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Finally - London police convicted of 'unlawful killing' (05/04/11) by Jay Knott

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/05/04/ian-tomlinson-and-many-others-like-him-deserve-justice/
Misleading analogies between US and Israeli immigration policies (04/30/11) by Jay Knott
The left generally puts Israel's crimes in the same league as those of other Western countries. In many ways they are: genocide is genocide, apartheid is apartheid. But they are not always the same, and it is tactically i...
Ron Paul and Barrack Obama (04/28/11) by Jay Knott

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/04/ron-paul-a-lesser-evil/
Fake opposition to the Israel Lobby from the left (04/25/11...) by Jay Knott
A conference which claims to challenge the Israel Lobby: "Helen Thomas was invited to speak, as a journalist who is fearless about questioning power and unnecessary wars, but because some of her comments have sparked c...


Conference disinvites Helen Thomas, lies about it, suppresses evidence by Jay Knott:  The forthcoming 'Move Over AIPAC' conference is a canonical example of crypto-Zionism. Until a Palestine Solidarity campaign is formed which does not allow groups like 'Jewish Voice For Peace' to join it, there won't be a...


The Social Forum - serving capitalism and Zionism by Jay Knott:  Medea Benjamin is a leading light in the 'Social Forum', which was founded to recuperate and defeat real resistance to the rampages of international capitalism, following the riot in Seattle in 1999 at the World Trade Org...


Does AIPAC distort 'Jewish values'? by Jay Knott:  AIPAC supporters have attacked Alison Weir and Rae Abileah during the conference in DC. Meanwhile, here's a flavor of the opposition: "Judaism teaches me to stand up when I see oppression discrimination is not a Jewish value...


Jewish Voice for Peace... the peace of the grave by Jay Knott:  There is much discussion going on in the Occupied Territory of Washington DC right now about the crypto-Zionists who barred Helen Thomas from speaking at the 'Move Over AIPAC' conference. 'Jewish Voice for Peace' is not the only...







Why is Noam Chomsky so overrated? (04/25/11) by Jay Knott
Counterpunch publishes great articles, like the one I commented on here on April 23rd. It also publishes pieces of hack-work so predictable they could have been generated by a computer program, such as this by Noam Chomsky: ...
Alexander Cockburn on the American Civil War's 150th Anniversary (04/23/11) by Jay Knott
Cockburn is a seductive writer. This is a good argument for the Marxist analysis of the American Civil War, that the Northern side was more 'progressive', thus worth supporting. Well, it's always easy to be brave with other...
President Obama honors extreme racist (04/17/11) by Jay Knott

http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2011/04/obama-honors.html




Christophobia in Israel by Jay Knott:  I'm not offended by an Israeli girl in a bikini mocking the crucifixion. But then, I'm not a Christian. I don't want to be accused of opportunistically using something which doesn't offend me to stir up opposition to Zionism. ...

Russian Solidarism (04/09/11) by Reginald

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_of_Russian_Solidarists
http://www.gulag.su/project/index.php?eng=1&page=0 (04/07/11) by Reginald

http://www.gulag.su/project/index.php?eng=1&page=0
British gypsies play the race card (04/02/11...) by Jay Knott
Americans are used to the 'race card'. Black politicians such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson always take the side of an African-American in a complaint against others. If it subsequently turns out, as it often does, that...


Comedy series offends travellers by Jay Knott:  'Viz' magazine was reprimanded by the United Nations for running a comic strip called'The Thieving Gypsy Bastards': http://www.newstatesman.com/200411220044 Later, gypsies took offence at a TV comedy series about them: ...




Another fake hate crime by Jay Knott:  If I tried to keep track of fake hate crimes, it would be a full-time job. The latest is a guy who filmed his roommate in a romantic encounter with another guy, who then committed suicide (the guy who was filmed in the encounter,...


West Ham plays the race card by Jay Knott:  London football club West Ham just got sent down out of the Premier League. Their after-season party reached 'a new low', according the press, when one of their players refused to sign autographs for fans, and a riot broke out....


Naomi Campbell objects to being compared to a chocolate bar by Jay Knott:  The UK is a little behind the US in frivolous complaints of racism, but Naomi Campbell is doing her best to help her homeland catch up: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2011/05/31/2011-05-31_naomi_campbell_ma...

Zionists continue to sabotage boycott initiatives in West Coast co-ops (03/26/11) by Jay Knott

http://dailycensored.com/2011/03/23/sacramento-co-op-board-abandons-democratic-principles-wont-let-members-vote-on-proposed-israel-products-boycott/




Australians think boycotting Israel will cost money by Jay Knott:  There is only one thing more expensive than boycotting Israel, and that is not boycotting Israel. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ratepayers-wont-foot-37m-israel-boycott-bill-mayor-20110414-...




Pro-Jewish Organizing in the Co-op Movement by Jay Knott:  A zero-sum game, in game theory, is one in which, to the extent one side loses, the other side gains exactly as much.The phrase is over-used as a rhetorical device to pretend that someone is arguing something is a zero-sum game,...




I was too critical of Mondoweiss... by Jay Knott:  ...they have allowed most of my comments. In fact, the only ones they have deleted were probably no good anyway. I just posted this comment on http://londonbds.org/2011/06/16/its-no-walk-in-the-park-for-benny-morris-in-london : ...

Oregon Patriots Against Sharia (03/23/11) by Jay Knott
No, really. Three former speakers at Pacifica Forum have formed an organization to protect Oregon against being turned into an Islamic state. Nothing like being ahead of the game: Oregon Patriots Against...


Oregon's People Are Snickering. At least those fluent in Spanish... by Reginald:  2005 Oxford University Press: opa1 (colloq) opa2 dummy(colloq) opa3 (colloq) ...

Helen Thomas 'corrects' her correct statement about Jewish-only roads (03/19/11) by Jay Knott
Remember the Helen Thomas affair? Helen was a veteran White House reporter. One of her coups was to ask Obama if he knew of any country in the Middle East which has nuclear weapons. He prevaricated and bumbled - he couldn't even...
David Irving's 2011 US tour (03/18/11...) by Jay Knott
Thanks to Anti-Racist Action for this information: http://antiracistaction.org/confront-david-irving-us-2011-tour I enjoyed reading the gossip about Irving and his assistant. Not quite so funny are the advocacy of violence against...




Which message? by Jay Knott: 

Reginald - you have to type into the box entitled 'message' as well as the one entitled 'title'. Then you hit 'Save'.



What are the priorities of anti-fascists? by Jay Knott:  I just read one of David Irving's blog posts. I think he is wrong to disapprove of black immigration into Britain. He makes a remark about president Obama which I won't repeat. This is why his opponents claim he is a 'Nazi' and...


Humor, Arsenal, and the American left by Jay Knott:  Arsenal supporters sued their own club for allowing 'anti-semitic' singing aimed at their great rivals, Tottenham Hotspur. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/arsenal-fans-to-sue-club-over-anti...


Other examples where 'fascists' are not the worst warmongers by Jay Knott:  All the French parties thoroughly support the attack on Libya EXCEPT the 'fascist' National Front: "When Sarkozy launched the Libya offensive, he had the support of the vast spectrum of French politics, including the...




Why do they hate him? by Jay Knott: 

Zionist hate groups don't hate David Irving because he has right-wing views on immigration. They hate him because he has exposed the lie that there is any moral difference between the two sides in World War II. His 'Destruction of Dresden' is the problem. The 'New Statesman' confirms his analysis:



A surprisingly open debate on the $PLC's website about David Irving by Jay Knott:  The Southern Poverty Law Center falsely describes Pacifica Forum as 'a white nationalist hate group'. As the reader can see, it is nothing of the sort. True, it has allowed white nationalists to speak. That's freedom of speech....




Holocaust revisionism - revising the story of Russia's Gulag camps by Jay Knott:  A historian downplays the barbarism of the Soviet Gulag system. I don't know whether he's right, but it's interesting that, in Washington DC, he can give a talk defending his 'revisionist' perspective, whereas anyone who similarly...





Bradley Manning and 'dual loyalty' (03/15/11) by Jay Knott

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/15/bradley-manning-military-doctors-treatment
The 'Oregon Commentator' succumbs to political correctness (03/14/11...) by Jay Knott

http://www.oregoncommentator.com/2011/03/14/hi-in-america-we-dont-talk-on-our-cell-phones-in-the-library
Zionists collaborated with the Nazis - so what? (03/04/11...) by Jay Knott

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir03042011.html




More Islamophobia, and more inadequate leftist resistance by Jay Knott:  The right is anti-Muslim, and the left doesn't like Christians, but no-one dare criticize Jews. Congressman Peter King is holding an investigation into American Muslims, in case any of them are turning unpatriotic and planning to...



The long reach of the $PLC (03/04/11) by Jay Knott
Journalists in other countries as well as the USA rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center for information about 'hate groups'. According to the $PLC, there is always a 'staggering rise' hate groups. This scaremongering has the...
Wisconsin workers show the way! (02/27/11...) by Jay Knott
This poster tries to link the pathetic, whining protests of American workers with the heroic uprising in Egypt. A few days after this day of rage', a protest in London turned into a riot, with banks smashed up, posh food stores...


Bristol really shows the way by Jay Knott:  Even in sleepy Bristol in the west of England, resistance is greater than in the whole of the USA put together: http://bristol.indymedia.org/arti

Gilad Atzmon does it again (02/26/11...) by Jay Knott

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/to-call-a-spade-a-spade/
Man jailed in Britain for posting so-called 'terrorist' videos (02/25/11) by Jay Knott
If you think the US is losing its liberties because of the 'war on terror' http://pacificaforum.org/kagan-wins-first-case-in-supreme-court---guess-what-it-s-about it's worse back in the motherland: a British man has been jailed...
Andrea Dworkin (02/22/11) by Reginald

http://www.andreadworkin.net/memorial/

 




Err... by Jay Knott: 

What exactly is the point you are trying to make, Reginald?