Julian Sorsby

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Jul 7, 2024, 10:50 PM

Yitzhak Yifat. A moment that could have changed the world.

I never knew Yitzhak Yifat but I mourn his death. To those of us who lived through the era of the closing of the Straits of Tiran, the bombing of the Arab air bases, the charge through the Mitla...

Jul 6, 2024, 9:03 PM

B…B…Butterfly

They say that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian rainforest, it can change the weather half a world away. That's the Chaos Theory. What it means is that everything that happens in this moment is an...

Jan 23, 2024, 4:43 PM

October 7th and April 9th. Two dates that will live on in infamy.

Deir Yassin is an episode in Jewish and Israeli history that at this time of the massacre of Israelis at the hands of Hamas and the holding of hostages in awful conditions in the tunnels under the Gaza Strip,...

Nov 14, 2023, 7:37 PM

Kahane’s legacy or peace? Israel must choose.

It amazes me that despite Netanyahu’s bombastic, anti-peace rhetoric, there are still governments and people around the world who are supporting Israel. Let’s be clear why they do so. It is because they have the moral strength to recognise...

Nov 5, 2023, 8:12 PM

Well done to the BBC!!

A surprising headline? You bet! No broadcaster in the world has been more consistently critical of Israel and more blindly anti-Israel in its bias. Until, apparently, today. This morning the BBC put on a force majeure of a program. It...

Nov 4, 2023, 9:55 PM

Are hedgehogs in danger?

This morning, Saturday 3rd November, I turned on the BBC TV news. The first item I saw was about hedgehogs and the existential threats they face this time of year. You see, on November 5th we British commemorate the...

Oct 28, 2023, 4:41 PM

Hypocrisy rules!

Zamenhof, a Polish Jewish ophthalmologist who was born in Bialystock and lived in Warsaw a little more than 100 years ago invented an international language, Esperanto in the hope it would lead to world peace. It never really caught...

Oct 26, 2023, 6:04 PM

Think of a number, Mr Guterres

I get very upset if I fall out with a friend. I question what I’ve done to upset him or her. I assume that it’s my fault. I feel sick to my stomach and punish myself over it. On...

Oct 24, 2023, 4:39 AM

BBC Rewrites Jewish History

In my blog ‘From Horror to Hope’ last Saturday, I suggested that to enable Israel and the Palestinians to forge a lasting peace after this war, each side would have to acknowledge and then put aside the other’s history...

Oct 22, 2023, 12:43 AM

From horror to hope

Stunned gatherings of Jews in cities around the world sing their nation’s anthem, the Hatikvah, as if it were a prayer for survival. Large gatherings of Palestinians and their supporters chant their mantra ‘from the river to the sea’...

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About Me

Julian Sorsby was born in London three months before the rebirth of the State of Israel. He is a lifelong Zionist, a student of Jewish history and an advocate of human rights.