Author Jude Collins

The Israeli embassy in South Korea has removed a video showing an imaginary scenario in which Koreans are attacked by masked assailants in Seoul, a reference to Hamas, Seoul’s foreign ministry said today. In ways you can see why they’d do it. The Israeli embassy in South Korea put up the video on Facebook, with […]

    The very first broadcast of “White Christmas” was on 25th December 1941, three days before I was born. I don’t remember the broadcast nor the day II was born. I can though remember my 3rd Birthday, apple pie and the present of a toy aeroplane, which my brother told me  was a four-engined […]

Clearly, Netanyahu believes in the god of vengeance and punishment. He once quoted the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiastes ‘there is a time for war’.  He and his Zionist government are pursuing a policy of genocide in Gaza. Already, Netanyahu’s army has killed over 21, 000 Palestinians in Gaza in their stated aim of destroying […]

         Leo Varadkar is a big man with a big job to do. In this post-Christmas phase, one big part of that big job is immigration. In today’s Irish Times, we’re told,  there are “far-right myths” about migration that must be addressed ‘as it will be the big issue of 2024’.   […]

BY AZHAAR AMAYREH             DECEMBER 23, 2023  from Mondoweiss It seems almost assured we will not survive the bombings directed at us from every direction. If we don’t, I hope someone will appreciate and comprehend the hell my child and I went through in our last days. PALESTINIANS GATHER WITH POTS TO RECEIVE FOOD AT A DONATION POINT […]

    The Dublin government is taking the British government to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)  in an attempt to thwart Britain’s Legacy Bill, which aims to stop all inquiries into violent events during the Troubles. But if they were successful, does anybody believe that the IRA or the UDA, not to mention […]

I’ve commented on this book before, and the moral compass of its author, whom I regard as a humbug.   Nurse Edith Cavell, was written into the Church of England Calendar of Saints shortly after her death at the hands of a German firing squad in Belgium in 1915.    It was reckoned that the […]

Should it be against the law to assist someone in dying? What about if they’re in terrible pain? And if a heart-broken partner, perfectly healthy, wants to go with them, should you assist that? If you favour a united Ireland, do you secretly delight in the fact that NEI is something of a basket case? […]

      Within about two weeks of Bloody Sunday in Derry (30th January 1972), Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Wilford, commander of the 1st Battalion of Britain’s Parachute Regiment, was awarded by his Sovereign with an Order of Chivalry.   Some 38 years later Lord Saville found that Wilford had disobeyed orders and Prime Minister David Cameron […]

      The 1916 Insurgents ensured that no inhabitants of any of the 32 counties of Ireland would  be subject to conscription into an armed institution.  Nearly one hundred and eight years later the inhabitants remain free of such an imposition.   Not only hundreds of thousands of Irish lives have thus been spared […]