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 • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Jun 24, 2017

Fighting through law, fighting in the streets. Both may fail the Jews

From songs that ridicule the Holocaust to blaming Jews for the Grenfell fire on Al Quds Day. From a battle in law to a wider societal struggle. It would be foolish to understate or ignore the signals ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism in the church • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict May 1, 2017

Stephen Sedley, FSOI and the PSC, getting antisemitism all mixed up

As I researched for an article about the demonstration and counter demonstration at SOAS on 27 April, I came across an essay on antisemitism by Stephen Sedley. Sedley is a former appeal court judge an...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Apr 9, 2017

The sentinels of the antisemites, protecting Jew hatred

At almost every event I attend I see antisemites. But why are those that hate Jews given such legitimacy. Why is it so hard to extract even one rabid politician from a mainstream party? These are the ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • United Nations Apr 1, 2017

Cork day two – breeding Zionist monsters and untermenschen

Today, 01st April 2017 was the second day in the three day anti-Israel conference in Cork.  As I arrived in the morning, I was still feeling somewhat bitter over the events of the day before. This th...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • United Nations Mar 21, 2017

A sickness at the heart of Academia, blindness at the LSE

20th March 2017. The London School of Economics (LSE) in Holborn. I am at a book launch for Richard Falk’s latest collection of essays titled ‘Palestine’s Horizon’. Falk has be...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Nov 3, 2016

Dropping the antisemitic rugby ball at Goldsmiths University

It was a few days ago whilst conducting a regular sweep of recent campus activity, that I noticed Goldsmiths RFC (Rugby club), have become deployed as a political weapon of the anti-Israel movement. A...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism in the church • BDS • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK Oct 17, 2016

Antisemitism or anti-Zionism, ten questions for the Dean of Lichfield

Last week I attended a conference on ‘Palestine’ that was promoted by the Dean of Lichfield and held at Lichfield Cathedral. My feelings on what occurred were detailed in a piece that I wrote upon...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK • United Nations • USA Sep 29, 2016

BDS open the season at SOAS, back into the snake pit

Its 27th September 2016. Summer is over and the new academic year begins. Across the country, political activists such as those in the SOAS Palestinian society hold ‘freshmen’ sessions to attract ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • The I/P conflict May 30, 2016

Applauding the nakba myth

I wasn’t going to write about the ‘nakba’ incident at Wanstead High School.  Let down by a society that doesn’t believe in truth, the schoolgirl Leanne Muhammed, aged only 15, has al...