20 Apr 2020

Jewish Land Theft Project 'Israel' Invaded Bethlehem Again Assaulted Gentile Toddlers And Arrested Journalism Student!

Jewish Israel death forces IDF "typically raid [o little town of] Bethlehem multiple times a week and sometimes nightly.”
By Akram al-Wa’ara: When the front door of his family’s house blew open, 25-year-old Tamer Laham couldn’t believe his eyes.
A group of Israeli soldiers, some wearing masks, gloves and personal protective equipment, stormed into his apartment, while dozens of others patrolled the hallway, roof and street outside.
The soldiers went straight into the room of his brother, Ramiz, 23.
“They checked his ID, used a thermal scanner to check if he had a fever, and told him to get dressed,” Tamer told The Electronic Intifada. He was speaking outside his family’s home in Dheisheh, the largest of three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.
While some soldiers monitored the family, the rest of the group began ransacking their home, leaving no piece of furniture unturned.

Identity Politics In The Age Of Trump

By Dr. Paul Nathanson: I usually describe myself as “apolitical,” because I reject the notion that all of human history amounts to nothing more, and nothing less, than an enduring struggle for power. It’s true that power is the defining but morally neutral feature of politics per se, a universal feature of human life, but ideologues go further than that by adding profound dualism and cynicism. They care not so much about power in a general philosophical sense but about the sinister power of particular groups, which they define according to innate characteristics. This leads them directly to the conspiracy theory of history, according to which “they” stole power from “us” at the dawn of time and used it to “oppress” this or that “marginalized voice” ever since.
I refuse to make “power” the central word in my philosophical vocabulary, let alone to adopt an ideological one. And yet I do sometimes find it necessary to comment on politics in the narrow sense of that word, party politics, along with its cultural and historical matrix. It is hard to avoid this topic, the manipulation of cultural (and other forms of) power, in this age of perpetual news coverage and ubiquitous “social media.”

Peter Hitchens - COVID-19 lockdown

John Anderson: Peter Hitchens is one of the few public figures who is prepared to raise a dissenting voice in order to question the wisdom and validity of the extreme actions democratic governments are taking around the world to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Even if you disagree with him, we should nevertheless be grateful that we still (for now) live in a society where he is at relative liberty to raise that voice.

The Morality Of Lockdown

'The lockdown would appear to fail the Categorical Imperative test.'
By MRA-UK: I had not intended to regale you with these off-topic thoughts. But it turns out they are not so very off-topic after all.
Whilst many people seem to believe that the only thing wrong with the UK Government’s response to Covid-19 was failure to implement the lockdown soon enough and rigorously enough, others are beginning to question whether the lockdown is justified at all.
The issue is inescapably a moral one: it is, after all, a question of taking action (or not) to save lives.
I have touched on moral issues before in The Categorical Imperative and in Alinsky for Insiders. The observations I make here are related, especially to the moral infantilism hypothesised in the latter.
Many decisions, both personal and political, involve moral dilemma. Guidance exists for how to go about addressing moral dilemmas. Leaving aside religious authority, the most well-known are,