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 • Conflict history • The I/P conflict Nov 24, 2017

A Jewish life outside of Israel – on matters Diaspora

Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely is in hot water over ‘disparaging‘ remarks she made about US Jewry. Whether or not there is any truth to her comments, Hotovely broke the uns...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • United Nations Nov 10, 2017

The University of Cambridge – teaching ignorance and hate

Universities and ‘free speech’ arguments are back in the news again. This time at Cambridge, with the Evening Standard running a story about the University of Cambridge being ‘slamme...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations Nov 9, 2017

November 2nd to November 29, Twenty-eight stepping stones to partition

On 2 November 2017 we celebrated the Balfour Declaration centenary. On the 29th November, we celebrate seventy years since UN resolution 181 – the United Nations ‘partition plan’. Lo...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations Oct 24, 2017

History repeating: Jewish Voice for Labour, today’s Yevsektsiya

How is this for a fun fact: A small group of anti-Zionist Jews set out to oppose Habima theatre, discredit them, have them boycotted, and remove any official support they received. These people wanted...

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...

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 • 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-Zionism • Conflict history • Media Bias • The I/P conflict • United Nations Aug 3, 2017

The myth of Balad al-Shaykh. A massacre that never happened

This is the story of how a small engagement at Balad al-Shaykh, at the start of the 1947/1948 civil war in the British Mandate of Palestine, became the story of a full blown massacre with its own wiki...