Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
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Opinion How Do We Memorialize Lord Janner, Jewish Leader Accused of Child Abuse?
Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone, the British Labour Member of Parliament and peer in the House of Lords who passed away on December 19 at the age of 87, dedicated a good deal of his political life to championing Jewish causes. Yet despite being a diligent parliamentarian and prominent Jewish community leader, his legacy will…
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Culture Was Gore Vidal the Real Crypto-Nazi?
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal By Jay Parini Doubleday, 480 pages, $35 Gore Vidal was not opposed to the odd rhetorical hand grenade. “As far as I’m concerned, the only sort of pro- or crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself,” he told William F. Buckley live on ABC in Chicago in…
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Fast Forward David Cesarani, British Historian of Holocaust and Anglo Jewry, Dies at 58
David Cesarani, the great British historian of the Holocaust and Anglo Jewry, has died at the age of 58, London’s Jewish Chronicle reports. The London Times columnist David Aaronovitch described him as “a man of luminous intelligence and splendid academic achievement.” Cesarani — as a research professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London…
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News Why Jeremy Corbyn Scares British Jews So Much
Until he became leader of the British Labour party on September 12, Jeremy Corbyn — a crumpled, bearded 66-year-old socialist — had had an unremarkable political career. He was first elected to Parliament in 1983 and has represented the Labour Party in the safe seat of Islington North in north London ever since. Corbyn has…
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Culture How a French Museum Whitewashes Le Corbusier’s Anti-Semitism
Le Corbusier — the Swiss-French master of modernist architecture — was a fascist sympathizer who had an office in Vichy during the Second World War and displayed anti-Semitism in his private correspondence. But an exhibition currently running at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, “Le Corbusier: Mesures de l’homme,” won’t tell you any of this. The…
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Opinion Europe Has Had Enough of Benjamin Netanyahu
Europe and Israel don’t see eye-to-eye on Iran — and maybe never will. Netanyahu believes that any deal with Iran should tie its behavior to sanctions relief. It’s a good argument to make, when you consider the history of Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and its tendency to say one thing but mean another. And yet,…
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Opinion Dancing on George Galloway’s Grave
Between the prospect of the break-up of the United Kingdom and five more years of Conservative-led austerity, there wasn’t much good news in the British election results. Except, that is, in Bradford. After an ugly campaign, the infamous and indefatigable George Galloway, who made headlines for declaring the down-on-its-luck northern town an “Israel-free zone,” lost…
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Opinion Is ‘Strangeness’ of Ed Miliband an Anti-Semitic Code Word?
When Ed Miliband’s team concluded last year that he had an image problem, they decided the easiest way to give him the common touch was to have him eat a bacon sandwich. After all, what cheaper way to show that the Labour candidate for British prime minister has empathy with the everyman than eating the…
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