Seething with anger
Since Brexit, there has been a particular theory about why people voted the way they did: that it wasn’t about immigration or racism, it was about something called ‘identity’. It was to do with...
Category: Palestine
“Never such depravity”
Last week I listened to the BBC’s File on 4 programme about the murder of Brianna Ghey last year in a village outside Warrington after the two teenagers responsible had been sentenced. Brianna was...
Genocide shouldn’t be divisive
Last night the Green party group on Lambeth borough council in south London tabled a motion to the full council meeting calling for, according to My London (a website containing stories from local papers...
Ask a loaded question …
Over the years, a frustrating phenomenon for anyone writing about the oppression of Palestinians and the upsurge in hostility to Muslims in the West following 9/11 was an established race relations industry that was...
Thanks Wes, but take a stand on Gaza!
Last week a Muslim primary school in Ilford and a mosque also in east London received threatening letters. The letter sent to the school is addressed “Dear pedophiles” (sic) and signed “your terrorist friend”;...
On condemning the Gaza genocide without mentioning Hamas
In last month’s controversy over the open letter from Stella Maris, the student rector at St Andrew’s university in Scotland, I noticed that the authors of the open letter to Ms Maris complained that...
Zionist censors come for another student leader
Yesterday the BBC reported that the rector of St Andrew’s university in Scotland, Stella Maris (right), had faced calls to resign after writing an open letter regarding the ongoing genocide of Palestinian civilians in...
I was there (at the demonstration)
Yesterday I went to my first Palestine demo in London since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza following the 7th October Hamas raids. The past week, or more, there has been a...
“The Arabs of the land”
The other day I came across a long tweet ‘explaining’ why there are still refugee camps in Gaza and other Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab countries years after the wars that made them refugees....
Why Labour are losing Muslims
Since the genocide in Gaza began in the aftermath of the 7th October attacks, politicians on both sides of the house in both the US and UK — Tories, Labour, Republicans and Democrats —...
Nick Timothy itching for a fight
In yesterday’s (Monday’s) Daily Telegraph, there was an opinion piece by Nick Timothy, former chief of staff at 10 Downing Street when Theresa May was PM, giving a caricature of the pro-Palestinian protests in...
The condemnation game
Over the past three weeks since the Hamas assault on southern Israel, the death toll of which is assumed to be 1,400, all caused by Hamas, both claims very heavily disputed, the Israeli armed...
The spectre of genocide
In the two weeks since the 7th October Hamas raid in southern Israel, the government of Israel has launched a bombing campaign against Gaza (supposedly against Hamas, but targeting civilian buildings including hospitals and...
Hamas: Terrorists versus militants
Today it was reported that four of the UK’s most senior lawyers had complained to Ofcom, the British media regulator, had breached its code of impartiality by refusing to use the word ‘terrorist’ in...
Racism on Today
This morning I heard a shocking racist rant from an Israeli whose family were (allegedly) among those taken hostage by Hamas in last week’s raid on communities in the Gaza border region, on the...
NUS and antisemitism on and off campus
Last Friday the BBC published a report by Hazel Shearing, its education correspondent (inexplicably filed under “Young Reporter” (a term normally used of student reporters, which she isn’t), about antisemitism in and around universities...
Do Jews “not count”?
Last week, the 90s comedian David Baddiel recently presented a documentary on the place of Jews among Britain’s minorities and the question of why, as he sees it, Jews are left out by identity...
Snow elephants versus democracy
On Tuesday it was announced on Twitter and via the Jewish Chronicle, before it was announced on the organisation’s own website, that the National Union of Students’ President, Shaima Dallali, who had been accused...
Zionism and the politics of suspicion
The “politics of suspicion” is a term often heard in Muslim circles: it means a culture in which people are held responsible for the deeds of those with the same beliefs as themselves, and...
Why I defend Jeremy Corbyn on anti-Semitism
Two things happened last week which gave rise to a lot of opinionating on the current state and future of the Labour party. One was another ‘revelation’ about Jeremy Corbyn displaying anti-Semitism, in this...