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July 2021

July 21, 2021

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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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...

January 2019

January 09, 2019

Whether it’s Brexit or Zionism – going it alone makes little sense

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

November 2018

November 25, 2018

As British Quakers divest from the Occupation, Jewish leaders seek to discredit and smear them

Last week Quakers in Britain became the first Christian denomination in the U.K. to adopt...

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...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

If you want a fair definition of Zionism, it’s best to ask a Palestinian

There are lots of good reasons to think the IHRA document, now adopted "in full"...

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”....

May 2018

May 25, 2018

They prayed for the dead of Gaza, now it’s time to say Kaddish for Zionism

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

Why Jews in solidarity with Palestinians will win the day Because it’s not 1933. Because...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Dear Natalie Portman, your liberal Zionism won’t save your Jewish values

"Israel was created exactly 70 years ago as a haven for refugees from the Holocaust....

March 2018

March 05, 2018

Dear Prince William, if you have to go, make it count

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

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