This sickens me and leaves me cold. I know that there are millions of non-Jewish people in the UK who will be appalled by this but it confirms what I and so many people have been saying for a long time, that the political right does not have a monopoly on hatred and antisemitism, that ...
TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE MASSACRE: THE BEST, THE ONLY, RESPONSE
Anderson Cooper’s tribute to the Tree of Life Synagogue’s victims. Anderson’s calm, respectful style and tone is perfect. What a pro! Sincere, warm and authentic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY0Jdusd5-A How poignant it is that the Synagogue/Temple/Shul is just 5 minutes from where Fred ‘Mister’ Rogers lived, a man of love, kindness, tolerance and empathy. Hatred and division must never be allowed to ...
THE TRAGIC, HEARTBREAKING, CHILLING DEMISE OF THE UK LABOUR PARTY: A WARNING…
Miles Webber, an old school pal of mine - and a LABOUR PARTY stalwart, member, worker, supporter for the last 28 years - this is his Labour Party membership card: I have no doubt that he'll have cut that card with a mixture of emotions - extreme sadness - heartbreak - extreme anger and utter bewilderment. He ...
MY SENSE OF BEING BRITISH/ENGLISH IS ON THE WANE…
Tuesday evening/Wednesday this week was the first Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism) on which we have had a child in the army, the IDF (not that our eldest is a child any more!!). I feel my Aliyah (my emigration to Israel – 2012), my Israeli identity, more ...
IRAN’S LEADERS ARE PARIAHS – EXCEPT, IT SEEMS, WHEN THEY’RE PLANNING TO WIPE OUT ISRAEL
I’m sitting here, aghast, though I don’t know why - I read this article (click on link below this paragraph) and the comments that followed. I know that the tentacles of the fake news octopus are global in reach and that they squirt the poison of antisemitism liberally but I never cease to be shocked ...
EQUATING HATRED OF ISRAEL WITH ANTISEMITISM
Yesterday, 27 September 2017, The (London) Times ('Red Box'/Comments section) published a succinct 'comments'/article by Karen Pollock MBE, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, headed: 'HOW MANY MORE TIMES MUST WE CONDEMN ANTISEMITISM IN LABOUR' I may be asked by Karen and/or The Times to remove the article from this blog for reasons of copyright - ...
SILENT, CREEPING ANTISEMITISM…
Unfortunately, there are many people who believe this vile, antisemitic claptrap: http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Israel-was-created-by-the-Rothschilds-not-God-Labour-members-post-reads-470013 There's a post going around, a photo of Jacob Rothschild, 'quoting him' as saying, "My family is worth 500 trillion (yes, trillion) dollars, we own nearly every central bank in the world (how can anyone believe that? - sadly, millions do!), we financed both sides ...