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Tahra Ahmed convicted of stirring up racial hatred for antisemitic posts
14 January 2022
Antisemitic conspiracy theorist Tahra Ahmed, from Tottenham, north London, has been convicted of two charges of stirring up racial hatred today, following a complaint by CST to the police about a Facebook post in which she claimed that the Grenfell Tower fire was a “Jewish sacrifice.“ Ahmed, a local activist inv…
The Denial of Jewishness
13 November 2009
There are many ways, often subtle, in which anti-Israel or anti-Zionist debate can have an anti-Jewish impact. However, a new anti-Zionist book by Tel Aviv Professor of History, Shlomo Sand, remoulds the paradigm: with notions of Jewish peoplehood now under attack in the service of anti-Zionism. The sense of common …
The subterranean world
19 July 2010
There are some standard tropes about Jews which recur in antisemitic discourse in different contexts and countries, and have done so for centuries. They normally include, for example, that Jews are atypically cruel and bloodthirsty, particularly towards children; that they view non-Jews as somehow sub-human; that they conspire together…
Criticising Israel, and attacking Jews
18 January 2012
Yesterday's Guardian included a very good article by Tanya Gold regarding antisemitic discourse and the recent incident of a Nazi-themed drinking game on a London School of Economics ski trip, which resulted in a Jewish participant in the trip having his nose broken after objecting to the game. Predictably, because…
Who liked Dispatches?
19 November 2009
We have already written on this blog about how, despite Peter Oborne's assurance that in making Monday's Dispatches, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, "we haven't found anything resembling a conspiracy", the tone and structure of the programme and its associated promotional media material, risked encouraging exactly that conclusion. So it is w…
A busy week
24 January 2014
Nicolas Anelka's 'quenelle' and the Football Association's disciplinary process still hog the airwaves and remain hard to escape from. Nevertheless, elsewhere it has been a busy week for antisemitism and related matters. A summary: There is the imminent visit to London of Gabor Vona, leader…
Ex Bradford Mayor, “Greater Israel” and Stupid Antisemitism
24 March 2016
Watch these three minutes of sheer lunacy below. It is unlikely that you will have seen a more obvious example of antisemitic craziness (and no, it appears not to be Larry David having a Borat type laugh at the expense of stupid antisemites). Stupid as it is, this brings us immediately to the heart of antisemitic conspiracy theory and how it lies at the heart of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist conspiracy theory. After 9/11, the widely held accusation was that 4,000 Jews (not Zionists) were warned not to go to work in the Twin Towers, because Mossad was controlling Al Qaeda. Today, that shifts seamlessly into Mossad running ISIS.
The Anti-Imperialism of Fools
3 July 2009
In January 1987, the American left wing journal Dissent carried an essay by Paul Berman titled "The Anti-Imperialism of Fools", in which Berman tried to answer the question, "why is it that Israel arouses, around the world, such ferocious hostility?" Berman was and is not an 'Israel right or wrong' advocate.…
The Blame Game
29 July 2011
After 9/11, the idea spread amongst many different people, in different parts of the world, that Israel and/or the Jews were ultimately responsible for the terrorist attack. In one way of thinking, more common in Arab or Muslim majority countries, this was because (so the argument went) Israel actually carried…