January 15, 2005

The £20 challenge

No this isn't another of my silly offers to readers to find an example of The Daily Telegraph's anti-Israel bias or a self-hating pro-Palestinian editorial in the Jewish Chronicle. It's a debate titled "Zionism Today Is The Real Enemy of The Jews". The debate will take place at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7. The entrance to the debates is on Exhibition Road. Doors are open from 6:00pm, the debates start at 6:45pm and end by 8:30pm. Nearest tube: South Kensington (Circle, District and Piccadilly lines).

Speakers for the motion:

* Professor Jacqueline Rose Writer and presenter of "Dangerous Liaison - Israel and America", Channel 4 (2002) and author of "The Question of Zion" (Spring 2005).

* Professor Avi Shlaim Professor of International Relations and Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World'.

* Amira Hass Correspondent of Ha’aretz Daily in the occupied territories, living for the last 10 years in Ramallah. She is the author of "Reporting from Ramallah".

Speakers against the motion:

* Melanie Phillips Daily Mail columnist, panellist on Radio 4's The Moral Maze and author.

* Shlomo Ben-Ami Former Israel Foreign Minister during the last phase of the peace negotiations. He has written extensively on Israeli affairs, and has just completed a book on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

* Professor Raphael Israeli Professor of Islamic, Middle Eastern and Chinese history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.


The £20 pound challenge would have been for the lucky winner/s to find the £20 entrance fee for such an illustrious gathering. Unfortunately the challenge is already null and void for....."THIS DEBATE IS SOLD OUT".

Ok, so here's a ten pound challenge. Does anyone know where the back door is?

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