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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. First the sound, soaring over Tel Aviv on Wednesday night during the final show of this singular band’s A Moon Shaped Pool world tour. The… Continue reading
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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 being kicked out of Labour for delivering the ultimate double whammy: claiming Adolf Hitler supported Zionism “before he went mad and ended up killing six million… Continue reading
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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 journey from gunman to statesman saw him shake hands with the Queen and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with erstwhile foe Ian Paisley. Yet for all… Continue reading
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VIDEO: Jerusalem conference on Jewish media

Speaking at a Jerusalem conference on new media economics and the viability of Jewish newspapers [7/12/16]: Click here for video Continue reading
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OPINION: From Obama to barmy

The popular consensus on President-elect Donald Trump’s march to the White House has been shock and horror. How can a man who says what he says and behaves how he behaves – while displaying the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old – be allowed to have his finger on the nuclear codes? He may have looked… Continue reading
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OPINION: Want to spread Jew hate? Just tweet it

Each week my newspaper, Jewish News, shines a light on social media’s darkest corners, publishing the latest anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist Tweets in a section called ‘Thanks For Sharing’. Recent charm school graduates to feature include @MisGrace [“Israeli Jews harvest Palestinian kids’ organs”] and @AJCTmusic [“The Holocaust is a massive lie, indoctrinated by foreign parasites”]. We… Continue reading
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REVIEW: No time like the present to enjoy Groundhog gem

Groundhog Day, the Old Vic Theatre, London 5/5 Not once but many times upon a time, there lived a grumpy weatherman called Phil Connors, trapped in a time loop in small-town USA – doomed to repeat the same day over and over again until he learnt to change his ways. So goes the premise of… Continue reading
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OPINION: Corbyn’s contempt for Israel inspires Jew hatred in the Labour movement

Q: What is it about Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party that anti-Semites find so attractive? A: Jeremy Corbyn. The Labour leader appears to hate Israel and all it stands for. The psychopaths of Hamas seem to be his “friends”, and Israel his enemy. He has an unshakable one-eyed view of the Jewish state – refusing even to… Continue reading
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OPINION: Why bashing the bashers is the only option

The Government today announced new regulations preventing local councils, NHS Trusts, universities and other public bodies from boycotting trade and investment with any of 162 member countries of the World Trade Organisation. Of course Canada and New Zealand don’t require such sweeping safeguards to protect their trade deals, so you don’t need to be Ban… Continue reading
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TRAVEL: Eilat to love in Israel’s beautiful south

If you haven’t visited Israel’s beautiful south lately, Richard Ferrer asks: ‘What’s kept you?’ Bet it’s been a while since you last dipped a toe in the warm waters of Eilat. Minus Tel Aviv’s big city buzz or Jerusalem’s biblical city culture – and an extra plane ride or four-hour drive away – the resort… 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
