anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jan 24, 2018

Uni of Warwick – false accusations of aggressive & misogynistic behaviour

The story goes that three Jewish people turned up at the University of Warwick, and were told that the ‘public’ event had suddenly turned ‘private’. Warwick has a small clique ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict Dec 26, 2017

Following the hate – an open letter to Lorde

Lorde, Last week you read and responded to an open letter asking you to cancel the gig in Israel. This letter isn’t like that one. As soon as any artist lists Israel as a tour destination, an in...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations Oct 24, 2017

History repeating: Jewish Voice for Labour, today’s Yevsektsiya

How is this for a fun fact: A small group of anti-Zionist Jews set out to oppose Habima theatre, discredit them, have them boycotted, and remove any official support they received. These people wanted...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • The I/P conflict Sep 23, 2017

Thomas Suarez, an academic charlatan. State of Terror is hateful fiction

Alongside Jonathan Hoffman, I spent part of the summer inside the National Archives at Kew, checking some of the sources that Thomas Suarez had used to build his argument for the book ‘State of Terr...

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-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 • 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 • 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 • BDS • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • United Nations Jun 7, 2017

‘The only good Jew is a dead Jew’ (the Suarez – Barkan threshold)

‘The only good Jew is a dead Jew’. A horrific statement not so openly suggested in Europe or the USA in 2017.  In reality, this line is actually being propagated in almost every universit...