It has been a while since I have written anything to do with matters concerning the Jewish people or Israel, for the most part due to the fact that I no longer work in the field, and have been preoccupied with my work in the Health and Fitness industry. But on this occasion I am [...]
Archive for the ‘Anti Semitism’ Category
Overcoming the Colonial nature of anti-Semitism
Posted: 30/06/2010 in Anti Semitism, Israel, ZionismThe original purpose for the creation of a Jewish state were in the Zionist movements founding years very different to what Jews both in Israel and the Diaspora see its existence serving the Jewish people today. For the most part modern Zionism emerged from two main schools of thought. In Western and central Europe where [...]
Israel as the Jew among the nations, Herzls illusions.
Posted: 07/06/2010 in Anti Semitism, Israel, Politics, ZionismHerzl believed that anti-Semitism would disappear once the state of Israel was established and the Jews would then become ‘normal.’ In many cases Israel is treated as the Jew among the nations. Where Secular Zionism placed no emphasis on any religious concept of the Jews being a ‘chosen people’ or a ‘light unto the nations,’ [...]
On the subject of the South Park episode and the controversy over the drawing of the prophet Mohammed (in a Bear costume), I am reminded of the days when I was in secondary school and in my first Jewish Studies class, I was told not to write the word God with an ‘o’ in it [...]
Following the Spurs victory over Arsenal recently, Professional Golfer, Ian Poulter who finished tenth in the US Masters this year, is an Arsenal fan. Disappointed with the result he posted on his twitter status “Not talking about football after being beaten by Yids.” Jewish community representatives voiced condemnation for his remarks and a spokesman for [...]
It is not the first time that Israel has offered or aided populations of the world after a disaster. Israel has a consistent track record of sending medical teams, carrying out rescue missions and providing aid to victims of natural disasters and victims of genocide across the globe including to Kenya (2006, 1998), to earthquake [...]
#1 -John Sullivan, Top of the Anti-Semites. Week of Monday 30th November 2009
Posted: 08/12/2009 in Anti Semitism, PoliticsWhen I was at University in Britain studying for my BA, in my second year one of my classes was in Community Studies. In class a debate came up where one of my classmates was from a British Jamaican background and was talking about how young people from her community struggled to find good jobs [...]
Leader of the British National Party Nick Griffin recently made some new statements of rebranding the policies of the BNP to the British Public in their European election manifesto. “Freedom, Security, Identity, Democracy. Nobody can criticize them, nobody can come at you and attack you with those ideas, they are sayable… So instead of talking [...]
As the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement seems quite distant at the moment, what with Israel’s last conflict in Lebanon with Hizbullah, Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmedinejad calling for Israel to be “wiped off the map”, and recently holding a conference on Holocaust denial and pursuing its Nuclear programme in spite of UN sanctions [...]
