Tag: Antisemitism

Sebastian Milbank has written an excellent piece in the Critic charting the descent of the University of Edinburgh into woke madness and how that spilled over in 'decolonial' antisemitic bile in the past week.

For more than a year, footballers took the knee in solidarity with George Floyd, says Brendan O'Neill. "Yet after the racist slaughter of a thousand Israelis, the FA can’t even be bothered to light up the Wembley arch."

When violence breaks out between Israel and Palestine it becomes common to observe that progressives have a particular problem with the Jewish state, seemingly because it is Jewish. Why is that, asks Dr David McGrogan.

Just when you thought that the Left couldn’t sink any lower, along comes Yanis Varoufakis defending the brutal attack on Israel as resistance against an 'apartheid state' – a comparison as false as it is grotesque.

The Black Lives Matter chapter in Chicago publicly backed the Palestinian terrorists who killed some 1,200 Israelis over the weekend with a post that read "I Stand with Palestine" and an image of a Hamas paraglider.

An NHS medic, Dr Mennah Elwan, mocked Israeli festival-goers for fleeing Hamas gunmen, claiming on X that "there are no civilians in Israel" and calling for the UK to forcibly remove the whole Israeli population.

In this week's London Calling, the argument is about whether the rained-out English summer has been inflicted on us by a cabal of malevolent billionaires, or if it's just... you know, the weather.

Nick Dixon and Toby Young talk about the hatefulness of Stop Funding Hate, the Conservative councillor suspended for objecting to Pride and the Left-liberal hypocrisy on show in the Huw Edwards BBC scandal.

The Guardian has apologised after publishing an antisemitic cartoon yesterday. It depicted ex-BBC Chairman Richard Sharp with exaggerated Jewish features carrying a basket containing gold coins and a Rishi Sunak puppet.