Labour right’s failed attempt to smear leading Jewish activist
The suspension from the Labour Party of Glyn Secker, secretary of Jewish Voice for Labour, and his hurried reinstatement, goes to the heart of attempts by Labour’s right-wing bureaucracy to drive out...
View ArticleThe Israel Lobby, Jeremy Corbyn, and the Abuses of Antisemitism
Richard Silverstein assesses how the campaign to demonise Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite was promoted and developed and how it parallels attempts to discredit progressive US politicians. Reprinted by...
View ArticleFSOI regrets Ken Livingstone’s resignation from the Labour Party
Free Speech on Israel deeply regrets that Ken Livingstone has been driven out of the Labour Party by a concerted campaign of misrepresentations of what he said. FSOI has always stood beside Ken and his...
View ArticleVenturing into the lion’s den: the case against IPSO
Jonathan Coulter describes the weaponisation process, the targeting of the Labour Party and his own experience in challenging media distortions. He seeks to explain why this is happening, and goes on...
View ArticleThe Guardian hack: lies and distortions
Leon Rosselson explores how The Guardian allows only one narrative of the Holocaust and condemns survivors who tell another tale as antisemitic: ‘the wrong sort of survivors’. Reprinted from Medium by...
View ArticleLabour, Antisemitism and the news
A new report from the Media Reform Coalition, based on research by Dr Justin Schlosberg from Birkbeck’s Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies, has found significant inaccuracies or misleading...
View ArticleHow to be right ––– when you are wrong?
Jonathan Coulter writes about James O’Brien who runs a well-known chat show for LBC, and has just published: ‘How to be right – – – in a world gone wrong’. He takes a progressive position on a range...
View ArticleHolocaust denial is a sin: exaggerating it is reckless
More or Less is the BBC’s flagship programme on the use and misuse of statistics. On 1 February it led on on digging down into alarmist reports of a survey on the extent of Holocaust denial in the UK....
View ArticleTom Suarez challenges smears by the ‘Jewish Chronicle’
Tom Suarez describes his long struggle with press regulator IPSO to get them to force the Jewish Chronicle to publish even a partial apology for their bad faith allegations of antisemitism. Even though...
View ArticleDavid Miller rebuts Daily Telegraph smears
Professor David Miller has written a twitter thread rebutting the false and malicious claims about him made by Daily Telegraph journalists. This was a flagrant attempt to undermine academic freedom in...
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