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The troubling truth is that anti-Semitism in Britain is alive and well
Growing up as a Jew in England, I’ve always felt proud of my heritage. The ugly spectre of anti-Semitism seemed…
What’s more disturbing than a group of discredited old Nazis? The Green Party
Yesterday’s Mail on Sunday had an interesting account of a meeting in London of Nazis, neo-Nazis, British National Party types and anti—Semites…
Marine Le Pen is now willing to sacrifice her father in order to defend French Jews
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French Front National, really is determined to muzzle her father Jean-Marie Le Pen once…
Why wasn’t the head of Hamas properly cross-examined during his BBC interview?
When journalists have the much sought after opportunity to interview the heads of states and organisations with appalling human rights…
Muslims, Jews and Christians use identical twins to ‘prove’ homosexuality isn’t genetic
The subject of identical twins has been on my mind ever since I read a magnificently creepy thriller called Ice…
Marine Le Pen’s rhetoric is convincing French Jews to trust the Front National
A report in today’s Times suggests that French Jews are ready to discard their long-standing distrust for the Far Right and…
Clash of the Titans: Rod Liddle calls Piers Morgan a halfwit
Piers Morgan’s claim in the Daily Mail that the Prime Minister of Israel’s reaction to the terror attacks in Denmark…
Israel has become a life-insurance policy for many British Jews
Weekends are quality time in the Alderman household. On Saturday evenings, following the termination of the Sabbath, my wife and…
Adolf Eichmann hoped his ‘Arab friends’ would continue his battle against the Jews
Over Christmas I finally got around to reading Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth. I cannot recommend this book –…
French secularism is starting to feel the strain
France is to institute something called a National Secularity Day, which will happen on 9th December every year, when French…
Here’s how politicians can convince British Jews that they have a future in the UK
A recent study has suggested that over half of Britain’s Jews feel they have no future in the UK. At…
Ukip’s unsavoury Polish ally in the European Parliament
One of the best arguments against European political integration is the people with whom British political parties end up allied…
‘Jews Got Money’ – challenging anti-Semitism and a Jewish taboo
The other day someone tweeted at me the words ‘J£w$ Got Mon€¥’. And I was just about to tweet back:…
Is it really imaginable that the British people could rise up against the Jews?
Howard Jacobsen’s J has been shortlisted for the 2014 Booker Prize today: At first sight, J represents a significant departure for Howard Jacobson. It’s…
Watch: Douglas Murray and Ben Soffa from Palestinian Solidarity Campaign discuss anti-Semitism
In this week’s Spectator, Melanie Phillips suggests that anti-Semitism is on the rise, fueled by the events in the Middle…
Denmark’s ban on ritual slaughter is not kosher
Fey metropolitan ponce that am I, I love nothing better than curling up on the sofa with my partner to…
Who cares about Israel and Palestine?
The thing that most surprised me about Scarlett Johansson being asked to cut ties with an Israeli company she was brand…
George Galloway blames Israel for the use of chemical weapons in Syria
Say this for George Galloway: every time you think he cannot sink any lower he finds new ways to surprise…
Taking stock of politics after the conferences
Party conference season is over and it all felt very mid-term. It’s always best not to be swept away by…
Howard Jacobson interview
While Howard Jacobson’s prose works are renowned for their wit, energy, and self-deprecating, priapic jokes, his latest book, Zoo Time,…
Anti-Semitism, Islamism and Islam
My blog on last week’s bombing in Bulgaria and convictions in Manchester provoked a response from my colleague Martin Bright…
Anti-Semitism: no longer big news
My fellow Spectator blogger Douglas Murray wrote a powerful post yesterday. Like him, I was disturbed by the way the…
An ideological hatred
Two events this week have highlighted, from very different places, an identical problem. In Bulgaria on Wednesday a bomb was…
A shared hobby
It’s always nice when a married couple are able to share a hobby – even if it is, in the…
The Gazan double standard
The journalist Tom Gross notes a story that you may have missed. One hundred and twenty families in Gaza have…
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