A response on the Israel conflict
This is a piece written specifically in response to a comment left on one of my previous articles. Hi, Firstly, thank you for your comment. You obviously invested time and effort in writing it and mor...
An open letter to Theresa May, Home Secretary of the UK
Rt Hon Theresa May MP I spent the weekend of the 17 and 18th October 2015 at the School for African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) to attend a conference. SOAS was one of the specific universities “nam...
From the university to an attack on the streets of Israel, the true cycle of violence.
I have just spent two days inside SOAS, at the Centre for Palestine Studies as a delegate at the 10th Annual Conference of the SOAS Palestine Society titled ‘Settler and Citizens: A Critical View of...
The Arab with the knife and the murder of the Jew. Over 100 years of excuses
During the height of the second Intifada, the media and politicians in general were adamant, only total desperation could cause one human being to walk onto a bus full of innocent civilians and blow h...
An open letter to Professor Gabriel Brahm
Gabriel, I was present at the conference at Exeter and have just read your piece in the Jewish Chronicle, in fact a cross post at the JLC website had ‘urged me to do so’. The piece is also reprodu...
My weekend with the antisemites (and 2 Zionists) at Exeter
I have just returned from Exeter, where the university held a 3-day conference discussing ‘Settler Colonialism in Palestine’. Far smaller and less organised than the conference that the University...
The anti-Zionist Exeter conference
Over the last two days, it became abundantly clear exactly how far off base the JLC is, how removed they are from events on the ground, and how little they understand the anti-Zionist argument develop...
The festering swamp of anti-Zionism
I personally dislike sweeping statements and generalisations. It is unfortunately true in a world in which you need to occupy someone’s attention with 140 characters of less, nobody has any time for...