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When Middle East Monitor brought Raed Salah to Britain, he was presented as some sort of champion of the “Arab Spring”.

That’s funny. He and his movement are ideologically aligned with Hamas. He has also funded Hamas. It is of course backed by the tyrannical regime in Damascus and represses Palestinians brutally in [...]

Today many have been striking over changes to public sector pensions.  The Government proposes that employees pay more into their pensions, work longer, and that payment levels are calculated using the CPI rather than the RPI.  Also proposed is a change from a final salary scheme to a ‘career average’ pension.  Reforms have already been [...]

Not only has a UN-backed tribunal issued arrest warrants against four Hezbollah officials in connection with the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the makers of the 1960 film “Exodus” (a paean to the founding of the State of Israel) have sued Hezbollah for copyright infringement.
OK, I made that last part up. [...]

This is a cross-post from falsedichotomies.com
Israel’s need to get out of the West Bank is no longer a matter of ideological conviction. Rather, it is a strategic imperative. The longer we stay in there, the greater the chance that the Palestinians will simply request Israeli citizenship, including the right to vote. [...]

Today is the commencement of the Socialist Workers Party’s Marxism 2011. This is where the little Eichmanns who support the party gather for a so-called festival.  In reality, it is a  five day hate-fest.
For those attending, or thinking of attending, I leave with a quote from the SWP’s hero, the Butcher of Kronstadt, Leon Trotsky (Terrorism [...]

Meet Tayab Ali, Raed Salah’s solicitor:
Press Statement
Issue Date: 29th June 2011
Mr. Raed Salah and the Secretary of State for Home Department
Mr. Salah arrived in London on Saturday 25th June 2011 using his Israeli Passport. He was not aware of any purported exclusion order made by Secretary of State for the Home Department and was allowed [...]

The Middle East Monitor, the pro-Hamas campaign organisation that brought Raed Salah to the United Kingdom, has a page on which they list “human rights campaigners and community leaders” who are supporting Raed Salah’s attempt to spread his poison in the United Kingdom.
For some time, the list was rather short and unsurprising:
Middle East Monitor
Friends of [...]

This is a guest post by Captain Birdseye
As I write, the latest flotilla to Gaza is beginning to form up somewhere in the north-eastern Mediterranean. It will soon set sail for Gaza, and an expected confrontation with the Israeli navy.
Israel claims to have learnt the lessons of last year’s disastrous episode, and will not make [...]

The BBC runs a story this morning, which considers the various reasons that may have contributed to the Government’s decision to exclude Raed Salah.
The analysis, written by Panorama reporter John Ware, sets out both the evidence of Raed Salah’s inflammatory, racist and sectarian statements, and the defence of the man by his supporters. Here is [...]

The government-run VTV channel broadcast another video designed to assure us of Hugo Chavez’s good health almost three weeks after surgery in Cuba, where he is still hospitalized. This time we see and hear him chatting and reading the newspaper with Fidel Castro. And while he seems to be doing OK physically, Miguel Octavio at [...]