British film director asks if Charles Michel had examined the evidence before accusing him of anti-Jewish comments.
Ken Loach has responded with fury at a hastily convened press conference to a suggestion by the Belgian prime minister that a leading university was wrong to honour him following (...)
Stop accusing Jewish people of treachery when they criticise Israel, writes Eleanor Penny.
On Monday night, Jeremy Corbyn attended a Passover seder hosted by left-wing organisation Jewdas – a group known for their pro-Palestinian politics, their bedazzled Purim cabarets and their insistence (...)
I. Mear One’s mural was antisemitic. If Trump posted an image of that mural on his Twitter feed, it would immediately be recognised for what it is. It is the idea that it is in some way associated with the Left, promoted by the artist himself and by some of those who offer him platforms, that (...)
If the left wants to win over the pro-Israeli lobby, it will have to start taking anti-semitism seriously.
About every three months I am accused of being an anti-semite. It is not difficult to predict when it will happen. A single, critical mention of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians will do (...)
The acclaimed film director responds to recent allegations in The Guardian and New York Times that he gave “spurious legitimacy” to Holocaust denial.
Following recent allegations made against him by Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian and Howard Jacobson in the New York Times, and the refusal of (...)
A renowned Israeli anti-Zionist was expelled from Labour on Tuesday, as the party bureaucracy falsely accused him of anti-Semitism.
The 81-year-old retired professor was expelled from Labour outright with no hearing. (TeleSUR)
Retired philosophy professor Moshé Machover told The Electronic (...)
Progress, the Jewish Labour Movement and the rightwing media have been running a completely cynical campaign, argues Moshé Machover.
The whole campaign of equating opposition to Zionism with anti-Semitism has, in fact, been carefully orchestrated with the help of the Israeli government and the (...)
Israeli historian Shlomo Sand responds to Emmanuel Macron’s speech in front of Benjamin Netanyahu, in commemoration of the 1942 Vel d’Hiv round-up of Jews. “Has this former student of philosophy, Paul Ricoeur’s assistant, read so few history books that he does not know that many Jews or descendants (...)
Roland Rance examines the issues. Tory electoral strategist Lynton Crosby has gained notoriety for his “dead cat” tactic: when losing an argument, “throw a dead cat on the table”. However much this may disgust people, you can guarantee that the dead cat is what they will be talking about, any other (...)
Paul Kelemen, author of The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce, looks at the roots of the recent controversies in the British Labour Party
If the mainstream media is to be believed, the Labour Party is seriously afflicted with antisemitism. Although most of the remarks cited as (...)
However distorted and exaggerated, antisemitism is a real current in France that needs to be confronted.
A new holocaust. Kristallnacht. That, they say, is what the large mobilizations against Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip betoken. With the best will in the world, when Israel’s mandarins and apologists invoke the Holocaust’s legacy in this way, it is difficult not to respond with a world-weary sigh.
Who dares to bomb a packed refugee center , incinerating, shredding, and crushing the (...)
The below - an open letter from Palestine scholar Julien Salingue to Roger Cukierman of the French Jewish body CRIF - is translated from the original French. It helps place a lot of the lurid anglophone reporting in context.
Since the beginning of the Israeli offensive against Gaza, the (...)
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Independent Jewish Voices condemns Harper’s attempt to exploit anti-Semitism in Knesset speech
OTTAWA- Independent Jewish Voices – Canada (IJV) is disturbed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s remarks during his speech to the Israeli Parliament, in which (...)
“Behind anti-Zionism there hides anti-Semitism.” Who has not heard or read this sentence, instilled with almost metronomic regularity in recent years by many devoted admirers of the State of Israel, with the aim of discrediting any criticism of Israeli policies? Indeed anyone who dared question (...)
Review: The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics. By Gilad Atzmon. Zero Books, 2011, 202 pages, $14.95 paperback.
GILAD ATZMON IS one hell of a jazz musician, justly counted among the best global practitioners of the art of bop and post-bop. In fact, the dual status of modern (...)
In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands. By Martin Gilbert. Yale University Press; 320 pages; £25 and $35. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives. By Gilbert Achcar. Metropolitan Books; 400 pages; $30. Saqi; £25. Buy from (...)
Only 6,300 Arabs served in German military while hundreds of thousands (including 9,000 Palestinians) of them fought in the Allied ranks. Of the 97,000 French causalities from Tunisian campaign to German surrender, 52 percent were Muslims. Albania was the only country in Europe to come out of (...)
On The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives, by Gilbert Achcar.
“Since the fourth century after Christ,” wrote the late Raul Hillberg in his masterwork, The Destruction of the European Jews, “there have been three anti-Jewish policies: conversion, expulsion, and (...)
Review: The Invention of the Jewish People. By Shlomo Sand. Verso, 2009, translation by Yael Lotan, 313 pages + index.. $16.95 paperback.
SO WHERE DID “the Jewish people” come from anyway? Was there an Exodus from Egypt, an Empire of David and Solomon, an Exile ending in a triumphant Return to (...)
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