December 27, 2009

Birds of a Feather

Daniel Machover’s CiF article of December 16th was addressed at the time on these pages. Since the...

December 25, 2009

Red Rag to a Bull

Petra Marquardt-Bigman’s excellent article on CiF recently was like the proverbial red rag waved i...

December 23, 2009

Symbolically Shameless

One may be excused for thinking that if ever there’s a wrong side on which to be on whatever issue...

December 21, 2009

Quantity Street

The comments threads on CiF often remind me of those tins of mixed chocolates one gets given at holi...

December 20, 2009

Joining the Dots

CiF Editor Brian Whitaker appears to need some help when it comes to joining the dots. In his recent...

December 20, 2009

Wilfully Blind

Naivety is inevitably forgivable; wilful blindness cannot be excused. The line between the two was c...

December 19, 2009

Darkness to Expel

Whilst lighting my Hannuka candles last week I’ve been thinking about the words of the song ‘Ban...

December 18, 2009

CiF Smoke Screen?

Any article on CiF which touches on the subject of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is bound to g...

December 12, 2009

AbuZayd Airbrushes History

Karen AbuZayd’s recent piece on CiF offered nothing new. It is in fact uncannily similar to anothe...