Israel’s latest anti-terror tactic turning fiction into fact
Has Israel just taken Britain’s Prevent strategy a stage further? Is it engaging in ‘pre-crime,’ the idea behind the Tom Cruise film Minority Report? In an interview with a journalist from The...
View ArticleThe loudest parting shot Ya’alon could have fired
Parting shots are often the most accurate – and the most deadly. Do you remember Iain Duncan-Smith’s resignation letter in March? The Work and Pensions Secretary and paid-up member of the Tories’ inner...
View ArticleWalking in the footsteps of the innocents of Babi Yar
I’ve been to Babi Yar. It is on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. The word ‘yar’ is Turkic in origin, and means ‘gully’ or ‘ravine’. That’s why the Nazis chose it: because it was — is — a...
View ArticleWhat will Trump do?
For Jews and for Israel, what President Trump does – as opposed to what he says he would do – is the billion-dollar question. Abroad, he will make a lot of noise about Iran, but he will not tear up the...
View ArticleWhy Jewish youngsters should know the F-word
Just as George Orwell asked in 1944, so must we now ask: What is fascism? As a British 30-something, I’ve never known it. I’ve read about it. I know anti-Semitism is often but not always a...
View ArticleAs the suffering gets worse, Jewish silence gets louder
At what point do the overwhelming majority of Jewish community leaders in the UK say ‘enough is enough’ when it comes to suffering in Gaza? Do they think there is any depth to which the situation there...
View ArticleWhere do we draw the line with freedom of speech?
Where do you draw the line? Until what point do you let someone speak because of their freedom to do so, and beyond what point does it – should it – become an offence? With a resurgent white...
View ArticleShould I be sent to the stocks or allowed to speak my mind?
Where do you draw the line? Until what point do you let someone speak because of their freedom to do so, and beyond what point does it – should it – become an offence? With a resurgent white...
View ArticleIsrael’s latest anti-terror tactic turning fiction into fact
Has Israel just taken Britain’s Prevent strategy a stage further? Is it engaging in ‘pre-crime,’ the idea behind the Tom Cruise film Minority Report? In an interview with a journalist from The...
View ArticleThe loudest parting shot Ya’alon could have fired
Parting shots are often the most accurate – and the most deadly. Do you remember Iain Duncan-Smith’s resignation letter in March? The Work and Pensions Secretary and paid-up member of the Tories’ inner...
View ArticleWalking in the footsteps of the innocents of Babi Yar
At the site of the atrocity, wondering if he had relatives among those massacred and those who helped massacre
View ArticleWhat will Trump do?
For Jews and for Israel, what President Trump does – as opposed to what he says he would do – is the billion-dollar question. Abroad, he will make a lot of noise about Iran, but he will not tear up the...
View ArticleWhy Jewish youngsters should know the F-word
Just as George Orwell asked in 1944, so must we now ask: What is fascism? As a British 30-something, I’ve never known it. I’ve read about it. I know anti-Semitism is often but not always a...
View ArticleAs the suffering gets worse, Jewish silence gets louder
At what point do the overwhelming majority of Jewish community leaders in the UK say ‘enough is enough’ when it comes to suffering in Gaza? Do they think there is any depth to which the situation there...
View ArticleWhere do we draw the line with freedom of speech?
Where do you draw the line? Until what point do you let someone speak because of their freedom to do so, and beyond what point does it – should it – become an offence? With a resurgent white...
View ArticleShould I be sent to the stocks or allowed to speak my mind?
Where do you draw the line? Until what point do you let someone speak because of their freedom to do so, and beyond what point does it – should it – become an offence? With a resurgent white...
View ArticleEhud, I’d have forgiven you for your sins if you’d made peace
But he’s a crook. That’s what I kept thinking during my 90-minute interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was jailed for fraud and bribery and released from prison a year ago. But...
View ArticleCase 4,000 shows how precarious Israel’s free press is
Imagine the Met Police had just said Theresa May should be charged with corruption for pushing laws worth millions of pounds to ITV in return for positive news coverage about her. That, in essence, is...
View ArticleThe new rules of engagement: who’s welcome and who isn’t
At some point I must have nodded off, because I awoke to news that Israel had denied entry to two US Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who just happen to be the first two Muslim women...
View ArticleAs with everything Israel, settlements aren’t that simple
Whatever happens in next week’s ‘yet-another’ Israeli election, the main issue to watch out for out in terms of movement, once all the chairs have been arranged, is settlements. The reason why...
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