Trumps vision: knocking the Palestinian cause off its perch
For two days now, there have been a stream of articles calling Trumps ‘peace plan’ everything from a conspiracy to Apartheid. Quite a few of the ‘predictable’ politicians from ...
Corbyn’s antisemitic anti-Zionism is part of his core belief system
Antisemitic anti-Zionism surrounds Jeremy Corbyn. It is part of the ideological diet he has been fed on for decades. Whenever I have looked at anti-Israel activity taking place in the UK, Corbyn has b...
Antisemitism is denied at the University of Warwick, it’s a Jewish plot to silence criticism
Three days ago, on 6th Feb, the University of Warwick held another anti-Israel meeting. The third such event in a month. Rather than directly discuss Israel, they wanted to focus on antisemitism. Or...
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...
Boycott – BDS – maximalist Arab rejectionism and failures of logic
The Maximalist Arab position The original Arab position was that there should be no Jewish self-rule, and Jewish refugees should not be accepted into Palestine. A boycott of Jewish businesses began in...
Jewish people de-registered – discrimination at the heart of Westminster
My research, and the book I hope to eventually complete, deals with two issues – one is the conflict between Israel and its neighbours, the other is what I view as a connected topic – the ...
Marching with (and stopping!) terrorist supporters in London in 2017
It is 3pm on June 18th 2017. I am in disguise, wearing a keffiyeh that is necessary to cover my face. I want to infiltrate the Al Quds Day march and the only way I can participate is to remain unrec...
The ‘Nakba’: The ongoing catastrophe of bad Palestinian decisions
Today is the 15th May, one day after the Gregorian calendar date for Israel’s Independence Day. Today, Palestinians and anti-Israel activists will commemorate the ‘Nakba’, or Catastrophe. Why th...