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February 2019

February 02, 2019
I’ve been called many things over the years for daring to speak out for Palestinian...

January 2019

January 09, 2019
Two issues have dominated the UK over the last twelve months: Brexit and antisemitism in...

November 2018

November 25, 2018
Last week Quakers in Britain became the first Christian denomination in the U.K. to adopt...

October 2018

October 18, 2018
“No religion is an island” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, November 1965 Dear Archbishop Justin...

September 2018

September 06, 2018
There are lots of good reasons to think the IHRA document, now adopted "in full"...
September 02, 2018
Earlier this week Rabbi Jonathan Sacks made himself look foolish, tarnishing his worldwide reputation as...

August 2018

August 19, 2018
(Book review followed by interview with Professor Marc Ellis) This summer has seen young American...

July 2018

July 28, 2018
Greetings from Britain, where the Jewish community is facing an “existential threat to Jewish life”....

June 2018

June 24, 2018
Dear Ed Husain I’ve just finished reading your new book ‘The House of Islam’, and...

May 2018

May 25, 2018
I’ve seen the Jewish future in Britain and it looks good. The next generation of...
May 14, 2018
Why Jews in solidarity with Palestinians will win the day Because it’s not 1933. Because...

April 2018

April 22, 2018
"Israel was created exactly 70 years ago as a haven for refugees from the Holocaust....
April 08, 2018
When Israeli soldiers shoot, maim and kill unarmed Palestinian protestors living under Israeli siege in...

March 2018

March 05, 2018
Dear Prince William To be honest I’d rather you didn’t go to Israel this summer....

February 2018

February 17, 2018
- A call to Jewish students for Israeli Apartheid Week 2018 We need to talk about...

January 2018

January 04, 2018
As we were leaving the theatre an email dropped into my inbox inviting me to...

December 2017

December 10, 2017
It was an unusual week in the history of Jerusalem. Simultaneously, nothing changed; and everything...

November 2017

November 08, 2017
Dear Professor Schama I’ve just read your letter to The Times this week about Zionism...
November 01, 2017
Greetings from East Jerusalem in Israeli occupied Palestine. Tomorrow (2 November) is the centenary of...

October 2017

October 22, 2017
This past week Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn snubbed a dinner invitation from the Jewish...
October 01, 2017
The 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration is nearly upon us (November 2nd 2017) and its 67...

September 2017

September 09, 2017
This month a new generation of Jewish students will begin their first term at university....

August 2017

August 05, 2017
The strange thing is that calling for equal rights is generally considered ‘a good thing’...

July 2017

July 07, 2017
Well, you can't say you haven't been told. The Christian community in Occupied Palestine has...

June 2017

June 12, 2017
How to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration this November? You can be...

May 2017

May 25, 2017
A few hundred yards from the office where I work, 22 people were murdered on...
May 01, 2017
Once again, the Board of Deputies of British Jews has shown itself to be a...

April 2017

April 02, 2017
'Delegitimisation' is the favourite attack word used by defenders of Israel's unique (mis)understanding of democracy....

March 2017

March 02, 2017
Dear Jonathan Sacks Stop telling lies about BDS. Your video animation, designed to make the...

February 2017

February 11, 2017
 Apart from the Israeli government, Donald Trump, and various Zionist lobby groups around the world,...
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