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Feb 14, 2024, 10:15 AM

Diaspora Jews need to reclaim the streets

It’s time for each diaspora Jew to resist. Today Feb 14 2024 the Algemeiner reports that 78% of US Jews feel less safe since October 7 and the Times quotes CST figures that some 80% of UK Jews feel the...

Nov 5, 2022, 12:46 PM

Insults don’t win votes, hearts or minds

Lord John Mann, former Labour MP and now the British government’s adviser on antisemitism, has pointed out, in the context of Corbyn, that you don’t get votes by antagonising the electorate. We saw it in Britain with Brexit. Why would...

Sep 29, 2022, 11:38 PM

I’m not yet ready to give London’s Royal Court Theatre a hechsher

London’s Royal Court Theatre is arguably the historical breeding ground for the UK’s cultural boycott of Israel movement. Examine the signatories to the 2015 UK Artists for Palestine call for a cultural boycott. Only a small selection are well known...

Aug 6, 2022, 10:45 PM

Why Labour’s antisemitism still hurts

Some Labour friends may think that despite its efforts to deal with antisemitism the Labour Party can do nothing right for me. What they don’t realise is that I’ve been holding back criticism and I can’t do it anymore. Let...

Jan 7, 2022, 8:26 PM

Jewface then and now

I admire Maureen Lipman so much. So I need to try to understand why she has applied such a blunt seeming instrument to express her criticism of Helen Mirren playing Golda Meir in a film I’m really looking forward...

Jul 16, 2021, 12:37 PM

Maxine Peake and medical aid for Palestinians

Open letter to Maxine Peake about medical aid for Palestinians Dear Maxine, Over the past days soi-disant human rights organisations have encouraged Palestinian extremists, fed fear, and as a result stopped the Palestinians getting life-saving Covid vaccine. Why? Because the vaccine...

Apr 5, 2021, 5:18 PM

Labour’s struggling to own and tackle antisemitism

On 1st April Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy spoke to Lee Harpin in the Jewish News, offering herself and Labour as ‘honest broker' on Israel/Palestine. She talked of ‘the efforts taken by Labour under Sir Keir to “get...

Jan 29, 2020, 8:19 PM

Forced Out – Labour’s 2019 election defeat

Labour’s doing another report; it’s going to explain why the party was soundly beaten in 2019’s general election. This time Ed Miliband is in charge and it won’t need to aim that high to improve on Chakrabarti. Even so the...

May 9, 2019, 7:27 AM

You can’t whitewash Jeremy Corbyn’s foreword to Hobsons’s ‘Imperialism’

In a letter to the Guardian about Corbyn’s 2011 foreword to Hobson’s 1902 book ‘Imperialism’ (2nd May) Professor Donald Sassoon states “No one has ever felt the need to highlight the 10 lines or so, in a book of 400...

Jan 28, 2019, 6:32 AM

7 lessons from the past fight Labour’s antisemitism

“I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older” Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) (1) 27th January 2019, Holocaust Memorial Day, marks the anniversary...

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About Me

Judith Ornstein is UK and Israel based. She is a passionate supporter of the arts, who combats the cultural boycott of Israel. Judith is the instigator of both the ‘Whitewashed’ and ‘Forced Out’ projects, books and films using primary evidence from witnesses to expose Labour's problems with Jews. Whitewashed book and film, and valuable links can be found at www.whitewashed.co.uk Forced Out Links film and book https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B082DJ1LHD/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Forced+Out+Labour+Antisemitism&qid=1575581887&sr=8-1 Companion film here: https://youtu.be/b4f_TexfjbI

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