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Israeli officials may have less to fear coming to UK but uncomfortable...
Despite a change in the universal jurisdiction legislation last year, Israeli officials and military officers are still not visiting Britain for fear of arrest on war crimes charges.
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Nearly three months without food, as Israel looks away
Akram Rikhawi, one of many Palestinian political prisoners said to be held by the Israeli government, without charge and without seeing a trial, today will enter his 64th day on hunger strike. 64 days...
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Iran, Israel, Gandalf and the bomb
Sometimes fantasy makes more sense than fiction. When looking at the latest developments in the diplomatic standoff between Iran and several Western nations, the words of Gandalf in that epic Lord of...
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Note to refugees from South Sudan: Israel is for the white man
These were the astonishing words uttered by Israel's interior minister Eli Yishai in an interview recently in which he outlined the Israeli government's view of African migrants.
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Top of the posts: The Bullingdon Club, King Kong and Parents Got Talent
The most read blogs this week, as determined by stats.
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This conflict in the Holy Land must end – for the children’s sake
The enduring fact of the failure of peace in the so-called Holy Land is a royal spring of misery from which bitter tensions flow, with mournful consequences for the entire restive middle-east region,...
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Yasser Arafat and when poison ‘kills the president’
Mouth-searing and palate-pleasing narratives about assassinations that have a cunningly secretive nature about them have become all too common in the last 50 years — and non more so than when the...
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Review of Homeland ‘State of Independence’
It may have taken until the third episode of the series, but the big news from this week’s installment of Homeland is that the jazz is back.
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Why I Am a Zionist Too
I can’t remember when I first came across Tom Doran, but it was less than a year ago. One of the best things about Twitter is that it discovers new writing talent more efficiently than any other...
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The Doran Test
To go on about it, Tom Doran’s article for Jewish Journal is good. To take one detail, I liked his summary of the formula used by the anti-left to decide its position on anything happening anywhere in...
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The Evil Review of Books
The London Review of Books pretends to be a sophisticated intellectual journal that publishes fine writing, often at some length. Which, some of the time, it does. It also publishes some appalling...
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Notes on Obama’s visit to Israel and moving towards peace
The Israeli and Palestinian territories on the West Bank are messy and confusing. This weekend I was quite taken aback when I was stopped by a defiant military security guard when crossing the green...
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Letter from Lib Dem Chief Whip to David Ward MP
Here is a copy of the letter from the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip suspending David Ward (pictured) from the Lib Dems until 13 September – that is, mostly over the recess and therefore a light...
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An Ominous Turn of the Tap
Guest post by Tom Doran Ominous news via the Daily Mail: A water company has replaced an Israeli-built meter in the home of a customer who objected to the “repression of Palestine”. Caroline and Edmond...
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Blood Libel, 2014 edition
It’s not easy being a liberal Zionist. In debate, our every utterance is attended by a meandering chain of qualifiers, squeezing us through two extremes like a fat man negotiating a rocky crevice: “No,...
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Owen Jones and the Haters of Jews
Owen Jones can rightly be described as a phenomenon. Still not even in his thirties, he has sought to remake the British left and has succeeded to an impressive extent. Without him, it’s doubtful the...
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In Praise of Judgement
Atheists of the fluffy, conciliatory variety will be delighted to hear that Richard Dawkins, scourge of Twitter and bane of believers, has discovered the joys of live-and-let-live. He might, at any...
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In Solidarity
I saw Schindler’s List again over Christmas, for the first time in some years. It’s a flawed movie – exactly how flawed is a subject deserving of its own post – but gets a lot more right than wrong and...
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God Country
I’m currently in Israel as part of a press delegation sent here by the British pro-Israel think tank BICOM (lovely people, by the way). My first day has been exhausting, and it’s not even over yet; in...
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Staying Alive
Depression Diary, Part 4 (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) I type this from the back seat of our delegation’s minibus, the laptop perched on my rucksack on my knees. I was hoping to have time to write this at...
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