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Man dead in suspected Woolwich terror attack

by Babs Barron : May 23, 2013 : 28 Comments

A British soldier is going about his business outside Woolwich Barracks in south London. Suddenly a car knocks him down and two Muslim males set upon him, wielding meat cleavers and machetes and, so the latest news says, behead him, hack him about and leave him in the middle of the road. All this… Continue Reading

Has Professor Stephen Hawking been exploited?

by Babs Barron : May 12, 2013 : 7 Comments

5/11/2013 Professor Stephen Hawking’s name has been added to the register of rank hypocrisy of those in favour of a boycott of Israeli academics. After a week of contradictory “on/off” rumour, where Prof Hawking initially and allegedly cancelled his visit to the Presidential Conference in Israel on health grounds, but was then said to have… Continue Reading

Jew-hatred and mealy-mouthed “apologies” from MIFTAH

by Babs Barron : April 2, 2013 : 0 Comments

The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, MIFTAH would like to apologize for the recent and brief publication on our website of an article penned by Nawaf Al Zaru that discusses Jewish blood libel during Passover. … Continue Reading

An open letter to Lord Nazir Ahmed

by Babs Barron : April 1, 2013 : 7 Comments

Dear Lord Ahmed I note from various sources, including the BBC, that you have “unreservedly apologised” for your insult to British Jewish people in your speech in Pakistan. My main difficulty with such mealy-mouthed dissembling is that you have actually done no such thing and in no meaningful manner. I believe that if you are… Continue Reading

M.Ansar’s Islamophobia and the Muslim civil rights crisis A response

by Babs Barron : February 2, 2013 : 2 Comments

Babs Barron MAnsar: We live in a time of extraordinary flux, when information can be accessed and disseminated at the speed of light in order to elevate mankind, to blow the whistle or to spark a revolution. Never has so much learning been available at the click of a mouse, and never has there been… Continue Reading

Cartoons as expressions of the artists’ inner life and their role in the spreading of antisemitism

by Babs Barron : January 31, 2013 : 3 Comments

Intelligent cartoons can deflate the pomposity of politicians and others and convey alternative messages in ways that criticising them verbally or in writing cannot.… Continue Reading

He who sups with the devil must needs use a long spoon : jihad by “collaboration”

by Babs Barron : January 18, 2013 : 0 Comments

Haitham Al-Haddad, who has said that Jews are “apes and pigs”, and that the Gaza war made him happy because “it clearly encouraged Muslims to prepare themselves for jihad, all over the world”.… Continue Reading

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