Lay of the Land Weekly Newsletter- 28 April 2025

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THE ISRAEL BRIEF- 21-24 April 2025
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Lay of the Land’s  ‘Pick of the Week’

HOSTAGE TO HERO

Eli Sharabi

When released in February, hostage Eli Sharabi looked as if had just been liberated from Bergen Belsen – not Gaza! Guant, emaciated and unsteady on his feet, his appearance shocked a complacent Jewish world to reevaluate the familiar slogan  “Never Again”. Two months later, at the annual ‘March of the Living’, it was a defiant Eli Sharabi who stood on Yom HaShoah with the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, outside the gates of Auschwitz. Eli, whose wife and daughters were murdered on October 7,  said: “I endured horrors in captivity – but I chose life” (Photo: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)




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THE UN’S LATEST BLOOD LIBEL

Obsessively anti-Israel, UNHRC absurdly accuses Israel of fresh “genocide” by obstructing Palestinian births.
By Rolene Marks

UN’scrupulous. While the UNHRC has since the atrocities of 7 October failed to condemn the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust, it accuses Israel in a malicious report of carrying out “genocidal acts” against Palestinian women by systematically destroying their healthcare facilities and using sexual violence as a war strategy.

THE UN’S LATEST BLOOD LIBEL
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‘PICK n PAY’ PANICS

A modest Passover products display at a South African Pick n Pay leads to antisemitic rage and the Johannesburg supermarket’s surrender.
By Tim Flack

Bitterness follows Betrayal. “This wasn’t about foreign policy or the Gaza war… It was about matzah and kosher grape juice,”  asserts the writer about a Johannesburg upermarket that turned into a battlefield. Jewish consumers felt betrayed when management removed the Magen David symbols from the Passover products section at Pick n Pay, Norwood.

‘PICK n PAY’ PANICS
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GLOBALISATION RAVAGED BRITAIN’S JEWISH COMMUNITY

Uncertain how Trump’s tariffs might shake up the world in the future, but  sure know what globalisation did to my UK city  and its Jewish community.
By TV and radio presenter Jonny Gould

Unsettling Future. Many British towns and cities that once boasted well-established Jewish populations have seen it melt away with a migration to larger commercial centres, most notably London. “Why did the nation’s capital become such a honeypot for smaller communities?” is the question the writer explores as he laments the “untold reality of the demise” of Jewish communities across the UK.

GLOBALISATION RAVAGED BRITAIN’S JEWISH COMMUNITY
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LOTL Cofounders David E. Kaplan (Editor), Rolene Marks and Yair Chelouche

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