Jamie Stern-Weiner

Jamie Stern-Weiner   ( academic,  author,  editor)

Jamie Stern-Weiner is an independent researcher and editor for OR Books, based in Cambridge. A dual British-Israeli national, he has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for The Nation, Jadaliyya, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and Le Monde diplomatique.

Antisemitism "report"

On 17 July 2025, Stern-Weiner posted on X:

The antisemitism "report" by Lord Mann and Dame Penny Mordaunt is barely longer than their Telegraph op-ed promoting it.

Excluding the Forewords, Executive Summary, & Recommendations, the entire "report" runs to... 2.5 pages.

The 2.5 pages (including pictures and big pull-quotes) comprise a "Background" section and a two-paragraph "Conclusion".

The "Executive Summary" just repeats the "Recommendations".

And the "report" is bulked out with fully 16 pages devoted to titles or just left blank.

These "findings" got national media coverage but, to judge by the 2.5-paragraph "report", don't actually exist.

Mann and Mordaunt say their experience chairing the commission left them "stunned into silence".

It would seem so!

Stephen Pollard hails the report as "a vital... work". He doesn't specify which of the two pages this refers to.

He adds that "there is not a word or a finding in it that will not be entirely familiar to any Jew". Alas, the last nine words are redundant.

The BBC reveals possession of high-powered electron microscope (The report, seen by the BBC).

The Telegraph, ITV, and others have referred to the so-called report as "government-backed".

But the report doesn't describe itself this way. And while Lord Mann advises the government on antisemitism, his position is "Independent" and he does not speak for the government.

Below is how Vanessa Feltz introduced her LBC item on the "report".

She refers to an article in The Telegraph headlined: "Anti-Semitism 'Normalised in Middle-Class Britain'."

A couple of minor, trivial problems here:

Minor, Trivial Problem 1: There is no 'government-backed report', just some recommendations commissioned and published by the Board of Deputies.

Minor, Trivial Problem 2: The 'report' did not find that antisemitism is 'normalised' in 'middle-class Britain'. That's from a Telegraph headline that appears to be quoting a misrepresentation of the 'report' by the paper’s own reporter.

See below for similar hallucinations. Again, that quote appears nowhere in the so-called 'report'.

Incidentally, Feltz's guest Jonathan Sacerdoti is a former Director of Public Affairs for the Zionist Federation.

He appeared on the BBC during Israel's 2012 assault on Gaza, introduced as a neutral-sounding Middle East expert. His former advocacy role was not disclosed. When Sacerdoti's lobbyist background was revealed, evidence of it was hurriedly scrubbed from the internet.

Contrarian sceptic Brendan O'Neill told Sky News: 'Yeah, it's a really shocking report, from what we know so far. The whole report is coming out shortly. The snippets we've seen in The Telegraph are really disturbing'.

Given the 'whole report' is barely longer than those 'snippets', shouldn't it be henceforth referred to as the Non-Government-Backed Snippet?

Academic publications

Books

• How to Solve the Israel-Palestine Conflict (New York: OR Books, 2016), with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani

Chapters

• ‘Chapter 1. Pass-Through Organisations’, in Spinwatch, Funding Israel’s Occupation (forthcoming)

Articles

• ‘Palestine after the Arab Spring‘, with Norman Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani, Insight Turkey 17.3 (Summer 2015), pp. 23-32

Media

Articles

• Jeremy Corbyn hasn’t got an ‘antisemitism problem’ His opponents do openDemocracy (27 April 2016) – republished by Jadaliyya (30 April 2016)
• New accusations of antisemitism thrown at the left are flimsy openDemocracy (25 April 2016) – republished by Alternet (25 April 2016)
• Is this the 3rd Palestinian intifada? The Nation (21 October, 2015; with Norman G. Finkelstein and Mouin Rabbani) – republished by Jadaliyya (25 October, 2015)
• Israel-Palestine: The parameters of mainstream debate New Left Project (24 April, 2015)
• The struggle for Palestine: What’s winnable, what’s not Truthdig (7 April, 2015)
• No matter who wins the Israeli elections, Palestinians lose Mondoweiss (24 February, 2015)
• Meet the Israeli army’s new chief of staff New Left Project (16 February, 2015)
• Recognising Palestine – and political reality Mondoweiss (23 October, 2014)
• Judging the Judge MERIP (16 July, 2014)
• Indyk vs. Indyk MERIP (12 May, 2014)
• J Street: Israel’s Loyal Opposition Jadaliyya (12 December, 2013)
• UN Admission, Ours and Yours MERIP (10 October, 2013)
• Bread and circuses – Siena’s Palio and the economic crisis VICE (23 August, 2013; with the great Michaela Collord)
• All talk in the Middle East Le Monde diplomatique (June 2013)
• Power Corrupts MERIP (18 June, 2013)
• Palestinian Authority in crisis New Left Project (24 July, 2012)
• Both sides are wrong in the “Israel Firsters” debate Mondoweiss (3 February, 2012)
• Goldstone’s fatal retraction Le Monde diplomatique (April 2011)

Interviews

Norman Finkelstein

• The American Jewish scholar behind Labour’s ‘antisemitism’ scandal breaks his silence openDemocracy (May 2016)
• Guarding the guardians Byline (August 2015)
• The Kerry initiative: the next round New Left Project (June 2014)
• The end of Palestine? New Left Project (March 2014)
• Israeli-Palestinian talks: an update New Left Project (January 2014)
• A historic moment in the Middle East New Left Project (July 2013)
• How to end the Israel-Palestine conflict New Left Project (November 2011)

Shir Hever

• The scary truth about Israel’s election: nothing happened New Left Project (April 2013)

Leo Panitch

• Global capitalism and the Left New Left Project (December 2012)

Dan Hind

• Britain, become a republic! You can even keep the Queen! openDemocracy (December 2012)
• How power shapes publicity – the political economy of publishing: Part 1, Part 2 New Left Project (April 2011)

Mika Minio-Paluello

• The oil economy: from the Caspian to the City New Left Project (October 2012)

Ronen Palan

• Britain’s Second Empire New Left Project (August 2012)

Herman Schwartz

• Land, Empire and Multiculturalism New Left Project (July 2012)

Erik Olin Wright

• Occupy Wall Street and transformational strategy New Left Project (January 2012)

Naomi Colvin

• Occupy London – creating an alternative New Left Project (October 2011)

David Graeber

• Debt, Slavery and our Idea of Freedom: Part 1, Part 2 New Left Project (September 2011)

Nicholas Shaxson

• The Men Who Stole the World New Left Project (February 2011)

Caroline Lucas MP

• An Environmentalist in the Old Boys’ Club New Left Project (February 2011)

Ha-Joon Chang

• Becoming Economic Citizens: Part 1, Part 2 New Left Project (December 2010)

 

A Document by Jamie Stern-Weiner

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:The American Jewish scholar behind Labour's "antisemitism" scandal breaks his silence	Interview	3 May 2016	"Antisemitism" "The Holocaust" Tony Blair Jonathan Freedland Jeremy Corbyn Sadiq Khan Bernie Sanders Ken Livingstone Jill Stein Naz Shah John Mann Hajo Meyer Boycott Divestment and Sanctions	Norman G. Finkelstein is clear: "It’s time to put a stop to this periodic charade, because it ends up besmirching the victims of the Nazi holocaust, diverting from the real suffering of the Palestinian people, and poisoning relations between the Jewish and Muslim communities. You just had an antisemitism hysteria last year, and it was a farce. And now again? Another inquiry? Another investigation? No."

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