Harry's Place

Read the inspiring story in The Times about the Parents’ Circle and Families Forum:
Shortly before his release from prison, Ali led a hunger strike lasting 17 days, demanding better conditions. It worked, and it taught him the strength of non-violent opposition.
But a few years later his adored older brother, Yussef, 32, was shot and killed [...]

This is a guest post by Micky Flong
As mainstream journalism in the UK faces the biggest crisis of its history, the lunatic fringe of the National Union of Journalists is not short of windmills to charge. At the policy-setting annual conference in Southport last weekend, motions took on the 1984 killings of Sikhs in India [...]

This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer
Admiral Horthy rode on a white horse into Budapest and his rule started with a massacre of about 3000 persons. His rule ended with the deportation of half a million Hungarian Jews.
Hungary’s right wing parties do everything to gloss over those facts.
And it is logical that the neo-arrow-cross Jobbik [...]

This is a guest post by Jonathan Hoffman
Richard Ingrams is a vile man who has a problem with Jews. He tends to disregard letters in support of Israel in the newspapers if the writer “has a Jewish name”. And more recently he suggested that two of the historians on the Iraq War Enquiry Panel could [...]

in the fight against Islamists and jihadists, these words about the Western world’s role in changing the communist world from Archie Brown (in the concluding chapter of The Rise and Fall of Communism):
The part played by Western democracies in producing change in the Communist world did not lie primarily in their military alliance. Important though [...]

Guest post by Sarah
I was invited to write a guest post after commenting, on this thread, that having Bea Campbell held up as a representative of feminism was like being lumped, as someone who identifies with the left, with the SWP. I’m not sure I fit everyone’s definition of a feminist– I’ve had run-ins with [...]

The Observer has an interesting feature: Inside the mind of a female suicide bomber
An increasing number of female jihadis are being recruited and trained to blow themselves up in the name of Islam. Alissa J Rubin visits an Iraqi jail to find out what makes young women turn themselves into killing machines
Alissa J Rubin, the [...]

This is a guest post by Avicenna
Harry’s Place recently noted the New Statesman “scoop” over supposed gaffe by easyJet’s in-flight magazine, which organised a fashion shoot at Berlin’s Holocaust Museum. This from a magazine which recently printed an interview with Khaled Meshal, leader of Hamas, an organisation which describes the Holocaust as a Zionist lie. [...]

Why does Oliver Miles – ex-Ambassador and now Arab Lobbyist – think that the ethnicity of two Jews is relevant to their suitability as participants in an inquiry into the war in Iraq?
Who knows.
However, Judy at Adloyada has some interesting background on Oliver Miles:
Oliver Miles is Chairman of MEC International, a lobbying group which is mainly [...]

This is a crosspost by MoreMediaNonsense
What is the point of this pettiness?
Israel halts football stadium construction in West Bank
Israel has ordered construction work on an internationally financed football stadium being built for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank to be halted.
Palestinian municipal authorities in al-Bireh, near Ramallah, have been told they lack the correct [...]