hamas | the brilliantly leaping gazelle

October 4, 2025

33:64 presents “Heidi Fleiss.”

Whilst the fatal attack on the synagogue in Manchester was bad enough, the response to it of the media has been utterly duplicitous, brazenly shameless and hypocritically judgmental. Not that the media are alone in all of this. There’s enough guilt to be had so that everyone can have their share. Politicians, both within government and those aspiring to one day be in it. Charities, pressure groups and NGO’s. Organisations, sporting bodies and businesses.

Of course the ultimate blame for what happened lies with the man who did it. But it could be argued that had the media been just a bit less hasty in amplifying the lie that a genocide is happening in Gaza, never mind questioning who was claiming it, why were they doing so and if their claims were supported by any actual evidence, had they been a bit more sceptical in reporting the claims of the Hamas run Gaza Health Ministry, been even slightly critical of the failure of Gaza’s neighbour Egypt to open its border and allow Gazans to flee the war zone, or practiced due diligence before reporting as fact that Israel was not only deliberately targeting civilians but starving them as well, then possibly a disturbed mind might not have become a murderous one.

But since the 8th October 2023, most of the British media has become if not an uncritical outlet for Hamas propaganda, then certainly one that abandoned any pretence of impartiality. The result of two years of the ceaseless demonisation of Israel and by extension of that, a belief in some peoples minds that all Jews share a collective responsibility for Gaza, goes some way to explain Manchester.

But politicians are culpable also. They have not staunchly and robustly refuted the claims of the keffiyeh wearing fuckwits, have not called out the pro-palestinian protest marches for being the rabid anti-semitic grotesquery’s they are. The government has calculated that given the UK only has a Jewish population of less than 400,000, whilst the Muslim population is 10 times bigger and that a significant proportion of them will vote based on how pro-palestine and anti-Israel the government is.

Lesser political chancers, from the ex-has been – Corblimey, to the never will be – Raisin, can also spot an electoral opportunity, but as recent comedic revelations have highlighted, each has their own idea as to what that opportunity is. The Groans have, to no-ones shock, seen a passing bandwagon and jumped on it, attempting to create the impression that they can do more than telling us what we can’t do by also telling foreigners what they can’t do as well, as long as those foreigners are Israeli’s. The Non Dems have done something, but it probably needed a stunt involving a paddle board or a zip line before anyone took any notice.

Assorted charities, pressure groups and other vested interest parties gave done what charities, pressure groups and vested intent groups do; raise their profile, influence, status and funds by reinforcing what all of them say. Business’s prostitute their ‘ethical’ stance by proving that they don’t have one whilst sporting bodies imagine that should.

All have been complicit to varying degree’s of promoting, amplifying and legitimising an insidiously corrosive narrative, one that they seem to have no awareness of its ultimate manifestation. It’s like leaving matches, a few gallons of petrol and a flamethrower next to a house and then being surprised when someone torches it.

September 23, 2025

33:64 presents “Groucho Marx.”

A number of things have become clear to me following Stymied’s decision to recognise Palestine as a state. The simple version is that he’s a fucking idiot. The longer version is a bit more detailed than that; that he’s an opportunistic fucking idiot, a deluded fucking idiot and a dangerous fucking idiot, but basically a fucking idiot. However, I do get how further explanation might be needed why I think this.

He’s an opportunistic fucking idiot because he imagines himself to have to have committed an act of shrewd political self-interest. Unfortunately for him though, the the benefits upon which he’s counting on will prove to be illusory, counter-productive and politically fatal. He’s right to be concerned of the increasing threat posed to Labour in constituencies with a significant proportion of Muslim voters. If they can be effectively mobilised to vote in support of a pro Gaza platform, as five constituencies did last year, then what new horrors await in 2029?

He’ll be well aware of the maths. There are 37 constituencies with a Muslim population over 20 per cent, and in a further 73 seats the Muslim population is between 10 and 20 per cent. Labour’s vote fell by over 14 per cent at last year’s election from 2019 in those constituencies where the Muslim population was above 15 per cent. These numbers will be even worse in four years.

If he thinks that by recognising Palestine as a state, he’s nullified the risk posed by Corblimey, Raisin and the Boob Whisperer, to avoiding a calamitous general election in 2029, he’s more of a fucking idiot than I’d previously thought. He isn’t so much shaping events as reacting to them, and now that he’s proven himself to be the kind of man who others can bend to their will, they’ll make him do it again. Because if all of the marches, the demonstrations, the various types of old and new media bullshit, the angry letters signed by the usual bandwagoners, the performative protests outside Parliament and mass arrests can achieve this much, then what possible reason would there be to stop now? What other abominations can they force the government to commit?

He’s a deluded fucking idiot because if he thinks that because of him recognising Palestine as a state this somehow further enshrines his reputation as a man of influence on the world stage, he is mistaken. He’s more like stubborn effluent, which refuses to be properly flushed away and that everyone else see’s but is too polite to mention. He’s unaware that Britain is no longer the global power it once was, and is as able to direct events as an adulterer caught hiding naked from his mistress’s balcony has.

He’s also a dangerous fucking idiot because in recognising Palestine as a state, he’s effectively rewarded a genocidal death cult for being a genocidal death cult. Hummus don’t want a two state solution, because that would mean Israels continued existence, which as Hummus’s founding charter states and it has continued to reaffirm since, it actively wants to cease.

In so doing, he’s also added yet more weight to my charge of him being a dangerous fucking idiot. He has no idea of what will happen next and by that I mean no-one can even hazard a guess of what will follow. Will the Basque separatists restart their terror campaign for Catalan independence from Spain? Or will Quebec demand cessation from Canada? There are loads of provinces and states embedded in counties throughout the world that will see this as an opportunity to achieve their goal of independence.

There may not be the exact same set of circumstances as there are in Gaza, there may not be the same concerted international demands for action for action or even the same domestic political pressures on him, but once a door is opened it can be widened. So might the United Kingdom not be quite so united soon? If the SNP again renege on their ‘once in a lifetime’ bid for Scottish indigence, how soon after that will the Cornish do likewise? And how disunited would this kingdom have to be until London decided that it had had enough, decided that it had the power, the economy and a border (the M25) to go it alone. I know it seems far fetched, but so to did Palestinian statehood becoming a thing, a thing recognised by a permanent member of the UN Security Council up until a few days ago.

Stymied is essentially the political embodiment of the quip “Those are my principles and if you don’t them…well I have others.” My worry is that he doesn’t even know what they are until others or circumstances decide them for him.

May 18, 2025

34:63 presents “Yuval Raphael.”

If there’s one act that perfectly encapsulates the moral obscenity of the pro-palestinian ideology, then yesterdays attempt by two protesters to storm the stage during Israels performance in the Eurovision Song Contest is going to take some beating.

Yuval Raphael survived the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen at the Nova music festival. She hid under a pile of dead bodies for eight hours until she was rescued. But apparently her trauma wasn’t sufficiently traumatic. So despite having survived one act of unimaginable horror by having to commit another, her ordeal continues.

The two protesters will ever know how that day changed her life, and how much bravery it takes for a Jew to stand on a stage outside of Israel and represent Israel. Because they don’t care, their warped ideology doesn’t allow for there being any Jewish victims. In their world, the only victims are the Palestinian ones and the only ‘genocide’ being committed is the one by Israel. The fact that Hamas’ founding charter explicitly and repeatedly calls for the killing of all Jews, with the ultimate aim being the eradification of Israel itself, is something else.

What that something else is, however, doesn’t much matter really. When one’s world-view is shaped by social media posts, reinforced by their friends groupthink and bolstered by dubious ‘facts’ and biased ‘news’, when the concept of ‘my truth’ becomes a thing, it does so at the expense of objective truth.

Of course, this means that the Chinese State Circus can perform around the world with impunity, despite widespread evidence of human rights abuses by the Chinese government and allegations of a genocide of the Uyghur population. Perish the thought that because Beijing has takes a hard line with protesters – even outside China – that this informs peoples thinking.

And as a result of which, we get two protesters thinking their deranged understanding of things trumps Yuval Raphael’s lived reality. Because of course, when it comes to Israel, it is only a Palestinians lived reality that has any value.