A reply to the Howard Kaplan’s article: ‘Is goodwill enough?’ By Nidal Saeed After reading Howard Kaplan’s article titled “Is goodwill enough?” published on Ars Notoria on the 18th of July 2021, the conclusion I arrived at is that the pro-Israeli propaganda machine is still continuing with its strategies with…
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Eve Hall
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WHAT THE EUROPEAN LEFT FORGETS ABOUT ISRAEL
The longing for a homeland is legitimate By Phil Hall When my mother was four, it was 1940. She was in Paris with her own mother, a German. Before my grandfather, an Austrian Jew, swept her off her feet, Granny Lisa lived in Frankfurt and she was thinking of…
Christianity
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Decolonise Palestine!
Illustration by H Biberstein Reject the Sadean Moral Calculus of Enforced Reconciliation by Richard Steinhardt This is the Sadean moral calculus: the enforced intimacy of the wife forgiving the wife-beater and crying for him— of understanding the genocider and feeling sympathy for him: “What they did to your great-grandparents was…
Fatteh
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FATTEH IS A PALESTINIAN DISH
Fatteh, photo Imran Family Kitchen by PHIL HALL It feels wrong to talk of food when Palestinians are starving and being killed by people behaving like bloodthirsty demons. All talk of food is almost obscene in this context, and yet… my grandson is being introduced to the wider family today,…
Agents Provocateur
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Mobilise, don’t alienate!
Palestine Solidarity Campaign march, photo Phil Hall Palestine Action is Leading Activists into a Dangerous Backwater by Richard Steinhardt The streets of Britain are full of outrage about Israel’s genocidal actions; crimes of a magnitude unseen since the German fascists destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto, and attempted to exterminate all the…
Algeria
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Let Gaza Live: The Arab World Must Open Its Borders Now
Arab League Summit 2025, photo Government of Yemen, public domain Tactical Withdrawals Can Become Strategic Victories by Phil Hall The world watches the mutilated bodies of Palestinian children on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok, weaponising their suffering for clicks and protests, yet none of these outraged demonstrators demand the one thing…
Declassified
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The Power of Sousveillance
Fatima Hassouna photographer, murdered in Gaza by the Zionists. Photograph: Fatima Hassouna Alternative media and citizen journalists have ripped apart Israel’s legitimacy, and caused the USA’s foreign policy to be globally reviled by Phil Hall I remember going on a demonstration in 1977. We went to Brick Lane to stop the…
Civil war
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No Sanctuary for Dissenters?
Westminster Meeting House, photo Heather Martin The Raid on the Quakers Echoes Centuries of Persecution by Phil Hall . “When Quakers are raided, it’s not just a policing act—it’s the state attacking 400 years of moral witness.”— Margaret Fell, Quaker historian (2024 interview). On Thursday, 27 March 2025, around 7:30 PM, over…
Al Andaluz
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The Rosy-Fingered Dawn of Eurabia
Granada behind an ornamented wall in Al Hamra / Alhambra, Photo by Çisellee Forget fear mongering! Arab, Turkish and European unification is the way forward . by Phil Hall . The Mediterranean has always been a crucible of civilisations, a vast, interconnected world where cultures, religions, and peoples have mingled…
Ahmed al-Louh
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DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGERS!
Fatima Hassouna, by Andrea Ebert. Public Domain, Fair Use With Updates. By Tina Bexson Journalists are under attack and press freedom is under siege in a way that has never happened before – from the record numbers of Palestinian journalists and media workers targeted and injured or killed by Israel…
Gaza
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‘Palestine Wail’ by Yahia Lababidi, reviewed by Tina Bexson
Silence and complicity are active ingredients in the cocktail of death that is Gaza. Perhaps even more so than the bombs, rockets, bullets, disease, starvation, and torture that, according to a study published by The Lancet in July, have already likely wiped out near 186,000 people once indirect deaths are…
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