Jonathan Hoffman



No to Board Cooperation with NGO which supports Boycott

By Jonathan Hoffman, November 4, 2012

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/89021/oxfam-and-board-deputies-new-tie

http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=289766

Oxfam has a history of anti-Israel activity and most recently through its membership of Crisis Action has supported a boycott of goods from Jews in Judea and Samaria.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews has a Constitutional duty to

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Women who libel Israel

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 27, 2012

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/women-who-libel-israel.premium-1.472031

By David Landau

Every time Anat Hoffman performs her stunts at the Western Wall, well-meaning liberals like Bradley Burston fall for it.

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It’s all at the Co-op … unless it’s truth about Israel you’re after ...

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 23, 2012

PRESS RELEASE

Issued by MOCABI (Members of Co-Op Against Boycott of Israel)

Co-op faces local members’ backlash against boycott of Israeli companies at Brighton meeting

It’s all at the Co-op … unless it’s truth about Israel you’re after …

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Ha'aretz twists poll, Guardian and JC follow but JC then has second thoughts

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 23, 2012

Ha'aretz's resident Israel-hating columnist Gideon Levy has deliberately fed the international media a skewed and biased reading of a poll, in order to promote his treachery.

As always the Guardian quickly picked up the non-story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/israeli-poll-majority-aparth...

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The wellfundedisraellobby

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 22, 2012

Tim Llewellyn, Seumas Milne and Jackie Rowland (an Al Jazeera journalist) spoke at a Middle East Monitor meeting on Thursday night. It was chaired by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

I counted at least 15 mentions of the phrase 'well funded Israel Lobby' - in fact it tripped off the speakers' tongues so adroitly that it seemed like one new Scrabble word "wellfundedisraellobby"..

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Amnesty hosts yet another anti-Israel Headbanger ...

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 16, 2012

http://www.thejc.com/blogs/jonathan-hoffman/how-does-shamnestys-kate-all...

Readers will be well aware of how Amnesty in London - under the inspiration of its Campaigns Director Kristyan Benedict - offers a platform to every anti-Israel headbanger in the universe. The latest - tonight - was Itay Epshtein of ICAHD (Israel Committee Against House Demolitions).

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"It's great that someone's standing up to them at last"

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 14, 2012

That was the frequent response from passers-by in Western Road, Brighton to the pro-Israel counter-demonstraters outside the Ecostream shop on Saturday.

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JC Leads With Crude JNF Smear Story

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 13, 2012

The page 1 lead in the JC this week was a squalid smear story about the JNF which would not even have passed muster for the Morning Star.

It was a story by Simon Rocker about the JNF’s newly published accounts, headed “JNF loses half its revenue”. A completely misleading headline - for one, because the ‘income’ definition referred to excluded KKL voucher income of £7.5 million.

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Caroline Lucas MP: The Limits of Green ...

By Jonathan Hoffman, October 9, 2012

SodaStream has opened a shop in Brighton. SodaStream enables people to make their own carbonated soft drinks at home. It is thus the epitome of an environmentally friendly – or ‘green’ - company since it obviates the need for drinks in plastic bottles to be bought from the shops.

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Open email to Simon Hughes MP

By Jonathan Hoffman, September 20, 2012

Dear Mr Hughes

How many Israeli deaths will you accept to implement your preferred 'One State' solution?

Because most Israelis - Jews and non-Jews - would never volunteer to sign away the Jewish State.

Do you think there might be a reason that there are no LibDem Ministers in the Foreign Office?

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The Post-Self-Destructivism of Judith Butler

By Jonathan Hoffman, September 10, 2012

On September 11th, a German organization will reward the American scholar and anti-Israel activist who is "the useful idiot of antisemites, allowing them to "Jew-wash" their genocidal hatreds with her good name."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044392150457764135125522755...

By RICHARD LANDES AND BENJAMIN WEINTHAL

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"My deep shame at this bigoted festival protest"

By Jonathan Hoffman, September 3, 2012

Jackie Kemp in the Observer .........

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/02/jackie-kemp-batsheva...

Batsheva, the Israeli contemporary dance group, should have been one of the hits of this year's Edinburgh international festival. They got five-star reviews for their witty, sexy and creative show.

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Artistic Antisemitism is Still Racial Hatred.....

By Jonathan Hoffman, September 3, 2012

Superb column in Friday's Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2196383/Artistic-anti-Semitism...

You usually get everything represented at the Edinburgh International Festival: it caters for all self-indulgent tastes in the postmodern world of moral relativism – from binge-drinking and bigamy to buggery and blasphemy.

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Cultural Terrorists Hit Edinburgh

By Jonathan Hoffman, August 31, 2012

http://daphneanson.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/see-you-at-sadlers-wells-anti-...

It takes a very special brand of ill-mannered coward to interrupt an arts event for which the audience has paid good money.

The upside is that these cultural hooligans are always the same people and succeed in persuading no-one -- in fact they simply alienate people.

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