Just got my lunch from my favourite Palestinian shawarma restaurant off cable Street. The Palestinian woman and I hugged. The madness that we see on the streets it’s not representative of real life. We both understand the pain of the situation better than most :
Nigel Planer's & my tour concludes tomorrow at Chester Storyhouse.
We first toured together in the early 90's as the photo below shows. It's been lovely catching up & having fun. The audiences have been friendly & lively the Q & A's surprising.
Do join us.
Brighton Komedia tomorrow with Nigel Planer.
It's been such fun touring with @NigelPlaner1
At the end of the show we do a Q &A with the audience and Nigel is always surprising me. He has done so much over the years.
What question would you ask him ?
My dad, who is a moderate Muslim, finally expressed his concern and asked me, 'Why are you supporting this genocide?'
He mentioned that he's stopped looking at his phone because he can no longer bear to watch videos of Palestinian children being bombed by Israel.
I replied, 'I empathize with the suffering, and it's not easy for me either.'
Then I showed him a photo, and we both agreed on the gravity of the situation in Palestine.
I then informed him that the photo was actually of a Yemeni child pulled from the rubble resulting from a Saudi bombing in Yemen.
I pointed out that Israel has allegedly killed 7,000 Palestinians, while the Saudis have killed at least 150,000 Yemeni Muslims. Some estimates suggest upto 300,000.
How can we call the current conflict a 'genocide' when what the Saudis did is hardly even discussed by Muslims? Don’t get me started on 200,000 Muslims killed by Bashar Al Asad in Syria.
He responded that if that's the case, he also disagrees with what the Saudis did. I replied, 'How convenient. Nearly half a MILLION fellow Muslims have been killed by other Muslims, and you didn't even know about it. Yet when Israel retaliates against a terrorist organization that has killed, raped, and maimed 1,500 of its citizens, the whole Muslim world reacts?'
It seems to have less to do with preserving Muslim lives and more to do with a religious fantasy of hostility toward Jews.
The police successfully found and arrested the two women wearing images of paragliders on October 14th.
Now they need help arresting 10 more wanted for racially aggravated alarm, harassment and distress, and another for affray.
Please share widely.
Ariel, 4, Kfir, 9 months old. Kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas, worse than Isis.
Time is running out. Their family begs these babies make it home alive.
They beg you to post and share.
#NoHostageLeftBehind
Making Other Plans is the forthcoming poetic memoir by @NigelPlaner1 , recounted with emotional tenderness & warranted vexation.
Published 24 Aug available to pre-order in paperback from https://t.co/B5dYKFtQ8C & your favourite bookshop.
Super grateful to @NigelPlaner1 for joining us on the #GerryAndersonPodcast.
Hear the 2nd part of our interview plus the Randomiser, PLUS mine and @ImJamieAnderson‘s attempts to link it all together with #FabFacts news and viewers’ emails! https://t.co/oyl1p2LVJY