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Jonathan Hoffman

Pope Benedict the "new Jew"? I think not.

By Jonathan Hoffman, April 3, 2010

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=172337

Pope Benedict is being accused of covering up child abuse by Catholic priests. The accusations may well be true. In 1980, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, allowed a paedophile priest to be transferred from Essen to undergo therapy in Munich, where he was then archbishop.

But his personal preacher has compared the accusations against Benedict to antisemitism suffered by Jews.

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"The UK's Disproportionate Response" - as observed by CiFWatch

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 28, 2010

http://cifwatch.com/2010/03/28/the-uks-disproportionate-response/

CiFWatch today published a story on Tuesday's expulsion of the Israeli diplomat that relates an incident that took place a number of years ago where Alistair Crooke of Conflicts Forum and formerly of MI6 was sent home under a cloud because of his questionable contacts.

This really demonstrates the duplicity and double standards at play.

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Was Moses a war criminal? (by Gerald Steinberg)

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 26, 2010

This year, in reciting the Passover story and Exodus from Egypt, I suggest extending the discussion to include stories that might have been featured in newspapers, blogs, and nightly news broadcasts of 4,000 years ago (give or take a few centuries).

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Look who the government won't expel (by Douglas Murray)

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 23, 2010

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/douglasmurray/100031077/an-israeli-dip...

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"My particular flawed pedigree and personality"

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 17, 2010

This was how Colonel Desmond Travers - Goldstone Commissioner - at last responded tonight (in a committee room in the UK Parliament) to the question of why he thinks that "British foreign policy is strongly influenced by Jewish lobbyists" (he said it in an interview with Middle East Monitor last month). Mind you, it took several attempts to get him to answer the question, both tonight and at LSE on 8 March:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLsorbo-SpU

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2010/03/09/travers-and-the-tonge-manoeuvre-3...

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More Channel 4 Demonisation of Israel on Monday night

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 14, 2010

Dispatches: Children of Gaza

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/children-of-gaza-sca...

Of course Israel will be blamed for the problems of Gazan children -- and not Hamas.

The clip is horrifying. A boy of perhaps 10 or 11 years old - called Mahmoud - is told by his uncle how wonderful and painless it is to be a suicide bomber. The uncle gets out his Kalashnikov to show the boy. At 2.20 he shows Mahmoud a bullet.

"The bullet gets the Jew in the head" he says.

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Vicar of Christ Church suggests Hilary Clinton's criticism of Israel motivated by desire for revenge over Monica Lewinsky

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 14, 2010

http://stephensizer.blogspot.com/2010/03/payback-for-monica-clinton-rebu...

What a piece of work this man is

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=649

What did Rowan Willams say about Sizer and his ilk when he spoke to the Jewish Community last week?

Or did he just confine himself to sniping at Israel?

http://thejc.com/node/29305

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Johann Hari's bigoted hatefest in The Independent yesterday

By Jonathan Hoffman, March 13, 2010

http://www.oyvagoy.com/2010/03/12/intelligently-and-without-hyperbole/co...

Chas Newkey-Burden fisks the latest Hari diatribe.

Notive how Hari twists the words of former Israeli leaders - the trademark of Israel haters everywhere.

Nothing reveals their intellectual dishonesty more than this brazen distortion of the truth.

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Vote Eric Lee, to restore objectivity to Amnesty's Israel coverage

By Jonathan Hoffman, February 27, 2010

Over the past eighteen months or so, Amnesty International has been in the vanguard of the delegitimisers and vilifiers of Israel.

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What makes Cif different? - By Hawkeye of CiF Watch

By Jonathan Hoffman, February 20, 2010

The following article was published in the JC yesterday:

Please also comment on the CiF Watch site.

Guardian’s flagship blog reeks of antisemitism

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The Darkness Closes In On British Academia

By Jonathan Hoffman, February 19, 2010

Professor Geoffrey Alderman (persona non grata at The Guardian, for writing for CiFWatch) spells it out in today's JC. But he doesn't tell the whole sorry story about the descent of British academia into the darkness of bigotry and blind hatred for Israel, for what that country stands for ...... and therefore for Jews.

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Oxford Union Society Statement on the Danny Ayalon talk last night

By Jonathan Hoffman, February 9, 2010

http://www.oxford-union.org/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/3941/Daniel_Ayal...

Statement from the Oxford Union

9th February 2010

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"Taking The Jack"

By Jonathan Hoffman, February 7, 2010

" .... the JC has spoken to several government sources who have said Mr Straw was “playing dirty” to delay an announcement."

For those who have been asleep for the last four months, this refers to the legal change needed to stop Israelis being vexaciously arrested when they come to England.

You've heard of "Taking the Mick", well this is "Taking the Jack" .... of course getting the meaningless "Alternative Vote" through Parliament is much more important, they've only had 13 years to warm to the idea of PR.

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A Terrible Decision

By Jonathan Hoffman, February 3, 2010

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2010/02/cambridge-university-israe...

Benny Morris has made some robust remarks about Palestinians, because he was worried by the Intifada, as most Israelis were. But the idea that he is "Islamophobic" is absurd. He has taught Jewish and Muslim students alike. He is concerned about terrorism but he is not, repeat not, "Islamophobic".

And I have sat through countless anti-Israel meetings at British Universities, many of which have crossed the boundary into antisemitism.

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“Progressive” .... Not

By Jonathan Hoffman, January 31, 2010

Yesterday there was a conference organised by a group called ‘Progressive London”. This was initiated by Ken Livingstone in 2008.

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Support Seismic Shock

By Jonathan Hoffman, January 24, 2010

http://cifwatch.com/2010/01/23/we-will-not-be-silenced/#more-4860

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Clint Eastwood - Ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day

By Jonathan Hoffman, January 23, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmB3BB9-m8

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"Defamation" ... of Truth, of Victims and of Antiracists

By Jonathan Hoffman, January 16, 2010

An Open Letter to Yoav Shamir, who made the film 'Defamation'

This is also published on CiFWatch.com

Dear Yoav Shamir

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Campus Extremism: University Heads are "Taking the Mick" - Time for Government to Step In ...

By Jonathan Hoffman, January 16, 2010

The alleged Christmas underpants bomber Abdulmatalab was formerly President of the Islamic Society at UCL. He is the fourth President of a London student Islamic society to face terrorist charges in three years.

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IJPR Survey: A Missed Opportunity?

By Jonathan Hoffman, January 8, 2010

When I read that IJPR were doing a survey of attitudes of British Jews towards Israel, I was delighted. Those of us committed to activism and Israel advocacy know that support for Israel runs deep (if all too often silent!) among British Jews. Witness the numbers who turned out at the demonstrations in London (over 15,000) and Manchester (2,000) almost exactly a year ago, despite bitterly cold weather and a hoax cancellation email (London) from Jewdas. Or remember the large sums donated via the ZF to buy care packages for IDF soldiers.

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