Who speaks for Britain's Jews?
While many, perhaps most, Jews globally do feel some sense of identification with the Israeli-Jewish nation (if not the nation-state of Israel itself), and while many Jews are understandably a great deal more sensitive to the threat posed by Hamas' anti-Semitic project than many on the British left, it is by no means the case that world Jewry is united in support for the colonialist adventures of the Israeli government in the occupied territories. The “Israel solidarity rallies” orgainsed by the Board of Deputies of British Jews (the most significant and influential communalist organisation...