anti-Semitism • The I/P conflict Oct 14, 2015

The Arab with the knife and the murder of the Jew. Over 100 years of excuses

During the height of the second Intifada, the media and politicians in general were adamant, only total desperation could cause one human being to walk onto a bus full of innocent civilians and blow h...

anti-Semitism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • UK Oct 11, 2015

An open letter to Professor Gabriel Brahm

Gabriel, I was present at the conference at Exeter and have just read your piece in the Jewish Chronicle, in fact a cross post at the JLC website had ‘urged me to do so’. The piece is also reprodu...

anti-Semitism • BDS • The I/P conflict • UK Oct 5, 2015

My weekend with the antisemites (and 2 Zionists) at Exeter

I have just returned from Exeter, where the university held a 3-day conference discussing ‘Settler Colonialism in Palestine’. Far smaller and less organised than the conference that the University...

BDS • The I/P conflict • UK Oct 3, 2015

The anti-Zionist Exeter conference

Over the last two days, it became abundantly clear exactly how far off base the JLC is, how removed they are from events on the ground, and how little they understand the anti-Zionist argument develop...

anti-Semitism • BDS • The I/P conflict • UK • USA Sep 27, 2015

The festering swamp of anti-Zionism

I personally dislike sweeping statements and generalisations. It is unfortunately true in a world in which you need to occupy someone’s attention with 140 characters of less, nobody has any time for...

anti-Semitism • BDS • The I/P conflict Sep 24, 2015

My Yom Kippur with Max Blumenthal

Having spent a July evening listening to Max Blumenthal at his book launch for his written account of last year’s conflict between Gaza and Israel, it then became a struggle to find an opportunity t...