Anti-Semitism
Bisexuality is now everywhere (and nowhere)
I’m not aware of knowing many bisexual people. Or indeed, off the top of my head, any bisexual people. Which…
Censoring Jews
The attempt to ban Jewish men from seeing ‘The Gift of Fire’ sets a very dangerous precedent
His dark materials
Will Gore talks to the playwright who has brought Jimmy Savile’s crimes to the stage
Dedicated follower of fascism?
The ‘revelations’, 50 years after he drowned, that Le Corbusier was a ‘fascist’ and an anti-Semite are neither fresh nor…
The devil’s devoted disciple
It is ironic that this weighty biography of Hitler’s evil genius of a propaganda minister is published on the day…
Jews against Miliband
Labour’s leader would be the first Jewish prime minister since Disraeli – so how has he alienated so many Jewish voters?
Villains of the gospels
Peter Stanford is a writer on religious and ethical matters. He was for four years editor of the Catholic Herald.…
‘You are always close to me’
Hitler’s adoring notes to Unity Mitford – and her family’s campaign to stop my book
The zealotry of anti-zealots is alarming me
Something dangerous is brewing beneath the surface in our country, and it worries me that warning lights are not flashing…
Diary
Last week I went to the exhilarating English National Opera production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers — five hours of wonderful…
It’s not Netanyahu’s fault that Jews in Europe are afraid
Have you seen the prices for houses in Israel? Astronomical, mate. You wouldn’t believe it. An arid and perpetually embattled…
A heterodox understanding of Jesus
When James Carroll was a boy, lying on the floor watching television, he would glance up at his mother and…
Dirty dancing
Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert is still tarnished by its Nazi origins, says Norman Lebrecht
Conversion experience
Reckoning with my stepson’s turn to radical Islam
He’s not joking
At first sight, J — which has beenshortlisted for the Man Booker Prize — represents a significant departure for Howard…
Vienna without the Austrians
Fischer’s is Austria made safe for liberals, gays, Jews and other Untermenschen riffraff, because it is a restaurant, not a…
What you can’t say about anti-Semitic attacks
I was attacked by a swan the other day, as I walked along the bank of the River Stour in…
Diary
Wellington, Ontario A British visitor to this village might be disoriented by the flags. They look almost exactly like the…
Stand up for Britain’s Jews
What our political leaders would say if they really cared about halting anti-Semitic attacks
Taking no prisoners
The life of Kaiser Wilhelm II is also a guide to how to ruin a country, says Philip Mansel
I love Israel, so I’m allowed at least one bad joke about it
I expect all of us have said something we regret at one time or another, but not everyone does so…
Absent friends
Israelis’ theories on why it’s fashionable for the West to despise them
A romantic dream
‘On the night of 15 April 1897, a small, elegant steamer is en route from Egypt’s Port Said to Jaffa.’…
Getting Nixon taped
Simpsons star Harry Shearer on what it takes to play the president
The first cut
The thinking of those who seek to ban circumcision is dreary, backwards – and often anti-Semitic
