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May 24, 2019, 4:00 PM

Tales of identity from a mixed world

In the past few years, the media and public have paid a lot of attention to the topic of cultural appropriation, which means adopting a culture, usually of a minority community, by members of another mainstream or more technologically...

Aug 11, 2014, 5:12 PM

Questions for the Developed World

I was walking along King’s Street in the northern English city of Manchester. There was a crowd of some thirty people draped in Palestinian flags and checkered keffiyehs, demonstrating outside Kedem, a store selling Israeli Dead Sea products. Nearby,...

Jun 2, 2014, 12:53 PM

The ‘Messiah on the Hill’

Munib al-Masri, the Palestinian billionaire, wants Bibi Netanyahu to stop being a prisoner to his coalition

May 27, 2014, 12:39 AM

Questioning a genocide in Bangladesh

A war crimes tribunal is demonizing a Jewish-British expat journalist for challenging the casualty figures

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About Me

Lipika Pelham worked in the BBC newsroom for over a decade and also reported from the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. In 2005-13, she lived in Jerusalem, where she learnt Hebrew, made award-winning films and wrote a memoir. Her latest book, "Jerusalem on the Amstel:The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic", was launched at Jewish Book Week, London, 2019.

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