Holocaust

September 15, 2017

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related reading. ...

July 17, 2017

Accuracy trumped by politics in BBC report on Israeli PM’s Paris visit

In its rush to amplify politically motivated criticism of the Israeli PM's visit to Paris, the BBC s...

June 29, 2017

BBC News website removes offensive statement after complaints

The BBC News website silently removes a gratuitous statement concerning Israel and the Holocaust aft...

June 6, 2016

How BBC Radio 4 squeezed Israel into programme on Irish history

h/t JG “Israel offers a florid illustration of how disastrously collective memory can deform a...

February 1, 2016

The Sunday Times, the Holocaust and Israel: Have the persecuted become the persecutors?

In 2013, David Ward (who was then a MP for Bradford East) “faced intense criticism from the CST a...

August 21, 2015

It’s Good Jews Day on the Guardian’s letters page.

Posted by Richard Millett Today’s Guardian has published seven letters about Jeremy Corby...

August 17, 2015

A question for the Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown about Carlos Latuff’s Holocaust cartoons.

Posted by Richard Millett The Independent’s Yasmin Alibhai-Brown doesn’t check facts. In...

January 27, 2015

Holocaust sans antisemitism? Guardian editorial on Auschwitz liberation follows familiar pattern

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Roughly one out of every s...

October 8, 2014

Rev. Stephen Sizer speaks at antisemitic conference in Iran

Cross posted from the blog of The CST The Rev Stephen Sizer is a Church of England vicar with a long...

September 19, 2014

Jewish, proudly British and increasingly concerned about rising antisemitism

Daniel Finkelstein, associate editor at Times of London, provided an extremely lucid, measured and p...