Jude Collins

  Chris Donnelly has noted how the First Minister/Deputy First Minister titles were fine and  dandy until the First Minister-in-waiting turned out to be a republican, at which point a Westminster committee hastily urged joint First Ministers. If I recall correctly, Martin McGuinness argued for that change and the DUP wouldn’t hear of it. Do […]

  While humanity calls for a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on the innocent in Gaza , what we must call for is an end not just to the violence but an end to the underlying causes of that violence, which is the apartheid Zionist state.   Even before the state of Israel was established […]

  A Westminster committee has recommended that we stop having a First Minister and a Deputy First Minister, and have simply two joint First Ministers.  Now why would they make a suggestion like that, and make it now? And should we go along with it? The good Lord John Alderdice did an interview with the […]

To understand what Joe Biden is thinking, it is worth reviewing presidentialhistory, to remind ourselves how significant the Israel lobby is as a force. Afew key moments:–Truman overrode his own State Department and his own opposition to theidea of a religious state to back Israel’s establishment and then turn a blindeye to its expansions. John […]

At Thanksgiving, a friend took me aside and said, “How does Israel get awaywith this? They are wiping these people out, you can see it before your eyes.But people here are losing their jobs if they say anything against it on socialmedia. Health care workers have lost their jobs at hospitals.”My friend is not alone. The upside […]

  It’s amazing the things you hear if you watch TV.  I’ve just come from watching the first part of RTÉ’s The Week in Politics. There were a number of politicians in the Dublin studio with Aine Lawlor, among them   Martin Kenny the Sinn Féin TD, and on the wall there was a big-screen link-up […]

 Last night was a lively night in Derry’s Guildhall. Once the bastion of unionism in Derry, last night it was the McArt bastion, as Pat launched his book to a hall lan go doras – full to the door. I’d like to feel a reflection of the success, but McArt is keeping it ALL TO […]

  Call it what you will, a truce, a humanitarian ceasefire, a pause , in reality it is a defeat for the Zionist apartheid regime.   After nearly 50 days of laying waste to the civilian infrastructure and civilian lives in Gaza , through a campaign of indiscriminate carpet bombing of civilian residential areas  , […]

                    I suppose when you find yourself up a very smelly creek, you take assistance from anyone willing to give it to you.  And so no doubt Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is doing little somersaults and hand-stands of celebration when word came through that former Home Secretary Priti Patel has denounced the EU […]

                                        What is Israel trying to do? Apart from commit war crimes and engage in genocide in Gaza? They have pounced on a sentence by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on Emily Hand, where he referred to the relief that young Emily was ‘lost and now is found’.  Israel’s foreign minister Eli Cohen claims Leo […]