Where free speech ends and race hate begins
The eternal struggle between satire and censorship is a beautiful thing, but nobody has the right to provoke hatred, says Richard Ferrer, Editor of the Jewish News
- 7 February 2014
Jews on the Left take the dumb side
In a piece on the Left which is sure to stir the pot, Steve Apfel wonders aloud on how and why some Jewish Leftists adopt a position on Israel that, for all the world, could be seen as quintessentially dumb!
- 5 February 2014
Civilized Holocaust denial
Denying the Holocaust doesn't necessarily mean baldly saying it didn't happen. Denial can be accomplished by false parallel, and often is. Indeed, the whole shoddy business can be made to look quite "civilised"
- 28 January 2014
The Economist flirts with anti-Semitism? Or is this love?
What in heaven's name is the Economist playing at? It gets closer to the the Guardian all the time. Its cartoon (see below) is shocking bigotry, nothing more and nothing less
- 19 January 2014
An Impossible standard: Anti-Semitic wolves and Israel
Who could dismiss the argument that if someone wants Jews to die, there’s no question: he has to be anti-Semitic? But they no longer dress up like Reinhard Heydrich (pictured)
- 6 January 2014
How Nelson Mandela helped me fight anti-Israel media
The moral authority of a great man like Mandela is not always contained in landmark speeches. Sometimes a few short words of encouragement can go a long way, as this South African writer remembers from personal experience
- 8 December 2013
Christianity is based on love; but sometimes hate prevails
Christianity is based on love for our fellow men and women. But there are churches which are, these days (again), locked inside a global ideology of pure hate against a state which just happens to be Jewish
- 8 November 2013
Netanyahu, Syria and the Spanish Civil War
As the UN and the US cosy up to Iran and allow Assad to stay in power, Israel’s leader will go his own way to save his country
- 7 November 2013
Anti-Semitism in Ukraine, and beyond
Ukraine is cause for great concern. But it's not just there. A survey from nine European countries shows that European Jews perceive and are personally experiencing an increase in antisemitism
- 3 November 2013
Anti-Semitism in Hungary, past and present
Hungary has one of the biggest per capita Jewish populations in Europe. But the rising popularity of neo-Nazi extremists is raising fears in a country with a terrible record during the Holocaust
- 29 October 2013
Oh dear. Son of Guardian (The Independent) gets all fisky fisky about Robert Fisk and the Jews
The Independent (laughable name, we know) is a very poor UK leftist relation to the Guardian. Talk about defensive over Israel and anti-Semitism...
- 8 October 2013
Call Israel what you like, but don't diminish the Holocaust
Israel's critics often complain that they're shut down as anti-Semites. Maybe that's because so many of them truly are?
- 12 July 2013
Hello, I'm a little Palestinian girl: Jews are "filth"
These are children. They don't know what they are saying. But the Palestinian Authority does know what they are saying. And they should pay a price for this
- 8 July 2013
Palestinian TV broadcasts little girls calling Jews "barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs"
Congressional leaders say aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) should be tied to the PA's willingness to stamp out anti-Semitism
- 8 July 2013
Return of the yellow star
In the post-Holocaust era it is infra dig to hate Jews, publicly at least. Hence the transmogrification from Jew to Zionist
- 28 June 2013
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