Harry's Place

This is a guest post by Mahmoud Jabari
Palestinian flags raised on cars, posters with supportive slogans for president Mahmoud Abbas in his attempt  to get world recognition for Palestinian statehood, and  national celebrations in West Bank cities even before the application is officially made to the UN General Assembly. About two hundred thousand people gathered [...]

This is a cross post by Adam Holland
“We have heard the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany. I don’t like this comparison because I really think that Israel is far worse than Nazi Germany.”
Those are the words of Gilad Atzmon, a little known expatriate Israeli who divides his time between working as a jazz musician and campaigning [...]

Paul Goodman’s mid term report on the implementation of the Coalition Government’s Prevent strategy gives three cases by which progress may be judged.
First, the Government does not engage with the Muslim Council of Britain (“MCB”).
Secondly, the Government continues to engage with the Federation of Islamic Student Islamic Societies (“FOSIS”). As is well known, five people [...]

Sunny Singh’s profile at London Met:
Sunny is an internationally acclaimed writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut novel, Nani’s Book of Suicides, published in 2000, was described as a “first novel of rare scope and power.” The Spanish translation of the novel won the inaugural Mar de Letras prize in 2003. Her second [...]

Uncle Fester and Lurch

Zaid Yemeni of Interpal Birmingham with Norman Finkelstein
Well, Atzmon-associate Sameh Habeeb did once call him Norman Frankstineine

OK, it was by two or three people at most. But geez.
Couldn’t at least one of the candidates on stage admonish the booers? Apparently not, any more than they were willing to admonish those who cheered at the last debate at the prospect of someone dying for lack of health insurance.
At least Mitt Romney [...]

Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law School professor who helped set up the US government’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is a candidate for US Senate from Massachusetts in 2012. If she wins the Democratic primary, she will challenge Republican Scott Brown, who was chosen in a special election to replace the late Ted Kennedy.
As Slate [...]

At 57:07, Gilad Atzmon tells his interviewer, the Holocaust denier and conspiracy kook Dennis Fetcho:
“The only thing that can save the Jews from themselves is if we the goyim, find within ourselves the powers to contain this sinister ideological collective.”
Atzmon is quite clearly a Nazi. In his new book, Atzmon argues that Jews are just pretending [...]

Suddenly, Assange is against others leaking and profiteering from material that does not strictly belong to them.
Here’s Assange’s rambling and boring statement. Of course, he wants to injunct it. Here is the response of the publishers.
The Guardian has devoted a ‘rolling news story‘ to covering the contents of this autobiography.
I expect that the whole book [...]

This is a guest post by encaustum
The Israelis are doing their best to stop the Palestinian drive for independence via the UN.  This is understandable, as seeking independence this way circumvents the entire peace process, and puts the Israelis onto the defensive.  The question is though, is this so bad for the Israelis, and, is [...]