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Sir Mick Davis
Sir Mick Davis
April 30, 2025, 9:50 pm
OPINION: Israel’s founders would be dismissed as naive and worse by some today
Unity cannot mean an extreme minority dictating to the majority what constitutes an acceptable opinion to express, write Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker
By Sir Mick Davis and Mike Prashker
Bring Them Back. Pic: JN
October 25, 2023, 11:45 am
OPINION: The humanitarian imperative for a resolution beyond conflict for Israelis and Palestinians
Sir Mick Davis, former chair of the Jewish Leadership Council, says Hamas must of course be vanquished, but the conditions that allow terrorists to dictate the agenda must also finally be addressed
By Sir Mick Davis
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset.
July 26, 2023, 10:40 am
OPINION: Israelis are asking for our support. Will we be there for them?
If we do not want this Tisha B’Av to be another harbinger of heartbreak and destruction we need to speak up – not apologetically – but with clarity and conviction, writes Sir Mick Davis
By Sir Mick Davis
Ben Helfgott marks Yom HaShoah in Hyde Park.
June 16, 2023, 12:52 pm
OPINION: Sir Ben loved Britain, he loved life and, despite the cruelty he faced, he loved people
Sir Mick Davis reflects on his friendship with Sir Ben Helfgott, who he first met in 2014 when chairing the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission.
By Sir Mick Davis
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits Temple Mount, January 3, 2023. Credit: Twitter
January 25, 2023, 1:28 pm
OPINION: Seeing theocrats and bigots enter government is an affront to our Jewish souls
Sir Mick Davis, who voted in the recent Israeli election as a new citizen, urges the diaspora not to self-censor when it comes to opposing the country's far-right government
By Sir Mick Davis
The new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett waves during a joint photo with the new government ministers at the President's residence in Jerusalem. Photo by: JINIPIX
November 8, 2021, 1:35 pm
Sir Mick Davis: A new kind of government in Israel might just be possible
Naftali Bennett seems determined to repair Israeli politics rendered dysfunctional under Netanyahu, stating: 'There’s no Orthodox, Conservative or Reform Jew. We’re all Jews.'
By Sir Mick Davis
Former Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick (right), holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster, London, celebrating the go-ahead being given to a Holocaust memorial.
August 3, 2021, 5:03 pm
OPINION: Right place for national memorial, whatever certain type of person says
The chair of the Holocaust Memorial Commission of the UK responds to the founder of a group against the memorial who called it a 'vanity project' backed by 'a certain type of Jew'
By Sir Mick Davis
A Palestinian gestures during clashes with Israeli police at Damascus Gate on Laylat al-Qadr during the holy month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 8, 2021. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
May 17, 2021, 12:13 pm
OPINION: To fight extremism, Israel must first fix its politics
Sir Mick Davis longs for leadership that puts the country's interests above its own survival
By Sir Mick Davis
A Palestinian boy looks behind a wall separating Jewish part and Palestinian part of the West Bank. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
July 21, 2020, 1:35 pm
OPINION: Condemning the Jewish state to history would condemn the Jewish people
Sir Mick Davis roundly rejects Peter Beinart's controversial polemic, 'I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State', which advocates for one binational state for Jews and Palestinians.
By Sir Mick Davis
Sir Mick Davis
April 30, 2020, 8:50 am
OPINION – Sir Mick Davis: Israeli politics violates values of the Diaspora
One of the UK Jewish community’s biggest donors to Israel says the breakdown of its liberal democratic values is an existential challenge to relations with the diaspora
By Sir Mick Davis
Pro Israel demonstrators at the Al Quds Day Rally, July 2018
July 3, 2018, 10:40 am
OPINION – Sir Mick Davis: We’re at war with ourselves in the battle for Zionism
Former JLC chair warns diaspora discourse on Israel has never been more polarised, vicious or impoverished.
By Sir Mick Davis
Sir Mick Davis
From the WebJuly 3, 2018, 9:12 am
OPINION – Sir Mick Davis: We’re at war with ourselves in the battle for Zionism
Former JLC chair warns diaspora discourse on Israel has never been more polarised, vicious or impoverished.
By Sir Mick Davis
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