John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I wasn't previously aware of this: Theodor Herzl explicitly using the antemuralis christianitatis argument to support the colonization of Palestine (from Rashid Khalidi's Hundred Years' War, p.10) 010
Reposted by John FosterKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14/10/2024the sheer refusal of those in power to see tragedy authored with American weapons as not just a stain that can never be washed out but even an error and a tragedy that the US could stop facilitating at any moment is exhausting, bleak, damning. It does not have to be this way, this is a chosen hell. 0385109
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 24/02/2024Interesting choice of phrase in the Guardian, about Galloway and Rochdale 010
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 19/11/2023Sonia Sodha has not called for a ceasefire in Gaza 010
Reposted by John FosterPessimus Prime @pessimusprime.bsky.social · 30/10/2023Cabin crew: Is there a Dr on board? Me: I am a Dr Cabin crew: Thank God. We have a question about the 18th century textile trade in Northern Africa Me: Ah. I'm afraid my PhD is in the ceramics of Northern Europe, 1672 - 1701 2543191315
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 08/11/2023 When people say that Israel has the right or obligation to respond to Hamas, what they mean is that Hamas's atrocities on 7 October were so extreme that extreme vengeance is permissible 100
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 07/11/2023The fury on the Right at the notion that a Palestine protest might coincide with Remembrance Sunday is just further proof that it's become an expression of British nationalism above all else 100
