This Sunday, there will be an online screening of the powerful and important movie Qassam, which I blogged about yesterday.
By paying for a virtual ticket for this screening, you will help one of a number of charities that assist the people of Sderot who face Hamas rocket fire, or one that helps the brave IDF soldiers on the frontlines. You get to choose which.
A simple, yet brilliant idea. And you get to watch a great film!
1) Hamas has fired more than 6,000 rockets from Gaza into Israel over the past seven years. During one such attack last Saturday, a Hamas rocket misfired and killed two young Palestinian girls.
2) Another Hamas rocket – fired on Monday of this week – killed an Israeli Arab construction worker in Ashkelon. Most of those injured in that attack were also working-class Arabs.
3) Last Thursday, a Hamas rocket aimed at Israel misfired and severely injured a Palestinian. Israel allowed the Palestinian into one of its own hospitals for treatment.
4) The ‘university’ that Israel hit was actually a training ground for Hamas terror which included bomb-making laboratories, rocket-propelled grenades and storage facilities for suicide bomb belts. It was founded by the late Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the mastermind of countless terror attacks on Israel. There were no casualties in Israel’s attack on the ‘university’.
5) Hamas freely admits that most of those killed by Israeli attacks over the past week are not civilians, but Hamas terrorists.
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The British camera crews who have flocked to Gaza this week never bothered taking their cameras to film any of the 6,000+ rockets that Hamas have fired into Israel since 2001.
But Chutzpah Productions have made a filmabout what the residents of southern Israel have been facing for seven years. I recommend you watch this film, which is being promoted by the wonderful people at 12Tribes.
You know what gets me most? That little girl, she shouldn’t even know the word ‘Qassam’. Not at her age. Thank goodness Israel is finally acting on this.
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Good luck to Honest Reporting in countering the tsunami of distorted reporting that is already greeting Israel’s air strikes on Gaza. As I’ve written before, the anti-Israel bandwagon in England might be comprised of anti-semites, hypocrites and naive buffoons but they can strike up quite a cacophony of crap in the media at times like this. So the likes of Honest Reporting and the wonderful Tom Gross will be needed more than ever. Show them some love if you have a minute to spare. And good luck to Israel. It was about time.
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So the rather lovely-looking Alex Haines says that Amy Winehouse has spent up to £3,500 a week on drugs. He also says she is a bulimic who stuffs her face with McDonalds and then throws up over the sink.
Meanwhile, more photos are forthcoming of Amy on her holiday in St Lucia. She’s looking great. Perhaps her lifestyle has more to recommend it than we thought?
Come on Amy, there must be a book in this: ‘Amy Winehouse’s Crack & Big Mac Diet’. You know where to find me if you need a ghostwriter.
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I had a little chuckle when I woke up this morning. I was about to tell Chris about this bizarre nightmare I’d had: that Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had given Channel 4’s Christmas message.
The same Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whose regime executes people for being gay, sentences women to be stoned to death for adultery and sponsors terrorism. The same Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who denies the holocaust and who is proudly preparing a nuclear arsenal with which to destroy Israel and slaughter millions of Jews.
Then I remembered that it wasn’t a bizarre nightmare. Channel 4 really had done it.
What a low. This makes the ‘Not In My Name’ march to keep Saddam Hussein in power and the ‘We Are All Hezbollah’ farce seem almost dignified and thought-through in comparison. When the National Union Of Journalists voted to boycott Israel, I wrote that it made me ashamed to be in the same profession as those behind the move.
But after this latest farce, I actually feel ashamed to be in the same species as Channel 4’s Dorothy Byrne and everyone else involved in putting this man on our televisions.
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I had completely forgotten I did this interview. Not surprising, really. Not only was it a year ago, but I’d also spent the weekend at Julie’s prior to this chat. I was still a little bit mashed as I did it. Method acting, one could say, given the subject matter! I love the OTT style of the show!
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Clark And Michael really has made me happy this year. I love it on so many levels: it reminds me of LA, where Chris and I honeymooned, it rings true on the highs and lows of pitching ideas to people, and it features the one and only Michael Cera who is glorious in every way.
The trailer for the series is below. You can watch all the episodes here.
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Below is a short video produced by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. It will be shown to young people in the run-up to the day itself in January. The video attempts to draw parallels between modern day bigotries and the bigotry that led to the Holocaust.
It’s mostly a well-produced effort with its heart in the right place. However, the scene that involves a Muslim woman being turned away from a school parents’ evening because she refuses to remove her burqa is perplexing, and its inclusion rather unpleasant. It doesn’t add up factually for a start. It is unlikely such a woman would have been allowed out of her house without a male ‘supervising’ her. And why is the woman of this scene prepared to give her piece to camera without a full burqa on?
The slogan of the video is ‘Stop The Hatred’. Well, the most immediate hatred these women face is the brutal misogyny of Islam.
In any case, it is obscene to attempt to make a comparison between an incident such as the parents’ evening one and the Kristallnacht which saw the murder of more than 90 Jews, the destruction of hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish homes and businesses, and led directly to the Holocaust and six million murdered Jews. To make such a comparison doesn’t increase public understanding of the Holocaust, it actively decreases it.
Indeed, to compare ‘Islamaphobia’ and anti-semitism on any level at all misses one vital point: when was the last time you heard of Jews flying planes into buildings in America, or blowing up tube trains in London, or school-buses in Israel, or torturing and murdering innocent people in India? When did you hear of Jews turning mentally-ill children into unwitting suicide bombers? Never. Neither is there an entrenched culture of tyranny, bullying, misogyny and enslavement in Judaism.
Nobody should be persecuted because of their religion. But let’s get this straight: the Holocaust was an entirely unprovoked bloodbath. ‘Islamaphobia’ is neither of these things.
I haven’t been watching Strictly Come Dancing at all. But I know that Rachel Stevens is in tonight’s final. I did a big feature with her a couple of years ago. I spent the best part of three days with her and she was absolutely wonderful throughout. We gossiped about Busted and Lemar backstage at Saturday Night With Ant & Dec, we strolled from bar to bar in Soho and giggled as a series of men more or less fell at her feet, we discussed which Arsenal players we fancied and we tittered about her pointy nipples. Oh yes, we even managed to squeeze in an interview and photo-shoot.
She’s lovely and I really hope she wins. I might even tune in!
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This is a friendly blog to share my passion for Israel. I'm not Jewish but I'm proud to support Israel and assist in the struggle against antisemitism.
