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Sep 10, 2023, 3:43 PM

It is a sad fact that people’s behaviour doesn’t change very much over time. True, in the UK at least, criminals are no longer subject to violent punishments, but in many ways little has changed in the way people...

Aug 17, 2023, 9:51 PM

This time, not about the Jews

Sometimes, I come across something which I should have known about at the time but for no reason just didn’t. Moshe Kantor is just one example of this. Let’s start with something I did know about, the Russian attack on...

Jul 14, 2023, 7:34 AM

How did we get here?

I am writing as President of the Zionist Central Council, a UK national organisation dedicated to promote and defend the democratic State of Israel. And defending it was certainly needed this week. Against the background of the IDF operation...

Jun 19, 2023, 6:05 PM

I told you so…

For some years I have been saying that the whole idea of a two state solution is no longer viable. This was brought into sharp focus as a result of an article on the BBC website and a chance...

May 30, 2023, 6:35 AM

Giving with one hand and taking away with the other

I saw two pieces of news this week, one of which was surprising because it told me something I had known for years and the other which has filled me with trepidation. The first was the report by the Parliamentary...

Apr 11, 2023, 4:02 PM

It is rare that I am lost for words. I am a lawyer and so my working day is made up of me writing letters and e-mails promoting my client’s position or doing the same on the telephone. When...

Mar 5, 2023, 5:53 PM

The racism of the apartheid lie

We are all too familiar now with the phrase ‘cultural appropriation’. Essentially this is where words or phrases used by one group are adopted by another in a corrupted manner, sometimes accidentally, too often deliberately. For us, the words holocaust...

Jul 17, 2022, 6:44 AM

Education not edifices

It has been recorded on a number of occasions that survivors of the Shoah declined to have the tattoo etched onto their arm at Auschwitz removed. For many this was a sign of defiance, that they survived, for others...

Mar 18, 2022, 2:43 PM

Representative?

When producing an article or statement the author will usually have an audience in mind. Following the recent publication of the report from Amnesty International alleging apartheid in Israel there was a concern that the British Jewish communal organisations...

Mar 9, 2021, 11:47 PM

Bristol is not news

Freedom of expression is not freedom to tell lies The last week has seen a considerable amount of exposure of a certain professor at the University of Bristol in the UK who has published various comments said by some to...

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Robert Festenstein is a solicitor based in Manchester with considerable experience in Court actions. He is active 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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