Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
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Opinion Jeremy Corbyn Can’t Fix Labour’s Anti-Semitism Because He Caused It
Louise Withers Green joined the British Labour Party’s Complaints and Disputes Office in February 2017, handling cases of anti-Semitism among the party’s membership. “I wanted to work for the party for the same reason I joined as a member,” she told the Guardian. “I believe and still believe the Labour Party can be the greatest…
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Opinion Israel’s Fight Against BDS Is Keeping A Failed Movement Alive
The German parliament’s passage on May 17 of a non-binding resolution condemning BDS as anti-Semitic — which secured the votes of parties from the left, right, and center of German politics — was, in a sense, a victory for Israeli interests and the country’s otherwise-entirely redundant Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy. When the…
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Life Why Yeshivas Must Offer LGBTQ Education
The lessons were designed to prepare children for life in modern Britain. Andrew Moffat, assistant principal of the Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, conceived of the No Outsiders program as a way of introducing LGBT people and the concepts of same-sex relationships and gender identity to children aged 4 to 11. That “And Tango Makes…
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Culture In ‘Hidden Years,’ A Story Of Love, Family And The Holocaust
While she was working as a culture fellow at the Forward, Anna Goldenberg published an essay in which she described a visit to the former concentration camp Theresienstadt she took with her grandmother, Helga, and her great-aunt, Liese. Helga and Liese had been deported to Theresienstadt from Vienna, along with their mother, in the spring…
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Culture Amos Oz Looks Forward — and Back
Literature was once more at the forefront of Israel’s national conversation when I met Amos Oz during the first week of January. The Education Ministry had decided to remove Dorit Rabinyan’s novel “Borderlife” from the national curriculum, on the basis that an Israeli-Palestinian love story would confuse young people’s sense of identity. Print sales skyrocketed….
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Culture Austria Confronts Kristallnacht — 80 Years Later
2018 is Austria’s Gedenkjahr, 12 months of landmarks, anniversaries and commemorations that reach their zenith and nadir in November. The 11th and 12th of this month mark 100 years since the abdication of the last emperor, Charles I, and the declaration of the Republic of German-Austria. November 9 and 10, however, will be 80 years…
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Culture A Stand-Up Tragedy From The Mind Of David Grossman
After two hours and 40 minutes of brutal self-flagellation, Dov Greenstein stumbled exhaustedly around a raised wooden stage strewn with flowers: his shirt torn, his pants ripped, his face battered and painted with blood. “I’m a little tired now,” he said, exhaling as the lights dimmed and the stage faded to black at the end…
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Opinion I Don’t Care If Jeremy Corbyn Is An Anti-Semite – He Should Resign Anyway
Margaret Hodge did us all a favor when she cornered Jeremy Corbyn in the Houses of Parliament and called him “anti-Semitic and a racist.” Whether one agrees with her choice of words or not, the well-respected Labour MP gave voice to something many believed to be true about Corbyn but few dared say. An outburst…
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