March 13, 2015

"Excellent meetings" between far-right Greek minister and American Jewish Committee

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I find this kind of thing both disappointing and disturbing.  See this report from the website of the Greek broadsheet, I Kathimerini : De...
February 20, 2015

Defining, Redefining and Unredefining Antisemitism

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Here's a good little post on the Jewdas website titled Keeping Antisemitism Simple.  The intro does "what it says on the tin...

Mississippi then, State of Israel now

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Listen to this song, Here's to the State of Mississipi , by the late Phil Ochs: I was reminded of one its lines, "Here's t...
February 13, 2015

Faith Matters fires Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet...but why?

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Here's a curious article from the front page of today's Jewish Chronicle . It's about the removal of Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet as ...
February 11, 2015

Hadley Freeman accuses George Galloway of Antisemitism

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I didn't see the BBC's Question Time (#BBCQT or @BBCQT on Twitter ) with George Galloway and Jonathan Freedland.  I could have watc...
February 09, 2015

Bibi goes where he's invited and where he's not invited

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And not only that, this racist war criminal claims to speak for all Jews. Here's Ha'aretz : Netanyahu: I will go to Congress li...
February 07, 2015

Even Foxman tells Bibi to stop being a clown

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From The Forward yesterday: Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti Defamation League said that the political uproar ignited by Ne...
February 06, 2015

Playing the holocaust card

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This is as egregious an example of playing the holocaust card that you will find.  I first saw it on Harry's Place  where their dullest ...

A hundred year war yet Hitchens surrendered after only ten

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Just found this on the A Tiny Revolution website:
February 03, 2015

Likud Bad, Labor worse

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Here's an article by Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz liberated from the paywall: A Labor win will only entrench the occupation On the...
February 01, 2015

Esther Rantzen, antisemitism and the threat of Maureen Lipman

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To Flying Rodent's Twitter account again for this little gem: None of the articles about Maureen Lipman fleeing persecution in the U...
January 29, 2015

Does my But look big in this?

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I've only just seen Flying Rodent's post on the great But controversy.  Titled But-head.   Clever.  It's a denunciation of the ...
January 28, 2015

CH wasn't racist? Does anyone still say so?

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Here's a quirky article I just found via Twitter . It's an op-ed on the Ricochet website by a chap called Leigh Phillips who says t...
January 27, 2015

Holocaust Memorial Day: Never Again for Anyone

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January 27: Holocaust Remembrance   Never Again for Anyone: On the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we honor Hajo ...

I'll always remember how fear shook the wealthy

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Some of the commentary on the Syriza election victory in Greece reminds me of that line from Leon Rosselson's Song of the Old Communist ...
January 23, 2015

Surreal sycophancy from Blair on Abdullah

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Oh just look at this from Tony Blair's website : I am very sad indeed to hear of the passing of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques ...
January 20, 2015

Pew on Views on Jews, Muslims and Roma

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I'm indebted to my friend Georgina for drawing my attention to this section of the Pew Research Global Attitudes Project from May 2014...
January 19, 2015

When Abba Eban opposed the use of antisemitism to promote Jewish settlement in Palestine

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Here's an interesting piece from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency archive, Jan 1960 .  Abba Eban opposed the idea of using antisemitism to...
January 18, 2015

Spot the difference at The Guardian

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The Guardian ran an article by Peter Beaumont on Friday with the headline, Why are French Jews returning to Israel in such numbers?   Some...
January 13, 2015

What kind of low-life politicises suffering?

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The Liberal Democrat MP, David Ward did a couple of tweets referencing the shameless appearance of Bibi Netanyahu at the Paris march after t...