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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...

October 2018

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...

June 2018

June 24, 2018

Dear Ed Husain, don’t let your call for moderate Islam give Israel a blank cheque

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

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,...

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...

November 2016

November 06, 2016

Reclaiming the lost Jewish voices of the Balfour Declaration

A leading member of the British Jewish establishment has written: “Zionism and Zionistic activities not...

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...

December 2015

December 02, 2015

Maccabees, Miracles and Grandpa Boris: The battle for the soul of Hanukkah in 2015

[The Jewish festival of Hunukkah lasts for eight days. The first candle this year is...

November 2015

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...

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 14, 2015

Five brilliant things about Judaism (that we sometimes forget)

Here's five brilliant things about Judaism that Jews (and others) sometimes forget. 1. Strangers What...

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