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Articles
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‘WARRIOR’ AT WAR TO ‘WORRIER’ FOR PEACE
Recollections and reflections of more than a life cut short
By David E. Kaplan
Enriching encounters while visiting northern Israel with a delegation of JNF South Africa on ‘Yitzhak Rabin Day’, revived memories and revealed insights of the man whose presence has not receded despite the body’s long departure.
‘WARRIOR’ AT WAR TO ‘WORRIER’ FOR PEACE
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OCCUPIER BARBIE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IHRA
Antisemitism needs to be defined in order to effectively combat this irrational hatred
By Rolene Marks
Once labeled “Occupier Barbie”, the writer was recently ‘promoted’ by South African-based spewer of Jew hatred – the Media Review Network (MRN) – as “Chief Hasbara Agent”. Standing up for Israel today attracts constant personal abuse and insults, something this writer is accustomed to as she unpacks the present tsunami of hatred unleashed on Jews around the world.
OCCUPIER BARBIE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IHRA
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HATED TODAY IN LITHUANIA
For simply standing and fighting for the truth
A lecture by Grant Gochin
“The reason why so many of our family members fought so staunchly against Apartheid,” is because they understood from being “victims of Apartheid in Lithuania.” In his shockingly revealing address to South Africa’s Cape Town Jewish community in October, a researcher who lost close family in the Holocaust, peels off the layers of deceit to reveal Lithuanian complicity of a grand scale in the Shoah and its attempts thereafter at cover-up.
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LOTL Co-founders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
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