Gary Spedding, at The Blogs

Mar 1, 2024, 5:03 PM

George Galloway is no friend of the Palestinians

The return of George Galloway to the Parliament of the United Kingdom is, as the Board of Deputies describes, a dark day for the Jewish community – I would argue it is also a deeply concerning moment for the rest of us as well. His...

Apr 12, 2018, 2:49 PM

Israeli Labour Leader in no position to lecture Jeremy Corbyn on racism

Yesterday, the leader of Israel’s main opposition party, Labor chair Avi Gabbay, wrote a scathing letter to Jeremy Corbyn informing him of a ‘temporary suspension of all formal relations’ between the Israel Labor Party and the Leader of the Labour Party UK. What many may...

Mar 4, 2018, 9:32 PM

Open letter to the Left: Ditch Ken Livingstone and his supporters

Last month, the Community Security Trust (CST) published the results of its anti-Semitic incident report for 2017. The incidents report found a 34 percent increase in the number of violent anti-Semitic assaults and the highest total for overall incidents CST has ever recorded in a single...

Feb 11, 2018, 8:25 PM

The left must take responsibility for tackling anti-Semitism in our own ranks

Two weeks ago, on BBC One’s faith and ethics television show ‘The Big Questions’, I took part in what was an approximately twenty-three minute slot debating the question: Does the left have a problem with anti-Semitism? As is often the case, with the understandable time...

Nov 5, 2017, 6:56 PM

Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary is wrong on Israel’s ‘right to exist’

Last week, in a high profile speech marking the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, the Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry stated that there is “no place in the Labour Party” for anyone who holds the “abhorrent view” that Israel has no right to exist. Such...

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Gary Spedding is a cross-party consultant on the Israel-Palestine conflict and an applied peace and conflict researcher with a specialisation in comparative conflict analysis, conflict transformation and restorative justice.

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