anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Mar 31, 2017

Cork, Ireland. Politely wishing the Jews to a nasty death

Today I am in Cork, Southern Ireland. This is a story that began two years ago, with a failed attempt by a twisted  academic at Southampton, to place a fake academic veneer on part of the delegitimis...

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 Mar 15, 2017

The unforgivable shame of Mondoweiss. Protecting hatred of Jews

Last month I published a report investigating hard core antisemitism within the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). Despite focusing on those pushing Jewish conspiracy tales or Holocaust denial, Mond...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Mar 8, 2017

UCLUFOP, witch hunts, intimidation and antisemitism

Last night at UCL there was an event hosted by the UCLU Friends of Palestine Society (UCLUFOP). The speaker was Ilan Pappe and the title for the talk was ‘am I an antisemite’? The event wa...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Jan 26, 2017

The Dhimmi Jews of SOAS

A dhimmi ([ðimi]; Arabic: ذمي, meaning “protected person”) refers to specific individuals living in Muslim lands, who were granted special status and safety in Islamic law in return fo...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • The I/P conflict Oct 21, 2016

The story of a Jewish boy called Haim

Many years ago, I had a frantic evening visit from two very old, and very close Jewish friends. They suggested there was something urgent they needed to discuss, and just a short while later, Anna and...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict Oct 6, 2016

Institutional antisemitism at Goldsmiths, University of London

On Tuesday I spent an evening at Goldsmiths, University of London. It was my first visit. The talk itself was called ‘Palestine 101’. Like many events that are taking place on campus at the moment...

anti-Zionism • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • UK Sep 19, 2016

Stupidity, The Hinde Street Methodist Church and Israel

It’s the 19th September 2016. My attention was drawn this week to an exhibit in London at the Hinde Street Methodist Church. An exhibition that seeks to enlighten Londoners about ‘what it is like ...

anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • Uncategorized Sep 7, 2016

So this is Yachad (UK) – part two: a borrowed ideology

For those who missed the first part of this research into Yachad UK, you can catch up with it here. In the second part of the series, I will look at the core politics and activities of Yachad, and ana...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK Aug 31, 2016

So this is Yachad – part one: astroturf and magic tricks

Yachad have been an element of my research for two years. There is discomfort in writing about them, because they are, on the surface, representing a legitimate position. Despite my opposition to thei...