Monday, 27 January 2020

The Guardian has a go at the Labour Party on Holocaust Memorial Day

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Here is a paragraph from today's Guardian editorial for Holocaust Memorial Day: "In Hungary, the prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has ...
Friday, 10 January 2020

Holocaust Memorial Day song for children

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Each year Holocaust Memorial Day has a theme. This year it’s ‘Stand together’. I work closely with schools in Cambridge doing poetry, song, ...
Sunday, 5 January 2020

Oh dear, I shouldn't have been at the vigil

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Over the last 60 years I've been on hundreds of demonstrations in support of people or in solidarity with them and then last week along ...
Friday, 3 January 2020

I'm in another mainstream Jewish tradition

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Sigmund Freud was Jewish but he didn't affiliate to a synagogue and, as far as I know, wasn't in any way 'observant' in term...

The history of the UK in the 21st century in one statistic

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Stat put up on Twitter by Matt Thomas: Between 2010 and 2018, aggregate wealth in the UK grew by £5.68 trillion: 6% went to the poorest 50% ...
Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Antisemitic daubing - who has the right to protest about it?

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Every group, nation, or minority experiences struggles over what ideas dominate. However you see yourself - in terms of your group your nati...
Monday, 23 December 2019

The Tiger who Came to Tea - don't try to make a nuanced point about it.

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This is a warning for anyone trying to say something nuanced about literature (or probably any of the arts) in the mainstream media outside ...