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Nov 3, 2023, 12:45 AM

The war over here: How are we supposed to get through this?

Until October 7 2023, Jews in the UK and elsewhere in the Diaspora had got used to a particular pattern of conflict. Gaza would erupt. There would be Israeli causalities, there would be even more Palestinian casualties. Some would be fighters, more would be civilians....

Mar 24, 2023, 3:59 PM

Defending Israeli democracy: Can the coalition hold?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street, London, for talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Whatever their perspective on Israeli politics, British Jews can agree that today’s protests against Netanyahu’s visit to Downing Street are like nothing we have seen before. While plenty of British Jews have demonstrated against Israel, its politics and politicians, they have not done so waving...

May 14, 2020, 2:56 PM

A generational divide in British Jewry?

For some years now, the spectre of inter-generational conflict over Israel has been haunting the UK and other Diaspora Jewish communities. In the US, the ‘distancing hypothesis’ – that argues that young Jews are becoming alienated from an Israel that no longer reflects their values...

Mar 18, 2014, 3:39 PM

What we fight about when we fight about Israel

Diaspora communities are addressing their internal conflicts through a Zionist lens

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Dr Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer, based in London.