After Parliament
After leaving Parliament Moonman remained politically active. The common misconception that Moonman defected to the SDP is based on the fact that he spoke at their Portsmouth conference about health policy, in fact he never left the Labour Party and remains a member. Over the next two decades he became one of the most prominent figures in British Zionism. He also published a number of reports on social violence through his think-tank the Centre for Contemporary Studies - an experience which eventually led to his emergence as a 'terrorism expert' after 11 September.
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