Tag Archives: Islamism

Muslim hostility to Israel and Jews in Europe: is it antisemitism as we know it?

Posted on 17/09/2014 by Antony Lerman

On 4 August I posted a piece by the Washington-based historian and independent scholar Dr Steven Beller in which he discussed the question: ‘Anti-Jewish hostility provoked by the Gaza offensive: is antisemitism the right word for it?’ It generated a lively response in … Continue reading →

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Now Ken has apologised to London’s Jews, was Freedland right to say ‘I won’t vote for him’?

Posted on 30/03/2012 by Antony Lerman

A day or two after Jonathan Freedland wrote an op-ed published in the Guardian announcing that he could not vote for Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London, because ‘he doesn’t care what hurt he causes Jews’, I started to write a … Continue reading →

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IJV Panel on the Arab Uprisings and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Posted on 19/07/2011 by Antony Lerman

This piece is cross-posted from the Independent Jewish Voices blog Chaired by Professor Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, University of London), the IJV panel event discussing the impact of the Arab Spring on developments in Israel-Palestine, which was held at Birkbeck, University of … Continue reading →

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