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Sep 3, 2024, 7:01 AM

If ever there was any doubt

Day 332. If there was any remaining doubt as to the nature of the vile organisation that is Hamas, Sunday the 1st September cleared that up for certain. The news broke that Hamas terrorists had executed 6 Israeli hostages...

Aug 31, 2024, 2:46 AM

Thoughts of a new Oleh

Last summer, friends of mine from Manchester made Aliyah together with their four sons. I spoke recently with the father of the family. He was candid and shared his experiences with me talking about the Shomrei Yisrael I...

Aug 16, 2024, 11:20 PM

We are in trouble

UK Jewry is in trouble. Serious trouble. And has been for some years. In terms of when the trouble started, 2014 is probably as good a starting point as any. Operation Protective Edge in July 2014 started as a...

Jul 8, 2024, 10:52 AM

‘Pro-Gaza is a lie’

In May 2022, the BBC reported that human rights groups believed China had detained more than one million Uyghur Muslims against their will over the previous few years in a large network of what the state called "re-education camps,"...

Jun 8, 2024, 8:58 AM

UK Election results – future possibilities

Day 245. We are now 8 months on from the horrific attacks on the 7th October 2024 and it is as if much of the UK media and many Labour supporters and politicians have forgotten about that day and...

May 19, 2024, 8:10 AM

What now for the UK Jews and Labour?

Back in April 2023 I wrote a piece making some predictions about what might happen to UK Jews if (and when) the Labour party form a Government. My words from 13 months included the following paragraphs: “If Labour is returned...

May 15, 2024, 12:43 PM

British universities – Unsafe spaces

For almost 50 years, ever since the United Nations voted on Zionism being a form of racism and racial discrimination, universities around the world have, to a greater or lesser extent, been source of antisemitism dressed up as opposition...

Apr 22, 2024, 4:59 AM

Just because its old, doesn’t mean it’s out of date.

Passover is almost upon us. Only a few hours before it’s out with the bread and in with the matzah. This is the time of year when we sit at the seder table, read or sing from the Haggadah...

Apr 14, 2024, 9:03 AM

Not even hidden, just in plain sight

Towards the end of 2021 I attended an event in North London involving the Israeli ambassador, Her Excellency Tzipi Hotovely, her first in-person event since the pandemic. She explained that a very large amount of her time then had...

Feb 10, 2024, 9:53 PM

Start at the beginning

David Cameron, the UK Foreign Secretary has recently suggested that a way forward to deal with the war in Gaza in particular and the overall issues concerning Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in general would be to recognise...

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Robert Festenstein is a solicitor based in Manchester with considerable experience in Court actions. He is active in fighting the increase in anti-Semitism in the UK and is President of the Zionist Central Council, an organisation devoted to promoting and defending the democratic State of Israel.

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