The United Nations – the racism, the cost and the hypocrisy
In the coming days, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will receive and publish the findings from the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict. It is expected to be &...
Israel’s right to live in peace – BDS and the big lie
Israel has always had a weakness with PR; it is one of the perpetual down-sides of a nation having more serious issues to think about whilst also being faced with an enemy with a far larger population...
Israel – don’t give up an inch of the truth
This was hardly the first article in Counterpunch I read that brazenly claimed Israel should not exist; in fact Counterpunch runs that line more frequently than the Daily Express headlines the British...
BDS : An open letter to Roger Waters
There is nothing personal in this letter. I am putting aside your history and ignoring the relationship I have had with your music; I have simply read your recent public comments and felt a need to re...
The vile monster that is BDS
The horrific truth is that the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) plays on the naivety, innocence and good intentions of students across the UK and cons them (there can be no better descr...
The judicial review hearing – Southampton conference – some notes.
As I was there today at the High Court, I thought I’d write just a few points about today’s High Court Judicial Review hearing on the University of Southampton conference. Univer...
An open response to Geoffrey Alderman
“But to argue – as an academic or in an academic setting – that the state of Israel should be destroyed seems, to me, to amount to an incitement to genocide. That is where free speech become...
Palestinians are dying and there is an eerie silence
Palestinians are dying and there is an eerie silence; the streets are empty, social media is calm and even the mainstream media, devoid of the usual pressures from the pro-Palestinian campaign, are de...