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May 10, 2024, 2:05 PM

BBC’s curious obsession with ‘balance’ helps Jew-hate flourish

Through its remorseless and absurd obsession with “balance,” BBC News is still helping the Jew-haters. This would, in itself, be ironic for any leftish, liberal organisation (which the BBC clearly considers itself to be) but is particularly paradoxical since it is this leftish, liberal sensibility...

Apr 25, 2024, 8:21 PM

The strange irony of Ireland’s passion for Palestine

Recent engagements on social media with Irish people (or at least, with people who have Irish names) as well as an incident in an Irish supermarket involving bull-horns and bullying, prompted me to consider the profound irony of this passionate pro-Palestine stance across Ireland. Assuming...

Apr 14, 2024, 5:31 PM

From Anatevka to Wadi Siq

A cow grazes among the ruins of Wadi Siq. (Photo taken by author).

Anatevka played on repeat in my mind as we gazed across at the ruins of Wadi Siq, as we drove through what remained of the village and as we met some of its displaced families. At the end of Fiddler on the Roof, Jews are...

Apr 13, 2024, 11:06 PM

Rockets? What rockets? How ignoring terror and threat harms us all

A few days ago, a social media post from an Israeli woman listed the rockets fired at Israel in a short period on a single day. Her post read: “Just because it’s not being reported, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.” For those under rocket-fire...

Apr 11, 2024, 10:41 PM

The real reason why Persian Jews became musicians

Why did the father of Danielle and Galeet Dardashti leave Iran? The mystery is unravelled in their six-episode JTA podcast, The Nightingale of Iran . The podcast tells the story of Iranian Jews through the experience of the Jewish Dardashti family, originally from the ghetto or mahaleh of Isfahan. They now...

Apr 3, 2024, 6:18 PM

Pictures that are worth a million words: A Londoner visits Hostages Square

Dateline: Thursday 21st March 2024 – Tel Aviv, outside the Museum of Modern Art My wife and I arrive at Ben Gurion airport in Israel on the evening of 20th March. As we walk down the familiar runway towards passport control the faces of the...

Mar 29, 2024, 5:49 AM

The risk of trans-Atlantic campus antisemitism

Photo by Zhanhui Li on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-concrete-building-1iuxWsIZ6ko

University campuses are hotbeds of fierce political debate and passionate protest; rightly so. Increasingly, though, that passion is morphing into racist hatred. Numbers of recorded incidents of campus antisemitism are still much lower in Europe than in the US, but the rest of the world...

Geoffrey Alderman

Mar 28, 2024, 5:06 PM

Open government? Forget it!

Were you invited to the recent (28 February) annual dinner of the Community Security Trust? No? Well, neither was I. But the Prime Minister was, and with good reason. Addressing the assembled multitude – which included a veritable small army of chief constables – our...

Mar 25, 2024, 6:13 PM

How a book by anti-Israel lobbyists helped turn the world against the nation

I confess I am more than a little obsessed with a book called “Publish It Not: The Middle East cover-up.” It was published in 1975 and written by the appalling, Israel-hating (possibly Jew-hating) late Labour MP Christopher Mayhew and the Times journalist and co-founder and...

Mar 11, 2024, 7:06 PM

Hollywood Jews are like turkeys for Christmas

The world has grown accustomed to the tiresome spectacle of Hollywood’s liberal luvvies using the Oscars as a platform to make political speeches – and Jonathan Glazer was unfortunately no exception. Glazer is the director of ‘ The Zone of Interest’, a German-language film about...

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