anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Mar 31, 2017

Cork, Ireland. Politely wishing the Jews to a nasty death

Today I am in Cork, Southern Ireland. This is a story that began two years ago, with a failed attempt by a twisted  academic at Southampton, to place a fake academic veneer on part of the delegitimis...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • United Nations Mar 21, 2017

A sickness at the heart of Academia, blindness at the LSE

20th March 2017. The London School of Economics (LSE) in Holborn. I am at a book launch for Richard Falk’s latest collection of essays titled ‘Palestine’s Horizon’. Falk has be...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS Mar 15, 2017

The unforgivable shame of Mondoweiss. Protecting hatred of Jews

Last month I published a report investigating hard core antisemitism within the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). Despite focusing on those pushing Jewish conspiracy tales or Holocaust denial, Mond...

anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Mar 10, 2017

Bare faced lies, distortion and propaganda at the SOAS centenary talk

Last night 9/3/2017, I had an invite to two very different events. The first, an event at UCL hosted by the UCL Israel Society, with Mohammed Zoabi. The second, part of the SOAS centenary lecture seri...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Mar 8, 2017

UCLUFOP, witch hunts, intimidation and antisemitism

Last night at UCL there was an event hosted by the UCLU Friends of Palestine Society (UCLUFOP). The speaker was Ilan Pappe and the title for the talk was ‘am I an antisemite’? The event wa...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Mar 8, 2017

An open question to Ilan Pappe: Why do you defend antisemites?

Given the event last night at UCL (7/3/2017), I have split my response into two pieces. One is a direct accusation against the university, the other (this) an open post to Ilan Pappe. I did intend to ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Mar 3, 2017

From Manchester to Brunel, polishing the propaganda machine

Brunel 2 March Last night, 2nd March 2017,  I was in Brunel for yet another event during ‘Apartheid Week’. There is a difference between an argument shaped to reflect your perspective and...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism Mar 2, 2017

You think there is no Antisemitism? Take the anti-Zionist test

This is designed for people who think there is no antisemitism in the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel movements. If you know any, ask them to take the test. Before you begin. Imagine: Someone you are connec...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Mar 1, 2017

Kings. Apartheid Week watch day two: Beauty and the beast

As I was doing my homework for the event at Kings, the information I received all pointed in one direction. All eyes were going to be on Farid Esack, a veteran anti-apartheid activist and Professor fr...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Feb 28, 2017

Apartheid Week watch – day one. The Jew hating fetish opens at UCL

It is Apartheid ‘Week’ again. Last night, 27 Feb 2017 I was at UCL (University College London) for the opening night of UCL’s very own ‘Apartheid Fortnight’ (we were info...