anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism in the church • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Sep 15, 2017

Why you shouldn’t just shrug your shoulders at SOAS

For those of us who have experienced the hostility of SOAS, even images of the building can create an uneasy feeling. Those Jews who attend events, tell tales of the anti-Jewish rhetoric that thrives ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Sep 12, 2017

Pro-Palestinian activism. Violent, intolerant, dangerous and racist

If anyone knows the true face of Pro-Palestinian activism in the UK, then I do. My assessment is not built on assumptions, bias, or just a dislike of their politics. I simply spent a long time dressed...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Sep 9, 2017

When ‘progressives’ excuse Nazi ideology: The case of Bella Caledonia

Just over a month ago, my report into hard-core antisemitism in the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) was published. Following its release, condemnation of the SPSC crossed the political d...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • United Nations Sep 4, 2017

Exposing an antisemitic fraud: The case of ‘State of Terror’ by Thomas Suarez

As each page of the Thomas Suarez book, State of Terror, is turned, another horrific statement against Zionists appears. The book was called a ‘tour de force‘ by Ilan Pappé. Jenny Tonge r...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations Aug 27, 2017

The Mandate: From 1919 to civil war, antisemitism and Bergen-Belsen

I have been spending time recently in the British Archives at Kew. I am working on a project (with Jonathan Hoffman) that is due to be published on Sep 4th. It has meant spending time, inside the file...

anti-Zionism • Conflict history • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • United Nations Aug 3, 2017

The myth of Balad al-Shaykh. A massacre that never happened

This is the story of how a small engagement at Balad al-Shaykh, at the start of the 1947/1948 civil war in the British Mandate of Palestine, became the story of a full blown massacre with its own wiki...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS Jul 30, 2017

The hard-core antisemitism of the Scottish PSC (SPSC)

My report on hard-core antisemitism inside the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) has just been released. It was commissioned and published by Jewish Human Rights Watch. One-hundred and six...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • Uncategorized • United Nations Jul 13, 2017

Scottish antisemites in Dumbarton get to throw a public party

From London to Dumbarton, we have to stop the spread of antisemitism. The Barbara Stanwyck smoking advert is probably from the late 1940’s or early 50’s. When I was growing up in the 1970&...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Islamic terrorism • Media Bias Jul 11, 2017

Scottish BDS in Glasgow who protest Radiohead promote Holocaust denial

‘There’s no antisemitism ‘ere guv’. We are just humanitarians who want to protest the Radiohead gig in Israel. Just four days ago, on the 7th July, a few Scottish anti-Israel a...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jul 9, 2017

My family are evicted from the #Palestineexpo at the QEII conference centre

The Palestine Expo was advertised as a cultural event and a family affair. So I went to the QEII Conference Centre to engage with the atmosphere with my wife and youngest son. I knew that the content ...