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No 'Israeli ABBA' — Again

By Liam Hoare

No 'Israeli ABBA' — Again
A Romanian opera singer dressed like Dracula and wailing falsetto. Dancers in a Perspex boxes and drummers dosed in baby oil. Moustachioed Greeks dancing and singing about the joys of free alcohol. A Russian plea for world peace in three minutes with a key change.Read More

Church of Scotland Insults Jews With Denial of Claim to Israel

By Liam Hoare

Church of Scotland Insults Jews With Denial of Claim to Israel
The Church of Scotland wilfully mischaracterizes and dismisses Jewish claims to the land of Israel. That’s as insulting and offensive as it is historically inaccurate.Read More

Hungary, Where Europe's Ugly Faultlines Meet

By Liam Hoare

Hungary, Where Europe's Ugly Faultlines Meet
As the World Jewish Congress prepares to convene in Budapest, Paul Berger covers the increasingly hostile conditions under which Hungarian Jews — one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe with an estimated population of around 85,000 recorded in 2012 — are forced to reside.Read More

Europe's Foundation of Ashes and Dust

By Liam Hoare

Europe’s foundations are constructed upon ashes and dust. They are built where the walls of the ghettos were once erected around overcrowded quarters in Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow. They are built upon the pits of Babi Yar and the mass graves made across Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine. They are built upon the ruins of the camps whose names are forever branded on our collective memory: Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor.Read More

English Soccer, an Italian Fascist and the Jews

By Liam Hoare

English Soccer, an Italian Fascist and the Jews
There was an old slogan on the left in the years between the wars: Fascism means war. Succinct, it managed to say at once that war is inherent to fascism, since it is both expansionist and authoritarian, and that fascism demands war as an ideology so heinous it must be combated.Read More



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