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How does Shamnesty's Kate Allen Keep A Straight Face?

By Jonathan Hoffman, May 18, 2012

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/66896/amnesty-chief-stands-its-work-is...

Eighteen years living with Ken Livingstone has clearly had an impact on Kate Allen’s definition of “truth”.

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Outrage at SOAS last night

By Jonathan Hoffman, May 15, 2012

http://cifwatch.com/2012/05/14/camera-grabbed-rucksack-snatched-and-raci...

Unspeakable that such things are happening at UK Universities

If you can identify anyone in the footage then please contact me or Richard

http://www.thejc.com/videos/news-videos/jonathan-hoffman-jeered-soas-mee...

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Adieu Ken Livingstone

By Jonathan Hoffman, May 6, 2012

Boris Johnson is a supremely gifted man. His command of the written and spoken English language is sans pareil. He writes at lightning speed. He has bucketfuls of charisma - his personality is as powerful at an Afro-Caribbean husting as it is at a Jewish Charity dinner or at Mayor's Question Time. He has impeccable judgment - he knows when to be jokey and when to be serious.

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Taking Back Our National Sovereignty Again

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 26, 2012

Yom Ha'atzmaut sameach!

Terrific article by Professor Gerald Steinberg

April 23, 2012 - Times of Israel

In a recent meeting with European officials, diplomats, and journalists, I was asked why many Israelis (including me) criticised and resented their intense efforts to advance peace with the Palestinians and democracy for Israel.

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"Good Riddance"

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 19, 2012

Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC is a ‘human rights’ lawyer who has been riding the legal aid gravy train for nearly fifty years. Indeed somewhat apocalyptically he has threatened that the very necessary reforms of the legal profession’s restrictive practices “threatens the legal profession with the prospect of extinction” (!).

Special pleading? Surely not …

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Colonel Eisner: War Hero

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 17, 2012

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/outpouring-support-for-off...

Hagit Rein, grieving mother of the late Major B’naya Rein who was killed in the Second Lebanon War called the Army Radio to express her dismay at the way Eisner was being judged by the “media court.”

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Israel's great response to the "No-Flytilla" provocateurs

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 15, 2012

https://twitter.com/#!/ofirgendelman/status/191220063636955136/photo/1

An angram of "a flotilla" is "fail a lot"...

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Ode to Gunther Grass - by Sharon Klaff

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 14, 2012

What makes a man.....

When a man has a track
Clickety clack, clickety clack,
going in one direction so packed,
the stench of sweat and tears
pungent, putrid and pestilent,
excites his swooping SS cheers,
igniting pyrolytic flames,
a hazy smokescreen,
hiding his Tin Drum
in the recessed folds of his brain,
the vice like grip grinding
tightly, fighting blindly,

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Naming and Shaming .......

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 12, 2012

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/66358/blogger-emerges-anti-israel-orde...

Two PSC members made further allegations against him after providing police with short video clips of themselves that Mr Millett had posted on his blog.

They were Salim Alam and Peter Scott. Alam of course has 'form':

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Habima is Welcome in London - Letter from prominent Theatre personalities in Guardian today

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 11, 2012

We are delighted to see the Globe theatre welcoming Israel's national theatre, Habima, to perform The Merchant of Venice in London (Letters, 4 April).

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More on UJS ....

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 4, 2012

Last Sunday (1 April) was the UJS Student Awards dinner in London.

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Conservative MP Demonises Israel

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 3, 2012

http://www.canterburyconservatives.com/2012/03/veolia-julian-brazier-let...

This letter from Conservative MP Julian Brazier to Eric Pickles – the UK Minister responsible for local government – shamelessly perverts the truth and is a prime example of how antisemitic discourse has entered mainstream political discourse in the UK

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How laughably stupid the BDS mob are

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 1, 2012

Richard Millett has an account of the demo and counter-demo outside the Israeli Embassy on Friday.

So does "Carl B." on the London BDS site:

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Remember Crewe and Nantwich! Class Politics Doesn't Work...

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 31, 2012

Remember the Crewe and Nantwich by-election in 2008?

The by-election was caused by the death of the incumbent MP Gwynneth Dunwoody. Her daughter Tamsin was chosen as the Labour candidate.

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Lord Prescott's Horrific Response to Jonathan Freedland's Break with Livingstone

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 25, 2012

On Saturday Jonathan Freedland had a piece in Guardian CIF saying he could not bring himself to support Ken Livingstone in the London Mayoral election:

The case against Ken Livingstone is not that he is some crude racist. It is rather that, when it comes to this one group of Londoners and their predicaments, their hopes and anxieties, he simply doesn't care.

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Jews in the UK

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 25, 2012

Writing in the Jerusalem Post recently, Vivian Wineman says that Isi Leibler's column (March 7) is “a long way from reality” but promptly shoots himself in the foot by implicitly conceding (by not challenging it) that most of what Mr Leibler wrote was correc

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Leeds J Soc: JLC Majority Did Not Sign Support Letter

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 23, 2012

In today's JC there is a great letter from one Melvin Berwald about the utterly misguided decision by Leeds J Soc to disinvite the inspirational and charismatic speaker Brooke Goldstein:

Leeds J Soc deprived students of an inspirational talk ... Leeds J Soc has shown disappointing judgment

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