While I've never made it into a formal series with its own name, regular normblog readers may have noticed the hero of Camden string, memorializing the occasion in May 2006 when a section of the London left made up an 'adoring audience' for Hugo Chávez. It may be time for a similar memorial to mark the time that a section of the British left marched with the slogan 'We are all Hezbollah' coming out of their mouths.
This is the same Hezbollah reported to be backing the legitimacy of the Syrian regime:
Meanwhile, Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the removal of Syrian President Bashar Assad on the back of mass unrest would only serve US and Israeli interests.
Backing the Syrian regime, apart from Hezbollah, is a security apparatus currently engaging (don't follow the link if you prefer to skip the gruesome details) in the most brutal tortures.
As it happens, there may be an indirect connection of sorts between Chavez's adoring Camden audience and the 'we are all Hezbollah'-niks. For Chavez, according to earlier reports, was also backing Syria's Bashar al-Assad.