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 • 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 • BDS • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Mar 7, 2018

Exclusive: Jeremy Corbyn with hard-core antisemites, say what about the Mavi Marmara?

It would be easy to start this blog with Jeremy Corbyn. After all, it seems as if he was part of a rabidly antisemitic Facebook Group, along with Paul Eisen, Gilad Atzmon, numerous other Holocaust Den...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations Oct 24, 2017

History repeating: Jewish Voice for Labour, today’s Yevsektsiya

How is this for a fun fact: A small group of anti-Zionist Jews set out to oppose Habima theatre, discredit them, have them boycotted, and remove any official support they received. These people wanted...

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 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...