Stephen Oryszczuk

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Jun 26, 2018, 1:07 PM

Ehud, I’d have forgiven you for your sins if you’d made peace

But he’s a crook. That’s what I kept thinking during my 90-minute interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who was jailed for fraud and bribery and released from prison a year ago. But you’re a crook, I thought, as he told me how...

Aug 31, 2017, 11:53 AM

Should I be sent to the stocks or allowed to speak my mind?

Where do you draw the line? Until what point do you let someone speak because of their freedom to do so, and beyond what point does it – should it – become an offence? With a resurgent white supremacist movement spreading its hate beyond the...

Aug 22, 2017, 6:06 PM

Where do we draw the line with freedom of speech?

Where do you draw the line? Until what point do you let someone speak because of their freedom to do so, and beyond what point does it – should it – become an offence? With a resurgent white supremacist movement spreading its hate beyond the...

Jul 25, 2017, 11:30 AM

As the suffering gets worse, Jewish silence gets louder

At what point do the overwhelming majority of Jewish community leaders in the UK say ‘enough is enough’ when it comes to suffering in Gaza? Do they think there is any depth to which the situation there cannot sink? When does the Gaza crisis warrant attention? Or...

Feb 9, 2017, 12:52 PM

Why Jewish youngsters should know the F-word

Just as George Orwell asked in 1944, so must we now ask: What is fascism? As a British 30-something, I’ve never known it. I’ve read about it. I know anti-Semitism is often but not always a distinguishing mark. I know it thrives on economic malaise....

Nov 8, 2016, 10:52 AM

What will Trump do?

For Jews and for Israel, what President Trump does – as opposed to what he says he would do – is the billion-dollar question. Abroad, he will make a lot of noise about Iran, but he will not tear up the nuclear deal, unless there...

Aug 23, 2016, 1:08 PM

Walking in the footsteps of the innocents of Babi Yar

At the site of the atrocity, wondering if he had relatives among those massacred and those who helped massacre

May 24, 2016, 5:12 PM

The loudest parting shot Ya’alon could have fired

Parting shots are often the most accurate – and the most deadly. Do you remember Iain Duncan-Smith’s resignation letter in March? The Work and Pensions Secretary and paid-up member of the Tories’ inner circle penned it as David Cameron and George Osborne pushed their latest...

Apr 22, 2016, 12:22 PM

Israel’s latest anti-terror tactic turning fiction into fact

Has Israel just taken Britain’s Prevent strategy a stage further? Is it engaging in ‘pre-crime,’ the idea behind the Tom Cruise film Minority Report? In an interview with a journalist from The Economist, published this week, an Israeli intelligence officer has spoken about identifying future...

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Stephen Oryszczuk is the Jewish News Foreign Editor