palestine
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NEWS FEATURE: Jewish trauma, from Tel Aviv to Tottenham

Within hours of Hamas’ dawn attack a year ago, British Jews were consumed by horror and grief, shadowed by sudden overwhelming fear for their own safety. The first hint of what was to come were the crowds that started to gather on London’s Edgware Road. While Hamas was still hunting Jews in southern Israel and the Continue reading
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OPINION: Israel-Palestinian conflict has always been hope versus hate

It’s been a very bumpy ride but, all things considered, a Jewish democracy in the Middle East has made a pretty decent fist at surviving for 76 years in a part of the world that hates two things above all else. Jews and democracy. In the wake of 7 October, an Israeli friend described his country’s 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
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
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- 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
