The following is the text of a speech given by former AP journalist Matti Friedman at a BICOM dinner in London on January 26. (It’s published here by permission.) One night several […]
Israeli deaths glorified at London School of Economics on Holocaust Memorial Day
Cross posted from Richard Millett’s Blog Yesterday was the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau but last night at the London School of Economics at a joint Palestine Society and Feminist […]
Sky News “remembers Auschwitz” by suggesting that Jews fuel antisemitism
Sky News reporter Adam Boulton asked Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis three separate times if Israel causes antisemitism, during a short interview conducted on International Holocaust Memorial Day. As Boulton was interviewing […]
Holocaust sans antisemitism? Guardian editorial on Auschwitz liberation follows familiar pattern
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Roughly one out of every six Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust died between 1940 and 1945 at the Auschwitz […]
Former British diplomat: Israel should dismantle its security fence for peace
Cross posted from Richard Millett’s Blog Last Tuesday I attended yet another anti-Israel event at the London Middle East Institute based at SOAS. The last LMEI event I attended beautified Hizbollah. And […]
CiF Watch prompts Indy correction to erroneous ‘Gaza Holocaust’ passage
As we noted previously, The Independent published a story on December 24th about the ongoing Sony hacking scandal by the newspaper’s Deputy People Editor, Ella Alexander. However, in attempting to explain the nature of a […]
Grandson of Holocaust survivors denounces repulsive behavior of pro-Palestinian activists
According to reports yesterday, Pro-Palestinian activists sitting in the New York City Council Chamber gallery timed their protests to coincide with a Council resolution commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. While Council […]
Telegraph reporter is skeptical about Israeli ‘claims’ of Palestinian incitement
It’s bad enough that foreign correspondents covering the region rarely if ever report on the constant incitement to violence by Hamas, Fatah and Palestinian Authority officials. But, expressions of skepticism by reporters […]
CiF Watch prompts Guardian correction to ‘banned Palestinian workers’ claim
An article by Mark Anderson in the Global Development section of The Guardian (Israel ignoring deaths of Thai workers on farms, Human Rights Watch claims, Jan. 21) included this claim. The claim […]
Another journo accuses British Jews who fear antisemitism of being ‘ungrateful’
Yesterday, we posted about a Guardian op-ed by David Conn on Jan. 20th which accused British Jews who, in his view, express unwarranted alarm about the threat of antisemitism in the UK of […]
Guardian contributer suggests that British Jews alarmed about antisemitism are ‘ungrateful’
In fairness, The Guardian has published a few morally clear articles, op-eds and editorials on the recent increase of antisemitism in Europe and the UK. However, a Jan. 19th Guardian op-ed by David […]
How disinformation works: science and tech magazine misleads on Jerusalem
How It Works is a science and tech magazine launched in 2009, and is published by the UK-based Imagine Publishing. The magazine, available in print, digital and online editions, describes itself thusly: How […]
Howard Jacobson examines the fanaticism of Glenn Greenwald
Those who have followed our posts fisking the extremist commentary of former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald will likely enjoy a recent meditation by critically acclaimed writer Howard Jacobson which examines Greenwald and the issue of […]
Deborah Maccoby to Europe’s Jews: denounce Israel & live happily thereafter
Cross posted from the blog Simply Jews Deborah Maccoby… yeah, I know, my American friends will question my preoccupation with such minor and generally obscure elements of British society. And I don’t […]
Another Guardian cartoon throws Charlie Hebdo victims under the bus
Last week, we commented on a Jan. 8th Guardian cartoon (by political cartoonist Andrew Marlton) reacting to the jihadist attack on the staff of Charlie Hebdo, which implicitly blamed the victims for inciting their […]
Poll: 82% of UK Jews believe media bias against Israel fuels antisemitism in Britain
The Campaign Against Antisemitism just released a report based on two new YouGov polls measuring both antisemitic sentiment amongst the British public, and its effect on British Jewry. Here are the highlights: British Public’s Attitudes […]
Guardian prints letter by anti-Zionist Jew blaming Zionist Jews for antisemitism
Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JfJfP) members were quite possibly among those who inspired Howard Jacobson’s award-winning novel, The Finkler Question, as they resemble UK Jews he refers to as “Ashamed Jews,” Jews […]
London says “Je suis Charlie”, “Je suis Ahmed”, “Je suis Juifs”
Cross posted by London-based blogger Richard Millett Trafalgar Square in London was unusually quiet and reflective on Sunday as thousands flocked to stand in sympathy with Paris and those left bereaved this […]
Economist map of the Middle East fails to list Israel (Updates)
(See two important updates at the end of this post) Earlier this month, the publishing house HarperCollins was the object of much negative publicity when it was revealed that they omitted Israel from […]
Tariq Ramadan misrepresents his views on terrorism in Guardian op-ed
Tariq Ramadan is a renowned Muslim intellectual born in Geneva, and currently serves as Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University. Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al Banna, one of […]
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