Patrick MaddenA blind man chatters onEven while they cook the planet and drain the aquifers, there may be one way in which Large Language Models are genuinely useful: as a kind…Jun 13Jun 13
Patrick MaddenMuch ado about the painting of Lord BalfourA question for Westerners: why we are concerned about the destruction of de László’s painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College?Mar 10Mar 10
Patrick MaddenDisguised Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians in hospital bedsAnother day, another Israeli war crime.Jan 30Jan 30
Patrick MaddenWestern media have declined to publish this op-ed by Hamas leader Moussa Abu MarzoukI have copy-pasted this wholesale from Media Review Network, where it was published on 27 January 2024.Jan 301Jan 301
Patrick MaddenDissent to the Balfour Declaration, 1922“What we have done is, by concessions, not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, to start a running sore in the East, and…Dec 9, 2023Dec 9, 2023
Patrick MaddenResponse to Branko Brkic on Blaming Hamas for the Gaza GenocideDear Mr Brkic,Dec 8, 20231Dec 8, 20231
Patrick MaddenWesterners might finally be waking up from collective denial about IsraelDaniel Levy did an interview on Middle East Eye and this short clip has been doing the rounds. I’m going to quote an even shorter excerpt…Nov 23, 2023Nov 23, 2023
Patrick MaddenThought Crimes: Hamas is a legitimate anti-colonial resistance movementSome of the most radical and decisive shifts in my personal understanding of the Palestinian struggle against Israel came after attending…Nov 18, 2023Nov 18, 2023
Patrick MaddenThoughts on both-sidesism about Israel/Palestine in October 2023Let us take as an assumption that the perspective of colonialism is an informative one for understanding the ‘Israel-Palestine Conflict’ —…Oct 19, 2023Oct 19, 2023
Patrick MaddenBecause look at Venezuela“He’s a huge admirer of that Venezuelan chap… Chavez, wasn’t it? Corbyn wants to nationalise the railroads, nationalise everything, just…Feb 4, 2018Feb 4, 2018
