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Feature: Andrew Feinstein Is the Left’s Anti-Keir Starmer

Rivkah Brown

A former South African MP thought his politician days were behind him – until a UK Labour leader came along who embodied everything he’d ever fought against. Rivkah Brown meets Andrew Feinstein.

guardian editor-in-chief katharine viner

Long Read: How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure

Rivkah Brown

Having started her career as an unflinchingly pro-Palestine author-activist, Guardian editor Katharine Viner has since risen to one of the most powerful positions in media. The ascent has changed her, colleagues say. Rivkah Brown reports.

A man with a bald head, beard and skullcap, wearing a suit, gives a speech behind a large union jack, with union jack bunting flying above

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.

Jewish Leadership Council members sit in Number 10 for a meeting

Opinion: If Jews Don’t Count As an Ethnic Minority, It’s Because We Haven’t Always Wanted To

Joseph Finlay

Only recently has ethnic minority status become covetable. British Jews have spent much of our history avoiding it, writes Jewish historian Joseph Finlay.

Opinion: Long-Bailey’s Sacking Shows How Antisemitism Has Been Dangerously Redefined

Barnaby Raine

On Thursday afternoon Labour leader Keir Starmer sacked the lone leftwinger in his shadow cabinet, accusing her of antisemitism. Barnaby Raine traces a recent history of how antisemitism has been redefined by liberals and the right.

Novara FM: Anti-Semitism and the Left

Eleanor Penny is joined by Rachel Shabi and Ian Saville to discuss anti-semitism on the left and the media's recent attacks on Jewdas.

It’s Not About Jackie Walker

James McAsh

Comments made about Holocaust Memorial Day by Jackie Walker, now ex-vice chair of Momentum, have once again prompted a discussion about antisemitism on the left.

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