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Soviet Anti-Zionism and Contemporary Left Antisemitism

For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the entire shameful story of Soviet Judeophobia but shows us that, to quote William Faulkner, ‘the past is not dead, it is not even past’.

Speech by Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck

Please set aside ten minutes to listen to this speech by Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck. It covers everything with a strategically sober and morally firm perspective and avoids all the tired cliches.

Hating Israel more than is necessary

There is an old Jewish joke – attributed to Sir Isaiah Berlin, but really, who knows? – that an antisemite is someone who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. Like all the best Jewish humour it is gently self-deprecating, mocking both Jews and antisemites, and recognising the bleak reality of anti-Jewish prejudice while refusing to buckle to it.

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