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A Catholic priest has been trying to locate and document mass Jewish graves in Ukraine.
The move within the UK to boycott Israeli universities and academics has been defeated by anti-discrimination law and a push for a vote of union members.
Salman Rushdie and Sam Harris on the case of Hirsi Ali: It is important to realize that Hirsi Ali may be the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust. Hitch argues that if the Dutch abandon her the US should support her. Anne Applebaum on what the decision will say about the Netherlands: Whether the Dutch like it or not-and I'm sure most of them don't-revoking her police protection will therefore send a clear message to the world: that the Dutch are no longer willing to protect their own traditions of free speech. Resources will be found, and she will recover. But will Holland? Meanwhile, Dutch are emigrating in numbers not seen since the 1950s.
French Jews (and Germans) are also emigrating. Some of the former also petitioned for the right to ask for asylum in the US.
Describing the origins of WWII in the way the BBC uses to talk about al-Qaeda: Germany resented the treatment it received at Versailles, when it lost land to Poland and Czechoslovakia. It thought German minorities were being mistreated, so Adolf Hitler decided to take the territory back Or the Holocaust: For centuries Jews were blamed for economic problems in Europe and for amassing too much wealth. Adolf Hitler said they were responsible for high unemployment in Germany. He wanted to send them to Madagascar, but in the end most of them were killed in concentration camps. (The suggestion that some reference to motivating ideology may be relevant is hardly one that the BBC entirley eschew regarding, say the American religious right.)
About the Franco-British rivalry from 1688 to the present: According to a possibly apocryphal anecdote dating from the cold war, three generations of French were asked in a poll which country posed the greatest threat to France’s security. Those over 50 unhesitatingly answered Germany, those under 50 cited the Soviet Union but the school-age group, immersed in their French history lessons, had a different answer. Joan of Arc. Waterloo. Fashoda. Mers el-Kebir. So many French humiliations and defeats at the hands of the British. They knew who was the real enemy.
Chechenya is being reborn. Perhaps not so much.
The move within the UK to boycott Israeli universities and academics has been defeated by anti-discrimination law and a push for a vote of union members.
Salman Rushdie and Sam Harris on the case of Hirsi Ali: It is important to realize that Hirsi Ali may be the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust. Hitch argues that if the Dutch abandon her the US should support her. Anne Applebaum on what the decision will say about the Netherlands: Whether the Dutch like it or not-and I'm sure most of them don't-revoking her police protection will therefore send a clear message to the world: that the Dutch are no longer willing to protect their own traditions of free speech. Resources will be found, and she will recover. But will Holland? Meanwhile, Dutch are emigrating in numbers not seen since the 1950s.
French Jews (and Germans) are also emigrating. Some of the former also petitioned for the right to ask for asylum in the US.
Describing the origins of WWII in the way the BBC uses to talk about al-Qaeda: Germany resented the treatment it received at Versailles, when it lost land to Poland and Czechoslovakia. It thought German minorities were being mistreated, so Adolf Hitler decided to take the territory back Or the Holocaust: For centuries Jews were blamed for economic problems in Europe and for amassing too much wealth. Adolf Hitler said they were responsible for high unemployment in Germany. He wanted to send them to Madagascar, but in the end most of them were killed in concentration camps. (The suggestion that some reference to motivating ideology may be relevant is hardly one that the BBC entirley eschew regarding, say the American religious right.)
About the Franco-British rivalry from 1688 to the present: According to a possibly apocryphal anecdote dating from the cold war, three generations of French were asked in a poll which country posed the greatest threat to France’s security. Those over 50 unhesitatingly answered Germany, those under 50 cited the Soviet Union but the school-age group, immersed in their French history lessons, had a different answer. Joan of Arc. Waterloo. Fashoda. Mers el-Kebir. So many French humiliations and defeats at the hands of the British. They knew who was the real enemy.
Chechenya is being reborn. Perhaps not so much.