Outrage erupted among British Jews and Jewish organizations after one of the BBC’s top programs, “Politics Live,” held a panel discussion debating whether Jews are an “ethnic minority,” which many deemed offensive.
The only Jewish participant on the panel, Benjamin Cohen CEO of Pink News tweeted afterwards, “I’ve just been on the BBC’s ‘Politics Live’ where the BBC literally just asked four non-Jews if they agreed with me that Jews are an ethnic minority.”
“Imagine if I was black and four white people were asked to judge if I was a member of an ethnic minority. It would be as offensive,” he said.
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I guess many people are breathing a sigh of relief now that the White House has closed its doors on Mr Trump. They think it’s all over.
But my message to them is, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet!’ So, fasten your seat-belts, for you are in for an even bumpier ride from now on. Both Christians and Jews, on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, are set to come under increasing pressure.
I will explain in due course. But meantime we have been marking the annual Holocaust Memorial Day – an opportunity for Christians, especially, to show their love and appreciation for those who gave us the glorious gospel, and our most precious Jesus. And it is particularly relevant in view of the fact that antisemitism is as rife today as it was in the 1930s.
Fudge, muddle, clarity
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists provides a rough guide to the issues and arguments that will dominate the January 30 Zoom conference
Another Labour Left Alliance conference; another massively overloaded agenda. Over the course of four hours (plus half an hour for lunch) we are going to debate the crisis in the Labour Party and decide what to do next. Doable, if the conference had been organised with a view to achieving clarity. Unfortunately that is not the case. The methods of the labour and trade union bureaucracy have been thoroughly internalised.
There is a mixed bag of eight motions - surely in a calculated attempt to dumb down, all limited to a maximum of 350 words, then nudged up to 400, by the LLA’s conference arrangements committee. This was strongly opposed by Labour Party Marxists. There is also the certainty of various amendments (with no word limit).
Leeds University investigating professor s Nazi-Zionist alliance tweet
Prof Ray Bush denies accusations of anti-Semitism, adding that his retweets are mostly taken from commentators within Israel
23 January 2021 • 6:00pm
Leeds University is investigating a professor who claimed that the Israeli Embassy was partly responsible for the campaign that accused the Labour Party of anti-Semitism under Jeremy Corbyn..
The Russell Group institution said it is examining a series of social media posts by Prof Ray Bush, an expert in African studies and development politics.
In one tweet from 2017, referring to a tweet from activist Tony Greenstein, he spoke of a “Nazi-Zionist alliance” and in another from 2018 he appeared to question if there was a comparison between Israeli Government and the Nazis.