So what have our friends in Sinn Fein (as Jeremy Corbyn would call them) been up to recently? Published: 21 November 2023 Well, amongst other unpleasant activities, over the past few years, they’ve been stepping up their strategy of trying to silence critics north...
On Saturday evening, in the centre of London, I found myself in the middle of excitable anti-Israel protestors, some of whom were throwing fireworks at police, and all of whom were paralysing traffic and blocking access to the underground. Published: 7 November 2023...
On Sunday I went with two other gentiles to a rally in Trafalgar Square, London, in support of Israel. I found it almost unbearable to listen to close relatives of some of those murdered or kidnapped, as it has been when I’ve heard at first hand the stories of...
Journalist Andrew Neil summarised my feelings in a tweet on Sunday. “Looking at these shameful pro-Hamas demonstrations in London and elsewhere yesterday it struck me that Israel must be the only country in the world that is attacked for being attacked by a...
The names of political parties often don’t convey much information. Published: 12 October 2021 If you were a stranger to Northern Ireland politics, what would you make of the Democratic Unionist Party, the Progressive Unionist Party, the Traditional Unionist Party and...
Palestinians can only be seen as victims and the Israelis as oppressors in its view, writes Ruth Dudley-Edwards Published: 25 May 2020 Two recent happenings made an unexpected connection for me very recently. One was an intensification of the campaign to have the next...
Once decent Labour Party must ditch the anti-Semitism and refind its soul, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 May 2018 Among the uglier manifestations of the new Labour establishment is a hatred of Israel so profound as to be indistinguishable from pathological...
Ignorance and bigotry have combined to push Irish republicanism into hatred of Israel, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 April 2018 The storm about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is clearly irritating Jeremy Corbyn, who can’t see it. The hard-Left — like...
