Okay, this is important. A witch hunt is currently underway against those who oppose Israel's

hideous assault on Gaza, who opposed the mass death and maiming of thousands of innocent people,

the collective punishment, the siege, the force removal of civilian populations, the mass

destruction of civilian infrastructure, the bringing of a health care system to the brink of collapse.

Indeed, against those who believe there will never be a lasting peace, which protects both

Arabs and Jews alike, until there is justice for a Palestinian people who've suffered the

longest belligerent occupation in modern times, colonisation, the theft of their land, in favour

of illegal settlements, a partied as defined by human rights organisations in Israel and the

West, we could go on. Now, cancel culture, we've heard that term bandied around a lot, haven't we?

And in response to this video, a lot of, I would describe the usual suspects, that's called

in that shall we, will go, hold on a minute, I think you said cancel culture doesn't actually

exist. Well, let's be clear, we've always had an attempt in rich countries to silence and

intimidate those who either challenge the interests of the wealthy or who challenge the foreign

policy of their establishments or indeed both. Now, most are at least aware of McCarthyism in the

United States, that was the late 40s and early 50s at the beginning of the Cold War, in which those

accused of being communists, rightly or wrongly, often they just had a progressive disposition,

had their reputations and indeed lives ruined. And that helps, for example, neutralise the

power of organised labour in the United States. That was actually known as the second red scare at

the time, because the first came after Russia's October revolution, in which we had violent police

repression, arrests, mass deportations. Why do I just give that context? Because this has always

happened throughout history, and it's often erased in terms of what actually happened, I suppose.

Now, we often hear about cancel culture today, often that simply refers to famous people with

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