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Peter Gabriel at the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards at The Brewery, London, 2007. Photo by Brian Ledgard, Wikimedia.
David Hirsh and I have been reading, researching, writing and politically organising to counter left antisemitism for around half a century. We have each created an intellectual institution to embed ...
Sam Shube resides in a Kibbutz on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip. He argues US sanctions on violent, right-wing military units were an opportunity to draw the line between armed agents of a ...
The 'Women Wage Peace' movement take part in a march in support of peace in Jerusalem, 19 October 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush, Flash90.
Chairwoman of the Status of Women Committee MK Aliza Lavie attends a ‘status of Women’ meeting, 3 September 2014. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton. Flash90.
Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker explain the rationale behind their newly launched London Initiative, which aims to reframe the Israel-Diaspora relationship through support for liberal forces in ...
Legal scholar Or Bassok takes a nuanced look at the Israeli Supreme Court’s ongoing battle with the Netanyahu government and its Justice Minister, Yariv Levin. Why, Bassok asks, has the court taken ...
Since 2000 the city of Sderot has been a target of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. British academic Dr Alan Craig visited its Media Centre and heard a message of civilian suffering and ...
In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, ‘Progressive except for Palestine,’ aimed at progressives who do not support fundamentalist calls for the ...
Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald Trump’s election victory by the most messianic, annexationist ...
Oliver Sears explores Holocaust memorialisation through the prism of his own remarkable and tragic family history. How best, he asks, do we honour and preserve history, in the 21st century? Yom ...
The members of the Royal Commission photographed in the garden of the King David Hotel immediately after their first official sitting, 11 November 1936. Third left is Lord Peel, chairman of the ...