How Italy became the dark heart of European Israel-hate

Anti-Zionism now permeates all levels of Italian society, says an American-Israeli academic living in Naples who has faced relentless prejudice

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