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The Israel-Palestine conflict as flat-share comedy: Oslo at the Lyttleton Theatre reviewed
Oslo opened in the spring of 2016 at a modest venue in New York. It moved to Broadway and this…
Forget our misguided friendship with Saudi Arabia: Iran is our natural ally
The West’s friendship with Saudi Arabia is misguided
Journeys to Israel and self-realisation: Forest Dark reviewed
‘I frankly hate Descartes,’ states a character in Nicole Krauss’s new novel, Forest Dark: ‘The more he talks about following…
A carefully sanitised account of Palestinian resistance: Taha at the Young Vic reviewed
Shubbak, meaning ‘window’ in Arabic, is a biennial festival taking place in various venues across London. The brochure reads like…
The mystical appeal of Judaism
This extraordinary book has two main characters: Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), an early Zionist and the founder of the modern study…
Unlikely allies: Israel and the Saudis
How Israel and the Saudis found themselves on the same side
‘The Western establishment is betraying its values’: Evgeny Kissin interview
The great, enigmatic pianist has always divided critics. He talks to Damian Thompson about his heretical opinions on Horowitz, Israel and Brexit
My dinner with CIA spooks
New York Although both guilt and innocence fascinate me, I’m not so sure that there is such a thing as…
Israel is now the land of ‘Trumpportunity’
On the Israeli side of the Syrian border, near al-Quneitra, you can watch the war. From my vantage point on…
What makes a university a university?
What is a university? Sir: As a former Russell Group vice chancellor, I think that Toby Young’s appeal for more universities…
A Roman emperor’s inauguration to rival Donald Trump’s
Given that Donald Trump is not the most popular president the USA has ever seen, even among his own party,…
The hateful whispers that make me want to move from London to Tel Aviv
It’s time I left London’s anti-Semites behind
Will Donald Trump destroy America’s global role?
On foreign policy, Donald Trump will either win big or destroy decades of American doctrine
The great intellectual bromance of the last century — between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
Two brilliant psychologists in the 1970s changed our understanding about the way we think and the choices we make – with momentous consequences, says Steven Poole
Gallows humour is at its darkest in David Grossman’s latest novel
A horse walks into a bar.… David Grossman takes the opening line of an old joke for his title, which…
Here’s what happened when I was mistaken for Donald Trump
New York If only my wordsmith friend Jeremy Clarke had been with me. What fun he’d have had with…
We need another Eisenhower to bring an end to the madness in the Middle East
Sixty years ago this week all hell broke loose: Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest and put down a nationalist uprising…
I’m far too right-wing for quinoa
After the Fawlty Towers incident, I decided it was best to research the origin and extraction of all future B&B…
Why are Egyptian businessmen always falling off balconies in London?
Ashraf Marwan was an Egyptian-born businessman, a son-in-law to Nasser and a political high-flyer in the administration of Sadat, who…
Hard thinking in Jerusalem
‘Here is a story from the winter days of the end of 1959 and the beginning of 1960,’ announces the…
Let’s throw kosher to the wind... and go veggie in Israel
Julie Burchill samples the delights of Tel Aviv, Israel’s non-stop city
Is Jonathan Safran Foer having a midlife crisis?
For Jonathan Safran Foer fans and sceptics alike, Here I Am comes as a wonderful gift, a truly painful, honest…
I was in a room full of people who thought the USSR was a force for good in the world
John McTernan patiently defends Israel and nukes to Tottenham Labour party
Way to go, Jeremy Corbyn – root out those Jew-haters!
A long and arduous flight back from the Caucasus, but worth it nonetheless for the meaningful protest we had staged…
Rod Liddle: Labour’s putting me on trial for thought crime
I got an email this week, from a chap called Harry, which began as follows: ‘I am writing to inform you…
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