OSCE shocked by Lavrov's anti-Semitic remarks
The OSCE was shocked by the fact that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an attempt to discredit the President of Ukraine and his government, used one…
"Lavrov's statement about Hitler's "Jewish blood" is more than bad manners": Yermak urged Israel to react harshly
Head of the Office of the President Andrey Yermak commented on the anti-Semitic statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Sergey Lavrov personally. Russia poses an existential…
"Manifestation of the lowest form of racism": the US State Department commented on Lavrov's anti-Semitic statements
Lavrov’s statement once again proves that there is no bottom. The anti-Semitic statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about Jews, including those addressed to Ukrainian President…
Merchant of Venice for the cancel-culture era proves hectoring and dramatically deadened
How do you stage Shakespeare’s most problematic play in the cancel culture era? One solution, as proffered by the Globe, is to place trigger warnings – “This…
Howard Jacobson: ‘A male writer is not obliged to like women’
In 1965 he sailed to Australia with his first wife, Barbara, to teach English literature. All the self-consciousness he’d felt at Cambridge, being Jewish, being proletarian, slipped…
The horror of Zoombombing and how it’s pushing Jewish life underground
But when Jews and other minority groups are targeted, it is with the specific intention of causing them harm, he says. “These people are trying to hurt…
Watch: Man shouts ‘heil Hitler’ and makes ‘Nazi salute’ at Jewish mother and children
A mother and two small children had anti-Semitic abuse shouted at them followed by a “Nazi salute”, with police now launching an investigation. The incident in Stamford…
Blackwell’s book advert called notorious anti-Semitic forgery ‘interesting’ and ‘possibly genuine’
Following pressure from the Jewish community, the bookseller changed the synopsis on its website from saying: “We neither support nor deny its message, we simply make it…
Graphic violence, Zionist parables and no happy ending: the Bambi Disney didn’t want you to see
On the surface, Bambi has little to do with the Jewish plight. The book’s most obvious message, as in the film, is an anti-hunting one – “I…
Jewish leaders to confront BBC over ‘colossal error’ in anti-Semitic attack coverage
It said that both the investigations agency and forensic linguist concluded that the findings show that, rather than an “anti-Muslim slur” being uttered, as the BBC claimed,…
Rachel Riley deserves every bit of compensation for the hard-Left abuse she’s endured
The court case between Countdown presenter Rachel Riley and Labour’s Laura Murray told us so much about the crisis of antisemitism that poisoned the party under Jeremy…
David Baddiel: ‘It’s hard to find comedy on TV now that isn’t trying too hard to be worthy and nice’
Best thing I’ve ever written A lot of people write to me about Jews Don’t Count. It was aimed at Left-wing progressives and what is great about…
The BBC has questions to answer on anti-Semitism
If far-Right thugs attacked a bus of Muslim children in central London, I would hope and expect universal condemnation and wall-to-wall coverage, with mug shots of those…
The best new British politics books to buy for Christmas 2021
Five and a half years after the referendum, arguments about Brexit are still capable of ruining your Christmas lunch. But at least the questions it has reignited…