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Several months ago I was supposed to debate Israeli ex-historian Benny Morris at the Oxford Union. At the last minute the ex-historian stipulated that he would only participate in the debate if former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was also invited. The Union then approached Mr. Olmert but, according to the Union, Olmert “firmly declined […]

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I recently debated Israeli ex-historian Benny Morris on Piers Morgan Uncensored. I noted that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation [GHF] was setting up distribution centers in southern Israel. The objective is obvious: forcing Gazans to relocate in the South in order to obtain food, water, and medicine. Once crammed in that tiny space, it would be […]

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I recently debated Israeli ex-historian Benny Morris on PIERS MORGAN UNCENSORED. A Palestinian doctor interviewed by Morgan before the debate stated that “I still have many of my colleagues from Nasser hospital who have been kidnapped since the beginning of the war. These doctors have never come back,” and referenced one doctor who “disappeared” and […]

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I recently debated Israeli ex-historian Benny Morris on Piers Morgan Uncensored. The ex-historian accused me of fabricating a poll that found that half of the Israeli Jewish population believed that Israel should conduct a genocide in Gaza. Vigorously shaking his head, the ex-historian kept repeating “That’s a lie, That’s a lie. There’s never been a […]

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The other day I suffered the ordeal of reading Senator Chuck Schumer’s awful little book, ANTI-SEMITISM IN AMERICA: A WARNING.  Such an original subject!  Until Mr. Schumer came along, no Jew had published a book on alleged rising anti-Semitism in the US since the last … 48 hours.  At one point, Mr Schumer recalls meditating on his […]

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Me and three of my dear British friends, colleagues and comrades: Alex Nunns (Jeremy Corbyn’s press secretary), Deborah Maccoby (my editor and the greatest living authority on British literature), and Talal Hangari (my literary assistant just graduated from Cambridge).  If there are three more wonderful people in the world, I’ve not met them. Me and […]

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I was invited to participate in a debate at the Oxford Union on November 28, 2024 that included Israeli professor Benny Morris.  I was subsequently informed by the Union that, after agreeing to attend, Professor Morris stipulated that he would only participate in the debate if former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was also invited.  […]

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It’s now pretty clear what happened in Amsterdam this week. But first some background.   For over a decade the football governing bodies FIFA, the International Federation of Football Associations, and UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, have consistently rejected demands to suspend or expel the Israel Football Association (IFA) and individual Israeli football […]

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My Mother once told me the story of an emaciated woman in the Warsaw Ghetto who would wail from her window sill that all the Jews in the ghetto would be killed. She came to be called Cassandra, after the prophetess of doom in Greek mythology. Everyone just assumed that she was mad. My Mother […]

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