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Josh Glancy
Josh Glancy
Josh (right) with a cousin in Eilat in the early 2000s.
May 20, 2025, 9:19 am
OPINION: Eilat 2001: Innocence on the edge of a storm
Josh Glancy looks back to when Jewish Londoners relaxed in paradise, oblivious to a darkening future just beyond the desert hills
By Josh Glancy
Muslim and Jewish leaders came together in Feburary to sign accords –a first step towards healing the deep wounds of division
April 9, 2025, 10:57 am
OPINION: Jewish-Muslim relationships have been torched. How do we put out the fire?
Gaza has exposed painful truths. But amid rising tensions, the path forward lies in refusing to abandon dialogue – even when it seems futile and fraught
By Josh Glancy
Reunited: Former hostages with their families.
March 4, 2025, 10:35 am
OPINON: Hooked on hope: the joy and pain of watching hostage reunions
Josh Glancy on witnessing unfiltered glimpses of Jewish unity and survival. But amid the joy, a surprising emotion lingers: envy
By Josh Glancy
Israeli soldiers operating in Gaza, July 2024. Credit: IDF
February 6, 2025, 10:17 am
OPINION: JOSH GLANCY – Questioning Israel isn’t betrayal. Quite the opposite
Sixteen months after Hamas’ attack on southern Israel and everything that has followed, here are four tough questions on my mind
By Josh Glancy
Members of the Jewish community gather to commemorate the hostages taken in the October 7 Hamas attacks, during a rally to call for their release, at St Johns Wood United Synagogue
October 23, 2024, 11:18 am
OPINION: JOSH GLANCY – 7 October planted the Israeli flag in our houses of prayer
This war has, I sense, permanently reshaped the identity of British Jews in ways we are only beginning to comprehend
By Josh Glancy
Sadiq Khan joins communal leaders, politicians and TFL officials at launch of 310 service
October 1, 2024, 8:22 am
OPINION – JOSH GLANCY: A bus ride of reflection through my north London heartland
A new public transport route designed for safety in uncertain times speaks to a creeping sense of domestic unease.
By Josh Glancy
Clive Lewis, right, on BBC Politics Live
August 14, 2024, 3:07 pm
OPINION: Attempt to blame ‘Juwes’ for every ill is telling
'Modern progressivism often makes the mistake of wrapping everything up into a single omnicause: trans rights are climate rights are Palestinian rights are human rights. It’s a narrow and reductive way of seeing the world that often detracts from the individual causes'
By Josh Glancy
May 15, 2024, 9:46 am
OPINION: Holding on in this mysterious ride is our beautiful, terrible destiny
Watching Israel’s Eurovision entry was to witness the immense burden of Jewish history on the shoulders of one courageous young woman
By Josh Glancy
Gideon Falter and police officer exchange words at April 13 demo
April 30, 2024, 9:23 am
OPINION: Lessons learned from the Corbyn wars have hardened into a playbook
The art of Anglo-Jewish diplomacy should be about more than scoring partisan headlines and dunking on the tiresome Owen Jones. The loudest voices aren't always the wisest
By Josh Glancy
March 13, 2024, 6:43 pm
OPINION: Unlike Jonathan Glazer I see two sides to this
Josh Glancy considers the social cost and professional implications of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
By Josh Glancy
Douglas Murray, the British author, journalist, and political commentator.
February 21, 2024, 2:40 pm
OPINION: Should Jews be turning towards Douglas Murray?
Jews who laud the author and broadcaster's rousing soliloquies on the Israel-Hamas war should also be aware of his broader political outlook, writes Josh Glancy.
By Josh Glancy
An antisemitism protest march in November. Credit: Guy Bell/Alamy Live News
January 10, 2024, 6:46 pm
OPINION: Is our British Eden becoming a more unwelcoming terrain?
This country has never been fertile soil for antisemitism. But, in the wake of the Gaza war, is Britain slowly starting to shed its benevolence? Josh Glancy notices some troubling signs.
By Josh Glancy
December 8, 2023, 5:11 pm
OPINION: Josh Glancy on how the October pogrom knocked Baddiel off his fence
The massacre showed British Jews that, like it or not, our lives are inextricably linked to Israel's
By Josh Glancy
Rally in Trafalgar Square, calling for the release of Israeli hostages taken into Gaza. © Tayfun Salci/ZUMA
November 1, 2023, 8:29 pm
OPINION: This is a time to wear your Jewish identity with pride
In these traumatic moments, it is worth reminding ourselves what Britain is and why we live here, writes Josh Glancy
By Josh Glancy
Media gather outside the BBC headquarters
October 25, 2023, 7:18 pm
OPINION: Yes, we’re angry at the BBC but now is a time for rational heads
'This is a time of testing. We must try to keep perspective because blind fury won't help anyone', writes Sunday Times news review editor Josh Glancy in his debut column for Jewish News
By Josh Glancy
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