Never mind the fifty other countries - can Campbell even name ONE other country which is witnessing a crime against humanity as grave as the one Netanyahu is inflicting on the people of Gaza?

A few days ago, I posted my detailed response to Stuart "Stew" Campbell's blogpost 'Anatomy of a Lunatic', in which he had set out the latest radical revision of his ever-changing set of reasons for insisting that everyone must vote against the SNP on the list ballot next year.  (I'm the person he's referring to as a "lunatic", by the way, in case anyone is worrying he's been overdoing the tough love for Andy Ellis again.)  The main point I made was that it was quite simply incredible that anyone could keep a straight face at Stew's sudden decision to self-identify as an 'opponent of tactical voting on the list' while he continued to make all of the stock arguments in favour of tactical voting on the list and demanding that people must do it - in fact he said they would be "idiots" if they didn't.  It's rather akin to saying "I just think some ethnic groups are inferior, and I like dressing up in paramilitary uniforms and giving Roman-style salutes to our great leader, so what part of 'I am not a fascist' do you not understand?"

Stew has now posted his own reply of sorts - it's pretty threadbare, but it looks like this is all there's going to be...

Oh my lord. It took him NINETEEN DAYS in the end, he wrote THREE THOUSAND words about it, and yet still didn't even come close to *understanding* a single thing in my post, let alone address all his demented lies that it detailed. https://t.co/4ffbWja9qm pic.twitter.com/7L2ru5Znhc

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) July 12, 2025

I've said it before and I'll say it again - Stew's heart just doesn't seem to be in it anymore.  He's barely even trying.  What you see above is the rough equivalent of Rowan Atkinson in The Curse of Fatal Death answering every inconvenient question with "I'll explain later".  Presumably we're supposed to infer that if we were all as intelligent as Stew, we'd understand why it's perfectly possible to rabidly push the case for tactical voting on the list while somehow being a resolute opponent of tactical voting on the list.  But as we're too stupid to understand, that's on us and not on him.  Explanations would be futile.  He exists on a higher plane of understanding and that's all there is to it.

Well, I don't know about you but I'm convinced.  Perhaps he could direct his great wisdom towards answering a question on another topic, though.  He angrily told us a few weeks ago that no-one should have the arrogance to pollute his Sacred Gaze with images of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip, because such an act is to invite him to care about the genocide more than he does about Sandie Peggie and NHS Fife, which would be an offence against nature given that what Netanyahu is doing is entirely routine and humdrum, and no worse than what is going on in "fifty other countries" right now.  For the uninitiated, there are fewer than 200 UN member states, so Stew was basically claiming that horrors on a par with Gaza are going in about one-quarter of the world's countries.

I took him to task about that claim at the time, because even leaving aside the issue of genocide, I could only find a handful of current conflicts with a death toll comparable to Gaza's, and with only a handful of countries involved in those conflicts - certainly nowhere even close to 50.  But since then, the situation in Gaza has worsened further, and Israel has inched closer to implementing its own "Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem", which is a kind of hybrid between the Nazis' Final Solution and their earlier aborted scheme to deport Europe's entire Jewish population to Madagascar.  It seems that the population of Gaza will be herded into a concentration camp - dubbed a "humanitarian city" in suitably Orwellian terms, which is something Stew should be highly sensitive to given his repeated professions of admiration for Nighteen Eighty-Four.  Anyone who stays on the outside will be assumed to be Hamas and will be slaughtered, while those on the inside will not be allowed to leave unless they accept expulsion to a foreign country.  The ethnic cleansing of Gaza will then be complete, and the territory will be ready for annexation and usage as Lebensraum for Israeli settlers.

Never mind the fifty other countries, Stew - can you name even one other country in which a crime against humanity of this gravity is occurring?  Because frankly I can't.