Friday, 24 December 2010

Friday, 24th December 2010

Good wishes-Melanie Phillips

1:49pm

Postings here will be light over the holiday period. I wish everyone for whom this is appropriate a happy Christmas, and hope that 2011 brings a peaceful new year for the world.

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Thursday, 23rd December 2010

The jihad of the British Left

3:13pm


A new and authoritative report by Ehud Rosenhas just been published by the Jerusalem Institute for Public Affairs, which maps the forces behind the campaign of demonisation and delegitimisation of Israel and shows how the UK has become the global hub of such bigotry.

But the UK has also become the global hub, outside the Arab and Muslim world itself, of Muslim radicalisation. The two phenomena are, of course, symbiotically connected. And what Rosen shows is how the radicalisation of British Muslims – an issue of the greatest possible concern in Britain -- is not just the result of extremist Muslim preachers and the like. It has also been actively pushed by the far left.

It has often been remarked upon with surprise that in Britain, the supposedly ‘antifascist’ left marches shoulder to shoulder against Israel and America...

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