This is a guest post by Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust in the UK.
CST has long been known for recording and analysing antisemitic hate crimes: the physical assaults, desecrations, racist abuse and hate mail that make up a quantifiable measure of antisemitism. But just as, in recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that antisemitism is not restricted to the activities of street thugs and bar room racists, so it has become necessary to chart that other sort of antisemitism: the ideas, images and language that occasionally pollutes public discourse. Last year, CST published its first Antisemitic Discourse Report, which attempted to identify, catalogue and analyse examples of this kind of antisemitism from 2007. Now CST has published its second such report, covering 2008.
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Just a quick note to point readers to my article on the British National Party for Tablet, the new online Jewish magazine dealing with politics, culture and other areas that make life worth living.
To my knowledge, no independent sightings have been confirmed, but according to his website, the pro-Hamas British MP George Galloway is currently on a speaking tour here in the US.
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Canada is not British, nor European, nor Yankee, and in all the foreign and domestic sniggerings, objections, protests and complaints about the way Canada and its officials have handled the Galloway file, you will have to look very hard before you find one - just one - that does not wholly depend upon an embarassing error of fact, a delusion, a conspiracy theory, or an outright lie.
Terry Glavin gets it absolutely right, here.
“There really hasn’t been a totalitarian regime in the last quarter century to which Galloway has failed to lend his support,” observes Michael Weiss in a robust defense of Canada’s decision to refuse entry to George Galloway, Saddam poodle and British MP.
I wasn’t there. Only 100 people were. More from Gene here, who says that the banning of Saddam Hussein’s former poodle from Canada “has turned what certainly would have been a quickly-forgotten tour into a cause celebre – much to Galloway’s delight, I’m sure.” True on one level, but I still think the Canadians were right to invoke their law, and send a message to this craven apologist for tyrants that supporting terrorism doesn’t go unpunished.
Canada has banned the rabble-rousing anti-Zionist, pro-Saddam British MP George Galloway entry on the grounds that he is a threat to national security. Apparently, Galloway is livid. Good. Let him steam, because this was the right action to take, even if The Guardian can’t believe this is the Canadian government’s own decision - it was, as the footnote to this piece makes crystal clear - since Galloway’s vile statements were “drawn to the attention of the government by a Jewish group.”
Continue reading ‘Banning the “Infandous” Galloway: Well Done, Canada!’
Most gyms have a code of etiquette these days which users encounter through strategically-placed signs: don’t hog the cardiovascular equipment, don’t use more towels than you need, wipe down machines after use, put the free weights back in their holders and so forth. They may now need to add antisemitic outbursts to the list of do nots.
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A number of British Jews have published an open letter concerning the current situation in Gaza. I’d like to make a couple of points about it.
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It’s complicated, it’s exasperating, it’s a sorry tale of far left lunacy, and if I didn’t have Jon Pike to decipher it all for me, I would be feeling very confused.
Thankfully, Jon makes one thing very clear: “The 2008 round of the boycott debate is over, and the boycotters have lost. Again.” Go to Engage for his explanation of why.
I’ve followed, from a distance, the debate in the UK on a possible academic boycott of Israel and no other country pretty much from the start. I’ve paid as much attention to it as I could, I believe in the vital importance of trade unions and if I didn’t have some faith in the power of argument I wouldn’t be writing here.
Continue reading ‘Five Reasons to Leave the UCU’
