David Berkley QC

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David Berkley QC
Registered: 17 November 2009
Location: Manchester

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  • RE: Not in My Name

    "Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yonah Metzger has denounced the vandalism. He did so while visiting Yasuf earlier today. As the Jerusalem Post reports: "Metzger was received with protests by do(...)" Marian Lebor

  • RE: Not in My Name

    "Well put, DB, but Israel created this extremism when it gave the settlers a free hand. It is reaping what it sowed. Remember, when Baruch Goldstein went on the rampage in the mosque in Hebron, it w(...)" iainlrabbak

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Let's fill the Big Tent!

By David Berkley QC, October 31, 2011

Rabbi Jonathan Guttentag is to be congratulated for his enthusiasm and resolve to bring the Big Tent event to the North West of England.

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Not in My Name

By David Berkley QC, December 13, 2009

The recently reported acts of criminal vandalism which targeted the library of a mosque in Kfar Yassuf should not go unremarked upon by British Jewish leaders.

As a Zionist and as a Jew I have no hesitation in condemning the dangerous hooliganism which such acts represent. I trust that the Israeli security services and police use every effort to apprehend; arrest; and bring to justice those who are responsible for these crimes and who thereby shame our religion and the cause for Israel.

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Channel 4's Dispatches on the Pro-Israel Lobby

By David Berkley QC, November 17, 2009

The Dispatches programme on the Pro-Israel Lobby was an example of deliberate bias and distortion.

Let's begin with its feel and colour. Assuming for the moment that the programme makers wanted to present the results of their investigation as an earnest piece of journalism, it is not clear why they found it necessary to annotate the broadcast with:-
• Murky reconstructions of secret meetings; expensive dinners; and the Star of David/Union Jack motif;
• The most horrendous video images, which repeatedly and graphically depicted human corpses;

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