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Trade Union and Other Boycotts of Israel in Great Britain and Ireland

December 1, 2008 | Ronnie Fraser

The United Kingdom more than any other country in the world has embraced the Palestinian call for academic, trade union, media, medical, architectural, and cultural boycotts of Israel. The driving force for this campaign is Britain’s trade union movement and its anti-Zionist activists on the far Left, such as the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).

Ireland’s Jews: Past, Present, Future

July 28, 2008 | Dr. Rory Miller

Irish Jews have historically played a role in Jewish life out of all proportion to their numbers, despite the fact that they were on the margins of the Jewish world. Before 1948 the Irish Jewish community, which had come overwhelmingly from Lithuania in the period from 1880 to 1914, was one of the most pro-Zionist in Western Europe and a major per capita supporter of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), as well as other Zionist organizations and institutions.

Manfred Gerstenfeld on Ireland and the Palestine Question, 1948-2004

March 1, 2007 | Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

Ireland: A Country Hostile to Israel Ireland and the Palestine Question, 1948-2004, by Rory Miller, Irish Academic Press, 2005, 266 pp. Reviewed by Manfred Gerstenfeld

Irish Attitudes Toward Israel

October 1, 2006 | Dr. Rory Miller