the subtleties of distinguishing support for Palestinians and their having a country from support for HAMAS and terrorism.

The distinctions proposed in this article are arguably valid. For instance, "from the river to the sea" does not advocate a free state of Palestine alongside Israel; rather, it advocates giving the whole territory of Israel to Palestinians.

However, I do not have confidence in right-wing politicians to come even close to applying these distinctions properly — they have a history rather of weaponizing false accusations of antisemitism against people such as Jeremy Corbyn and trying to impose use of the badly designed IHRA criterion for antisemitism.

Strategies which enabled the campaign to restore democracy in Poland to reach apparent success.

I am very glad that they dropped the cruel "make enough money or starve" policies known as neoliberalism. Helping the poor and the suffering is one of the essential purposes of the statep.

It looks like the democracy coalition has won the election in Poland. However, I don't want to count this victory before it has hatched.

If it can assume government power, it will have a lot of work to do to restore democratic institutions.

The EU rules and treaties can be used to eliminate authoritarian government in a single member state, if only one member state has it; but when two member states have it, they can protect each other and bring the treaty requirements to naught. In recent years, Poland and Hungary protected each other's authoritarian institutions. Returning Poland to democracy and human rights could have made an opportunity to rescue Hungary too, but alas no — a far-right extremist government just won the election in Slovakia. I suspect Slovakia and Hungary will now protect each other from human rights.

In US states controlled by Republicans, people are considerably more likely to die young. They die young from smoking, diabetes, heart attacks, car crashes, and despair.

Republicans don't win these states' elections honestly. They do it via gerrymandering and voter suppression as well as spending lots of billionaires' money to distract voters.

* Pro-democracy supporters who fled Hong Kong for Britain speak about continued harassment, threats and physical attacks [by China's agents].*