anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jan 24, 2018

Uni of Warwick – false accusations of aggressive & misogynistic behaviour

The story goes that three Jewish people turned up at the University of Warwick, and were told that the ‘public’ event had suddenly turned ‘private’. Warwick has a small clique ...

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 • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jan 11, 2018

BDS black-lists, naive Jews and rabid Nazis. It has been quite a week

Sometimes I find the landscape a little overwhelming. What I do notice when discussing antisemitism within the community, is that each person stands in his own political corner, and focuses on the ant...

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 Dec 26, 2017

Following the hate – an open letter to Lorde

Lorde, Last week you read and responded to an open letter asking you to cancel the gig in Israel. This letter isn’t like that one. As soon as any artist lists Israel as a tour destination, an 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 ...

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...