Mar 25, 2010
March 29th will see the resumption in an Edinburgh court of an extraordinary trial with disturbing implications for freedom of expression and campaigners for Palestinian rights. Back in August 2008, five members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign disrupted an Edinburgh performance of the Jerusalem Quartet, who are promoted and indeed contracted to act as… Read more
Mar 20, 2006
The Guardian (weblog), 17 March In today’s Guardian John Mann MP rightly urges us to “to differentiate between hostility to Israel and aggression against Jewish institutions and people”. But this is precisely what he himself fails to do. His article is yet another attempt to hang the “anti-semitism” tag on critics of Israel and thereby muddy the waters… Read more
May 5, 2003
The Guardian, 5 May 2003 Tam Dalyell has an honourable record as a parliamentary maverick and forensic critic of military adventures, but his comment on the alleged Jewish influence on US and British war policy should be seen for what it is – an anti-semitic outburst. Although Dalyell does not appear to have used the… Read more
