anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BBC • BDS • Conflict history • Labour Party • The I/P conflict • UK • United Nations • USA Apr 25, 2018

The Corbyn v Jews chess match. Gaining time by doing nothing

Yesterday there was a meeting between the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), Board of Deputies (BOD), and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party. The Jewish organisations reported that the meeting...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Labour Party • Media Bias • UK Apr 20, 2018

Attacking Jews, the whole antisemitism crisis, will ‘be positive for Labour’

Since the Palestine Live report was first published on this blog 6 weeks ago, the focus on antisemitism in the Labour Party has intensified. I am working on two related reports and continue to engage ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • Holocaust • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Apr 18, 2018

We don’t choose our battles, like with Corbyn, some choose us

It is seventy years since the ‘Jewish People’s Council’ gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and approved the proclamation declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. For six mont...

Conflict history • Holocaust • The I/P conflict Apr 12, 2018

Before the Holocaust, a bureaucratic snapshot of European Jews in 1934

Today is Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah (יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה) or ‘Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day’ in Israel.  It is celebrated on the 27th of ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict Apr 5, 2018

The Jewdas Gambit, assimilation and distorted statistics

Jeremy Corbyn attended a politicised Passover Seder service held by a fringe Jewish group called Jewdas. Up until three days ago many people had not heard of Jewdas and I imagine that they are thankfu...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Apr 2, 2018

The Jewish community and Jeremy Corbyn are incompatible

Justin Cohen from Jewish News has just done the Jewish community an enormous favour. He has created a piece for the historical record. A detailed and to-the-point interview with Labour Party leader Je...