Poor old Tom My Irish correspondent has been te…
Poor old Tom
My Irish correspondent has been telling me of the furore caused by TV arts pundit Tom Paulin. In an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly he describes the Israeli army as �Zionist SS� and says that Brooklyn-born settlers should be shot: “I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them.”
Paulin, an Ulsterman, a poet and professor of English at Oxford, is well-known in the UK for his role as Resident Fogey on the BBC�s middlebrow Newsnight Review programme. �Doesn�t he look like a tortoise?� is the constant refrain of viewers as the man winces and says of some arty-fact: �I hay-ted it.�
His attacks on �Racists� is nothing new. A few months ago he called the paratroopers who killed civilians on Bloody Sunday: �racist bastards!� and �thugs sent in by public school boys to kill innocent Irish people� (Not a controversial claim really; you have to be racist bastard to get into the British Army � Code 331XC, I think you�ll find).
Meanwhile, the Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahearn has been playing poodle to Dubya�s whiphand. An article in The Irish Times contrasts this with Venezuela�s President. I found the link to this on Narconews, which looks at the Venezuela scandal more closely.
Other SpikeMagazine.com posts of interest:
- Lee-on-the-Spree
- Proof, if proof be need be In England, �Irish� …
- What’s New On Spike - May 2006
- Battle of Kursk
- Oi!
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