anti-Zionism • antisemitism • Conflict history • Media Bias • NGO's • The I/P conflict Jun 2, 2021

Durban IV – The UK Government must withdraw – NOW!

In September, the United Nations gather to commemorate twenty years since the 2001 Durban conference. It is the fourth gathering of its type – hence Durban IV. The original conference in 2001 wa...

anti-Zionism • antisemitism • Labour Party • Media Bias • NGO's • The I/P conflict Nov 20, 2020

The Conservative government dumps on Israel – again and again

The Conservative Government has an 80-seat majority. It means that for the first time in over a decade, we have a government with legroom. The signs were good. Boris has ridiculed the BDS movement and...

anti-Zionism • antisemitism • BDS • Conflict history • NGO's • The I/P conflict • United Nations May 11, 2020

Palestinian refugees and UNRWA – it is time to tell the truth

In May 2016 I spoke at a panel event on the possibility of a two state solution. My talk focused on the key issue of the entire conflict – the reason the ‘Palestinian refugee’ situat...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BBC • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations May 16, 2018

Gaza, Hamas and why I won’t be criticising Israel today

One of the reasons I won’t be criticising Israel today is because I am in London. I am not facing 40,000 rioters sent by Hamas to the Israeli border. Instead I am safely tucked away in a relativ...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • Conflict history • The I/P conflict • United Nations Nov 9, 2017

November 2nd to November 29, Twenty-eight stepping stones to partition

On 2 November 2017 we celebrated the Balfour Declaration centenary. On the 29th November, we celebrate seventy years since UN resolution 181 – the United Nations ‘partition plan’. Lo...

anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • United Nations May 14, 2017

The conference at the University of Sussex; a gathering of (mostly) idiots

I have just returned from a fascinating two-day conference at the University of Sussex. As someone who researches anti-Zionist forces in the UK, watching these people operate inside an arena so fraugh...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • NGO's • The I/P conflict • United Nations Apr 2, 2017

The UCC, racism against Jews, and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

It is Sunday 2/4/2017. It is the third and last day of the Cork anti-Israel conference. A meeting of people who have chosen to spend their lives fighting against the Jewish State. The most liberal, mo...

anti-Semitism • anti-Zionism • BDS • extremism on campus • The I/P conflict • United Nations Mar 21, 2017

A sickness at the heart of Academia, blindness at the LSE

20th March 2017. The London School of Economics (LSE) in Holborn. I am at a book launch for Richard Falk’s latest collection of essays titled ‘Palestine’s Horizon’. Falk has be...

Islamic terrorism • NGO's • The I/P conflict • UK • United Nations • USA Jan 4, 2017

Why is there no State of Palestine?

100 years since Balfour, , 70 years since partition. Why is there no State of Palestine? There is no State of Palestine because after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, when the League of Nations used th...

Islamic terrorism • Media Bias • NGO's • The I/P conflict Dec 20, 2016

325 miles to Aleppo, Syria. Hard lessons for Israel

It is difficult not to be moved by events in Syria. Images from Aleppo, Syria are heart-breaking. It is also fair to say, most of us in the west, despite vocally shouting that ‘something needs to be...