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UEFA rewards apartheid state with football tournament
More than twenty years after the spectre of apartheid was finally ended in South Africa, the very same system of state-sanctioned discrimination is alive and well in Israel today. The ‘Apartheid State’ discriminates against Palestinians in every walk of life, including sport. The world of sport cannot be divorced from other aspects of life and […]
Move European Under-21 Football Championship to England from Israel
February 3, 2013
Michel Platini, president of Europe’s footballing authority UEFA, recently said that “football is enormously popular everywhere, in all corners of society, which gives it not only the opportunity but also the responsibility to try and help make the world a better place.” So why, then, did Platini grant Israel the opportunity to host a gathering […]
The Curious Case of Terry Rooney: Listen up, Clegg
January 30, 2013
Speaking the truth should be something that is commended in this day and age because as George Orwell told us: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”. So revolutionary in fact that two Liberal Democrat politicians have suffered for telling the truth. They are Jenny Tonge last year and […]
All in the same boat: Israel, Turkey and the Mavi Marmara
November 11, 2012
“Israeli forces landed soldiers from three helicopters over a 15-minute period. The Israeli forces used paintballs, plastic bullets and live ammunition, fired by soldiers from the helicopter above and soldiers who had landed on the top deck. The use of live ammunition during this period resulted in fatal injuries to four passengers, and injuries to […]
Faster, Higher, Oppressor
August 12, 2012
The London 2012 Olympics are now on their final day and for Team GB it’s been a great two weeks. At the Beijing Olympics four years ago Team GB secured 19 golds and 47 medals overall. At the time of writing, Team GB has won 28 gold medals and 62 medals overall have been won […]
It is 5 Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons, Iran and talk of war
July 3, 2012
There’s talk of war in the air and Iran is in the spotlight. A date may even be pencilled in to strike Iran sometime between two to three months ahead of the 2012 US presidential election when President Obama attempts to get re-elected. Who knows? A show of force and continuous reminders of his ‘successes’ […]
Nobel Peace Drones
June 30, 2012
Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen have many things in common with each other. They are Muslim states and have majority Muslim populations. They are also considered failed states. Indices analysing a range of measures all show poor results for important indicators such as health and literacy, amongst others. However, what unites the four countries more seriously (and […]
The Nakba Diamond Jubilee
June 27, 2012
Brits had an extra Public Holiday granted to them earlier this month. Tuesday the 5th June and another moved from its traditional end-of-May date to Monday the 4th June to made a lengthy four-day weekend (Saturday 2nd June through to Tuesday 5th June) as the Queen celebrates her 60th anniversary on the throne this month […]
Israel, Racist, Really?
June 27, 2012
Imagine a thousand people demonstrating in central London, shouting “Blacks out!” and a Member of Parliament describing asylum seekers and refugees as a “cancer in our body”. Now imagine the Prime Minister warning us that the presence of these asylum seekers could eradicate the state and its character and that the ‘problem’ needs to be […]
Who is abdelxyz?
February 16, 2013
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