Colin Shindler

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Rayner is no Corbynista - the Board was right to invite her to its Chanukah event

Colin Shindler defends the decision to invite the MP, which has provoked anger within the community

2 min read

Rayner is no Corbynista - the Board was right to invite her to its Chanukah event

The first step on the road to Auschwitz

4 min read

How Denmark defied Hitler 75 years ago to rescue its Jewish population

2 min read

A celebration to end all celebrations

4 min read

Orbán and Netanyahu’s meeting of minds

Hungary’s authoritarian leader, who visits Israel this week, has plenty in common with his host. That alarms diaspora Jews, says Colin Shindler

2 min read

July 16, 2018 04:07

Mandela and the Jews

Next week is the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth. Colin Shindler looks back on his relationship with South Africa's Jews

5 min read

July 12, 2018 10:35

An awkward friendship between Jerusalem and Asunción

Historian Colin Shindler recounts how Paraguay, a refuge for fleeing Nazis, became Israel's convenient ally in the 1960s

2 min read

June 8, 2018 09:42

An awkward friendship between Jerusalem and Asunción

Was Robert Kennedy killed because he supported Israel?

Historian Colin Shindler looks back at the final years of Senator Robert Kennedy's career as the 50th anniversary of his assassination approaches

3 min read

May 31, 2018 10:43

Was Robert Kennedy killed because he supported Israel?

‘The greatest moment of my life’

The late Arieh Handler was the only British citizen in the room when Israeli independence was declared. Colin Shindler spoke to him in 1998.

4 min read

May 10, 2018 10:06

When the settlers came to stay

Half-a-century ago, 60-odd people gathered in Hebron for a Seder — and never left

3 min read

April 4, 2018 14:18

The Russian taste for poison

As international tensions rise after the nerve agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripol and his daughter in Salisbury this week, Colin Shindler traces the history of Russian poison plots

4 min read

March 14, 2018 16:19

When Jews made friends with a tyrant

The Chilean dictator fostered links with the Jewish community in his own country, and with Israel

5 min read

March 1, 2018 12:16

Israel 1948, explained

Academic and historian Colin Shindler explains the four main stages of Israel's creation

6 min read

February 20, 2018 15:27

Obituary: Barry Davis

Actor who became the doyen of Yiddish scholarship and drama in Britain

4 min read

January 18, 2018 11:33

The forgotten war heroes who kept Britain afloat

Colin Shindler looks at the fascinating history of the Merchant Navy's role in WW2

5 min read

January 4, 2018 14:39

The forgotten war heroes who kept Britain afloat

When Jews backed a fascist

Mussolini’s Jewish fellow travellers provide a stark lesson from history

2 min read

December 29, 2017 10:47

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Colin Shindler

Latest from Colin Shindler

Rayner is no Corbynista - the Board was right to invite her to its Chanukah event

The first step on the road to Auschwitz

How Denmark defied Hitler 75 years ago to rescue its Jewish population

A celebration to end all celebrations

More from Colin Shindler

Orbán and Netanyahu’s meeting of minds

Mandela and the Jews

An awkward friendship between Jerusalem and Asunción

Was Robert Kennedy killed because he supported Israel?

‘The greatest moment of my life’

When the settlers came to stay

The Russian taste for poison

When Jews made friends with a tyrant

Israel 1948, explained

Obituary: Barry Davis

The forgotten war heroes who kept Britain afloat

When Jews backed a fascist