New review: ‘People Without a Land’
Electronic Intifada, 8th July 2015 There are a few contradicting voices, reminders of what believers in genuine “ethical coexistence” (Omar Barghouti’s phrase) are up against. The film opens with a … Continue reading
Some ancient history on Nigel Farage, UKIP and the BNP
The Francis Wheen article reproduced below is from 1999 – which seems like a terrifyingly long time ago – and was originally published in The Guardian. It’s a reminder, whilst … Continue reading
The Boyarins on ‘the Lebensraum rhetoric on the part of mainstream Israeli politicians’
It’s my great privilege at the moment – and somewhat of an irony and cause for shame, given that the Cameron government’s efforts to destroy every remnant of a social … Continue reading
Avigdor Lieberman's supporters in London
Having been on the receiving end of the opinions some of Israel’s supporters in the UK, not a lot surprises me about the more select members of this group. This … Continue reading
Reading Chaim Potok
There is a wrenchingly powerful passage in Chaim Potok’s The Promise, in which an elderly Rabbi, a great Talmudist who has survived the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and come to … Continue reading
Sarah Irving 