Richard Ferrer
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EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet misled over Gaza conflict documentary
The actress, who narrates new film about deaths of Gazan children during last May’s conflict with Israel, tells Jewish News she was not told it was a ‘pro-resistance’ project. → Read More
I was counting my sins in a synagogue during the Halle attack. It feels like I was at the scene of the crime
I’m not religious, but I still went to synagogue yesterday for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This I did for two reasons: to keep my dad company (my father who art in Streatham, not my father who art in heaven) and because I like the festival’s self-improvement vibe – spending one day a year thinking about the bad things you’ve done and trying to do better. → Read More
The sinister truth about Labour's antisemitism crisis – absolutely nothing is more important than The Project
For 100 years the Labour Party was the broadest church in politics. That all changed the moment it passed into the tender loving care of Team Corbyn. Suddenly, faster than Margaret Beckett could say “let’s put Jeremy on the leadership ballot to broaden the debate”, it was bludgeoned into a groupthink mentality that would have Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and even Clement → Read More
Chelsea visit Auschwitz to join March of the Living with a proud purpose
On the coach to Auschwitz, former Chelsea manager Avram Grant tells me what can fairly be described as a Holocaust joke. His sister and late father Meir, who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of the Nazis, were at the 2008 Champions League final in Moscow to see Avram’s Chelsea play Manchester United. The game went to penalties and a John Terry miss cruelly lost the → Read More
Jeremy Corbyn's contempt for Israel inspires Jew hatred in the Labour movement
Rather than label a Jew-hater a Jew-hater, he speaks in broad terms about "racism being unacceptable". → Read More
Banning Israel boycotts is a necessary evil to stop Jew-baiting in the UK
It is becoming intolerable for British Jews, despite the fact the UK relies on Israel for trade and NHS drugs. → Read More
Holocaust Memorial Day 2016: Britain had its own Schindler
669 children were given a second life by Nicholas Winton - 6,000 people are alive today due to his compassion. → Read More
Mein Kampf: How to read Adolf Hitler's psychotic Nazi 'bible' in today's troubled Europe
The new sold out critical version in Germany is needed to confront race hate and stop the rise of far right. → Read More
Bergen-Belsen 70 years after the liberation: the final resting place of Anne Frank and 70,000 others
So here I am again, moping around another Nazi concentration camp. Why do I keep taking these hellish trips? To Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Plaszów and today Bergen-Belsen, as part of a UK delegation marking the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation by the British army. → Read More
I'm a British Jew – and wouldn't dream of following Netanyahu's advice to flee for Israel
In a few weeks’ time, during the festival of Passover, Jews worldwide will recite the words, “Next year in Jerusalem” – expressing an ancient ambition that every Jew might one day return (note my Dr Evil finger quotes around the following word…) “home”. → Read More
Are these the darkest days for Europe’s Jews since the Holocaust?
Today French Jews live in fear. The day after Yohan Cohen, Yoav Hattab, Philipe Braham and Francois-Michel Saada were slaughtered while doing their Shabbat shopping, Paris’ synagogues were half empty. Many congregants were too scared to show up. This week, some kosher delis and restaurants in the city’s Jewish quarter remain closed while those open are unusually empty. → Read More
We ignore the new anti-Semitism taking hold at our peril
The oldest hatred, this time cloaked as legitimate concern for Gaza, has once again cast its ominous shadow across Europe. → Read More
Richard Ferrer: The truth about my 'attempt to entrap Muslims'
This week I became the story. I was called a “slimy Jew”, a “rabid zionist” and “filthy racist scum”. → Read More
I’m not a racist, but sometimes I think like one
I was on the London Underground last week when a woman got on at Archway station. She walked through the carriage, placing packets of tissues on the seats between passengers, with a note that read: “I’m a homeless mother of two children and need to support myself.” → Read More
The release of The Book Thief marks another step in cinema taking a more rounded view of World War Two
The Book Thief is the latest in a new genre of films showing the conflict from a German point of view. Have we reached a watershed moment in our ability to recognise – even empathise – with victims on both sides? → Read More
Holocaust Memorial Day is as much about the future as the past
Last week a Conservative Party investigation found MP Aidan Burley had “caused deep offence” by organising a Nazi-themed stag party and buying an SS uniform for the groom. Members of the group reportedly chanted: “Mein Fuhrer”, “Himmler” and “Eichmann” and toasted the Third Reich. → Read More