Israel has been represented for too long by urbane professionals who lull a liberal audience into forgetting they represent a Netanyahu government Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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Lisa Nandy disentangles pro-Palestinian views from kneejerk anti-Zionism and disdain for Jews. That counts as remarkable for a Labour party emerging from its toxic, electorally…
Lisa Nandy disentangles pro-Palestinian views from disdain for Jews. That may seem unremarkable in other contexts, but not for UK Labour, emerging from its hyperfactional,…
The Labour party is voting for a new leader, but not a new era. Most of the frontrunners were appeasers in the anti-Semitism crisis –…
Even the worst electoral disaster since 1935 hasn’t burst the Corbyn camp’s bubble of self-delusion. Labour’s road back to electability – and to British Jews…
Corbyn has already undermined the equal standing of British Jews in the public sphere. A Labour win would ratify that Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Unpacking the strange and dishonest claim that a conspiracy by ‘disloyal’ Jews is behind Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis – and that it’s all about the occupation …
If Johnson’s words as a columnist were offensive, there’s no sign of this in practice. His Cabinet is more diverse than any previous government, and…
As U.K. Jews, we should be denouncing Johnson, the ultimate racist opportunist, and his xenophobic Conservative party, with the same fervor we oppose the institutional…
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, and the left more generally, can’t address its anti-Semitism problem by ejecting ‘a few bad apples.’ This is why Source: https://www.haaretz.com
A ‘poison…has taken root in the Labour Party’: If you’re shocked at the Chief Rabbi’s tone, you haven’t been listening to UK Jews. But what…
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Israel’s right-wing is celebrating Brexit’s blow to an ‘institutionally hostile’ EU, and back the ascendance of Europe’s anti-Muslim populist nationalists. That response is unprincipled –…
Pushed out of the anti-Semitic left and repelled by the nativist right, Jews are now at a unique political disadvantage among U.K. minorities Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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Caught between right-wing racist nationalists, Corbyn’s anti-Semitism and bipartisan conspiracy theorists: For British Jews, the low hum of anxiety is reaching fever pitch. Sometimes it’s…
The UK student ‘debate’ spurred by feuding pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups is noisy, intimidating and intellectually crude: That’s why I founded an alternative way of…
It’s now a global trend: Israel and Jewish Diaspora communities cynically courted by democracy-eroding, ‘pro-Israel’ nationalists who present themselves as philo-Semites Source: https://www.haaretz.com
When Pompeo committed to ‘pushing back’ against Corbyn it wasn’t just another Trump administration stumble. The U.S. cannot be indifferent to an anti-Semite coming to…
Shamima Begum, a British teenager, joined ISIS. Can she, and other extremists, really be deradicalized? Why do so many UK Muslims still respond to the…