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anti-semitism

Victory – but the challenge remains

DATE : 10 July 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

VfJUK is pleased to announce that on 11th June Dame Christine Gilbert was appointed as the new Chair of Ofsted, replacing interim chair Sir Hamid Patel. Dame Christine is a former Chief Inspector and author of the independent learning review for Ofsted, and will take up her new appointment on 1st September 2025. She replaces Sir Hamid Patel, who […]

Where is Justice?

DATE : 31 January 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

This week the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, remembering with horror Hitler’s attempted extermination of the Jews in Nazi Germany and Europe in WW2. In the Fuhrer’s quest to achieve racial purity, 6,000,000 Jews were systematically murdered in the death camps. There, living in the most appalling conditions, with little food and no […]

The Twilight Zone

DATE : 16 December 2024 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

On 28 November, the Oxford Union debated a motion, entitled, “This house believes Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide.” It was passed by a massive 278 votes to 59. In itself, of course, the vote indicates nothing beyond a difference of views, but it is the tenor of the debate that is of concern. From the start, there […]

BBC – ‘Institutionally hostile to Israel’

DATE : 4 October 2024 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

As reported in The Times on 30th September, Jewish groups are accusing the BBC of making ‘false and damaging claims’ about the conflict in the Middle East. This appears so demonstrably true that it is hardly worth comment, because from the start on 7th October, when Hamas out of the blue massacred around 1,200 Israelis and took […]

The Devil in the Detail

DATE : 17 July 2024 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster

In an interview with Beth Rigby of Sky News some three weeks before the General Election, in answer to a question about his support for Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Keir Starmer said, ‘I backed Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 because I thought he would lose.’ As context, it will no doubt be remembered that this is the […]