Anti-Zionists cannot think they have a monopoly on compassion
To ask for a more complex reading of the situation is not to exonerate Israel
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Howard Jacobson
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- Celebrated novelist Howard Jacobson's most recent novel is Man Booker-nominated 'J'. He has also written 'The Finkler Question', published to great acclaim in 2010. An acerbic critic and broadcaster with a passion for literature and art, he is known for his ebullient wit.
I can’t get ‘The Affair’ and its earworm theme tune out of my head
The nakedness of their encounter is of the sort that will always elude prose. You have to see them together
We’ve created a world of touchy fools
If Greer had called for violence towards transsexuals, it would have been right to deny her a platform – but she didn't
The Booker winner is brutish and Medea did have to murder her children
Those who inveigh against gratuitous sex and violence inveigh against literature itself
Why do we leave places? To experience a longing to return
Some places are so consecrated to heartbreak that only by going away can you drink deep enough of their sadness
Without aspiration or elitism, university has become a breeding ground
For those of us who studied literature, it would have been hard to go from reading Jane Eyre to inveigling totty back to our rooms and doing violence on them
Associating with the people Corbyn does is its own crime
“I am not a criminal but I seem to find myself frequently in criminal company” is a statement that evades more questions than it answers
I love the Edinburgh Book Festival's audiences, although sometimes
'Why are none of the women I know able to finish any of your novels?' I was asked by one attendee. I tried not to let too much time pass before I answered. No more than an hour.
I doubt I'll bother to see Cumberbatch in Hamlet - I don't want it
It doesn’t kill a work of art to want it left alone temporarily. I've reached Peak Hamlet
Here we go again, inverting terrorism’s timeline so everyone gets
The terrorist isn’t a problem because he doesn’t conform; he’s a problem because he does. It’s what he conforms to that makes him dangerous
A university which is a hotbed of offence-taking isn’t a university
The freedom to think freely is more important than the right of women to enjoy equal respect to men
We are easily moved by suffering in art. In real life it’s far more
Leaving the opera house wet-eyed recently, I had to pick my way between the homeless
Help! London has been conquered by Event Security and nobody is safe
This free concert I went to at Trafalgar Square was meant to be democracy in action, Shostakovich for everyone. But no
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Finally, a welcome break from the incomprehensible views of our so-called experts
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The period we are living through will come to be known as the Great Garrulousness
There is hope of compromise if Israelis and Palestinians can lose
Should one side persuade others to their point of view, or do they only want to listen to the reverberations of their own outrage?
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