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FILM REVIEW: The twilight zone between evil and ignorance
The Zone Of Interest5/5 Our house has subsidence. It’s bang, bang, BANG from dawn ‘til dusk as the builders fix wonky floors, leaky pipes and cracked walls. Working from home, I’ve nailed the knack of tuning out the din to the point where, writing this, I’m more attuned to the dull tap-tap-tap on my keyboard Continue reading
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OPINION: 100 days after 7 October and what comes next
A few weeks before 7 October I had dinner in Tel Aviv with a veteran Arab-Israeli journalist who’s spent the last 40 years at his wits’ end, witnessing petulant Palestinian leaders choose self-sabotage over a state. We spent most of our meal discussing what, at the time, felt like one of the darkest moments in Continue reading
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OPINION: What creates the blind hate of Jews seen in so many since 7 October?
I doff my deerstalker to Sherlock Jones, for solving a mystery that’s broken my brain for the last two months: the confounding case of why so many people can’t walk past a poster of a kidnapped Israeli child without aching to tear it down. Their tattered remains cling to lampposts and walls. Those intact tend to Continue reading
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OPINION: Regime-change invasion and the end of Hamas
This, for the benefit of anyone still unable or unwilling to see what’s happening in front of their eyes, is what the beloved Palestinian chant “from the river to the sea” really means. It means psychopaths rounding up Jewish families and burning their homes. It means children abducted from their parents’ arms. It means desecrated Continue reading
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OPINION: Guardian still has content for Osama bin Laden fan club to enjoy
The Guardian was this week forced to do something it desperately seeks to avoid: it took down content from its website. Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America‘, his antisemitism-filled justification for terrorism, had for more than 20 years been given its own page on its website. But this week that page was being shared so widely, and Continue reading
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OPINION: The pen is mightier than the abhorred
Richard Sharp, the Jewish (soon-to-be) former chairman of the BBC, his beady eyes dark and hollow, his nose long and bulbous, a smug grin across his face, clutches a box marked “Goldman Sachs” piled with gold coins, a squid and Rishi Sunak puppet. Behind him lies a severed pig’s head and Boris “Jabba the Hut” Johnson, Continue reading
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REVIEW: Baddiel’s affectionate two fingers up to faith
First Jews don’t count, now Jehovah. As he existentially approaches 60, David Baddiel is on a Blues Brothers mission from God (more on Him later) to shape the zeitgeist. The piercing moral clarity of his first TLS extended essay, Jews Don’t Count, reframed the antisemitism debate – ripping the band aid off a sore at the Continue reading
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PODCAST: Guess who’s coming to seder…
Jewish News editor Richard Ferrer chats with David Roth in new Pesach podcast series from Anu, The Museum of The Jewish People. Anu, The Museum of The Jewish People in collaboration with David Roth, has launched a new podcast series called Guess Who’s Coming to Seder. Timed to coincide with Passover which commences on the evening Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: The Knightly news
Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis sits down with Richard Ferrer to reflect on the moments in his life which have influenced his philosophy of inclusion Ten years, five prime ministers and one knighthood later, the Chief Rabbi can look back with pride on a decade defined by one overarching goal – to make modern Orthodox Judaism Continue reading
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OPINION: If you don’t think this is indefensible, what is?
There are five Ws in journalism – who, what, where, when, why. There are but three in the Middle East – what, went, wrong. More Wild East than Middle East, it’s a place dominated by despots violently oppressing their own people while violently opposing the existence of Jews in 0.1 percent of the land. With Continue reading
About Me
Newspaper editor and publisher with 30-years’ experience at national and local titles in the UK and USA including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Jewish Advocate. Editor of Jewish News (Free Weekly Newspaper of the Year 2021/22) since 2009. Columnist for The Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Independent and others.
Recent Posts
- OPINION: BBC evasion as policy – our public broadcaster is public in name only
- OPINION: Twelve days that changed the Middle East and shattered the illusion of Iran
- OPINION: Where have all the grown-ups gone?
- NEWS FEATURE: Jewish trauma, from Tel Aviv to Tottenham
- INTERVIEW: The peace campaigner who came to kill
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