anti-Zionism • antisemitism • extremism on campus • general • Islamic terrorism • Labour Party • Media Bias Sep 5, 2021

Teaching to hate – UK Islamist extremism grows in confidence

I doubt many have heard of Safiyya Shaikh. She was a Muslim convert who plotted to blow up London’s St Paul’s Cathedral and then kill herself in a suicide attack somewhere nearby on the Lo...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • extremism on campus • Labour Party • The I/P conflict • Uncategorized May 8, 2020

Those pesky Israelis just can’t stop disappointing diaspora Jews

Some UK Jewish papers have already opened the ‘annexation front’, criticising Israel for unilateral action it may be about to take. I promised myself I would stay quiet on this until July ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Holocaust • Islamic terrorism • Labour Party Mar 8, 2020

SOAS hosts Islamist linked fake Jewish group – created to attack Jews

This exclusive account demonstrates that SOAS has been the venue for a hate-infested political group set up explicitly to attack mainstream British Jewry. The official minutes from this group’s ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Nov 19, 2019

Attacked again – just another day researching antisemitism

Yesterday I was physically attacked at an anti-Israel protest at Kings College London. I emerged relatively unscathed, but a demonstrator clearly intended to deprive me of my camera. He rushed at me a...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • extremism on campus • Media Bias • The I/P conflict May 14, 2019

A Jewish life: assaulted in the street, insulted by the BBC

Yesterday I was assaulted. I had been sitting with friends at the cafe inside the Quaker building in Euston. Not long after I left, I felt a sharp and forceful push from behind. I hadn’t been ex...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • Labour Party • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Apr 22, 2019

Why the mainstream is to blame for the antisemitism crisis

Antisemitism spread through the left like a tsunami through city streets. It may have entered via radical minority groups on the fringes, but as it hit the shore, there were no defences in place. Noth...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Holocaust • Labour Party • Media Bias Feb 12, 2019

Antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Performing the duck test

Is it antisemitism or anti-Zionism? Everyday, semantics are used to deflect what is obvious. When people argue over this it protects antisemitism. It does not matter whether in theory anti-Zionism and...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • UK • USA Nov 8, 2018

NYU, SJP and a response to ‘the 10 Common Misconceptions About BDS’

NYU and the ‘ten common misconceptions about BDS’ ‘Washington Square News‘, is an  ‘Independent Student Newspaper’ at NYU. Three days ago they published an article...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BBC • BDS • Conflict history • Holocaust • The I/P conflict • United Nations Sep 14, 2018

From boycotting Jews to attacking MPs, the bullying thuggery of BDS

By almost any measure of freedom, Israel is a Garden of Eden compared to every single one of its neighbours. The obsession people have with that *TINY* state is simply astonishing. Of all the nations ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Holocaust • Islamic terrorism • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Aug 27, 2018

Antisemitism, anti-Zionism and the principle of the divided cloth

Before I talk of a divided cloth, let me address the antisemitic events. Last September I was turned away at the door of a fringe event at the Labour conference because I was a ‘known Zionist...