Daniel Finkelstein

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Urging Israel to 'use restraint' is to deny Gazans their only escape from hell

A long as Hamas terrorists dominate there can be no liberty, freedom or security for anyone

3 min read

TOPSHOT - A fireball erupts during Israeli bombardment in the northern Gaza Strip on October 14, 2023. Thousands of people, both Israeli and Palestinians have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants entered Israel in a surprise attack leading Israel to declare war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip enclave on October 8. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Israelophobia review: As original and necessary as Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count

2 min read

The railway tracks entering the main building at the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi death camp are pictured ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's landmark visit in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 5, 2019. - German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour Holocaust victims on December 6, 2019 with her first official visit to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a Nazi German killing factory where more than 1.1 million people, mostly European Jews, perished during World War II. (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by JANEK SKARZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

How I learned to fill in the gaps in my family’s Shoah story

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BOSTON, MA - APRIL 19: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. officially announces his candidacy for President on April 19, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts. An outspoken anti-vaccine activist, RFK Jr. joins self-help author Marianne Williamson in the Democratic presidential field of challengers for 2024. (Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

RFK Jr is just the latest conspiracy theorist to turn on the Jews

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We were lucky to know Sir Ben Helfgott

Now he has gone, we must make sure his story is never forgotten

2 min read

June 16, 2023 17:55

Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott and Sabina Miller stand with a memorial candle on the Millennium Bridge in central London on January 27, 2013 to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP via Getty Images)

The past isn’t dead when its everyday objects are with us

The small reminders of historic moments can tell us so much

3 min read

June 1, 2023 10:33

The past isn’t dead when its everyday objects are with us

Only a democratic Israel can be a true safe haven for Jews

If the Jewish state allows its political system to be eroded until it slides into authoritarianism, it will affect communities throughout the diaspora, which rely on the country as a backstop

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April 11, 2023 17:19

Israelis protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, utside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, on March 26, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** הפגנה דמוקרטיה בית הנשיא ירושלים מהפכה משפטית מעון ראש הממשלה שמאל מעצר בעד נגד

When Luciana Berger was hounded out of Labour, I cried

If we are going to ensure that we never return to the trauma of the Corbyn years, we need to identify the key lessons and make sure they are learned

3 min read

February 23, 2023 09:31

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 23: Labour MP Luciana Berger returns to the conference centre with her police security detail following a Jewish Labour Movement rally, during the first day of the annual Labour Party conference on September 23, 2018 in Liverpool, England. Berger has criticised the Labour Party's approach to Jewish members, saying that "there's no place in the party for us anymore". Labour's official slogan for the conference is Â“Rebuilding Britain, for the many, not the fewÂ”. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Dear Whoopi, like Jews, racism comes in different colours

The actress’s latest comment about the Holocaust is so wrong, it’s hard to know where to start

3 min read

January 5, 2023 12:08

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 13: Whoopi Goldberg attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue )

If it is truly going to change its ways, the BBC needs our support

If we argue that the broadcaster is always biased its journalists will be less inclined to improve

3 min read

November 10, 2022 13:31

If it is truly going to change its ways, the BBC needs our support

The country now knows what makes Judaism special

The disruptions to normal life during the mourning period for the Queen were not an annoying by-product of mourning but the point of it, as is the case during the High Holy Days

3 min read

September 29, 2022 11:32

The country now knows what makes Judaism special

What’s wrong with weaponising Labour left’s antisemitism?

Ignore the naive and woefully misled Forde report — to save the party, Keir Starmer and his allies must expose the Corbynites’ embrace of an ideology that leads to support for Hamas

3 min read

August 11, 2022 14:41

What’s wrong with weaponising Labour left’s antisemitism?

Why Jews ignored stark warnings from inside Auschwitz

New books by Karina Urbach and Jonathan Freedland illustrate how hard it is to believe things that seem unbelievable — and how we persuade ourselves of convenient falsehoods

3 min read

June 23, 2022 15:22

Why Jews ignored stark warnings from inside Auschwitz

‘Hitler was Jewish’ – the lie that blames Jews for everything

Russia’s attempt to portray Ukraine’s Jewish-led government as Nazi is a mirror image of the Nazi claim that Bolshevism was a Jewish plot – and Putin’s intentions are all too clear

3 min read

May 6, 2022 12:15

‘Hitler was Jewish’ – the lie that blames Jews for everything

We do not forget the Shoah and that’s how we will defeat Putin

The Russian dictator has consistently tried to edit out the Russian atrocities of World War Two as part of his preparation for the current war. Holocaust education is the antidote

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March 18, 2022 00:00

ORANIENBURG, GERMANY - JANUARY 27: Carnations hang at the infamous entrance gate that reads: "Arbeit macht frei", or "Work sets one free" at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial on January 27, 2020 in Oranienburg, Germany. January 27th will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, the most notorious of the many Nazi concentration camps. The Nazis began the operation of Sachsenhausen in 1936, initially as a prison for their political opponents, but later used it for other groups, including Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. Sachsenhausen was the first camp to test the use of gas chambers for perfecting the mass murder of prisoners. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Mum’s inspirational Holocaust survivor friend has no anger

Lily Ebert’s extraordinary memoir is both tragic and uplifting — and it is clear that her compassion and wisdom have never faltered, even as others have fallen victim to acrimony

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January 27, 2022 10:50

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 26: Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert lights a candle during a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on January 26, 2017 in London, England. The commemorative event, attended by religious leaders, heard testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust, in which millions of predominantly Jewish people were killed. National Holocaust Day on February 27 marks the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by Soviet troops. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

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Daniel Finkelstein

Latest from Daniel Finkelstein

Urging Israel to 'use restraint' is to deny Gazans their only escape from hell

Israelophobia review: As original and necessary as Baddiel’s Jews Don’t Count

How I learned to fill in the gaps in my family’s Shoah story

RFK Jr is just the latest conspiracy theorist to turn on the Jews

More from Daniel Finkelstein

We were lucky to know Sir Ben Helfgott

The past isn’t dead when its everyday objects are with us

Only a democratic Israel can be a true safe haven for Jews

When Luciana Berger was hounded out of Labour, I cried

Dear Whoopi, like Jews, racism comes in different colours

If it is truly going to change its ways, the BBC needs our support

The country now knows what makes Judaism special

What’s wrong with weaponising Labour left’s antisemitism?

Why Jews ignored stark warnings from inside Auschwitz

‘Hitler was Jewish’ – the lie that blames Jews for everything

We do not forget the Shoah and that’s how we will defeat Putin

Mum’s inspirational Holocaust survivor friend has no anger