Howard Jacobson

April 5, 2020

Looking for a good book to read? Here are a few of our top picks

We thought this would be a good time to recommend a few of our favourite books relevant in some way ...

October 22, 2018

Guardian cartoon smears Australian Jews as ‘apartheid enthusiasts’

the Guardian cartoonist wasn't content with merely going after the prime minister. Rather, he deemed...

September 18, 2017

BBC’s ‘Hardtalk’ revisits antisemitism and anti-Zionism

'Hardtalk' host claims antisemitism and anti-Zionism are conflated....

November 11, 2016

Weekend long read

1) At the Tower Jamie Palmer meticulously documents an important phenomenon in an article titled ...

November 6, 2016

BBC’s director of news discusses antisemitism – up to a point

On November 5th BBC World Service radio broadcast an edition of the programme ‘On Background&#...

July 4, 2016

Independent op-ed scolds Elie Wiesel for his “blind spot towards the Palestinians”.

Over at Israellycool, you can find a collection of tweets by some vile Israel haters vilifying Elie ...

April 1, 2016

Guardian editor Katharine Viner reveals* origins of paper’s anti-Israel agenda

‘The more I thought about it, the more I realized he had a point. What better target than Israel? ...

February 27, 2015

Media and Israel: Friday night long reads and listens

Adam Levick – managing editor of our sister site UK Media Watch (formerly CiF Watch) – recen...

January 18, 2015

Howard Jacobson examines the fanaticism of Glenn Greenwald

Those who have followed our posts fisking the extremist commentary of former Guardian journalist Gl...

September 22, 2014

Former Editor of The Indepedent: Israeli 'expansionism' radicalises Muslims

Simon Kelner was Editor of The Independent between 1998 and 2011, and currently writes a column for ...