Judaism and the Land

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2017: A Year of Anniversaries

One hundred and twenty years in August since Herzl opened the first Zionist congress in Basel. Seventy years in November since UN Resolution 181 was passed which proclaimed the partition of historic Palestine – one state for the Zionist Jews, the other for the Palestinian Arabs. Fifty years in June since Israel’s victory in the … Read more

Ben-Gurion’s Last Years

  Review of Avi Shilon’s Ben-Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness (Rowman and Littlefield 2016) pp.245 This latest work from Avi Shilon describes in detail Ben-Gurion’s last decade – from stepping down as prime minister in June 1963 until his death in December 1973. They were not glorious years and were peppered by … Read more

More on the Chakrabarti Report

Jeremy Corbyn’s latest gaffe — in inadvertently comparing Israel with ISIS  — diverted attention away from the Chakrabarti Inquiry’s findings into anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour party.  This not only distracted the public gaze away from Shami Chakrabarti’s determined attempt to plough a rational course through the minefield of defining anti-Semitic innuendo, but also concealed the … Read more