Harry's Place

This is a guest post by Seismic Shock
You may well have heard of Patrick Sookhdeo, the director of Barnabas Fund and the Institute of the Study of Islam and Christianity (ISIC). Sookhdeo’s organisation Barnabas Fund supports persecuted Christians in various parts of the world, be they living under economic hardship, warfare, civil war, or totalitarian [...]

This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer
Tachles was one of the keywords of the London Conference on Antisemitism. Used by Jewish and non-Jewish experts and delegates alike, the word is an exhortation to get down to brass tacks.
Reading The London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism, one can feel that the parliamentarians have fully incorporated in [...]

This is a guest post by Gsirrah.
At the moment so much is being said by so many people about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, but none of them seem to care about another group of Palestinians who very rarely make the news but whose suffering is no less real:
After 18 members of her family [...]

Over at Socialist Unity, Andy Newman has written an important and revealing post on BNP activist turned mosque fire bomber Mark Bullman.
In August 2006, BNP supporter, Bullman attempted to burn down the Broad Street mosque in Swindon using a petrol bomb. Mark was the registered fund holder for Wiltshire BNP, and actively campaigned for the [...]

The Viva Palestina convoy has finally crossed from Morocco into Algeria. This milestone happened only after a long and apparently unexplained delay at the border checkpoint.
Here’s what the cheerleading website set up to support the pilgramage says about the lengthy wait:
I am told that the passport checks were done at a leisurly pace in an atmosphere of friendship [...]

Guest post by Judeosphere
Professor Joel Kovel—an outspoken critic of Israel and author of the book Overcoming Zionism—has been dismissed from his position as the Alger Hiss Chair in Social Studies at Bard College in New York state.
Kovel had taught at Bard since 1988. He did not hold tenure, but the Bard administration sent him a [...]

Guest post by Andrew Murphy
Humanitarian. Physician. Internationalist. Politican. Those are just some words to describe Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister. However if we are to believe French journalist Pierre Péan, other adjectives should be used to describe Kouchner. Does Péan’s smear campaign have a leg to stand on? Of course not!
Those familiar with the [...]

Richard Seymour’s tome ‘The Liberal Defence of Murder’ has been reviewed in the Guardian Books section today. I’m afraid it’s not likely to be welcome news for the chubby Trotskyist blogger as the book gets right royally panned.
As a service to the author I translate below some of the more rarified phrases used by the reviewer to explain what he [...]

Two stories from The Times today. It reports on the shock win by the  British National Party of a district council seat in Kent.
It is a move into suburbia for the BNP whose seat was won by Paul Golding, who was once expelled from the party for allegedly attacking its only ethnic minority councillor. The [...]

Here is the declaration which resulted from the London Conference on Combatting Antisemitism:
Preamble
We, Representatives of our respective Parliaments from across the world, convening in London for the founding Conference and Summit of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism, draw the democratic world’s attention to the resurgence of antisemitism as a potent
force in politics, international affairs [...]