Hatred is turning me into a Jew
My name is Nick Cohen, and I think I’m turning into a Jew. Despite being called “Cohen”, I’ve never been Jewish before. It’s not simply that I am an atheist. My Jewish friends tell me that it is hard...
View ArticleAnalysis: Even the Tories do not deserve Tonge and friends
Britain lacks a true liberal party, a movement of the radical centre which is committed unequivocally to the values of the Enlightenment. Instead, it has the Liberal Democrats, whose history all but...
View ArticleTunisia, and our black and white mentality
Every morning I read The Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Independent. I stay with the Today programme until Radio 4 drives me away by insulting my intelligence with...
View ArticleWhat does Ed stand for?
In Ed Miliband, the Labour Party has its first leader from a Jewish background. "Background" is the word to remember because, as with Benjamin Disraeli, Ed Miliband's father renounced his faith. Isaac...
View ArticleDialogue with a western leftist
"You say you support the Palestinians?""Yes.""Which Palestinians?""What do you mean 'which Palestinians'? I support all Palestinians. Their oppression by Israel is the great injustice of our time....
View ArticleLabour's tasteless joke policy
I hear that at a recent meeting with Jewish leaders, Ed Miliband ran into a problem that may destroy his ambitions to become Prime Minister. Everyone was getting along famously until the Livingstone...
View ArticleLeft's Islamist fetish will end
John Staurt Mill thought that speech should always be free except when it directly incited a crime. Mill explained what he meant in On Liberty by citing the example of corn dealers, who were widely...
View ArticleThe real story today is in Syria
Even at a time of global economic crisis, and with huge events seemingly taking place every day this month, the revolution against the Syrian Baathists ought to be at the top of any editor's news list....
View ArticleReview: Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
By Howard JacobsonBloomsbury, £18.99Readers who buy Howard Jacobson because the press tells them that he is "the first comic writer to win the Booker" are likely to be confused. Not disappointed - I...
View ArticleA foul smell at Britain's unions
In a manner that ought to warm every leftish heart, Israeli trade unions emphasise that the class interests of Israeli workers transcend religious differences. The unions are supporting the great wave...
View ArticleAmbassador, how you spoil us
I struggle to believe that Ron Prosor, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, does not know that Marine Le Pen is the leader of the French National Front. He struck me as a boorish man when I met...
View ArticleAll humans have human rights
The Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour's Nation Estate is not as worthless as most agitprop. She does not scream at the audience but imagines the tiny homeland on offer to the Palestinians as a...
View ArticleNot just a problem for South Park
When I was researching You Can't Read This Book, my study of censorship, an old joke came back to me. "You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner but you can't be both".Successful censorship...
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