anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Islamic terrorism • The I/P conflict Jan 31, 2020

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 ...

anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • Labour Party • The I/P conflict • UK Jan 17, 2020

The Board of Deputies don’t want us to talk about their survey

I start with an apology. This blog is one that I am forced to write. The trigger is a survey that the Board of Deputies is trying to put together. One I feel poses a real threat to our community. Over...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • Conflict history • Islamic terrorism • Labour Party • Media Bias Jul 11, 2019

The Guardian newspaper: Decades of baiting British Jews

This week the Guardian published a letter that was co-produced by Elleanne Green, founder of Palestine Live. The letter was a defence of Chris Williamson and a denial of the antisemitism in the Labour...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • Conflict history • Labour Party • The I/P conflict Jul 8, 2019

Hate and poison wrapped in cotton candy at the PalExpo

The ‘PalExpo’ came back to London for 2019. A large, two day ‘celebration’ of Palestinian culture, history and arts. It is extremely clever marketing. In theory there is nothin...

anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BBC • BDS • Conflict history • Holocaust • Media Bias • The I/P conflict May 16, 2019

In the beginning there was an Arab with a knife 180 years of excuses (V2)

In just the last few days, the BBC deliberately mistranslated the use of the word ‘Yehud’ as ‘Israeli’ instead of ‘Jew’ and Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib m...

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 • Conflict history • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict Jan 16, 2019

Nazis in disguise. How some anti-Israel messaging is extreme-right rhetoric

We are witnessing a legitimisation of Nazi messaging against Jewish people in Israel. Some of it is our own fault. We have become so desensitised that we no longer differentiate between ‘a simpl...

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 ...