UK Labour's predictable descent into anti-Semitism
The British Labour Party's descent into totalitarian, anti-Semitic bigotry has been driven by the false belief that hatred of the Jewish state of Israel -- itself a vile form of bigotry -- can truly be divorced from hatred of the great mass of Jews
- 1 May 2016
The shameful anti-Semitism in the British Left
Many sections of society continue to be infected by the virus of anti-Semitism. But its prevalence is most obvious in the British Left where a mutated form of the disease is spreading like wildfire
- 5 April 2016
Catholic lessons for Palestinians on renouncing anti-Semitism
Despite the furore over whether the Pope did or did not call Mahmoud Abbas an Angel of Peace, the big picture issue here is that the Roman Catholic Church is an example for the Palestinians to emulate in renouncing anti-Semitism
- 23 May 2015
The French paradox and the Jews
The French paradox: Although 76,000 Jews were deported from France, how was it that 75 percent of Jews in France managed to survive death in the Nazi era while only 20 percent in the Netherlands, and 55 percent in Belgium were able to do so?
- 15 April 2015
Lethal anti-Semitism originated on the Left
The Marxist Left has a long and sordid history of anti-Semitism. The core belief was that Jews must cease to be Jews in order to be liberated. That has now been extended to virulent hostility to the Jewish State of Israel
- 2 April 2015
Copenhagen attacks and Western mixed messages
After Copenhagen, we are tragically reminded that our leaders are sending mixed messages about terrorism both in their dithering about Islamist terror against Israel, and their absurd statements that Islam is an irrelevant factor
- 15 February 2015
The Left's blind spot over anti-Semitism
Leftists like Owen Jones at the Guardian falsely accuse supporters of Israel of always labelling their critics as anti-Semitic. They don't. But the bigotry against Israel is very real, and the Left can't see that because they're leading it
- 14 August 2014
Leading Italian intellectual: "Shoot those bastard Zionists"
Top Italian "intellectual" says Israel worse than Nazis, and would like to kill Israelis personally, except that he doesn't know how to shoot a gun
- 23 July 2014
French ironies and the Jews
In 1791 France served up modernity's first act of Jewish emancipation. Today it is the country of Alain Finkielkraut. Yet it is also the country of Dreyfus, wartime collaboration with the Nazis, and the contemporary anti-Semitism of the far-Right, anti-Zionists, Dieudonné, and radical Islam
- 29 June 2014
Jihad against Jews and the coming European exodus
A Jewish exodus will be a rude awakening to Europeans who wish to ignore the problem of anti-Semitism for which Western Europe remains a friendly place
- 25 June 2014
Anti-Semitic deluge as Israelis win Europe basketball title
The immediate response to the Israeli basketball victory by the biased, bigoted, and afraid boycotters of Jews and of Israel was the outpouring of 18,000 anti-Semitic messages posted on Twitter
- 17 June 2014
The Guardian's problem with anti-Semitism
Such is the Guardian's fanatical obsession with Israel that when it comes to anti-semitism, a different set of rules applies. Apparently Jewish victims of prejudice don't deserve sympathy
- 17 May 2014
Are all boycotters of Israel anti-Semitic?
Do you treat Jews in a manner different from other people? Israel is the quintessential Jewish project of modern times. Reflect. Prof. Michael Curtis in one of the most important pieces on the subject for many years
- 18 March 2014
Where free speech ends and race hate begins
The eternal struggle between satire and censorship is a beautiful thing, but nobody has the right to provoke hatred, says Richard Ferrer, Editor of the Jewish News
- 7 February 2014
The Economist flirts with anti-Semitism? Or is this love?
What in heaven's name is the Economist playing at? It gets closer to the the Guardian all the time. Its cartoon (see below) is shocking bigotry, nothing more and nothing less
- 19 January 2014
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