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Auschwitz Replaces Massada as Israel’s Foundational MythI first visited a concentration/extermination camp in the early 1990’s at Sachsenhausen, north of Berlin. Like Auschwitz it had the infamous ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (Work Makes You Free). Unlike Auschwitz there was no fanfare, a headphone to listen to, but the camp was not advertised to the outside world…

They were almost holding hands! Photographs are from Robert Hoffman I know Harold Wilson once said that a week is a long time in politics and 10 weeks must seem like an eternity, but one would have thought that one’s principles might last a little longer. But then again, demonisation of Muslims and the Palestinians…

Jewish Chronicle Editor, Stephen Pollard says the blinding in one eye, by Israeli Border Guards of Emily Honchowicz, “will make a fine addition to my ‘delete’ folder.” Jewish Chronicle Editor, Stephen Pollard, says that he is not interested in the truth of what happened. I wrote to Pollard, ex-editor of the Daily Express (owned by…

[The following four photos are by Ata Abu Madyam of Arab Negev News] Hundreds of Israeli Schoolchildren are brought along to participate and be educated in the meaning of Zionism You will recall the pretexts over the starvation siege of Gaza and the road blocks/confiscations etc. in the West Bank. ‘Terrorism’. Problem is that the…

Sex by Deception? He was known as ‘Dudi’, a Jewish slang for David. She thought he was Jewish. That in Israel is a terrible crime, to deceive a Jewish woman into having sex with a non-Jew. The poor ‘victim’ was looking for a serious romantic relationship, apparently, and therefore having just met the couple went…

Tonight Brighton is ‘privileged’ to have David Milliband come to speak and answer questions. Milliband is almost certain to be elected leader of the Labour Party. He is also one of the most disgusting reptiles to have emerged from the New Labour zoo. In the interests of fairness and probity I thought it only write…

A Fake Iranian Passport Handed to Haneen Zoabi MK The Day Israel’s ‘Democracy’ Officially Died Yes I can hear the laughter of my Palestinian friends. But it’s true. You see even Britain, the biggest colonial power the world has known, maintained democracy of the bourgeois type at home even whilst it perpetrated massacres at Amritsar…

The comments of retired judge Hadassa Ben-Itto, reported in Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot, really don’t need any comment. Tony Greenstein Israeli judge: Learn from Nazis Retired Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto says as part of PR war, Israel should adopt tactics used to distribute Protocols of Elders of Zion Modi Kreitman “We must learn from the Nazi…