Analysis

Select committees should be for grown-up scrutiny, not student politics virtue-signalling

Lorin Bell-Cross

Select committees should be for grown-up scrutiny, not student politics virtue-signalling

The purpose of these meetings isn’t to generate clickbait social media content for MPs

Are US employers discriminating against Jews?

Melissa Langsam Braunstein

Are US employers discriminating against Jews?

A survey has found that that American Jews must apply to 24.2 per cent more jobs to hear back from the same number of employers as someone signalling Western European heritage

Syria’s new rulers need to show Israel and the rest of the region that it will not be a threat

Seth J. Frantzman

Syria’s new rulers need to show Israel and the rest of the region that it will not be a threat

Nature abhors a vacuum and Syria is now a power vacuum. Let us hope it is filled with something positive

Jonathan Spyer

What is happening in Syria is a microcosm of the dynamics of the Middle East

No one should have been surprised by the clash of rival ethno-sectarian forces, supported by powerful states, because that is how power is wielded across the region