Encountering Antisemitism
By Max Musson: Since the Charlie Hebdo shootings and the siege of the kosher supermarket in Paris, the authorities on both side of the Channel have gone into overdrive in pandering to Jewish sensibilities, as if the issue of security in the face of Islamic terrorism revolves solely around the security needs of Jews and so much so, that the needs of the rest of us don’t really warrant attention. We have seen the Prime Minister, David…
Hague, a Dangerous Fool
By Max Musson: Less than one week after British soldier Lee Rigby was brutally murdered on the streets of Woolwich by two Islamic fanatics, Britain’s Foreign Minister William Hague is busily trying to persuade other EU leaders to relax sanctions so that arms can be sold to Islamic militants in Syria. Even though it is widely known that the ‘rebel’ forces opposed to the regime of President Assad of Syria are largely composed of foreign…