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• FEATURE: ‘There are no Israeli or Palestinian sides, just a team’

  By richardferrer on September 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Unlike so much about Israel and Palestine, at least football is not a matter of life and death. Rather, it’s a cause for fresh hope. Chelsea women’s football team has just returned from a pre-season trip to Israel, taking centre… Read More ›

• OPINION: A monumental decision for Britain

  By richardferrer on August 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  There are hundreds of Holocaust memorials worldwide, 69 in the United States alone – from Nashville and Nebraska to Missouri and Mississippi. Most are incongruously located thousands of miles from humanity’s greatest crime. Here in the UK the Holocaust is,… Read More ›

• OPINION: The beach front in the battle against blind hate

  By richardferrer on August 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We all sense it. The calm before the storm. Before you can say ‘Facilitated customs arrangement’, Westminster will reconvene to face down its greatest challenge of the 21st century. The British prime minister, his majority now hanging by a gossamer… Read More ›

• REVIEW: Epic, but even Like a Rolling Stone was a complete unknown

  By richardferrer on July 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Had the eagerly assembled Hyde Park crowd noticed Bob Dylan was singing Like A Rolling Stone, you’d have heard a pin drop. As it was, the level of idle chatter (“What time’s Ocado coming?”… “Federer beat Nadal!”) almost drowned out an… Read More ›

• OPINION: Why the Labour Party protects its antisemites

  By richardferrer on July 18, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  For 100 years the Labour Party was the broadest church in politics. That all changed the moment it passed into the tender loving care of Team Corbyn. Suddenly, faster than Margaret Beckett could say “let’s put Jeremy on the leadership ballot to… Read More ›

• FEATURE: 10 things we learned from Israel’s Eurovision Song Contest

  By richardferrer on May 30, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  1) The UK is now so reviled we could put the Beatles on stage singing Love Me Do and still come last. 2) All I can say in Iceland’s defence is it’s dark there for most of the year. 3) Israel’s Borat lookie-likey… Read More ›

• FEATURE: Tackling intolerance with proud purpose

  By richardferrer on May 13, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    On the coach to Auschwitz, former Chelsea manager Avram Grant tells me what can fairly be described as a Holocaust joke. His sister and late father Meir, who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of the Nazis, were at the… Read More ›

• OPINION: No room on Trigger’s broom for Labour Jews

  By richardferrer on March 15, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Abuse victims are often the last to recognise their plight, kidding themselves things will change. This tragic delusion was evident last week when the Jewish Labour Movement decided to stay in a malign marriage with an emotionally distant spouse who… Read More ›

• OPINION: When’s Turkey Apartheid Week, Roger Waters?

  By richardferrer on February 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Every year the Eurovision Song Contest sees political feuds and friendships exposed like a Bucks Fizz girl’s knickers. Balkan, Nordic and former Soviet states all brazenly bloc vote. Russia could turn up with Gary Glitter playing Leader Of The Gang… Read More ›

• OPINION: Countdown to antisemitism? Not on Rachel Riley’s watch

  By richardferrer on January 29, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Remember when Rachel Riley was just the lovely numbers lady on Countdown who only set social media alight when she spelt out something rude? (Longwinky, anyone? Classic telly). Well, her Longwinky days are over. In recent weeks Rachel has been… Read More ›