Romantic Diasporas: French Emigres, British Convicts, and Jews (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters)
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
View the video. It gives us a window into how and why Brits align with jihadists. Jew hatred. Plain and simple. The single, unifying soul eating moral illness. (hat tip Amaros) On 1st December 2009, there was a pro-Israel rally outside the Palestine Solidarity Campaign 'Christmas concert' at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church on Tuesday December 1st, starting at 6pm. The carol concert featured Caryl...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Congratulations to these Jewish brothers and sisters standing up for human rights, not simply Zionist loyalty: British Zionist activists reacted on Tuesday with “bemusement” to a letter cosigned by hundreds of pro-Palestinian Jewish compatriots urging Gordon Brown to adopt the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its operation last winter in the...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Congratulations to these Jewish brothers and sisters standing up for human rights, not simply Zionist loyalty: British Zionist activists reacted on Tuesday with “bemusement” to a letter cosigned by hundreds of pro-Palestinian Jewish compatriots urging Gordon Brown to adopt the Goldstone Report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its operation last winter in the...
Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
British Jewish advocacy group CST appeals to Jews not to take part in an upcoming demonstration by far right Eurofascists: Don’t be fooled by Islamophobia . A small Islamophobic group, called Stop Islamisation Of Europe (SIOE), has called for 1,000 Jews to attend its forthcoming demonstration at Harrow mosque; and for each Jew to bring an Israeli flag. This is strikingly...
Lancaster Unity (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The Community Security Trust has urged the Jewish community not to lend their support to the group “Stop the Islamisation of Europe”. SIOE have been canvassing support from British Jews to attend their forthcoming demonstration at Harrow mosque. Emails have been circulated by SIOE, including one sent to the Jewish Chronicle, asking for support. SIOE have urged Jews...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Many British Jews take a less than kosher approach to Judaism. Jonathan Margolis explains why you will find him skipping synagogue and munching bacon bagels Some people ask me if we can meet up. They know I'm Jewish. They're wondering if I might like to write about, maybe even get a little bit involved with, something called the Jewish Community Centre for London . And no, I wouldn't,...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Tuesday, 1st December 2009Who cares'5:57pmAn advertisement in today’s Times signed by left-wing Jews in support of the Goldstone report declares:British Jews do not speak with one voice.But – outside the canards of Jew-hatred – whoever said they did? The signatories, many of whom have no connection with the Jewish community and identify as Jews only to...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
... over Iran's nuclear program, said Paul Edlin, vice president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. "But he also said he favors dialogue first, and Russia would reconsider this position only if a threat [from Iran] became evident." The key point of disagreement between the Russian leaders and the Jewish representatives on Thursday was over the transfer to Iran of Russian-made...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
It would be parochial to give a free pass to Michal Kaminski et al just because we resent the issue becoming a political football Charges of antisemitism should never be used as a political football. A group of prominent Conservative-leaning British Jews were absolutely right when they wrote this in a letter to the Daily Telegraph recently, calling for an end to attacks on Michal Kaminski,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... for the memory of those murdered by the Nazis. Jon Benjamin Chief executive, Board of Deputies of British Jews • When we saw Robert Lepage's wonderful The Far Side of the Moon in Newcastle a woman four seats away from us began a conversation with Lepage, who replied ( Letters , 26 November). We thought it was part of the show until Lepage, in character, politely asked her if...
