Why anti-Zionists obsess over Israel
They see themselves as virtuous souls eradicating Israel’s evil rather than recognising their own racism
BDS
29 postsThe political movement calling for boycott, disinvestment and sanctions actions against Israel. It includes calls for action in the academic, cultural and corporate arena. The Palestine solidarity movement.
GUEST POST: ‘We lost Zadie!’
Prominent anti-Israel campaigners have slammed Zadie Smith, an avid supporter of the Palestinian cause, for taking a nuanced approach to the issue.
The menacing truth about the ‘boycott Israel’ campaigns
The calls to erase every trace of the Jewish State are deeply sinister
GUEST POST: Pushback against anti-Semitism on US campuses
Donors and Jewish students are reacting against the upsurge in anti-Semitism on American campuses since the 7 October Hamas pogrom.
GUEST POST: British campuses' reaction to the war
There has been good and bad in the reaction of British universities to the Israel-Hamas war
WORDS FROM THE WHITEHOUSE: The menace of “critical Zionism studies”
An alternative take by Guy Whitehouse. The views expressed may not always coincide with those of the Radicalism of fools.
Open letter is profoundly anti-democratic
The recent open letter from academics to leaders of North American Jewry is opposed to democracy in several ways.
GUEST POST: Boycotts of Israel’s academia are hypocritical
The American Anthropological Association is the latest to accuse Israeli academic institutions of things of which they are mostly not guilty.
GUEST POST: A disproportionate measure
The legislation designed, among other things, to curb the activity of anti-Israel campaigners is out of proportion to the problems their activity poses.
GUEST POST: Against the academic boycott
British academics have once again passed a motion calling for Israeli institutions to be boycotted.
Don’t ban Roger Waters!
Even if the accusations of anti-Semitism are true it does not follow that the former Pink Floyd frontman should be banned from performing in Frankfurt
The myth of anti-Palestinianism
The notion of "anti-Palestinianism" only makes it harder to understand the plight of Israelis, Jews and Palestinians
Article on Plebity
I am delighted to have an article on the Plebity free speech website. The site is unusual nowadays in defining itself as...
The anti-imperialism of fools exemplified
A new campaign in Boston is a textbook example of anti-Semitism linked to grossly exaggerated notions of Israeli power