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Guest post by Karl Pfeifer
On the national holiday March 15, the Hungarian government awarded the annual Tancsics prize – the country’s highest journalistic award – to Ferenc Szaniszlo, a presenter for the pro-government Echo TV channel. Szaniszlo is notorious for spreading Jewish conspiracy theories and describing the country’s Roma minority as “human monkeys”.
Zoltan Balog, the [...]

This is a cross-post from Marc Goldberg
I can feel it descending upon me now, the shutters are coming down on the shops and restaurants, the few places still open are preparing to close and the city streets are emptying. People are at home watching television programmes dedicated to the six million lost, spending time with [...]

This is a guest post by Stephen Hoffman
I find it heartbreaking that, over 70 years on from the Holocaust, the world doesn’t seem to have learnt the lessons from it. Whilst of course Jews worldwide are not facing the level of persecution they were facing during World War 2, antisemitism remains alive and well, as [...]

This is a cross-post from Marc Goldberg
In that bastion of British Left wing journalism that is called The Guardian author Iain Banks decided to publish his reasons for calling for a cultural boycott of Israel. He did this the day after telling the world that he is suffering from an untreatable form of cancerand is [...]

Richard Seymour had been a long term, high-profile member of the Socialist Workers Party until his recent resignation. He now believes everyone on the left has to confess to their crimes:

If you have never, as a socialist activist, found yourself defending a line you later regretted, kept quiet about something you shouldn’t have, rationalised away [...]

Despite being deeply interested in the result of Ronnie’s Fraser’s case, I expected the ruling itself to be rather dry, with the result hinging on precedents set by case law.  While fully sharing the concerns which motivated the many other witnesses, and Ronnie himself, to pursue this case, I realized that the tribunal would have [...]

Karl Pfeifer reports that these stickers appeared this month on the doors of professors at the Eötvös Loránd University, the largest and best university in Hungary:

The wording in English:
Jews! The university belongs to us, not to you!
Regards: the Hungarian students…
In 2011 Karl interviewed one of the professors, the Hungarian-Jewish philosopher Agnes Heller, about the growing [...]

Benzion Netanyahu excelled in detailing the history of the Jews of Spain, the conversos, and the Spanish Inquisition. His son Benjamin is the Prime Minister of Israel. Parallels between the historical time which interested Benzion, and the political current which concerns Benjamin, are very striking, if not obvious initially.
Netanyahu Snr was 102 years old when [...]

Steve Hedley’s antics have been brought to the attention of Harry’s Place readers in the past.  So warped are Hedley’s views that he appears to think the Jews sans Frontieres website is ‘Zionist’. Back in 2011 he clashed with Richard Millett at a SOAS BDS event. Following a tirade against Israel, Richard asked Hedley if he ‘felt better’. He [...]

Have a read of Daphne Anson’s piece.
Sizer’s mate:
if Britain did not import to Palestine those professional eastern european murders we would now be living in our peace in our home
Sizer:
I agree with you Salim – that’s why I wrote the book Christian Zionism
Sizer’s mate is Salim Nazzal, who has previously pondered about how “Russian and Polish Jews” [...]