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How a Labour MP lied about me — and helped incite threats of violence against me — for running the Crewkerne Gazette

A Labour MP did not merely criticise me; he misrepresented me, marked me out, and helped create the conditions for threats to follow. That is not accountability. It is political thuggery in the language of virtue.

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Private Eye Didn’t Just Misreport My Story — It Enabled Antisemitic Pile-Ons

I came forward publicly to acknowledge my past, reject antisemitism, and explain the work I later did in counter-extremism. Private Eye’s coverage stripped out crucial context — and the fallout was a wave of antisemitic abuse that should have been foreseeable.

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Britain’s Hidden Jewish Past: The Roman Tombstone That Won’t Go Away — and the Anglo-Saxon England That Revered Israel

The timeline is messier than we pretend. A debated Roman inscription hints at older connections, while Anglo-Saxon England revered Israel on the page. This piece follows the evidence—and the limits of it—before the Norman era.