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Nov 22, 2023, 6:10 PM

Proof that the New York Times’ anti-Israel bias is empirical, not paranoia

For those who think anti-Israel bias in the media is merely a figment of Jewish imagination, a careful and detailed study undertaken by a leading academic and an author and journalist suggests we’re not being paranoid and that the New York Times is certainly culpable...

Nov 16, 2023, 11:15 AM

A ‘groomed’ UK can’t see evil in front of its eyes

Hamas are, quite literally, getting away with murder. Obviously not in terms of the IDF response, but in terms of world opinion. That continues to reward them with demonstrations on London’s streets – and on the streets of many other cities – where there are...

Nov 14, 2023, 10:01 PM

Jews from Arab countries have seen it all before

Families butchered like sheep. Bodies buried in the debris of homes in which pogromists had locked the families before setting them on fire. Jewish girls raped. Their breasts cut off. Most bodies, including those of young children, mutilated and their throats slit. No – this...

Keith Kahn-Harris

Nov 3, 2023, 12:45 AM

The war over here: How are we supposed to get through this?

Until October 7 2023, Jews in the UK and elsewhere in the Diaspora had got used to a particular pattern of conflict. Gaza would erupt. There would be Israeli causalities, there would be even more Palestinian casualties. Some would be fighters, more would be civilians....

Georgia Gilholy

Nov 1, 2023, 11:55 PM

When it comes to tackling terror, India and Israel have more in common with each other than the west

IDF troops on the Gaza border last week.

As extremism and terrorism rocket, two nations, seemingly worlds apart, find themselves sharing a common struggle. India and Israel, both surrounded by neighbours that have not always been firm friends, have much in common when it comes to tackling extremism. Much that Western politicians and...

Oct 31, 2023, 7:22 PM

Oh, the irony of BBC reporting ‘rising antisemitism’

There is something deeply and painfully ironic about the BBC having to run news items reporting the rise in antisemitism in the UK prompted – as it explains with an air of innocence – by”the current conflict in the Mid-East.” Antisemitic hate-crime is up by...

Oct 24, 2023, 5:31 PM

Compassion is not a pizza with eight slices

With each horrific new detail that emerges about the massacres and abductions carried out by Hamas terrorists, our pain and grief for the people of Israel deepens. It is impossible to comprehend the scale of the loss, with 1,400 people killed, including entire families, and...

Oct 13, 2023, 6:04 PM

I’m Afraid to Speak

I have written over the past few days draft after draft of an article for this site. But my hand hovers over the publish button. And fails. I cannot. We Jews say in private what we do not say in public. In public every word...

Sep 29, 2023, 6:28 PM

How a Jew shot to posthumous fame in Tunisia

He lived in an obscure suburb of the French town of Besançon, spending his meager busker’s earnings on food for his pet cats and dogs. Since he died in 2013, no one has combed through the shambles he left behind – thousands of cassette tapes,...

Sep 11, 2023, 11:33 PM

Did you see the date today? I remember where I was on 9/11 very well. For our generation it was the President Kennedy assassination moment. I was in Brighton in southern England for the Trade Union Congress annual conference in September 2001. As Director of...

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