A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.
Month: December 2023
Hating Israel more than is necessary
There is an old Jewish joke – attributed to Sir Isaiah Berlin, but really, who knows? – that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. Like all the best Jewish humour it is gently self-deprecating, mocking both Jews and antisemites, and recognising the bleak reality of anti-Jewish prejudice while refusing to buckle to it.
Webinar with Dave Rich: Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism: Indiana University Bloomington
Dr. Dave Rich is one of the United Kingdom’s leading experts on antisemitism. He has worked for almost thirty years for the Community Security Trust, a Jewish charity that protects the UK Jewish community and writes about antisemitism and extremism for a range of national and international media.
The Scope of Hamas’ Campaign of Rape Against Israeli Women Is Revealed, Testimony After Testimony
The aggregation of evidence collected by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy and her Civil Commission presents a horrifying picture that leaves no room for doubt: On October 7, Hamas terrorists systematically carried out acts of rape and sexual abuse. She has discovered, however, that there is no rush to acknowledge this abroad.
Philip Spencer: ‘Britain’s Jews feel isolated and under siege’
An interesting interview with Philip Spencer, who in the past was a member of the Socialist Worker’s Party. Originally in French, translated by google.
Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals | The Free Press (thefp.com)
Niall Ferguson is a trustee of the University of Austin, as well as Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. He is the author of, among many works, The War of the World: History’s Age of Hatred (Penguin).
Interview with P.-A. Taguieff by Giulio Meotti, about his book The New Opium of the Progressives. Radical Anti-Zionism and Islamo-Palestinism.
Pierre-André Taguieff is a French philosopher who has specialised in the study of racism and antisemitism. He is the director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research at the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris Laboratoire. He is one of France’s leading writers about racism and on the ideology of the contemporary extreme right.
Philippe Sands & Helena Kennedy in Conversation – the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75
A René Cassin event on Monday 4 December 2023 at West London Synagogue, to mark the 75th anniversary of the UDHR.
Opinion | I am a Zionist because I am a leftist, not in spite of that commitment
Jack Omer-Jackaman is the author of Caught Somewhere Between Zion and Galut: Zionism, Israel and Anglo-Jewry’s Identity, 1948-1982 (Vallentine Mitchell, 2019) and deputy editor of Fathom. This opinion piece was delivered as a paper at the inaugural conference London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism in September 2022.
Charging Jews with genocide is to declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them
Israel’s response to the 7 October Hamas attacks has emboldened many to say the once unsayable.