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Articles
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A Walk In The Park A Return To The Dark?
Avoid this one in Istanbul
By David E. Kaplan
Why when the international media made headlines of crowds storming statues and ripping them off their proverbial pedestals for racist pasts, Turkey today escapes such opprobrium when it names a park in Istanbul after Hüseyin Nihal Atsız who wrote: “We will not only exterminate Jews like the Germans did, we will go further…”
A Walk In The Park A Return To The Dark?
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Weep, the Beloved Country
By Stephen Schulman
From a racist and oppressive country that the writer left over a half century earlier “where free speech was nonexistent, all criticism was suppressed and its opponents subject to severe punitive measures,” Schulman explores the nature of South Africa’s hard-fought ‘freedom’ of today, when its esteemed Chief Justice is “ORDERED” to apologise and withdraw his personal comments relating to Israel.
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The Arab World Fighting Antisemitism
How Arab countries have become the new leaders in the fight against growing antisemitism
By Rolene Marks
From the NO’s in 1967 to the YESSES of today, there is monumental change in attitudes towards Israel across the region as Arab countries that have normalized ties with the Jewish state are helping repair too many wasted years of mistrust, incitement and hatred and will go a long way to countering antisemitism.
The Arab World Fighting Antisemitism
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