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Why we need Jewish flavoured BDS ice cream
Anyone for a scoop of “antisemitic ice cream”? It’s available worldwide, according to the Prime...
May 2021
May 14, 2021
Speech for Nakba 2021: ‘A Jew in solidarity with Palestine’
[This evening (Friday 14 May) I was invited to speak at a solidarity rally for...
May 13, 2021
Just as we need it most, the UK cracks down on BDS
The timing is either perfect or perverse, depending on your point of view. At the...
March 2021
March 06, 2021
We need to decolonise our understanding of antisemitism
I don’t want antisemitism to be misunderstood. I don’t want Jews, Zionism and Israel to...
January 2021
January 25, 2021
B’Tselem, apartheid, and correcting the ethical grammar on Israel/Palestine
B’Tselem’s new report describing all of Israel and the Palestinian Occupied Territories as a single...
December 2020
December 13, 2020
Hanukkah for Palestinians
As I write this blog post, we’re halfway through Hanukkah and the darkness remains. The...
October 2020
October 17, 2020
Dear Vice Chancellor, don’t let Gavin Williamson bully you into adopting IHRA
Dear Professor Schofield RE: The Secretary of State’s request that Lancaster University adopts the International...
September 2020
September 18, 2020
From ‘Vision for Peace’ to ‘normalisation’ – 2020 has become the year of forgetting
Memories are short these days. There used to be a something called the ‘Occupation’ which...
July 2020
July 26, 2020
“History will judge us” – Have Progressive Rabbis reached the end of the road on Israel?
Progressive rabbis in the UK have written to the Israeli embassy in London to express...
July 01, 2020
Annexation (even when delayed) is the great truth teller on Israel/Palestine
The July 1st deadline has come and gone, and annexation hasn’t arrived. But don’t celebrate...
June 2020
June 06, 2020
As Jews, we’ll never address racism while clinging to Zionism
If you can’t make the connections, it’s best to keep quiet. If you can’t see...
May 2020
May 17, 2020
Dear Marie, claiming the Board is neutral on West Bank annexation should fool no one
“As the Board of Deputies represents the views and interests of the UK Jewish community,...
April 2020
April 18, 2020
Edgy Jewish reflections on a Covid-19 exit strategy
The last blog post I published was sent from a world which no longer exists....
February 2020
February 22, 2020
Tom Stoppard’s first Jewish play leaves Zionism offstage
This week I went to see Sir Tom Stoppard’s new play Leopoldstadt, which opened in...
January 2020
January 26, 2020
Orla Guerin’s report shows what’s wrong with Holocaust remembrance
As I become older I realise that the Holocaust is not over. The gas chambers...
December 2019
December 21, 2019
How (not) to tackle antisemitism in the Age of Boris
For some in the Jewish community, the defeat of the Labour Party in the UK...
December 07, 2019
Archbishop Justin, you need some new Jewish friends
“If we leave our echo-chambers and make a conscious effort to listen to people and...
November 2019
November 28, 2019
Chief Rabbi, we need a better way to fight antisemitism than attacking Labour
Dear Chief Rabbi Mirvis As you say in your article in The Times this week...
November 13, 2019
As a British Jew I’m not fearful of a Corbyn government but I’m horrified at how antisemitism is being used against him
I’ve been told to fear the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming Prime Minister. I’ve been...
October 2019
October 19, 2019
Extinction Rebellion has shown me the way forward for Jewish solidarity with Palestine
What makes some Jewish rebellions more acceptable than others? When can you use Judaism in...
September 2019
September 21, 2019
The Climate Emergency makes Zionism obsolete, but Judaism could help save the planet
The Climate Emergency makes Zionism redundant as a future response to antisemitism; it’s already responsible...
September 03, 2019
‘A splendid fellow’ Lionel F. Cohen 1926-2019
My father passed away last week, aged 93, after a short illness. I reached his...
August 2019
August 01, 2019
The BBC debated antisemitism, but who got ‘muddled’, Melanie Phillips or Robert Cohen?
We were 38 minutes into a live 45 minute BBC radio debate on antisemitism when...
June 2019
June 21, 2019
The Church of England is stifling Palestinian solidarity – IHRA is to blame
If anyone tries to tell you that adopting the IHRA document on antisemitism does not...
May 2019
May 14, 2019
#DareToDreamOfFreedom and don’t watch Eurovision
The broadcasting companies have refused to heed the call. The contestants from 42 countries have...
May 09, 2019
How Jonathan Sacks dumbs-down Jewish history to defend Zionism
"How can Anti-Zionism be the new antisemitism?” asks Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in his latest six...
April 2019
April 18, 2019
Does Palestine make celebrating the Jewish Passover impossible?
Tonight (Friday 19th April) I’ll be celebrating the Jewish festival of Passover with my family....
April 06, 2019
Deborah Lipstadt, you’re wrong to say Jewish BDS supporters are enabling antisemitism
Dear Professor Lipstadt, Your new book ‘Antisemitism Here and Now’ has much to recommend it....
March 2019
March 10, 2019
Only by moving beyond Zionism will Christian-Jewish dialogue progress
Christian-Jewish interfaith dialogue is looking ever more morally compromised when it comes to Israel When...
March 04, 2019
British MPs won’t get to see ‘WitchHunt’ in the House of Commons – the very place it needs to be shown
A new documentary ‘WitchHunt’ about the long running accusations of antisemitism in the British Labour Party was...
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