The novelist, despite his fulminations against the Conservative party, publicly refused to vote for the Labour Party because of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘steeped in association with…
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The former UK Chief Rabbi was a model for a modern Orthodox generation, excelling in both Jewish and secular learning, and elucidating Jewish thought to…
They are unburdened by World War II trauma that compels European democracies to oppose fascism and protect themselves Source: https://www.haaretz.com
When it comes to racists and antisemites, the social media giants seem to think there are good people on both sides. This is how we’re…
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
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…