Moving

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This site will remain.

Iranian regime rewrites the story of Esther

Given that the Iranian regime sponsors denial of the twentueth centiry Holocaust, I guess it shouldn't surprise us that the regime is now rewriting the Purim story. Here.

Ernest Lloyd, 1913-2010

A very sad day for the Messianic movement. Here.

Antisemitism: the anti-imperialism of fools

Steve Silver with a brilliant piece, here. I believe that, as well as beiong a freelance investigative journalist, Steve Silver is also a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. What is the world coming to, when an adherent to a transparently godless ideology has clearer thinking on antisemitism than some evangelicals?

"These things were written down for our instruction"

So, can someone please tell me what lessons God's people are to draw from this passage? Genuine question.

UCU: A schizophrenic union?

UCU will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January. Does this mean UCU is now taking antisemitism seriously? I doubt it.

UCU: can the last one out, please turn out the lights

For the last few years, my trade union has been obsessed with boycotting Israeli (and only ever Israeli) academics. In the process, it has treated legitimate concerns about antisemitism with contempt, click here for a long list of evidence. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, UCU invited a man who has been charged with hate speech against Jews to strategise an anti-Israel boycott. As if that wasn't bad enough, senior figures within UCU have subsequently sought to justify this, here and here. Reasons to remain a member of UCU on a postcard, please.

The Independent still has Howard Jacobson - thank God

Here.

A world of walls

Execllent post from Harry's Place, here

EMEU: taking the ostrich approach towards antisemitism?

You can read about Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding here. I have no particular problem with their mission statement - at least in principle; though the fact that they appear to be either unaware of or indifferent towards Israeli Messianic Jews, and implicitly condemn Israeli counterterrorism measures without condemning (or even mentioning) Palestinian terrorism gives me little confidence that EMEU has much more than a one-sided anti-Israel agenda. Anyway, they've got an executive briefing coming up, which you can read about here. You'll note that one of the speakers is Sami Awad of Bethlehem Bible College, whose radical anti-Zionist stance you can read about here, and of course Reverend Dr Stephen Sizer PhD, whose antisemitic (there is no other word for it) output I have written about in detail here and here. (Sizer has yet to make any adequate response whatsoever.) Let's hope the other speakers are a sight better, or the chances of the Executive Briefing furthering Middle East "Understanding" are slim indeed.

If the Bible took place in Europre and the BNP were in power

Here

Future Israel conference

A Future Israel Conference, based on Barry Horner's book of the same title, was recently concluded at Twin Cities Bible Church, St. Paul, US. Here is a link to the audio files.

http://www.futureisraelministries.org/future_israel.html

I haven't yet listened to it but can thoroughly recommend Barry Horner's book of the same title, here and here.

Wonders never cease

A genuinely antiracist article on the Guardian's Comment is Free section that I actually agree with, here. (For why this is so amazing, see here)

Medieval style antisemitism in a modern European newspaper

Engage on the blood libel in the Swedish (leftish!) daily Aftonbladet, here - this just beggars belief.

Some typically astute reflections from PetraMB here

Things that depress me

Antisemitism in the mainstream UK media, here

Tom Gross on Fatah, Israel's "peace partner", here

A simple question to Daniel Blanche.

Daniel Blanche works as a staff worker for the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF).

Daniel has blogged approvingly about Ben White's book, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide, here.

When I and others began to challenge Daniel about White's use of fake quotes, citation of Holocaust Denier Roger Garaudy as an authoritative source, and use of other dubious sources, Daniel pulled out of the debate.

I have twice posted the following question on this post on Blanche's blog. Twice it has been deleted. The question is as follows:

"Daniel: do you think it is acceptable for your friend Ben White to cite the Holocaust Denier Roger Garaudy as an authoritative source and to use fake quotes in his book?"

I have just posted my question for a third time. I await to see whether Blanche will answer, or will go on courageously deleting.

More White lies and Israeli 'apartheid'

Here. I was chuffed to be linked to by Modernityblog and by Petra M-B.

A "tissue of lies"

The anti-Zionist propagandist Ben White has just released a book called 'Israeli Apartheid: A Beginners' Predictably enough, this is gaining plaudits from all the usual suspects. For a detailed refutation of White's book, I recommend the essay by Jonathan Hoffman at http://blog.z-word.com/2009/07/lies-damn-lies-and-the-apartheid-analogy/.

This makes me ill

http://engageonline.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/marwa-el-sherbini/

Four-year old abused by school racists

Here. It makes my blood run cold.