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Nov 26, 2024, 7:25 PM

The UK Gov has undermined international law and fuelled antisemitism

The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham coined the term ‘international law’ as a catch-all for the rules, norms, conventions, and standards that multiple nations accept in the mutual interests of the nations involved. Obvious examples of necessary international law...

Jul 1, 2024, 11:46 AM

The fallacy of ‘International Community’

In Britain today, politicians, the media, churchmen (of all denominations), civil servants, academics, and spokesmen for Islam habitually appeal to authority of “international community.” I cannot recall many appeals to “international community” a generation ago, certainly not in the 1980s,...

May 12, 2024, 6:20 PM

Rethinking the word Antisemitism

A prescient book titled Israelophobia – The newest version of the oldest hatred and what to do about it by Jake Wallis Simons appeared in print in early September 2023. Simons is editor of the British journal The Jewish...

Nov 7, 2023, 7:33 PM

Islamic Anti-Israelism

‘Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews still rule the world by proxy… 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. For well over half a century we have fought...

Jul 11, 2021, 6:43 PM

Denazification of Middle East must begin with the re-Denazification of Germany

As I have written elsewhere, including my previous piece for Blogs Times of Israel, there has been an allying of Nazism and Islamism since the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928, and the first unofficial translations...

Jun 13, 2021, 11:48 AM

Political millennialism: Why the world today needs a Churchill

'Unlike most others, he had some sense of just what the Nazis set out to exterminate in their total extermination of the Jews, from Tromsø to Tunis, namely, the millennial teaching and testimony that the Jewish people represent...

May 25, 2021, 9:40 PM

Genocidal Anti-Israelism and the Lethal Journalism of the West

O'Connell Street, Dublin, Ireland Saturday, 22 May 2021, (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

‘Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews still rule the world by proxy… 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. For well over half a century we have fought...

May 4, 2021, 11:33 AM

Holy Apartness is not Apartheid

The late and great Rabbi Lord Sacks gave a powerful keynote address entitled ‘The Mutating Virus’ to the European Parliament in 2016. He said antisemitism’s main variant of concern in our times results in hatred not primarily of the...

Mar 14, 2021, 9:39 PM

Will we Christians pull the plug on Paganism, and plug into Israel?

I don't want to be overly negative about the Pagan elements in the Christian faith, or deny their historical and cultural significance. In any case, Jewish and Pagan wisdom and knowledge cross-fertilised long before Christianity. Moses and Joseph obviously...

Jan 31, 2021, 1:49 PM

There are two holy languages

"To every people after their language" (Esther 1:22) I have to confess a mild addiction to the Yishai Fleisher Show on the Land of Israel Network, which I first discovered about six months ago. I especially try not to miss...

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About Me

Mark Pickles is a Scientific Technical Writer with a deep interest in understanding theology in the light of modern knowledge. He was an atheist from ages 10 to 30, and since then has been an active and practicing adherent in the Church of England. In recent years he has been actively engaged in the battle against antisemitism and anti-Israelism within and without the Church.