I live in Westminster and have had a ring side seat to over a year of intensifying racism (of the antisemitic kind) which I have watched with increasingly bewilderment and dismay. But I am not bewildered by the young people involved - simple moral causes from the anti-Vietnam war movements of students to the present free Palestine movement appeal to the young and to the some middle class followers of fashion and virtue signallers - but by the complete lack of push back by the establishment.
Where, for example, are the speeches in parliament, the articles in the press debunking claims that Israel is an apartheid state and explaining that Israel's surrounding muslim states actually are? Where are official narratives about what happens in war (civilians get killed) and how the IDF probably take more care to avoid this than an army ever. (cf Fallujah, Aleppo etc).? Governments and media are capable of great control of narratives (see Covid) but have retreated over Israel and its defensive war. There is only occasional lip service to being against anti-semitism but on the basis of look at what they do not what they say it is truly shameful.
But, as with rape gangs over the the past couple of decades, the establishment is being increasingly exposed by X and the US. It looks likely that the Trump administration will support Israel finishing the job and reshaping the Middle East and with luck that will include, finally and at last, the end of Obama's deeply misguided accomodation with Iran. Narratives may change eventually as a new reality percolates across the West. One can hope so.
This time round there is reason to hope that the second Trump administration will be much more effective. Much depends on it actually.
Thank you for this! Another nail in the coffin of what used to be the Left, and which is now the Right. In the 90s it used to be televangelists like Pat Robertson who believed in divine retribution for our sins. Now, it's the Left.
Thank you for this Frank, until now the most ridiculous take on this event was the editorial cartoon in The Times suggesting that Trump was responsible. In this case California seems to stand in for the rest of the West where the progressive ritualism of Identity politics/ DEI/ Environmentalism has trumped the ability of our institutions to perform their intended functions. Given that those who rule us no longer set store by universal ideas of reason, logic or in this case duty perhaps it ought not to surprise us that they view the world through a degraded version of Karma, and that failure to observe the right rituals will result in 'punishment'.
This is so ridiculous. The lunatics really have been let loose. If they could the Israelis would be ammo g the first to offer firefighter and help like they do in many places.
I live in Westminster and have had a ring side seat to over a year of intensifying racism (of the antisemitic kind) which I have watched with increasingly bewilderment and dismay. But I am not bewildered by the young people involved - simple moral causes from the anti-Vietnam war movements of students to the present free Palestine movement appeal to the young and to the some middle class followers of fashion and virtue signallers - but by the complete lack of push back by the establishment.
Where, for example, are the speeches in parliament, the articles in the press debunking claims that Israel is an apartheid state and explaining that Israel's surrounding muslim states actually are? Where are official narratives about what happens in war (civilians get killed) and how the IDF probably take more care to avoid this than an army ever. (cf Fallujah, Aleppo etc).? Governments and media are capable of great control of narratives (see Covid) but have retreated over Israel and its defensive war. There is only occasional lip service to being against anti-semitism but on the basis of look at what they do not what they say it is truly shameful.
But, as with rape gangs over the the past couple of decades, the establishment is being increasingly exposed by X and the US. It looks likely that the Trump administration will support Israel finishing the job and reshaping the Middle East and with luck that will include, finally and at last, the end of Obama's deeply misguided accomodation with Iran. Narratives may change eventually as a new reality percolates across the West. One can hope so.
This time round there is reason to hope that the second Trump administration will be much more effective. Much depends on it actually.
Thank you for this! Another nail in the coffin of what used to be the Left, and which is now the Right. In the 90s it used to be televangelists like Pat Robertson who believed in divine retribution for our sins. Now, it's the Left.
Thank you for this Frank, until now the most ridiculous take on this event was the editorial cartoon in The Times suggesting that Trump was responsible. In this case California seems to stand in for the rest of the West where the progressive ritualism of Identity politics/ DEI/ Environmentalism has trumped the ability of our institutions to perform their intended functions. Given that those who rule us no longer set store by universal ideas of reason, logic or in this case duty perhaps it ought not to surprise us that they view the world through a degraded version of Karma, and that failure to observe the right rituals will result in 'punishment'.
This is so ridiculous. The lunatics really have been let loose. If they could the Israelis would be ammo g the first to offer firefighter and help like they do in many places.