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The Israeli right’s immoral bargain with Western bigots

As far as the current Israeli government is concerned, the old anti-fascist arguments against Jews allying with insinuating demagogues are dead now

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Tommy Robinson (l) and Amichai Chikli (r) in Israel. (Image: X screenshot)

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene of a shooting at the Ramot Junction in East Jerusalem on September 8, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Israel’s leaders demean the fight against antisemitism

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Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Photo:Getty Images)

Israel’s extreme right is normalising the unthinkable

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Bosnian Muslim survivor of the Srebrenica 1995 genocide, walks among headstones as she visits graves of her relatives at the memorial cemetery (Getty)

Inviting a denier of genocide to an antisemitism conference brings shame on Israel

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Introducing the Holocaust historians who do not understand antisemitism

Why do academics who should know better argue that October 7 was no pogrom?

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February 5, 2025 11:43

American Jews, beware of being used by Trump

Will those who feared for freedom of speech under illiberal woke culture feel as worried when the new President implements a right wing version of cancellation?

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December 19, 2024 16:38

President-elect Donald Trump: poised to crack down on US universities (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Israel will triumph, but diaspora Jews will pay the price

Palestinians will be left with nothing, but antisemitism will become the new normal

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October 22, 2024 09:08

Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas (Getty Images)

The sad truth is that 10 months of war may have all been for nothing

Is there hope for Israel and Gaza? I can’t see it

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August 27, 2024 16:37

Right-wing Israelis demonstrate next to the Sde Teman military base near Beersheba, against the detention for questioning of military reservists who were suspected of abuse of a detainee following the October 7 attack in Israel, on July 29, 2024. The military said it has opened an investigation into the "suspected abuse" of a detainee at the Sde Teiman base set up for holding Palestinians arrested in Gaza since the war broke out. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Most people find it easiest not to think for themselves

In these polarised times, those on both the left and the right are falling for simplistic narratives at the expense of a more complex, moral and truthful view of the world

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July 3, 2024 09:11

Damon Albarn at Glastonbury (BBC Music via Youtube)

Ferocity of the Gaza protest rhetoric presages a violent, terrorist future

Throughout Christian history Jews were powerless, so the very idea of Jews fighting back against murders that imitated medieval massacres is an affront to traditional attitudes

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May 8, 2024 09:46

A protest outside Parliament in central London on 15 November 2023 (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

We’re just waiting for the terrorists to strike us again

Violence in the UK feels inevitable, and we know that when it happens Jews will be blamed

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March 13, 2024 11:04

LONDON - JULY 07: Flowers are laid in order to remember the victims of 7/7 bombings at Russell Square underground station on July 7, 2006 in London, England. On July 7, 2005 three London Underground trains and the number 30 bus in Tavistock Square were targeted by suicide bombers, killing 52 people. (Photo by Dave Etheridge-Barnes/Getty Images)

It’s time to abandon winner-takes-all politics in Israel

The Islamist savages of Hamas and the political extremists in Israel only lead us nowhere

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January 24, 2024 16:51

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Photo by ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Find me an Oxford college that says it is a safe place for Jews

Jewish fathers may soon advise their kids to go to this rather than that college because it takes antisemitism seriously

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December 7, 2023 14:15

Find me an Oxford college that says it is a safe place for Jews

Left antisemitism will always be sent packing by voters

It’s understandable but wrong to conclude from the appalling scenes on our streets that no one cares about dead Jews — voters showed in 2019 just what they thought of Corbyn et al

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October 19, 2023 14:52