Aaron Bushnell – burnt offerings
If you do one thing before sleeping tonight, take a moment to recognize the extreme sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell and to recognize the purity of his intention, and say a prayer (dua) for the people of Gaza for whom he sacrificed himself, making his body into a burnt offering. Acknowledge his protest, the determination and […]
Another letter to Biden (on Gaza)
Dear President Biden, Please stop giving speeches claiming to care about civilians and then providing every means to slaughter them in vast numbers. This could be shut down instantly but the will is clearly to do the opposite. I don’t understand your love for a genocidal maniac who has been Oct 7th’ing the Palestinians […]
Letter to Biden on Gaza
There is no kind way to say this – what can be said to a President who people had hope for but who has sold off his humanity and sacrificed so many innocent lives for geopolitical goals. With the recent commemoration of the holocaust, there seems to be a complete disconnect between that horrific past […]
Open letter to Members of Parliament – on Gaza
For what it’s worth – the gist of my letter to Cabinet members and to the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister concerning Gaza (feel free to borrow, change, or reuse all or any portion to contact your representatives in whatever part of the world you are in). Dear Minister, I write to you as […]
The Distorted Modern Mirror of History and Perception
WHEN TWO MIRRORS ARE HELD FACING EACH OTHER a regression of reflections results. A corridor of mirrors dwindling away into minuscule images beyond the range of vision is created. But each time the reflections repeat themselves the quality of the reflection degrades ever so slightly. At first this change is hardly noticeable, but as we […]
Political Responsibility and the Destruction of Gaza
Politicians, by the nature of their office, have a serious duty to be answerable for their words, decisions, and actions, when faced with situations that require moral judgements and ethical and moral responsibility. They especially, as a political class in which the citizenry has vested a certain degree of power and trust, must hold individual […]
Dua (A Prayer) for Palestinians
Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim O God, the calamity has become immense and the ugliness of its destructive consequences are openly visible for all to witness. Only the deniers of Truth, those who dwell in the illusions of their own minds, who have lost their own souls and who have become like ravenous beasts – they attack […]
In times of conflict
In times of conflict, language and image are spun to shape perceptions of reality and it is through the characterizations and emotional colouring of the media’s visual language and their choice of terminology that events are interpreted, explained, and experienced. Just as symbolic religious language gives meaning and an interpretation to the world, so also […]
A prayer
This live-streamed genocide is hard to bear. But far harder to bear is the indifference of so many towards it. It breaks my heart. So many children suffering and dying before the eyes of the world and yet there is, across the West, a conspiracy of obstinate silence, or worse, obstinate approval of the relentless […]
There is no existential threat to Israel
There is no existential threat to Israel or to the Jewish people or to Judaism. There is, however, as there should be, a very real threat to political Zionism. Its time is done. Judaism is a faith, a religion, a way of life, and it is to be respected, honoured, and protected. Political Zionism is […]