Tag Archives: Holocaust

Guest post: London Jewish Book Week 2014 – a view from the sane left

Posted on 8 March 2014 by

This is another guest post by frequent commenter and contributor Brian Goldfarb. He has written two previous posts about London’s Jewish Book Week and I am sure you will appreciate this year’s excellent contribution about the 2014 London Jewish Book … Continue reading →

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75 years since Kristallnacht and antisemitism is on the rise again

Posted on 11 November 2013 by

75 years ago this week the brutal pogrom, which came to be known as Kristallnacht – the Night of Broken Glass – in which hundreds of synagogues were burnt down, thousands of Jewish shops and business were destroyed and thousands … Continue reading →

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Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism, still alive and kicking around the world

Posted on 30 October 2013 by

Despite ongoing, if fruitless, peace talks with the Palestinians, and against the background of the barbaric civil wars taking place just over our borders in Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, all of which ought to shine a more positive light on … Continue reading →

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Yom Hashoah 5773

Posted on 8 April 2013 by

Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day, began this evening with the annual ceremony at Yad Vashem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke of Israel’s need not forfeit its security to other nations: Netanyahu stated that anti-Semitic hatred “has not disappeared, it … Continue reading →

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Is Europe waking up to the Antisemitism in its midst?

Posted on 4 March 2013 by

Is Europe starting to wake up to the dangers of Antisemitism in its midst? In Norway a debate is under way at the highest political levels following a TV report on the findings of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW): A debate … Continue reading →

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Holocaust memory abuse – it goes from bad to worse

Posted on 28 January 2013 by

As commenter cba pointed out in my previous post on abuse of the memory of the Holocaust, the maligning of the Jews, at least in the UK, goes from bad to worse. The once-respectable Sunday Times published today (Sunday) a … Continue reading →

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