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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about the need for Israeli troops to remain in the Philadelphi Corridor during a Hebrew press conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Why did a British Jewish newspaper publish fake Israeli intelligence?

Israel’s army suspects fabrications published in the Jewish Chronicle were part of a pro-Bibi influence campaign, while the article’s author is not as he claims.

By Ben Reiff September 11, 2024

Jews march within a large rally for a ceasefire in Gaza in central London, November 11, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)

A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London

While antisemitism in the U.K. has certainly risen, politicians and the media are deliberately inflaming sensationalist narratives for a repressive agenda.

By Ben Reiff March 13, 2024

Rabbi Leo Dee at the funeral of his daughters Maia and Rina at the Gush Etzion Regional Cemetery in Kfar Etzion on April 9, 2023. The sisters were killed in a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley; their mother, Lucy, later died of her wounds sustained in the same attack. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

A British-Israeli tragedy, born out of the occupation

To omit the violent context in which the Dee family killings occurred is to condemn countless more Palestinians and Israelis to the same fate.

By Ben Reiff April 11, 2023

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Pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protesters face off as thousands march in the streets of London against the celebration of the 100th anniversary for the Balfour Declaration, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joining the event, November 4, 2017. (Ahmad Al-Bazz/Activestills)

Inventing the new antisemitism

Israel and its acolytes have long pushed the agenda that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Jewish racism. A new book shows how this endeavor came at the expense of Palestinians and diaspora Jews alike.

By Em Hilton January 16, 2023

Illustrative photo of students completing assignments in a classroom. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

How British pro-Israel groups are rewriting Middle East history textbooks

Top UK publishing company withdraws new school books after study finds that the revised materials are ‘emphatically pro-Israel.’

By Aron Keller July 16, 2021

Progressive British Jewish group Na'amod project messages against Israel's plans to annex parts of the West Bank on Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, July 15, 2020. (Courtesy of Na'amod)

British Jews must take the anti-occupation fight to our leaders

If mainstream representatives of British Jewry will not demand consequences for Israel's policies, a new generation of activists will speak for themselves.

By Daniel Lubin and Zac Lewis July 22, 2020

Illustrative photo of pro-Palestine protesters in London, June 10, 2018. (Alisdare Hickson/ CC BY-SA 2.0)

New anti-Semitism definition denies Palestinians’ right to challenge oppression

Those attacking the UK Labour party for its newly adopted definition of anti-Semitism are contributing to the silencing of Palestinian voices, the potential criminalization of their struggle against racist Israeli policies, and the negation of their demands for freedom and equality. By Laila Naheel and Hussein Samih A furor over a newly adopted definition of…

By +972 Magazine July 26, 2018

Holocaust shirt Exeter University

Anti-Semitic, white supremacist slogans at Exeter University event

Even the most off-hand displays of white supremacism and anti-Semitism — perhaps especially off-hand, “normalized” displays — are not only deplorable in their own right, but directly affect conversation on racism, anti-Semitism and Israel-Palestine. Students attending an off-campus Exeter University party on Tuesday were seen sporting t-shirts with anti-Semitic and white supremacist slogans, +972 has learned. Reports of…

By Dimi Reider September 21, 2016

College in Ariel, West Bank (Wikimedia CC BY SA 3.0)

Israeli minister aptly compares Ariel settlement with Falklands

Last Tuesday, it became official: the IDF (following approval from Defense Minister Barak) recognized the academic center in the settlement of Ariel as a full-fledged university. International condemnation soon followed. A UK minister, for instance, expressed disappointment regarding Israel’s decision, and labeled it an obstacle to peace. In response, Israeli Education Minister Gideon Saar (Likud)…

By Roi Maor December 29, 2012

UK government’s strange double-take on Palestinian activists

The UK Minister for Middle East Alistair Burt (not to be confused with the actual Foreign Secretary, William Hague) has been visiting Israel and the West Bank last week. As part of his visit, he was taken to the hotspot of the fiercest clashes between Palestinians and the army in these post-Intifada days, Nabi Saleh.…

By Dimi Reider July 2, 2011

Tallit and Kippa from a Glasgow synagogue, 2007 (Photo: Jimmy MacDonald/flickr)

Orthodox Jewish, British, Pro-Israel, Pro-peace

Last week I met and spoke to a small group of Orthodox Jews in London, about Israeli political and social developments. I expected a challenging crowd, although the meeting’s organizer Hannah Weisfeld – who is working tirelessly to start an organization inspired by J Street in the UK – assured me that the audience was broadly…

By Dahlia Scheindlin March 22, 2011

British parliament debates Israeli military tribunals

The British Labour party is now debating what the Israeli labor party refuses to acknowledge, the horrific treatment of Palestinians in Israeli military courts. I have covered the military court system extensively on this website in relation to the repression of the Palestinian popular unarmed struggle. Amira Hass’s article in today’s Haaretz points to positive…

By Joseph Dana December 13, 2010

Stop the press! We know the dissidents’ wish list!

Ardoyne Riot. Credit: Belfastgonzo, Flickr The Observer leads today with one of the weirdest stories I ever read: Irish terror groups target Conservative party conference in Birmingham Irish republican dissident groups are targeting the Conservative party conference this autumn, raising fears of a repeat of the 1984 Brighton attack that nearly killed the then prime…

By Dimi Reider August 22, 2010