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Articles
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HOW ‘LOUW’ CAN YOU GO?
Antisemitism ‘for show’ – from South Africa to Jordan.
By David E. Kaplan
In a ‘post-truth world’, politicians freely engage in antisemitic rhetoric to gain popularity with their political base? From South African government minister, Eric Louw during the Apartheid era, to the present leadership in the Kingdom of Jordan, contrived accusations undermine the security of Jews.
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Israel – Kaleidoscope of Cultures
Ahead of Israel’s Independence Day, we look at the country’s incredible diversity
By Rolene Marks
Maligned and misunderstood, this “plucky, innovative, passionate and diverse land of many paradoxes” – a juxtaposition of the ancient and modern, the religious and the secular – celebrates its 74th birthday proud of the achievements of its innovative people, who the writer extolls are “its greatest national treasure”.
Israel – Kaleidoscope of Cultures
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Today’s antisemitism is brought to you by the letters ‘Z’ and ‘V’
When vandalism at Lithuania’s Ponar Holocaust memorial copies Russian tanks, it accuses the Jewish community of supporting Putin’s invasion
By Dr. Efraim Zuroff
Single ‘letters’ not even ‘words’ are the devious malignant example of cleverly crafted antisemitism over the war in Ukraine, twisted to again inflame hatred of Jews in Lithuania, a country where 95% of its once flourishing Jewish population was massacred during the Holocaust by the Nazis and its collaborators.
Today’s antisemitism is brought to you by the letters ‘Z’ and ‘V’
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LOTL Co-founders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche
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