It’s probably easier to point out great lyricists who weren’t Jewish

From Irving Berlin down through to Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and my own favourites, Dory Previn and Leonard Cohen, all have the same ethnicity. I’m exaggerating… please don’t write in.

Lanzmann’s Shoah was so well done many find it near-impossible to watch

Claude Lanzmann’s epic reshaped how the Holocaust is remembered. He built his film not on archives but on silence – the terrible absence left by the dead

How the Gaza coverage hard-wired anti-Israel into AI

Years of flawed, emotive reporting – especially from “high-reliability” outlets – have been baked into training data for large language models and the damage may be impossible to undo

Britain should follow Germany and resume all arms exports to Israel

The weapons sale suspension was neither just nor justified. It’s high time to repair our relationship with an ally critical to our security – and potentially even more vital in missile defence

Kafkaesque smears against Maccabi fans cannot be allowed to rest

How a US-Saudi F-35 deal could shatter Israel’s aerial dominance

Will Washington find a way to preserve the additional edge on which Israeli security policy has relied for decades?

Israel must stop its own extremists to preserve the moral high ground

When radical Jews rampage unrestrained through Palestinian towns, Jerusalem hands its critics a weapon stronger than any propaganda campaign Hamas could ever manufacture. It undermines our claims to the land

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the rise of politics of stupid

The corbynisation of the Democratic party bodes ill for the future of the city and the country at large

BBC Arabic is corroding the corporation with Middle East-imported extremism

The deeply flawed broadcasting service which its senior executive praises for being ‘almost as trusted as Al-Jazeera’ is beyond repair