Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman (pictured) is in London today to meet with the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Lieberman has been touring European capitals over the last few days hoping to win support for a proposed upgrade in EU trade relations with Israel. But, given the new...
The former editor of the Daily Telegraph and the London Evening Standard, Max Hastings, writes a very interesting article in today’s Guardian about how his admiration for the Jewish state waned over the years as he saw how it had become addicted to the continuing dispossession of the...
Looking at the coverage of the Gallup – Coexist Foundation survey in today’s Daily Express and Daily Star (both owned by Richard Desmond), you’d be forgiven for thinking that there was anything positive revealed in the survey results. Despite the fact that the survey, released yesterday,...
The Quilliam Foundation’s ridiculous alert on the Islam Channel features on the pages this week of the Jewish Chronicle. Not surprising really since the paper also featured the earlier equally ridiculous QF alert on Osama Saeed.
Caryl Churchill’s play ‘Seven Jewish Children’ will be performed at the Hackney Empire in London on Thursday, 21 May by some of the Royal Court’s original cast. Just as the BBC refused to broadcast the Disaster’s Emergency Committee appeal in aid of the people of Gaza, this play...
There’s a truly awful piece in Telegraph blogs by, no not Damian Thompson, but Ed West (pictured), entitled ‘Here’s an inconvenient truth: the Islamisation of Europe’. West tries to rationalize what is nothing more than a racist diatribe against Muslim immigration and Muslim...
According to a new survey by Gallup and the Coexist Foundation 77% of Muslims identify with the UK, compared to 50% in the rest of the population. The survey also finds that 75 per cent of Muslims say they identify with their religion; 82 per cent of Muslims say they are loyal to the […]
Jonathan Steele (pictured) in The Guardian writes on the forthcoming meeting between President Obama and the new Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Steele notes: ‘If Obama is sincere in wanting to break the stalemate of the Middle East’s core conflict, he will have to launch the...
Yasmin Alibhai Brown (pictured) in The Independent pens a column on Muslim women’s rights and recent cases of rights abuses that would shame any society committed to gender equality. Alibhai Brown is right to show contempt for domestic violence, honour killings, forced and child marriages and...
Readers can enjoy a superb dissection of the Quilliam Foundation’s ridiculous alert last week, about Islam Channel and its presenters, over at Muslim Matters. The article splendidly breaks down the charade of the ‘”ex-extremist-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire” reality...
