Jude Collins

.To be alone on a beachIs better than being in a vast crowdNeither speaking, or listening in turn.Civil Rights is a shared experience.A dialogue, between equals.Not a war, between peopleWho only seek inequalityFor their enemy.My fear is thatThe old hunger for a united IrelandIs not a search for equality.At present it is only an ambitionBased […]

    It’s a fault within us. Part of our culture. To only see the small crack Within the pane of glass But not see the window. To never see the window frame The window and rarely the view. Trapped in the detail. That’s us, a bunch of fuss pots.   We are mean that […]

So – the Christmas spirit has descended (maybe) on Gaza – a truce has been declared. It better swing into place quickly, because Israel has killed well over 100 Palestinians since it was called. It will start on Sunday. Or maybe Monday. But what’s 50 or 100 extra deaths in Gaza? In an article today, […]

So peace has broken out in the Middle East. Israel is taking a rest from its genocidal exertions, although according to the BBC,  ‘the  Israel-Palestine war’ is suspended. Sometimes fake efforts to suggest that Hamas has been an equal opponent over the last 15 months verge on the delusional.   Will this transform the Middle […]

As Fianna Fail and Fine Gael assemble their government with the handful of ‘independent’ TDs, I find myself remembering a distinction someone once drew for me between a lunatic and an idiot. The word ‘lunatic’ comes from the Latin word ‘lunaticus’, meaning someone moonstruck or with their thoughts affected by the moon; the word ‘idiot’ […]

I’ve just received this short video. It gives a nice insight into Israeli lies…

This morning I hear that the British government may have to give compensation to Gerry Adams, among others, for unlawful imprisonment back in the days of Long Kesh. On BBC Radio 4’ ‘Today’ programme the presenter pressed his guest on this issue, as though the inclusion of Gerry Adams in compensation would prove how stupid […]

Will the Lebanese Army become the new Palestinian Authority? I ask this question in good faith as we witness the appointment of the head of the Lebanese army as the 14th President of Lebanon. The Lebanese army is ranked 118 out of 125 counties listed, with 73,000 volunteers, 70,000 in the Army 1,500 in the […]

    Let us pause on the bridge Before we cross over. And let us see the moving waters And what they conjure up for us. Silvery ripples and shining reflections Upon ourselves and the golden dreams Of who we might become. Beyond the gun, the fear  And the bully dog’s jaw.   And when […]

Sir,   Having read The Lancet’s latest shocking report in The Guardian on the revised numbers of civilian causalities in Gaza, it’s very reasonable to ask why the TV news media in particular have barely mentioned it at all; in stark.contrast to its current saturation coverage of the raging fires in California, which  are relatively […]