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The Board of Deputies of British Jews: In whose interest?
In September, in the wake of Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband imposing sanctions on West Bank settlements, I thought I detected a glimmer of hope that, at last, the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD)[1] influence on UK domestic and foreign policy was diluted. This sunny assessment has proved to be a false dawn. Since… Continue reading
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Israel’s right to a self-determined Jewish state – a fallacy
The notion of a Jewish right to self-determination, understood as the right of Jews to have ‘their own’ state, i.e. one created and run primarily for the benefit of Jews, is one of the props proponents of Zionism deploy to justify the existence a state of Israel – hence, the ‘right’ of Israel to exist.… Continue reading
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Moral harm and the Jewish Establishment
It is surely impossible that Israeli Jews do not know what is being done by their hand, and in their name, to the Palestinians of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza. But the capacity to lie, to self-delude, to dissemble, feeds off itself behind a set of formidable psychic fortifications. Fortifications constructed, consciously and… Continue reading
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Sanctioning the settlements: A bullet bitten. A space opened up.
Governments long enchantment with, and fear of, the clamorous, pro-Israel Jewish Establishment has ended. This is the symbolic meaning of Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s announcing sanctions against the settlements of the West Bank. The substance of the sanctions proposed may not amount to much so far as agricultural products are I concerned, but there is… Continue reading
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Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Moral purpose shattered
A D’var Torah is a speech or text exploring a theme, verse, or idea spun out from the weekly Torah (five books of Old Testament) reading conducted in synagogues. A D’var Torah is essentially homiletic in character, seeking to convey a moral message, enjoining a congregation to right thinking and right behaviour. Moral purpose shattered… Continue reading
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A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, alongside something called the Jewish Leadership Council, had a meeting with the new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, on the 10 August. Those two organisations are part of a cluster of pro-Israel bodies that can fairly be characterised as the Jewish Establishment. Up until now, seemingly without shame, British… Continue reading
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You don’t have to succumb to…
You don’t have to succumb to conspiracy theories to assess that Israel, and its founding Zionist doctrine, is at the centre of a protective governmental, media, and judicial ring of mafia-like protection: a protection racket designed to eliminate any and all criticism of the rogue, eliminatory state of Israel. Those interests, thus far, are in… Continue reading
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Synod begins loosening the shackles that tied it to the pro-Israel Jewish Establishment
The previously published article below, ‘Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod’, focused on the Jewish Establishment’s campaign to quash the possibility that the York Synod, 10 July – 14 July, would agree to ‘hear’ the Palestinian Christian Initiative: A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, also… Continue reading
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Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod
The Church of England’s General Synod – the Church’s highest governing body, essentially its Parliament – is meeting in York from 10 to 14 July 2026. It has a key, controversial, question to address, namely, will it ‘receive’ – not ‘approve’ – the Kairos Palestine – Palestinian Christian Initiative A Moment of Truth: Faith in… Continue reading
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Chinks in the Zionist edifice
Only delusional seers, along with the very foolish, would try to predict, with any degree of certainty, how the bloody saga of the USA/Israel aggression against Iran will ultimately unfold. What can be said, however, is that it’s as near to certain as one can get that neither the USA, nor Israel, can have imagined… Continue reading
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
