HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
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Words as weapons, from ‘sexual harassment’ to ‘Karens’
Decades after Dale Spender’s groundbreaking work on how language embeds male dominance, the struggle to reshape words that accurately reflect women’s experiences remains both vital and unfinished, writes JULIA BARD
LANGUAGE BARRIER: Princess Margaret meeting pop group The Beatles at the 1963 Royal Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre on November 4 1963
CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
THIRTY-NINE years ago, when the Jewish Chronicle was still recognisable as a newspaper, my partner and I sent a notice to the Social and Personal column announcing the birth of our twin sons.
The JC was happy to include our announcement, they said, but would need to edit our names, changing Julia Bard and David Rosenberg to David and Julia Bard-Rosenberg. We protested. They insisted. It was “policy.”
Couples with children, it seemed, had to have the same surname in case their readers suspected, God forbid, that they weren’t married. We were, as it happens (which is another story), and I kept my name.
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