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OPINION: What horror might we wake to on Friday the 13th?
READERS of a sensitive disposition, look away now. In a few weeks’ time Britain’s prime minister could be a man who refused to sing the national anthem; paid tribute to IRA terrorists; considers the psychopaths of Hamas and Hezbollah his friends; petitioned for Hamas to be removed from a terror list; opposed a full Hezbollah Continue reading
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FEATURE: I’ve never looked so good
It wasn’t the countless mornings wishing I could find my glasses so I could find my glasses, or the countless nights I slept in contact lenses and woke up looking like I’d stumbled off the red eye from Rio. What finally convinced me to get laser eye surgery was my optician uttering the dreaded B-word. Continue reading
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OPINION: Being in shul felt like being at the scene of the crime
I’m not religious, but I still went to synagogue yesterday for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This I did for two reasons: to keep my dad company (my father who art in Streatham, not my father who art in heaven) and because I like the festival’s self-improvement vibe – spending one Continue reading
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FEATURE: ‘There are no Israeli or Palestinian sides, just a team’
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 stage in a unique scheme that’s united more than 25,000 Arab and Jewish youngsters on Continue reading
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OPINION: A monumental decision for Britain
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, to quote survivor Ben Helfgott, “part of our collective national history”. Yet ask 100 random Continue reading
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OPINION: The beach front in the battle against blind hate
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 thin thread, refuses to rule out suspending Parliament to get the UK out of Europe Continue reading
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REVIEW: Epic, but even Like a Rolling Stone was a complete unknown
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 unrecognisable version of the Bobster’s timeless anthem. It was a missed opportunity, for crowd and Continue reading
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OPINION: Why the Labour Party protects its antisemites
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 broaden the debate”, it was bludgeoned into a groupthink mentality that would have Harold Wilson, Continue reading
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FEATURE: 10 things we learned from Israel’s Eurovision Song Contest
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 Kobi Marimi was not better than Netta. His operatic dirge was universally loathed by every Continue reading
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FEATURE: Tackling intolerance with proud purpose
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 2008 Champions League final in Moscow to see Avram’s Chelsea play Manchester United. The game 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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