Jacob Campbell, at The Blogs

Apply for a Blog

Jun 18, 2013, 11:33 PM

The Mullahs’ [S]election

Iran is a country that adheres very closely to the democratic principle of ‘one man, one vote’. Perhaps a little too closely, in fact, inasmuch as that one man is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the words of...

Mar 2, 2013, 10:19 PM

A second Camp Liberty massacre may be imminent

On Saturday 9 February, in the small hours of the morning, more than 3,000 Iranian dissidents interned at the sadistically-named Camp Liberty detention centre in Baghdad awoke to the deafening sound of missiles raining down on their tiny 0.6km²...

Jan 14, 2013, 5:48 PM

UK Charity Commission whitewashes Iran-linked British charity

This is a cross-post by Stop the Bomb, a pan-European coalition of human rights activists opposed to the clerical dictatorship in Tehran. Until recently, the London-based charity International Islamic Link described itself on its website as the “office of his...

Nov 26, 2012, 6:50 AM

Did Egypt arm Hamas?

It should surprise no one that, shortly after the Israel-Gaza ceasefire took effect last week, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh appeared in a television broadcast to express his gratitude to Iran for its help in making Israel “scream with pain”....

Nov 2, 2012, 12:56 AM

UKIP Euro-MP slams EU funding for ‘terror-linked’ NGOs

Since the controversial publication of the list of over 300 unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation trial, several major Islamic charities have come under intense scrutiny amid growing accusations of their collusion with an international terror-financing network....

Oct 22, 2012, 11:07 PM

Are Labour MEPs anti-Semitic?

Next week, the European Parliament will vote on whether to approve a technical upgrade in trade relations between the EU and Israel. According to a recent blog post by Labour MEP Mary Honeyball, she and her colleagues will vote against...

Oct 11, 2012, 3:21 PM

Iranians are suffering, but not because of sanctions

Late last week, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reported to the UN General Assembly that "sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran have had significant effects on the general population, including an escalation in inflation, a rise in commodities...

Sep 21, 2012, 2:30 PM

EU joins the Axis of Evil

Who says Iran is isolated? Just months after Egypt’s familiar “one man, one vote, one time” extravaganza and its subsequent reversion to autocracy under the leadership of Mohamed Morsi, we are already witnessing a tentative but palpable rapprochement between...

Sep 19, 2012, 6:41 PM

Fanning the flames of fascism

The far-Right is gaining traction across Europe. After the distressing electoral headway made by Greek neo-Nazis in May, and the recent consolidation of several xenophobic political parties into a full-fledged Europarty, concerned citizens want to know what their European...

Aug 17, 2012, 4:54 PM

MEK — the only hope for Iranian regime change

In June, the US Appeals Court in Washington gave Secretary of State Hillary Clinton four months to decide whether or not to remove the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) – Iran’s largest and best organised democratic opposition group – from the government’s...

Load more

About Me

Jacob Campbell is a Fellow at the Humanitarian Intervention Centre and Press Officer for Friends of Israel in UKIP.