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Mar 23, 2017, 3:18 PM

As home-grown terror flourishes, challenge for security may be too great

From the moment that details began to emerge from yesterday’s attack in Westminster all of the indicators pointed to Islamist terrorism. This was a textbook case of the kind of low tech attacks that groups like ISIS have been encouraging for years now. We have...

Dec 7, 2016, 12:46 PM

Why integration should concern British Jews, and everyone else

In their 1963 book Beyond the Melting Pot Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Nathan Glazer cautioned Americans that ethnicity is a stubborn thing and that integration between people of different origins was going to be far from smooth or automatic. The government’s newly released Casey Review...

Sep 19, 2016, 5:25 PM

What have Methodists got against the Jews?

This week, Hinde Street Methodist Church is installing a replica of an Israeli checkpoint in their church. It is a move that singles out Israel and attempts to call into the question the legitimate means used by democracies to defend their peoples from terrorists. As...

Feb 27, 2014, 4:32 PM

The New War on Israel

Israel has long proven resilient in the face of the ongoing military and terrorist threat that it confronts daily, yet Israel’s enemies have never tired of seeking new battlefields on which to mount combat against the Jewish state. Just as Israel’s victory in the 1973...

Feb 26, 2014, 11:32 PM

The new war on Israel

Israel has long proven resilient in the face of the ongoing military and terrorist threat that it confronts daily, yet Israel’s enemies have never tired of seeking new battlefields on which to mount combat against the Jewish state. Just as Israel’s victory in the 1973...

Oct 3, 2012, 3:01 PM

Some Stark Intolerance by ‘progressive’ Jews

While most of the Jewish world generally considers Yom Kippur as being a time for setting aside grudges and petty dislikes and undertaking a little personal introspection, a bizarre series of events seems to have unfolded around a non-Orthodox congregation in Chicago, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann...

Sep 14, 2012, 6:21 PM

An unjust occupation in Hebron

In March 2007 Settlers in the ever fraught city of Hebron took over a house on the road between the Jewish neighbourhood of Kiryat Arba and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the city’s historic centre. They renamed the building Beit HaShalom (Peace House) and...

Jul 22, 2012, 5:53 PM

Who cares about Palestinian human rights?

In recent days no less than 120 Palestinian homes have been demolished and so you might have thought news of this would have made the headlines as the usual procession of NGOs and their self proclaimed ‘Liberal Zionist’ allies turn out to express the deepest...

Jun 29, 2012, 1:04 PM

We didn’t need a report to tell us that the West Bank isn’t Occupied Territory

The committee appointed back in January by Prime Minister Netanyahu to report on the status of the Jewish outposts dotted throughout the West Bank has finally submitted its findings. Nearly three months behind schedule the committee has reported that contrary to the prevailing belief the...

May 14, 2012, 9:58 PM

Abbas says no to peace…meanwhile in Brussels the Europeans are following the script and condemning Israel

Today brought about a rather telling coincidence, one that says so much about Israel, the conflict with the Palestinians and how much of the rest of the world chooses to see things. First came Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’ rejection of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s offer...

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Tom Wilson is a British writer and commentator.