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Articles
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HOTEL
Reflecting on a South African ‘dreamer’ and ‘doer’ at Rosh HaNikra – Israel’s rocky border outpost with Lebanon
By David E. Kaplan
A surprise visit to Rosh Hanikra revealed surprising history jarring the writer to recollect the role of the visionary Norman Lourie, who transformed landscapes and impacted lives both in South Africa where he was born and in Israel where he settled.
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NO, ANNE FRANK WAS NOT PRIVILEGED!
Debate rages on social media platform discussing if Anne Frank had “White privilege”
By Rolene Marks
Where is the “privilege” in being singled out for extermination? A convoluted race-based perverted logic is preying on social media today dehumanising Anna Frank and the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust as if they had it coming being “White”! If understandably dumbfounded, the writer breaks it down.
NO, ANNE FRANK WAS NOT PRIVILEGED!
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FROM CLOSED BOOK TO OPEN BOOK
Miroslaw Tryczyk’s startling exposé of Polish participation in the mass murder of Jews
Book review by Nazi-hunter Dr. Efraim Zuroff
(First published in The Jerusalem Report)
“There are very few books which influence the rewriting of history, but this book should be one of them,” asserts Nazi hunter Dr. Zuroff. It details from witness testimony, the murder Jewish residents of fifteen towns and villages in eastern Poland NOT by the Nazis but by their Polish neighbours! Despite false government narratives to cover up the past, brave writers are illuminating the terrible truth.
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