Freelance journalist, blogger and non-practising solicitor with a Masters in Middle East politics from SOAS. Supports Leeds United, Yorkshire CCC, Oakland Athletics. Lives in London.
richardblog@live.co.uk
@richmillett
I write about the anti-Israel movement in the UK and its inherent violent anti-Semitism. I just hold a camera up to events and describe what I see and hear.
Good stuff , a few spelling mistakes, at least you dont have to used joined up handwriting on here!!
Seriously, well done and hope this is the beginning of a very long journey in the world of journalism!
Your rip off my blog . . . and then, what is worse, don’t even put me in your “Links”?!
Great posts here Richard. Keep fighting the fight!
Interesting reading sir. I will be back for more.
Richard,
Just put a note on with Jonathan- another big night coming up at the LSE on 1 June.
Captain John Ging of the UN in Gaza is speaking along with a lady from Goldstone.
This week Ging said that the ships carrying aid should be allowed into Gaza.
He also made claims about white phosporous.
Daniel:
Your pettiness knows no bounds…
Gert:
Of course it does. I’m a Zionist settler and I talk in a “hasbara”-like way.
Did you have anything specific in mind?
After reading your ‘blog’ I have come to the conclusion that you are just a zionist propagandist.
Thanks for reading!
They don’t like it up ‘em, Richard.
I tried to post on the LBC page but the Comments box seems to have been disabled there.
No, I very much doubt that it was an innocent remark. I deal with anti-Semites quite a lot over the Internet and what he said and how he said it is
very familiar to me indeed.
The meaning behind the “The Jews” remark is straight forward enough. The speaker does not recognize Israel’s right to exist and therefore would not say “Israeli’s” even if prompted. Had he been interviewed properly, this would have become clear.
There are three types of people in my experience who wouldn’t use teh term “Israelis”. The first are radical socialists who see Israel as an Imperial evil. The second are Islamists. They always refer to Israelis as “Zionists” or Zionist occupiers.
The third type are your old fashion, plain and simple anti-Semites, usually Protestants/C of E type but sometimes they have had a Catholic upbringing. Not necessary religious but that kind of background. They refer to Israel’s as “The Jews”. They hide behind an anti-Zionist agenda but if you know how to speak to them they soon give the game away. Usually all you have to do is mention the British Mandate Period, The Kind David Hotel or the hanging of the two British sergeants and that’s enough for them to lose all pretense of civility. It’s common for them to tell you that they had a relative in the army who told them a thing or two about “The Jews” in Palestine.
We in Israel are coping with terrorist attacks in the South and a high state of warnings of attacks in Yerushalayim. I have been monitoring LBC radio over the past week and they have as good as ignored the terrorist attacks here.
Brachot from Yerushalayim
Reb Mordechai
The first are radical socialists who see Israel as an Imperial evil
This remark made me think that maybe the left became so rabid concerning Israel because there another of the attempts at living whatever they dream of tended to look a bit different in real life than they had imagined it.
I remember that there used to be a lot of enthusiastic talk about Kibbutzes in the most glowing terms as if they were heaven on earth and not rather complicated sounding establishments. And so I guess that once they found out that another Utopia had been thought out in heaven and proved tough to live in on earth they turned around like refused lovers.
And as is so often the case with refused lovers they discover that they have passion and a skill for stalking.
I’m a Batley lad and also a Leeds Supporter. My worse moment ever was during a posting on Ascension Island I was referred to by the RAF as Leeds Nil.
MAY THE TRUTH BE TOLD PUBLICLY!!!!
Richard, I read your Albert Hall blog. Why not simply report it officially yourself at work ?
Hi Rich,
I haven’t visited the blog in a while, but just wanted to say that what you are doing here is tremendous: I can’t bear to read a lot of it – it just brings me down – and, living in Israel, I don’t feel that I need to . . . but it is great that someone is exposing all this anti-Semitic filth.
Hope to see you in “Occupied” Jaffa very soon. Chazak ve’ematz!
Mike
Taken yesterday on Brent Street . . .
http://melchettmike.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/shavuos-caption-competition/
Get those captions coming!