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Aug 19, 2024, 5:58 AM

We’re Part of the Problem

I’m always wary of people who claim to know the mind of God. However, when many Jews, religious and secular, right-wing and left-wing, Israeli and outside Israel, decided spontaneously in the wake of 7 October that a lack of...

Jun 3, 2024, 5:36 AM

The Nazis weren’t ‘white supremacists’ and why it matters

Determining eye color at the Racial Hygiene and Criminal Biology Research Center of the Reich Health Office (German Federal Archives via Wikicommons)

They wanted an Aryan race that was pure in blood, not white of skin. To not know this is to not understand the Holocaust

May 24, 2024, 2:01 AM

The Hollowness of Secular Jewish Identity

It is far too early to know what the consequences of 7 October will be or should be. And I am certainly not a prophet to know why God let it happen. But my hope is that it can...

May 5, 2024, 8:14 AM

Niemöller 2024 (SATIRE)

First Hamas came for the Jews, and I said quite a lot, actually. “Globalise the intifada! Jews back to Poland! Jihad until victory! Intifada revolution!” Then they came for the homosexuals, transexuals, atheists, feminists and socialists and, boy (sorry, boy/girl/non-binary),...

Mar 25, 2024, 12:03 AM

BBC Jews 24 (Purim Shpiel 5784)

CAUTION: dark humour. Cut to BBC News 24 desk with Sally Autocutie, a slim blonde woman in a smart suit, sitting behind it. SALLY: Hello, and welcome to BBC Jews 24, I mean News 24. I’m Sally Autocutie. Coming up tonight:...

Mar 15, 2024, 7:20 AM

How many civilian deaths are acceptable?

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border on December 10, 2023. (AP/ Leo Correa)

To those clamoring for an immediate ceasefire: How do we stop future use of human shields, since they've proven so effective?

Feb 27, 2024, 5:44 AM

Rousseau and Hobbes on Gaza

As the war in Gaza moves towards Rafah, discussions are already underway about what should come next, both in the corridors of power and on the internet. What is obvious is that lots of people have diametrically opposed views...

Feb 23, 2024, 2:17 PM

The IDF, once feared as much as hated, hasn’t really won a war outright since the Yom Kippur War in 1973, 50 years ago. That’s partly because until last October, it hadn’t been involved in a really major war...

Feb 21, 2024, 11:37 PM

Naïve Liberals and the West’s Moral Incomprehension

Calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza are growing. Here in the UK, the Labour Party and the Prince of Wales have joined in, with Parliament voting tomorrow on an SNP ceasefire resolution. Although I think a ceasefire before...

Feb 13, 2024, 7:22 AM

The Jewish state as effigy

Austrian Nazis and local residents look on as Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees and scrub the pavement. Vienna, Austria, 1938 (PD via Wikimedia)

Claiming Israel is colonialist, white supremacist, genocidal is how protestors cleanse their own middle class white guilt

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Daniel Saunders is an office administrator, proofreader and copy editor living in London with his wife. He has a BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford and an MA in Library and Information Management. He blogs about Judaism, Israel and antisemitism at Living Jewishly https://livingjewishly.substack.com/

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