By Juliet Moses for The Times Of Israel…

On Sunday morning, I enjoyed a sleep-in. The one day of the week there’s no school, work, sports, or synagogue to rush off to. Once I had emerged from my soporific state, I switched my phone on and found an unexpected message from a friend. 

Imagine my surprise to discover that I had inadvertently irritated, nay SICKENED, a baroness in the UK House of Lords while I was sleeping. Me, a mere untitled Antipodean!

It turns out Baroness Jenny Tonge [pictured above] had come across a short video I appeared in for the Israel Institute of New Zealand a year ago, about what Zionism is and what it means to me. The video got a lot of reaction, both positive and negative, the typical polarisation whenever Israel is concerned.

According to her Facebook post, the Baroness did not approve of it. So far, so unsurprising.  Her toxicity towards Israel is notorious enough that even I, at the bottom of the world, am familiar with it.

But after sounding off about the video, she went on to share her musings on the nature of anti-Semitism…

Read Juliet Moses’ full article on The Time Of Israel here.