38 Degrees: This is NOT democracy
I have just received an email message from 38 Degrees, an online campaigning organization in the UK that claims to have three million members of which, apparently, I am one. The subject line is “Islamic…
September 2014
Taking Ukraine’s side – because of, not in spite of, our history
Ukraine to many Jews conjures up bad memories – pogroms, collaboration with Nazis, anti-Semitism spanning centuries. So when Russian President Putin claims that Nazis have come to power in a putsch in Kiev, we take…
TUC silence on Russian aggression is nothing new
In an otherwise excellent piece on the TUC’s passing of an idiotic resolution on Ukraine, Dale Street writes that “for the first time since the Second World War the territory of a European country has…
From ‘pro-peace’ to ‘pro-Palestinian’ – the British TUC switches sides
The decisions taken yesterday by Britain’s Trade Union Congress (TUC) on the subject of Palestine mark the end of an era.
The anti-anti-semitism of fools
This article also appears on Harry’s Place, Howie’s Corner, Solidarity (Workers’ Liberty) and Shiraz Socialist. I have just come back from attending a large demonstration in central London protesting the rise of anti-Semitism in the…