Kernow Damo

Right, so one day, an Iranian diplomat was walking through Manhattan, minding his own business, when he encountered the mayor of the Israeli city of Bat Yam, who started following him down the street with a lawsuit no less, acting for all intents and purposes like a Middle Eastern knock-off of Dog the Bounty Hunter, just minus the mullet and the mace. Why? Well, it’s a story of peak hubris, quite...

Right, so Andy Burnham wants to lead Britain into a brave new era, but his idea of leading seems to be to outsource strategy to the worst possible consultants. Evidently his own team don’t have a clever ideal between them, so we have to pay someone else to do the thinking for them apparently. But hiring the consultancy whose people planned to turn Gaza into a private theme park and waterfront geta...

Right, so, Iran says it’s brought down two American LUCAS attack drones largely intact, using electronic warfare instead of shooting them to bits, and in the pictures released, an Iranian soldier casually props his boot on one of them, as if he’s just bagged himself a particularly slow-moving pheasant. American military hardware. Under an Iranian boot. Whoops-a-daisy. Now, the IRGC Navy claim is t...

Right, so left wing French opposition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has promised to send in the French navy to protect Gaza flotillas if he wins next year’s presidential election, and Israel’s ambassador to France has wasted no time slapping the fascism label all over him on him like it’s a Black Friday flash sale. First come, first served. No refunds. For anyone preparing to sail on the next Flotilla...

Right, so the London Assembly has managed to muster nineteen votes to three to condemn the Greens for their "Zionism is Racism" policy, warning that it risks fuelling antisemitism. And yet after weeks of attacks over this policy, the Greens are still heading upwards in the polls, have dared to gain three points in the Opinium poll which dropped yesterday. Clearly, the public did not get the memo t...

Right, so Spain has decided to cut ties with Israeli military technology. But when they start considering what they would have to cut off, the announcement has turned out to be quite pricey for them. This is the bigger issue behind the recent Spanish train-crash saga. The supply chain in Spain goes beyond the railway, including planes, missiles, and firms like PAP Tecnos, the Spanish affiliate of...

Right, so fifteen days in Thailand. One visit. Then kindly jog on. That is the welcome Sondhi Limthongkul, a prominent Thai media figure and political campaigner, now wants for Israeli tourists, reported after a Phuket rally on 31 October. And separately from that, but still south-east Asia, Malaysia’s prime minister has raised concerns involving Phuket in parliament’s discussion of national secur...

Right, so Labour’s supposedly terrifying threat to blow up Sheffield’s administration because their Green partners had dared to make party policy something you might have heard a bit about in the news called Zionism Is Racism, called such, because of course it very much is. Well the threats have sputtered out with all the menace of a damp sparkler, and now Andy Burnham’s crew are busy shaking thei...

Right, so Netanyahu’s bloc has lost its majority, both Arab-led alliances have now backed his rival, and yet he’s still sitting in the prime minister’s chair. The parties recommending former army chief Gadi Eisenkot hold 67 seats, according to Anadolu and The Times of Israel. Netanyahu’s outgoing bloc won 53. Those recommendations aren’t a government agreement, but they have created the possibilit...

Right, so two pro-Israel organisations want the Supreme Court to keep Palestine Action banned. One is the Community Security Trust, or CST, a charity providing security and advice to Jewish communities in Britain. The other is the Jewish Leadership Council, or JLC, an umbrella body bringing together major British Jewish organisations. Part of their case is that the ban protects Jewish people. Then...

Right, so on the morning of the American elections, Trump appeared on Fox, doing his best impression of a man who understands foreign policy, to explain why shovelling cash to Israel was suddenly no longer a good political idea. By the end of the night, his party had managed to lose Congress, and Netanyahu’s rivals quickly pounced on the defeat and criticised the prime minister for relying too muc...

Right, so Andy Burnham’s Labour is breaking up council partnerships with the Greens over Israel. Eleven English councils caught in a national ultimatum: publicly reject your party’s policy declaring Zionism racist, and call for it to be reconsidered, or Labour ends cooperation. Apparently, keeping a council running now requires passing an ideological entrance exam set in Westminster therefore. Bur...

Right, so Donald Trump has won his war with Iran. According to Donald Trump that is. The fighting stopped months ago, everybody can relax, and if Americans could remember to thank him at the ballot box today, that would be just lovely. Then came reports of American strikes on Qeshm Island. Followed by American officials explaining military operations that had been kept quiet and that have actually...

Right, so on 31 October, people gathered outside the town hall in Lavrio and marched against the sale of their port. Among the companies bidding for control of said port you see was a certain Israel Shipyards Industries you see, a military shipbuilder seeking 51% of the port authority. What the protesters were demanding was that their government stop it, because for the people living around this w...

Right, so the internet's latest whodunit is spinning out a tale of possible Israeli involvement in the recent Spanish rail crash, and so much so, the demands for Israeli influence and involvement in Spain’s rail industry have returned to the fore. The railway workers of Spain are trying to reinstate their old demand to kick out the Israeli-affiliated security contractor you see. According to La Vo...

Right, so Zack Polanski’s old leadership rival has gone on the BBC to warn that the Green Party is heading in the wrong direction. Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader whom members decisively rejected in last year’s leadership election, and the human equivalent of magnolia paint now wants their chosen leader to change course. Apparently an election he lost has come with an advisory role one year la...

Right, so, the Chief Rabbi of Thailand is no longer welcome in Thailand, where Chabad runs its centres, and where Yosef Chaim Kantor, the head of Chabad, has been keeping half the Thai bureaucracy up at night with his Israeli connections. Kantor, an American-born rabbi who has been working there for more than thirty years, has now been declared persona non grata. When Prime Minister Anutin Charnvi...

Right, so campaigners have taken the revolt against Israel’s arms supply to the gates of Tilbury docks. They’re asking British port workers to join an international campaign to stop weapons reaching Israel. A solidarity event was also advertised at Liverpool’s Albert Dock. The International Transport Workers’ Federation announced strikes and demonstrations across more than a hundred ports in seven...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents have spent this election trying to get rid of him. I cannot imagine why. The votes come in, his bloc falls short of a majority, and Palestinian parties emerge with enough seats to help put someone else in office. You might think that would be welcome news in the opposition camp. Hmm not so much. They’d have to talk to the Palestinians you see, and God forbi...

Right, so, Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat to Serbia’s student-backed movement in their recent elections. And while people were celebrating in Belgrade, the result left Benjamin Netanyahu with a nasty little problem: his Balkan ammunition supplier was heading for a change of management. Nobody has announced that the weapons supplies are stopping. But according to Defence News’s report out tod...

Right, so when I last covered Israel’s growing problem in Thailand, officials were investigating Chabad House in Patong, a Jewish religious and community centre in Phuket. There were questions about the building, how parts of it were being used and the business arrangements associated with it. Since then, the scrutiny has reached Bangkok. On 8 October, investigators searched three locations and fo...

Right, so the Green Party debated whether Zionism is racism, put it to a vote, and adopted that position as party policy. Members had their say. Conference made its decision. But Norwich’s Green leadership has publicly opposed it. Shame on them, who knew they only felt that party policy and member led decisions were advisory, and now a Green councillor who played a significant role in getting that...

Right, so Israel is about to get a shipping headache that not even a truckload of paracetamol can fix, as organisers gleefully announce that dockworkers plan to throw a spanner in the works at over 100 ports across 17 countries and four continents on Friday, 30 October. USB union, also the world's busiest event planner, has released the figures. Not every port will close; some will limp along, whi...

Right so The Board of Deputies of British Jews has slapped the Greens with a big red ‘racist’ label – quite literally - and Greens for Palestine, along with a great many commentators have responded by hauling the Board’s own dirty knickers up the flagpole for everyone to admire. “Laughable and disgusting,” says G4P. Now, there’s a reason this response goes straight for the organisation making the...

Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu’s former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman is demanding a treason investigation, accusing Bibi of trying to drag Israel into war to escape an electoral defeat, and the man reportedly challenging Netanyahu’s instructions is his own army chief, Eyal Zamir. Israel votes tomorrow. Netanyahu’s bloc is short of a majority in the final polls we’re looking at, and he’s spent...