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 2543181315
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 08/11/2023The collective determination to ignore this is a catastrophe for the Palestinians, of course. But once they've finished exacting their revenge, it's hard to see how Israel emerges from this with any kind of safe or secure future 000
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 08/11/2023And this is about vengeance, not security: until very recently it was a thoroughly uncontroversial position that massive violence can't solve political problems, that force in fact makes it harder to establish lasting solutions 100
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 · 07/11/2023For conservatives it's not about commemorating the horrors of war any more (they're pretty comfortable with war after all): instead it's the closest thing they have to a national day 000
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
John Foster @johnfoster.bsky.social · 10/10/2023Yes I thought long and hard about my first post here 000
