tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69758361645394597392024-03-17T20:03:58.653-07:00Left Foot Forward"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced" - James BaldwinDavid Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comBlogger576125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-37533397168736786922024-03-01T08:26:00.000-08:002024-03-02T01:55:21.903-08:00Needed Time<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNzBlwKhfAEXjftDG3xiDaB2I8RSbh3zVPvJ8E7Ip0H8OjdJxqbmQ25ywc4HRFCS-WqVCbxGNPdZBv39ng5rLaPO6xOBl62m6o9rBrtYIBm7HBbBo-YqgU8tVoBHw7sCinSp3yZHYznEzL_DY-3QPm_sNxVy949RfM-0WeRYYl2Y-c3fwaNi-ibOaFY_cx/s1908/Spitz1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="1908" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNzBlwKhfAEXjftDG3xiDaB2I8RSbh3zVPvJ8E7Ip0H8OjdJxqbmQ25ywc4HRFCS-WqVCbxGNPdZBv39ng5rLaPO6xOBl62m6o9rBrtYIBm7HBbBo-YqgU8tVoBHw7sCinSp3yZHYznEzL_DY-3QPm_sNxVy949RfM-0WeRYYl2Y-c3fwaNi-ibOaFY_cx/w425-h304/Spitz1.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am in the final stages of writing my latest book on music and memory. It follows the food and memory book, <i>My World Café'. </i>I am now finalising the chapter on The Spitz, a music venue that was based in the old Spitalfields market in East London and run by Jane Glitre. We first met when we were both involved in the Bosnian war in the 90s. After returning to London I became a Spitz regular and enjoyed hearing their eclectic mix of artists. One of the most memorable <span style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><a style="animation-name: none; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; transition-property: none;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>for me was the blues/folk guitarist Eric Bibb who performed there in 2000 and the chapter title will be<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRvt6AQHuk"> <i>Needed Time,</i></a> one of his songs which was first brought to prominence by Lightning Hopkins. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Spitz closed in 2007, a victim to corporate greed. <i>This London</i> said of its enforced closure, “investors take advantage of London’s unique creative environment by destroying it.” They couldn’t destroy the woman who had climbed over Bosnia’s Mount Igman to reach besieged Sarajevo and she set up the Spitz Charitable Trust.They take live music into care homes and hospitals. Their first work was at Bridgeside Lodge care home in Islington, but now also work at Northwick Park, Great Ormond Street and Ealing hospitals. They help in geriatric, stroke, mental health and childrens’ wards and have recently been asked to work in children’s hospices.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I visited Bridgeside in February 2024 to witness a musical morning with guitarist, Marcus Bonfanti and saxophone player, Pete Wareham. At a time when the world seems to be fast-tracking its way into barbarism, it was mightily refreshing to witness a strong dose of love, tenderness and excitement. They first visited the common room on the ground floor and played <i>Music is Friendship,</i> a song which had been composed by Big Joe (his preferred stage name) who smiled with happiness from his wheelchair. He is a younger man for whom creativity and song writing works wonders for his mental health.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Music is friendship</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Music is life </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Music is friendship </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>And it takes away my strife</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">They went on to play Bill Withers<i> Lean on Me</i>, and Stevie Wonder’s <i>Don’t You Worry about a Thing. </i>No more Vera Lynn.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">They then moved on to residents who are unable to leave their beds. I stood outside Jean’s room as they played her one of her favourites, <i>Love Me Tender. </i>As they left I heard her say ‘Bless your hearts, that was really great”.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43gl2H15U7EvYZOoGUsdoyn4lLebxSndJ79z6NFR6eKvXKY2b0qF7M5-PPrlcByyimK71cDAq_XZWuzcZO9sn5fLIZo3ag68iaorcbD2gjXbvt2fNOuEwz2367i0lrq3EfjULu8usVmgoaZJrVp_DjAATitkxMbStDN2GHLXTvWPYebfs73z7cgH33N_F/s1438/Spitz%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1438" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi43gl2H15U7EvYZOoGUsdoyn4lLebxSndJ79z6NFR6eKvXKY2b0qF7M5-PPrlcByyimK71cDAq_XZWuzcZO9sn5fLIZo3ag68iaorcbD2gjXbvt2fNOuEwz2367i0lrq3EfjULu8usVmgoaZJrVp_DjAATitkxMbStDN2GHLXTvWPYebfs73z7cgH33N_F/w400-h330/Spitz%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On the next floor there was John, whose face lit up when he saw that Marcus had brought him a guitar to play. His likes included Chuck Berry’s <i>No Particular Place to Go' </i>and <i>Memphis Tennessee</i>. Care worker Vivian added to the percolating joy with a routine that involved joyful dance with the tender holding of the hands of the immobile. The two musicians completed their set with John Martyn’s <i>May You Never.</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>And may you never lay your head down</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Without a hand to hold</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Back in the corridor and we passed a resident who told the musicians he loved Balkan music. Both Jane and I could have helped here if only we played guitar or sax, but the two of them managed to oblige with little past experience of this genre.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What a morning. Care home residents who could forget their problems with music and their care workers who have the skills to transform troubles into a blaze of light, helped with song and music and a hand to hold.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>"I have been working for the Spitz for over 5 years and it has made me fall back in love with music. I’ve been able to approach the day to day life of being a musician with a new attitude. Because of this I have sought out similar work elswhere and currently run workshops in a prison. I would not have had the confidence to undertake something like that had it not been for the work I do with The Spitz at Bridgeside Lodge." </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Marcus Bonfanti, guitarist</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>"Before working with the Spitz at Bridgeside Lodge I had been recording, writing, touring and playing with a range of artists. I felt completely burnt out and realised that my life / work balance was in serious need of repair. This experience has repaired my love of music and given me a strong sense of its healing power. The effects of live music on people with physical and/ or neurological issues have been breathtaking and the deeply nourishing relationships I have built with residents have been transformative." </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Pete Wareham, saxophonist</span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you would like to know more about the Spitz go <a href="https://www.spitz.org.uk/ ">here</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">and if you’d like to support their work go <a href="https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/the-next-ten-years">here</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilA2u07ivyQY8Sct-VRD9AwAK2VPfENEfTEL0bZZLOgeoYehceeHTFovVsCCRB89ddy_kNAIFVJbhn0pdPCNTqYzC4hVNGlJheaHkK4pdkbUHwdoezd6znqjpgYyzLoiyVNdKs7puvQ88T-3g3sIB21vKQwA3AYVx_1zCpBZ2AvJmatpGFIKogfcHosU1M/s640/Vivian%20dancin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilA2u07ivyQY8Sct-VRD9AwAK2VPfENEfTEL0bZZLOgeoYehceeHTFovVsCCRB89ddy_kNAIFVJbhn0pdPCNTqYzC4hVNGlJheaHkK4pdkbUHwdoezd6znqjpgYyzLoiyVNdKs7puvQ88T-3g3sIB21vKQwA3AYVx_1zCpBZ2AvJmatpGFIKogfcHosU1M/w300-h400/Vivian%20dancin.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; transition-property: none;"><br /></div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-26941313822438989312024-02-19T09:49:00.000-08:002024-03-01T08:05:41.544-08:00The Gaza Music School<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjof08D2a55moBWkllEln1ZIL19G6pkFQCHs3dc-Mu7mVty7eKKEswyt-8PGRcEfrGsuQWwrUPbnUewpsFOtmd9oPtekmxReQlk0TqWYOFK0nLwGlFQy-v3SUcMPJsVrq2cheIyPBtF9XJm1UWEcuHVfNkurSPgj9tguzA-WkJYBh2MwxiA5IYtOM3oSZLl/s1464/guitar%20broken.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="1464" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjof08D2a55moBWkllEln1ZIL19G6pkFQCHs3dc-Mu7mVty7eKKEswyt-8PGRcEfrGsuQWwrUPbnUewpsFOtmd9oPtekmxReQlk0TqWYOFK0nLwGlFQy-v3SUcMPJsVrq2cheIyPBtF9XJm1UWEcuHVfNkurSPgj9tguzA-WkJYBh2MwxiA5IYtOM3oSZLl/s320/guitar%20broken.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">This is a summary of the information I have received from </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Sima Khory Odeh, Executive Director of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Ramallah about the Gaza Music School. </span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Baskerville;">The Music School was established in 2012 as a branch of the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music. It organised community outreach programs, festivals, concert seasons and music activities. It has affected the lives of thousands of Gazans under siege especially children and youth. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">A lot ot the teachers and students have lost family members, friends, neighbours and homes. Most are now displaced and lacking the basic needs of life. When Khamis Abushaban, the Administrative Assistant reached their building, located at the Red Crescent Society, he discovered that half of the structure had been heavily damaged. Musical instruments, equipment, and teaching tools were either burnt or destroyed. “The sole grand piano in Gaza survives as a witness to this destruction, eagerly awaiting the chance to be played again.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">While the genocide continues it has not been easy to plan any activities while we are sure that music would definitely help traumatized children and their families. If and when the situation allows, some musicians might conduct interactive music activities for children in schools and shelters. Some areas are very dangerous. Other areas allow a person to move in the vicinity of two kilometers which is not safe either. It has not been easy to plan any activities …The needs will be immense, but it is most important to stop the genocide and then we all need to work together with our friends and partners to try to bring music back to Gaza or what is left of it. .. We have to bring back the children to music as they need it more than ever.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWtOPdxSM74qDlX2nfhdMm6B0AdNURicZaASwLqQ7ztzuoiQPoWNdG_XP9ITzHLcCR9Dn7dnYPs_Xb5BKFKTl8FfSwFh4sZwea22ce-qjE2oB6CJ8iXtTKktUVSpvuo0dr6px8xOionl1CAgdzVv0PiWJogdF9a7nQ70fwiLXFMdhLUPZArjBbdjON0NP/s275/broken%20violin.jpg" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyWtOPdxSM74qDlX2nfhdMm6B0AdNURicZaASwLqQ7ztzuoiQPoWNdG_XP9ITzHLcCR9Dn7dnYPs_Xb5BKFKTl8FfSwFh4sZwea22ce-qjE2oB6CJ8iXtTKktUVSpvuo0dr6px8xOionl1CAgdzVv0PiWJogdF9a7nQ70fwiLXFMdhLUPZArjBbdjON0NP/s1600/broken%20violin.jpg" width="275" /></a></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Until now, we managed to establish a shelter and financially support around 40 musicians to get their basic needs. However, the needs are immense .</span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">It seems that the word "human" can be used for some people but must not be used for those who take part, approve and support the genocide on Gaza.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Together we can make a difference to the lives of young Palestinians through music especially in Gaza which needs us now more than ever.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Gaza in our minds</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Sima Khory Odeh</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">To contact</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"> or support he Gaza Music School / Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">go here: </span><a href="mailto:info@ncm.birzeit.edu" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">info@ncm.birzeit.edu</span></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSt6LSCwYIw-Ay7hh70dr3FTZ3ejO0tXDcDyVkL54x_3Q6gfOnlcacgETTYWQLdxOLIsinLjy1gj1QRkKWG85Wp3iXlFc-2QbdXwXtGtoqpXvEQ2RzdnM7GheT02SPKyBIzXKy6leA2H3iWFIsAAeB4g4yPzLR7h9Rn5GWhKpCqIWuPDtoMX41FfdnkwD/s275/broen%20guitar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSt6LSCwYIw-Ay7hh70dr3FTZ3ejO0tXDcDyVkL54x_3Q6gfOnlcacgETTYWQLdxOLIsinLjy1gj1QRkKWG85Wp3iXlFc-2QbdXwXtGtoqpXvEQ2RzdnM7GheT02SPKyBIzXKy6leA2H3iWFIsAAeB4g4yPzLR7h9Rn5GWhKpCqIWuPDtoMX41FfdnkwD/s1600/broen%20guitar.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">The <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/remembering-lubna-alyaan-the-aspiring-violinist-martyred-in-gaza/" style="color: navy;">following is Mahmoud Abuwarda’s tribute to Lubna Alyaan,</a> an aspiring violinist martyred in Gaza.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Baskerville;">On a quiet day amid the few serene days in Gaza, I met that calm girl with eyes full of determination and passion. Lubna Alyaan was preparing for an audition for a music scholarship at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, where I worked as a guitar teacher and academic supervisor. I will never forget the enthusiasm and passion that filled Lubna’s eyes. She told me with strong will that she wanted to study the violin, even though the violin class was full. My question to her was: Why the violin? She answered, “I love the violin passionately, and I want to become one of the world’s top violinists. That’s my dream.” When I saw her determination to learn the instrument and her profound love for it and music, I was moved to make an exception and accept her into the class despite the limited opportunities. Lubna performed brilliantly in the aptitude test and became a valuable addition to the class.For all of us at the Conservatory, it was gratifying to witness Lubna’s steady progress. We all loved Lubna’s diligence, enthusiasm, and joyful spirit. We assisted her in achieving her big dream by arranging violin lessons with teachers and musicians from outside Palestine, such as Tom Suárez, and also through PalMusic in London. As a teacher of music theory and classical music history, I will not forget Lubna’s passion during her lessons. As a composer, I always encouraged her to use what she learned in improvisation and to try composing some musical phrases. She showed a keen interest in musical composition, demonstrating meticulous attention to every detail in a musical piece. February 7, 2022, was my last day in Gaza due to the war in May of the previous year. In a difficult farewell moment with Lubna, I encouraged her to continue learning and pursuing her dream.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihsfmXeLxx4dKTgFAIvEFUp7vjJzkMMFzc8ysBu6p76rggI21meOgU827b7xxOZ8ULG_vfWZarP7c7rHYcfmVOEAXh-ceFw-ycRE7CMfZyGk66RNiowM3PLQ-qFcpHpgoriFLKyTcq5qSYP72phQxTvPUCrarmQswHnpcQBHVPCOfjfDXsBPtdQp7wWRYb/s246/Lubna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="246" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihsfmXeLxx4dKTgFAIvEFUp7vjJzkMMFzc8ysBu6p76rggI21meOgU827b7xxOZ8ULG_vfWZarP7c7rHYcfmVOEAXh-ceFw-ycRE7CMfZyGk66RNiowM3PLQ-qFcpHpgoriFLKyTcq5qSYP72phQxTvPUCrarmQswHnpcQBHVPCOfjfDXsBPtdQp7wWRYb/s1600/Lubna.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Lubna was martyred on the morning of November 21, 2023, after the bombing of Lubna’s aunt’s house in the city of Al-Nuseirat, south of Gaza City. This is despite the Israeli army declaring Al-Nusairat to be a safe zone. Lubna and her family had sought refuge in the south of Gaza for safety, but their home was bombed that morning, leading to the martyrdom of nearly 50 members of Lubna’s family. Her entire family has been wiped from the civil registry, like so many Palestinian families in Gaza.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">I will preserve Lubna’s memory in the best way I know how — by writing music in her memory, in memory of her dream, in memory of her passion, in memory of the future stolen from her. I promise you, Lubna, to keep true to your dreams and to help share your story with the world.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDNnaI7DfBLb-2ZxJ5qP_s8Xb3Ov0tyCaA3n_IRh8x7Hnh0NRmJ-OrubGZs3AlANDiGdMqgQcDCkWH2lCU00OIwVFOrdo6Homnk6s7ABLaXUz6tbyQ0twTnrf3lZrxPgYQn0w1ZZYtBWwFqrVE-KvIVyz0kOTXzZxy1XJ5EIjvkxeP-D99l1nW6Pk-_oQ/s259/Gaza%20music%20school.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="194" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDNnaI7DfBLb-2ZxJ5qP_s8Xb3Ov0tyCaA3n_IRh8x7Hnh0NRmJ-OrubGZs3AlANDiGdMqgQcDCkWH2lCU00OIwVFOrdo6Homnk6s7ABLaXUz6tbyQ0twTnrf3lZrxPgYQn0w1ZZYtBWwFqrVE-KvIVyz0kOTXzZxy1XJ5EIjvkxeP-D99l1nW6Pk-_oQ/s1600/Gaza%20music%20school.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">DavidWilson</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> 1st Director, Pavarotti Music Centre</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Mostar BiH</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><br /><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p></p></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-6538189202314646992024-02-12T03:34:00.000-08:002024-02-12T03:36:18.286-08:00Feinstein, advisor to Mandela, v Keir Starmer<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxwpIMWwhAzntjVe950ECtmkWIXdy-fxEa0N8wAdbUAxEaEbHwFV55xSxgSBR1vOyo_liabDgUSfIxT1A-IeRUI7u-aZc5ASDzkzljgxR2MlXtuW276-STcus3ylc952sZg4Zly4WbtPh4_W3yosgZSPvUMz9RyI0oEGPcp6EjybFy_HuQQP9HayNCbZG/s259/einstein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxwpIMWwhAzntjVe950ECtmkWIXdy-fxEa0N8wAdbUAxEaEbHwFV55xSxgSBR1vOyo_liabDgUSfIxT1A-IeRUI7u-aZc5ASDzkzljgxR2MlXtuW276-STcus3ylc952sZg4Zly4WbtPh4_W3yosgZSPvUMz9RyI0oEGPcp6EjybFy_HuQQP9HayNCbZG/w337-h271/einstein.jpg" width="337" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 18px;">Andrew Feinstein, a Jewish former South African MP and adviser to Nelson Mandela, is to stand against Starmer in Holborn and St Pancras in the next general election. The son of Holocaust survivors, he has a long record of principle that stands in stark contrast to Starmer’s mealy-mouthed call for a ‘sustainable’ ceasefire in Gaza, a code used to oppose an immediate ceasefire. Feinstein argues that the same tactics his ANC party in South Africa used to bring down apartheid there must be used against Israel. Starmer and his team are said to be ‘raging’ at the news and deeply concerned. At the next GE I will be dividing my time between supporting my MP, Jeremy Corbyn, in North Islington and taking the bus down the road to work for Feinstein in St Pancras and Holborn. Meanwhile we must return to the streets and stop the genocide.</span></p>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-25868307086311244382024-01-29T14:51:00.000-08:002024-01-29T14:53:00.427-08:00Diabetic children in Gaza<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhz5_3ugveiuE-xT02LpU7dW7mXSQPdIQsl9px_xbbHZRX6qs1hN58ogdaBailMBkWhof96HYcT2XISSVYLwzQwH9kps6sFCyIuQuCO-a-coc4VWdp2o_Snnlp4Zv0OHu2n7uDnitr0IqEsH_lYX9zJZ9mtQ-rGnkNFjJ2i5r2NY0YMT3l0GET3u2iSDdC/s300/diabetes%20child.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhz5_3ugveiuE-xT02LpU7dW7mXSQPdIQsl9px_xbbHZRX6qs1hN58ogdaBailMBkWhof96HYcT2XISSVYLwzQwH9kps6sFCyIuQuCO-a-coc4VWdp2o_Snnlp4Zv0OHu2n7uDnitr0IqEsH_lYX9zJZ9mtQ-rGnkNFjJ2i5r2NY0YMT3l0GET3u2iSDdC/s1600/diabetes%20child.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On January 24th the UN humanitarian relief coordinator for Gaza confirmed that Israeli authorities have blocked entry of insulin pens for diabetic children there.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Eylon Levy responded to this with “This is just made up. Israel has placed NO LIMITS on the entry of medicines and medical supplies into Gaza, and has facilitated that on a large scale.”</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Even if the UN coordinator is lying the treatment of diabetes is not just dependent on a supply of insulin pens and insulin. <span style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Controlling diabetes means managing the health of the whole body. This necessitates a primary care provider, an endocrinologist, a diabetes care and education specialist and family or close friends able to understand and coordinate the child's diabetic care.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Gaza historically had 36 hospitals, but 85% of the territory's 2.3 million people are now displaced, and that includes health workers, doctors, nurses, surgeons and administrative staff. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I dread to think about the fate of diabetic children in the region with or without their pens. I was a co-founder of War Child at the time of the siege of Sarajevo in 1992/4 and helped take insulin into the city. We had to make sure that our insulin was kept refrigerated en route and that we were able to make contact with the children’s hospital there. You can ‘facilitate’ the entry of medicines, but without specialist care and oversight it is meaningless. Death becomes a certainty.</span></div></div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-74036576917577858852024-01-21T11:24:00.000-08:002024-01-21T11:27:26.494-08:00Enough<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1714iw1r0k-HYzHarRL1SRoNTabnnz-GJ9-JDIvC1uCGrjiwNPdI1NMuyDJJS3d-JnrmkiK4cPoi0J1-xryqeNb5fogO7porWZ1r4ZVM6OuaH5Fdv4Efup1DMMkxli_w7wW-Jl6wsPT6vtxdLzNAUeU890SKROffAM5bOfJvUowT68rwyKcsk2_rsyqE6/s320/genocide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="320" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1714iw1r0k-HYzHarRL1SRoNTabnnz-GJ9-JDIvC1uCGrjiwNPdI1NMuyDJJS3d-JnrmkiK4cPoi0J1-xryqeNb5fogO7porWZ1r4ZVM6OuaH5Fdv4Efup1DMMkxli_w7wW-Jl6wsPT6vtxdLzNAUeU890SKROffAM5bOfJvUowT68rwyKcsk2_rsyqE6/s1600/genocide.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-family: times;">I am not going to post yet more photos of destruction in Gaza, of childrens’ ruined bodies in the rubble, of Israeli troops mocking their slaughtered victims. As a lifelong anti-fascist I am going to say ‘Enough’, ‘Suficiente’, </span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Ya basta</span></em><span>!</span><span>,</span><span><span lang="hi-IN"><span lang="ar-SA">كافٍ’ </span></span></span><span><span lang="hi-IN">, ‘</span></span><span><span lang="hi-IN"><span lang="ar-SA">מספיק’ ‘</span></span></span><span><span lang="hi-IN">. </span></span><span>If it is enough for you too, what do we do?</span></span></span></div><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-64080247605513238272024-01-17T03:20:00.000-08:002024-01-19T06:38:47.645-08:00This is a moment of truth<p> </p><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj9SVB-xhH07MrcCQTl8jB9415VA0stbUgy0QTlAPxqWeeMlV3r3e5urHagM5JHH0wERkcHwAMDDFRsTyGfAS_q3ym_Fh89D3AH27hrx6VeLJpeMYYvAAZMqjHVrwnAl8Iq6iB1Wjttd_CZfSNfp4SLRIMWNr3_b5SXMWxpijRs5zbFBaJEV_JcEgwYOtZ/s1080/writers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="807" data-original-width="1080" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj9SVB-xhH07MrcCQTl8jB9415VA0stbUgy0QTlAPxqWeeMlV3r3e5urHagM5JHH0wERkcHwAMDDFRsTyGfAS_q3ym_Fh89D3AH27hrx6VeLJpeMYYvAAZMqjHVrwnAl8Iq6iB1Wjttd_CZfSNfp4SLRIMWNr3_b5SXMWxpijRs5zbFBaJEV_JcEgwYOtZ/w640-h351/writers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Francesca Albanese, the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Reem Alsalem, the special rapporteur on violence against women and girls and Pedro Arrojo Agudo, the special rapporteur on human rights, have warned that Gazans now account for 80 per cent of all people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Currently, every single person in Gaza is hungry, a quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water, and famine is imminent. It is unprecedented to make an entire civilian population go hungry this completely and quickly. Israel is destroying Gaza’s food system and using food as a weapon against the Palestinian people.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Israeli forces have destroyed more than 60 percent of Palestinian homes in Gazam causing domicide through the mass destruction of dwellings, making the territory uninhabitable. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">"A lack of sufficient nutrition and healthcare is endangering the lives of pregnant women and their unborn children and all children under the age of five, about 335,000 in total, are highly susceptible to the effects of severe malnutrition as the threat of famine continues to grow.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;">“<span style="font-family: Baskerville;">We have raised the alarm of the risk of genocide several times, reminding all governments they have a duty to prevent genocide. Our alarm for the unfolding genocide does not only refer to the ongoing bombardment of Gaza but also concerns the slow suffering and death caused by Israel’s long-standing occupation, blockade and current civic destruction, since genocide advances through an ongoing process and is not a singular event.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General adds that “The humanitarian system in Gaza is facing a total collapse with unimaginable consequences for more than 2 million civilians. Misery is growing by the minute. Everyone must assume their responsibilities. This is a moment of truth. History will judge us.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">How will history judge you? At the very least contact your friends, repost this, make sure you attend the next Palestine Solidarity demonstration, donate to Medical Aid for Palestine, write a poem, write what you think about the situation. Talk with your neighbours. Write to your MP. Raise the issues in your trade union. Join the Boycott campaign. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">You are not powerless.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">STOP PRESS: 3 months ago there were 36 hospitals in Gaza. Today there are none</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-89031658743829300562024-01-15T04:52:00.000-08:002024-01-15T06:15:19.179-08:00Blocs and Balance<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFdF3fFc9vY2SSKjgQ_BXL-ZeGCnKShtYWAIVpHvca-MR-UBlPpvDzACele3CebMsKWVuwRHJZcG50Uvo7ZnpOwum_VuiqTPqnHHZbTmqEyoLcby5TkKZ4J94mvckoXyUi3X8vVXdFq2FjPpkvYxx4PlvQs1rwkDpvFUC82-ZLfwSdGMwPVcqYXvDxt6v/s650/jewish%20bloc.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="650" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFdF3fFc9vY2SSKjgQ_BXL-ZeGCnKShtYWAIVpHvca-MR-UBlPpvDzACele3CebMsKWVuwRHJZcG50Uvo7ZnpOwum_VuiqTPqnHHZbTmqEyoLcby5TkKZ4J94mvckoXyUi3X8vVXdFq2FjPpkvYxx4PlvQs1rwkDpvFUC82-ZLfwSdGMwPVcqYXvDxt6v/w414-h263/jewish%20bloc.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">I went on the London Gaza/Palestine march on Saturday 13 January. It was the biggest yet. When I reached Trafalgar Square it was full and Whitehall was at a standstill with marchers unable to reach the also packed Parliament Square at the far end. I made my way back to the Embankment using side streets and it too was now at a standstill. I went up onto Hungerford bridge and saw the crowd reached at least as far back east as Waterloo bridge. Many hundreds of thousands.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">As important as the size was the ‘spirit’. Multi-everything and the loudest and most militant there were the women. It also felt more like a new movement rather than a march and demonstration.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The next day a few thousand Zionists half-filled Trafalgar Square. Thee BBC reported both days as having been similar Saturday was, “Thousands protest for Palestine” and Sunday was “Thousands protest for Israel”. I guess that counts for media ‘balance.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Israeli Ambassador, Tzipi Hotovely, ("every school. every 2nd house is a legitimate target") spoke and thanked King Charles, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer for supporting her state and speaking out for the UK’s Jewish ‘community’. I took this photo on Saturday and the Jewish bloc there might disagree with that lie.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;">A number of people are finding their FB links not getting spread out to their contacts and it seems likely that the algorithms are picking out words like ‘genocide, ‘Palestine’. ‘Gaza’. With mine too judging by the fewer ‘likes’ I get so am going to start posting mine on my website.</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /></span></div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-75683730887760152772024-01-10T04:37:00.000-08:002024-01-10T05:07:40.910-08:00Message from the Gaza Music School<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As first director of the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina, I have received an update about the Gaza Music School.</span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKCMqyq-jvu7sH14SteaRuD7UBSEkcXwTxMhPseJBP2-7T5B8Dwy5oycH5jiwrvvsF3nyk5QqIg_Zps5QTj_R9IoY0Z3ukKRWN2-M-Wv1wjWnRcqfy-EbuLpY6Kbe94_XCfM1oluoq8fObUy92519u1tGzWy4lyRVReQHrjaglA1GSuFmfEVFpaakCrbt/s268/download.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="268" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEKCMqyq-jvu7sH14SteaRuD7UBSEkcXwTxMhPseJBP2-7T5B8Dwy5oycH5jiwrvvsF3nyk5QqIg_Zps5QTj_R9IoY0Z3ukKRWN2-M-Wv1wjWnRcqfy-EbuLpY6Kbe94_XCfM1oluoq8fObUy92519u1tGzWy4lyRVReQHrjaglA1GSuFmfEVFpaakCrbt/s1600/download.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"After three months, Khamis Abushaban, Administrative Assistant of the ESNCM branch in Gaza and a guitarist, finally reached it. Located at the Red Crescent Society emergency services building, Khamis discovered the door bombed open, with more than half of the structure burnt and heavily damaged. Musical instruments, equipment, and teaching tools were either burnt or damaged. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnm1MVu3P2KkNXgYeHPf6BHCnZ56Ot6hT141vhoRzWjhLldQd47x5oFBeaaD0_i_zyfnfIxpNvPle2Fe-ocM2_0LPA8Y43mTPFHEL_fJisOur1X7BT3UFmZJVTpnH3NDUXgh5J1J8A_w900F4TwnTkUOQH4BNH2qLAJDUqo6lYmsq7BA7SlHztV41MTKtn/s1280/Said%20damage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnm1MVu3P2KkNXgYeHPf6BHCnZ56Ot6hT141vhoRzWjhLldQd47x5oFBeaaD0_i_zyfnfIxpNvPle2Fe-ocM2_0LPA8Y43mTPFHEL_fJisOur1X7BT3UFmZJVTpnH3NDUXgh5J1J8A_w900F4TwnTkUOQH4BNH2qLAJDUqo6lYmsq7BA7SlHztV41MTKtn/s320/Said%20damage.jpg" width="144" /></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br />These instruments and rooms had brought joy to countless boys, girls, families, and the wider community in Gaza. The impact of all this remains etched in their hearts and minds. The sole grand piano in Gaza survives, serving as a witness to this destruction and eagerly awaiting the chance to be played again.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrBPBQTycZzRddSYHSLlNgUua4Ys-Mqd02dLdWh-wX123SDvP1LAzy8E24NCurTcXo8TfyAuuRfpLOKRLlBP5TSKNoiTgrxxPkp2AdDyRRo0P3EINa2zMntyN2LEjvP1ZxyZLfF7bjRg3CmjHxA2mxsgHLVlFUCIcLf-gH7j_fLakujD-zDdjxVzY1QKd/s1052/SAID%20Piano.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1052" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBrBPBQTycZzRddSYHSLlNgUua4Ys-Mqd02dLdWh-wX123SDvP1LAzy8E24NCurTcXo8TfyAuuRfpLOKRLlBP5TSKNoiTgrxxPkp2AdDyRRo0P3EINa2zMntyN2LEjvP1ZxyZLfF7bjRg3CmjHxA2mxsgHLVlFUCIcLf-gH7j_fLakujD-zDdjxVzY1QKd/s320/SAID%20Piano.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We are committed to continuing to enrich people's lives through music."</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Sima Khoury Odeh</b></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Executive Director</b></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b>Edward Said National Conservatory of Music</b></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxVVaCIRZ6WrkQ5SIlzpuH7gsr9IIC68n2XLpu-vb2RmktYYwvvEH0dEAQ9IcbVPLUWu0399nz7my5rF-yZE79mtFThGAq9QgY10QbnAmR4UbKyet22UTk9Jmar5tClfJjyBwFRiGxQAcahsZfVtbEM16HETsLvyST2O0JFsd42iHHHw7TMD5HcvCtfhFh/s1252/Sima%20GMS.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="1252" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxVVaCIRZ6WrkQ5SIlzpuH7gsr9IIC68n2XLpu-vb2RmktYYwvvEH0dEAQ9IcbVPLUWu0399nz7my5rF-yZE79mtFThGAq9QgY10QbnAmR4UbKyet22UTk9Jmar5tClfJjyBwFRiGxQAcahsZfVtbEM16HETsLvyST2O0JFsd42iHHHw7TMD5HcvCtfhFh/s320/Sima%20GMS.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><b><br /></b></span></span><p></p></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-73856151729615055722023-12-28T05:49:00.000-08:002023-12-29T03:13:30.688-08:00Zionists or Bundists<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2021/05/the-jimmy-saville-of-nation-states.html" style="color: navy;"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlyqK4vt2HkSKR31tT8m1U1KDYmeK3rhaIXS0rmm-FOu_VamdmJM_-W754CfYPKYtXbsl8YYscD4fsHTZENXo9UdJwe-2AcgdvBJ9l5_n84tdV0I8JG3bXLGAciHBh1snMeDiWk5VNcHYtUnTmUa-gSwcJqJhoypcMN_dVmvuJAqht_ylHo4338krMf3-/s358/Auschwitz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="227" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAlyqK4vt2HkSKR31tT8m1U1KDYmeK3rhaIXS0rmm-FOu_VamdmJM_-W754CfYPKYtXbsl8YYscD4fsHTZENXo9UdJwe-2AcgdvBJ9l5_n84tdV0I8JG3bXLGAciHBh1snMeDiWk5VNcHYtUnTmUa-gSwcJqJhoypcMN_dVmvuJAqht_ylHo4338krMf3-/w254-h400/Auschwitz.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><h2 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; break-after: avoid; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; margin-top: 0.35cm;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"</span><i>What fuels antisemitism is murdering children by the thousands under the banner of the Star of David while insisting that your actions are inseparable from all Jews and the totally of Judaism.”</i> Caitlin Johnstone</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Zionists claim that Israel represents world Jewry. That is a lie. It is a political ideology that has represented Western imperialist interests from the start. The founder of Zionism at the end of the 19th century, Theodor Herzl, wrote to Cecil Rhodes, founder of the white settler colony named after him and said, “You are being invited to help make history. It does not involve Africa but a piece of Asia Minor, not Englishmen but Jews … I turn to you … because it is something colonial ..” Chaim Weizmann, who succeeded Herzl added that “Should Palestine fall within the British sphere of influence and should they encourage Jewish settlement … we could develop the country, bring back civilisation and form a very effective guard for the Suez Canal.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0O3f5-HETgdzwwGo0DG5lPARqcG32sFb2CAK_ghzHLbf00T_itAYvLWzrhBPYGix0aGxDYqwCWw3qg2BPz3FudPZlCGQhyphenhyphen25jBDJPzc5ZWVX_iGxUYlYHEFogeouGUNMCwo7N4QGnmp1CMYTjZy76jo6BqkFCmuiYS8vlSrJSSZVe2iMEEYTOL0-Z4uC/s259/religious%20jews.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0O3f5-HETgdzwwGo0DG5lPARqcG32sFb2CAK_ghzHLbf00T_itAYvLWzrhBPYGix0aGxDYqwCWw3qg2BPz3FudPZlCGQhyphenhyphen25jBDJPzc5ZWVX_iGxUYlYHEFogeouGUNMCwo7N4QGnmp1CMYTjZy76jo6BqkFCmuiYS8vlSrJSSZVe2iMEEYTOL0-Z4uC/s1600/religious%20jews.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">There has always been Jewish opposition to Zionism amongst both religious and secular Jews. The main theological opposition to Zionism stems from the Hasidic community and the smaller Haredi organisation. Secular opposition was first organised as part of the Jewish Bund in Russia and Poland. Today their descendants are at the forefront of Jewish resistance to Zionism and its genocidal policy of ethnically cleansing occupied Palestine of Palestinians. In The USA <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/">Jewish Voice for Peace </a>have been at the forefront of actions in support of Gaza and the Palestinians, closing bridges, occupying Congress. snd filling the NYC streets. In the UK <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/">Jewish Voice for Labour </a>and <a href="https://jfjfp.com/">Jews for Justice for Palestinians </a>have been joined on demonstrations by the recently formed Black Jewish Alliance.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8Aw-xUzwzDE_CC5QQpyRW4QfCcKXsoj_3S5tdR2kHB13-MZ19qf6H8SZwjI84hW0QU8He-_rz5iP_Qt3HJdQFco0GkGBVZomoHoSmvk1NN6K_fotEPLm7fPBcLLTq4x1jpMYtlXVBKZx0AGt0Hd5Idm_AvkDJO6Ng2hu2BJkZtC8Ju1NvlCdlWPBD4Op/s299/bridge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="299" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8Aw-xUzwzDE_CC5QQpyRW4QfCcKXsoj_3S5tdR2kHB13-MZ19qf6H8SZwjI84hW0QU8He-_rz5iP_Qt3HJdQFco0GkGBVZomoHoSmvk1NN6K_fotEPLm7fPBcLLTq4x1jpMYtlXVBKZx0AGt0Hd5Idm_AvkDJO6Ng2hu2BJkZtC8Ju1NvlCdlWPBD4Op/s1600/bridge.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: large;">You can find out more about Zionism v The Bund</span><a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2021/05/the-jimmy-saville-of-nation-states.html" style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> here.</a></p></h2><div><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-38254412199821878202023-12-12T03:03:00.000-08:002023-12-12T03:05:29.098-08:00The Gaza Music School<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbS1hYBZtMU-L39Qv4ra8Hob41LPbbvF5pDotaulxhgz5u_Ulk3ESWSWKoKGQaOk4I9k8JxPDTpTjZlfFyAgZ0dwT58SpuW-EVnGdHJB5Zbvjr0nBNlGj0ozGf0b-KR2QGONMX7XKftHmL_SU6391pOrgmyUUSVmesCvsHr7JKoRoB2a2cDzQGDioG42fx/s1200/lubna.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1200" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbS1hYBZtMU-L39Qv4ra8Hob41LPbbvF5pDotaulxhgz5u_Ulk3ESWSWKoKGQaOk4I9k8JxPDTpTjZlfFyAgZ0dwT58SpuW-EVnGdHJB5Zbvjr0nBNlGj0ozGf0b-KR2QGONMX7XKftHmL_SU6391pOrgmyUUSVmesCvsHr7JKoRoB2a2cDzQGDioG42fx/w320-h248/lubna.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I received this email from Sima Khoury Odeh on behalf of the Gaza Music School (simakhoury@ncm.birzeit.edu) after I wrote to them about the murdered violinist, Lubna Alyan.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dear Mr. Wilson, </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">On behalf of our colleagues in Gaza, I am replying to your email because they can not reply to you. Thank you for your email and for your feelings. It seems that the word "human" can be used for some people but must not be used for many who take part, approve and support the genocide on <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>Gaza killing innocent people including babies, children and people like Lubna and Dr. Alareer who simply tried to help their community and live a "normal" life. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Our branch in Gaza - the Gaza Music School, was established in 2008 and since then it has been affecting the lives of thousands of Gazans under siege specially children and youth through music education, community outreach programs, festivals, concerts seasons and music activities. Since October 2023, we have been in contact with our teachers, students and their families as well as all musicians in Gaza. A lot of them have lost family members, friends, neighbours, homes and a lot of things they loved and cherished. Most of them are displaced now, lacking basic needs. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">While we appreciate the power of the people who have been requesting the governments to pressure Israel for ceasefire with no success until now, we hope support from friends like you to influence your community showcasing the massacres and the genocide through human stories would have a stronger effect on the peoples and their governments. Check out what a previous colleague wrote about Lubna and her story with music. </span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/remembering-lubna-alyaan-the-aspiring-violinist-martyred-in-gaza/">https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/remembering-lubna-alyaan-the-aspiring-violinist-martyred-in-gaza/</a> </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The conservatory also launched a campaign in support of the music community in Gaza hoping to collect funds to support them as the needs in Gaza are immense and the support Gazans get is scarce and not enough to meet the needs. Hence, the music community needs direct support. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As the level of destruction and killing is unprecedented, people are displaced with hundreds of thousands living in tents, UNRWA schools or probably in the streets in Rafah (South), the genocide is still not stopping. It has not been easy to plan any activities while we are sure that music would definitely help traumatised children and families. If and when the situation allows, some musicians might conduct interactive music activities for children in schools and shelters. Some areas are very dangerous. Other areas allow a person to move in the vicinity of two kilometers which is not safe either. </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">We pray the genocide and bombardment on Gaza stops immediately. The needs will be immense but the most important is to stop the genocide and then we all need to work together with our friends and partners to try to bring back music to Gaza or what is left of it.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Together we can make a difference in the lives of young Palestinians through music specially in Gaza which needs us now more than ever.</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Gaza in our minds, </span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sima Khoury Odeh</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">simakhoury@ncm.birzeit.edu</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">******</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">If you are a musician, music teacher or just want to help the Gaza Music School in the future, please contact me at david@davidwilson.org.uk</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">David Wilson, former director Pavarotti Music Centre, Mostar</span></div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-41830768262733966952023-12-08T03:55:00.000-08:002023-12-08T06:18:18.038-08:00Killing musicians and poets<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6HzOCjTM4mXQ2_mQPSlPN4JjqHHqj8g6TmJaXKHvmQM0qsX6xD16Pr6s1bg5XXGGqggtKPimj0LHr126icNXUQwcpvJ_RbKQOuVIYkZP0wn0o1eShL5Jdi7hAWi2ycMzO9qFuSg8MV5-3NFo7_gkZ3LE4jNo1auMgPWFICxgeMvM5-OZ2Do5uIJq_bNC/s1870/Alyaan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1870" data-original-width="1169" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq6HzOCjTM4mXQ2_mQPSlPN4JjqHHqj8g6TmJaXKHvmQM0qsX6xD16Pr6s1bg5XXGGqggtKPimj0LHr126icNXUQwcpvJ_RbKQOuVIYkZP0wn0o1eShL5Jdi7hAWi2ycMzO9qFuSg8MV5-3NFo7_gkZ3LE4jNo1auMgPWFICxgeMvM5-OZ2Do5uIJq_bNC/s320/Alyaan.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">To the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music – Gaza branch</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="mailto:ncmgaza@ncm.birzeit.edu" style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">ncmgaza@ncm.birzeit.edu</span></a></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Dear Edward Said National Conservatory of Music</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So many thousands are being murdered in Gaza and in occupied Palestine. I have read that on the 21st November 2023, a 14 year old student of yours, violinist, Lubna Alyaan, was killed along with 45 members of her family. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">She joins Refaat Alareer, a writer, poet, and professor, also killed with all his family.He taught literature and creative writing at the Islamic University of Gaza and cofounded the organisation ‘We Are Not Numbers’, which connected experienced authors with young writers.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>“My heart is broken, my friend and colleague Refaat Alareer was killed with his family,”</i> Gazan poet Mosab Abu Toha wrote on Facebook. <i>“I don’t want to believe this. We both loved to pick strawberries together.”</i></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqplOftp_mnU9tJXmBpPO6tKyYYT_blNRAIhjC3PdWGYEAk2netBKVI9EFrnikk2LQymO4tnUyGC8mKwKPuwyDax_GCuE3y40GXTisxw1c2jsyf09gabMQmPW7IEBJdDQYdfbfPRIb4QgYvObvQkfKLYcWgFpUbcH9ih9mYMaZCwolcAARaDryTIePfe7v/s220/Alareer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="220" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqplOftp_mnU9tJXmBpPO6tKyYYT_blNRAIhjC3PdWGYEAk2netBKVI9EFrnikk2LQymO4tnUyGC8mKwKPuwyDax_GCuE3y40GXTisxw1c2jsyf09gabMQmPW7IEBJdDQYdfbfPRIb4QgYvObvQkfKLYcWgFpUbcH9ih9mYMaZCwolcAARaDryTIePfe7v/s1600/Alareer.jpg" width="220" /></a></span></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Alareer had said that he refused to leave northern Gaza as it was his home. Now, along with Lubna and so many others, it is his grave.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">All victims of this genocide are in my thoughts, but as a writer with experience of what it means to try and continue with culture in the middle of barbarism , your student and </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Refaat Alareer </span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">are central to my sorrow and anger .</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">David Wilson, former director, Pavarotti Music Centre, Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">Refaa</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;">t Alareer's last poem published only days before he was killed</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3DmgFmoXPvpo5zgDSNRRYQzVGCyxekN_6Xp9GmyrC0CXSNiiXK6cOxPgPGFLRYx88d6iPuMnkehxdkzygqBXJdyHw-HS06svaaCDnCy8WDRcqsTDGwep-1JOVw_ldhCWydgiVyNEFdcboQDswSlvh8WLpbBcn_3L_NDJp5_xSNYBU8nijmIIkxzj2dYxV/s1200/last%20poem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="961" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3DmgFmoXPvpo5zgDSNRRYQzVGCyxekN_6Xp9GmyrC0CXSNiiXK6cOxPgPGFLRYx88d6iPuMnkehxdkzygqBXJdyHw-HS06svaaCDnCy8WDRcqsTDGwep-1JOVw_ldhCWydgiVyNEFdcboQDswSlvh8WLpbBcn_3L_NDJp5_xSNYBU8nijmIIkxzj2dYxV/w468-h484/last%20poem.jpg" width="468" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></p>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-90527404329415287742023-11-26T09:44:00.000-08:002023-11-26T14:26:48.687-08:00Shoulder to Shoulder with Boris Johnson<p><br /></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzR9ROb4yQoV4u-sVluxYE4hMDFJIt6pmcfWXtAekbiRp3ngtbLi_SAo1qM06xQUJ5FIMwMAA7DYOD-E3obAaOIg7sDTlaGMYWpRFKcM9afVStlDq5rzKauzYJGtMoyYs5f3bSEFSmu5GEnc3-Qrx2FikdxiQU0YA3G4oBJ7xesfrFgK8DvBrs5LrtVoO-/s1963/Boris.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1963" data-original-width="1472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzR9ROb4yQoV4u-sVluxYE4hMDFJIt6pmcfWXtAekbiRp3ngtbLi_SAo1qM06xQUJ5FIMwMAA7DYOD-E3obAaOIg7sDTlaGMYWpRFKcM9afVStlDq5rzKauzYJGtMoyYs5f3bSEFSmu5GEnc3-Qrx2FikdxiQU0YA3G4oBJ7xesfrFgK8DvBrs5LrtVoO-/s320/Boris.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">This photo </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">was taken</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">at</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;"> the </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">London </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">march </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">on 26 November 2023</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;"> ostensibly taking place against anti-semitism, but in fact against the Palestinians. </span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What does Boris Johnson have to do with fighting racism, as opposed to promoting it, which is at the cente of Tommy Robinson’s ‘politics’ whose presence was too embarrassing to be welcomed?</span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUwYaJ_RRyE9nu1dIpQQXyiQq4TEEEAEKhiaXsM_lgYV1pRfS8F85lXooVman2F3W5j9x_MdmYMiTnMgDpcLjAXgZPpC6MNzP06RRDu2k060JxV8Fr1mR_8OlWeuzvfs9igryPjREeFWyHyB7Mp8QQE_z0kO0-yrE5345QmZVZqEKJ8xwDGgLxaK86QAVC/s1280/march%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1280" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUwYaJ_RRyE9nu1dIpQQXyiQq4TEEEAEKhiaXsM_lgYV1pRfS8F85lXooVman2F3W5j9x_MdmYMiTnMgDpcLjAXgZPpC6MNzP06RRDu2k060JxV8Fr1mR_8OlWeuzvfs9igryPjREeFWyHyB7Mp8QQE_z0kO0-yrE5345QmZVZqEKJ8xwDGgLxaK86QAVC/s320/march%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The march was organised by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism under the slogan of “Standing shoulder to shoulder with British Jews”</span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WIbpsMP10kyU_Q7Cz8xeynX1o9VhqLBQYVvytH79ndx2EXvqN6SY_fYR7dl3CzfOEErDOu8LnE9KjswLijWr1hPZr7CCX6AkuujDlSRcUMY7B2G2xQrYV0ThUuH8r3IomJJDzy86AqoSuRaCei5lXOh2ZGHKeh0fDcWg3wNr3pvCqL5w6miQtQInq58Y/s1198/jes%20for%20Pal%20shot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1198" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0WIbpsMP10kyU_Q7Cz8xeynX1o9VhqLBQYVvytH79ndx2EXvqN6SY_fYR7dl3CzfOEErDOu8LnE9KjswLijWr1hPZr7CCX6AkuujDlSRcUMY7B2G2xQrYV0ThUuH8r3IomJJDzy86AqoSuRaCei5lXOh2ZGHKeh0fDcWg3wNr3pvCqL5w6miQtQInq58Y/s320/jes%20for%20Pal%20shot.png" width="320" /></a></div><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The day before many hundreds of thousands took to the streets for Palestine, including many jews, giving the lie to the argument that there is a unity of British jews in support of Israel</span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBWuucxWfuS-jT28500IdEyG9IYdS8oNi41XI5dngfVO1U5T_XEfW8eVxyCLEST9NphB5KfavemYmZThdlIBCyQRvKHaU28aNb0v05YJ6oduewjUBtfTDqH03RpD1eimASn31OuiEfFqjLXLMuoXHqErzRdhaDONRWFxr0yqqaV8ncBa6AARMPkAo537i/s358/grandpa.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDBWuucxWfuS-jT28500IdEyG9IYdS8oNi41XI5dngfVO1U5T_XEfW8eVxyCLEST9NphB5KfavemYmZThdlIBCyQRvKHaU28aNb0v05YJ6oduewjUBtfTDqH03RpD1eimASn31OuiEfFqjLXLMuoXHqErzRdhaDONRWFxr0yqqaV8ncBa6AARMPkAo537i/s320/grandpa.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHJSx-B5dn2B-EUVq4RorxfVXMw0cCXHTRh8B97owj1sR89rhSEe_7QXfTKTuNAMu7tEzYfvRaIDjXmxP9V6V-EAAD-04Awt7GT7VZLsmrFIjqnlFoD3MZmEM-UauvJOpOmONezy52GE9L1DxUM3CY2FNFEc9PJiUJiKUV_8Chrh_A_AtWfWZzecjcq13/s284/Othodox%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHJSx-B5dn2B-EUVq4RorxfVXMw0cCXHTRh8B97owj1sR89rhSEe_7QXfTKTuNAMu7tEzYfvRaIDjXmxP9V6V-EAAD-04Awt7GT7VZLsmrFIjqnlFoD3MZmEM-UauvJOpOmONezy52GE9L1DxUM3CY2FNFEc9PJiUJiKUV_8Chrh_A_AtWfWZzecjcq13/s1600/Othodox%20photo.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">One of my jewish friends has been attending these marches and she is the great grandniece of Albert Einstein. She has written <a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2023/11/the-living-presence-of-past.html">about it her</a>e</span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">If alive today h</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times;">er great uncle would have joined her.</span></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HknnM1Akz-UifY9NSxj9njE9DflZg-_j9qRdPCjzXbIzLs2CEBY98HFMNZeJFuzigw7ij8Ec025Z62dclqCf2AEZVYYuVKXrKa8Z6MeFFHFT1LgHgYpG_H3sHCVppWPT_HKsadX3MqdP3VLLAlF6n08tCa-kDBTTqTwjI0tfYZbpX_L0tjmYvuBLMDDC/s735/Einstein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_HknnM1Akz-UifY9NSxj9njE9DflZg-_j9qRdPCjzXbIzLs2CEBY98HFMNZeJFuzigw7ij8Ec025Z62dclqCf2AEZVYYuVKXrKa8Z6MeFFHFT1LgHgYpG_H3sHCVppWPT_HKsadX3MqdP3VLLAlF6n08tCa-kDBTTqTwjI0tfYZbpX_L0tjmYvuBLMDDC/s320/Einstein.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><p></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Historically Zionism was never central to jewish thought and actions. I have written a<a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2021/05/the-jimmy-saville-of-nation-states.html">bout this her</a>e</span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Final word to jewish professor, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANY4TEB844w">Raz Segal</a> in conversation with Owen Jones.</span></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicd7_MY-rFSb-3QrLGlTIG6O9uXcBX9qs0UmFmOeJe48NI36l5nYEZQ5pAjP_EgHYyMqU22cqe02GB67xeQ7w-N_nijtHTfY2epxr-mJh7MlecfWqkJS82yiODxcfK5vuewHshjSnR7hZ3Xm1n07fN420KpBk1kZdJR9e6YEdm5tQjHNFDfrq3-T22V4HY/s1400/Gaza%20mother.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="968" data-original-width="1400" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicd7_MY-rFSb-3QrLGlTIG6O9uXcBX9qs0UmFmOeJe48NI36l5nYEZQ5pAjP_EgHYyMqU22cqe02GB67xeQ7w-N_nijtHTfY2epxr-mJh7MlecfWqkJS82yiODxcfK5vuewHshjSnR7hZ3Xm1n07fN420KpBk1kZdJR9e6YEdm5tQjHNFDfrq3-T22V4HY/w411-h221/Gaza%20mother.jpg" width="411" /></a></div><br /><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p align="left" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></p></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-28517035917269753132023-11-15T03:48:00.000-08:002023-11-15T03:50:35.269-08:00The Living Presence of the Past<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtRd1J0jSHJK0a5tJP569QKKIIEZ0aYw-LfMiYAH0AVtESpD6HmlSGNrP3YQ9yAlegjVCeAiwrF9ouK9f8FrWMMtvthfFc9q5jtGKqwsWzX2w1ywKqD-VhyphenhyphenmxMGfM5ABPNIDrn4tc8PISD-gCCMfDAFKbBeKaMd1RapuUcxsFyLN_AYSnCILoDdUuzToi/s300/MM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtRd1J0jSHJK0a5tJP569QKKIIEZ0aYw-LfMiYAH0AVtESpD6HmlSGNrP3YQ9yAlegjVCeAiwrF9ouK9f8FrWMMtvthfFc9q5jtGKqwsWzX2w1ywKqD-VhyphenhyphenmxMGfM5ABPNIDrn4tc8PISD-gCCMfDAFKbBeKaMd1RapuUcxsFyLN_AYSnCILoDdUuzToi/s1600/MM.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">The living presence of the past by Merilyn Moos</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The destruction of Gaza and the genocide of the Palestinians living there is unbearable. I want however to be clear about this. I am not weeping for dead babies, although their deaths tears at my soul. I am not weeping about the genocide of the Palestinians or their forced relocation, though I cannot sleep for thinking of them. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mass graves, the killing of thousands of civilians, operations without anesthetic, overcrowded camps <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>without water, energy or food: what does this remind you of? What the Israeli armed forces are doing is not the same as the Nazis’ barbarous acts, but the similarities burn me up.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The Netanyahu government is the child of the Nazis. Do not read this and slap your laptops shut. If the Nazis had been defeated before they took power in 1933, there would not have been concentration and death camps or the chance the UN would have agreed to the establishment of Israel – on somebody else’s land. It was not inevitable that the Nazis, who had only been around for just over 10 years, would gained power. They were a bunch of murderous anti-Left thugs who were not generally popular in Germany. My parents, my Communist father in particular, took to the streets to stop those terrifying gangs. This is not the place for a history lesson, but the Left lost and most paid for it with their lives. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Luckily my parents escaped, but had to leave behind many family members that were too old or infirm to start again elsewhere. And anyway, what country would take them? According to the Nazis, my family was Jewish. Some, like those living in Gaza, were moved from place to place before being murdered. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I was born here in England, did well, became a lecturer, had a child, made many left-wing friends and am living a reasonably comfortable old age. I support the Palestinian struggle. The war on Palestine oppresses me to a degree which friends find difficult to comprehend. A close Leftish academic friend, John, born into a Jewish family, tells me that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that he cannot support the Palestinians. We no longer see each other. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Another Jewish literary friend, Eleanor, emails me that there is a growing wave of anti-Semitism in Britain and Jews are facing daily persecution. If we meet, she writes, knowing my position on Palestine, she won’t talk politics, but only about normal life! I cannot imagine meeting with her. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Yvonne, a long-standing and kind friend, is uncomprehending when I tell her that the wound from the murder of my family in Germany has been reopened by the murder of the Palestinian people. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I’m not very well and have only managed to go on two of the Palestinian demonstrations. I cannot stop the government of this country actively colluding with Netanyahu’s murderous crusade. I cannot stop the latest imperialist drive for land and resources. But the demonstrations give me hope. We must mobilise on the streets, in our work-places and trade-unions and in the Labour Party. But where are the Labour Party banners? Instead Starmer whines about pauses, not a ceasefire. And says we must support Israel. Does he not realise, do others not, that the equation between criticizing Israel with anti-Semitism is fueling the very anti-Semitism they – rightly- abhor? </span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I favour a one-state secular solution. There is no other way, which does not involve millions of Palestinians being displaced, injured or killed. I am not optimistic.</span></div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-11737234719506194882023-11-08T03:55:00.006-08:002023-11-08T04:39:57.561-08:00Gaza's Piano<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWFNREF_J1EXb_EvKQhEk_85iwx5bsAy3HIIOeNkh-MKc1waWXgt_G3pqseVBg2uBSuQ5l2Nf49LAy1_z8rLzlvEG0qBC-xh93SghahF1FQo-lVRHTqZaX2BkPNBHtBazKgMH7eaq7kI3BTzvgDRDjBE1HHGlvz5WwhCM_uaX4AlEs-4UvEpvDfqo0Ya8/s776/music%20not%20war.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="726" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWFNREF_J1EXb_EvKQhEk_85iwx5bsAy3HIIOeNkh-MKc1waWXgt_G3pqseVBg2uBSuQ5l2Nf49LAy1_z8rLzlvEG0qBC-xh93SghahF1FQo-lVRHTqZaX2BkPNBHtBazKgMH7eaq7kI3BTzvgDRDjBE1HHGlvz5WwhCM_uaX4AlEs-4UvEpvDfqo0Ya8/s320/music%20not%20war.png" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen, to shame it. To mock it. With ou</i><i>r</i><i> art, our literature, our music </i><i>o</i><i>ur stubborness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories</i>. Arundhati Roy</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What has happened to Gaza’s grand piano? It is 2012 and Anas Alnajar is playing an instrument with a remarkable history. “I’m so lucky to have the chance to play it. Playing the piano makes me feel comfortable and relaxed,” Alnajar tells this speaking from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Gaza. The music teacher sits before rows of plastic chairs. Sunshine seeps into the room through cracks between heavy red and grey curtains.“We are so proud to have the piano here” says Alnajar. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGWp0QH1qHsSojBWi2arjm7QhCxX37PY1lXV0CB0QucOD_9Ik30KscHmlbNYHz-BsY6dt3PA67opcWg5wr9EuWj5gCKhipT7O2hX2cCfOeZgOwbAJFkIEz1_z7SOnOqfOnLkNVn85yBDP9tQa3h9nWxltuEBg5u-7xnRJXf9HHILqMx_F9a_8Xa89BSTGE/s300/piano.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGWp0QH1qHsSojBWi2arjm7QhCxX37PY1lXV0CB0QucOD_9Ik30KscHmlbNYHz-BsY6dt3PA67opcWg5wr9EuWj5gCKhipT7O2hX2cCfOeZgOwbAJFkIEz1_z7SOnOqfOnLkNVn85yBDP9tQa3h9nWxltuEBg5u-7xnRJXf9HHILqMx_F9a_8Xa89BSTGE/s1600/piano.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Not for much longer. It was rendered unplayable by a missile strike during an Israeli bombardment until a restorer arrived from France. “When my eyes got used to the gloom” said Claire Bertrand, “I gasped at the scale of the destruction. A tangle of cables, twisted metal and broken lamps hung down like spilled entrails from the shattered ceiling. A rocket had landed a few metres away during the 2018 Israeli bombardment. ‘Then, in the middle of the wreckage, I got my first glimpse of a greater treasure that, almost miraculously, had survived unscathed. On the cracked marble of the stage, dusty but intact, stood a concert grand piano.” She tapped - or, rather, crunched - a few keys and listened to the grating notes. "This is not a piano!" she muttered. "Everything is dead.".</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Today the music school, music itself, that grand piano, are all dead, all lie under rubble along with the people. As I write this the total killed under Israeli bombardment is in excess of 10,000. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This might not seem the appropriate time to talk about music, and especially since the Hamas government tried to ban public music even before the current genocide. But taking my cue from Arundhati Roy, I have the ability to tell my own story in our struggle against the current barbarism. At the same time as that grand piano was delivered to Gaza, we took possession of four donated grand pianos at the Pavarotti Music Centre in Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina. Those pianos were just one part of the music we helped bring back to that country. It followed the music workshops I helped organise in the cellars of besieged Sarajevo and then in Mostar. The people needed food and, as War Child, we brought a mobile bakery into town, but the young people in particular needed both food for the stomach and food for their souls – music.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am reaching out to all those who, twenty years ago, helped with our music projects in Bosnia and all those who are as appalled as I am by the present genocide and have the ability to help. I am old, but my anger a t what is happening to the Palestinians means I have no choice than to retrieve my contacts and skills to fight with the only weapon I have – music. Will you help?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have a possible music contact in Gaza who I am hoping will advice on what we can do – if anything. </span><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">As a first step, and if you are a musician, writer or artist, would you be willing to add your name to the following:</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“<span><i>We are appalled by the genocide presently taking place in Gaza and other parts of occupied Palestine. Israel’s bombardment has killed thousands of Palestinians and displaced over 1 million. We agree with Daniel Barenboim, co-founder of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra that “there can only be one solution to this conflict: one based on humanism, justice and equality, and without armed force and occupation. We believe in our shared humanity. Music is one way to bring us closer together.’ </i></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I wish to add my name in agreement to the above and in solidarity with all victims of this barbarity.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">send your name to:</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="mailto:david@davidwilson.org.uk" style="color: navy;">david@davidwilson.org.uk</a></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“<span><span><i>W</i><i>hen calamity strikes we play music to soothe the soul” </i>Ahmed Mukhtar, musician and oud player</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BsA1a9BXFZIRcx8StABSunxyWzJ1SZy94E05rEjMaJPUIs3NDxlAbn1wq5UcqUQkgeApHhMGVBPbT1Hx2TfG1aBnu8vo7gR2MRHF8GhLc9BvxcxhkgJp4h9Ih-8JXDLoIfs4mRlDOtd77J6837-ANXCEq4SJKR8NUnGNuiQuuf1RgPZPIda6PZ9qUH9n/s850/Oud.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="850" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0BsA1a9BXFZIRcx8StABSunxyWzJ1SZy94E05rEjMaJPUIs3NDxlAbn1wq5UcqUQkgeApHhMGVBPbT1Hx2TfG1aBnu8vo7gR2MRHF8GhLc9BvxcxhkgJp4h9Ih-8JXDLoIfs4mRlDOtd77J6837-ANXCEq4SJKR8NUnGNuiQuuf1RgPZPIda6PZ9qUH9n/s320/Oud.png" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><br /><span><br /></span></span></span><p></p></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-82003263788933352562023-11-01T09:04:00.000-07:002023-11-13T08:12:41.688-08:00My World Café review<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwwta2a1zhA82-UPjdmgAcwDwnOrj7Wo9UfMW3oUjhV2vdThZx6UNyjcq2EGOpYj1gxZVEB6Fbs33cQFB1vdQeoL3LxzS4yCxZ6PhjH46wjSQpWxXmheDvGCQhQMLW-yQMKBOYRNEShyphenhyphen62obDc9RIhBlhi2nu1_r2qmczFBCyhMvH1muhqzqOjSAjtFsLx/s310/mWC2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwwta2a1zhA82-UPjdmgAcwDwnOrj7Wo9UfMW3oUjhV2vdThZx6UNyjcq2EGOpYj1gxZVEB6Fbs33cQFB1vdQeoL3LxzS4yCxZ6PhjH46wjSQpWxXmheDvGCQhQMLW-yQMKBOYRNEShyphenhyphen62obDc9RIhBlhi2nu1_r2qmczFBCyhMvH1muhqzqOjSAjtFsLx/w438-h247/mWC2.jpg" width="438" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; break-after: avoid; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0.21cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My World Cafe by David Wilson review: a political recipe book with a difference</span></h1><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Did you know apple strudel is Iraqi?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0.5cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a name="wpexperts_pdf_generate_file2"></a>By <b>Sheila McGregor</b></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Socialist Worker</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Monday 30 October 2023</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Heritage tomatoes were first thought to have been cultivated by the Aztecs in the Andes mountains. The name comes from the Aztec word “tomatl”, and it took years of breeding to give us the red tomato.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What’s more, the West acquiring the tomato was not innocent, as author David Wilson points out in his recipe for Tomato curry with chana. “The Spaniards came with a sword in one hand and a plate in the other,” he writes.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Along with gold and silver, Europe got potatoes, tobacco, peppers and tomatoes. Indigenous Americans got colonisation, disease, slavery and war.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Furthermore, the tomato took its place in medieval times amongst the poor who ate off wooden boards. Tomatoes were shunned by the rich, who were apt to be poisoned when the acid from the food leached out the lead from their pewter plates.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">This recipe book is about memories of people and places, tastes and smells, where foods where come from and how they are adopted and transformed across the world.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Take quiche Lorraine. The word quiche is a corruption of the German word “kuchen” and the food originated from the Kingdom of Lothringen, renamed Lorraine when taken over by the French. Wilson’s point is about poverty, hunger and inequality. Quiche Lorraine is cheap and nutritious. A recipe for it was broadcast as part of the 1926 radio show Aunt Sally’s Radio Recipe in the US to help counter poverty.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Apple strudel—in German, “apfelstrudel”—is associated with the Germanic world. But it was an Assyrian dessert in 8th century BCE, now modern-day Iraq. “Many centuries later, in 1683, Ottoman armies besieged Vienna, but failed to conquer the city,” Wilson writes.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“Their pastry made it over the wall and laid the foundation for apfelstrudel. Cinnamon is dried bark from the cinammon zylanicum tree originally from Sri Lanka.”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bread is important the world over. Wilson, among many other things, was co-founder of the charity War Child that set up a war-time mobile bakery to feed starving people in Mostar during the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Pizza is, of course, based on flatbread, a common form of unleavened bread found all over the world since antiquity. “In the 6th century BC, Persian soldiers cooked flatbreads on their shields and topped them with dates and cheese,” writes Wilson.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“In Ancient Greece, they made a flatbread called plakous, flavoured with onions, cheese and garlic. The Romans ate ‘panis focacius’.” Most of us know about naans, roti and parathas, these days. The Chinese have bing and the Italians have pizza.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There are far too many experiences and recipes to mention them all—so get the book.</span></p><ul style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><li><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18.4px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm;"><em><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/uncategorised/my-world-cafe-by-david-wilson-review-a-political-recipe-book-with-a-difference/">My World Cafe by David Wilson, illustrated by Laura Davis (Riversmeet Productions, Exeter, 2022). Available from Bookmarks—the socialist bookshop</a></span></em></p></li></ul>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-56173785786832359282023-10-30T03:36:00.001-07:002023-10-30T03:51:59.132-07:00Another Night of Terror<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvaoxJCtu0ZI498qHJoSBqXto2UBP-Y4lvPzEfccgOOZkC5hRfvgUnvmi_0a5keJNURQQwzXw6Qu3RHulgkM3IJrPJ2VoJ-rIR3BllaKHz7p4PJ8-W3NGdYJcI5xwhbRG2Enrywpm-UoNa2EfvKyU0CRPf57H02jQcMDQLstElMh7LoA3ERD9D52JtYgP/s358/Usch.Gaza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvaoxJCtu0ZI498qHJoSBqXto2UBP-Y4lvPzEfccgOOZkC5hRfvgUnvmi_0a5keJNURQQwzXw6Qu3RHulgkM3IJrPJ2VoJ-rIR3BllaKHz7p4PJ8-W3NGdYJcI5xwhbRG2Enrywpm-UoNa2EfvKyU0CRPf57H02jQcMDQLstElMh7LoA3ERD9D52JtYgP/w321-h320/Usch.Gaza.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">“<i>Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimatio</i><i>n</i><i>, and very likely ultimate destruction.”</i> Noam Chomsky</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I wake up every morning to the news of another night of terror and death for the people of Gaza – and now also those living on the West Bank. Here in the UK our political ‘leaders’ (a misnomer there) continue to support the killings. In refusing to back calls for a ceasefire a Labour Party shadow minister argued that it would be wrong to say anything while there was ‘ongoing military action’. A bit like saying it would be wrong to say anything about Auschwitz while the gas ovens were still operating.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Talking of which I learned my anti-fascism from my father who was one of the first Allied doctors to enter Bergen Belsen concentration camp. As a toddler I emptied the bottom drawer of his desk and discovered photos of the emaciated bodies of the camp’s inmates. My politics developed from that moment.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I am proud of my many Jewish friends who are as angry as I am over Israeli massacres. Indeed I was going to attend last Saturday’s demonstration with Albert Einstein’’s great grandniece. Unfortunately she was too ill to come with me. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There are one or two who wrote me out of their lifetime script after I supported Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Livingstone. They, and therefore me, were considered to be anti-semites. Today Jeremy Corbyn has been replaced with a leader who holds the record for expelling Jews from the Labour Party.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have written before about the historical background to Zionism and of its opponents, the proud Jewish tradition of Bundism, that survives to this day. <a href=" http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2021/05/the-jimmy-saville-of-nation-states.html">Here it is </a>and I hope those who still support Israel will read it and wake up tomorrow sharing my nightmares and determined to take whatever action they can to bring this terror to an end. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><div><br /></div><p></p></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-73886290295319865382023-10-25T02:23:00.001-07:002023-10-25T04:07:59.928-07:00Teaching the UN a lesson<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYbEZao82PzPPfR9ktOf0-p0906P7Oh0n0Fu9rJJQZRJiJaX7JlH3pzD61Bu_F-VJOFQUWcYX7WIFieE7lQIwlKtApFoMUrMR0LNWf648-tTc2UvpS1gtIcuqYk2l69-4x67rdnGFmgccSRAm0AApyY9NJvkUlDvXSWKmp2d4OJm0BCk8QMrFB033vGsd/s275/dead%20kids.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYbEZao82PzPPfR9ktOf0-p0906P7Oh0n0Fu9rJJQZRJiJaX7JlH3pzD61Bu_F-VJOFQUWcYX7WIFieE7lQIwlKtApFoMUrMR0LNWf648-tTc2UvpS1gtIcuqYk2l69-4x67rdnGFmgccSRAm0AApyY9NJvkUlDvXSWKmp2d4OJm0BCk8QMrFB033vGsd/w355-h224/dead%20kids.jpg" width="355" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In the past two weeks 2,400 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed as a result of bombardment by the Israeli Defence Force. At present, 600,000 displaced people are sheltering in 150 UN facilities as food, medicine, water and fuel are running out. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">As of yesterday, Israel is refusing visas to allow UN officials to enter Gaza. This is after UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, criticised Israel for ordering the evacuation of civilians from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip. Guterres said that Hamas’s attack on October 7 did not happen “in a vacuum”. Gilad Erdam, Israel’s Representative at the UN said, “The time has come to teach [the UN] a lesson.” </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Like so many, I am angry and frustrated at this blatant inhumanity. Because of the pathetic response from our political leaders the street is our only power. I will join the weekly London demonstrations.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Thirty years ago, I was co-founder of the charity, War Child. We brought into the Bosnia Herzegovina city of Mostar a mobile bakery which fed 16,000 people a day. The Croatian besiegers gave us assurance that our food production and deliveries would not be attacked. Even in the midst of that barbarism, there were some rules. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In Gaza today, there are no rules and the only assurance is death.</span></p>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-31196266067744569912023-10-16T05:58:00.008-07:002023-10-16T06:52:48.643-07:00"The (Israeli) state idea is not according to my heart." Albert Einstein<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvEHYEaBTALaudPEvN98HYlMJMEP2GnX8KfGuEnPip5vRDQO5VtBROYlXjg3ErnK98pIUznjanufJRx9b14KAGaV7achY7W2cFnE836cb1G9y_fQot1fJSTAETlHkHOTAsdagYmLTpjgL10we3osFoSc7XZ6lyDoyXBTFMOfTHp0mZJiM4gRzj8bfQxW_/s1164/MM%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="942" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXvEHYEaBTALaudPEvN98HYlMJMEP2GnX8KfGuEnPip5vRDQO5VtBROYlXjg3ErnK98pIUznjanufJRx9b14KAGaV7achY7W2cFnE836cb1G9y_fQot1fJSTAETlHkHOTAsdagYmLTpjgL10we3osFoSc7XZ6lyDoyXBTFMOfTHp0mZJiM4gRzj8bfQxW_/s320/MM%202.png" width="259" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have known Merilyn Moos for over 50 years. I first met her when we both taught at a north London college. She was then, and still is, a revolutionary socialist. The daughter of two communists who escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, they were some of the luckier ones. Many of their relatives were killed. Her surviving family live in the UK, the USA and in Israel. I helped to edit her recent memoir, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Living-Shadows-Merilyn-Moos/dp/B09WPZ9LTR/ref=sr_1_1">‘<i>Living with Shadows’</i>.</a> </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Just back from Bosnia, I visited her today. I wanted to know if she had been at Saturday's demonstration in support of Palestine and was eager to get her take on the terrible situation in Gaza. Despite ill health she had attended. I know she agrees with her great uncle, Albert Einstein, who said <i>“The (Israeli) state idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed … I believe it is bad.” </i></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Like me, she thinks the situation in Palestine/Israel will only become viable when the apartheid regime is dismantled and replaced with one state for all its people. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">I asked her if she had watched David Hearst’ recent broadcast, <i>Th</i></span><a href="https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2023/october/13/israel-myth-of-self-defence-david-hearst" style="font-family: times;"><i>e Myth of Self-defence</i></a><span style="font-family: times;"><i> </i>on the situation. </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">She had, and told me that she had stopped reading <i>The Guardian.</i> We agree that the corporate media are as compromised as our politicians for discussing the situation totally out of context. we hve both turned to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/"><i>Al Jazeera</i> </a>and I said this cartoon sums up that situation. We found a moment in all this horror to share a laugh.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSmMzFvFmptUsAO62xMrU0E1OCPG2oRW5XyNDytSpujalUeU5lRKRe7_dIk2m1gRN5fgTO2GoDsBmVNyJcgUlC9PeRNDCkRby2o91uK-NnXmjNjFB_aeYzvoWdc6IjyFXWt-6yzzB9nwRliabY7WZ9F2OAg1g4zO6aiVf0AvmhM6jMMdPUKcKfSOkL8keQ/s985/Bees.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="715" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSmMzFvFmptUsAO62xMrU0E1OCPG2oRW5XyNDytSpujalUeU5lRKRe7_dIk2m1gRN5fgTO2GoDsBmVNyJcgUlC9PeRNDCkRby2o91uK-NnXmjNjFB_aeYzvoWdc6IjyFXWt-6yzzB9nwRliabY7WZ9F2OAg1g4zO6aiVf0AvmhM6jMMdPUKcKfSOkL8keQ/w422-h369/Bees.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><br /><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I told her that I would return home to write this blog. She asked me to mention her support for <a href="https://www.map.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjwvrOpBhBdEiwAR58-3FvMrAS6IG33vSYkjDxB9f0IEwwfmzZOF3ubS0Q4zMPCUXwXyv2b6hoCIiEQAvD_BwE">Medical Aid for Palestine </a>and would I please add their link.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">NOTE: </span><span style="font-family: times;">Soon after leaving Merilyn, I learned that <i>The Giardian</i> cartoonist, Steve Bell, who had worked for them for four decades had been sacked for what thy regarded as an anti-semitic cartoon.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWo4dozeRo9mrcwLRTds1qllnke_sjHzy9ne7UTMHfhvffq0vb0qjibnfXE0IJBQz9IymRFfXiKT_Wec5rQYE92kx5zByWurdSYpkhSAYXySWaT923s2-s0yEIkk6o7FI90tJ7mu0sJ40WnBjcbUPEopx9nW27BfubkNscOryP-FIaTNKQXIt7ny5UlU3k/s1080/Guewica.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1080" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWo4dozeRo9mrcwLRTds1qllnke_sjHzy9ne7UTMHfhvffq0vb0qjibnfXE0IJBQz9IymRFfXiKT_Wec5rQYE92kx5zByWurdSYpkhSAYXySWaT923s2-s0yEIkk6o7FI90tJ7mu0sJ40WnBjcbUPEopx9nW27BfubkNscOryP-FIaTNKQXIt7ny5UlU3k/s320/Guewica.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br /></span></div><p></p></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-25019273593169832542023-10-13T00:31:00.003-07:002023-10-13T01:10:11.178-07:00The Train to Barbarism<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ptZ5ckix1hOe0gMb8ODyciZ2r5d-pbG7uS9wAZxLUmHFTEYNQFA7y6KSSVhpcuXAfhi4X9aQVBJYuuOSTGZkqEwQEOolndcS_5Xb9a7vTJ9cDT-jjH6A546SXDiekouFrEqIPfX-gFlDozQsPgZ0MCkKeu0XlMJnJvqqS_M2EezS-ViJyRWC5NhuFGSm/s1770/train%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="1770" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ptZ5ckix1hOe0gMb8ODyciZ2r5d-pbG7uS9wAZxLUmHFTEYNQFA7y6KSSVhpcuXAfhi4X9aQVBJYuuOSTGZkqEwQEOolndcS_5Xb9a7vTJ9cDT-jjH6A546SXDiekouFrEqIPfX-gFlDozQsPgZ0MCkKeu0XlMJnJvqqS_M2EezS-ViJyRWC5NhuFGSm/w400-h263/train%202.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I went to a meeting 50 years ago where Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein) was speaking. Born to a Jewish family in Palestine, he was made stateless because of his opposition to Zionism. He said this, “we are all on a train. The rich are in the dining car, the middle class in the carriages, the working class standing in the corridors, and the train is speeding towards barbarism.” He was right, but he forgot to mention the driver and the guards. They are the politicians and the corporate media. We have to <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>stop this train and reverse direction. This will involve pushing past the guards, taking control of the drivers cab and de-coupling the first class carriage.</span></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-75751689826647139062023-09-22T06:37:00.006-07:002023-09-22T06:41:43.554-07:00Solidarity with Ken Livingstone<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgup9b9sfSd9coTsGwgvGtJO4mAG3qWcww8pAg4WBsP7FZxxbjJGk-8zRhKe3mSBAMSS_OiRIzREa7r_cXDw36M30H1p-2H8Xcu1Jkyannr1EHrIZWHgZBHKWJi976Tj5MNpIUERpibnMqx8niapMaHkgf4nuB72f467cnRrHiVFi78gv0RqzSlSUaYYSmx/s317/kEN%20PHOTO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="317" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgup9b9sfSd9coTsGwgvGtJO4mAG3qWcww8pAg4WBsP7FZxxbjJGk-8zRhKe3mSBAMSS_OiRIzREa7r_cXDw36M30H1p-2H8Xcu1Jkyannr1EHrIZWHgZBHKWJi976Tj5MNpIUERpibnMqx8niapMaHkgf4nuB72f467cnRrHiVFi78gv0RqzSlSUaYYSmx/w397-h257/kEN%20PHOTO.jpg" width="397" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><p style="background: none; color: #050505; line-height: 15.18px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;"> “He was perhaps the greatest anti-racist leader the Labour Party has ever produced. So the allegations of antisemitism were in my opinion an <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>obscenity. His crime was telling the truth about the Haavara Agreement in the 1930s – in which some Zionist organisations played a role in breaking the anti-Hitler trade boycott that threatened to bring the new Nazi regime to its knees.” Graham Bash, Jewish Voice for Labour.</span></p><p style="background: none; color: #050505; line-height: 15.18px; margin-bottom: 0.25cm; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: large;">I am sad that Ken Livingstone has Alzheimer’s disease. I have known him for 8 years and the conversation I had with him and Jan Woolf over a meal in an Afghan restaurant, is the subject of a chapter in my food and memory book, ‘My World Café. I confirm Graham's opinion about Ken and it is clear that he had no need to apologise for telling the truth. Apologies should be offered to him and the many socialists expelled from the Labour Party.</span></p></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Chapter 19 • Kabuli Pulao </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Political issues are decided at table". </i>Talleyrand</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Kabuli pulao is said to have originated among wealthy families in the Afghan capital, who could afford to prepare this elaborate meat and rice meal. Its name derives not from the city of Kabul, but from the word qabil which means ‘capable’, as it was considered that only a skilled chef had the ability to make it. Due to the price and quality of the ingredients, this dish of lamb and steamed rice, mixed with raisins and apricots, is considered an Afghan festive dish. Its unique flavour comes from a mixture of spices: cumin, cloves, cardamom, turmeric and cinnamon. The pulao is placed in the centre of the table. It is a shared food, eaten in community with others.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> My introduction to pulao took place in the company of a politician known for his dedication to the community.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I met Ken Livingstone for the first time in 2016 at a supermarket, soon after he had been suspended from the Labour Party in 2016. I found myself behind him at the cheese counter and told him that I sympathised with what fate had dealt him and that we had a lot in common.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> He asked what had happened to me, and I told him that I had been sacked from the charity I had founded after blowing the whistle on corruption. I added that in my late middle age, I had been left without a job and little money. One day I was a charity director, running a music centre in an ex-war zone, and the next day thrown out of the organisation I had built. I said I understood what he had been going through. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I knew that Ken’s fate had been much worse than mine. Everyone from Margaret Thatcher to the Labour Party leadership had ensured his political destruction. She had described him as an ‘East European tyrant’ who would set up a communist regime if elected mayor of London. Tony Blair said of Ken that, “we did not create New Labour only to throw it all away and return to the disastrous politics of the early ‘80s.” The Sun, queen of the gutter press, called him, “the most odious man in Britain”. This, despite the fact that, as Mayor, he had been responsible for much that promoted good community relations: free bus passes for the elderly and disabled, anti-traffic congestion and anti-racist policies. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I am amazed at how a social democrat who wanted to keep the traffic flowing can be transformed into a Stalinist tyrant or a revolutionary Trotskyist. These slurs were not going to end with poor Ken. They would go on, be recycled and used to topple Jeremy Corbyn. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Three years after our chance meeting in the supermarket, I was invited by my friend and fellow writer, Jan Woolf, to join her and Ken for dinner at Ariana II, an Afghan restaurant on the Kilburn High Road in north west London. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I had known Jan from the time we had worked together on music and theatre projects at Stop the War Coalition Her contribution to the anti-war movement was, like mine and Ken’s, an expression of her moral outrage at the illegitimacy of the Iraq war and occupation.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Ariana II is a bring-your-own-booze eatery. When Ken arrived, he put three bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon on the table. The waitress who took our orders offered him her hand. She thanked him with a short speech enumerating all he had done for her city. This was eleven years after he’d left the job.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> In Livingstone’s London, Ken tells us who he would like to dine with. He went for JF Kennedy and Lenin. Sadly, they weren’t able to be in Kilburn that evening ,so Jan and I had to stand in for them.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> We ordered Kabuli pulao. While we ate our starter, a delicate mashed spiced pumpkin topped with yoghurt, I asked him his opinion of Thatcher and Blair.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “She created me,” he answered. As for Blair, “He was always polite when we met, but his expertise was the knife in the back. Before Regan and Thatcher, it was very different, even with Conservatives. In the 1970s when John Major was Chair of Lambeth’s Housing Committee, he oversaw the building of more council estates than any council, before or since. Under the Macmillan Tory government in the 1950s, the top rate of tax for incomes over half a million per annum was 98%. As soon as Thatcher came to power, that was cut to 40%. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I asked him how he felt now he was no longer in the Labour Party. Suspended and accused of anti-semitism, he resigned his membership in 2018. He smiled. “In more than 50 years in the Party, I never saw or heard anything anti-semitic. If you’re anti-semitic, you’re not going to join the Labour Party, are you?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I asked him what he had been accused of.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “I told the BBC that, in 1932, Hitler had championed Jewish emigration to Israel and was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I asked him if he remembered the furore over Jim Allen’s play 'Perdition'. Commissioned by the Royal Court in 1987, they then refused to stage it. Directed by Ken Loach, it tells of the collaboration of Zionists with the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. The writer Eric Fried, many of whose family were murdered by the Nazis, wrote: “I am envious I have not written this play myself ... To accuse the play of faking history or anti-Jewish bias is monstrous.” At the time Loach said, “The charge of anti-semitism is the time-honoured way to deflect anti-Zionist arguments.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Ken poured out more wine for us, smiled and shrugged. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “It’s never-ending, ism’t it?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> He said that when Labour Party General Secretary, Iain McNicol, suspended him without a hearing, he joined Marc Wadswoth, Christine Shawcroft, Jackie Walker and Glyn Secker, all of whom had been accused of anti-semitism. It didn’t seem to matter that many of those suspended were Jews. It does, perhaps, matter that Secker is an executive committee member of Jews for Justice for Palestinians, and captained a Jewish Gaza solidarity boat to the Gaza coast in 2010. “Do you know that, under Starmer, more Jews have been suspended from the party than ever before?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I asked Ken whether he still gets abuse, and he answered that he does, but many remember his role as Mayor of London and stop him in the street to shake his hand.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Ken told me all this without any anger, and it struck me that he joins Jeremy Corbyn as being too nice to be a political leader. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I put this to him. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> He said, “I can’t answer for anyone but myself, but I have never heard Jeremy say a bad word about anyone.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I asked him what his life was like now and he said he had written five books. He added, “but my main task is to go shopping, cook and look after the family.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “Are you still writing?” I asked.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “No.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “Do you watch TV, follow the news?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “It’s all so depressing.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I didn’t know if he meant the content of the news or the manner of its delivery, so asked him is he followed online media such as The Canary or Novara Media.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “No, I don’t use the internet. I don’t even have my own email. Too many death threats. Diane Abbott gets ten a day.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I found it sad that someone who had been so actively involved with society was now so excluded from it.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> When Rachel Cooke interviewed Ken for The Observer, she wrote, “there’s something rather frail and depleted about him … if he talks proudly about being a house husband, behind the boast, it’s possible to detect a certain purposelessness.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> She was right. I recognised that look, not just frail, but not quite believing you are where you are. Delayed shock in body and mind.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I love cooking, so wanted to know his favourite dishes. “I get the ready-to-eat meals and just heat them up. Chicken and leek is very good. Eating this here of course, is a delight.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> When he wrote his memoir, 'You Can’t Say That', there is a chapter devoted to restaurants, about which he used to write for the Evening Standard. It revealed that his favourite restaurant is the Nautilus, a fish and chippy in Fortune Green.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I didn’t want our meal to end without delving into what had made Ken the unique political figure he had been.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “Did you come from a left-wing background?”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> “Not at all. My uncle, also named Ken, was a member of the National Front. He went through the Radio Times each week with a marker pen, obliterating any programme listing that included blacks, Irish, gays, lesbians or David Frost.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Our conversation went silent as we finished the pulao. I had enjoyed the savoury sweetness of the carrots and raisins, the saltiness of the rice and meat, the crunchiness of the almonds, pistachios and cashews. At the same time, I had become increasingly sad at the rotten deal this man had been served.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> As we were getting ready to leave, a woman got up from her table, smiled at Ken and said, “You were the best.”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> I returned home on the London Overground. Oh yes, that was revamped by Ken and made free for you and me.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">RECIPE</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Ingredients</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">½ kilo lamb cut into pieces</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2 large onions</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 cup of long grain rice </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2 carrots, grated</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4 cardamom pods</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 cup dried apricots</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 cup raisins</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 tsp black pepper</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 tsp salt</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2 tsp cumin seeds</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 tbs almonds</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 tbs pistachos</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1 tbs cashew nuts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2 tbs sugar</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2 sticks of cinnamon</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">½ cup olive oil</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Method</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Heat the oil and slow cook onions, then add the lamb and fry until a golden brown. Add 1 cup of water and 1 teaspoon salt. Cover and simmer until the meat is tender. Cook the rice with 2 teaspoons cumin seeds and 1 teaspoon salt. Drain the rice and set aside.Add the raisins, apricots cardamom, almonds, pistachios, cashews, and cinnamon and 1 tsp black pepper. Add to the meat and cook together for a minute. In another pan, cook the sugar until it melts and add ½ cup water and mix well. Pour the sugar mixture on top of the rice mixture and add to the meat. Simmer for 20 minutes</div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-57034775346497771472023-07-16T09:50:00.005-07:002023-07-16T10:19:34.998-07:00From Dreyfus to Assange<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> l’affaire Dreyfus</span></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r3o:" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> In 1894 French artillery officer, Captain Afred Deryfus, was convicted of treason. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris and imprisoned on Devil’s Island where he spent five years incarcerated under harsh conditions. He was, of course, innocent. He was finally exonerated in 1906. Émile Zola wrote an open letter, 'J’Accuse' which started a movement in support of Dreyfus. Its supporters <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>included Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Charles Peguy, Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau. As a Jew, Dreyfus was hated by an anti-semitic French establishment The role played by writers, media and public opinion proved influential in the long struggle for his freedom. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">L’affaire Assange</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 2019 Julian Assange was incarcerated in isolation at Belmarsh, a UK maximum security prison. He is being held there waiting for the US to agree his extradition to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 and for acts of ‘computer intrusion’. One of these intrusions is a 10 minute video of the 12 July 2007 US helicopter airstrike in Iraq which killed 18 civilians, including two Reuters journalists. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQPtVkJOuUnmuvHCnIqEYaaW6zz4UqffqBhaMFaAawLiWZJ10n8J7WXlK47HQnXnVWSxYY1IMZ7l4EuS-FlV6iLyHIbqq3DOvbTjbmoMkH3qv8XsrhJlEO-Lov50CUhEtIZfglcK-czao28IcH1E2HXQo5sx9nS-NFE5pVKxHIUcwE4CSJ4MTTiX1SaB4/s1566/BLOOD.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1074" data-original-width="1566" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQPtVkJOuUnmuvHCnIqEYaaW6zz4UqffqBhaMFaAawLiWZJ10n8J7WXlK47HQnXnVWSxYY1IMZ7l4EuS-FlV6iLyHIbqq3DOvbTjbmoMkH3qv8XsrhJlEO-Lov50CUhEtIZfglcK-czao28IcH1E2HXQo5sx9nS-NFE5pVKxHIUcwE4CSJ4MTTiX1SaB4/w401-h274/BLOOD.png" width="401" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1l90r2v x1swvt13" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":r23:" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Blood, Gold and Oil</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>'A profound and serious play where politics and psychology, authenticity and fable, artefacts and abstractions combine to expose a bitter truth.'</i> The Morning Star</span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">'<i>Douglas Clarke-Wood as TE Lawrence effortlessly commands the stage as TE Lawrence' </i>London Pub Theatres</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>I <span><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>went to the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith (London) to see the final night of Jan Woolf’s, play, <i>Blood, Gold and Oil</i> written and produced to mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq occupation. Unsurprisingly it played to a full house for its entire run. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>The play scrapes away at the topsoil of TE Lawrence's celebrity and excavates all that lies beneath. Was he a brilliant military commander? Certainly. A freedom fighter? He thought so. An agent of British colonialism and the burgeoning oil corporations? Could be. An admirer of Lenin. Yes. Killed or assassinated in a road accident? Maybe. Did Peter O’Toole in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ mythologise the man. Very likely. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>During the course of the play, an exhibition is pieced together with an array of World War One artefacts on loan from the National Civil War Centre in Newark and The Imperial War Museum. The finds were from a 2013 archaeological dig in Jordan which Jan visited to dig her play out of the desert. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>The play is a timely reminder of those responsible for the long, bloody history imposed on the peoples of the Middle East in pursuit of liquid gold.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">photos: Play poster and Jan Woolf with Douglas Clarke-Wood (TE Lawrence)</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfz8K5EVprRvOqt9id_rpUHNrEz7vTQJyMB7Lo6WpDr-mTnlXZ-HFh3Pojuf4w53L0rmvxZkixOWgLZIDLIppm0wkrdiy9o8z378FU8tweCwXczhpnmiANDDiKT6hvmaP5aB7EhUBYazltAXtmNcsBF4kIaVp8OyQE5D7wPxRdSOijU0F6SfxhoQuu6P-/s2016/Rivewrsde.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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</span></h2><div><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><h2 style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>It reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa. I have seen the humiliation of the Palestinians at checkpoints and roadblocks, suffering like us when young white police officers prevented us from moving about. Many South Africans are beginning to recognise the parallels to what we went through </i>. Desmond Tutu</span></span><div><span style="color: #202122; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">We now have a law that confirms the Arab population as second-class citizens.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">It therefore is a very clear form of apartheid. I don’t think the Jewish people<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">survived for 20 centuries, mostly through persecution<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">and enduring endless cruelties, in order to now become the oppressors, inflicting cruelty on others. This new law does exactly that. That is w</span></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>hy I am ashamed of being an Israeli today. </i> Daniel Barenboim</span></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div></h2></span></span></span></div><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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founder of Zionism at the end of the 19th century, Theodor Herzl, was
an admirer of the British Empire and wrote to Cecil Rhodes, founder
of the white settler colony named after him, He said, “You are being invited
to help make history. It does not involve Africa but a piece of Asia
Minor, not Englishmen but Jews … I turn to you … because it is
something colonial ..”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Chaim
Weizmann, who suceeded Herzl added that “Should Palestine fall within the
British sphere of influence and should they encourage Jewish
settlement … we could develop the country, bring back civilisation
and form a very effective guard for the Suez Canal.”</span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">You
don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. Prayers at the US Embassy,
on the day Trump moved it to Jerusalem, were delivered by Robert
Jeffries, a Dallas megachurch pastor who said Hitler was sent by God
to drive the Jews to their ancestral land.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">The
Jewish opponents of Zionism could be found at the same time as Herzl
in the Jewish Bund, founded in 1897 in Poland and Russia. They
stressed the principles of, socialism, secularism and doyikayt or
“localness.”</span></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Doyikayt
was encapsulated in the Bund slogan: “There, where we live, that is
our country.” One of their early leaders, Viktor Adler, declared
“Bundists wish to shatter the existing economic frameworks and show
the Jewish masses how a new society can be built not by escape, but
by struggle. We link the essence of the Jewish masses’ life to that
of humankind.</span></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Here
are past and present advocates who have linked their lives to
humankind. Perhaps we will now be able to hear their voices more
clearly.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><span><span><span><br />
Albert
Einstein; “The (Israeli) state idea is not according to my heart. I
cannot understand why it is needed … I believe it is bad ... </span></span></span>There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people … We must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people … Let us recall that in former times, no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs."</span></h2><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sigmund
Freud: “I concede with sorrow that the baseless fanaticism of our
people is in part to be blamed for the awakening of Arab distrust. I
can raise no sympathy at all for the misdirected piety which
transforms a piece of a Herodian wall into a national relic, thereby
offending the feelings of the natives.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
<br />
Erich Fromm,
social psychologist: “The claim of the Jews to the Land of Israel
cannot be a realistic political claim. If all nations would suddenly
claim territories in which their forefathers lived two thousand years
ago, this world would be a madhouse.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Primo
Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz: “Everyone has their Jews and for the
Israelis they are the Palestinians”.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
<br />
Marek Edelman, one
of the leaders of the1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising compared the
Palestine resistance to ZOB, the Jewish fighters in Warsaw.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
Hannah
Arendt, political scientist: “The trouble is that Zionism has often
thought and said that the evil of antisemitism was necessary for the
good of the Jewish people.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Martin
Buber, Israeli philosopher: “How great was our responsibility to
those miserable Arab refugees in whose towns we have settled Jews who
were brought here from afar; whose homes we have inherited, whose
fields we now sow and harvest; the fruits of whose gardens, orchards
and vineyards we gather; and in whose cities that we put up houses of
education, charity and prayer. . ”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
Isaac
Asimov, novelist: “I find myself in the odd position of not being a
Zionist ... I think it is wrong for anyone to feel that there is
anything special about any one heritage of whatever kind.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Harold
Pinter. On Israel’s 60th anniversary said, “We cannot celebrate
the birthday of a state founded on terrorism, massacres and the
dispossession of another people from their land."</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
Uri
Avnery, ex-Israeli army officer: “What will be seared into the
consciousness of the world will be the image of Israel as a
blood-stained monster, ready at any moment to commit war crimes and
not prepared to abide by any moral restraints.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Daniel
Barenboim, Israeli pianist and conductor: “I don’t think the
Jewish people survived for 20 centuries, mostly through persecution
and enduring endless cruelties, in order to now become the
oppressors, inflicting cruelty on others.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lenni
Brenner, writer and civil rights activist: “The Zionist leaders
were uninterested in Fascism itself. As Jewish separatists they only
asked one question, the cynical classic: 'So? Is it good for the
Jews?'”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
Richard
Cohen, US columnist: “The greatest mistake Israel could make at the
moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake … the idea of
creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and
some Christians) has produced a century of warfare.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Henry
Siegman, Rabbi and director of the U.S./Middle East Project: “Israel
has crossed the threshold from ‘the only democracy in the Middle
East’ to the only apartheid regime in the Western world.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Prof
Norman Finkelstein: “Every single member of my family on both sides
was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising. And it is precisely and exactly because of the lessons my
parents taught me and my two siblings that I will not be silent when
Israel commits its crimes.’</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br />
Richard
Falk, former UN special rapporteur on human rights, called Israeli
policies in the Occupied Territories “a crime against humanity.”
Falk also has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to
the Nazi treatment of the Jews.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Alexei
Sayle: “Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Miriam
Margolyes: “My support for the Palestinian cause is fiercer because
I am Jewish.’</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span>
</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Noam
Chomsky, “The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the
beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and
dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex
story—hard to understand and even harder to solve.”</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_w2T6cYmiqS2WwmTtWJgORgHDiNbbKTVTWV89rABtN6eaooxm7F21J8FN5NpocpDDm6xMqyAGVuBGpOST7mr_Yl8BTYLSTcdNEwn_daZzEy4Ucm0jd_SstrlNkQ1ikHIiqGXM2zBE7yw/s720/margolyes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy_w2T6cYmiqS2WwmTtWJgORgHDiNbbKTVTWV89rABtN6eaooxm7F21J8FN5NpocpDDm6xMqyAGVuBGpOST7mr_Yl8BTYLSTcdNEwn_daZzEy4Ucm0jd_SstrlNkQ1ikHIiqGXM2zBE7yw/w393-h370/margolyes.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Michael Rosen on the children of Gaza</span></span></span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h2 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Don't mention the children.</span></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: 15px;">Don't name the dead children.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: 15px;">The people must not know the names</span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;">of the dead children.</span></div><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The names of the children must be hidden.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The children must be nameless.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The children must leave this world...</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">having no names.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">No one must know the names of</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">the dead children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">No one must say the names of the</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">dead children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">No one must even think that the children</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">have names.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">People must understand that it would be dangerous</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">to know the names of the children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The people must be protected from</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">knowing the names of the children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The names of the children could spread</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">like wildfire.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">The people would not be safe if they knew</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">the names of the children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Don’t name the dead children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Don’t remember the dead children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Don’t think of the dead children.</div></span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px;"><div style="text-align: center;">Don’t say: ‘dead children’.</div></span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">
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<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }</style> <br /></p>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-19400364886755677282023-06-23T23:26:00.020-07:002023-06-24T06:24:12.160-07:00<p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2lG-xSHGcdq-_tD6vNJL2iFK6JrqrR9O620Y1286--W6Xt_nnrxtv2ht7EZLWr37el9vxJWTZl7QIDzc9nnk9OjK4DgpzwEZFvEwz3FBuBb__UPiswvZ14MnfJVzPyaMXskLnB2GFMTmPd4aBeV7cx1r1nNE97oGOsFsYUpv0nGWVjds6L2w1-ht9bmm/s259/my%20music.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="259" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA2lG-xSHGcdq-_tD6vNJL2iFK6JrqrR9O620Y1286--W6Xt_nnrxtv2ht7EZLWr37el9vxJWTZl7QIDzc9nnk9OjK4DgpzwEZFvEwz3FBuBb__UPiswvZ14MnfJVzPyaMXskLnB2GFMTmPd4aBeV7cx1r1nNE97oGOsFsYUpv0nGWVjds6L2w1-ht9bmm/w351-h258/my%20music.png" width="351" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In Spain after<a href="http://www.anneaylor.co.uk/novel-writing-in-spain"> Anne Aylor’s ‘novel intensive writing retreat</a>’, and inspired by the participants’ great writing, I have been working on my third book, working title “My Music World”. “My World Café’ was about food and memory and this is about music and memory. Here is a taster</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">WHEN THERE”S<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘PAIN IN MY HEART’, ‘GET UP,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>STAND UP’</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">-<i>“When music hits you, you feel no pain”</i> Bob Marley</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I have always been drawn to musicians who sing their troubles. That tells you as much about me as it does about their music. In the 60s I was an addict of American Blues singers, agreeing with Leon Redbome that ‘the Blues ain’t nothing but a good man feeling bad.’ I guess I am drawn to the way Blues takes sorrow and turns it into an emotion that can be life-enhancing.</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I made sure never to miss the London gigs of Delta and Chicago Blues musicians when they came to the UK. Black musicians had always received a more friendly welcome in Europe than they got back home in the US. In the same year that Miles Davis recorded <i>A Kind of Blue </i>he was beaten up by NYC cops. Not long afterwards he was in Paris to receive the Legion ‘d’honout from France’s Culture Minister. His contemporary, saxophonist James Moody, moved to Sweden, fed up with ‘being scarred by racism’ in his own country.</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The night before their main London gigs at the Marquee, the American Bluesmen and women would stage a ‘rehearsal’ gig at south east London’s Bromley Court Hotel. Among earlier visitors had been the Duke of Wellington and Charles Darwin, but I was there to see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY"> </a></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY">Muddy Waters,</a> John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Sony Boy Williamson and Bo Diddley. Many female Blues artists as well. I was sorry to have missed Sister Rosetta Tharpe was on the bill with Muddy Waters, for his 1964 European tour, but caught the flu when in Manchester and didn’t join him in London. Watch her singing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SoZG4yDaJA">‘Didn’t it Rain,</a> standing in her coat on a wet and windy Manchester station platform. I guess it was that gig that must that made her ill. Female Blues’ artists are often overlooked. We’ve all heard ot Aretha Franklin, but what of<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpvm4GbnFZQ"> Koko Taylor</a>, sometimes called ‘The Queen of the Blues’, and known for her rough, powerful vocals, and Big Mama Thornton? Her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpwvxW0gW0">‘Nothing But a Houndog’</a> stands alongside Elvis’ version.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">South east London has strong connections to both Blues and rock ‘n roll musicians. David Bowie spent his childhood in Bromley and Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts, all came from Dartford, on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the edge of southeast London and were to play an important part in promoiing the Blues. They never played at the Bromley Court, but I remember travelling to Richmond to see them at Eel Pie Island. I found them a bit tame and preferred The Pretty Things. They were punk 15 years before The Clash and The Sex Pistols. Their vocalist, Phil May, had been at Sidcup Art College with Mick Jagger, but there they parted. Chris Morris says that The Pretty Things had “A noise that made the early Stones sound like tea-sippers.” I agreed and remember going to their gigs and lying on the dusty floor like an upturned turtle as they performed ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxyah_W7J6U">Don’t Bring Me Down’.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo5l2g0YS13VL-BMXD8EC2uE0F__pKPWoqKgCzIP_J1zPUQCbEE-BQH_bMKXt8-rL-Lmg4pTiqsJCXfLVRaUIJKwkwQU1Im_z8F-x9rJGB-xveHcFHkQJVO2YkGKREYKLFNQs2-HxVEYARl-m97f23QO1dFdreErZ_ETuhmDYHU4xCEc5aVqrOG0aCFzp/s240/Heart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="210" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfo5l2g0YS13VL-BMXD8EC2uE0F__pKPWoqKgCzIP_J1zPUQCbEE-BQH_bMKXt8-rL-Lmg4pTiqsJCXfLVRaUIJKwkwQU1Im_z8F-x9rJGB-xveHcFHkQJVO2YkGKREYKLFNQs2-HxVEYARl-m97f23QO1dFdreErZ_ETuhmDYHU4xCEc5aVqrOG0aCFzp/s1600/Heart.jpg" width="210" /></a></span></div><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Monday 11 December 1967 was another rainy day<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and I skipped my sociology lecture at Essex University to take the bus into Colchester from the campus to buy Otis Redding’s album, ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoixmFOwHt0">Pain in My Heart.’<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">That morning I’d heard that he had been killed the day before when his plane crashed into Lake Monoona, Wisconsin. I wanted to honour him. I already had three of his singles, ‘Dock of the Bay’ , ‘These Arms of Mine’, and “Try a Little Tenderness”, but on this day I wanted to listen to more of his music.</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">The year after Otis’ death Percy Sledge released ‘<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYb84BDMbi0">When a Man Loves a Woman’ </a>which included these words: “If she is bad, he can't see it. She can do no wrong.” He claimed the original title was ‘Why Did You Leave Me Baby’, but changed it to ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’. “I just reversed it”, he said. “ The song is about potential devastation. You only hope there's going to be a happy conclusion.”</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">My introduction to reggae music came with first hearing Bob Marley’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6VezKMoRY">‘No Woman No Cry’.</a> I thought the song’s title was a reference to the relief of not having a woman in your life —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“No woman, no cry’.That tears came with the woman. The song first appeared in his 1974 album, <i>Natty Dread</i>, and I played it over and over again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It was composed by Vincent Ford, a friend of Marley’s who ran a soup kitchen in Trenchtown, where Marley had grown up. Royalties from the song went towards the running of this meals programme. Many years later I learned that my interpretation of the song had been mistaken. The correct punctuation is not ‘no woman, no cry’, but ‘NO woman. NO cry.’ The title is alluding to encouraging women not to cry. Marley’s bassist in The Wailers, Aston Barrett, said, "The song is about the strength in the mama of course, strength in the ladies. And we love a woman with a backbone. Something like a wishbone! They have to be like a she-lion! Woman strong, you know, not depending on the man.”</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">I thought the song was an expression of the trauma in my own relationship with a woman — my first wife Renata. She was certainly a she-lion and I spent years trying to escape her claws, hoping for a ‘happy conclusion’. When the song was released in 1984 on the <i>Legend</i> album it appeared with ‘Could you be Loved?’ ‘Get Up, Stand Up’,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>‘Redemption Song’, ‘Exodus’ and ‘One Love’. In the next few years I did all that. Questioning whether I loved and could be loved, standing up, an attempted redemption and an exodus. Finally moving into a new ‘one love’ relationship. A move from anguish and anger to a woman with backbone who would also be my wishbone. “One love, one heart, Let's get together and feel all right.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Marley has remained at the centre of my world for sixty years, and I am proud that his words are inscribed next to my image in the entrance to Mostar’s Pavarotti Music Centre</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Towards the end of my time in Bosnia I helped smuggle into besieged East Mostar, Island Records’ Marley photo exhibition. They were hidden under bread crates. The local ‘war radio pulsed out his songs for the ten days the exhibition was in town; which was mounted in a cellar on the front line.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Even after I left Mostar I helped bring reggae music into town. In 2001 we brought roots-reggae artist, Horace Andy, there. Pain again. His singing is full of anguish, the minor key to Marley’s major. His performance with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8uOWpli5A8">Massive Attack in Hyde Park in 2016</a> is memorable as he sang from a wheelchair because of his broken leg.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So much music is about overcoming pain, or at least learning to live with it, and there is always the need for tenderness …”<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqNc4XLBguI">But It’s all so easy, all you got to do is try, try a little tenderness.”</a></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p6" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p class="p6" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2021/11/my-world-cafe.html">My World Café</a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p7" style="color: navy; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Baskerville; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href=" http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2019/09/left-field.html?fbclid=IwAR1kc8mt5b5E1XfR_AO9sEpGOGCE27HRe5FtKigoytbNVVx7ORm53TkRwpQ">Left Field</a></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6975836164539459739.post-64287751906403863222023-05-19T10:30:00.002-07:002023-05-20T03:07:16.986-07:00My World Café - a delicious read<h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3tVxun5f8zrUiSDxJP1ELSAqjI8ukOjaK0eiYgMJeZESAEv9EsD2tK3rmujIPq077YlHyS09Jf_sCQK6GApI3TcIq98c8XEbFwH7rGxAhwUqFpT3FMOXF0uOmPmVxBu78DJPpZZRGmWy4oFdniRWGaGXfBkPuWHqkUoyk1gj6ec3xj4qDjKZktwgUQ/s1953/MWC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="1953" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz3tVxun5f8zrUiSDxJP1ELSAqjI8ukOjaK0eiYgMJeZESAEv9EsD2tK3rmujIPq077YlHyS09Jf_sCQK6GApI3TcIq98c8XEbFwH7rGxAhwUqFpT3FMOXF0uOmPmVxBu78DJPpZZRGmWy4oFdniRWGaGXfBkPuWHqkUoyk1gj6ec3xj4qDjKZktwgUQ/w539-h506/MWC.jpeg" width="539" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">19 May: A great evening of readings from My World Café at</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bookmarks Bookshop with a discussion led by Jan Woolf. Here is</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jan with three 'chapters' from my book,, Anne Aylor, Alaistair</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hatchett and Ken Livingstone. Thank you Ursla Hawthorne (2nd </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: medium;">photo) and Bookmarks Bookshop for hosting the evening.</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><br /></p></span></h2></span></h2><div><br /></div><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB3SJvd8VdTWMXyarNTYUGTKTmv46dsM69dPIJHEgWnCJdKzQNIrjuxPTqLpC0UIQ93cqSGGLJAccyp4PzFM21T8joneLw8CO5t__I0AM6qpBuip8sYHhiomVeENeLyGqIy5axQ0GotXT0-eeVa2TgFSRPhrvxIOzPP711LRwaRHD2hCQr0_8iKbj8g/s2016/Bookmarksjpg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOB3SJvd8VdTWMXyarNTYUGTKTmv46dsM69dPIJHEgWnCJdKzQNIrjuxPTqLpC0UIQ93cqSGGLJAccyp4PzFM21T8joneLw8CO5t__I0AM6qpBuip8sYHhiomVeENeLyGqIy5axQ0GotXT0-eeVa2TgFSRPhrvxIOzPP711LRwaRHD2hCQr0_8iKbj8g/w420-h422/Bookmarksjpg.jpg" width="420" /></a></div></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXgHMr7x6zuAgvi6PUn8yjpCHMAU-H_6Hdup-WtIFRJZp2TK_GprmZMMaNZi35PbdDWT7XYAIpDTtKNVmz9J2dEwQ9QquyfLHfthEJMuHTtOXrKrG1aSyHTv7xXXz_SF9A5U5gJBJ0thcFn6QRYZsJXPnWtuW2R7iMgM7LnSRSc_l0vfqgSBKoxIohQ/s2016/Bookmarks2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIXgHMr7x6zuAgvi6PUn8yjpCHMAU-H_6Hdup-WtIFRJZp2TK_GprmZMMaNZi35PbdDWT7XYAIpDTtKNVmz9J2dEwQ9QquyfLHfthEJMuHTtOXrKrG1aSyHTv7xXXz_SF9A5U5gJBJ0thcFn6QRYZsJXPnWtuW2R7iMgM7LnSRSc_l0vfqgSBKoxIohQ/w429-h434/Bookmarks2.jpg" width="429" /></a></div></h2><h2 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; break-after: avoid; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; margin-top: 0.35cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></h2><h2 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; break-after: avoid; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; margin-top: 0.35cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Great to meet old friends who remain good friends. You can buy</span></span></h2><h2 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; break-after: avoid; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; margin-top: 0.35cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span>the </span></span>book at Bookmarks and other London bookshops, or order</span></span></h2><h2 class="western" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; break-after: avoid; font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; margin-bottom: 0.21cm; margin-top: 0.35cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">from Riversmeet.</span></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>"Lovely stuff from the author's swag-bag: traveller's </i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><i>tales and </i></span><i>gorgeous drawings plus liver and bacon. </i></span></div><div dir="auto"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i>What more could anyone </i><i>want?"</i><a href="https://www.elisabethluard.org/"> Elisabeth Luard</a><span>, </span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">food writer and broadcaster</span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;">"In David Wilsons 'My World Café', we cross time and </span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;">space as we joyfully consume our way through a plethora </span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;">of chapters on recipes which mark the stages of David's </span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;">extraordinary life crisscrossing the earth, and all rooted </span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-style: italic; white-space: normal;">in his socialist politics” <a href="https://www.counterfire.org/article/living-with-shadows-memory-and-struggle-interview-with-merilyn-moos/"> </a></span><span style="white-space: normal;"><a href="https://www.counterfire.org/article/living-with-shadows-memory-and-struggle-interview-with-merilyn-moos/">Merilyn Moos,</a>: author of</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="white-space: normal;"> 'Breaking</span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="white-space: normal;"> The</span></span><span style="white-space: normal;"> Silence', 'The Language of Silence', 'Beaten but not</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space: normal;"> Defeated' and 'Anti-Nazi Germans'</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="white-space: normal;"><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />"<i>Eclectic, delightfully eccentric, historical, <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>political </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><i>and mythological. </i></span><i>Generously illustrated with Laura </i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Davis' charmingly quirky drawings. </i><i>Altogether a </i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>delicious thing."</i><span style="font-family: times;"> </span><a href="http://lesleyglaister.weebly.com/biography.html"> Lesley Glaister</a><span style="font-family: times;">, writer and </span></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;">reviewer</span></div><div dir="auto" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: normal;"><i>"We totally l</i></span></span><i style="color: black; white-space: normal;">ove your book. You brought back memories of Mervyn </i></p><p style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: black; white-space: normal;">Levy and Gustav </i><span style="color: black; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: normal;"><i>Delbanco. My god, those guys...." <a href="https://www.bordercrossings.org.uk/">Michael Walling,</a></i></span></p><p style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: normal;"><i> </i>artistic director, Border Crossings<i> </i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 18px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: normal;"> </span></p></span></div></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-weight: 400; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">BUY IT <a href=" https://riversmeetproductions.co.uk/publications/">HERE</a>: </span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">Riversmeet Productions:</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">“Our third book is</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span><em style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">My World Café<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">with</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">words by David Wilson and illustrations by Laura</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> Davis.</span></div><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><em>A stew of food stories, memories and recipes from around the world,</em></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><em> ranging from popcorn to borscht, apple strudel to burritos, baklava to</em></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><em> teriyaki. Each chapter includes a brief history of the food, a personal</em></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><em> memory and a recipe.’</em></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><em><br /></em></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Up3vzT78Wv-9O7xpNg84k69ZooHGsxber1ea364y5nqr_jihtvuhc6dG7AXgoSwJab4B4jRmOx4bi7ZpXnqxD4e0XjpO7kGPslppVgnjU5dlwXw_tzN9U6D5oJAKG7QtujBH-ZSnL9opAM8iWkqmZi4PJxordNWMKabdnri1qVhey5n69JmZp15x0A/s1896/4%20at%20launch.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="1896" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Up3vzT78Wv-9O7xpNg84k69ZooHGsxber1ea364y5nqr_jihtvuhc6dG7AXgoSwJab4B4jRmOx4bi7ZpXnqxD4e0XjpO7kGPslppVgnjU5dlwXw_tzN9U6D5oJAKG7QtujBH-ZSnL9opAM8iWkqmZi4PJxordNWMKabdnri1qVhey5n69JmZp15x0A/w445-h310/4%20at%20launch.png" width="445" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: left;">(Maureen Casey, Laura Davis, Anne Aylor, David Wilson & Richard Bradbury at London launch on 30/11/22)</span></div><div style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">David Wilson is a writer and political activist whose work draws upon</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> an extraordinary range of experiences throughout a long and varied</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> career as a teacher, art agent, filmmaker and aid worker. He was</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> involved with setting up a war-time mobile bakery that fed the</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> starving people of Mostar and went on to be the first director of the</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Pavarotti Music Centre in Bosnia, whose patrons included Luciano</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Pavarotti, David Bowie, Brian Eno and Tom Stoppard.</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.signedblottillustration.com/">Laura Davis </a>is an artist, printmaker, illustrator and graduate of</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Glasgow School of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. Her inspiration</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> comes from folk and outsider art, and from observations of life and</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> nature.”</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">You can order <i>My World Café</i> on the <a href="https://riversmeetproductions.co.uk/publications/">Riversmeet website</a>. </span><span style="font-family: times;">UK price:</span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> £12 inclusive of postage & packing. Non-UK price: £13.50, inclusive</span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"> of pp </span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-family: times;">It's also on sale<i> </i> at Bookmarks, Bloomsbury St, London, Housmans at </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-family: times;">Kings X, The Owl bookshop in </span></span><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Kentish Town </span></span><span style="font-family: times;"> and at Word on the </span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">Water on the </span>Regent's Canal at York Way</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camden New Journal review <a href=" https://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/john-gulliver-making-a-meal-of-pavatotti?fbclid=IwAR3biktg8djX6CXroIpc_VkO9Vx7XP1zcQiPO8dGWetBAR9a82lBwY_ZsIo ">HERE</a></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">A big thank you to Camden New Journal for this article. I just want to </span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: times; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">say that: 1) I did not write about the historic problems with War Child,</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>2) I did not convince music stars to record for the HELP</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> album, that was was Brian Eno, and 3) The Pavarotti</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Music Centre is better known for rock music than</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> classical. NOTE: For Londoners, 'My World</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Café' can be bought at the Owl bookshop in</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> Kentish Town and online using the Riversmeet link.</span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><span>International Times review <a href="https://internationaltimes.it/book-review-my-world-cafe-david-wilson-illustrations-laura-davis/">HERE</a><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span><br /></span><span><i>My World Café</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>is David’s second</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span>book.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2019/09/left-field.html?fbclid=IwAR1kc8mt5b5E1XfR_AO9sEpGOGCE27HRe5FtKigoytbNVVx7ORm53TkRwpQ"><i>Left Field: The Memoir of a</i></a></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><a href="http://www.davidwilson.org.uk/2019/09/left-field.html?fbclid=IwAR1kc8mt5b5E1XfR_AO9sEpGOGCE27HRe5FtKigoytbNVVx7ORm53TkRwpQ"><i> Lifelong Activist</i><i> </i></a><span>was published by Unbound in 2016.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><span class="Apple-converted-space">Praise for <i>Left Field</i></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><span><i>“David has lived a life and a half. The broken world needed people</i></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><i> like David; it still does.”</i><span>—Sir Tom Stoppard</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /><span>“<i>This is an excellent and inspiring book. David is an adventurer and a</i></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span><i> freethinker, who did something truly useful with his life.”</i>—Brian Eno</span></span></h2></div><p style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"><span>The London launch took place ar Made in Brasil on 30 November, <span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you Riversmeet, Haifa Zangana who returned from Tunisia to be there and Deicola Neves who flew in from Spain. Also all who came to join me there. A great night.</span></span></span><br /></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></h2><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: avoid; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0.35cm 0px 0.21cm; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAB4TjnBQTgS7psPbxYzCmuniKCWDcOV5FRXKP2km-vkemtbhYFfFI_hfTkXxi7If6aBEfECNl7BQe9mfyT6_OpjElfwIP8TUZSRm3w3u4rLnSky_ViNGyXm4xindgFrrxm6bfjn5ZN2kn0yGsgEg6vQ-mg2Cdg_6G5QDaJ8pykpz1WHlsCYOJ1QWssA/s1484/JIM%20BRANN%20NEW.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1208" data-original-width="1484" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAB4TjnBQTgS7psPbxYzCmuniKCWDcOV5FRXKP2km-vkemtbhYFfFI_hfTkXxi7If6aBEfECNl7BQe9mfyT6_OpjElfwIP8TUZSRm3w3u4rLnSky_ViNGyXm4xindgFrrxm6bfjn5ZN2kn0yGsgEg6vQ-mg2Cdg_6G5QDaJ8pykpz1WHlsCYOJ1QWssA/s320/JIM%20BRANN%20NEW.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span></h2><h2 style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); break-after: avoid; color: #666666; margin: 0.35cm 0px 0.21cm; position: relative;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">I am delighted to say that several people who feature in the book were at the London launch at Made in Brazil on 30 November: Jim Brann, who helped me with the mushroom chapter, Haifa Zangana with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">tepsi baytinjan,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">Iraqi<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">recipe,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sebastian and Gráinne Balfour with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">Catalan<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">calçots,</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;"> Jan Woolf with courgette<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">pie</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">, and Anne Aylor with popcorn, as well as <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">fulfilling her role as my Gordon Lish. Finally</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Deicola Neves with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">Brazilian<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">picanha and he</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;"> played<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; text-size-adjust: auto;">guitar. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k0JUe2wBcg">Check him out on this link. </a></span></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;">From author/artist Jan Woolf - </span><a href="http://www.janwoolf.com/"><span style="font-family: times;">http://www.janwoolf.com/</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(28, 30, 33); color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>It's a fine read - food, politics, activism. David Wilson writes beautifully and the illustrations by Laura Davis dance on the page. Oh, and me and my courgette pie are in it! </i></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3efcTdyOAQHjKpfwaC15Q5s9xTsRFhjZTCdC52GnxT7qijghmIX-3YRYYM3cNQed4WGa6hN59w_G5NA8VHHv9AOu2bZHQU4baR89TY2acq6LrKFc90SUX4A1aOgXdgGjkroVxlP0YRUk94jYR4kmVpiC3fxOdYVwjkqw74K9T3uJMeJRmrrChLpJ_w/s1024/DN%20at%20launch.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW3efcTdyOAQHjKpfwaC15Q5s9xTsRFhjZTCdC52GnxT7qijghmIX-3YRYYM3cNQed4WGa6hN59w_G5NA8VHHv9AOu2bZHQU4baR89TY2acq6LrKFc90SUX4A1aOgXdgGjkroVxlP0YRUk94jYR4kmVpiC3fxOdYVwjkqw74K9T3uJMeJRmrrChLpJ_w/w300-h400/DN%20at%20launch.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; text-align: start;"><div class="x1cy8zhl x78zum5 x1q0g3np xod5an3 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xz9dl7a" style="align-items: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-top: 12px;"><div class="x1iyjqo2" style="flex-grow: 1;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xi81zsa x1yc453h" color="var(--secondary-text)" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><h2 class="x1heor9g x1qlqyl8 x1pd3egz x1a2a7pz x1gslohp x1yc453h" id="jsc_c_9b" style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 4px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span color="var(--primary-text)" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">What readers are saying about MY WORLD CAFE</span></span></h2></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; text-align: start;"><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 x1l90r2v" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_9d" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x4zkp8e x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Lovely stuff from the author's swag bag: traveller's tales and gorgeous drawings plus liver and bacon. What more could anyone want?" Elizabeth Luard, broadcaster and food lover</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“A worldfest of a book - a tribute to the bonding power of shared food as a force for enlightenment. The book’s Rabelaisian gusto put me in mind of Proust’s madeleine - of the joyous childhood pleasures of picking mushrooms before breakfast with my Irish <a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a>grandmother and foraging for berries to make the juicy summer puddings you describe from your youth.” Edwin Maynard</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">"Take odes to the pleasures of shared eating and season with nuggets of nutrition, politics, philosophy, travel, biology, biography, botany, history, geography, cooking … and you have ‘My World Cafe’. Enjoy.' " Jim Brann</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“ ‘My World Café’ tells the stories of David Wilson’s favourite meals and recipes and is filled with a warm blend of stories of friendship, history and politics along with dishes enjoyed around the world including liver-and-bacon, borscht, strozzapreti and goulash.” Camden New Journal</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“ ‘My World Café ’ is a celebration of something as necessary to our survival as oxygen and love. Each recipe is delivered in the company of a person important to him, the memory of taste heightening the memory of that person and place, with the history of the food folded in like a delicious batter.” Jan Woolf, International Times</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“In ‘My World Café we cross time and space as we joyfully consume our way through a plethora of chapters on recipes which mark the stages of David's extraordinary life crisscrossing the earth, and all rooted in his socialist politics.” Merilyn Moos, author of 'Anti-Nazi Germans'</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“Eclectic, delightfully eccentric, historical, political and mythological. Generously illustrated with Laura Davis' charmingly quirky drawings. Altogether a delicious thing.” Lesley Glaister, writer and reviewer</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“We totally love your book. You brought back memories of Mervyn Levy and Gustav Delbanco. My god, those guys….” Michael Walling. Artistic director, Border Crossings</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“An enjoyable journey of meals the author has eaten that stretch deeply in each country's history. A book full of stories and recipes spiced with the warmth of friendship.” Haifa Zangana</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“Wow! What a life...such lovely illustrations too.” Inga Baystrom</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“What a rich medley of food, politics, travel and interesting people !I am determined to try some of the recipes. A lovely book.” Carol Ritchie</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“It makes a great read.” Anthea Norman-Taylor</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">“You have found a brilliant way of being able to bring so many great stories together.” Diana Boyer</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">"I have really loved 'My World Café' - so full of life and warmth, and a wealth of cracking anecdotes”. Annemarie Nearly</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">"He has been eating (and drinking) with me at my home for over 25 years. When with us he completes my family. As he says, along with the lamb, “there is always music, singing and tavla. See you soon David." Orhan (Oha) Maslo</span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">****************</span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;">contact author at david@davidwilson.org.uk </span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Send your photo to me at: david@davidwilson.org.uk or to Riversmeet at; maureen.casey2@btinternet.com</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Gillian Howell, Melbourne</span></div><p style="clear: both; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujfRPFpqmHTuQzCjOrgvByODeyFeuJHJDoSYsPJjw2b57hT0ATapRRDe3mH0fur6SuZfa08cCsAx7Zbk_pX20iif_LPMdOrSv-4jbuTAvtojxZ4_Ci2PFUMLQC2_Yi7nbXly0eiSyrejALqVutQP34AKXE6bHfQKwlzGyfzb_lcSImJLasvdhBR8KdA/s1162/Gillian%20runswick%20MelbourneMWC.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1162" data-original-width="1092" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujfRPFpqmHTuQzCjOrgvByODeyFeuJHJDoSYsPJjw2b57hT0ATapRRDe3mH0fur6SuZfa08cCsAx7Zbk_pX20iif_LPMdOrSv-4jbuTAvtojxZ4_Ci2PFUMLQC2_Yi7nbXly0eiSyrejALqVutQP34AKXE6bHfQKwlzGyfzb_lcSImJLasvdhBR8KdA/s320/Gillian%20runswick%20MelbourneMWC.png" width="301" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>David Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00041568851185280776noreply@blogger.com