Bundestag capitulates and condemns Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign as antisemitic.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-bds-antisemitic-israel-palestine-nazi-campaign-a8919536.html

Germany condemns BDS movement as antisemitic

Complete garbage from the German government. It now seems that the Bundestag has capitulated to the growing pressures from other quarters that anything remotely critical of Israel and its government is automatically antisemitic and must be condemned or even outlawed. In this case, the BDS Campaign (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) has been singled out because, "The argumentation patterns and methods used by the BDS movement are anti-Semitic". Complete nonsense which in no way reflects the BDS campaign or its objectives. Everyone including the Germans should recognise and remember, that it was campaigns such as BDS which was instrumental in bringing down the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Without boycott campaigns the evils of unjust and oppressive regimes would be free to continue their excesses against sections of their own society, without fear of criticism or protest. 

The Afrikaner government introduced legislation which any civilised people would find repulsive and quite rightly, was challenged by individuals and organisations around the world. The BDS campaign is but the latest movement to challenge a political system which is oppressive against parts of is population and should therefore be supported not stigmatised with the cliched coverall label of antisemitic.I do not accept that criticism of the Israeli government or support for the BDS campaign is antisemitic.In the same way that I supported the AA movement, I support and shall continue to support BDS no matter what he Germans or anyone else may think or say and I make no apology to anybody.

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Northern Ireland and Brexit. The return of "The Troubles"

Northern Ireland: police attacked in another night of disturbances | Northern Ireland | The Guardian When the "Brexit" debate was still filling our newspapers and our television screens, readers may remember why I had changed my mind since voting to leave at the referendum vote. Apart from the economic arguments, which had become crystal clear after peeling away all the lies and misrepresentations trotted out by Bozo Boris and his "Get Brexit Done" conspirators, there was always the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Would it be possible to have a border between the European Union and the United Kingdom where people, goods and services could pass freely between the two nations without customs restrictions, tariffs, duties and all the other formalities? Would it be possible to have one part of the United Kingdom treated differently from other parts of the United Kingdom, particularly when Scotland for example had voted overwhe

Plemont development or return to nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey- A date has been set for a public inquiry into plans for Plemont Headland. This exceptional location must be sold to the National trust for Jersey, and returned to nature. Any other outcome involving development of the site, can only demonstrate the extent to which greed and self interest have become endemic in Jersey.

The Parliamentary Labour Party conspirators are hatching another coup.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-leadership-rebel-mps-a7202641.html Labour MPs plan for Corbyn victory and plot how to confront an emboldened leader Even for the "Independent", the number and use of unnamed anonymous "sources" in this article is quite astonishing. However, amongst all the usual speculative delusion, there is one factor which causes concern to anyone who believes in the Labour Party, its principles and in he democratic process of the Labour movement. It is abundantly clear that elements within the Parliamentary Labour Party, are even now, planning another coup in the event that Jeremy Corbyn should emerge as winner in the current ballot. The failed coup of earlier this year, has now descended into a sham leadership election, because the conspirators still fail to accept the democratic decision of the Labour party membership and cling to

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