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Dec 20, 2018, 9:56 PM

Authoritarian and totalitarian trends – in the United Kingdom and France.

Even when socio-political trends develop in countries which at first sight appear trivial and which do not have anything to do with Israel they can end up indirectly having an impact. The observation that the countries with which Israel...

Jun 12, 2018, 8:31 PM

Beware of Israel-hating academics (in lifts) who like to get people into trouble!

Simona Sharoni has long hated the Israel where she used to live and, like so many leftist ex-Israelis, hardly any anti-Israeli calumny is too extreme. She not only actively promotes the Boycotts- Divestments - Sanctions movement but, according to...

Dec 28, 2017, 1:27 PM

Comparing Vanessa Paradis and Lorde

After being targeted and threatened by anti-Israel campaigners -- and it is well known how violently many of the BDS supporters based in France can behave -- singer and actress Vanessa Paradis cancelled her visit to Israel scheduled for...

May 3, 2017, 6:14 PM

Abuses of academic freedom, the Israeli entry ban for hard-core promotors of boycotts, divestment and sanctions – and the over-reaction by Association of Israel Studies

The politicisation of teaching at an ever increasing number of university faculties has for some time not only affected the newer course subjects like peace studies, Middle East studies or post-colonial studies (as indeed, in a few faculties, even...

Jan 18, 2017, 2:15 PM

Why is the Jewish Chronicle, now 175 years old, not campaigning for more effective protection of Jewish students against harassment and intimidation?

The Damascus Affair of 1840 tended to overshadow the other important blood libel of that year, the one in Rhodes, because it quickly came to escalate into a diplomatic stand-off opposing France (its government under Adolphe Thiers showing itself...

Jul 20, 2016, 8:35 PM

Unhelpful complacency in fighting BDS and a recent French example of indoctrination masquerading as education

UK Media Watch (formerly CIF-Watch), a site “dedicated to combatting antisemitism and promoting accurate reporting about Israel in the UK media,” consistently provides informative and useful analyses in response to the distortions and falsehoods appearing in the articles and...

May 27, 2016, 4:04 PM

The journalistic equivalent of gesture politics? The Jewish Chronicle’s non-campaign to protect Jewish students (updated).

In an editorial “Bring him back”, published in the Jewish Chronicle on the 28th January 2016, there was much praise for the statement by King’s College London principal Professor Ed Byrne, in which he expressed his opposition to “any...

May 24, 2016, 7:59 PM

The journalistic equivalent of gesture politics? The JC’s non-campaign to protect Jewish students.

In an editorial “Bring him back”, published in the Jewish Chronicle on the 28th January 2016, there was much praise for the statement by King’s College London principal Professor Ed Byrne, in which he expressed his opposition to “any...

Feb 18, 2016, 4:12 PM

When Doctors without Borders helps organise cultural events whitewashing murderers and attempted murderers of Israelis

Purchased by the city of Paris in 1997, the building called the La Maison des Métallos has functioned since 2007 as an official cultural centre (Établissement Culturel de la Ville de Paris), directly subsidised by the mayor’s office, which...

Jan 6, 2016, 4:46 PM

Promoting de-legitimisers of Israel – or the new adventures of Rabbi Jacobs in hypocritical progressive land.

Despite the very well publicised revelations about the significant contributions made by New Israel Fund funded NGOs to the thoroughly dishonest Goldstone report alleging Israeli war crimes in Operation Cast Lead, the New Israel Fund continues to give material support to...

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About Me

Paul Leslie is an occasional independent journalist and researcher, living in London. He has degrees from Exeter College, Oxford University and the Sorbonne (history of the Jews of Algeria and Tunisia, in two different colonial systems). Paul Leslie is am a fan of cinema – all genres – and is passionately interested in modern history.