Tag: UK ‘anti-Semitism’

NOVANEWS By Stuart Littlewood The Home Affairs Select Committee of the House of Commons, the lower house of the British parliament, has just issued its report, “Anti-Semitism in the UK”, in response to concerns about “an increase in prejudice and violence against Jewish communities” and “an increase in far-right extremist activity”. It was also prompted by allegations of anti-Semitism in political parties and university campuses. The following observations are based on the report’s Conclusions and Recommendations, which is as far as most people will read. Israel is an ally of the UK government and is generally regarded as a liberal democracy. Hardly. It is no friend of the British people. Nor is it remotely a Western-style liberal democracy. We share few if any values. Those clai...

NOVANEWS By Stuart Littlewood The enemies of free speech were having a whale of a time – until this week. Britain’s political parties, further education establishments and BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) groups had been bludgeoned into silence on Israel’s crimes by a bogus definition of anti-Semitism formally adopted and deployed by government, police and assorted pro-Israel pimps, stooges and creeps. Their bully-boy tactics have now been upset by Free Speech on Israel, Independent Jewish Voices, Jews for Justice for Palestinians and thePalestine Solidarity Campaign, who asked top legal experts for an opinion on this sinister farce. Wilfully flawed definition The root cause was been an exceptionally silly, non-legally binding working definition of anti-Semitism issued by the Int...