I am on my travels this week and am currently in London, where I took part in the “Israel and Us” event on Monday evening organised by the Jewish Chronicle. Novelist Howard Jacobson, journalist Tanya Gold, Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland and I discussed before a capacity audience the shattering impact of the Hamas pogrom in Israel and the implications for Jews in Britain of these unthinkable atrocities and the war that has followed. I hope to post up footage of the event when it becomes available.
Over the next few days, I’ll be speaking in New Orleans and Dallas before returning via London to Israel. I will not be speaking anywhere else on this trip as I am anxious to get back to Israel. Since it is now in a war for its existence and the lives of its people against a barbaric and genocidal enemy, and despite all the perils that brings to the entire population, it’s where I feel I should be.
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How Britain lost itself
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