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Aug 9, 2020, 9:01 PM

Bury the Auschwitz Borders

This week marks the 15th anniversary of Israel’s forcible expulsion of 8,000 Jews from their homes in 25 farming and agricultural communities they had lovingly built in the Gaza strip with the active support of previous governments. Those thriving...

Jul 7, 2020, 1:50 AM

Zionism = Racism? Durban meets Mt Rushmore

I have previously written about the uncanny parallels between the Left’s treatment of Israel and its treatment of Donald Trump. Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky invented the ‘3D Test’ for differentiating legitimate criticism of Israel from antisemitism. There had to be...

Jun 17, 2020, 12:04 AM

Welcoming Tzipi

The Rt Hon Dominic Raab, MP First Secretary of State & Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs House of Commons London SW1A 0AA 16 June 2020 Dear First Secretary Re: Israel’s Ambassador Designate A campaign has recently been launched by a new group called...

May 22, 2020, 11:58 PM

Annexation: We dare not fail

In his imperious and widely-condemned putdown of Israel on its 72nd independence day, Londoner Sir Mick Davis wrote: “…Palestinian dysfunction, corruption and intransigence were previously an obstacle for Israel to overcome, not a set of values to emulate”. That inane...

May 11, 2020, 11:38 PM

Annexation is not a dirty word

Israel, though the tiniest among nations, continues to occupy the spotlight of the world’s media and the self-righteous indignation of leftist-funded NGOs and human rights groups that seem blind and deaf to the activities of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia,...

Apr 30, 2020, 10:13 PM

I won’t take the Mick

(In response to Sir Mick Davis’ opinion piece in the London Jewish News) Tevye the milkman sang it best: “When you’re rich they think you really know!” So, what do you really know Mick? Are you some political scientist or professor...

Apr 28, 2020, 10:07 PM

We Never Got To 72 By Saying Dayenu

It started over a century ago with the ‘Uganda Plan’ brought by Herzl to the Sixth Zionist Congress which in 1903 voted overwhelmingly to consider a British plan to create a Jewish homeland in East Africa. The plan failed and...

Mar 1, 2020, 9:00 PM

Stupid American Jews

I should be talking about tomorrow’s Israeli election, but I am seized by a most depressing headline last week about the American election stage. A poll of American Jewish voting intentions by the Jewish Electorate Institute claimed that American Jews...

Jan 5, 2020, 10:49 PM

Pray for Israel – and lie if you have to

As a tourist in New York last week I went on Shabbat Chanukah to one of Manhattan’s most prominent modern orthodox shuls. State blessings started with the prayer for the ‘Government of the United States of America’. That left me...

May 6, 2019, 11:09 PM

Bibi plays the long game in Gaza

The Monday morning quarterbacks were quick to dump on Prime Minister Netanyahu for letting Hamas off lightly and, to quote Benny Gantz, ‘using residents of southern Israel as a bulletproof vest’. It was unseemly to see this 48-hour trauma...

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About Me

Zalmi Unsdorfer is a Jewish Religious Zionist and Chairman of Likud-UK. He is a commentator on Israel as a writer, TV & panel commentator, and advocate. He supports Jewish resettlement in all of the Jewish homeland, Eretz Israel.

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