Jed Novick
Diary - Day One
“Standby for action. We are about to launch… Stingray. Anything can happen in the next half hour” How many times do you get an...
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How did we get here?
I grew up in east London, in a working class Labour family. The Daily Mirror was the family newspaper. The family fought in Cable Street....
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But before that... Jews complaining again
Most of my life has been on the Left of the political spectrum. Like most people I know, I was always more devoted to talking about doing...
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And before that... Just another fashion victim
Another day, another outrage. Who is this woman? She’s been on some demo, marching against Brexit or Trump or some other gluten-free...
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And before that... Spoiler alert: It's about that stuff again
So I was thinking. If I ever say that Corbyn is an antisemite, I generally get one of three responses. 1) Yeah, but Palestine. 2) He...
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And before that... Living in a bubble
Can you imagine what it's like living in Corbynland? There can't be enough hours in the day to discuss Israel and Palestine and Jews and...
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But first... It's all gone a bit Billy Bragg
I know I said this isn’t all going to be about The Labour Party, but…. I’ve got a feeling I’m going to saying that a lot. Maybe it’s what...
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Diary - Day Two
Staying at Ruth’s was always going to be interesting. When did I last see her? 197something, maybe 1975. That was O level year, and I...
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Day Two (another bit)
Tel Aviv seems a familiar place, Buzzing, lively, cosmopolitan. Full of life. It’s like Paris with its cafes spilling out onto the...
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Day Three
It’s easy to get a bit romantic about these things. Look at this roundabout. It’s Dizengoff Square, one of the buzziest parts of one of...
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The night before Day Four
I’m sitting in an outside bar, having a drink and a smoke. It’s a beautiful evening, around 6-ish, and life is happening in a very Tel...
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Day Four
I’ve been a bit caught up with what to do, how to plan it. This business of taking each day as it comes, not booking anything, making it...
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Day Five
If Tel Aviv was all about good looking boys and girls silently whizzing around on electric scooters with the soundtrack being expensive...
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Day Six
I never caught his name, the bloke at the Alhambra Palace Hotel in Ramallah. He was really sweet, very friendly, very good-looking, spoke...
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Day Seven
The hotel bloke from last night was still hanging around the lobby and we exchanged smiles. It’s a curious thing. I could swear he looked...
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Day Eight
When I was younger I went to Jamaica, stayed on this holiday resort compound. It was lovely but cut off from Jamaica. Could have been...
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Day Nine
People milled around the hotel lobby, looking at Banksy originals with their calculators out, paying bills and waiting for cabs to take...
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Day 10
Another relaxing day at Ruth's. I could get used to this. In the evening we went to some neighbours who were intrigued by my trip to the...
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Day 11
Sometimes it’s just nice to have a day off. Enough of the politics and looking behind the curtain and talking to people about what they...
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Day 12
It’s been a long weekend here, first Shabbat, then Rosh Hashanah. Lots of family time, lots of eating and talking and more eating –...
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