Nov 26, 202312 min read
HYPERBOLE
[ The internet, 2023: Some random idiot is confronted by a human rights lawyer on social media ] “It’s not a game. I’m calling you out.”...
Nov 19, 202310 min read
UNNECESSARY OCCUPATION
The strongest arguments I hear about the Palestine-Israel conflict relate to “occupation.” Folks like Dr Munayyer, Dr Knight, and Dr...
Nov 17, 20234 min read
BEING HUMAN
“Why does everyone talk about the Arab-Israeli conflict as being difficult?” “Probably because it’s, I dunno, difficult?” “Is it,...
Nov 14, 20239 min read
THE GOOD SENSE
“Well, I mean, the Kurds have never been offered statehood, despite treaties promising such.” “Okay, but that’s the whole world.” “What...
Nov 11, 20236 min read
ALL OF IT
"Can I ask what you're doing here today?" "We're just out supporting the cause." "But I believe that's the flag of Hamas. And the chant...
Nov 9, 202323 min read
“IT'S JUST ABOUT FREEDOM, OBVIOUSLY”
Someone who has disliked what I’ve been writing lately (someone in great company: a party comprised of my wife and effectively all my...
Nov 7, 202311 min read
“CERTAIN IDEAS ARE SO ABSURD...”
Those conformists (sometimes known as “academics”) who provide all the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic justifications for murder —...
Nov 2, 20238 min read
BY THESE TERMS
“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it...
