anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • extremism on campus • Holocaust • Labour Party • The I/P conflict Oct 9, 2018

Miko Peled, playing to the antisemitic crowd that adores him

I recently returned from a short vacation in Israel. Visiting Israel should be a requirement for anyone actively engaged in the fight against antisemitism. It works like receiving an antidote. Nothing...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Islamic terrorism • Labour Party • The I/P conflict Aug 13, 2018

AOHR UK, Ahed Tamimi, tainted politicians and crooked translations

9th Aug 2018. I was at Friends House Euston for a meeting of the ‘Arab Organisation for Human Rights in the UK‘ (AOHR UK). There were about thirty-five other attendees. Three speakers were...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Labour Party • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Jul 15, 2018

The anti-Trump demonstration, spreading poison on London’s streets

I watched it, saw it live. The young girls who went scrambling for the ‘free Palestine’ stickers’. “I have to get one dad”, one of them squealed, as she dragged her fathe...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • NGO's • The I/P conflict Jun 1, 2018

Beyond the great divide, a trip inside the Palestinian areas

It was a long time coming, but during the recent trip to Israel I went back to areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority. A decade ago, this type of visit would not have happened given the upsurge...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • The I/P conflict May 23, 2018

The Parliament Square Kaddish. We have to fight back

The blog on the Parliament Square Kaddish event was the hardest I have ever had to write. My research has taken me into some of the darkest anti-Jewish movements on the internet. I have got up close a...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • general • Labour Party • Media Bias • The I/P conflict May 21, 2018

The day that Jewish people said Kaddish for Palestinian terrorists

Have you heard the one about the Jewish activists who said Kaddish for Palestinian terrorists? The story starts in November 2015 during the ‘stabbing intifada‘ that saw a wave of stabbing ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BBC • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations May 16, 2018

Gaza, Hamas and why I won’t be criticising Israel today

One of the reasons I won’t be criticising Israel today is because I am in London. I am not facing 40,000 rioters sent by Hamas to the Israeli border. Instead I am safely tucked away in a relativ...

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 ...