From the archive: Am I a Jew?
On 23 July 1965, the late journalist Bernard Levin wrote this celebrated piece for the New Statesman, reflecting on his…
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Zionism’s long 20th century
With the Middle East in flames, Britain’s relationship with Israel will transform again.
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What is Zionism?
Why the State of Israel is central to Jewish identity.
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How the Jewish Chronicle lost its way
Inside the fake news crisis at the community paper.
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Two weddings and a funeral forged new traditions that will in time be old
Glamour, grief and glass-smashing: my family has been through it all.
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British anti-Semitism is spiking dramatically
More instances of anti-Jewish hate were recorded in 2023 than in any other year since 1984.
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Britain’s anti-Semitism problem
How stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jews have become a part of our common culture.
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Arno J Mayer’s 20th century
The historian helped transform the writing of history – and with it our understanding of the modern world.
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The Gessen affair and Germany’s ignorance about Jews
By criticising the journalist Masha Gessen, Germany misunderstands one of its greatest thinkers, Hannah Arendt.
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The fightback against US anti-Semitism has begun
American Jews no longer believe “it can’t happen here”. It can and it has.
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Pro-Palestinian protests have been intimidating and isolating
Those closest to the conflict have greater capacity for solidarity and recognition of complexity than keyboard warriors.
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This is a time to insist on Jewishness
To abandon our identity, as left-wing Jews did in the past, would be to surrender to those who allow only…
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The left fails to appreciate competing loyalties
Cooperation between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis is the only model for a peaceful future.
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Jews can be humanists
A lot of evil is done to people because of their particular identities, but that is no reason to entrench…
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There is little tolerance in Israel for dissenting feelings
Political beliefs are one thing, but to cry for friends in Gaza or pray for all slain children is now…
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What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
Lessons of growing up black and Jewish
Many Jews of colour interpret Zionism through our experience with racism, and we recognise the supremacist logic that underpins it.
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Jews in the diaspora must resist the inhumanity being done by Israel in our name
Jewish history in the 20th century testifies that suffering is a meagre moral teacher – but we learn its lessons…
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The innocent are innocent, whichever side of the Hamas-Israel war they are on
I am an Israeli that knows you can’t defeat an ideology with brute force – there must be a better…
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Both Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity
The Israeli left’s turn to the right comes from its sense of betrayal by the world’s left – especially by…
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