A word of advice for wannabe newspaper columnists: if you want an editor to give up precious column inches to entertain your opinions, don’t be vanilla. Any publication worth its salt wants writers who provoke – even anger – […]
Author: richardferrer
REVIEW: Radiohead renews Israel love affair with marathon concert
‘We’re gonna play our fingers off!’ Thom Yorke tells Tel Aviv crowd during band’s longest gig for 11 years In sound and fury, Radiohead reaches the parts other bands cannot reach. Fury can wait. First the sound, […]
OPINION: Ken case has broken Labour’s relationship with British Jews beyond repair
He lost the plot years ago, but Ken Livingstone still hasn’t lost his party. On Tuesday night the man whose favourite obsessions, alongside his newts, are offending Jews and mentioning the war, avoided being kicked out […]
OPINION: Martin McGuinness proved peace is possible – the Palestinians could learn from him
There are powerful parallels to be drawn between the unlikely transformation of an IRA terrorist turned peacemaker and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Martin McGuinness was a cold-blooded killer, guilty of unspeakable crimes, whose journey from gunman […]
VIDEO: Jerusalem conference on Jewish media
Speaking at a Jerusalem conference on new media economics and the viability of Jewish newspapers [7/12/16]: Click here for video
OPINION: From Obama to barmy
The popular consensus on President-elect Donald Trump’s march to the White House has been shock and horror. How can a man who says what he says and behaves how he behaves – while displaying the […]
OPINION: Want to spread Jew hate? Just tweet it
Each week my newspaper, Jewish News, shines a light on social media’s darkest corners, publishing the latest anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Tweets in a section called ‘Thanks For Sharing’. Recent charm school graduates to feature include […]
