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Sep 18, 2024, 1:51 PM

The British paradox

The UK officially supports Israel’s right to defend itself, but it has also undermined that support by imposing a partial arms embargo

Gabrielle Apfel

Aug 7, 2024, 2:47 PM

Antisemitism has been thrown out of the mainstream Parliamentary party window

Four and a half years ago, I remember election night. The anxiety that preceded the exit poll. Nearly half of UK Jews were seriously considering leaving the country, should Corbyn have won. Luckily, he didn’t. The elation I felt when...

Jul 8, 2024, 12:30 PM

UK on the rocks: The flaws in Lammy’s ICC stance

So much for Sir Keir Starmer having changed Labour's stance on anti-Zionism for good. It took less than 48 hours for the new British government to take its first governmental actions against Israel. The Guardian, a daily newspaper close to...

Masimba Musodza

Jul 4, 2024, 7:50 AM

Has Our Election Turned Into A Vote For/Against Israel?

In barely fifteen hours, there will be a General Election in the United Kingdom. The General Election, which is tantamount to advice given to our Monarch by the people about who ought to form His Majesty's next Government, is...

Aaron Cohen-Gold

May 14, 2024, 2:35 PM

The State of a Nation: Reading the Room in London

An anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protest in London. (Henry Nicholls/AFP)

As we approach eight months of war in the Middle East and mark Israel’s 76th Independence Day, our many personal screens are replete with the evidence of unprecedented polarisation. In the social media age where old conspiracy theories and...

Feb 8, 2024, 10:45 PM

Keir Starmer has more to do before the Labour party is ready for government

Photo by Samuel Regan-Asante on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-red-and-yellow-vote-labour-sign-in-front-of-a-house-_ebq5am7_jE

If the polls are to be believed, 2024 will be the first time the UK’s Labour party wins an election since Tony Blair’s last election victory in 2005. With a general election likely in the autumn, Labour leader Sir...

Nov 26, 2023, 3:35 PM

Waking Up Disrupted

'Waking UP Disrupted' Luca M Damiani - Kiss and Arrow 2023 - www.lucadamiani-art.com

It was something unexpected but it happened. Some of my thoughts were always pretty clear and now are very foggy in daily turns of existence. Political reflections change as the mirror tells me that probably I had it wrong. I am happy to admit that. And yet, I am also worried of...

Nov 4, 2023, 9:47 PM

The miracle of the end

Tzfat, 2019. Photo by Rod Kersh

It begins with an image of Hundreds of thousands of people Marching. United, Demonstrating, Flags flying. I flash to the M&S Christmas Campaign, Now removed. Of the red and black, white and and green Party hats Charred in the fireplace. Then the baby, Carbonised, And the dead child Plump arms Caught in her father’s...

May 29, 2023, 12:01 PM

A Handy List of Leftwing Antisemitism

Screenshot, Blazing Saddles.

Rightwing antisemitism is easy to spot. It's in your face, covered in swastikas, wearing white hoods or Hawaiian shirts, holding tiki torches, and there's no question that it exists. However, leftwing antisemitism is different. It's subversive and covert to most...

Judith Ornstein

Aug 6, 2022, 10:45 PM

Why Labour’s antisemitism still hurts

Some Labour friends may think that despite its efforts to deal with antisemitism the Labour Party can do nothing right for me. What they don’t realise is that I’ve been holding back criticism and I can’t do it anymore. Let...

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