Richard Ferrer

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

I knew it in my guts to be true, long before 7 October. Now the Chief Rabbi’s gone and said it. Out loud. In public. Good on him. If you are anti-Zionist, then yes, you are anti-Jewish. And not just a bit anti-Jewish, either. You hate – for whatever sinister motive – not just to the idea of a Jewish state but Judaism itself. The anti-Zionist movement that’s metastasised like mould across the left and much of the Muslim world is not some noble stand against colonialism. It’s grubby pound-shop Jew hate.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

Wouldn’t it be nice, just once, to have a march that wasn’t a frothing hate carnival for people who think Hamas is the Che Guevara of Gaza? A march not made up of people who, if they saw the Star of David I proudly wear around my neck, wouldn’t accuse me of supporting apartheid. But also – and here’s where I risk upsetting my own lot – a march not made up of people who think dropping 1,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas is a substitute for policy.

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

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1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

The last time Yuval Raphael attended a major music festival, she thought she would die. On the morning of 7 October 2023, the Israeli singer went from joyously dancing with friends at the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im to lying in a bomb shelter, drenched in someone else’s blood, playing dead as Hamas terrorists returned again and again to see who was still alive. The 24-year-old from Ra’anana hid beneath the bodies for eight hours as the corpses above her were repeatedly shot.

2 months ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Richard Ferrer

Music legend Graham Gouldman has revealed he was left stunned after Channel 5 News asked him to take off his yellow badge in solidarity with Israeli hostages held by Hamas — saying he would have walked out rather than take it off. The frontman for 10cc, whose timeless hits include I’m Not in Love and Dreadlock Holiday, appeared on the channel on Wednesday to discuss the band’s concert at Hampton Court in June.