Category Archives: antisemitism

My Reads of 2021

Posted on 30 December 2021 by Henry Gee

Yes, the time is coming up to the top of rapidly fast approaching when I list my favourite reads of the past year.  I’m amazed I’ve managed 54 books this year given that I have been very busy elsewhere. Going … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Jews On Bikes

Posted on 25 April 2014 by Henry Gee

Sometimes the most memorable televisual emissions come from random channel-surfing. So it was last night when Mrs Crox came across a documentary on Sky Atlantic called Jews On Bikes. This follows the fortunes of a group of British Jewish bikers … Continue reading →

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Why this night is no different than any other – vile anti-semitism persists

Posted on 15 April 2014 by Steve Caplan

Tonight, I know, is the first night of Pesach-Passover, the Jewish festive celebration of the historic/mythical tale of escape from slavery in Egypt. Being an atheist with a complete lack of interest in any religious or pseudo-religious customs, Passover has … Continue reading →

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Wagnerismus

Posted on 4 November 2013 by Henry Gee

I remember it well – the moment after I, as an audience member at a panel at an SF convention, mentioned how much I liked the novel Ender’s Game by one Orson Scott Card, when the temperature appeared to drop … Continue reading →

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Null Hypothesis

Posted on 19 June 2013 by Henry Gee

I am somewhat confused by a recent post in Teh Grauniad by our colleague Athene Donald. Part of my confusion stemmed from the fact that I had walked into an argument that was already in full swing – Donald’s piece … Continue reading →

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Hypocrisy (Again)

Posted on 15 March 2013 by Henry Gee

Here is a transcript of an interview with several Dutch boys. I have made a few changes for reasons that will become clear. Boy 2: I’m happy about bitches being murdered. I am being really honest.

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Dulce et Decorum est … NOT

Posted on 19 November 2012 by Henry Gee

Whenever I poke my head above the parapet and claim that the anti-Israeli posturing one sees on the Left is thinly disguised antisemitism (a contention that has overwhelming evidence to support it) I am always treated to the unedifying spectacle … Continue reading →

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Censored

Posted on 30 August 2012 by Henry Gee

“In this job, you will make enemies,” warned the then editor, John Maddox, not long after I started in my career at Your Favourite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N. This isn’t surprising, given that almost everything I receive … Continue reading →

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Kaddish II

Posted on 8 August 2012 by Henry Gee

No, no, no, no, no.  I know you were all trying to be nice, responding to my complaint about the lack of any memorial to the Israeli athletes gunned down at the Munich Games in 1972, with cosy phrases about … Continue reading →

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Kaddish

Posted on 27 July 2012 by Henry Gee

Forty years ago eleven athletes and officials were murdered at the Olympics in Munich. As the media frenzy around this year’s London games ramps up from Over-Excited to Orgasmic, you can bet that at tonight’s opening ceremony, there will not … Continue reading →

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