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The Global March to Jerusalem

The next provocative publicity stunt against Israel will be the Global March to Jerusalem. It aims to have a million people marching on Israel's borders from surrounding countries – Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt – with the aim of reaching Jerusalem.  The organisers of the march include extremists, terrorists and their supporters. What could possibly [...]

A light unto the NaNachs

Thanks to the wonderful Israelinurse for this photograph of NaNach-themed lighters. Well, those guys always had a special spark. Happy week, everyone!

Are the goyim to blame?

This is my latest column for the Jewish Chronicle Perceptions of Israel's supporters are often negative. We are thought to hold tremulous politicians in a vice-like grip, to be brainlessly unquestioning in our support of any Israeli policy, and to be guilty of other horrors, including Islamophobia. In my opinion it is some of my [...]

Renewed fighting: what you need to know

The violence started when terrorists in Gaza fired two mortar shells into Israel on Friday. As of midday Saturday, over 90 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza since Friday, injuring at least eight people, including one critically. Israel has targeted terrorists in response. Among those killed was Zuhir al-Qaisi, said to be in [...]

Ben Kaye's Marathon: Am Yisrael Chai!

One of my friends, Ben Kaye, is running the London Marathon to raise funds for a good Jewish charity. Well, I say he is one of my friends – I've actually only met him three times. But of all the people I have met only three times – a that group includes David Beckham, Tom [...]

Bibi and Daffy Duck

Oh, the duck!

Guest post: My Thoughts On Jenny Tonge

This is a guest post from Ed Fordham I still remember the day in 2009 when our canvass team came back from a night out on the doorsteps and asked me: "Who is Jenny Tonge? We have just been canvassing and had the most awful time over this person who apparently is a Liberal Democrat…" [...]

Chag Purim Sameach

I remember being in Tel Aviv during the run-up to Purim in 2010. There were quite some sights in and around the Dizengoff Center, I can tell you. A thought: as some Jewish people get uncharacteristically drunk on Purim, should antisemites have a special day on which they get uncharacteristically sober? Have a good one, [...]

My five authorial highlights

It is World Book Day today. To mark it, I've chosen five highlights of my five years as a full-time author. 5) 'And you're quite good at scoring goals…' When I was a full-time football magazine journalist in the late 1990s I interviewed over 100 footballers, but I never got to interview one of my [...]

As if the whole creation was praying…

"When dawn came, the skies were clear, the trees gave off their fragrance and the earth emitted its own pleasing odor. It seemed as if the whole creation was praying: the birds were chirping overhead, the frogs were croaking in the ponds, the rooster was crowing in the yard, the water was muttering its soft [...]