Jews sans frontieres

For all interested. I have an op-ed in Electronic Intifada this weekend:                   Livni: the making of an Israeli "dove" ...

"Wall-Street" is a head of a man sunk up to his ears in banknotes. "Main-Street" is a double amputee walking on his elb...

See what you think of this. The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo . I had a little emailed discussion with the p...

This marks only the second year since 9/11 that my hometown has lit up its remaining tallest building green for Eid. Everyone remembers the...

Many thanks to Roland Rance for posting the link to this Finkelstein interview to the Just Peace UK list . I must say Finkelstein's on...

Happy Rosh Hashana, dear readers of JSF. May you all have a sweet year! I hate to spoil your holiday fun, but many leaders of the Jewish com...

This should be of interest to people in London. There's a booklaunch of a new collection of essays on Palestine in SOAS this Wednesday, ...

This is bad news. According to this Guardian report The US has supplied Israel with a powerful long-range radar system that would provide a...

Here's a review in the New York Times by Tom Segev of a book on the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by David Dalin and John Rothmann. Tom Seg...

I suppose the big news is that it appears that an extreme settler group has tried to kill Peace Now activist and Haaretz columnist Profess...

If Lev Leviev did not exist, Charles Dickens would have invented him. But as far as conjuring ugliness is concerned, Dickens is no match to ...

Alvin Ailey Dance Company went to Israel this last month , ignoring the Palestinian Boycott call. Sad as it is, the full ironies of this sto...

Eh? What? Who could say such a ludicrous, nay more, nutty thing? Yup, it's our own nutty professor, or at least he would be a nutty p...

The Israeli navy, like any navy, does bad things. Unarmed Palestinian fishermen, like all unarmed fishermen, do bad things too. So why is th...

Here's Antony Lerman in Ha'aretz complaining about the persistence and pervasiveness of the bogus allegation of antisemitism made b...

The following has been sent as an open letter to Jason Alexander, Heidi Klum, Debi Mazar, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Stone, Kiefer Sutherland, and...

I got this comment some days ago and very grateful I was too. It showed how the sheer stupidness of our own Nick Cohen has crossed the At...

It appears (or should that be disappears?) that Dr Hirsh has had a bit of a change of heart over a Canadian trade union's "solidari...

This is apposite coming hot on the heels of a post where Dr Hirsh claims that it is indicative of antisemitism in the Universities and Colle...

I kept getting interrupted trying to do a post on Dr Hirsh's beyond the call of duty defence of Israel in the face of an argument by an ...