anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • Conflict history • Labour Party • The I/P conflict Sep 24, 2019

The ‘Palestine’ obsession at the Labour Party conference

It is Monday night, 23rd September. It has been a long day. Today was my second day at the 2019 Labour Party conference in Brighton. On the first day I had spent my time looking at what was taking pla...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BBC • Holocaust • Labour Party Sep 23, 2019

The conference that signals the end of the Labour Party

It is the end of September and Brighton are once again hosting a Labour Party conference. I have been to a conference once before, two years ago and had endured a pretty uncomfortable experience. The ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • Holocaust • Labour Party • The I/P conflict Sep 20, 2019

Two days before conference, JVL antisemitism at Jackie Walker event

This weekend the Labour Party Conference opens again in Brighton. I was there in 2017 the last time it was held in the town, and the level of antisemitism witnessed at the event led to threats to ban ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Holocaust • Islamic terrorism • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Aug 27, 2018

Antisemitism, anti-Zionism and the principle of the divided cloth

Before I talk of a divided cloth, let me address the antisemitic events. Last September I was turned away at the door of a fringe event at the Labour conference because I was a ‘known Zionist...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Sep 28, 2017

Facing raw antisemitism at the Labour Party Conference 2017

I have spent all week in Brighton, at the 2017 Labour Party Conference. This was my first visit to the conference. As someone who dislikes the ideological straitjacket of political affiliation, it wil...