Harry's Place

Christopher Hitchens– who has been mocked by a number of supposed anti-fascists for standing up to fascism– writes about his encounter with the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Beirut.
He also contrasts two demonstrations he observed while there: a “glum, dark, regimented” Hezbollah rally and an event marking the fourth anniversary of the murder of former [...]

Here’s an article by Paul Goodman MP in Standpoint:
The Muslim Brotherhood in Britain is expanding its email list, knocking on the doors of ministers, and trying to elbow aside the pirs - the traditional spiritual leaders of those Muslims whose origins lie in the subcontinent. Will the winners of this struggle be the Brotherhood and its allies, [...]

Sid has an worth reading post up at Pickled Politics, in which he discloses the Chair of the Green Crescent charity, Sadek Hamid, writes for the Guardian’s Comment is Free.

Sid observes:
But I hope this does not stop the Guardian giving space to extremists to disseminate their ideology with op-eds on its pages. Of course, we all [...]

This is a guest post by Chris Wright
In grateful recognition of the influence of Harry’s Place on my attempts to make sense of the world as a student and to engage with it as a student journalist, I felt that I should write an update of events from Durham University initiated by this website. Think [...]

I read a very touching story in Haaretz recently about ‘Strings for Peace’, a Palestinian youth orchestra from Jenin who played for a group of elderly Israeli Holocaust survivors in Holon. There was much confusion and disbelief on both sides – the Israelis were amazed to meet young Arab musicians from Jenin, many of the [...]

This is an appeal for help by Colin
I was prompted by a HP report that the Friends of Al Aqsa website had announced that the Labour MP Sir Peter Soulsby would figure in a line up of after-dinner speakers at an event of theirs on 25 March to write to Sir Peter to ask whether [...]

this:
Local authorities have used ethnic categories not only as a means of collecting data but also as a way of distributing political power – by promoting certain ‘community leaders’ – and of disbursing public funds through ethnically-based projects. Once the allocation of power, resources and opportunities becomes linked to membership of particular groups, then people [...]

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A guest post from Alex Stein of falsedichotomies.com
Benyamin Netanyahu started the coalition negotiations desperate to avoid the mistake he made in 1996. Then, he formed what’s colloquially known as a narrow right-wing coalition with Shas, the National Religious Party, United Torah Judaism, and the now defunct Yisrael BaAliyah and the Third Way. The government barely [...]