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Sep 21, 2024, 1:40 PM

Roll up to the Hall of Mirrors to see how lies about Israel become ‘facts’

All of us who pay close attention to the coverage of Israel-Palestine and see the mechanics behind the consistent traducing and libelling of Israel, are familiar with the phrase “echo chamber.” It is a useful metaphor which helps explain (to us at least) the distorting...

Sep 17, 2024, 12:53 PM

What’s missing in Holocaust education? Hamas

Giving a passionate speech at the Holocaust Education Trust dinner in London recently, the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer proclaimed that studying the Holocaust will become a critical, vital part of every single student’s identity. Not only will the Holocaust remain on the national...

Ethan Greenwood

Sep 5, 2024, 10:58 PM

The Sophie’s Choice Strategy of Hamas

William Styron couldn’t have lucked out on a greater actress than Meryl Streep to inhabit the role of Sophie Zawistowska in the film of his novel Sophie’s Choice. She plays a Polish immigrant who comes to America after World War Two and falls for Stingo,...

Atira Winchester

Sep 3, 2024, 3:19 PM

Hersh, you taught us how to live joyfully

Hersh, in an hour your levaya will begin in Jerusalem. It is unimaginably awful to be writing these words. I never knew you but for me, and for so many like me, Jerusalemites who are also something else – American, or ‘Anglos’, you came to...

Aug 31, 2024, 1:39 AM

How Reginald D Hunter headlines could shed light on anti-Israel conditioning

For several years, but more urgently since Oct 7th, I have been looking for some way to demonstrate how biased coverage – perhaps not even intentionally biased coverage – of Israel-Palestine has influenced perception. I have looked for some way to get across to the...

Aug 28, 2024, 3:05 PM

A letter to my Haredi brothers, from a secular Israeli

A letter to my Haredi brothers from a secular Israeli Jew. זכר ימות עולם בינו שנות דור־ודור שאל אביך ויגדך זקניך ויאמרו לך (דברים 32:7). בינו שנות דור בכל וגו׳. בכל ודור דור ובכל תקופה באההבנה חדשה בתורה מן השמים, שהיא מתאימה (חידושי הרי״ם, האזינו)...

Aug 5, 2024, 1:43 PM

Time for Palestinians to stop fetishising victimhood stories

There is an excellent YouTube video of an interview with the coruscatingly brilliant Yuval Noah Harari in which he asserts his belief that wars and conflicts – including, he says, the conflict currently “tearing apart” his region – are not about land or territory but...

Jul 22, 2024, 2:43 PM

Thinking outside the (shoe) box, have we been played over Bella Hadid and Adidas?

Bella Hadid's Adidas campaign

I gather Bella Hadid is “consulting lawyers” with a view to legal action against Adidas for dropping her from its campaign – you know, the tone-deaf one where a Palestinian model advertises a “retro” sneaker from the Munich Olympics that is most remembered for a...

Geoffrey Alderman

Jul 15, 2024, 1:24 PM

Religion and ethnicity have re-entered the British political arena

The 2024 General Election will be memorable not least because – owing to the essentially fraudulent electoral system with which the UK is currently burdened – it delivered a huge parliamentary majority (namely two-thirds of the seats) to a party that obtained a mere one...

Jul 15, 2024, 1:08 PM

How poor orphan syndrome serves Israel’s enemies

Anti-Israel demonstrators protest against Israel's President Isaac Herzog attending the opening of the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands,

Jews are painfully aware of being in the grip of a pandemic of misinformation that fetishises the deliberately manufactured victimhood of the Palestinians and wilfully denies Israel’s desire merely to survive in its ancestral homeland. How did we get there? How did this virus of...

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