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Howard Jacobson
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Why are Jews uncomfortable in Australia? Two words: The left
October 7 has shown how Australia’s attitude towards us has changed
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Jews don’t need the cult of woke – it doesn’t care for us
<p>We are constantly confronted with things that offend us, but do we ask for them to be destroyed?</p>
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Some of us look like Einstein, others like Barbie. Go figure
To insist only a Jew should play a Jew, is to consent to a demeaning stereotype
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Jews playing cricket? Now you’re really creasing me up
Jokes aside, the sport, by its very nature, has plenty of appeal for Jews, as an exhibition at Lord's shows
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From Saul to David, Jews always did a good coronation
Charles will emerge, as did King Saul, no longer the man he was
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My first book was 40 years ago and I’m still worrying about it
It's 40 years since the publication of my first novel, and I can still hear the objections...
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Is it time for Jews to do less yearning and more living?
Howard Jacobson - one of our greatest living authors - argues for a new positivity towards Jewishness and Israel
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Jews in their own words… so long as they don’t say ‘Israel’
For all their differences, Jonathan Freedland and David Baddiel's views on Israel converge in the old discomfort: Israel just won’t give them the Jew they want
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British Jews have had good reason to feel safe under the Royal Family
'As the Coronation service progressed, it became impossible not to notice the Church of England’s - and therefore the Queen’s - essential Jewish lineage.'
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Students, here’s what to say to campus ‘anti-Zionists’
Howard Jacobson offers young people at university his guide on how to counter Jew hate
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The snake of UK antisemitism is stirring as Israel is under attack
The search for truth has been entirely forgotten by the forces that seek to dominate the debate on Israel in British universities
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Howard Jacobson pays tribute to his friend Jonathan Sacks
'He drew no distinction between the serious and the playful, the learned and the popular'
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Mother saw her chance and made a dash for the exit
Author Howard Jacobson pays tribute to his mother, who died aged 97 earlier this month
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There are two sorts of medievalists and one of them is at home with hatred
Author Howard Jacobson sets out the centuries-old roots of modern antisemitism and its exponents
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Read the peerless Howard Jacobson's speech about Jeremy Corbyn and antisemitism
This is the renowned author's address to a debate on whether the Labour leader is 'unfit to be prime minister'
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Enough is enough
The celebrated novelist offers a personal take on an extraordinary week for relations between British Jews and the Labour party
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