It’s hilarious. I’m still rolling on the floor laughing my socks off at a report by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). What’s the joke? Well, it’s no joke really. The USCIRF has just released its 2013 Annual Report http://www.uscirf.gov/images/2013%20USCIRF%20Annual%20Report%20(2).pdf on the world’s worst violators of religious freedom. And… you simply won’t believe this… [...]
Stuart Littlewood William Cook in his masterly way tells us not to give up http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/05/38222-the-truth-tellers-lament-in-a-time-of-darkness/ even if “overwhelmed by darkness of the times”. And he reminds us that “sixty-five years ago this May 14, the world body admitted to its membership the state of Israel even as that self-declared state was in the process of [...]
Stuart Littlewood I join everyone else in saluting Alan Hart. He has given half a lifetime – and his considerable professional skills – to the Palestinian struggle. Now he’s calling it a day. I find the news indescribably sad, but at the same time it should serve as a wake-up call to Palestinians, and indeed [...]
Confusion to the enemy! Disconnected jottings By stuart littlewood 19/04/2013 European Football determined to reward Israeli racism I’ve just received a timely reminder about the UEFA under-21 finals to be held in Israel in June. Given Israel’s unsporting record and sheer bloody-minded obstructiveness towards the Palestinians’ efforts to participate in national and international sport (examples are listed below [...]
WANTED: a ‘true justice’ process… and enforcement Yesterday the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London issued the following statement on the British government’s website… https://www.gov.uk/government/news/g8-foreign-ministers-meeting-statement … Middle East Peace Process G8 Foreign Ministers confirmed their commitment to a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. They agreed on the urgent need to make progress [...]
Stuart Littlewood A Liberal Democrat MP in the UK, David Ward, is in hot water for his “use of language” in condemning Israelis for atrocities against the Palestinians while the horrors of their own suffering at the hands of the Nazis were still fresh in their memory. He wrote on his website a few days [...]
The conspiracy to thwart Palestinian hopes for freedom This Christmas the Palestinian embassy in London sent out a particularly pathetic message. Headed Palestine mulling ICC if UN takes no action on settlements, it warned that if the UN Security Council didn’t act against Israeli settlements Palestine would “consider complaining to the International Criminal Court, an option made available by Palestine’s [...]
Palestinian leadership still asleep at the wheel? Empowered, emboldened… but what is the PLO doing with its new UN status? The Palestinian Embassy in London has just issued a press release under the heading “Pressing need to halt Israel’s illegal settlement colonization campaign via political, legal, and diplomatic means”. It complains about Israel’s “flagrant disrespect [...]
Stark Christmas message from the Holy Land: “Act and intervene, or nothing will change” Peace is possible if justice is possible My first Christmas greeting this year came all the way from Bethlehem itself, just yards from where the Big Story is supposed to have begun 2012 years ago. My friend Jiries is a survivor [...]
Stuart Littlewood Britain’s prime minister David Cameron has again shown why he should stand down from British politics. In a speech to Conservative Friends of Israel at a lunch the other day he said – and not for the first time – things that are deeply disturbing to people who expect him to put British [...]