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Simon Kupfer

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The United States is Israel’s useful idiot

The United States is Israel’s useful idiot

There is a very particular sort of cognitive dissonance that only money can clearly produce. In the weeks and months following 7 October 2023,...

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Simon Kupfer

Meet the people between the river and the sea

Meet the people between the river and the sea

There is a phrase that has become almost a battle cry among the far-left anti-Israel base. You have heard it on the street at protests and read it on...

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Britain is failing its Jewish communities – again

In the early hours of Monday morning, four ambulances belonging to Hatzalah – the volunteer Jewish emergency service that provides medical care to...

23.03.2026 10

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Meir stepped down – why can’t Netanyahu?

What the surface comparison between Golda Meir and Benjamin Netanyahu misses is that the failures itself, while separated by half a century, share...

19.03.2026 40

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Simon Kupfer

What a post-Islamic Republic Iran might mean for Israel

In the early days of 1979, Israeli diplomats in Tehran watched as crowds gathered outside of their embassy gates. For decades, they had lived quietly...

09.03.2026 60

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Simon Kupfer

Why Jews ought to stop fighting antisemitism

The Jewish political instinct since emancipation has been a defensive one. The issue here, however, is that this instinct no longer serves Jews. Last...

05.03.2026 50

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Genocide cannot become a political slogan

Last week, Zack Polanski stood in front of a crowd of several hundred British sixth-form students and declared to much applause, ‘End the genocide...

03.03.2026 30

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Simon Kupfer

To pardon Netanyahu is to surrender Israel to Trump

04.12.2025 30

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Simon Kupfer

The U.K.'s Ultimatum to Israel on Palestine Is Ill-timed and Morally Incoherent

21.08.2025 30

Haaretz

Simon Kupfer

Antisemitism is back in British academia

28.07.2025 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Simon Kupfer

The NEU has a blind spot for Antisemitism

16.04.2025 60

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Simon Kupfer

The six political fires that could sink Netanyahu

31.03.2025 20

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Simon Kupfer

Ben Gvir’s return has red flags in all the wrong places

20.03.2025 40

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Simon Kupfer

When Arabs kill Arabs (vs. when Israel kills terrorists)

19.03.2025 50

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Simon Kupfer

Between Diplomacy and Desperation

16.03.2025 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Simon Kupfer