Richard Millett is a blogger. He is a qualified (non-practising) solicitor who has a Masters in Politics and Society in the Middle East from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He also has a diploma from the London School of Journalism. He blogs at www.richardmillett.wordpress.com
Read More
Anti-Balfour Declaration rally in London attended by a throng of propagandists and useful idiots.
The show (previously performed off-Broadway in NY) was, basically, 90 minutes of emotional blackmail played out in edited scenes from the young Rachel's diaries. The audience occasionally laughed at her. Did I mention it was DULL?
Though the Balfour Declaration is ambiguous--it does not define exactly where “in Palestine…a national home for the Jewish people” would be--the original League of Nations British Mandate for Palestine included what is now Israel, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza for Jewish settlement
Having attended 100s of anti-Israel events throughout London and beyond for 10 years I have never been hit. I have been threatened repeatedly but never actually hit. Last night that changed at, of all my places, my alma mater.
Is the British Jewish community so ill-considered, so small that we are so easily sacrificed?
If something bad happens to Jews or the Jewish state there are some, inexplicably, in British media or politics who cannot pass up the opportunity use it as a stick to beat Israel or Jews
The main message of the evening was that anti-Semitism is being used solely to attack Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and to silence all criticism of Israel-the victim as victimizer.
With rising anti-Semitism in the UK it's a shame that Comic Relief/Sport Relief indirectly funds attacks on Israel and British Jews.
Salaita compared indigenous Americans to the Palestinians. Then why shouldn't BDS apply against US?
Def. of Chutzpah: 2 super successful Israeli Arabs told the crowd Israel oppresses its Arab citizens


