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This is a cross post from Fair Play

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to speak at the United Nations General Assembly today. He has said he wants to wipe Israel off the map, he regularly denies the Holocaust and he has brutally put down protests in Iran at his apparent theft of the Presidential election.

Unfortunately, [...]

On Saturday the “Stop the War Coalition” held an Israel hatred meeting at the University of London Union.
Here’s the video of Shamiul Joarder. At one minute in, he says:
“There is absolutely no room for anyone with antisemitic views in the Free Palestine movement”.

That’s quite funny coming from the head of public affairs of Friends [...]

Where might one expect to find remarks like these:
The fact that Meshal realises that his words will be scrutinised by his allies and supporters as closely as his adversaries confirms that he speaks of the official position of Hamas on a number of crucial issues which the pro-Israel propaganda apparatus has managed to manipulate for [...]

Be sure to catch our comrade, Edmund, on the BBC this evening at 8 p.m on Radio Four.
Here’s the BBC’s article:
Another lone far-right extremist, Martyn Gilleard, who was found to have four home-made nail bombs when police raided his flat, was also arrested by chance as part of an investigation into child pornography.
Like others described [...]

www.ajc.org/iran

UPDATE
Sadly, Youtube won’t let you see what Iran does to its people. View the video here

This is a guest post by Al-Qanaas Al-Masri
During the last few years, the left-leaning Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank has built up an unenviable reputation on the tricky subject of engaging with Islamists. And for good reason. Previous IPPR papers have argued that hard-line British Islamists from groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood [...]

The excellent centre-right “Nothing British About the BNP”  features a nice snippet about our old friend and sometime denizen of our comments boxes, Lee Barnes:
Lee Barnes, legal director of the BNP, has crudely called Conservative Party leader David Cameron an “old whore” and says the party is in the pocket of Israel after news has emerged over [...]

This is a cross post from Just Journalism

Last week, the UN Human Rights Councilpublished the findings of its investigation into alleged war crimes committed during the Gaza war. Headed by South African Judge Richard Goldstone, the four-person team concluded that there was strong evidence that war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, had been committed by both [...]

This is a guest post by the Rosh Pina Project, a new blog which takes an alternative look at Messianic Jews.
This week, the Jewish Chronicle reports on antisemitic incidents in Scotland targeting a Messianic Jewish congregation. The JC reports that youths have yelled “Kill the Jews!” and “Jews out” at those attending. The Community Security [...]

While debate in the US continues about Obama’s healthcare reforms, perhaps UK residents who worry about the NHS should reflect on the state of private medical care in the UK.
People having hip replacements at private treatment centres brought in to cut waiting times are up to 20 times more likely to need painful and expensive [...]