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OPINION: No room on Trigger’s broom for Labour Jews
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 secretly wants a divorce. Jeremy Corbyn, the old charmer that he is, pretended he wanted Continue reading
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OPINION: When’s Turkey Apartheid Week, Roger Waters?
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 on a balalaika and still pocket douze points from Belarus. A 2008 study by Dr Continue reading
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OPINION: Countdown to antisemitism? Not on Rachel Riley’s watch
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 promoted from teatime times table expert to flag bearer in the bitter fight against ministates. Continue reading
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REPORT: Six Holocaust victims laid to rest at Bushey Cemetery
Each person had their own profound reasons for being at the United Synagogue’s New Cemetery in Bushey on Sunday morning to witness the burial of six unknown Jews murdered in Auschwitz. For the 50 survivors in attendance, many of whom escorted the tiny coffin containing the bones and ashes of five adults and a child Continue reading
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OPINION: Dive into the deep end of antisemitism
Be shocked by Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s wicked ban on disabled Israeli swimmers at the World Para Swimming Championships in his country, but not surprised. Zealots of his ilk are turning Muslim antisemitism across Asia and the Middle East into an epidemic, poisoning everything from politics to sport. Even the Miss World contest is not immune. Continue reading
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OPINION: Togetherness points the way forward for community
In the beginning there was the Board of Deputies, followed (a few centuries later) by the Jewish Leadership Council – and rumours of a merger ever since. Each is vibrant and effective, with a positive influence on British Jewish life. Yet the M-word looms large, because it can be impossible to discern differences between roles Continue reading
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FEATURE: 50 things fatherhood has taught me
Being a parent is like running a hotel for rowdy rock stars. Here’s 50 things Richard Ferrer has learned in the past five years since he and his wife Jenny checked their own little Courtney Love and Keith Richards in for 18 years of full bed and board… 1 Kids aren’t the worst bosses, they’re just Continue reading
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FEATURE: Technion’s bright ideas prove anything is Mission: Possible
Haifa’s Technion Institute of Technology is Israel in a nutshell, bursting with energy and ambition. Richard Ferrer enrols for an afternoon Dah da da, dah da da, dah da, da-da, dah da da da, da, da! Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to visit the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa Continue reading
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OPINION: DNA shows I’m the sum of my parts and past
Remember when EastEnder Danny Dyer couldn’t believe his mince pies when he found he was related to King Edward III on BBC1’s Who Do You Think You Are? Well, I’ve just had a bit of a Who Jew You Think You Are? moment, as corr-blimey as a Bow Bells cockney shaking a 14th century monarch Continue reading
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OPINION: Instead of fighting Tories, Corbyn is obsessed with the moral failings of the Jewish state
It was supposed to be the moment Labour finally woke from its antisemitic slumber. Tuesday’s meeting of the party’s NEC was a chance to shove the Jew-hate gremlin kicking and screaming back in its bottle and crack on with the important business of humiliating the Conservatives — a task simpler than shooting fish in a 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
GeT RICH QUICK 