9 May 2021 — Tony Greenstein’s Blog
Tag: israel lobby
In Wake of HRW Apartheid Report, Israeli Propagandists Launch Global PR Offensive
7 May 2021 — Mint Press News
Astroturfing Apartheid
Much of the online anger at the Human Rights Watch report was actually manufactured by an Israeli government-sponsored app, Act.IL, which organized supporters of the Jewish state to act in sync to create an artificial groundswell of opposition to it.
How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
27 April 2021 — Jonathan Cook
At the height of the attacks on Corbyn, IHRA officials joined UK Jewish groups in falsely claiming its antisemitism definition included examples that protected Israel, when delegates had specifically excluded the examples
Mondoweiss – 27 April 2021
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism.
Labour antisemitism allegations: How Corbyn and Starmer are judged by different standards
17 April 2021 — Jonathan Cook
Jewish groups that lambasted Corbyn’s code of conduct as antisemitic are now silent over revelations it is being used by Starmer
Middle East Eye – 17 April 2021
For years, allies of Jeremy Corbyn argued that allegations of antisemitism had been weaponised against the then-Labour leader and his supporters to undermine his socialist programme and stifle criticism of Israel.
Starmer isn’t ‘too cautious’ – he is ruthlessly tearing Labour apart
5 April 2021 — Jonathan Cook
A year in, the British Labour leader is giving the Tories an easy ride while investing his energy in an all-out war on the party’s left
Middle East Eye – 5 April 2021
The completion of Keir Starmer’s first year as Labour leader might have passed without note, had it not been the occasion for senior party figures to express mounting concern at Labour’s dismal performance in opposition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government.
With this flawed antisemitism definition, Britain is closing down academic freedom
9 December 2020 — Middle East Eye
By forcing universities to adopt the problematic IHRA definition, the government aims to criminalise the Palestine solidarity movement and roll back civil liberties
British Education Secretary Gavin Williamson leaves Downing Street in London on 30 September (AFP)
In October, British Education Secretary Gavin Williamson ordered universities in the country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of antisemitism. They are to do so by Christmas or face government sanctions.
Israel’s growing strategic threat to our freedom of speech
27 November, 2020 — Middle East Monitor
![Israeli soldiers throw sound grenades at a group of people including journalists, near a gate leading to Hebron's main al-Shuhada street, closed by troops earlier in February, during an annual demonstration in memory of the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, on 22 February 2019. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GettyImages-1126740088-1200x800.jpg)
Israeli soldiers throw sound grenades at a group of people including journalists, near a gate leading to Hebron’s main al-Shuhada street, closed by troops earlier in February, during an annual demonstration in memory of the 1994 Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, on 22 February 2019. [HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images]
Asa Winstanley AsaWinstanley
There is an old saying that you should not put the fox in charge of the hen house. It makes perfect sense, and yet that’s exactly what Western governments are increasingly starting to do when it comes to their freedom of speech policies. All bluster about “cancel culture” aside, the leading threat in the world today to freedom of speech is the ever-increasing crackdown on the right to speak out in support of the Palestinians.
Zoom censors events about Zoom censorship
13 November 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
“an act of sick comedy to censor an event about censorship”
Facilitating the agendas of Israel lobby groups, videoconferencing platform Zoom once again censored events in the US and UK featuring the Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled.
It is the equalities commission, not Labour, carrying out political interference
7 November 2020 — Jonathan Cook
I recently published in Middle East Eye a long analysis of last week’s report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the question of whether the UK Labour party had an especial antisemitism problem. (You can read a slightly fuller version of that article on my website.) In the piece, I reached two main conclusions.
The Lancet censors Gaza health letter after pro-Israel pressure
1 October 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
A doctor in Gaza City is using a temperature test machine to test a boy for coronavirus. Ashraf Amra APA images
With a fresh spike in the number of coronavirus infections, Gaza is yet again facing the very real prospect that its healthcare system will be overwhelmed.
Scottish “friend of Israel” faked anti-Semitism for years
19 August 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
Edward Sutherland monitoring Palestine solidarity activists. (SPSC)
A pro-Israel lobbyist in Scotland may lose his teaching job over a series of anti-Semitic posts he has admitted making.
Edward Sutherland is being investigated by the Scottish teaching regulator, The Daily Record reported on Sunday.
Something Rotten at The Heart of UK Government
6 August 2020 — American Herald Tribune
The smell of pro-Israel bias in the Foreign Office is overpowering
By Stuart Littlewood
As George Washington put it,“a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils”. He warned that sympathy for the favourite nation encourages the illusion of common interest where none really exists, risks participation in its quarrels and wars, and involves“concessions to the favourite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained… And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favourite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.”
