Latest vigil – No 141 – is well attended
August 2026
Around 35 attended the latest vigil held in Salisbury’s market place and it is remarkable that they continue week after week. As we have said before, there is a mixture of people who come every week and those who turn up occasionally. Recognition is high and news of the terrible events in the region continue to appear on our screens and in the media.
The rising tide of settler violence achieved significant coverage last week even from the BBC which is extremely nervous of covering news from the area for familiar reasons. We noted a shift in attitudes in America in our last post and a forthright criticism by Mike Huckabee, the American ambassador, calling the settlers ‘Israeli terrorists’. This from a Zionist and Israeli apologist. What was important was not just the comment itself but that he felt able to make them.
Once again we note the absence of the Salisbury MP Mr John Glen who has never attended a vigil or ever mentioned them in his weekly column in the Salisbury Journal. 141 weeks of silence is a powerful message. He is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel along with around 140 other MPs.
Israeli support for violence and the lack of healthcare for Palestinians claimed
A distressing report in Haaretz discusses the attitude of many Israelis towards Palestinians and particularly their health care or rather lack of it. They report:
“The majority of Israel’s Jewish public supports the worsening conditions of Palestinian patients, caused by their inability to receive necessary treatments. This isn’t the finding of any pollster – no one includes in their surveys a question like, “Do you support the elimination of Palestinian public healthcare?
“Yet this conclusion is inevitable, considering the fact that Israel’s Ministry of Finance continues unimpeded to steal the Palestinian Authority’s income from taxes and customs. Those revenues are meant for medical treatments, medications, medical staff salaries and the maintenance and development of hospitals and clinics”.
The article describes the lack of condemnation by a wide range of Israeli organisations and the writer concludes:
“[…] With great pain, you have to conclude that, in the eyes of too many Jews in Israel, also the slow killing of Palestinians, simply because they are Palestinians, is a legitimate policy.”
Public opinion in Israel is important especially with elections imminent. The hard right politicians who support the destruction of Gaza, the increasing West Bank settler violence and the prevention of health care described in the article, are in the ascendant. If the article is right, it does not look as though there will be much in the way of pressure to change the political climate.
- Zoom meeting on the Uyghur campaign
- Podcast Episode: Xinjiang Forced Labour Campaign
- Slavery was abolished in 1807* – Not in Xinjiang
- Uyghur campaign progress
- Another vigil and is the mood changing in the US?
Photo: Courtesy of Peter Gloyns
Thought of becoming a supporter?
Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire 
The UN and ICJ only a talking doll of “International Voting Blocks” & Security Council “Great Powers” who wrestled to dominate the balance of power across the Middle East. Post Oct 7th slaughter of the last day of Chag Shmini Atzeret where Hamas & UNWRA slaughtered over 1200 Israelis which thereafter the UN and ICJ condemned Israel as guilty of war crimes!
Clearly the ’73 Yom Kippur War served as the model for the Oct 7th Hamas surprise attack. The UN “remembers” PM Sharon NOT for his post Oslo Accords unilateral withdrawal from Gaza which risked Jewish Civil War under the helm of criminal Olmert who took charge of the Kadima political party after Sharon forced to leave Likud – the revisionist party of Jabotinsky and Begin. The UN ignores the model established by PM Begin at the Camp David Accords where he made peace with President Sadat – later assassinated by his own people!
Goyim, specifically the UN permits Yasser Arafat to address the General Assembly with a pistol strapped to his waist! The blood libel where Arafat slandered the Jewish State – now labelled ‘Greater Israel’ – this trash talk acceptable to condemn the Jewish scape-goat Israel! Alas UN and ICJ condemnations of Israel ignores that only Israel, specifically under the leadership of PM Begin gave the Sinai back to Egypt – the major pre-condition that President Sadat demanded in order for him to sign the Camp David Accords. The UN & ICJ ignores the risks of Israeli Civil War where Olmert’s brutal incompetence took the nation to the brink! The UN & ICJ slander Israel as ‘baby killers’ & bemoan the water famine across the Middle East, which has perhaps – more than even wars to exterminate the Jews/Oct7th – sowed chaos and anarchy across Middle Eastern nation-states! The UN & ICJ scape-goat Israel with condemnation after repeated condemnation and ignore the blessing Israel offers all States in the Middle East concerning water security.
Hamas dug tunnels straight under UNRWA buildings including hospitals (most of which Israel built in the first place!). The UN show trial of Israel did not require a “conviction”, the reactionary press jumped on the ball. The UN thereafter raises its hands and declares “our hands are clean”! But actions have their consequences. The coward UN and ICJ so conveniently ignore this cold as steel fact. Goyim addicted to slander throughout the bloody histories of the Christ-Killer & Nakba Allah passion religions.
Do not accept your unproven poo pooing of strong comparisons, based upon the model: “Easier to be a critic than a playwright.” Clearly the UN unified in its repeated condemnation of Israel by both voting blocks in the General Assembly, many of whom do not hold diplomatic relations with Israel and SC wanna-be ‘great powers’ like England and France. The history of Christ-Killer Europe and Allah Nakba Islam of employing Jews as convenient scape-goats obviously pre-dates the post WWII created UN. LOL You miss the point of Begin’s decision to return the Sinai! Sharon based his unilateral withdrawal from Gaza upon the same premise. The UN slanders the decisions made by both leaders of Israel as “Land for Peace” – bull shit.
PM Begin returned the Sinai because the Jewish state during the first and second Republics never included Sinai as land ruled by those ancient Jewish Republics! Hence PM Sharon followed this model and agreed to give the PA enough rope to hang itself! PM Sharon unilaterally withdrew from Gaza.
Bibi resigned from the Sharon Likud coalition and this forced a new election; PM Sharon forced to establish the Kadima party – won the mandate to withdraw from Gaza, and suffered a brain stroke! After Oct 7th 2023 the Likud opposition led by Bibi proven correct! During the brink of Israeli civil war my moving company moved Jewish families out of Gaza! I opposed the Bibi led opposition to PM Sharon.
LikeLike