anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Jan 18, 2018

Jews denied entry to eugenics libel event at the University of Warwick

Last night, at the University of Warwick, Faculty arranged a public talk that accused Israel of eugenics. Let us digest a simple truth. Like with most medical or technological innovations, Israel is a...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jan 1, 2018

Boycott – BDS – maximalist Arab rejectionism and failures of logic

The Maximalist Arab position The original Arab position was that there should be no Jewish self-rule, and Jewish refugees should not be accepted into Palestine. A boycott of Jewish businesses began in...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict Nov 29, 2017

Jewish people de-registered – discrimination at the heart of Westminster

My research, and the book I hope to eventually complete, deals with two issues – one is the conflict between Israel and its neighbours, the other is what I view as a connected topic – the ...

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

British unions supporting antisemitism and radical Islamic hate

Yesterday, on the 4th November 2017, an ‘anti-Balfour’ event took place in London.  Intensively plugged for months by every anti-Israel group across the country, this was going to be a de...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BBC • BDS • Islamic terrorism • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Oct 16, 2017

Inminds Jew haters gather. Fools, conspiracy theorists and antisemites

On Saturday 14 October, a group of anti-Israel activists went to protest outside of Jason Atherton’s ‘Little Social restaurant’. The group behind the demonstration was ‘Inminds...

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 • antisemitism in the church • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Sep 15, 2017

Why you shouldn’t just shrug your shoulders at SOAS

For those of us who have experienced the hostility of SOAS, even images of the building can create an uneasy feeling. Those Jews who attend events, tell tales of the anti-Jewish rhetoric that thrives ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • United Nations Sep 4, 2017

Exposing an antisemitic fraud: The case of ‘State of Terror’ by Thomas Suarez

As each page of the Thomas Suarez book, State of Terror, is turned, another horrific statement against Zionists appears. The book was called a ‘tour de force‘ by Ilan Pappé. Jenny Tonge r...

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...