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 ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jul 5, 2017

What if they were ‘coming for the Jews’. What would you do?

There is an oft repeated poem that begins ‘first they came for the socialists’. It was refined over several years by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemölle as he described the general cow...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism in the church • BDS • Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • United Nations Jun 27, 2017

Avi Shlaim, the foolish old man and the adoring church goers

It is the 27th June 2017. I have just returned from an event at St James’s Church, an Anglican church in Piccadilly, London. It has a history of anti-Israel activism. Tonight Avi Shlaim was spea...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Jun 24, 2017

Fighting through law, fighting in the streets. Both may fail the Jews

From songs that ridicule the Holocaust to blaming Jews for the Grenfell fire on Al Quds Day. From a battle in law to a wider societal struggle. It would be foolish to understate or ignore the signals ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism in the church • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • United Nations Jun 19, 2017

Marching with (and stopping!) terrorist supporters in London in 2017

It is 3pm on June 18th 2017.  I am in disguise, wearing a keffiyeh that is necessary to cover my face. I want to infiltrate the Al Quds Day march and the only way I can participate is to remain unrec...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • general • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • USA Jun 13, 2017

Boycotting Gal Gadot. Antisemitic, discriminatory. BDS in action

Gal Gadot is the new ‘Wonder Woman’. Gal Gadot is also a proud Israeli. Gal’s nationality, religion and political opinion are hers to hold.  BDS once again shows that it is little m...