Anti-Semitism
Why we must forgive Immanuel Kant his misogyny and racism
All humans are worthy of respect, he taught – except if they are black, Jewish or female. But his views were grounded in what he regarded as ‘facts’, argues Robert Wicks
‘Goy’ and ‘goyim’ are not pejorative terms
The words goy and goyim are thrown around by Jews and non-Jews to mean very different things and to convey…
Our resentment of migrants is centuries old: the Little Englanders of the Tudor era
Hostility to ‘strangers’ from France and the Low Countries exploded in riots in 1517, when Englishmen were encouraged to ‘defend their nest’ and ‘hurt and grieve aliens for the common weale’
The tragedy of Paul Celan – trapped in his own allusive poems
By his late thirties, the great poet of the Holocaust had succumbed to clinical paranoia, in which every aspect of daily life was saturated with evil significance
Revealed: the Green plot against Zack Polanski
As Keir Starmer struggles to keep his crown, another leadership battle is raging. Away from the media spotlight, there is…
I refuse to be cancelled
I have been opening a play. It is called Allegra and is about a woman who is relentlessly happy. This…
Letters: it’s hard to undo dumbing down
Tales from the City Sir: Simon Jenkins’s article on Liverpool Street Station (‘Horror storeys’, 9 May) is inaccurate, and an…
Portrait of the week: Golders Green attacked, borrowing costs soar and rat virus hits cruise ship
Home Two Jewish men aged 76 and 34 were stabbed in Golders Green, north London. Essa Suleiman, 45, a British…
Anti-Semitism is a virus – and it’s spreading
To eradicate a virus, one needs precision. The origin of the threat needs to be identified, as do the circumstances…
Keir Starmer is downplaying the Islamist threat to Jews
At Tuesday’s anti-Semitism ‘summit’ in Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer achieved a personal first. He used the word ‘Islamists’. But…
The obvious truth about anti-Semitism
There are many ways to do nothing. One is to sit on your hands; another is to call for ‘a…
Britain is facing an Islamist insurgency
The recent horrific attack in Golders Green has generated much anger and despair at this latest in a series of…
The doyen of the France’s culinary scene is unmasked
Robert Courtine, the revered food critic and Le Monde columnist for four decades, turns out to have been a devotee of Hitler and ferocious anti-Semite
The Golders Green atrocity is the final straw
It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish…
Portrait of the week: Olly Robbins is sacked, inflation rises and the Strait of Hormuz is (briefly) opened
Home Sir Keir Starmer tried to explain himself to parliament after Sir Olly Robbins was sacked as permanent under-secretary of…
Why one of Renoir’s most celebrated paintings languished unloved
Relegated to a servants’ hall soon after it was finished, the double portrait ‘Pink and Blue’ may have been caught up in a swirl of rumours about its subjects’ mother
A dying fall: The Last Movement, by Robert Seethaler, reviewed
Gustav Mahler looks back on the pleasures and pains of the past from the windblown deck of SS Amerika on his final journey across the Atlantic
The real reason the left hates Israel
‘Listen to what the man on the left of the camera has to say about Israel, the man who is…
Rise of the leftist groypers
Last month, Ana Kasparian, executive producer of the progressive YouTube channel The Young Turks (6.5 million subs), tweeted out “Hey, bitch, the…
Fractured loyalties: The Tribe, by Michael Arditti, reviewed
A powerful Jewish family flee Salonika in 1912 – only to fall apart in France on the eve of the second world war
The world destroyed by madness: Howl, by Howard Jacobson, reviewed
Apart from the atrocity of 7 October 2023 itself, it is the reaction of neighbours and even family that appals Jacobson’s protagonist in a novel that still manages to be darkly comic
Caught between Hitler and Bomber Command – the Berliners’ cruel predicament
Ordinary citizens faced two enemies in the war, and it as hard to know who was more dangerous – the Allies or their own deranged leaders
How Tucker beat Huckabee
Earlier this month, when Tucker Carlson was in Jordan interviewing Levantine Christians, the US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called out the pundit with whom…
Forgetting was the best defence for the Kindertransport refugees
Alfred and Doris Moritz remained largely silent about their persecution in Nazi Germany, having tried their best to erase the memory, according to their son Michael
The turbulent life of the Marquis de Morès – the 19th-century aristocrat turned populist thug
Soldier, duelist and frontier ranchman, the anti-Semitic adventurer brought cowboy-style politics to the streets of Paris as the Third Republic lurched from one crisis to another
