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Stephen Sedley, former Judge at the Court of Appeal Criticises the IHRA Definition of anti-Semitism
No sooner had the European Union Monitoring Committee Definition of Anti-Semitism been scrapped by its successor, the Fundamental Rights Agency, in 2013, [EU drops its ‘working definition’ of anti-Semitism] than it resurfaced in the guise of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism. First recommended by the Home Affairs Select Committee in its Report…
Read MoreIsrael’s Collaboration in the Murder of 3,000 Jews by Argentine’s neo-Nazi Junta comes back to Haunt It
Argentine-Israelis Urge Israel to Disclose Past Junta Ties A demonstration against Argentina’s military junta in 1979. Women from Mothers of the Plaza hold up banners. The one that is clearly visible in the photograph has pictures of some of the “disappeared.” Argentine-Israelis Urge Israel to Disclose Past Junta Ties One of the principal justifications for…
Read MoreSteve Bell’s defence of Ken Livingstone – If… only Jeremy Corbyn had the same courage and clarity
Corbyn’s retreat in the face of Zionism’s False Anti-Semitism Allegations symbolised his appeasement of the Right It was inevitable that when Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the Labour Party that he would face intense opposition. Unlike the Labour Left, the Right has demonstrated, as Tony Blair has made clear, that it would prefer a…
Read MoreFarewell Comrade Willem Johannes Meijs 12th April 1941—21st March 2017
Willem Meijs – A friend and fighter for Palestine and a better world On 21st March, Willem Meijs, the husband of my dear friend Sue Blackwell, passed away in a hospice in the Dutch town of Hoorn. Six days later I made my first foreign trip since having a liver transplant 18 months ago to…
Read MoreFull Support to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Hunger Strike
Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian Mandela, on why the prisoners have no other option On April 16th 700 Palestinian prisoners began a hunger strike. Israel reacted in the way that you would expect a State of Terror to react. It declared that the hunger strike, a weapon of last resort used by prisoners the world over…
Read MoreZionism’s Court Historians – Reinventing the past in order to manipulate the future
Lying in the service of the Israeli state Oxford’s Professor Jane Caplan Attacks Ken Livingstone the “Beitar Heart” Instagram account of Jerusalem’s Beitar fan club featured an image of a candle lit to commemorate Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The image was tagged with #Death to Arabs! Jane Caplan, Emeritus Professor of History in Modern European History…
Read MoreJim Crow is Alive and Well in Israel
Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s. Jim Crow was more than a series of rigid anti-black laws. It was a way of life. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class…
Read MoreIs there a Hebrew nation in Israel and does it have the right to self-determination?
The overthrow of Zionism is incompatible with a Hebrew nation My article in this week’s Weekly Worker, is a reply to the article Palestine and Hebrew self-determination by veteran Israeli socialist and anti-Zionist, the founder of Matzpen, Moshe Machover. It is a debate about something that people rarely debate any more in the Palestine solidarity movement, strategy. We…
Read MoreFighting the Tories – Within and Without
No Overall Control is a likely outcome A good opening start to the election campaign – In Brighton the key dilemma is whether to concentrate on the winnable Kemptown seat or throw them away in Pavilion when the current MP is to the left of most Labour MPs We had an interesting discussion at Brighton…
Read MoreLabour Can Win if Corbyn is Bold – the Key Issue is Poverty and the Transfer of Wealth
John Woodcock Must Not be Allowed to Stand There is no reason that this scab should be a Labour candidate It was Harold Wilson who said that a week is a long time in politics. Seven weeks is a political eternity. Theresa May has taken a gamble that her 21% lead will hold. It is…
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