Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon. Michael Collon is an activist with the Belgian Parti du Travail  de Belgique.
The Hamas is presented as a terrorist and fundamentalist movement. But in a sociological view, what kind of leaders and active militant compose the Hamas?
Mohamed Hassan: What [...]

Cerrie Burnell is a presenter on the UK’s children channel CBeebies, a BBC channel. Cerrie’s favourite game is Twister, and she likes The Faraway Tree. However, and I hadn’t noticed this despite seeing her on television, she only has one arm. Others did notice, and they are horrified. They think she is scaring their children.
Sensible [...]

The Guardian have an editorial about Binyam Mohamed’s return to the UK. It’s titled a A Casualty of War, but they don’t really think he is a casualty of war. When discussing the culpability for the alleged harm done to Binyam Mohamed, they say:
the lingering suspicion is that the fault goes well beyond one or [...]