BDS • The I/P conflict • UK Nov 29, 2015

Hannah, are we really ‘Yachad’?

An open letter to Hannah Weisfeld, Director of ‘Yachad’. Hannah, I apologise for having to write this letter. I do not care for internal UK Jewish politics nor tend to involve myself in the argume...

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...

BDS • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Nov 13, 2015

An open response to James O’Brien at LBC radio

Dear James re: LBC radio – Ignorance and the support of terrorism I have just listened to a recording of yesterday’s show on LBC. I appreciate your role is to stir up trouble, create an emotio...

anti-Semitism • extremism on campus • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • UK Nov 11, 2015

BBC – Guilty as charged

I do tend to write about most of the events that I go to, but walking into a room full of people who do not spend their time spreading lies about Israel is an odd circumstance for me. So despite the s...

The I/P conflict • UK • United Nations Nov 5, 2015

How Gresham College turned history and justice upside down

I didn’t get to go to and see the talk last month by Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice at Gresham College, but having watched the performance on video, I made certain I was going to be there for the secon...

BDS • The I/P conflict • UK Nov 2, 2015

Antisemitism in Westminster and nobody cares. More politicians involved.

Last week, in my blog, I addressed a short speech by Gerald Kaufman that included ‘accusations’, that ‘Jewish money’ directs British foreign policy and a statement that Israel has fabricated m...