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Talking about Mordechai Vanunu on the set of Hamghesse

In August 2016 I had the privilege to travelling to Iran to be featured in an episode of ‘Hamghesse’ (which means ‘stories’ in Farsi). You can read my reflections on the trip as a whole in my blog (here). What … Continue reading

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Suffering does not make a person more religious (A sermon on Luke 24:13-49).

There is a view of religion – a cynical view – that interprets all religious stories and dogma as attempts to escape the cruelty of this world by imagining that things were different. I read George Orwell’s classic, ‘Animal Farm’, … Continue reading

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Nuclear Hero’s Crime Was Making Us Safer by Daniel Ellsberg

Nuclear whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu, was arrested again on New Year’s Eve by Israeli Police.  His crime this time was meeting with his Norwegian girlfriend! The deafening silence over Morde’s re-arrest will illustrates the West’s double-standard when it comes to nuclear … Continue reading

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A Report On My Recent Arrest – Mordechai Vanunu

Last Friday again the Israel authorities use their power to arrest me, but this time they put me back in prison for 2 days, causing me back to remember all the cruelty and hard life of 18 years in isolation. … Continue reading

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Hiroshima – by Mordechai Vanunu

Hiroshima by Mordechai Vanunu Hiroshima Hiroshima, My beloved Hiroshima, Your sons ,daughters, elders, wives. Blew ,radiated ,with an Atomic Bomb. A radioactive cloud consumed, rubbed out. Hiroshima. Hiroshima, Hiroshima. For a live nuclear test sentenced you. A nuclear laboratory of … Continue reading

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For Whom the Bells Toll – by Uri Avnery

An Iranian technician called Jalal-a-Din Taheri, who had been working at the nuclear reactor at Bushehr, managed to defect to Europe, where he disclosed the Ayatollahs’ plans for producing nuclear bombs. Taheri was acclaimed a hero throughout the world. A … Continue reading

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Morde Vanunu – Released But Not Free

  A transcript of a speech I gave on April 21st, 2006, at a rally held in the centre of Sydney, commemorating the second year of Morde’s semi-release. You will see that I am holding up a poster with a … Continue reading

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Mordechai Vanunu Turns 49

Morde Vanunu turns 49 15th October 2003Today is my friend Morde Vanunu’s 49th birthday. When I last saw him in person – sat with him, talked with him and embraced him – he was 32. For Morde, all of that … Continue reading

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Reunited with Morde (April 2004)

A Cheap Holiday in Other People’s Misery (catching up with Mordechai Vanunu in Israel) One of my favourite pieces of music is the Sex Pistols’ classic ‘Holidays in the Sun’ – a song that begins with the line, ‘a cheap holiday in other … Continue reading

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