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Zack Polanski is pandering to the antisemitic mob instead of finding the courage to take it on

We are seeing something very dark, the notion that Jew-hatred is a diabolical Jewish conspiracy, a ruse that cunning Jews play on gentiles to generate sympathy and justify the persecution of legitimate critics of Israel

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Leader of the Green Party Zack Polanski (Image: Getty)

Protest outside UN General Assembly on September 25, 2025 (Image: Getty)

The shallow claim that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism

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Mourners gather in memory of the victims of the terror attack at Bondi Beach, in Sydney on December 15, 2025. (Image: Getty)

The unforgivable failure of liberals to confront anti-Zionists

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

The Israeli right’s immoral bargain with Western bigots

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Israel’s leaders demean the fight against antisemitism

When Benjamin Netanyahu accuses anyone who dares to criticise him of pouring “fuel on an antisemitic fire” or “abandoning Jews,” I know that the hyperbole hides a power grab

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September 11, 2025 12:02

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 extreme right is normalising the unthinkable

It is not antisemitic to speak out against the dangerous rhetoric of members of Netanyahu’s government

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June 18, 2025 13:27

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

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

The Chief Rabbi pulled out of the conference over concerns about other guests

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March 26, 2025 12:32

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

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 10:08

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 17:37

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 10:11

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 10:46