"Outspoken and memorable" In February 2017, Rebecca Ruth Gould, a lecturer at Bristol University was condemned for 'one of the worst cases of holocaust denial' by a former Conservative MP, Eric Pickles. When he left the Commons for the Lords, Theresa May appointed...
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Mark LeveneReaders respond to Christians and Israel
"poisoning the whole of Western political discourse" Christians and Israel tells a strong story and has received an equally strong welcome (find the article here). Of many comments, here are four from contrasting backgrounds, informed by Christianity, Judaism and...
A deliberate policy to destroy the Armenians
Today the UK government is one of several that deny that Armenians suffered genocide in 1915. Yet remarkably, the UK government acknowledged and denounced the Armenian Genocide as early as 1915. In parliament This was how Foreign Office Minister Lord Robert Cecil...
The Hundred Year House
'Talk about what you know' As a journalist and broadcaster with ITV and BBC, I was ready to cover any story at any place and time. But I was not quite so ready for this story, a very personal account of how my mother became a refugee, a story which eventually turned...
IHRA antisemitism definition an attack on non-Zionist Jews
Published in Planet Extra, 20 August 2018 The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism dangerously conflates anti-Zionism and antisemitism. To demonstrate the problem, this article brings together Jewish voices from Wales and beyond, all...