Fox News and some Zionist sites are accusing me of having played a part in last Saturday's Global Palestine Alliance London rally. Yes, I did. Proudly. A tiny part. I wish I had played a larger one. But I was in Athens and could only send this video - whose text I past below in the interests of full disclosure. Read/watch and judge:
Greetings from Athens to the UK Alliance for Palestine. Kudos to all of you for continuing to mobilise against our generation’s greatest crime, our generation’s genocide in Gaza and the systematic state-backed ethnic cleansing and ruthless land seizures in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
As I have said before, if this were the 1930s, we would have only one moral duty: to defend Jewish people from the Nazis. Today, we again have only one moral duty: to defend Palestinian people from Israel.
Friends, I am not going to finish this message of solidarity by caressing your ears. I am going to do the opposite. At the risk of upsetting you, I am going to suggest that we stop congratulating ourselves. So far, we have failed. The genocide, the ethnic cleansing, the white-washing of this century’s greatest crime is continuing despite our efforts.
Our governments remain utterly complicit. Even when they do some windowdressing, like Andy Burnham sanctioning exports from the Occupied Territories (as if Israel will brand them as such!), they only do it to ENSURE that there is no trade and arms embargo against Israel to force Israel to cease and desist from its genocidal practices. What PM Burnham has done was to take the wind out of our sails by lulling the majority into thinking that there has been a change when there hasn’t been.
Look at the way the media are still at it. Copying the playbook that demonised and vilified Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party, for ‘insufficient support of Israel’s genocide’, they are applying the same playbook today against Zack Polanski and the Green Party.
Wherever we look – if we are honest – we see the evidence of our movement’s failure to dent Israel’s determination to complete its genocide and of our political and economic system’s to lend the Apartheid state a hand.
I know: Many of you are tired, after years of campaigning often at high personal cost. But now is not the time to feel the fatigue. Now is the time to do more. To do better. To end genocide, ethnic cleansing and land seizures across Palestine. To make it possible to imagine – not just as a slogan – a Palestine free of Apartheid.
I think the fact that this film is receiving polarising reviews is extremely telling, to be honest. You either don’t believe in this reality or you refuse to confront it. Sure, you can hate the film from a technical standpoint but there’s still an elephant in the room that you’re refusing to address. Call us SJW, woke, or any other slur you can think of. I’m so close to being consumed by nihilism I don’t really give a fuck at this point. Five stars
DIGGER is the first significant piece of anarchic, fuck you art aimed at the soulless pigs who have defiled our society, and our planet. But as the film reminds us... we let them. We hyper-focused on the details while they laid waste to the big picture. A masterpiece. 5 stars.
OBAA: America fucking sucks but the kids will be alright and they'll be our hope.
Digger: The West fucking sucks and they will bring us to mass destruction and there's nothing we can do but to create art to escape the cruel reality that we live in.
OH MY FUCKING GOD
The state of the Israeli election.
Netanyahu says "right-wing or Palestine", and draws himself as the right-wing and Lieberman and co. as Palestine.
Lieberman says "right-wing or Palestine" and draws himself as the right-wing and Netanyahu as Palestine.
Genuinely the most comically racist country in the world.