Breaking the Silence shortlisted for freedom of expression award
The non-profit organisation Index On Censorship presented its annual Freedom of Expression Awards on Wednesday at London’s Unicorn Theatre. In the Campaigning category, Breaking the Silence was one of...
View ArticleIs Kevin Myers really an anti-Semite?
On Sunday Kevin Myers was pilloried for an article he wrote in the Irish Sunday Times and the tirade continued on Monday. The President of the Board of Deputies condemned it, the Irish Prime Minister...
View ArticleHate and Errors: Anatomy of a deeply nasty book
On 3 November 2016 we were present at a meeting at SOAS (a London University), addressed by Thomas Suarez to discuss his new book, State of Terror. As he spoke, it became clear as day that the book was...
View ArticleJLC scores spectacular own goal
On 20 August the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) published a Report containing the results of a survey of British Jews. Among other things respondents were asked whether they agreed with this...
View ArticleThree own goals in three weeks …
First we had Simon Johnson of the JLC badmouthing the CAA Survey. Then we had the CST’s Antisemitic Discourse Report which (page 13) states ‘Not all anti-Zionists are antisemites and anti-Zionism is...
View ArticleJPR anti-semitism survey: wide open goal for Corbyn
Last Tuesday the Institute for Jewish Policy Research in London published a research paper with the title Antisemitism in Contemporary Great Britain. It seemed to come up with some interesting results....
View ArticleOfcom decision plays into the hands of haters
On 9 October Ofcom published its long-awaited decision on complaints about the four-part Al Jazeera series ‘The Lobby’, broadcast from 11-14 January . I was a complainant. Below is a Q+A on the...
View ArticleRunning with the fox and hunting with the hounds
Wes Streeting is a Labour MP. He is a Vice Chair (one of 14) of the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism. He has been outspoken against anti-Semitism in the Labour Party and has been...
View ArticleLSE breaks own rule on neutral chair for external meetings
LSE has a longstanding internal rule that controversial events need a chair who is seen as neutral. Tonight (7 November) this highly controversial event is scheduled. Note that it is a university event...
View ArticleAn open letter to Jewish Leadership Council and Jewish Chronicle
The JC last Friday devoted seven pages to the JLCs ‘internal audit’ compiled in 2013 regarding alleged misdemeanours of the then CEO, Jeremy Newmark. The ‘internal audit’ – reproduced by the JC – and...
View ArticleSir Mick’s five straw man arguments in the row over Zionism
Sir Mick Davis lays claim to the moral high ground in his Jewish News column (3 July). But his history means no-one will be fooled. In previous columns he has used the language of our enemies, speaking...
View ArticleNo moral lessons from someone who said Kaddish for Gaza
On 24 May Anna Roiser implored us to sign a petition to halt the eviction of a family from a house in the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan. She asks the JNF ‘to live up to its Torah obligation’...
View ArticleIncorrect parallels and evidence-free assertions
Eyad Hallaq is a resident of East Jerusalem who was accidentally killed by a policeman on 30 May 2020. He failed to heed an order to stop and the policeman mistook the mobile phone he was carrying for...
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