Andrew Neil’s speech at the Holocaust Educational Trust Appeal Dinner on Monday 16th October 2017. from Holocaust Educational Trust on Vimeo.
Category Archives: Anti-Semitism
Rabbi Tovia Singer on the Source of the Church’s History of Jew Hatred
Responding to a Muslim’s question about Jew hatred, Rabbi Tovia Singer traces the root of the Church’s most virulent strain of antisemitism.
You can learn more about Rabbi Tovia Singer’s work at Outreach Judaism and Tovia Singer TV.
Exposé discounts tales of checkpoint horror
The Jewish Star reports that filmmaker and investigative journalist Ami Horowitz found little evidence for the claims by Human Rights Watch of “onerous” waiting times at Israel’s security checkpoints, or that the waiting times – according to Amnesty International – amount to “collective punishment”.
All of the Palestinians with whom Horowitz spoke said that it took them 10 minutes or less to get through the checkpoint… The filmmaker also hired a Palestinian driver and traveled “over 300 miles” throughout the disputed territories in an automobile bearing Arab license plates. “We were not stopped even once,” Horowitz said.
The anti-Israel lobby routinely circulates stories of horror and oppression without seeking to present a balanced or realistic picture. Isolated incidents are presented as the norm and facts are stretched to paint Israel as intentionally victimizing Palestinians. Unfortunately, as the report makes plain, many church organizations have fallen for this:
In 2014, the Presbyterian Church USA voted to divest from Motorola on the grounds that the company was assisting “checkpoints that dehumanize Palestinians,” and the United Church of Christ cited the checkpoints in adopting its own pro-BDS resolution in 2015. The Evangelical Lutheran Church has embraced a manifesto known as the “Kairos Document,” which accuses Israel of perpetrating “daily humiliation” of Palestinians at checkpoints. As a result, a number of Lutheran synods around the country have called for boycotting Motorola.
The Church, at least for the most part, has largely abandoned the crude antisemitism that it displayed for much of its history. Unfortunately the attitude of many church leaders towards Israel today helps to feed the antisemitism that the Church thought it had rejected.
Holocaust denier’s works should not have ‘pride of place’ at Cambridge library, says academic
From Cambridge News:
A Cambridge college library has moved the work of a historian branded an anti-Semite to a closed area after an academic called his books’ appearance on its shelves a ‘disgrace’.
Dr Irene Lancaster spotted that the controversial author David Irving’s books were accessible in Churchill College’s Roskill Library during a tour of its archives on February 1.
Notorious for his holocaust scepticism, Irving was branded an anti-Semite and racist by a judge in 2000 following an infamous libel case brought to trial by the historian against Penguin Books.
Bishop condemns Israel Apartheid week
From Jewish News Online:
A national Church of England leader has branded Israel Apartheid Week “neither helpful nor constructive,” in comments likely to reverberate throughout congregations across the country.
Dr Michael Ipgrave, who is the Bishop of Lichfield and Chair of the Council of Christians and Jews, made the comments this week, as events take place across British campuses highlighting perceived social injustices in Israel and the West Bank.