New mayor accepts EUMC definition of anti-Semitism
Sadiq Kahn promised ‘zero tolerance’ for anti-Semitism. I wrote to him to ask if he accepted the EUMC Definition. Here is the response I got from City Hall, dated 9 June: “Dear Mr Hoffman Thank you...
View ArticleReferendum: The guide for the perplexed
As an economist as well as a campaigner for Israel and against anti-Semitism, a number of people have asked me for advice to help them decide how to vote. Which outcome is better for the economy and...
View ArticleEU Referendum: We must remain for the economy, jobs and security
Myself and Jeremy Newmark, Chair of Hertsmere Labour Party and of the Jewish Labour Movement have our differences about UK politics and about Israel. But as regards the importance of the UK remaining...
View ArticleEU Referendum: Turnout of young people
There is a myth going around that only 34% of 18-24s voted in the Referendum. This figure is being used by some Leave supporters to rebut the accusation that older people – who voted Leave...
View ArticleReasons for voting Leave in the referendum …
Here are some genuine reasons people gave for voting Leave: Afghanistan was going to be joining the EU Because Tony Blair wants us to stay in Turkey was joining the EU They have to give halal food to...
View ArticleDeputies Have Short Memories ….
In 2012 the then Executive of the Board of Deputies initiated in secret a joint project with Oxfam, one of the most anti-Israel of all charities. I was a then Deputy and blogged about it here and I...
View ArticleWhy Brexit won’t happen
In order to make Brexit happen, the Prime Minister is going to have to ask the Queen to sign a law repealing the European Communities Act (1972). But to ask her to do that is tantamount to asking her...
View ArticleDefending remainers from Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips believes that leaving the EU will enable us to ’rule ourselves and make our own policies’ (see her article here). Unless she wants the UK to be some kind of imitation of North Korea,...
View ArticleOwn goal over Sir Philip Green
Early last week the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee published a report about the collapse of BHS. I read the report. It doesn’t pull its punches about the conduct of Sir Philip Green. He...
View ArticleBritish children volunteer for ISIS because of austerity…
Rhea Wolfson is a Jew-For-Jeremy who has just been elected to Labour’s NEC. She says she is “keen to ensure that our party is an environment which is hospitable to both Jews and Zionists.” On Any...
View ArticleLabour and ISIS
Owen Smith MP (standing for the Labour leadership) today said: “At some point we need to get ISIS around the table”. By coincidence, this morning a letter from Mr Smith to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIS...
View ArticleIs Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite?
Discussions of antisemitism in the Labour Party inevitably include the assertion that Jeremy Corbyn himself is NOT an anti-Semite. Take this by Jonathan Freedland for example: Which brings us to Jeremy...
View ArticleHinde Street Church: Now take down that wall!
The one-sidedness of the “Checkpoint” mock-up at the Hinde Street Methodist Church in London (which ends on Friday) has been well covered by Richard Millett and David Collier in their blogs. Three...
View ArticleThe cesspit where Momentum and the PSC intersect
At the launch of the Chakrabarti Report a Jewish Labour MOP, Ruth Smeeth, ran from the room in tears after being verbally attacked by a Momentum activist and Corbyn supporter – Mark Wadsworth – who...
View ArticleWhat’s Sauce for the Gandz
When Michael Foster called the Corbynites ‘SturmAbteilung’ (stormtroopers), the Jewish Left was up in arms at his use of a Nazi comparison and the Board of Deputies issued a condemnation. On Wednesday...
View ArticleSOAS sees sense
On 13 October SOAS Palestinian Society was due to hold a discussion on the topic of “Decoupling Judaism and Zionism in Palestine Advocacy“. The event was to feature four speakers who self-identified as...
View ArticleAttack on John Mann: Glatt kosher or treif?
A letter has been widely shared on social media, signed by a 90 year old Jewish doctor in Sunderland called Dr Sam Glatt and addressed to John Mann MP: Dear Mr Mann, 18/10/2016 It is with a sense of...
View ArticleLFI must think again!
Labour Friends of Israel is lobbying the government to support ‘a fund designed by the Alliance for Middle East Peace to boost spending on coexistence work’. So let’s look at the members of the...
View ArticleNo to anti-semitic meetings in Parliament!
I have tried for many years to stop MPs and Peers booking rooms in Parliament for anti-semitic meetings. Six years ago, for example, at one such meeting, Martin Linton said “there are long tentacles of...
View ArticleDaniel Hannan – Button It!
Daniel Hannan is an MEP who was a leader of the Leave campaign. He was on the Today programme (BBC Radio 4) today, attacking Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England. Hannan suggested that...
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