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Report: British Jews Call Bullshit on Met’s Palestine March Ban

Rivkah Brown

Over 720 British Jews, including prominent human rights lawyers and academics, have signed a statement slamming the Met’s ban on an upcoming Palestine demonstration over supposed synagogue disruption. Union leaders, MPs and cultural figures have joined them. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Long Read: The Chief Rabbi Has Always Been a Servant of Empire

Joseph Finlay

Ephraim Mirvis’s comments about Israel have shocked many who think of the chief rabbi as an apolitical office. That’s never been the case, writes Joseph Finlay.

GE2019: Who Gets to Speak for British Jews? How the Myth of ‘the Jewish Community’ Marginalises Dissent

Jo Sutton-Klein

When the Chief Rabbi or the Jewish Chronicle claims to speak on behalf of "the Jewish community" they do not include all Jews, just the ones whose Jewishness the establishment wants to validate, argues Jo Sutton-Klein.

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