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We failed you, Anne Frank

We failed you, Anne Frank

‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank We failed you, Anne Frank. We failed to understand the message in your diary. We failed to understand that racism and hatred against Jews is happening on the shores of Australia. We failed to learn from century-old atrocities carried out ...
Ireland’s Jews have never felt lonelier

Ireland’s Jews have never felt lonelier

The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach was the tragic, yet inevitable, result of rising Jew hatred throughout the western world, including in Ireland. Ireland’s Chief Rabbi, Yoni Weider, spoke of the festering anti-Semitism targeted at Ireland’s Jewish community, as the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and senior ministers fell over themselves to proclaim support ...
The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history

The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history

This year’s Reith lecturer is the historian and activist Rutger Bregman. Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman, however charismatic, has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history. There are dozens of extremely well-qualified historians in British universities who could have spoken rather more ...
Where are all the Democrats?

Where are all the Democrats?

In the twelve months since he was elected for a second term, Donald Trump has driven an agenda more damaging to American democracy, rights, freedoms and international reputation than could have been predicted by even the most far-sighted political analyst. Where is the political opposition to citizens being snatched off

We failed you, Anne Frank

We failed you, Anne Frank
‘How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.’ – Anne Frank We failed you, Anne Frank. We failed to understand the message in your diary. We failed to understand that racism and hatred against Jews is happening on the shores of Australia. We failed to learn from century-old atrocities carried out ...

Ireland’s Jews have never felt lonelier

Ireland’s Jews have never felt lonelier
The massacre of Jews on Bondi Beach was the tragic, yet inevitable, result of rising Jew hatred throughout the western world, including in Ireland. Ireland’s Chief Rabbi, Yoni Weider, spoke of the festering anti-Semitism targeted at Ireland’s Jewish community, as the Taoiseach Micheál Martin and senior ministers fell over themselves to proclaim support ...

The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history

The Reith lectures are a new low in BBC history
This year’s Reith lecturer is the historian and activist Rutger Bregman. Given the way things work in the BBC, it comes as no surprise that a Dutchman, however charismatic, has been chosen to lecture us on modern British history. There are dozens of extremely well-qualified historians in British universities who could have spoken rather more ...

Where are all the Democrats?

Where are all the Democrats?
In the twelve months since he was elected for a second term, Donald Trump has driven an agenda more damaging to American democracy, rights, freedoms and international reputation than could have been predicted by even the most far-sighted political analyst. Where is the political opposition to citizens being snatched off