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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...

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...

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...

October 18, 2018

Christian-Jewish dialogue must be more than taking tea and talking antisemitism

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

August 2018

August 19, 2018

Bringing it all back home – Marc Ellis on the return of the Jewish prophetic

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

July 2018

July 28, 2018

The Jewish establishment’s ‘War Against Corbyn’ risks bringing real antisemitism to Britain

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

November 2017

November 08, 2017

Dear Simon Schama, you need a history lesson on Zionism

Dear Professor Schama I’ve just read your letter to The Times this week about Zionism...

September 2017

September 09, 2017

Trust Me, I Was Once a First-Year Jewish Student Too

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

August 2017

August 05, 2017

“It’s About Equality, and That’s Why I Can’t Work With You on This.”

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

July 2017

July 07, 2017

Brace Yourselves for Costly Palestinian Solidarity

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

June 2017

June 12, 2017

So many bad ways to mark the Balfour Declaration – but here’s one good one

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

March 2017

March 02, 2017

Dear Rabbi Sacks – stop your lies about BDS

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

February 2017

February 11, 2017

“As Jews, we welcome refugees” (unless they’re Palestinian).

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

January 2017

January 01, 2017

Love in the Age of Trump

There’s a part of me thinking that Donald Trump’s inauguration can’t come soon enough. I’m...

December 2016

December 03, 2016

“OMG! I’ve just renounced my right to Jewish national self-determination.”

Okay, here goes. I'm renouncing my right to Jewish national self-determination. OMG! There. I've done...

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Two years on, Scotland’s Jews concerned over Gaza – but for all the wrong reasons

When it comes to antisemitism and the impact of Israel-Palestine on our daily lives, the...

May 2016

May 08, 2016

Letter from an anti-BDS Arab to a Jewish BDS supporter [and this Jew’s BDS response]

A member of my family sent me this open letter to BDS supporting Jews, hoping...

November 2015

November 26, 2015

The Prophet in Exile – an interview with radical Jewish theologian Marc H. Ellis

Marc Ellis first came to prominence with the publication of Towards a Jewish Theology of...

November 25, 2015

The End of Jewish History? What makes radical theologian Marc H. Ellis too hot to handle?

The "Jewish Civil War", "Empire Judaism", "Jews of Conscience", the "End of Jewish History". Is...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Holocaust deniers, Kafka’s sisters and how anti-Semitism can kill global Palestinian support

Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Moving Past Hatred....

October 01, 2015

How Does Israel Get Away With It? A leading Jewish Israeli activist speaks out

Palestinian pacification, Franz Kafka, the global arms trade and why the Boycott movement needs to...

September 2015

September 06, 2015

This High Holidays I’m Challenging the ‘Modern Jewish Sacred’

We are entering the Jewish High Holidays. A period of reflection, of repentance, of returning...

August 2015

August 10, 2015

After the murder of baby Ali, is Zionism beyond redemption?

Soon I will be heading back to Israel and the West Bank for my fourth...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

Did the BBC cover up the antisemitism of Gaza’s children?

Has a mistranslation in a BBC documentary created an image of innocence where none should...

July 07, 2015

What’s wrong with this picture?

Well, nothing is wrong with the picture itself. It's real. It wasn't faked. It is...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

The Topsy-Turvy world of the Israel Gaza conflict – First thoughts on the UN’s report

This week the United Nations Human Rights Council published its investigation into last summer's Gaza...

June 10, 2015

I’m New Here! Rescuing the Hebrew Covenant One Blog Post at a Time

Like the title of my blog says, I'm writing from the edge. But which edge? And...

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