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Defamation, a documentary researched and presented by the Israeli journalist Yoav Shamir, was part of More4’s True Stories slot and was on Tuesday night. The idea that anti-Semitism was somewhat overhyped and used to...
BBC News – Romanian workers reveal true cost of beauty This is a story about Romanian workers who were tricked into coming to the UK to sell cosmetics on a “commission-only”, “self-employed” basis. This...
Judge Goldstone and the pollution of argument | Comment is free | The Guardian Antony Lerman in today’s Guardian on the ongoing smear campaign against human rights activists who criticise the state of Israel,...
Gambling with peace: how US bingo dollars are funding Israeli settlements — The Guardian Revealing how money raised from a casino frequented mostly by Latinos in California is funding Jewish settlement expansion in the...
I shot a few videos with my new camcorder at the rally for Palestine yesterday. Besides wanting to do this for its own sake as the first serious usage of my new toy, I...
Reading Mas’ud Khan’s account of his recent exchange with Melanie Phillips ([1], [2], [3]), I noticed that he had mentioned Neturei Karta to her, asking her whether she regarded them as “self-hating Jews”. NK,...
Leila Shahid: An urgent call for aid for Nahr el Bared in Lebanon (Comment is free) Leila Shahid (PLO representative to the UN) on the failure of Arab governments (as opposed to organisations) to...
The Guardian today had this feature on descendants of Nazis, including a shirt-tail relative of Adolf Hitler, who became Jews, and in one case a rabbi, supposedly to cleanse themselves of the sins of...
Johann Hari wrote this article in today's Independent, regarding the tendency of supporters of Israel to smear their opponents with accusations of anti-Semitism. Hari wrote an article last week about his travels in the...
The Spectator this week led with a "Happy 60th Birthday, Israel" feature by Melanie Phillips. Perhaps there is nothing unusual about that, given that it repeats a whole load of the usual pro-Israeli claims...
The book version of Mearsheimer & Walt's The Israel Lobby is now out in the UK (I got it for £22 in Blackwell's in Charing Cross Road; Borders didn't have it at all, several...
Naomi Klein (of No Logo fame) has an article in today's Guardian about the current success of Israel's economy, apparently despite its present "difficulties" and having lost out after the "dot com" bubble burst...
Here are a few pictures I took at yesterday’s Enough Occupation demonstration in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the Israel seizure of the West Bank and Gaza. The demonstration wasn’t massive –...
Melanie Phillips’s Diary; The Islamic duty to respect Israel Melanie Phillips, courtesy of “Arabs for Israel”, has found a selection of Qur’anic verses which supposedly enjoin Muslims to respect Israel – not the prophet...
Anglo-neocons are slaves to America and not serving us (Guardian Unlimited) Geoffrey Wheatcroft (The Strange Death of Tory England, Yo! Blair) on the clique of “Anglo-neocons” surrounding David Cameron whose position on the Iraq...
Earlier this week, Leeds University cancelled a talk and a two-day workshop which was due to be delivered by the German academic and former adviser to his country's Green Party, Matthias Küntzel, on what...
The Guardian's readers' editor responds to speculation on various websites and blogs that a report, accompanied by photographs, of an attack on a Red Cross ambulance (which prompted Melanie Phillips to write this entry...
The BBC is commonly accused of being biased against Israel and of being unwilling to call terrorists what they are, but an interview with a representative of the Muslim Brotherhood on yesterday's Today programme...
From Thursday's Times, a report on a meeting by Israelis including former PM Binyamin Netanyahu to "commemorate" the bombing in July 1946 of the King David Hotel, in which 92 people died, unveiling a...
The Guardian's Education section today reports on how recent debates on boycotting Israeli universities produced a flood of often abusive emails: Following a heart attack earlier this year, Paul Mackney, then general secretary of...