anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • Media Bias • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK • United Nations • USA Feb 25, 2016

Israeli Apartheid week: The shame of UK students

During these weeks across the UK, universities are holding ‘Israeli apartheid week’. I have sat and viewed with revulsion as images have emerged of students on campus being fed raw radical Islamic...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • UK • United Nations • USA Jan 31, 2016

A letter to the University of Kent – antisemitism on campus

I wish to register a formal complaint against the university of Kent for allowing and promoting antisemitism within campus. In your university I heard mention of the ‘Elders of Zion’. A 100-year-o...

anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Media Bias • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Jan 18, 2016

A silence worth breaking, the reservists fight back

For anyone living outside of Israel and opposed to the delegitimization of Zionism, it is difficult not to be aware of the movement called Breaking the Silence (BTS). The boycott movement against Isra...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • UK • USA Jan 4, 2016

‘Hey Roger’. A #BDS annual review of 2015

An open update on #BDS for Roger Waters Hey Roger, Hope you are well. It has been about 7 months since I wrote you an open letter, so I thought I’d check in on how we are doing on that #BDS lark. I ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Jan 1, 2016

‘Breaking my Silence’, discussing the ‘theoretical Zionist’.

On 29/12/2015 I travelled to Birmingham to participate in a panel at the ‘Limmud’ conference. Being a writer rather than a speaker, being given control of a microphone wasn’t something I was par...

anti-Semitism • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Nov 25, 2015

The true level of antisemitism

I recently responded to a post on a friend’s Facebook page regarding the current security threat in Europe. This is something I do not do very often, Facebook is inherently a ‘family affair’, wh...

BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • Uncategorized • USA Nov 19, 2015

Are Anthropologists that stupid?

There is a vote taking place at the American Anthropological Association meeting in Denver tomorrow over the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. I am far more in tune with the BDS movements acti...

BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Nov 18, 2015

From Jerusalem to New York, to Paris, ‘brothers in arms’

For those that haven’t read my writing before, I never shoot from the hip. The bigger the issue, the greater the anger, the longer I require to internalise events before I am able to place my though...

anti-Semitism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • UK • Uncategorized • USA Oct 27, 2015

The *dangerous* idiots of academia

There is more than enough evidence to show that for over 100 years, Arabs have been making up excuses to kill Jews. This antisemitic drive, this inability to accept anything that is different, this ba...

anti-Semitism • BDS • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Oct 24, 2015

Stabbings, the Mufti and Enid Blyton – the week that was

As a child, I remember with fondness, reading and re-reading the adventures of Jo, Bessie, Fanny and Dick (the names changed in later editions for reasons that are not totally clear to me), who were f...