The Curated Edit

Always happy to rebut mendacious anti-semitic activism

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This is truly a dark day for British Jews. Today our Government has chosen to ignore the deep concerns expressed by so many of us. The measures announced amount to little more than political flag bearing for mendacious anti-Israel rhetoric and those who harbour a dangerous obsession with the Jewish State. These measures will succeed only in bolstering the very extremism they seek to target. On the eve of Rosh Hashanah and at a time when our community is more vulnerable than ever to the wave of extremism that has been building over recent years, these sanctions do nothing to advance the cause of peace. Nor do they make anyone safer – quite the contrary. Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel, and the cumulative effect of such punitive policies is to further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.

For ideologues who are single-mindedly obsessed with vilifying and delegitimizing Israel, facts don't matter. They put on blinders and choose to ignore anything that gets in the way of painting the Jewish state as uniquely evil. To be clear, war is awful and the loss of innocent life is terrible. Genocide, however, is not a synonym for war. It requires the specific intent to destroy a people, in whole or in part. Anyone making the extraordinarily grave accusation of genocide should have to contend with the facts, including data like this, rather than ignore anything that cuts against their predetermined conclusion. Falsely accusing Israel of that sin, while subjecting it to standards applied to no other country, is not simply criticism of the country. It is a kind of blood libel, the sort of vicious slander that has been lodged against the Jewish people for millennia and used as a pretext to persecute them. Now the target is the Jewish state, but the source is the same: raw, poisonous antisemitism.

The official British government position is to recognise “Palestine” in Judea and Samaria, our ancestral heartland (in the aftermath of October 7) ,to deny Jerusalem is our capital, to fund antisemitic propaganda in the BBC, to fund UNWRA that was complicit in the October 7 massacre, to put an arms embargo on Israel not too long after October 7, to sanction our ministers and conservative organisations, to fund radical left wing anarchist NGOs in Israel and to condemn Israel for building houses in our capital. The official position of Argentina under Javier Milei is to support Israel full stop, and to be one of our closet allies. Why the hell are we suppose to take your side and not Argentina’s?

Reform's Danny Kruger says some problems of British democracy are "the consequence of 25 years of mass migration". "What we need to end is the sectarian and often ethnic divisions within our country that are exacerbated by people being allowed to campaign in foreign languages."

The problem is the candidate, not the surrogate.

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Jason Arday’s death is tragic. But please spare us the sanctimonious complaints that he was merely an ‘obscure’ academic who was the victim of a racist witch-hunt. The probing and questioning and exposure were entirely legitimate. Arday was plainly guilty of plagiarism. He had also made a series of fantastical claims about his life and career. He ended up being appointed as a professor at one of the world’s most august seats of learning – where his students, who had worked extremely hard to get there, were paying large fees for the privilege of being taught by him. Far from being obscure, Arday had happily engaged with the media over many years, often repeating his false claims. He appeared on numerous TV shows and guest edited Radio 4’s flagship Today programme. He even carried the Olympic torch. Moreover, he had secured a major publishing deal for his autobiography, which was set to be released in Britain and the US just as the scandal broke. By no measure was this man ‘obscure’. When a fellow academic in Plymouth began to question his credentials, Arday (or someone close to him) made a complaint to the police. When a journalist from Times Higher Education started investigating, he was subjected to a police inquiry and also received a threatening letter from the leading libel solicitors, Carter Ruck. Arday and those around him were clearly not averse to hounding others when they felt like it. It’s very possible that Arday did not have sufficient support measures in place when he was finally exposed – but that’s on others. The investigation and questions amounted to legitimate journalistic inquiry. This was never just about Arday’s fabulism. It was also about the increasingly controversial philosophy of DEI, the obsession of our political, corporate and educational institutions with pushing that philosophy, and how it might have led to someone with Arday’s subpar credentials being appointed in the first place. These are all valid questions to ask – and, by asking them, journalists are simply doing their jobs.

As councillor for Hyde Park, I'm always interested in checking out new businesses in my patch. Imagine my disgust upon going into this new Arabic bookstore on the Edgware Road last night only to find them selling multiple copies of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, apparently published themselves. I rarely wish ill on a new business, but I hope this one fails, and fails quickly. What does it say about integration that this bookshop believes this will be a popular book? What does it say about antisemitism within this community? Remember this is just minutes away from West Central London Synagogue. @NJ_Timothy @SabriSun_Miller @JewishChron @JewishNewsUK @CST_UK @BoardofDeputies @JLC_uk

Netanyahu’s comments are offensive, irresponsible and wrong. We stand with Israel’s progressive opposition in rejecting his divisive, anti-Muslim rhetoric and working for cooperation, peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians alike.