Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 1): What Martin Forde KC Got Wrong John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? He explains here why he believes… Read more > Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | The Disorientations of Lethal Journalism: On Western Media and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Richard Landes is a historian who taught at Boston University. His work focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the turn of… Read more > Rewriting the History of the Corbyn Years (Part 3): Agenda Broadcasting from Al Jazeera’s The Labour Files John Ware was the reporter for the 2019 BBC Panorama documentary Is Labour Antisemitic? 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They identify the symptoms of a… Read more > Archive | Intellectual Incitement: The Anti-Zionist Ideology and the Anti-Zionist Subject (2015) Alan Johnson – @Fathom_Journal – is the editor of Fathom. He published this chapter in 2015 in The Case Against… Read more > ‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no word of empathy’: Reactions from European club culture to the Supernova Festival Massacre Tanja Ehmann asks why, despite the massacre at the Supernova music festival, parts of the European club culture scene have… Read more > 1967 | Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In… Read more > Book Review | Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel 700 British artists have announced that they are boycotting Israel until the ‘colonial oppression of Palestinians’ ends. 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He is the author of Philosophical… Read more > 1967 | As long as the Arab world views Israel as a temporary aberration to be conquered, Israel will stand fast To bring a permanent end to the Israeli military occupation of much of the territory acquired during the 1967 Six-Day… Read more > Ken Livingstone and the myth of Zionist ‘collaboration’ with the Nazis In this meticulous rebuttal of the former Mayor of London’s charge that ‘you had right up until the start of… Read more > The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II? Matthias Küntzel’s new book, Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East, explores the still under-analysed impact of Nazi antisemitism on… Read more > Undeclared Wars on Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left 1967-1981: An Interview with Jeffrey Herf http:// Jeffery Herf is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His books include Nazi Propaganda for the… Read more >