The Protocols of the Elders of SOAS Palestine Society
On Thursday night I was at SOAS Palestine Society to hear a talk every bit as anti-Semitic as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It was given by Thomas Suarez, an American musician. Suarez has...
View ArticleChristians who regret Balfour: The caravan stops at Southwark
With less than a year to go to the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, the caravan of Christian regretters moves on. This autumn we had Hinde Street first, then Lichfield Cathedral. On Saturday the...
View ArticleThe book which lies and distorts
A new book by Thomas Suarez (‘State of Terror – How terrorism created modern Israel’) was presented and discussed at SOAS Palestine Society on 3 November. After the meeting Campaign Against...
View ArticleGood Jews v Bad Jews
Last night (23 November) in London two Jewish Israelis gave talks. The first was Dr Dan Schueftan. He was speaking at Kings College London. The second was Idit Lev. She was speaking at St James’s...
View ArticleJewish Students – Please Remember Your ABC!
Voting for the UJS President is now open. It closes on 9 December at 12pm. There are three candidates. Eran Cohen, Joshua Holt and Adam Schapira. Eran Cohen is openly anti-Zionist. The Palestinian...
View ArticleTonge under investigation
It emerged on Friday that Baroness Jenny Tonge is under investigation by the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards. As someone who has long campaigned on the improper use of rooms in Parliament for...
View ArticleTime to go, Professor
Professor David Feldman is the Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism in London – the only such academic institute in the UK. You would think that such an augustly and precisely...
View ArticleThe wisdom of the Kiwi foreign minister
New Zealand was one of the four countries which sponsored the biased and unhelpful Resolution 2334 at the UN Security Council last week. The main proponent of the Kiwi initiative was Murray McCully,...
View ArticleBaroness Tonge posts anti-semitic article
Baroness Jenny Tonge is under investigation by the House of Lords Commissioner for Standards. Initially she was under investigation on two counts: alleged failure to act on personal honour and alleged...
View ArticlePromoting anti-semitism is not covered by Lords code of conduct
All MPs and peers today received the CST’s Antisemitic Incidents Report. The CST received many supportive replies. Then there was this appalling response from Baroness Tonge …….. “Do you NEVER consider...
View ArticleAnti-semitism: A meaningless lecture
On Monday night I went to Birkbeck (University of London) for a lecture by Professor David Feldman entitled ‘The Meanings of Antisemitism’. Professor Feldman is the Director of the Pears Institute for...
View ArticleCharity Commission investigating anti-Semitic Suarez meeting at SOAS
In November I blogged about an anti-semitic meeting at SOAS which I attended. Under the Prevent law, Universities have a duty to assess whether to decide to host a particular speaker. ‘ ….when deciding...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘Reporting on Hitler’ by Will Wainewright
The issue of what President Trump – with typical directness – calls ‘fake news’ has risen high in the policy agenda. The more sources of ‘news’ there are, the more difficult it seems to be to separate...
View ArticleIsrael’s ban on BDS activists: Welcome and justified
What a Chutzpah that a Yachad employee is telling the government of Israel whom it should admit! Remember: It was Yachad that lobbied the UK government to vote for UN Security Council Resolution 2334,...
View ArticleAn open letter to Baroness Amos, Principal of SOAS
Dear Baroness Amos, I saw you on BBC Sunday Politics. You said “the first priority always is the duty of care to all of our students” and “We have a very clear policy called ‘Respect At SOAS’ which...
View ArticleBaroness Tonge: Why the Lords Report is wrong
The long-awaited House of Lords Report on the conduct of Baroness Tonge has been published. It follows the meeting on 25 October 2016 which she hosted and chaired. David Collier was present at that...
View ArticleMy question to Jackie Walker: Setting the record straight
On 25th February there was a conference at UCL to mark the 50th Anniversary of the publication of a Noam Chomsky paper. Jackie Walker was one of the speakers. I asked Walker (8:05 here) how she could...
View Article“Raus!”: How Jews were ejected from an anti-Israel meeting in Parliament
I had hoped to report on a meeting in Parliament (Conference Room 1) on 28 March. It was the ‘Balfour Apology Campaign’, chaired by Jenny Tonge. Unfortunately the Chair, Lord Warner (not Tonge – yes...
View ArticleKen Livingstone’s dishonesty
Ken Livingstone was on BBC News Channel at 4.20pm today (5 April). He held up this article from the Jewish News: He used it is his defence, as if it was a Jewish News editorial. He said: “This is last...
View ArticleThe Irish hate caravan moves on, to planet oxymoron
First we had Cork, complete with anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theory, the suggestion that Jewish Israeli parents deprive their children of love in order to ‘breed killers’ and that Jewish Zionists are...
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