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Nov 5, 2024 | 
counterfire.org | Thomas Gibbs
Author Thomas Gibbs Date 5 November 2024 Type News Share button Facebook Share button Twitter Share button Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Justin Trudeau, 2015.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | Thomas Gibbs |Caleb Batchelor |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Brett McCracken
Declining respect for clergy is no longer news. What’s newsworthy is how broadly shared and deep that skepticism runs. According to a recent Gallup poll, fewer than a third of Americans (32 percent) view pastors as highly honest and ethical.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
counterfire.org | Thomas Gibbs
AuthorThomas Gibbs Date29 February 2024TypeBook reviewShare button Facebook Share button Twitter Share buttonAgainst Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba, eds. Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro, Foreword, Mohammed El-Kurd (Haymarket 2024), 240pp.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
thesaint.scot | Thomas Gibbs
Killers of a Flower Moon is an excellent film; it is also three and a half hours long. Shamed as I am to admit it, Mr Scorsese, my bladder just isn’t cut out for this. Some critics like Mark Kermode have questioned if this long runtime is suited to theatrical release, others see it as a symptom of streaming services’ over-indulgence (Killers was produced by Apple). Indeed, my dad forever complains that films like The Hobbit would be better suited to adaptation as big budget mini-series.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
counterfire.org | Thomas Gibbs
AuthorThomas Gibbs Date10 July 2024TypeOpinionShare button Facebook Share button Twitter Share buttonAs the genocide in Gaza continues, our movement matters more than ever, asserts Thomas Gibbs Despite the media silence, Israel’s genocide in Gaza is still ongoing. The Israeli army has continued with a full ground operation in Rafah, where 1.5m Palestinians are sheltering, as well as mass bombardment of central and northern Gaza.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
thesaint.scot | Thomas Gibbs
It’s a funny thing to say that populism has an aesthetic, but it does. In fact, a lot of social movements have a distinct vibe to them, apparently natural and effortless. Think of the way young socialists embrace punk, or how many feminist Instagram infographics pick pastels for their excoriating deconstruction of the patriarchy. What makes populist aesthetics distinctive, though, is its failed attempt to appear authoritative. GB News is a great case study.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
counterfire.org | Thomas Gibbs
I’m alive, but I’m not OK – no-one in Gaza is. It’s hell in here. What’s happening is crazy. I haven’t slept at all for 2 nights – I feel like we have minor earthquakes every 5 minutes… literally the buildings shake. A lot of people we know have lost loved ones. Some have lost their houses. I stand in line for bread, but there’s no drinking water and I don’t have electricity at all (we try to charge from neighbours’ solar panels). We’re from Biʾr as-Sabʿ [Beersheva], in the desert.
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Apr 10, 2023 | 
counterfire.org | Thomas Gibbs
In the latest in our Nakba75: the roots of Israeli apartheid series, Thomas Gibbs explains the description of Israel as a ‘settler colonial state’Since its inception, Israel has used its own population as a tool in the colonisation of Palestine. This continues today, with Israelis being transferred to ‘settlements’ on illegally occupied territory and used as justification for the indefinite military presence across the West Bank.
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Apr 6, 2023 | 
thesaint.scot | Thomas Gibbs
Last week was St Andrews’ cocktail week, and I’ve got cocktails on my mind. I often do. I love cocktails. I drink fewer than most of my friends and yet I have twice as many bottles on my shelf. So, I sat down with Finn Smith, president of Bartenders Against Temperance, the university’s cocktail society, to talk about cocktails in St Andrews and the future of bartending in an increasingly tee-total society.
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Mar 6, 2023 | 
rcreader.com | Thomas Gibbs |Michael Helke
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