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Jun 22, 2026, 6:47 PM

The Two Antisemitism Legacies of Keir Starmer

When Keir Starmer stood outside Downing Street to announce his resignation, he listed “ripping out the poison of antisemitism” from the Labour Party as one of the defining achievements of his leadership. It was a claim that likely carried personal...

Jun 10, 2026, 8:30 PM

The Jewish Exception: The Experience of a Minority in British Society

British Jews have become accustomed to being told not to worry, that they are exaggerating or even fabricating threats against them. Every time a synagogue installs additional security measures, every time a Jewish school raises its perimeter fences, every...

Claire R. Bright

Jun 9, 2026, 8:14 PM

Gesher Tzar Meod

Today, I attended a gynecology conference in London to speak about DES—a topic I have explored in previous blog posts. I spoke about patient experience, medical harm, and the heavy physical toll women carry from decisions made before they...

Benjamin Adam Saidel

May 31, 2026, 1:48 PM

The British Museum’s Surrender Is Symptomatic of Modern Britain

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The British Museum cancelled—or, in its preferred terminology, "postponed"—a lecture that formed part of its Jewish Culture Month. Paul Collins, Keeper of the British Museum's Middle East Department, was scheduled to deliver a public lecture entitled Ancient Israel and...

May 30, 2026, 7:50 PM

What’s the harm in a postponed lecture?

The British Museum in London has postponed, at short notice, a lecture on ancient Jewish history which was to have been given by Paul Collins, the museum’s keeper of the Department of the Middle East, after it became known...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 28, 2026, 7:03 AM

Israel Must Prepare for the ‘Great Western Aliyah’

Israel absorbed nearly one million Jews from the former Soviet Union during the 1990s. That influx reshaped the country. Soviet émigrés arrived with engineers, scientists, physicians, entrepreneurs, and combat veterans who accelerated Israel’s technological rise, strengthened the Israel Defense...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 19, 2026, 2:13 PM

Mamdani Hates Israel. Stop Pretending Otherwise.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and his wife Rama Duwaji wave at members of media after a news conference at Gracie Mansion, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

American Democratic Jews who consider themselves Zionists must abandon Zohran Mamdani. He advances a clear anti-Israel agenda while using a small circle of extreme-left Jewish activists as political cover. This tactic allows him to claim immunity from accusations of...

Cate Rubenstein

May 16, 2026, 4:55 PM

Don’t tell me to pray.

Don’t tell me to pray. Don’t tell me not to pray Don’t tell me when or how to pray. Stay out of my relationship (and if I have one) with Hashem entirely. Don’t tell me what to do, when it comes to private...

Mohamed Elbaikam

May 15, 2026, 10:38 PM

Western Sahara: Policy or Propaganda?

In Washington, distant unresolved conflicts can easily become files on a national-security map. But when such conflicts are read only through the language of security, investment, alliances, and geopolitical competition, the risk is that political narrative replaces legal fact....

May 10, 2026, 11:42 PM

That sting in the tail for ‘balance’ merely adds fuel to the fire of Jew-hate

Have you noticed how the Golders Green stabbings seem to have been a tipping point in the perception of antisemitism in the UK. Although all those other vile manifestations of Jew-hate, such as the Heaton Park Synagogue attack in...

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