anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • Holocaust • Labour Party • Media Bias Nov 30, 2020

‘the wrong sort of Jew’ – the left’s latest antisemitic conspiracy theory

I want to start with an exercise. Google the phrase ‘the wrong sort of Jew‘ (you can repeat the test replacing the word ‘sort’ with ‘kind‘ or ‘type‘.) S...

anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • Holocaust • Islamic terrorism • Labour Party • Media Bias Nov 10, 2020

The cruel sewer of the far-left. Not for the faint-hearted

This piece on the cruel sewer of the far-left is not for the faint-hearted. The article contains sickening responses to the news of the passing of Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi. My resea...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BBC • Holocaust • Labour Party Sep 23, 2019

The conference that signals the end of the Labour Party

It is the end of September and Brighton are once again hosting a Labour Party conference. I have been to a conference once before, two years ago and had endured a pretty uncomfortable experience. The ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • Holocaust • Labour Party • The I/P conflict Sep 20, 2019

Two days before conference, JVL antisemitism at Jackie Walker event

This weekend the Labour Party Conference opens again in Brighton. I was there in 2017 the last time it was held in the town, and the level of antisemitism witnessed at the event led to threats to ban ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • extremism on campus • Holocaust • Labour Party • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Sep 6, 2018

Hate against Jewish people. A poison that spreads unnoticed

I had a difficult day on Tuesday. One of those days were I see the poison spread on London’s streets. I was at the Corbyn antisemitism demo /counter demo, that took place as the NEC discussed th...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Holocaust • Labour Party • Media Bias Jul 6, 2018

The dark clouds continue to gather for British Jews

Yesterday things took a darker turn for British Jews. Let us go back to Tuesday 26 April 2016, 7:53am. A Facebook post by Naz Shah emerges on the Guido Fawkes website. It is a post from 2014 suggestin...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BBC • BDS • Conflict history • Labour Party • The I/P conflict • UK • United Nations • USA Apr 25, 2018

The Corbyn v Jews chess match. Gaining time by doing nothing

Yesterday there was a meeting between the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), Board of Deputies (BOD), and Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK Labour Party. The Jewish organisations reported that the meeting...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Labour Party • Media Bias • UK Apr 20, 2018

Attacking Jews, the whole antisemitism crisis, will ‘be positive for Labour’

Since the Palestine Live report was first published on this blog 6 weeks ago, the focus on antisemitism in the Labour Party has intensified. I am working on two related reports and continue to engage ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • Holocaust • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Apr 18, 2018

We don’t choose our battles, like with Corbyn, some choose us

It is seventy years since the ‘Jewish People’s Council’ gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and approved the proclamation declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. For six mont...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Media Bias • The I/P conflict Apr 2, 2018

The Jewish community and Jeremy Corbyn are incompatible

Justin Cohen from Jewish News has just done the Jewish community an enormous favour. He has created a piece for the historical record. A detailed and to-the-point interview with Labour Party leader Je...