Tanya Gold

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Wish a final farewell to Jeremy Corbyn, the god of tiny rooms

After Labour's decision to ban him from standing for the party in Islington North, his followers can convince themselves of anything except their complicity in their own failure

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Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a protest rally in support of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) and proper pay for it's staff and workers, in central London on March 11, 2023. (Photo by Susannah Ireland / AFP) (Photo by SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

Thirty years on, Schindler’s List should never have been made

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VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 06: Roger Waters walks the red carpet ahead of the "Roger Waters Us + Them" screening during the 76th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 06, 2019 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Roger Waters isn't brave and neither was his inflatable pig

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How the UK's foremost expert on Jew-hate cheered me up

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Culture war tribalism has enveloped the Israel-Palestine issue

Many pro-Palestinian activists are not pro-Palestinian at all

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January 19, 2023 10:31

TOPSHOT - Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a demonstration on Whitehall opposite Downing Street in central London on April 7, 2018 in support of the Palestianians in the Gaza Strip calling for a stop to the killing organised by the Palestinian Forum in Britain. - Hundreds of protesters gathered on Whitehall opposite Downing Street in London to protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip after Israeli troops killed nine during the latest border clashes in a week of bloodshed. Thousands of protesters approached the border fence around Gaza for a second Friday in a row, burning tyres and hurling stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. In addition to the nine dead, at least 491 were wounded by Israeli gunfire, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza enclave said. (Photo by Tolga AKMEN / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

The year according to Tanya Gold

Farewell, 2022… you will not be entirely missed

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December 29, 2022 12:33

Jingle kvells! The great American Christmas was invented by Jews

If you hate Christmas music, blame the eastern European pogromists that inspired it

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December 14, 2022 13:20

Jingle kvells! The great American Christmas was invented by Jews

Is it me or is Mrs Maisel horribly offensive?

Amazon’s gaudy television show is a great success - but it is an insult to Jewish women and Jewish comics

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November 10, 2022 13:03

Amazon Studios shows Rachel Brosnahan in a scene from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

The man who wrote The World: Tanya Gold meets Simon Sebag Montefiore

The celebrated historian has tea with our columnist to toast his landmark new book about… everything

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October 27, 2022 09:43

Historian, presenter and author, Simon Sebag Montefiore speaks to Jewish Chronicle writer Tanya Gold. Byline John Nguyen/JNVisuals 12/10/2022

Boy in The Striped Pyjamas author sinks to new low with the melodramatic sequel

Jews in John Boyne's work are reduced to landscape rather than real characters

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October 13, 2022 11:20

Boy in The Striped Pyjamas author sinks to new low with the melodramatic sequel

Of course! The Corbynites are the real victims of Labour antisemitism

Jewish Voice for Labour say they are being purged but their dangerous rhetoric leaks out into the wider culture and is absorbed by people more willing to use their fists

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September 29, 2022 10:30