Zoe Strimpel

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A terrorist’s profile shows the rot in America’s media

The New Yorker’s article doesn’t glamourise Yahya Sinwar, but much about it exemplifies the problem with so much coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas

3 min read

Yahya Sinwar, newly appointed head of Hamas (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-Israel student activists protest Israel's war in Gaza at Oxford University (Photo: Laurel Chor/Getty Images)

Universities have lost control. Why are they so weak?

3 min read

Members of the Jewish Bloc for Palestine march in central London, on April 27, 2024, in support of the Palestinian people. (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL / AFP) (Photo by BENJAMIN CREMEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-Israel Jews are worse than just antisemitic

3 min read

A copy of D H Lawrence's novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' photographed ahead of the obscenity trial against publishers Penguin Books at the Old Bailey in London, September 13th 1960. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Literary lemmings now coalesce around Hamas

3 min read

Are the kids all right? Abigail Shrier says you should stop asking them

Therapy culture is actively harming Western children, says this American author

6 min read

February 27, 2024 16:23

Giving counselling a kicking: Abigail Shrier

After October 7, it’s ok to lose friends over Israel

Collateral social damage is the price of confronting those who turn out to support the destruction of the Jewish state

3 min read

February 22, 2024 14:21

LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 03: Protestors gather near parliament during the 'Ceasefire Now Stop The Genocide In Gaza' national UK demonstration on February 3, 2024 in London, England. Hamas officials are studying a proposed cease-fire deal that would include long pauses in fighting in Gaza and the swap of Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Drinking coffee in Tel Aviv: will it ever be the same again?

Zoe Strimpel returns to the city she loves

6 min read

December 7, 2023 12:24

KTEMKK KTEMKK street kiosk cafe or coffee shop a small restaurant selling light meals and drinks.

Saudi Arabia's attitude to women warrants no praise - despite what our politicians may claim

Are we meant to be over the moon because Saudi Arabia is no longer keeping women covered up under threat of death?

3 min read

October 3, 2023 14:28

TOPSHOT - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman smiles as he arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris on July 28, 2022 for a meeting with the French President. - French President Emmanuel Macron host Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in Paris on July 28, 2022, outraging rights groups and the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP) (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Once again, I’ve fallen off the Yom Kippur wagon

Choosing to watch Netflix and then fly off on holiday rather than go to shul was a mistake

3 min read

September 28, 2023 10:18

Airplane flying over tropical sea at sunset - Antalya, Turkey

We Jews can be rough, tough and dangerous too

It’s nonsense to cling to the idea that we are somehow less likely to be violent and thuggish

3 min read

August 31, 2023 09:49

We Jews can be rough, tough and dangerous too

Barbie and the bimbo-fication of American Jewish women

Jewish women can't be reduced to stereotypes

3 min read

July 19, 2023 11:57

Barbie and the bimbo-fication of American Jewish women

Is it possible to be Jewish and feel relaxed at a garden party?

It turns out that The Spectator magazine's glitzy summer party was the perfect place to find out...

3 min read

July 13, 2023 13:41

Let’s bust the myth of Jewish hypochondria

The Woody Allen cliché does not apply to most Jews in real life (even if it does apply to myself)

3 min read

June 29, 2023 11:38

Let’s bust the myth of Jewish hypochondria

'I don't think black people or Jews should be solely defined by their race'

The writer who sparked the Diane Abbott Observer row on the reasons he is calling out the 'anti-racism' movement

6 min read

June 22, 2023 10:59

'I don't think black people or Jews should be solely defined by their race'

My ironic Jewish holiday at an Austrian 'starvation camp'

A stay at 'a medical health resort' with a severely restricted diet proves to be a mentally as well as physically challenging test

3 min read

June 8, 2023 11:19

My ironic Jewish holiday at an Austrian 'starvation camp'

Ben Gurion's grandson on his grandfather's vision and Israel today

Zoe Strimpel meets the grandson of Israel's first prime minister

8 min read

May 24, 2023 13:14

Primary national founder of the State of Israel and its first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion (1886 - 1973) at Heathrow airport, 23rd May 1961. (Photo by George Stroud/Daily Express/Getty Images)

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Zoe Strimpel

Latest from Zoe Strimpel

A terrorist’s profile shows the rot in America’s media

Universities have lost control. Why are they so weak?

Anti-Israel Jews are worse than just antisemitic

Literary lemmings now coalesce around Hamas

More from Zoe Strimpel

Are the kids all right? Abigail Shrier says you should stop asking them

After October 7, it’s ok to lose friends over Israel

Drinking coffee in Tel Aviv: will it ever be the same again?

Saudi Arabia's attitude to women warrants no praise - despite what our politicians may claim

Once again, I’ve fallen off the Yom Kippur wagon

We Jews can be rough, tough and dangerous too

Barbie and the bimbo-fication of American Jewish women

Is it possible to be Jewish and feel relaxed at a garden party?

Let’s bust the myth of Jewish hypochondria

'I don't think black people or Jews should be solely defined by their race'

My ironic Jewish holiday at an Austrian 'starvation camp'

Ben Gurion's grandson on his grandfather's vision and Israel today