“I helped start WOL because I felt there was a disconnect between what was happening on the ground in Palestine, and what organizers on campuses were calling for,” she told Mondoweiss. “The discussions and a lot of the things that supporters of Palestine were talking about in these academi...
What is happening at the US embassy in London?An incident was reported in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Nine Elms with witnesses who said they heard a loud bang. The police confirmed they cordoned off the area while officers investigated a suspect package....
Urging your local council to find room won"t solve the whole problem, just as taking in the 10,000 Jewish children of the Kindertransport did nothing for the six million Jews who would perish in the Holocaust. But every life matters. As Shale Ahmed says: "You can take local action here...
What is the Holocaust? The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War 2. In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied byGermanyduring the war. By 1945 two out of every three European...
It feels guilty about what they didn’t do in when the Holocaust happened, and they’ve given a kind of carte blanche. Now, if they are penitent they ought to be the ones who pay the price of that penitence. But the price is being paid by the Palestinians.” Ian Kay January 3,...
Two of the speeches that were cut down were among the most powerful: one given by The Zone of Interest’s Jonathan Glazer and James Wilson when receiving the statuette for film not in the English language, in which the latter drew a line from the Holocaust to more recent events “in ...
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"We were rich. Rich. But it was not long," Hope said. Nick Hope (middle) at around 9 years old in Ukraine.Hope family photo He was just a child when Joseph Stalin, communist dictator of the Soviet Union, came to power. "My father's house, they said 'You are rich, you capitalist...
I notice this tension around this time of year, when events commemorating the Holocaust and discussing antisemitism completely dwarf the attendance at any other Jewish event we organize during the year. This is not to say that these aren’t essential to our building our Jewish identities and ...