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Dec 26, 2016, 7:15 PM

Good for Israel, bad for settlements

Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a dilemma and needs to make a choice between pursuing two-state solution and one-state solution , following Friday’s UN Security council resolution. For years Netanyahu pretended that he supports the two-state solution while building more settlements, plus protecting illegal...

Sep 1, 2016, 6:15 PM

Turn the negative burkini ban into an opportunity

THE BURKINI ban has dominated news not just in France but around the world. The ban, enforced by several French municipalities, has since been rightfully suspended by the High Court. France is known for having separated the religion from the state (the core concept of...

Jun 17, 2016, 10:54 AM

I’m shocked like everyone else that Jo Cox MP (Batley and Spen) was murdered yesterday. I’m shocked as I never thought that it could happen in Britain. My active involvement in politics (joining a party and campaigning) started a bit more than 20 yeras ago...

Mar 9, 2015, 11:24 AM

The Return of British Mandate

On November 2nd each year we commemorate the Balfour Declaration. This is the historic document which paved the way towards establishing a national home for the Jewish people. Britain then got a mandate from the League of Nations to govern until 1948 (the year of...

Dec 11, 2014, 6:24 AM

Movement for Change: The Herzog-Livni Merger

It’s been rumoured since last week but last night we heard about the deal in which Hatnua and Labor will run in a joint list in the upcoming elections in March 2015. Right-wing politicians like Danny Danon and Ze’ev Elkin tried to have a dig...

Oct 21, 2014, 10:31 AM

How Israeli Labour Party can win a mandate

July 13th 1992 was an important day in the history of Israel – it was the day when the Rabin government was sworn in. In my own opinion this government was the last government that brought hope, equality and prosperity for Israelis. The Oslo Accords...

Jul 7, 2014, 9:08 AM

The Second Temple, Version 2014

The more time passes , the more it looks like we do live in the period of the second temple. A period of anarchy, where an eye for an eye was a way of life. A time when extreme Jewish sects slaughtered each other and...

Jul 1, 2014, 9:50 AM

A Lesson by the Rebbe

I was last night in Central London attending the book launch ‘The Rebbe’ when I heard the terrible news of the 3 Israeli teenagers who were found dead near Hebron. It’s difficult to express in words the sorrow that I felt and surely each one...

Mar 11, 2014, 9:05 AM

Don’t let the diplomatic corps turn into a diplomatic corpse

Anyone who studied International Relations and Political Science have heard about one of the most famous quotes by the Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz:”War is merely the continuation of policy by other means”. This immortal sentence tries to stress that when negotiations and diplomatic efforts...

Jan 19, 2014, 10:16 AM

Aliyah Ve Kotz Ba

Few weeks ago I read the official immigration figures of Israel for 2013. There were 19,200 migrants to Israel, an increase of 1% from the previous year. The number of immigrants from France increased by 63% to 3,120 while the number of UK Jews making...

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About Me

Tal Ofer is a former parliamentary researcher and now Deputy at the Board of Deputies of British Jews. He actively fights antisemitism and delegitimisation of Israel. In Summer 2014 he masterminded a campaign to target Tricycle Theater donors, which led to reverse of boycott of UK Jewish Film Festival.