Zoe Strimpel

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Normal people don’t believe in Sally Rooney’s free-speech issue

Taking up the Irish novelist’s cause conforms with the pattern of Israel derangement syndrome

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Sally Rooney at the Winter TCA 2020 in Pasadena, California, January 17, 2020 (Image: Getty Images)

The small but sturdy wall of the righteous standing with us Jews

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Solidarity: (l to r) Sivan Kobi, Adeena Sussman and Ruhama Shitrit

The delicious success of the many food influencers standing up for Jewish and Israeli identity

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Temple Fortune is on the up (Photo: Getty)

How Temple Fortune became a stylish shopper’s paradise

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Britain’s increasingly ‘Israel-frei’ cultural festivals

The space for Jewish artists, especially if they are Zionist, is shrinking all the time. Nowhere is that clearer than at Edinburgh

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July 3, 2026 12:29

Dancers with the Batsheva Dance Company based in Tel Aviv perform a scene from Hora by Ohad Naharin during a dress rehearsal at the Joyce Theater in New York on February 28, 2023. (Image: Getty Images)

My Jewish supermarket sweep – spoiler, the winner isn’t M&S

Some chains have a distinctly more ‘kosher’ flavour than others – particularly in an era when politics and activism can determine whether Israeli dates or Palestinian beer make it onto the shelves

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June 11, 2026 11:53

A week of wellness in Santa Monica

Saunas, cold plunges and ‘biohacking’ treatments along the sunny Los Angeles coast

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June 10, 2026 17:26

Recovery Suite. (Photo Credit - Yoshihiro Makino, Courtesy of Santa Monica Travel & Tourism)

Meet the courageous Jewish Instagrammers who are cooking up a storm for Israel

The online food world has become a cold house for Jews, but the hostility has made some influencers louder about their Zionism. Zoe Strimpel reports – and discovers their Chanukah treats

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December 17, 2025 17:04

How keffiyehs and watermelon swim bags became middle-class terror chic

From designer runways to farmers’ markets, the symbols of ‘Palestine’ are displayed with self-righteous pride

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November 5, 2025 11:15

Demonstrators wearing keffiyehs take a selfie at a rally in solidarity with Palestinians (Photo by KEMAL ASLAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

From Dave Chappelle to Reginald D Hunter, comedians of the present love to deploy their art or its milieu to spit scorn and falsehoods at the Jewish state

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June 11, 2025 09:07

Dawn French and the comedians who can't resist punching down at Israel

Will the BBC learn anything from its latest Gaza disaster?

The row over the How to Survive a Warzone documentary has gone beyond the predictable

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February 26, 2025 13:15

Scenes from Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone was broadcast on Monday on BBC Two and narrated by Abdullah Al-Yazouri, the son of a Hamas official (Image: BBC)

Real Holocaust remembrance requires standing up for Israel

You can’t really believe in the importance and implications of the Holocaust without understanding Israel’s essential legitimacy

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January 15, 2025 09:16

King Charles at Chanukah reception for Holocaust survivors at the JW3 Community Centre on December 16, 2022 (Getty Images)

I no longer believe that the UAE is safe for Jews

Rabbi Avi Kogan’s murder shows there are too many Iranians operating in terror cells there

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November 25, 2024 08:56

It pains me to to say it, but Trump was a better option for Jews than Harris-Walz

October 7 changed everything. The betrayal by the Democrats of their loyal Jewish voters has been so severe since then that their loyalty finally caved

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November 6, 2024 11:43