Off for a while

I'm going away for a couple of weeks, so no blogging. Meanwhile, here's some miscellany. In no order whatsoever: Qunfuz, an interesting blog; Slee on fighting fascists; Carl on Ethiopian Jewish students in Israel, on Sidney Webb and the Jews, and on chavs; a photo of the Battle of Lewisham by Syd Shelton; Mira asks if elites have failed; Weggis on the Green Party's coming of age; Bonna Devora Haberman's letter to Alice Walker; Flesh on the retreat of secular Britain; Sarah walking back to Srebernica; Matt replies to Pheobe on defining racism; Reuben at the bus stop; I Love You Christopher Hitchens, You Irritating Bastard; Amir Mir on white jihadis; George Monbiot on genocide belittlers; Walter Russell Mead on the hate that dares not speak its name; AWL on BDS and on Histadrut; Alan Johnson on Entebbe and the new left, and Ron Radosh on Alan Johnson; California's honkytonk history; Just Opinions on cults and politics; Terry Teachout on Tony Kushner; Rosie on the slimy fantastists who fight a "machine" that sounds all too familiar; Jim signs off - and on again? Apologies if I've already linked to any of these - I've been distracted lately.