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Sheldon Paul Stone

Nov 2, 2020, 5:51 PM

I met my zaida in the voting booth, aged 136!

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Corbyn lays a wreath on the graves of Munich 1972 terrorists

.......or "my role in Jeremy Corbyn's suspension!" I stride up to the school, still on the phone. I’d been talking all day. Consulting with friends. Unsure what to do. Even now, I am speaking to a close friend, like me a life-long...

Sep 14, 2020, 11:51 PM

Brits Renounced Corbyn. It is our turn to do the same with Trump

On December 12, 2019, British voters went to the polls in the country’s general election and delivered a stinging rebuke to the Labour Party and its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party won 365 seats...

Apr 3, 2020, 6:20 PM

Anatomy of a UK Catastrophe – Or what a mess

Generally Over the years I have noticed events only get really bad when a series of seemingly unconnected or only loosely connected events combine to create a major disaster. The reaction by Government to the Covid-19 pandemic is shambolic, with an...

Mar 24, 2020, 8:58 PM

The Labour Leadership Race: What’s Next for the UK Jewish Community?

Over three months after the apparent end of Corbynism, and roughly ten weeks into the resultant Labour leadership race, the UK’s Jewish community continues to face uncertainty and be fearful over the direction that the Labour party will take....

Jan 28, 2020, 12:51 AM

Where Now For the UK’s Labour Party?

Following Labour's heavy defeat in the UK General Election, the left must redefine its relationship with Israel and the Jewish People in order to regain the trust of the electorate. On December 12, 2019, UK voters overwhelmingly rejected the prospect...

Jan 5, 2020, 10:51 PM

The two peoples living together in one country did not get along. The Rhubarbians hated the Coconutians. They had different religions, different customs; wore different clothes. They were two different peoples; something had to be done. A solution was...

Dec 19, 2019, 2:44 PM

When will Labour be kosher again? When Luciana is back

Independent MP Luciana Berger leaves Milbank Studios near Parliament in London on February 21, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

If not for the rabid anti-Semitism unleashed under Corbyn, the noble former MP would be sitting in the UK parliament today

Yossi Klein Halevi

Dec 17, 2019, 4:08 PM

Lessons in solidarity: How to defeat anti-Semitism

In fighting Corbyn, UK Jewry followed the Soviet Jewry movement's playbook. Can American Jews learn from these examples?

Dec 14, 2019, 12:04 AM

Love. Labour. Lost.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Stainton Village in Middlesbrough, while on the General Election campaign trail. Wednesday December 11, 2019. (Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

The party was the political home for the vast majority of Great Britain’s Jews. How did it become so unlivable?

Dec 13, 2019, 11:36 PM

Bye Bye Britain

In the strangely brilliant film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," King Arthur presents himself to a group of skeptical peasants who are busy picking at piles of filth. They have no idea who he is. "I am Arthur," he...

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