Posts Tagged: UK anti-semitism
Backlash Grows in UK as Hamas Mounts Legal Challenge Against Terrorist Designation
A growing wave of condemnation is mounting in the UK after lawyers representing the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas sought to challenge the organization's terrorist designation,...
UK Paper: IHRA Antisemitism Definition ‘Silences Palestinians’
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, a group of “Palestinian university students from campuses across Australia” have warned that adopting the IHRA definition of...
Major UK Paper Publishes Another Call to End the Jewish State
For the second time in as many months, The Guardian has published an op-ed calling for an end to the Jewish state. The latest piece,...
Know Your Enemy: Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit Test
JNS.org - They used to call them “pea-soupers”: dense, choking fogs caused by smoke from burning coal that frequently enveloped London until the middle of...
Universalism, Particularism, and Enduring Antisemitism
Antisemitism is the world’s oldest hatred. This hatred has been justified on religious, economic, political, and social grounds. A cogent philosophical theory of antisemitism is...
Antisemitism’s Implausible Denial
It was an awkward moment on BBC television. An articulate, well-educated Jewish couple, Mark Lewis and Mandy Blumenthal, told viewers that antisemitism has become so...
The Diverse Whitewashing of Antisemitism in the British Labour Party
In 2016, the UK was the first country to adopt for domestic use the antisemitism definition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). But many actions...
UK Study: Those With Strong Anti-Israel Views Are Dramatically More Antisemitic
Though it’s often asked if some anti-Israel positions (such as support for BDS) are inherently antisemitic, it always seemed more relevant to determine whether the...
New Study: Europe’s Rising Antisemitism Forcing Jews to Leave or Hide
JNS.org - Why do half of French Jews want to leave France? Because the recent rise of violent antisemitism has made French Jews justifiably concerned...
Why Do We Let Antisemites Define Antisemitism?
In the US, we don't hear much positive news about how Jews and Israel are treated on college campuses in the United Kingdom. In fact, we mostly...
Report Shows Record Number of Antisemitic Incidents in UK in 2016
CST’s new Antisemitic Incidents Report shows that there were a record number of antisemitic incidents in the UK in 2016. According to CST, there were 1,309 antisemitic...
A Firsthand Account of Anti-Israel Violence at a UK University
Campus security officers barricaded the doors. The mob swarmed in on us. We were caged in a room at University College London (UCL). Crowds of...
UK Baroness Unrepentant on Antisemitism
Baroness Jenny Tonge caused an uproar last week when she gave a speech in the House of Lords, claiming that Israeli policies are a “major cause” of ISIS. Of...
UK Prime Minister Theresa May Will Deal With Antisemitism
On Wednesday, Theresa May, the former Home Secretary, became the new leader of the ruling British Conservative Party, and the UK's prime minister. Naturally, her...
