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Articles
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Roadworthy
From a dark road in the sixties to a dark age today, British TV series “Ridley Road” illuminates
By David E. Kaplan
What does it say about the UK today that a BBC TV series that depicts the rise of fascism and antisemitism in the sixties results in the actors facing ugly online abuse for playing Jewish characters? The writer delves beyond the issues of 1963 to exposes the antisemitic abscess in British society in 2021.
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Irish Antisemitism and BDS
The unspoken morality complex
Written by Lay of the Land UK correspondent
For well over a century – from the Limerick Pogrom in 1904 nearly a half century before a State of Israel, to the popular Irish writer Sally Rooney in 2021 boycotting the Hebrew language – Ireland has an enduring ‘issue’ with Jews. The writer peels away a false façade of morality covering an ingrained antisemitism embedded in the country of his birth.
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Robbie’s Story
Surviving cancer – a personal account from South Africa to Israel
By Robbie Eddles
Diagnosed with a rare type of Leukemia at the age of 7, the writer, now age 20, relates in his own words his medical and emotional rollercoaster journey between South Africa and Israel that he can today look back thankful that he is back to “full health and strength” and “no longer in fear of having a relapse”.
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