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Aug 12, 2018 • 6 tweets • 9 min read
@SussexFriends@mr_markjacobs@NewYorker@washingtonpost@nytimes@UKLabour Can we talk about what it means for Western Civ that a national leader on the level of Jeremy Corbyn is an undeniable antisemite? That a major national party in a wealthy democracy is filled with Jew Hatred? That the US political equivalents seem headed down the same road?
@SussexFriends@mr_markjacobs@NewYorker@washingtonpost@nytimes@UKLabour For one thing, it is political DEATH for any party that becomes the party of Jew hatred. Not that they won’t win elections - in the short run they may, and it might look like a winning strategy.
Jul 6, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
80 years ago this week, 1 year before WWII began, the “International Community” held a conference to discuss the plight of Jews under Nazi rule. Jews had been stripped of citizenship & legal rights and were trying to flee as refugees. The world decided to do...nothing.
After the International Community decided not to help the Jews, Chaim Weizmann, future President of Israel, said “The world seemed to be divided into two parts – those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter." #EvianConference
