Down the Rabbit Hole and Through the Looking-Glass …
… and, it seems, through a wormhole. Tomorrow I will wake up in a Britain with the Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn. What happened? Did I accidentally take the wrong turn at La-La Land? Have I...
View ArticleAnti-Semitism, anti-zionism and left-wing double-think
All my life, I voted Labour. My parents voted Labour. My aunts and uncles voted Labour. Voting Labour was about social justice, fighting class prejudice, equal opportunities, supporting the ‘workers’,...
View ArticleBritannia Redux – return to the rabbit-hole
I wrote here about waking up one day and finding that a vile anti-Zionist was leader of the Labour Party. Since writing that blog post I am more convinced than ever that at some point during the last...
View ArticleA Muslim stopped me on the street
There I was, on the last 400 metre stretch of my daily constitutional walk, when a small car approached on the wrong side of the road, and I could sense that it would stop and the driver would ask me...
View ArticleSocialism of Fools
A few weeks ago I was surprised to receive an email from the Columbia University Press asking me if I was interested in receiving and reviewing a book on anti-Semitism. The book duly arrived. It is...
View ArticleTerror is Terror is… hold on
Following the heinous attack on Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park, London, I’m confused by the use of the words ‘terror’ and ‘terrorism’. (If there are any lawyers out there who can critique this and...
View ArticleThe Israeli-Arab 6 Day War: History Gets Lost Along the Way
A guest post from Jerusalem U The Israeli-Arab 6 Day War: History Gets Lost Along the Way When it comes to war and devastation, there was no shortage of it during the 20th century. From World War II to...
View ArticleComing Up For Air
It’s been more than a year since my last post. I guess I switched to blogging from the safety of my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/raypcook where I only blog to friends. Who needs trolls. It’s...
View ArticleCatching up – 2017 – Life on Facebook (1)
As promised. Here are some of my FB ramblings from last year. May 29th So. You Jewish parliamentary candidates who claim to be Zionists and the voice of the Jewish community fighting from within, bla...
View ArticleCatching up – 2017-2018 – Life on Facebook (2)
7th December Machpelah, kever Rochel, Kotel have no connection to the Jewish people or history; there never was a Temple, let alone two. What can the Jews do about that? There are only 20m of us and we...
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