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February 2018

February 17, 2018

I faced my Jewish racism, can you do the same?

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

January 2018

January 04, 2018

“Did you enjoy Oslo?” London’s West End applauds a failed peace process

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

December 2017

December 10, 2017

Why Trump’s Jerusalem “reality” is good news for Palestinian solidarity

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

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...

November 01, 2017

For the children of Palestine the second Balfour century has already begun

Greetings from East Jerusalem in Israeli occupied Palestine. Tomorrow (2 November) is the centenary of...

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....

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...

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...

October 2016

October 01, 2016

Birth of a Kairos Jew

This is the text of my talk given on Friday 30 September 2016 at Victoria...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Settlement Boycotts – calling time on the hypocrisy of our Jewish leadership

With 2017 marking 50 years of the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and the...

July 2016

July 12, 2016

The Ten Commandments Revisited (in response to current Jewish and Palestinian requirements)

I've noticed, that in Britain at least, those Jews most willing to raise a critical...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

“Honey, I shrunk the religion!” Who’s in and who’s out according to Zionism?

The space available to be Jewish is shrinking rapidly. Ironically, it's both pro and anti-Zionist...

May 15, 2016

Thank you Chief Rabbi. Now I know. Judaism is to blame for the Palestinian Nakba.

Dear Rabbi Mirvis When it comes to defining Zionism, you have brought crystal clarity. You...

May 01, 2016

Three pieces of advice to help British leftwingers kick racism out of their anti-Israel rhetoric

Too often I see those in solidarity with Palestinians lose the plot and allow opponents...

April 2016

April 16, 2016

The Wicked Son’s guide to Passover

Celebrating Passover can be tricky for us awkward Jews. Liberation and freedom have become the...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Comparing Nazis to Jews? Leon Rosselson explains ‘The Ballad of Rivka & Mohammed’

It's shocking. But that's the point. You're not supposed to do this. But he has....

January 2016

January 24, 2016

“Dear Anne…” My letter to Anne Frank for Holocaust Memorial Day

For Holocaust Memorial Day 27 January 2016 "In the long run, the sharpest weapon...

January 20, 2016

The on/off pro-Israel rally that tells us much about the state of British Jewry

This week a pro-Israel rally due to take place in Manchester in the north of...

January 03, 2016

My five point 2016 manifesto as a dissident, rebellious and awkward Jew

I’m setting out my stall for the year as a digital Jewish activist focusing on...

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 21, 2015

“Dear Chief Rabbi…” The Knife Intifada sermon that failed the test of moral and communal leadership

My open letter to Britain's Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis Dear Chief Rabbi Mirvis I've just...

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 16, 2015

He came, he saw, he sold us some high tech surveillance systems – A report on Bibi’s Grand Day Out in London

The merits of being on multiple, and contradictory, campaign mailing lists is that I get...

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 01, 2015

Christians United for Israel comes to Britain – Here’s one Jew that’s less than thrilled

Lately, we in Britain seem to be importing some of the less attractive aspects of...

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