This is a truly brilliant offering on the Goldstone report which is also up on my new website, The Commentator. Please read it here.

Also, please spread the word about The Commentator.

Please see this new report on the Goldstone report from my new website, The Commentator. European countries and UN officials are increasingly saying that the Goldstone report continues regardless of Goldstone’s own retractions. To read the article, CLICK HERE.

Greetings all. Today is a big day, at least for me! My new website, The Commentator, has just gone live. Readers of Robin Shepherd Online (which I will continue with) will undoubtedly be interested in our lead story on this our first day which is an exclusive report on how the UK Foreign Office, amazingly, is still clinging on to the Goldstone Report even after Richard Goldstone last Friday retracted its most serious allegations!

To read the report and to look at the story in question, click here.

And don’t forget to look around the site for other stories and commentaries and to see what it’s all about! Oh, and tell all your friends and contacts…

Please take a look at my offering in this week’s Jewish Chronicle which looks at the mess that is UK foreign policy towards Israel. To see the article click here.

In an interesting development at the militantly anti-Zionist London Review of Books (LRB), the magazine is no longer to receive funding from the UK Arts Council’s regular donor programme. This follows years of campaigning by a variety of individuals and organisations, most notably in the last couple of years by the media monitoring watchdog Just Journalism, who have berated the Arts Council for channeling public funds into an agenda driven media outlet.

I spoke to the LRB, which denied that its anti-Zionist agenda had had anything to do with it: “The Arts Council never raised this as a subject,” said Nicholas Spice from LRB, claiming that the reason LRB was no longer going to get public funds in the manner it had previously obtained them was simply because they had decided not to apply for them. Hmmm. That would be very strange indeed since Spice acknowledged that LRB was loss making!

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