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David Baddiel

'Great disgrace': High-profile British-Jewish journalists resign JC over scandal

Editor Jake Wallis Simons said he understood "why some columnists have decided to step back from the paper" and hoped that one day they would return."

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Jonathan Freedland, Hadley Freeman, David Baddiel, David Aaronovitch (illustration)
An illustrative image of a man looking up at the starry sky.

Jewish atheist David Baddiel makes a case for God

Despite professing to be a diehard atheist, the Jewish-British comedian wishes he believed in God, even though he is dead certain Hashem doesn’t exist. 

|ByTIBOR KRAUSZ
British Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden looks on, on the day of Britain's Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester, Britain, October 2, 2023.

British deputy prime minister: Activists haven’t communicated that ‘Jewish lives matter’

“I think there is lot of hate in those marches. when you have people chanting ‘jihad, jihad’ or ‘from the river to the sea,’ that is intended to send intimidation,” Dowden said.

|ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA
Smartphone with Netflix logo is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken April 19, 2022.

Big business: the monetization of antisemitism

The center for Countering Digital Hate found that "Facebook and Instagram [were] hosting dozens of accounts that sell neo-Nazi merchandise to fund far-right extremism."

|BySARA MILLER/THE MEDIA LINE

'Jews don’t count': But what if they do? - review

Jews Don’t Count is an easy read, with sizable type generously spaced between lines, but reproduced Twitter messages nearly require a magnifying glass.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023ByNEAL GENDLER
David Baddiel

Do (dead) Jews count? 2 books on Jewish survival with glaring omissions

The saddest part for me was not revisiting how Jews aren’t the flavor of the month abroad. It was the disconnect between live Jews in Israel and those who aren’t here.

MARCH 10, 2022ByPAMELA PELED
TEL AVIV’S Rabin Square is lit in American flag colors in solidarity with the victims of the attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, Oct. 2018.

BBC to produce documentary on Holocaust denial

The program will be hosted by Jewish comedian David Baddiel.

JULY 9, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A view of the Auschwitz concentration camp