tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post4096406884745412051..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: He Defended Accused Terrorists For 35 Years. Now He’s BackAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6891927980236308902018-10-30T21:53:03.301+00:002018-10-30T21:53:03.301+00:00Barry - not yet. We had a problem before getting o...Barry - not yet. We had a problem before getting one of your pieces on abortion through. Let me know via a comment not for publication what email address you are using.AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-73176466832279200112018-10-30T19:13:38.304+00:002018-10-30T19:13:38.304+00:00AM
Did you get my piece btw?
Any issues with it ...AM<br /><br />Did you get my piece btw?<br /><br />Any issues with it just email me.<br /><br />Your decision to publish it.<br /><br />Was hoping that City would drop points at that excuse of a pitch last night>Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-89911451774298199762018-10-30T09:06:38.458+00:002018-10-30T09:06:38.458+00:00Barry - how possibly could we agree with some of t...Barry - how possibly could we agree with some of the people defended here?!! We defend them because they inhabit a crucial societal space while acknowledging they can pollute the same space. I could not possibly agree with Jamie Bryson but he is as entitled to his view as the next person and equal treatment within the NUJ. I have no doubt he would defend me as well in a similar situation. John AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-86112002104139770382018-10-30T08:46:34.054+00:002018-10-30T08:46:34.054+00:00Anthony
Thanks for those kind words. I admire you...Anthony<br /><br />Thanks for those kind words. I admire your courage and tenacity in fighting for freedom of speech and the defence of journalist ethics even if I do not agree with some the scribes defended. It is the right to practice their craft not the words they write that matter.<br /><br />What I like about TPQ is the safe space (if those words do not grate; I feel another discussion Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-26521340812022215852018-10-30T08:19:45.914+00:002018-10-30T08:19:45.914+00:00Barry - some interesting points above not that I a...Barry - some interesting points above not that I agree with them. But I always admire the spirit that can stand up and stand over their own thoughts whatever they are and not use the shield of a moniker. AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-69993433104801996202018-10-30T08:18:36.075+00:002018-10-30T08:18:36.075+00:00Barry - I will find out from my wife later. She ha...Barry - I will find out from my wife later. She handles all of that. I am not in the remotest teccie. But it is the channel where you get the first six months for 20 a month and then it goes up to 40 a month after that. It is not every Liverpool game I get to see because sometimes they have another match featuring. <br /><br />AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-9752752524660592422018-10-29T22:45:10.557+00:002018-10-29T22:45:10.557+00:00AM
Which channel? Presumably not one available i...AM<br /><br />Which channel? Presumably not one available in the UK during the "black out hours" between 2.45 and 5.15pm.Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-70707411250606890652018-10-29T20:25:44.863+00:002018-10-29T20:25:44.863+00:00Only a child or a complete lunatic would defend Bu...Only a child or a complete lunatic would defend Bush,Clinton and the CIA as some sort of upstanding but misguided individuals and institution.Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-6237980850134274582018-10-29T20:06:10.607+00:002018-10-29T20:06:10.607+00:00Barry - Sky Sports channelBarry - Sky Sports channelAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-89087211105114269632018-10-29T16:14:17.561+00:002018-10-29T16:14:17.561+00:00Anthony
You are entitled to your reading of the h...Anthony<br /><br />You are entitled to your reading of the history of Palestine and the Arab/Israeli conflict and to express it just as I am entitled to mine and to articulate it I see no further point is pursuing this debate any further as the issue only generates rancour and breakdowns of friendships as I have found out too often. <br /><br />All I have to say is that legitimate criticism of Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90869016177414144932018-10-29T14:12:32.144+00:002018-10-29T14:12:32.144+00:00Barry - I wonder had the UN been able to foresee t...Barry - I wonder had the UN been able to foresee the aberration it was approving, might it have gone ahead. It simply sanctioned a state fashioned from the theft of Arab lands. If it was not a racist state in 1948 it looks very like one today. A recent UN report found that Israel was an apartheid state. Even if that report is incorrect in its conclusions, the authors can hardly be labelled AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-90956485007139956342018-10-29T09:35:34.421+00:002018-10-29T09:35:34.421+00:00Anthony
I guess we will have to agree to disagree...Anthony<br /><br />I guess we will have to agree to disagree on the existence of the State of Israel which came into being as a result of a vote by the UN General Assembly. To my knowledge this body does not usually assent to bringing racist states into existence. Let us hope that the same body will someday assent to an independent Palestinian state. I support a two state solution based on Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-68631742459538575462018-10-29T07:38:24.408+00:002018-10-29T07:38:24.408+00:00Barry, it is not anti-Semitic to oppose the existe...<br />Barry, it is not anti-Semitic to oppose the existence of the Israeli state – that is a propaganda device designed to delegitimise criticism of a terrible injustice. Hundreds of millions of people believe the setting up of the state of Israel was a gross violation of justice. Are they anti-Semitic for believing that? Denying the Holocaust is anti-Semitic but not opposing the creation of the AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-15111919503091539392018-10-29T00:22:49.145+00:002018-10-29T00:22:49.145+00:00AM
I would never state that criticisms of the Isr...AM<br /><br />I would never state that criticisms of the Israeli state and its actions is antisemitic.<br /><br />What is antisemitic is opposition to the existence of the State of Israel and a weapon in its delegitimation that is used by its opponents is invocation of Nazi crimes against the Jews as a weapon against Israel e.g. comparison of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto and use of the epithet "Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-44972011193961344872018-10-28T22:29:05.432+00:002018-10-28T22:29:05.432+00:00Barry,
It is not a form of anti-Semitism at all. ...Barry,<br /><br />It is not a form of anti-Semitism at all. It is confronting the Israeli state with the hypocrisy of its actions. A state that was supposedly borne of the need to protect people from mass murder in now engaging in it. <br /><br />Not are we bound by the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s of what is or is not anti-Semitism. The Holocaust was not unique. There was a AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-56601768867138682862018-10-28T20:55:07.766+00:002018-10-28T20:55:07.766+00:00AM
The point I am making about antisemitism is th...AM<br /><br />The point I am making about antisemitism is that making comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany is a from of modern antisemitism and is explicitly cited as such in the International Holocaust Remembrance Association's definition of it. It is not comparing like with like because of the unique crime of the Holocaust.<br /><br />No, I never said that murder perpetrated by Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-4445337291362601582018-10-28T17:59:43.690+00:002018-10-28T17:59:43.690+00:00Barry - why is comparing like with like anti-Semit...Barry - why is comparing like with like anti-Semitic? War criminals are all pigs from the same sow. The war crimes of Hamas pale into insignificance compared to the war crimes of Israel. Are you telling us that because a democratic government decides to murder it is better than a non democratic government deciding to murder? Were the war crimes of British Bomber Command against German civilians AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-56430930598629811192018-10-28T17:46:58.212+00:002018-10-28T17:46:58.212+00:00Without defending every action of the Clinton and ...Without defending every action of the Clinton and Bush administrations, there can be no parallel in criminal law between actions taken after due deliberation in a democracy and those of a genocidal organisation such as Hamas dedicated to the eradication of the State of Israel and its Jewish population by an Islamist theocracy (check its Founding Charter of 1988).<br /><br />Arguing that because Barry Gilheanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220262677398695734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-4413391561250276662018-10-28T12:18:35.671+00:002018-10-28T12:18:35.671+00:00Seeing as he's fond of Hamas and the bin laden...Seeing as he's fond of Hamas and the bin laden clan then it could be argued he's merely a front for the CIA.Wolfe tonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240967708414139476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-8713228889086109182018-10-27T22:51:43.634+01:002018-10-27T22:51:43.634+01:00Mr Cohen may have defended some lowlifes but I won...Mr Cohen may have defended some lowlifes but I wonder will he ever have to go as low as defending Clinton, Bush etc, the misery these bastards caused makes all his other clients look like petty criminals,martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814904389826171437noreply@blogger.com