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OPINION: In Israel, the diaspora sees a version of itself

The impact of last week’s Jewish News front page was felt across the diaspora – and Israel. And sparked unprecedented debate. It posed a timely question about the looming Israeli election: Do Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir, likely ministers in the next Knesset coalition who condemn reform Judaism, Arabs and non-heterosexuals, pose a moral danger to Israel Continue reading
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SPECIAL REPORT: ‘We want to live, there is no life here’

Richard Ferrer visits a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan to see how MDA UK is playing a vital role in efforts to ease the world’s worst refugee crisis Beside a motorway on the outskirts of Amman, indistinguishable from the surrounding wasteland, is a godforsaken place 50 children call home. To refugee aid agencies it is nameless Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: ‘I don’t get on with everyone but when I shake hands, that’s it’

Lord Levy could teach Facebook a thing or two about social networking. Richard Ferrer goes head-to-head with the fundraiser extraordinaire… on and off the tennis court. Lord Levy, it turns out, is a bit of a hoarder. His home office is an Aladdin’s cave of artefacts and antiques, accumulated over the course of half-a-century of Continue reading
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OPINION: Starmer must finally finish what he has started

Just because Labour MPs John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana attempted to legitimise a deranged anti-Israel rally in Whitehall with their speeches does not mean they condone chants at the event urging Hamas to “blow up” an Israeli city. Far from it. The pair were, however, damned by their presence. What on earth were two of Keir Starmer’s Continue reading
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OPINION: Students, Jewish or not, deserve so much better

The National Union of Students represents tens of thousands of members of 600 student unions up and down the country. For the first 80 years of its century-long history it prided itself on representing students’ interests and maintaining standards in campus life. The NUS website says the union is “proudly radical since 1922”. In the Continue reading
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OPINION: Britain fails to honour Sir Nicky’s legacy

As Putin’s demonic onslaught continues, the spotlight is on the world’s response to the greatest refugee crisis since 1945. Ukraine’s neighbours have endorsed an open-door humanitarian policy, with more than 1.2 million people fleeing to Poland, 200,000 to Hungary, 120,000 to Slovakia and Moldova, 80,000 to Romania and 160,000 to other EU states, including 2,500 Continue reading
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OPINION: The Y-word is over, bar the shouting

Tottenham Hotspur, a global sporting brand with annual turnover approaching half-a-billion pounds, has finally had enough of its reputation being trashed by its own supporters. The statement that appeared without fuss or fanfare on the football club’s website yesterday, two years after a fans’ survey on the issue, was a full-body tackle on thousands upon Continue reading
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OPINION: Nutters aren’t the only ones who nut

In a recent column for The Times on anti-vaxxers wearing yellow stars to claim they suffer like Jews under the Nazis, Hugo Rifkind took an entirely logical “meh” approach to the entirely illogical world of conspiracy theories, wearily conceding: “Nutters gonna nut.” Fair enough. Let tin foil hatters say fish ride bikes and Neil Armstrong took one giant leap Continue reading
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OPINION: Shameless lockdown defiance caused deep and lasting damage

Two wedding photographs that capture the joy and emotion of a special day. In the first a young bride and her mother share a private moment as mum dabs a tear. In the second, mum proudly escorts her daughter towards the marriage canopy between crowds of women to the left and men to the right. Continue reading
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OPINION: Little fires everywhere in Labour’s grassroots

Eight months after his accession, the crown barely settled on his brow, and Labour’s new leader already knows: “There’s three of us in this marriage.” The interfering ex just won’t leave him and his party alone. Sir Keir Starmer has talked a terrific game since liberating Labour back in April. His party is now “under 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
