Colin Shindler

Backing the Kurds for 50 years

Israel has had a presence in Iraqi Kurdistan since the days of Golda Meir's premiership

Rare courage of a Soviet refusnik

Masha Slepak was, along with her husband, a central figure among the Moscow refuseniks of the 1970s

The secret of ancient coins

The lulav and etrog often appeared on Jewish coins in classical times - but why?

Birth of a fighting force for Zionism

Jews from the UK comprised almost one third of the five battalions of the Royal Fusiliers — now known to history as the Jewish Legion.

Is Labour unapologetically antisemitic?

Historically, Jews regarded the party as their natural home and a hugely disproportionate number of Jewish MPs represented Labour in Parliament.

How the left saw the Six Day War

Wolf Mankowitz,called the approach of the Czechoslovak Communists towards Israel “a curious and repulsive psychopathology”.

The battle between principle and realpolitik

A small, outnumbered, country waved its fist at a belligerent enemy and demonstrated that the present would not imitate the past.

Risking death for freedom

In a new film, a daughter tells the story of the hijack plot which led to a death sentence for her father.

Crisis at the core of British Jewry

Faced with a difficult choice, Jewish leadership has clearly opted to cling to the controversial policies of an Israel government rather than think through an approach which takes into account the concerns of British Jewry.

No Fidelity: Castro's complex relationship with Israel

Castro said he backed Israel's right to exist. He also sent troops to help Syria during the Yom Kippur War

Fidel Castro's paradoxical relationship with Israel and Jews

Suez, 1956: where the Left's bigotry on Israel began