Harry's Place

The Council of the Orwell Prize met last week to consider Johann Hari’s winning submission for the 2008 journalism prize. In a statement by the Council (get them) published earlier today, we learn that:
After extensive deliberation, the Council arrived at a clear and unanimous decision, which drew from the combined journalistic and academic expertise of [...]

Lauren Collins writes in the New Yorker:
This afternoon, I called Tommy Robinson, the E.D.L.’s leader, who called Breivik a “nutcase,” but said that European politicians risked similar atrocities if they didn’t start addressing “the fucking elephant in the room.” “I think it was predictable,” Robinson said of the attack. “I think it’s disgusting, and my [...]

This is a cross-post from Just Journalism.
The day after the double massacre in Norway, during which at least 93 people were killed in a shooting spree and bomb attack, Al Jazeera published an opinion piece by Ibrahim Hewitt. In ‘Norway, Islam and the threat of the West’, Hewitt, who is the senior editor at the [...]

Cross-posted from Dave Rich at the CST blog
The appalling and tragic events in Norway on Friday have served as an horrific reminder that Europe’s far right is capable of producing terrorists, who are just as willing to kill in large numbers as any jihadi terrorist group.
Previously, most attempts by neo-Nazis or other adherents of far [...]

by Joseph W
I’d just like to deal with the nasty lie that somehow Anders Breivik was acting on behalf of Jews, Zionists, Israel, etc., because he is somehow pro-Jewish, and this somehow explains why he is a murderer.
Two quotes from his appalling document.
This:
“If the NSDAP had been isolationistic instead of imperialistic(expansionist) and just deported the Jews (to [...]

by Joseph W
Meet Ellie Merton, “Formula 1 enthusiast and Chair of Waltham Forest Palestine Solidarity Campaign.”

Merton has taken part in the Viva Palestina convoy, and you might have seen her around Redbridge alongside the formidably named Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi, trying to get local supermarkets like Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose to boycott Israeli goods.
She was a spokesperson for [...]

A message from Eric Lee at TULIP:
First, I'd like to ask each of you to show your support for striking Palestinian workers at the Salit quarry.  
LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement, was asked by an independent trade union in Israel (WAC Ma'an) to launch an online campaign to [...]

Socialist Unity has used the recent atrocities in Norway as an excuse to haul out– again– an unsolicited and unwanted “endorsement” of Harry’s Place on an English Defence League message board.
Never mind our repeated denunciations of the EDL and its thuggery– according to SU, it goes to prove, well, something.
Normally I’d let this pass, except [...]

In my 2010 essay ‘Debunking the “Islamisation” Myth‘, I wrote of the worrying growth of a paranoid ideology of cultural pessimism based around fantasies of the rapid and ongoing ‘Islamisation’ of Europe, and of the workings of powerful and nefarious forces beyond our control. As I wrote, there is nothing new [...]

This is a cross-post from LGBT Asylum News.
By Paul Canning
Law lecturer Kissi Agyabeng of the Ghana Law School explains the position of the law vis a vis homosexuality, lesbianism, and sex crimes in Ghana. He spoke with Dzifa Bampoh of the Radio Station JoyFM.
A reported call by the Western Regional Minister in Ghana, Paul Evans [...]