It is all a part of the same phenomenon. Western governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant Islamophobia boosting the rise of extreme right-wing parties and fuelled by government anti-immigrant rhetoric; an incredible accumulation of wealth by the ultra-rich; rampant erosion of freedoms of speech and expression.
It is not happenstance that all of this is happening at the same time. It represents a radical shift in Western philosophy.
This shift is not simple to trace because anti-intellectualism is an essential part of the new philosophy. Therefore this philosophy does not really have its equivalent of Bertrand Russell or Noam Chomsky, whose careful exposition of societal analysis and ideals, based on a comprehensive understanding of previous philosophical discourse, is being superseded.
If there is a current equivalent we may look at Bernard Henri Levy, whose rejection of collectivism and support of individual rights moved ever rightwards into support of raw capitalism, invasions of Muslim countries and now outspoken support for the genocide in Gaza. If you want to find an embodiment of the shift in Western philosophy, it might be him. But few any longer pay attention to academic intellectuals sitting in their studies. The now-threadbare mantle of “public intellectual” in the West has passed to lightweight figures like Jordan Peterson and populist Islamophobes like Douglas Murray.
Part of this is institutional. In my youth, Bertrand Russell or AJP Taylor were quite likely to turn up giving serious talks on the BBC, and John Pilger was the most celebrated documentary maker in British media. But now left-wing voices are effectively banned from mainstream media, whilst left-wing academics are most unlikely to progress in academia. Academia is itself now entirely run on a corporate model in the UK as throughout all the West.
A young Noam Chomsky would almost certainly be told by the University authorities to stick to linguistics and leave aside the philosophy and politics, or not get tenure. Chomsky was already a renowned linguist in 1967, when he published his breakthrough essay “On the Responsibility of Intellectuals”. Essentially a call for academics to support the protest movement, a young professor who published it today would almost certainly get suspended if not sacked and even, in today’s climate, quite possibly arrested.
The deportations of students from the USA who have broken no law but protested against genocide; the fines there on universities for allowing free speech; the deportations of EU citizens from Germany for speaking out on Palestine; the police raid on the Quaker meeting house in London and the widespread “terrorism” charges against peaceful journalists – these are just examples of a wave of repression sweeping the major Western states.
They are all linked. It is a structural movement in government of the worst kind. It can only be compared to the wave of fascism that swept much of Europe in the 1930s.
The great irony of course is that it is the Western destruction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and the Western destabilisation of Syria that led to the massive wave of immigration to Europe that caused the rise of the far right. Over 1.5 million Syrian “refugees” were granted asylum in the EU, because they claimed to be on the anti-Assad side, which the West was supporting. AfD is very much a result of Merkel’s decision to accept 600,000 Syrian refugees in Germany.
Fascinatingly, now their side has “won” and a Western-backed government been installed in Damascus, less than 1% of these refugees have returned to Syria. Despite the official anti-immigrant narratives of almost all Western governments, there seems to be no attempt to suggest that they might return. Indeed, those Western politicians most keen on deporting immigrants are the least likely to suggest that the reliably Zionist anti-Assad Syrians should leave, even though those same politicians portray Syria under al Jolani as a liberal paradise and rush to give it money.
The neo-con immigration narrative in Europe is peculiarly complex and flexible. Effectively immigrants viewed as on the West’s side in its wars (Sunni Syrians, Ukrainians) have an open door.
Mass immigration to Europe is therefore a direct result of imperialist foreign policy, and that plays out in complex ways, with the West’s victims arriving against official disapproval and the West’s clients arriving with official approval.
Equally, the economic dislocation and large rise in inflation which also has strengthened the populist right, is itself exaggerated by Western foreign policy. The proxy war in Ukraine is largely responsible for the step change in Europe’s energy prices, with the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline a key factor in the major struggles of German manufacturing industry.
Incredibly, for a year the entire Western media and political class tried to enforce the lie that Russia destroyed its own pipeline – just as they claimed Hamas blew up the first of the dozens of hospitals and health centres destroyed by Israel.
We come back to Gaza, as all serious discussion must at present. I cannot come to terms with the fact that the takeover of the political Establishment by Zionist interests – itself a consequence of the massive growth of the comparative wealth of the ultra-rich – is making it possible for the most brutal genocide possible to happen before the eyes of the world, with active support from the Western establishment.
It is not that the people do not want to stop it. It is that there is no mechanism connecting the popular will to the instruments of government. The major parties all support Israel’s genocide in almost all the Western “democracies”.
It has become impossible to deny the intention of Genocide now. Israel has stepped up its killing of children to dozens every day, is openly executing medics and destroying all healthcare facilities, is bombing desalination plants and is blockading all food.
The Zionist narrative on social media has shifted from denial of genocide to justification of genocide.
I simply cannot understand the mainstream tolerance of this Holocaust. I am living in an age where the power structures and social narratives I do not recognise as part of a societal organisation to which I can consent to belong. It is the British Labour Party which is actively supporting genocide whilst targeting the most vulnerable at home for cuts in income. It is the EU which is doing everything possible to promote World War 3 and transforming into a militarily aggressive organisation of Nazi leanings.
Still, it’s not all bad news.
Israel’s genocidal President Isaac Herzog welcomed Ruth Smeeth, Louise Ellman, Christian Wakeford and Margaret Hodge with open arms.
Look at Margaret’s face. She was having the time of her life. Bless her.
Who says genocide has to be depressing? https://t.co/jphoeDu8SV pic.twitter.com/AnX0JhrqtY
— Frank Owen’s Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇱🇧🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) April 6, 2025
The UK, US and other first world nations are radically cutting overseas aid to provide money for imperialist military aggression. The broadly social democratic consensus of the Western world in my youth involved much dull compromise: but it was infinitely better and more hopeful than this Hell we are creating.
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The authorities in Britain are trying to get what remains of the liberal middle classes AND the racist knuckleheads (of all classes) on board by linking “digital ID” to “illegal employment”.
Digital ID means compulsory electronic verification when you need stuff, and you can pretty damned sure that it will make things a big hassle (to put it mildly) for those who don’t carry mobile phones.
“Illegal employment” doesn’t mean medics who get paid by pharmaceutical companies in perks they enjoy in Dubai. It means low-paid immigrants and anyone of lower social status than the person doing the “thinking”, especially if they think they’re “entitled”.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/08/labour-mps-launch-campaign-to-introduce-digital-ids
I was interested in Craig’s ideas about the shift in Western philosophy and anti – intellectualism being part of the new philosophy.
So my question to co – pilot “Who are the most influential modern political philosophers?” yielded in order Marx, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Jürgen Habermas and Carl Schmitt. (How many of these would Trump recognise?)
Asked about the 21st century: Slavoj Žižek, Amartya Sen, Noam Chomsky and again Habermas. (Good to see Chomsky there)
Is any of the following a political philosopher?
Alexander Dugin – Yes (but of course only seen in the West as a Putin propagandist).
Leo Strauss (d 1973) – Yes (and a political Zionist to boot who supported the use of intransigent force to advance the Zionist cause with a lot of “Straussians” now following in his wake with genocide of the Palestinians the outcome).
Bernard Henry Levy – No a French public writer and polemicist
Douglas Murray – No, a political commentator and journalist
Jordan Peterson – No, a psychologist who has political ideas
The list of “Nos” could certainly be considerably extended. From it I would surmise that Strauss apart there are certainly more influential political influencers like them than there are influential political philosophers these days.
“t is not happenstance that all of this is happening at the same time. It represents a radical shift in Western philosophy.”
It’s not a radical shift, it’s a reversion to an earlier form. You said it yourself Craig:
” It can only be compared to the wave of fascism that swept much of Europe in the 1930s.”
And the cause is economic. Representative democracy is a temporary state and can be dispensed with as and when necessary (for the capitalist state).
” A world of unseen dictatorship conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.”
Kenneth Balding, University of Michigan
From Vance Packard’s 1957 book, ‘The Hidden Persuaders’
I’d say it was a reversion to the 18th Century – and probably also the default for most of human existence – when a tiny powerful and wealthy minority owned literally everything in sight, while the rest of us were lucky if we had a shirt on our back, let alone a pair of shoes.
The so-called “natural order” of things.
We thought, after the post-war settlement, we’d seen an end to it.
Depressingly, we were complacent, and wrong.
“We thought, after the post-war settlement, we’d seen an end to it.”
Considering that the post-war settlement was only achieved because, at the time, the majority of the male working population were trained and, in most cases experienced, in killing other human beings, it’s actually surprising it lasted as long as it did.
“Depressingly, we were complacent, and wrong.”
Indeed
The 18th century had Voltaire and Diderot and above all Rousseau: ”Le premier qui, ayant enclos un terrain, s’avisa de dire : Ceci est à moi, et trouva des gens assez simples pour le croire, fut le vrai fondateur de la société civile. Que de crimes, de guerres, de meurtres, que de misères et d’horreurs n’eût point épargnés au genre humain celui qui, arrachant les pieux ou comblant le fossé, eût crié à ses semblables : Gardez-vous d’écouter cet imposteur ; vous êtes perdus, si vous oubliez que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n’est à personne.”
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“The first who, having enclosed a piece of land, took it into his head to say, “This is mine,” and found people simple enough to believe it, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, miseries and horrors would not have spared the human race who, pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditch, would have cried out to his fellow men: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are lost, if you forget that the fruits belong to all, and that the earth belongs to no one.”
A Sky News investigation has revealed that an evacuation order was NOT issued for the area where the paramedics and first responders were murdered and executed, contrary to what the IDF claimed. Owen Jones shows a clip from the Sky News report at 5mins 5secs in this vid on his youtube channel, posted yesterday:
Israel Medic Massacre Lies FALL APART
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fWi6Y6xEhM (15mins 46secs)
NB I just did a search for the Sky News report but couldn’t find it – ie it didn’t come up in the results, but it obviously exists.
Came across this Electronic Intifada vid the other day on their youtube channel. I’ve not come across the guy before, but he’s obviously lying through his teeth, and everything he claims is fabrication:
Debunking the lies of 7 October “witness” Rami Davidian
This video contains excerpts from a longer report debunking “Screams Before Silence,” the film featuring Sheryl Sandberg that purports to document sexual violence by Hamas on 7 October 2023. These excerpts focus on debunking the claims made by an Israeli man called Rami Davidian.
On 4 April 2025, Raviv Drucker, a senior reporter for Israel’s Channel 13, revealed that his team had prepared an exposé of Davidian, showing that he fabricated stories “from beginning to end.” But according to Drucker, Channel 13’s CEO decided to cancel the broadcast of the report. For more on that read: “Key 7 October ‘mass rapes’ witness denounced as liar by Israeli reporter,” at The Electronic Intifada: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuAWkJw5Xz0 (11 minutes April 4th)
PS I didn’t post it at the time because Craig’s article about Scotland was up, and then I forgot about it… until just now.
” The now-threadbare mantle of “public intellectual” in the West has passed to lightweight figures like Jordan Peterson and populist Islamophobes like Douglas Murray.”
Perhaps this is by design and the result of work inspired by the likes of the Powell memo.
https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/
One of the outcomes of this work would be a long march through the institutions to make sure that all available employment for public intellectuals was given to people of a certain political persuasion.
So its a world someone has created.
For Athanasius:
The problem has been still is the American Republic, not Russia (or China or any other country):
Only one sector of the once famous manufacturing might has remained largely in the American Republic – the design, manufacture, maintenance and servicing of the military hardware and software, it’s in each and every one of the 50 States, it employs one in seven of the US workforce (directly or indirectly), it’s the largest contributor to the GDP after services, the stock and debt of the companies engaged in the sector (Lockheed Martin and such) can be found in virtually every 401(k) pension plan, over 60m are currently active in addition to the tens of millions of the already retired drawing pensions.
It’s this sector that has the overpowering influence in formulating the American foreign and domestic policies for the above reasons, it compels the Republic to initiate and support regional conflicts but avoiding a global one for an obvious reason, there’s no winner in it.
The military gear and ammo are no different from any consumer or perishable articles, a tank or a box of ammo has to be ‘spent’, consumed, amortised just as a fridge, a car or a box of chocolates, it cannot be stored indefinitely, hence the conflicts, the more of them and the longer lasting the better..
As if the dismantling of the complex wasn’t close to impossible enough its leadership is made up largely from the former politicians, high ranking apparatchiks and retired military. The military-industrial (now also financial) complex rules supreme.
The great Ike did warn the plebeians of America about the complex way back in 1961, nobody seems to have listened to him, it’s too late now, the set up will have to implode for the country to renew itself, Trump’s endeavours may dampen the complex’s influence on the Republic’s policies, but are unlikely to rid the country of its grip.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyBNmecVtdU
Re: ‘I simply cannot understand the mainstream tolerance of this Holocaust [in Gaza].’
Let me help you to understand, Boss. The reason that most people in Britain don’t really care about what’s been happening to children over a thousand miles away in Gaza over the past 18 months, is the same reason they don’t particularly care about what’s been happening to very probably hundreds of thousands of children in their *own country* over the past 30 years, even though the hideous reality has been splashed over the front pages of national newspapers. Like Tessa Munt MP, they’d rather not have to think about “this stuff”:
https://x.com/Madz_Grant/status/1909904529673289817
(Worth reminding ourselves that Munt, like all her almost entirely white Lib Dem colleagues, doesn’t even need the British-Pakistani block vote.)
You might regard me as too forgiving towards my fellow citizens:
As far as I can judge the German public, people here simply do not know what is going on in Gaza.
Without the IDF-crimes being reported on a daily basis and our complicity with those crimes they will never find out.
And the information space about Gaza is almost totalitarian in its blindness and rejection of the truth.
If reporters try to breach this omerta they may well get fired and even be black-listed in some yet unknown form.
To understand how insane the state of things is:
In Germany it is easier to find and voice public support for the position of the Russian government´s breach of Art. 51 than for condemning Israel for committing genocide and thus defend the rights of the citizens of Gaza.
I don´t know about the UK. But in Germany it is legal and legitimate to defend the Israeli genocide, while condemning it can come with serious fines and even a prison sentence. This is only possible in a space of complete disinformation and considerable fear to protest in public (either in person or virtually).
This is happening in conjunction with even worse regulations against the unemployed. The new government will completely stop any financial support of unemployed if they reject taking up a job deemed as acceptable from the state´s POV.
Even in my own circle of acquaintances not many are aware of how serious the situation on Gaza and suppression of freedom of speech is. Fear and ignorance have become two pillars of the rule of government.
Anyone with a smart phone and average intelligence can find alternative news sources. No excuses.
Thanks for your reply AG. I can’t speak for Germany, but here in the UK the mainstream news channels regularly cover what’s happening vis-a-vis Israel & Gaza (as well as Lebanon). They may ‘both sides’ stuff, but anyone with half a brain can work out where most of the fault lies. In Britain, you can’t be sent to jail merely for opposing what Israel has done to Gaza, but you could get up to 14 years for expressing support for Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad or Hezbollah. Fortunately, they seem to have let our host off after his daft tweet, which he still hasn’t deleted – nice of them.
Anyway, for what it’s worth, with reference to yesterday’s announcement in parliament by Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips that the local inquiries into the grooming (for which read gang-rape) gangs in five British towns are to be abandoned (for reasons that are probably obvious to anyone like me who takes a dilettante interest in local politics and ‘law enforcement’ in northern England), this won my Tweet of the Day:
https://x.com/SallySaltwell/status/1910019470606676311
We are about to find out what is more important to the west, Israel, or their own economies including all its bases in the middle east and 50,000 military personnel serving there, oh and two aircraft carrier battle groups, many in the US regard Israel as more important than Religion and/or life and death, we shall see but since Netanyahu has been instrumental in fomenting conflict with so many states in the middle east, the demise of Israel cannot come soon enough. How difficult this will be is indicated in this interview…..
Nancy Pelosi at AIC conference in 2018, “if capital crumbles to the ground one thing that’ll remain is our commitment to Israel”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53x_zrkJwDs
The other conflict to which Trump is now beginning ‘to own’ need not have happened, after the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Russia came into existence, there was no need for NATO since Yeltsin and Putin were leaders who believed in capitalism and merely wanted to exploit the vast natural resources over 11 time zones it was endowed with, to this end trade with the EU and the rest of the world was logical, the US thought otherwise, needing both an enemy Russia and a Europe that was noncompetitive, both achieved.
Finally a poster up thread was critical of social media users [he said most were thick]. George Carlin had a famous saying…
“No matter how stupid you think the average American is, you must realize that half of them are dumber than that.
The EU under Ursula Von Der Leyen is militarizing with an 800 billion euro war chest, with new German Chancellor Merz promising to rearm Germany to confront Russia. What could possibly go wrong?
“Europe has the values of the Talmud”
— Ursula Von Der Leyen.
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis__/status/1909402565445665080
von der Leyen comes from a military family. It seems to affect her thinking.
I belive that military family had nazi roots.
“What could possibly go wrong?”
One thing that probably won’t is the Germans signing a non-aggression pact with Russia, which would mean the UK can join them in fighting Russia, rather than fighting against them, like last time.
Fortunately it won’t amount to anything save a vast waste or theft of money.
Europe isn’t capable of a war with Russia, in practical & material terms, that is. Even if they wank themselves into a coma fantasizing about it.
Note the difference in the reaction from the western world regarding Bucha massacre in Ukraine vs the Massacre of aid workers in Gaza.
Bucha lead to condemnation, sanctions, western prime coverage, western politicians going to Bucha, acceleration of arms/aid going to Ukraine and so on. Meanwhile, you cannot find any condemnation whatsoever regarding the massacre of aid workers in Gaza, even the journalists try to downplay the severity and putting up Israel’s absurd refutation as some type of fact: the Telegraph for example do not put the word mistakenly within quotation marks.
Israel admits mistakenly shooting dead aid workers in Gaza
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/05/video-israeli-attack-palestine-aid-workers-contradicts-idf/
408 aid workers have now been killed in Gaza, have perhaps each killing been a mere “mistake” by Israel? It is disgusting!
I always wonder, what do western journalists/politicians gain from supporting this senseless carnage by Israel? What is in it for them?
“What is in it for them?”
Keeping their jobs, I expect.
Plata o plomo.
We’ve all heard how Israel ignored and dismissed warnings about a Hamas attack, from their border spotters and Egypt etc, and the document Israel obtained (somehow?!) with details of Hamas’s plans, and I could of course post links to a bunch of such articles, but I won’t bother. But the penny just dropped in regards to the following episode (the following article from November 9th, 2023), AND their completely different response to all the warnings:
Israel berates New York Times, CNN, Reuters, AP over Hamas attack photographers
Israel accuses foreign media of having forewarning of Hamas’ attacks through freelance photographers in Gaza
Israel on Thursday slammed four international media outlets — the New York Times, CNN, the Associated Press and Reuters — over the conduct of four photojournalists in Gaza, saying they had advance knowledge of the attack by Hamas militants on October 7 that killed more than 1,400 people….
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi accused the foreign media of employing contributors who were tipped off on the Hamas attacks. “It has come to our attention that certain individuals within your organization, including photographers and others, had prior knowledge of these horrific actions and may have maintained a troubling connection with the perpetrators,” he wrote on X.
The Israeli government’s press office director, Nitzan Chen, wrote to the four organizations’ bureau chiefs in Israel asking for clarifications regarding the behavior of four photographers amid the assault by Hamas militants….
https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-new-york-times-cnn-reuters-ap-hamas-attack-photos-press-journalist/
I haven’t as yet done a search to determine how widely – or not – the MSM covered this story, but I suspect that most of them didn’t, and for the obvious reason. As I’ve said on here on more than a few occasions, I have no doubt whatsoever that Netanyahu and his fascist buddies and senior IDF – and I include Biden and Blinken and the CIA et al – knew well in advance of the attack that Hamas were planning and preparing for an attack on Israel and, as such, deliberately let it go ahead.
So, to keep the american behemoth afloat the Trump is taxing all his vassals, and they’re all rolling over for a belly rub from their favourite orange nazi. Herr Starmer will have to consider what freedoms and assets he needs to give away to ensure he keeps getting regularly sodomised by his zionist heroes. Sell off of, the rest of, the NHS is one possibility and forcing UK citizens to eat gm modified foods and antibiotic stuffed meats is another. Will the cowardly lion grow some balls or are we all going to be sold down the river, again ?
Stevie Boy
Yes it could lead to a race to the bottom – lower wages – less Social payment etc.
If the cowardly countries decide to comply of course.
Funnily enough I suspect that The West will comply the most and the poorer one’s
will have seen enough and join the BRICS in one way or another.
Starmer will be a pushover and Von Der Leyen will sell the same crap to the EU.
But not necessarily the European people.
Military fundraising and bowing to Trump’s tariffs as well will be a hard sell to an already
well pissed off electorate in Europe and the UK.
Particularly because they and not Trumps’ mates have to pay for it.
Of course, Trump later on has to explain to his people why it all didn’t work as expected.
I can smell burning effigies in the near future in the US.
Well things don’t seem to be getting any better:
‘ Iran has transferred new long-range missiles to proxy groups in Iraq over the past week, defying hopes that the anti-American militias would disarm amid concern of an escalation with US President Donald Trump, according to a Tuesday report, amid preparations for high-level US-Iran nuclear talks in Oman Saturday.
The deliveries from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ air force include surface-to-surface missiles that could reach as far as Europe, as well as shorter-range Quds 351 cruise and Jamal 69 ballistic missiles, The Times of London reported, citing regional intelligence sources involved in monitoring the Iran-Iraq border.
A source cited by The Times said the new long-range models had never before been given to Iraq’s separatist pro-Iranian militias, which last year killed US and IDF troops in drone strikes on military bases in the region.’
TOI
Stupid Trump that in the past spoke so much about the folly of invanding Iraq and calling out the liars/cheerleaders for that war (as could be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHCyz9HT71E ) still, he is now taking orders from the same source of these lies – Israel/Netanyahu, you cannot make this up!
Alison. I’d take anything reported by the MSM with a large bucket or two of salt. Especially once they start quoting nameless intelligence sources. It’s all made up to support the zionist agenda. Which is the destruction of Iran.
OTOH, Iran is on a heightened war footing because Trump is doing Adelson’s bidding by backing Iran into a corner so that Netanyahu can attack them. Any attack on Iran will certainly not go the way Israel and the USA expect, but then again Israel’s objective is to tie up America in another war on its behalf. There will be no peace in the ME until Israel is totally destroyed and America is cleansed of their influence.
The Times of Israel is heavily biased but otherwise informative and factual. It quotes The Times there so that might need confirmation, however Trump is in Israel today, announcing live on TV with Netanyahu beside him, that he is going to be having direct talks with Iran this weekend, and that if Iran doesn’t agree to get rid of its nuclear arms, then Israel will be leading the invasion of Iran….
So everyone is ready – yes? Preppers and whatever the run for the hills lot are called? It’s all nuts.
Fact is there are NO direct talks, regardless of what Trump says, the talks are indirect.
In Oman this weekend. Khameini aparently has been persuaded?
“ US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff met briefly with Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shortly after their two countries held their first round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear program in Oman and agreed to hold a second round next week.
The first known meeting between US and Iranian officials in years appeared to be a way for both sides to save face after US President Donald Trump announced at the beginning of the week that the talks would be direct, while Araghchi insisted that they would be indirect.
Regardless, both the over two-hour-long session mediated by Oman — with the US and Iran delegations in separate rooms — and the subsequent minutes-long conversation between Witkoff and Araghchi represented a potentially major tipping point in ties between the US and Iran.”
ToI
I hope your article causes many new readers to support BDS against apartheid Israel to put an end to the genocide.
I just spent the last hour or so making a complaint to the Charity Commission. It’s self-explanatory:
I just came on to your website to make a complaint about the Campaign Against Antisemitism and, as such, clicked on the Raising Concerns page, and in doing so learnt that you don’t actually list a charity lying and deceiving their readers AND smearing and demonising people as a problem. Could you please confirm that that is the case.
If, as they do, the CAA regards Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite, as they have repeatedly described him in numerous articles, they can of course only legitimately do so if he has made antisemitic comments, or acted in some way to that effect, and if that is the case, then why have the CAA at no point reported him to the police for rascism/hate speech? The answer is of course that all their claims are false, and smears, as such. And ditto other Labour Party members, like Ken Livingston and Jackie Walker, to name but two. But what brought me to your website to complain about the CAA – which is a blantant propaganda outfit, who, if I remember correctly, applied to the CC for charity status at the time it was obvious that Jeremy Corbyn was going to win the leadership election – are the numerous articles I have read on their website mischaracterising the hundreds of thousands of people marching in support of the Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) and an end to the slaughter of tens of thousands of women and children and toddlers and babies etc, smearing them and demonising them, as they do on a regular basis. I could of course provide you with numerous examples, but I just went on to their site a while ago to check if they had covered something related (they hadn’t) and, as such, came across an article they posted eleven days ago, entitled ‘A confused policy proposal’, in which they say the following in relation to the marches and marchers:
‘We have urged the Government to… stop the intimidatory marches through our cities, which have have been rife with criminality and support for proscribed terrorist organisations.’
These are lies and gross exaggerations.
At that point I ran out of the alloted 2,000 characters. So I then clicked on Continue, and was asked something like Why are you complaining about the Charity Commission, to which I said the following:
Given that you don’t regard a charity that lies and smears and demonises people and deceives readers who visit their website (and the millions of people who read statements they’ve made to the main stream media), and who deliberately ferment worry and concern and consternation in many British Jews… given the CC don’t regard such behaviour as a problem that could affect their charity status, I of course find it alarming that you don’t.
Anyway, when you’ve submitted it, they tell you that they’ve sent you a confirmation email, and it says this in it:
A response will be issued providing your enquiry falls within our regulatory remit.
I don’t know why, but I’ve got this gut feeling that I won’t be hearing back from them.
This is what it says on their Raising Concerns page:
What to use this form for
Only use this form if there is a serious risk of harm to the charity or people it was set up to help.
Examples of serious issues include:
a charity not following the law, with damaging consequences to its reputation and public trust in charities generally
serious harm to the people the charity helps or other people who come into contact with the charity through its work
a person or organisation receiving significant financial benefit from a charity
criminal, illegal or terrorist activity
a charity set up for illegal or improper purposes
a charity losing significant amounts of money
a charity losing significant assets, for example land or buildings
Yerse, well it was definitely set up for improper purposes, and I definitely regard their central ‘work’ as criminal. AND it causes serious harm to the people it claims to be helping!
Disturbingly, polling on Israel show very little difference:
Pew Research latest data regarding public opinion on Israel:
“While 42% of US adults had expressed unfavorable opinions of the regime in 2022, that figure had surged to 53% in 2025, the center’s data pointed out.”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/04/10/745886/United-States-Americans-support-Israel-war-genocide-Gaza-Trump
53%? It should be closer to 100%! But again, it goes back to the muted reporting/framing by the western MSM that do not speak on the severity of the situation, if they would show the videos – coming out daily – with bloodsplattered streets of Gaza with dismembered toddlers, the westerner would change his way quickly.
Also that the polling organisations are commissioned by the media and the very wealthy. The idea that they are a neutral snapshot of public opinion is often a deception. Even when the raw polling data honest, the media decides what, if anything, of the poll is put in the public domain. That’s why the polls always seem to back the elite project of the day, whether it is war, new Prime Minister or lockdown.
The EU under Ursula Von Der Leyen is encouraging all EU countries to arm up against the threat of a Russian invasion, others are telling the electorate to stock up on emergency provisions because the Russians are coming. German Chancellor Merz is changing the constitution in order to allow the government to loosen limits on Germany’s borrowing limits, this will enable Germany to expand its military expenditure in order to confront Russia (or could this German rearmament be used against neighboring Euro states) if, as is likely Russia is not intimidated? Von Der Leyen was the former defence Minister of Germany, could it be possible for her and Merz to bring in a new wunderwaffe to turn the tide in Ukraine, maybe a new Focke-Wulf fighter. These two focker’s plus our own Focker in chief Starmer will see us all in penury, or dead.
Twisted demented deranged inhumans. They are traitors to the human race.
Indeed, this is such a blatant example of the classic war/diversion tactic: when there are trouble at home, instill fear in your population about a foreign boogeyman:
“A diversionary foreign policy, or a diversionary war, is an international relations term that identifies a war instigated by a country’s leader in order to distract its population from its own domestic strife”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversionary_foreign_policy
Take ruling party of Germany that are already behind in the polls to the AFD, just month or so after the election! What better way to pit germans against the evil russians, sigh. And no one protest, the Greens that just some decades ago were against wars, nuclear weapons etc, they are today the worst of warmongers.
Jack, “instill fear in your population about a foreign boogeyman” Exactly right Jack.
Which of course leads to that famous and true quote from Hermann Goring from ‘Nuremberg Diary’ Gustave Gilbert interview.
“Naturally, the common people don’t want war … but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country”.
It’s much worse than just instilling fear in the general population. It’s about infiltration of the media by fifth columnists and agents of a foreign government to push their perverted agenda and stop any alternative discussions seeing the light of day.
“Meta’s recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant’s commitment to free speech – and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that’s been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/08/100-meta-employees-ex-idf/
The ‘younger generation’ tend to get their news from social media rather than MSM so the infiltration by israel represents a real issue for the future generation.
And more:
“Microsoft is a household name around the world for popular software like Office or its operating system, Windows, or for being the parent company of the X-box console, or for best-selling games like Candy Crush. … they were also providing cloud storage, computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and facial recognition, among a collection of services for the Israeli military.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/inside-campaign-end-microsofts-collaboration-israeli-army
“about the tech giant’s commitment to free speech”
That made me give a sardonic laugh.
Came across this on Common Dreams earlier:
Trump Proposal Called a ‘Death Sentence for Plants and Animals on the Brink of Extinction’
“Humanity’s survival depends on biodiversity, and no one voted to fast-track extinction,” one conservationist stressed. “This is a five-alarm fire.”
A leading conservation group is sounding the alarm over a new Trump administration attack on threatened and endangered species: an attempt to redefine “harm” as it relates to a key federal law.
The law? The Endangered Species Act (ESA), a longtime target of U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, despite being signed in 1973 by then-President Richard Nixon.
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) on Tuesday noticed that the Department of the Interior—now led by Trump appointee Doug Burgum, a billionaire ally of the fossil fuel industry—sent a proposed rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review….
Noah Greenwald, CBD’s co-director of endangered species, explained Tuesday that “weakening the definition of harm would cut the heart out of the Endangered Species Act and be a death sentence for plants and animals on the brink of extinction.”
“The Trump administration has been systematically killing protections for our air, water, wildlife, and climate like a vicious cancer,” he continued. “The malignant greed driving these policies threatens to greatly increase destruction of the natural world and turbocharge the extinction crisis. We’ll keep fighting for each and every one of these plants and animals.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-endangered-species-act?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=4d248118ff-Top+News%3A+Wed.+4%2F9%2F25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-600814133
Also came across this yesterday on Global Research:
Secret Dossier Proves the British Government Knew by March 2020 That COVID-19 Came From a Lab
A newly released secret dossier published by the UK’s Mail on Sunday newspaper proves that the British government knew as early as March 2020 that the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 was engineered in a laboratory. Compiled by a former head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Sir Richard Dearlove, and passed to the country’s then-Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, the classified report, labeled ‘Secret – Recipient’s Eyes Only,’ states:
‘It is now beyond reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’
With even the New York Times recently publishing an opinion piece about the outbreak which concluded that ‘we were badly misled about the event that changed our lives,’ the people of Britain and the world deserve an explanation as to why, while under lockdown in their homes, they were repeatedly lied to about the origins of the pandemic.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/secret-dossier-british-government-covid-19/5882482
The key thing is… Why did the misleaders want to mislead us?!
The origin is to a large extent irrelevant (fort detrick). It’s what happened next that is the issue. And nothing has changed to prevent it all happening again.
“The now-threadbare mantle of “public intellectual” in the West has passed to lightweight figures like Jordan Peterson and populist Islamophobes likeDouglas Murray.”
Speaking of which, Douglas Murray was on Joe Rogan podcast the other day and made a fool of himself debating Dave Smith, a jewish israel-critic comedian, besides Murray showing off his typical smug grimaces and talking in his pompous way, his basic argument was that, ‘you have not been in Gaza so you should shut up – you are not an expert – so you should shut up’. That comes from Douglas that visited Israel…as an IDF-imbedded journalist and with Murray’s logic I assume he deny the nazi holocaust because after all he was not there in Germany watching it so how could he know he actually happend? This is typical Genocide-denial reasoning.
Joe Rogan Podcast – Davie Smith vs Douglas Murray – 2:28:57:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6kirkSwTg
What is so twisted too is that this is a guy that whine about immigration, islam etc every day and then go on support Israel and the western wars that bring arabs, muslims to Europe. Israel sure love these useful goyim idiots, that is for sure.
Applauding the lone hero to advocate for those tortured and detained for nefarious reasons ( to justify war(s)).
NB: Stress, severe heart and lung problems –
Please note that the security apparatus does not shy away from ruining dissidents’ health. They have EMF / microwave / Neuro WEAPONs technology/systems and use them on 1,000s of citizens (FOI muckrock document on file; well documented).
eg.: “Systems and methods for covertly creating adverse health effects in subjects” https://patents.google.com/patent/US11801394B1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8049173B1/en
Electrocution in Uzbekistan is a matter of public record; this arsenal is more advanced than that, operated remotly, anyone targeted in their own home and elsewhere (invisible, silent, often involved satellite tracking of biometric data; can be proven by experts).
Bill Binney was retaliated against when he tried to bring attention to mass surveillance through conventional escalation routs (revealed later by Ed Snowden).
Binney just posted recently on TruthSocial (March 2025), that high-power microwave beams, FCC assigned to the military, are fired at him & his wife (Dr Katherine Horton) day in day out.
Higher powers silencing whistleblowers. Check http://www.TargetedJustice.com
Our pen is considered a threat to the establishment?
Thanks for being a brave embassador for truth & inspiring role model, Craig Murray.
Get well soon!
The impending deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a green card hoilder and married to a US citizen, is worrying:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy0ngd11yzo
If Khalil’s appeal is unsuccessful, it will mean that civil liberties only apply to citizens in the US: activists will need to bear that in mind.
There is a name for it that could shorten the article by a lot – Fascism. So far it lacks one crucial element – extrajudicial, organized, non-state violence. Blackshirts and Brownshirts. But, I think, it’s coming, after another iteration of “elections”, formerly known as elections. Mechanism? Look into how it works in Ukraine. There, Nazis never had majority, yet over the years they coalesced into an organised entity that holds the golden share in the political process – exactly by virtue of possessing the instrument of organized violence that isn’t controlled by the state, was allowed to grow to further this or that political goal, and now is impossible to root out. Slow does it.
All pro palestine activists use qubes os and chat otr over tor explained in detail: https://xmppomemoqubes.blogspot.com/2025/04/use-uleway-dumbphone-along-with-qubes.html
Spread to as mnay as possible screw gchq!
N Korea acknowledgement that they have troops fighting Ukrainian forces.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/world/asia/north-korea-troops-russia.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
(Some posters here doubted this.)