The news this week out of South Africa could hardly have been worse. Tony Ehrenreich, provincial secretary of the Western Cape branch of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), was accused by Jewish…
Britain’s trade unions were not always hostile to Israel. One doesn’t have to go back very far to remember a time when they would invite representatives from the Histadrut to speak at union conferences. And…
I recently read Dave Eggers’ new novel, The Circle, which describes a world in which a Facebook-Google-like company takes over people’s lives and brings about a complete end to privacy. Some would describe the book…
Three hours after the end of the 72-hour ceasefire, Israeli finally retaliated with air strikes. Hamas missiles were fired at a range of different target’s in southern parts of Israel. The BBC headline at the…
That headline will seem premature to post people, but any strictly military analysis of what’s happened in the last month confirms Hamas’ defeat. This was supposed to be a war that would see Tel Aviv…
Firefox OS is rapidly expanding — see this graphic from Mozilla. Maybe the audience for my latest book, Firefox OS for Activists (co-authored with Jeremy Green) will grow as a result.
This article appeared today in the Jewish Chronicle. Imagine Israel without guns or ammunition, without Iron Dome, as helpless before the armed fanatics of Hamas as Jews had been for centuries. Of course we can’t…
The Islamist terror group Hamas cannot conquer Israel; in fact, it can’t even run the Gaza Strip. Unable to provide anything useful for the Palestinians, it engages in endless and pointless confrontations with Israel. The…
This article appeared in Solidarity. After Labour’s abysmal showing in the Newark by-election, which closely followed on its poor showing in the European elections, it is becoming increasingly clear that the party faces defeat yet…
About a month ago, my very expensive and much-loved MacBook Air died a sudden and painful death. The screen fractured, initially displaying some thin vertical lines that I could ignore, and then becoming completely useless. The…