After three years of silence, last week Jeremy Corbyn finally agreed to be interviewed by the Jewish News. He decided to talk directly to the Jewish community at the moment it needed […]
OPINION: Corbyn’s default blindness to Jewish fears
OPINION: Corbyn’s Labour Party has very deep pockets
Hold the front page. Jeremy Corbyn has finally admitted his party’s anti-Semitism problem. On Sunday evening, after news broke he’d endorsed an anti-Semitic painting, the Labour leader issued an unprecedented apology for “pockets […]
OPINION: Real heroes are carers, not cape wearers
Night Of Heroes, a celebration of the community’s outstanding achievers held by Jewish News on Monday night, was inspired by a remarkable man my team and I simply call ‘Our hero’. On […]
OPINION: The perilously thin line between being racy and racist
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 – […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
