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TWO DETAINED IN MANCHESTER OVER SIEGE Two men have been arrested in Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue attack by hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram.

Akram, 44, who was originally from Blackburn in Lancashire, was shot dead when the FBI entered the shul in Colleyville on 15 January following a 10-hour stand-off.

He held four people hostage during the incident, who were later released unharmed.

In a statement on Wednesday, Counter Terrorism Policing North West said its officers were “continuing with their investigation following the events in Texas. They are working closely with and are supporting US law enforcement.

“As part of the local investigation, two men have been arrested this morning in Manchester.

They remain in custody for questioning.

“We continue to work closely with colleagues from other forces.”

Two men arrested in Birmingham and Manchester on 20 January as part of the same probe have been released with no further action.

FBI director Christopher Wray called the stand-off an antisemitic incident, while US President Joe Biden said it was an “act of terror”.

In a press conference in Texas last Friday, the FBI said Akram, who is understood to have a criminal record, was not known and had no prior contact with US intelligence services. The bureau said it was conducting “rigorous” analysis of Akram’s associates, his online presence and his devices.

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organisations “who work to keep our communities safe in ways we don’t always see or acknowledge”.

The senior rabbi conceded that she did not yet have words of comfort for members of her congregation. But she added: “If you are a Jew in America and you are not feeling unsettled, then you are not paying attention.”

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Middle East minister James Cleverly has warned: “Hamas have not proven themselves to have been good for the Palestinian people.”

Responding in the Commons to a claim made by the Hendon MP Matthew Offord that Israel could “not be expected to negotiate” in peace talks with an organisation committed to “its destruction”, Cleverly said: “The simple truth is their aggressive posture and their threats to eradicate Israel have harmed relations between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Speaking during Tuesday’s session of Foreign Questions in the Commons, the former Conservative Party co-chair and member for Braintree said: “We wish to see a viable two-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and prosperity.

“Hamas has long been a roadblock to that.”

The SNP’s Alan Brown had earlier raised the issue of settlement plans and desecrations of Muslim graveyard in East Jerusalem – and he asked when the UK government might take a stronger stance in opposing such actions that, he said, breached international law.

Cleverly said: “The UK enjoys a close and important relationship with Israel. That allows us to raise important issues such as settlement demolitions directly with the Israeli government, which we do.

“The UK’s long-standing policy is to pursue actions that support the viable creation of a two state solution. That will remain the focus of our actions.”

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Corbyn motion is defeated A motion calling for Labour’s national executive committee to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn has been defeated following a vote by members of the party’s ruling body.

Fire Brigades Union representative Ian Murray and local party representative Nadia Jama, two left-wing NEC members, had submitted a motion urging Labour’s chief whip Alan Campbell to restore the former party leader’s status as a Labour MP. But at a meeting of the committee on Tuesday afternoon the move was voted down – with 23 NEC members opposing and 14 voting in favour of restoring the parliamentary whip to Corbyn, with one abstention.

The result emphasised leader Sir Keir Starmer’s clear majority control of the ruling on the body and was a blow to allies of Corbyn, who had been hopeful of gaining greater support among representatives on the body.

Ahead of the vote the FBU’s Murray had branded the ban on Corbyn standing as a Labour MP as a “deeply divisive act by the leadership of the party” which was “moving us further from the unity required” to take on the Tories.

He also claimed that maintaining the ban, imposed in October 2020, was “extremely disrespectful” to voters in Corbyn’s Islington North seat, which he first won in 1983.

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REPORT INTO BBC BUS ATTACK CLAIM ‘PARTIALLY’ UPHOLDS COMPLAINTS been done, subsequent to the original report, to acknowledge the differing views and opinions in relation to what was said; this should have been reflected in our reporting; and the online article amended. We accept this and apologise for not doing more to highlight that these details were contested. We should have reflected this and acted sooner.”

In a statement, the CST said: “We completely rejects the claim in the BBC report that CST confirmed to the BBC on 2 December that an anti-Muslim phrase had been spoken on the Chabad bus that was attacked on Oxford Street.”

by Lee Harpin lee@jewishnews.co.uk @lmharpin

An investigation into the BBC’s reporting of an incident in which antisemitic threats made to a group of Jewish passengers on a bus in Oxford Street as they celebrated Chanukah has concluded that “standards of due accuracy” were not met and has “partially upheld” complaints about the coverage.

In findings published by the BBC’s Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) yesterday, it was also concluded that reports of the incident on 29 November should not have concluded that the phrase “dirty Muslims” was the only interpretation of what was allegedly said by a Jewish passenger on the bus.

The report found: “While the majority finding gives support to the view that ‘Dirty Muslims’ is a sustainable interpretation, the more significant point for the ECU is that the sole exception indicates it was not the only possible interpretation.

“In the ECU’s judgment this, taken together with the evidence put forward by the Board of Deputies, should have led the BBC to recognise at an earlier stage that there was genuine doubt about the accuracy of what it had reported.”

Reports by the BBC of the incident – which involved threats made to the group as they celebrated the Jewish festival on a hired bus – sparked widespread anger within the community. They included unsubstantiated claims that anti-Muslim slurs could be heard coming from the bus on widely-circulated video footage of the confrontation that was shared on social media.

Police are continuing to investigate the episode, which is being treated as a hate incident, but have appealed for assistance with their probe into the actions of three men of Middle Eastern appearance who made Nazi salutes and shouted antisemitic slogans at the group of around 20 Jews on the bus.

The investigation concluded: “With hindsight, and in the light of subsequent evidence that the recording was open to another interpretation, it might be argued that even further verification should have been sought, but the situation at the time was that no alternative interpretation had been proposed, and in our view the elements of internal scrutiny

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taken together with the CST [Community Security Trust]’s response amounted to an editorial process which we would regard as more than sufficient in any but the most extraordinary circumstances.

“We therefore do not believe we can fairly find that the decision to broadcast the claim in question constituted a breach of editorial standards, even if it were accepted in the light of later evidence that the claim itself was questionable.

“And, in view of allegations of latent or even active antisemitism which have been made, the ECU considers it important to say it was manifest from the evidence we have seen that the decision, whether or not mistaken, was made entirely in good faith.”

The Board of Deputies was among communal organisations to take up the matter with the BBC – with president Marie van der Zyl meeting with director general Tim Davie and news editor Fran Unsworth last week. Lord Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, also met with Davie in an effort to press the BBC on the issue.

Jewish News understands the broadcaster received several hundred complaints about the Chanukah bus reports.

Responding to the findings, a BBC spokesperson said: “We take complaints about our coverage seriously and today [26 January], following an expedited process, we have published the findings of the Executive Complaints Unit in relation to a complaint by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, and others, over the reporting of an alleged antise-

MP defends Tory defector Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has praised Tory Party defector Christian Wakeford as a “staunch ally of the Jewish community” after a protest against him by local activists, writes Lee Harpin.

Last weekend, Conservative supporters were photographed in Wakeford’s seat holding placards reading: ‘Let’s take back Bury South’.

When Wakeford defected to Labour last Wednesday he highlighted Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s record on tackling antisemitism as among the reasons he was leaving the Tories.

Nichols saw that among the activists at the campaign event was Wendy Maisey, chair of Warrington Conservative Association, who had apologised over social media posts uncovered

last year in which she had questioned Nichols’ Jewish faith. Nichols told Jewish News: “It is very telling that [Wakeford’s] Conservative former colleagues shipped over the chair of Warrington Conservative Association – who has never been formally sanctioned by the party for her orchestration of antisemitic and homophobic towards myself, or for presiding over the selections of at least two council candidates who had to be removed from the party for their Nazi and farright views last year – in their bid to replace him.”

She added: “I look forward to continuing to work with Christian on issues affecting our respective communities, and standing against antisemitism wherever it comes from.”

mitic attack in Oxford Street in November last year.

“The ECU – which is editorially independent of BBC News – has acknowledged there was an ‘overriding focus’ on those who directed abuse at the passengers and there was no evidence to support any claims of victimblaming in our reporting. “...However, the ECU has also found that more could have

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Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 / Prince Charles’ tribute

Seven portraits, seven survivors The Duchess of Cornwall with Holocaust survivor Helen Aronson (centre) and her family, and artist Paul Benney

Prince Charles this week spent an emotional hour with Holocaust survivors and the artists he commissioned to paint their portraits for the Royal Collection, writes Justin Cohen.

The heir to the throne – who a decade ago came up with the idea for a Jewish community centre in Krakow after witnessing the plight of survivors there – asked leading painters to produce artworks of seven camp survivors to help ensure their stories live on.

The artworks featuring Helen Aronson, Lily Ebert, Manfred Goldberg, Arek Hersh, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Rachel Levy and Zigi Shipper will go on display in The Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace from today until 13 February before moving to the palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Ahead of the broadcast of a BBC documentary tonight tracing the year-long project, His Royal Highness and the Duchess of Cornwall spent time on Monday chatting to each of the survivors and their families at the Gallery and admiring the artwork.

The prince, who is patron of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, told Auschwitz survivor Zigi, 92: “I am so pleased this has been possible. I was so worried. I wanted to capture as many [of you] as we could. To remember what you have been through.”

The Polish-born survivor – who has spent the past 30 years speaking to young people to educate them about where intolerance can lead – thanked His Royal Highness for coming up with the idea.

He said afterwards: “I feel this is a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust – this is as much for the ones who didn’t survive.

These are representations of all of them, men and women.”

His daughter, Michelle, said: “He’s gone on to have a very happy life. Dad always says if he could see Hitler now he would show them his family and say ‘you didn’t win’.”

Also meeting the Royal couple was Helen Aronson, 94, who was one of only 750 Polish Jews who survived the notorious Łódź ghetto out of 250,000 who entered it. She touched her chest and told Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: “It just stays there, just stays there all the time. I can never forget.”

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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and her son, the cellist Raphael Wallfisch

Helen, a mother of two clasped her on the shoulder and said: daughters, two grandsons and “It is a greater privilege for me.” a great-granddaughter, said: Camilla said: “It’s an absolutely ‘I got a very secretive message to call Lord Rosalyn lovely portrait. What’s wonderful is that [the Master of the Prince of it is here forever. It’s been so wonderful Wales’ Household] on a parto meet you, it’s been a huge pleasure. I ticular day and time along with hope we’ll meet again.’

The duchess told Lily’s watching a member of my family.

“When I found out, I was family – including greatgrandson, Dov with my daughter, Annie, and Manfred Goldberg beside his portrait Forman, and daughter, Bilha Weider: “She is just incredible, isn’t she? She is I was crying and laughing. To be chosen by Prince Charles to have my portrait painted such a strong lady.”

Bilha said: “She was at the depths of hell, with people who was such a great honour.” Describing the portrait as “absolutely true to life”, she added: “It has been an unforget- didn’t even validate them like an animal. This isn’t just any old painting. This is a painting of people who were the bottom of table day.

“I give a lot of talks [about the Holocaust] and one day a lady the pile and now they are at the top of the pile.”

The artists taking part were Paul Benney, Ishbel Myerstood up and she said to me, ‘Do you not feel guilty that you are alive and all these people died?’ I thought to myself, ‘How do I scough, Clara Drummond, Massimiliano Pironti, Peter Kuhfeld, Jenny Saville and Stuart Pearson Wright. answer that?’

Olivia Marks-Woldman, of the Holocaust Memorial Day “Then I said, ‘Maybe for a reason that I can use my voice and tell you about it.’ It was complete luck that the Russian army Trust, which played a part in the project, told Jewish News: “To came very quickly to our camp and we were liberated by them. celebrate survivors in a timeless portrayal is a powerful act of Seven graves were ready at the cemetery for us, waiting for them affirmation.

“We often hear survivors say that Britain has become to kill us. I saw them with my own eyes.”

The Prince of Wales was visibly moved after 98-year-old a dear home for them – a safe and accepting place where they Lily Ebert showed him her concentration camp tattoo and a have been able to rebuild their lives. His Royal Highness has gold medallion belonging to her murdered mother that she created something profoundly meaningful and hope-giving.” smuggled out of Auschwitz.

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THESE PAINTINGS WILL BE A GUIDING LIGHT HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS PORTRAITS Behind every portrait is a unique story, of a life lived, of love, of loss.

Through paintbrush strokes on a canvas, an artist shows us, up close, our individuality and uniqueness in the way we look, and in who we are.

Yet portraits also serve to remind us that our common humanity precedes our differences. We might not belong to the same race, be part of

the same religion, or share a culture or creed, yet we all inhabit the same planet, breathe the same air and are part of the universal human story.

We are ultimately connected, and therefore responsible for one another, for our collective history and our shared future.

One of the starkest reminders of this was the Holocaust, when a third of Europe’s Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime as it sought

to extinguish not just the Jewish people, but Judaism.

Seven portraits. Seven faces.

Each a survivor of the horrors of those years, who sought refuge and a home in Britain after the war, becoming an integral part of the fabric of our nation. However, these portraits represent something far greater than seven remarkable individuals. They stand as a living memorial to the six million innocent men, women and children whose stories will never be

told, whose portraits will never be painted. They stand as a powerful testament to the quite extraordinary resilience and courage of those who survived and who, despite their advancing years, have continued to tell the world of the unimaginable atrocities they witnessed. They stand as a permanent reminder for our generation – and indeed, to future generations – of the depths of depravity and evil to which humankind can fall when reason, compassion and truth are abandoned.

I am incredibly grateful to the hugely talented artists who participated in this important project –

many associated with my Drawing School – and to the generous supporters who made this exhibition possible.

As the number of Holocaust survivors sadly, but inevitably, declines, my abiding hope is that this special collection will act as a further guiding light for our society, reminding us not only about history’s darkest days, but of humanity’s interconnectedness as we strive to create a better world for our children, grandchildren and generations as yet unborn; one where hope is victorious over despair and love triumphs over hate.

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HMD Commemoration / Freddie Knoller mourned / Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

HERO FREDDIE DIES, AGED 100 Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller has died, aged 100.

The centenarian, who led a remarkable life evading capture and surviving Auschwitz, was With his 100th birthday remembered as card from the Queen having “perpetual smile” and dedicating his life after the Shoah to helping others.

Michael Newman, chief executive of the Association of Jewish Refugees, said: “Freddie was charming and popular with a perpetual smile, always great company and a larger than life presence at AJR events.

“He was also always keen to ask how he could help us. I will always greatly treasure the signed copy of his memoirs, Desperate Journey, through which I first encountered his remarkable story.”

Freddie, who was born in Vienna in 1921 and initially escaped the Nazis by fleeing to Belgium, regularly spoke in schools about life in occupied Belgium and France, deportation to Auschwitz and the Death March before he was finally taken by cattle truck to Bergen Belsen and liberated by the British Army in March 1945.

Khan: Fears after Texas attack understandable

by Lee Harpin lee@jewishnews.co.uk @lmharpin

Sadiq Khan has said he can “understand the ripples of fear felt by Jewish people across the globe” over the Texas synagogue hostage incident early this month.

Speaking to Jewish News as he took part in the Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) commemoration at the Imperial War Museum on Monday, Khan spoke of his revulsion at the actions of Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old British citizen who, armed with a pistol, took four people hostage, including a rabbi, in the Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, United States, during a Shabbat service.

“Antisemitism,” he added, remains “the oldest hatred in the world.”

The mayor, a practicing Muslim, said of the actions of Akram, who had travelled from his home in Blackburn, Lancashire, to carry out the crime: “The reality is

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this terrorist has used the name of Islam to justify an act of terror, a crime – and he does not speak for Muslims.”

Asked about attempts by extremists in the Jewish community to use incidents such as the one of in Texas to launch wider criticisms of Muslims, he said: “We should be very careful about allowing acts such as Texas to divide us as communities.”

He added: “The reality is Jewish people and Muslim people have far, far, more in common that unites us than which separates us.

“The reality is, when I am in

Sadiq Khan with survivors Steven Frank, Jan Imich and John Hajde

a synagogue I have far more in common with those inside than I have with many non-Jewish friends in other places outside a synagogue. It is very easy to play on people’s fears, to fear the ‘other’.”

The London Mayor was speaking moments after he had toured the current, much-praised, Holocaust exhibition and the museum in the company of James Bulgin, content leader for the Holocaust Galleries, Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET),

and Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

Khan described the exhibition – which examines the relationship between the Holocaust and the course and consequences of the Second World War – as “emotional, distressing, upsetting and vitally important because it brings to life the horror of the Holocaust”.

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Camilla on Anne Frank’s ‘gift’ The Duchess of Cornwall shared childhood memories of reading Anne Frank’s diary “when I was the same age as her”, on the 75th anniversary of the publication of the teenager’s journal, writes Jack Mendel.

Addressing an Anne Frank Trust UK lunch, ahead of today’s Holocaust Memorial Day, the Duchess said the diarist’s “life and her death continue to inspire worldwide movement of anti-prejudice education”.

Recalling her “exceptional gift for words”, she recognised Anne’s ability to offer “comfort, meaning and hope”, while detailing her life hiding from Nazi persecution in occupied Amsterdam.

“Like many others, I first read this diary when I was the same age as her”, she said, before recalling the “solemn privilege” of visiting Auschwitz for the 75th anniversary of its liberation in January last year. Anne’s family were betrayed and captured in 1944 and she perished in Bergen-Belsen.

The Duchess reflected on having the “pleasure” to have met some of the “thousands of pupils the Trust reaches every year, in schools across the country”, adding: “Their understanding of the past and their dedication to a better future are a testament of all of you”, she said, referring to the Trust, which works “to speak out against prejudice of any kind”.

“But Anne’s story is, of course, one in six million; six million stories that need to be told, heard and remembered to honour those lives that were lost and to force us to understand the consequences of extreme hatred.”

Sharing the message of survivor Marian Turski to “never be bystanders” against prejudice, the Duchess recalled her visit to Auschwitz.

Before addressing the central London

event, which was presented by BBC broadcaster Jo Coburn, the Duchess was given an inscribed copy of Anne Frank’s Diary, and watched a presentation by 15 pupils from three schools across the country, sharing the girl’s message against discrimination.

She took part in a candle-lighting ceremony alongside Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne and honorary president of the Anne Frank Trust UK, and Annabel Schild, daughter of Kindertransportee Rolf Schild. Also participating was former cricketer-turned-racism whistle-blower Azeem Rafiq, who met Jewish community leaders last year after apologising for antisemitism messages, Katie Amess, daughter of the murdered MP Sir David Amess and Michelle Parker, survivor of a mass shooting in Plymouth.

Speaking after the Duchess was Dame

Cherish our beloved and brave survivors alien, abstract, a homogenous group of six million. And they did not know the survivors’ stoCHIEF EXECUTIVE, HOLOCAUST ries. Today, that’s not the case. This week, a surEDUCATIONAL TRUST vivor who didn’t speak of his experience for decades, Manfred Goldberg, shared his testimony The late Holocaust survivor Paul Oppenheimer with the prime minister and Prince of Wales.

His Royal Highness commissioned a titled his book From Belsen to Buckingham portrait of him and seven others – men Palace, writing: “It’s quite a journey.” and women who, as children and He was right. When survivors of teenagers, endured something the concentration and death beyond human imagination; camps of Europe made Britain people who came to the UK their home, who would have speaking no English, with believed that these remarklittle but the clothes on their able individuals would be backs, often the only member honoured by this country for of their family left. Their their service? images now hang in one of For decades after the the most important rooms in war, the human stories of the the world.

Holocaust were missing from This week our nation, public discourse. People knew guided by its leaders, rememabout the Nazis, about Hitler, bered the six million Jewish people knew there had been gas chambers. murdered by the Nazis.

But they didn’t know the human The Holocaust has its rightful face of those whose lives ended Paul Oppenheimer place in our national consciousness in the gas chambers, ghettos, forests and ravines of Europe. The victims were thanks to our beloved and brave survivors.

BY KAREN POLLOCK

The Duchess with Eva Schloss, top, and with anti-racism campaigners. Inset, left: Azeem Rafiq lights a candle at the Trust event

Above: Farina Mannan, Daniel Mendoza OBE, Tim Robertson, the Duchess of Cornwall, Eva Schloss, and Dame Joanna Lumley at the reception

Joanna Lumley, actress, activist and campaigner.

In a speech tinged with comedy and a serious anti-discrimination message, she said it was “not appropriate in this context” to appear as her “repellent” Absolutely Fabulous character Patsy Stone, but explained she had loved reading Anne’s diary “when I was about the same age” as her. She continued: “And a big part of what I loved about it was a completely brilliant sense of humour. It’s not at all a heavy, serious tone, written by a saintly angel. Anne is frequently naughty. She regularly gets into arguments and causes trouble with her family and with the others in hiding with her. And she’s marvellously candid about her own failings.

“She’s very witty in her characterisation

of herself and others. And she uses lots of her diary to record the fun they had. Perhaps Anne’s greatest writer talent is her gift for intimacy, the way she puts us right into her feelings.

“Ultimately, what the humour in the book does is make us care passionately about these likeable, decent people hiding in an attic in Amsterdam.

And this is how it brings home to us so powerfully, just how much the Nazis destroyed.”

Lumley praised the work of the Trust, saying that after last week’s hostage-taking in Texas: “We know antisemitism continues to be a horribly active force in our world. And we know the only way to overcome that force is for Jewish and non-Jewish people to stand together.”

JN video report at jewishnews.co.uk

Call The Midwife’s Shoah theme Jewish viewers are gushing over last weekend’s episode of Call The Midwife and its touching tribute to the Holocaust, writes Sabrina Miller.

The hit BBC1 show featured the heart-warming tale of Sammy and Orli Rosen as they prepare for the birth

of their son, Joel. Throughout the episode, it is clear that Sammy Rosen, who survived Auschwitz, remains haunted by the horrors of the Shoah. As he prepares for fatherhood, his battle against post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor’s guilt becomes the show’s focus.

The episode – which was written by Jewish writer Lena Rae and checked by a congregant of Sandy Row’s synagogue – sensitively explores the trauma experienced by Sammy, while also celebrating the traditions of British Jewry.

UNESCO/WJC EXHIBIT OPENS UNESCO and the World Jewish Congress have partnered to tackle Holocaust denial by launching the “Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors” photography exhibition in Paris, writes Sabrina Miller.

The virtual launch which took place on Wednesday, highlighted more than 50 contemporary photos of Holocaust survivors and their families.

The launch video includes a speech from the Rt Hon. Lord Pickles and testimony from Holocaust survivor Ivor Perl, who was interviewed by Jewish News, news editor Justin Cohen.

In addition, UNESCO and the WJC have partnered with TikTok to tackle Holocaust misinformation amongst young people online.

From today, TikTok users searching for terms related to the Holocaust, such as ‘Holocaust

Justin Cohen interviewing Ivor Perl

victims’ or ‘Holocaust survivor’, will be guided towards the WJC and UNESCO website.

World Jewish Congress President, Ronald S. Lauder said: “The World Jewish Congress is proud to partner with UNESCO and TikTok in making factual and reliable information about the Holocaust available to one billion users.”

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Jewish News meets... Deborah Lipstadt

‘Far-right uses same type of camouflage as Nazis’ In an exclusive interview for Holocaust Memorial Day, the White House’s pick for antisemitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt tells Jewish News the stealth tactics used 80 years ago at Wannsee and by the far-right today are strikingly similar American historian Deborah Lipstadt this week warned that “camouflage” was the thread tying Nazi planning for the Final Solution to Holocaust denial and far-right marches in the United States in recent years, notably in Charlottesville, Virginia, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The professor known for her successful legal challenge against Holocaust denier David Irving was speaking to Jewish News ahead of the 80-year anniversary of the Nazis’ Wannsee Conference, in her first interview in months.

It comes amid political wrangling in Washington DC ahead of her pending appointment by the US Senate as the White House’s new antisemitism envoy.

She said that just as the language of Wannsee “obfuscated” the Nazis’ true intention, likewise Holocaust deniers skirt around the language of denial, and neo-Nazis in the US avoid any overt Nazi symbols while still making clear their allegiance.

“You see it in Wannsee, where they talk about a ‘final solution’ – the next steps, evacuation of the Jews to the east, emigration as an option…

“They never say outright, ‘We’re taking the Jews to the east to be murdered,’” she said.

“If you’d read this and didn’t know what came after, you wouldn’t know that they were organising genocide. It’s the language of camouflage. That got me thinking: it’s the same with Holocaust deniers, who wanted to be called Holocaust revisionists.

“We fought that, but the deniers didn’t like it. They’d say, ‘We’re not antisemites, we’re only here to revise mistakes in history.’

It’s the language. They talk about how

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AT THE ‘UNITE THE RIGHT’ RALLY, WHITE SUPREMACISTS BROUGHT FLAGS WITH THE SS THUNDERBOLT many Jews ‘died’ at Auschwitz. Died? They were killed!”

Having fought Irving – and, by extension, Holocaust denial – for five years in the courts of London, before the case finally came to trial in 2000, Lipstadt says she “saw the same thing in Charlottesville”, in reference to the city’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally in 2017, where white supremacists took to the streets, resulting in three deaths.

“They talked about uniting the right, but they began by chanting ‘Jews will not replace us’ on their Friday night march.

That’s shorthand for genocide replacement theory.

“They say, ‘Blacks and Muslims can’t flood our country on their own, they’re not smart enough, there must be an unseen hand, a puppeteer.’ Who’s the puppeteer?

Who’s always the puppeteer? It’s antisemitism to the chant of replacement.

“They were told not to bring swastika flags, so they brought Confederate flags, flags with the SS thunderbolt, flags with the black sun [an ancient mythological symbol used by the SS], flags with the Othala Rune. Those versed in this know they’re Nazi symbols, but they’re camouflaged to the public.”

US antisemitism envoy nominee, Deborah Lipstadt

In a concluding warning for politicians today, she explained that the language of camouflage and obfuscation was “inherent

to antisemitism” and is what “allows what might otherwise be a fringe movement to encroach increasingly into the mainstream”.

UN APPROVES SHOAH DENIAL MOTION

Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan

The United Nations’ General Assembly has approved an Israeli-backed resolution that condemns denial of Holocaust and urges all countries and social media platforms to combat antisemitism.

The measures were passed by consensus – without the need for a formal vote – even though Iran urged member states to reject it.x The Iranian representative to the UN said Israel “routinely attempts to exploit the suffering of Jewish people in the past as cover for the crimes it has perpetrated over the past seven decades against the regional countries”.

The vote took place on 20 January, the 80th anniversary of a conference on the shores of Berlin’s Wannsee Lake, where Nazi leaders coordinated their plans to exterminate Jewish people.

Earlier, Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, said he hoped the resolution would be adopted by consensus because, with many Holocaust survivors dying now, the internet was spreading “this dangerous phenomena of distorting and even denying the Holocaust”.

He told the Associated Press last Wednesday: “If we want this body, the

UN, to succeed in preventing genocide we must remember what happened in the past and this is the goal of tomorrow’s decision.”

The resolution commends countries that have preserved Nazi death camps and other Holocaust sites and urges all 193 member states to educate future generations about the Holocaust to prevent genocides.

Many countries have followed the UN’s lead in designating 27 January, the anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation in 1945, as Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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News / Antisemitism summit

‘Education is vaccine against antisemitism’

By Lee Harpin and Sabrina Miller

Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi has said a summit he led this week to address the rise of antisemitism across UK universities was held to “send out a clear message that anti-Jewish racism, like other forms of racism, will never be tolerated in our classrooms or campuses”.

Forty people – including university vice chancellors, Union of Jewish Students (UJS) representatives, the government’s antisemtism adviser, Lord Mann, and other educational officials – attended Wednesday’s online conference led by the secretary of state.

Holding the event ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day, Zahawi (pictured) said: “Education is the vaccine against antisemitism.

“No Jewish students or staff

members should be subjected to antisemitic abuse and, by working together, we will send out a clear message that antisemitism – like other forms of racism – will never be tolerated in our classrooms or campuses”.

He added: “In November, I visited Auschwitz and was humbled by the experience. Seeing first-hand the spectre of a concentration camp, which bestowed so many horrors, is something that will stay with me for the rest of my life.

“The antisemitism summit looks at the incidents of antisemitism on campus and discusses measures and commitments that can be taken to ensure Jewish students and staff feel safe in higher education.”

Lord Mann added: “It is vital to consolidate best practice and uphold the central role of the UJS in empowering Jewish students on campus. It is good to see the government is recognising this.”

Among those to also speak out was Jonny Newton of the Community Security Trust (CST), who warned of the need for security of Jewish students to be taken seriously – and he spoke also of the need to work in unity with groups across the community.

The CST is to improve data reporting from universities to help build a better picture of this issue and sharing cases of best practice.

UJS will also run a training workshop for attendees on how to improve support for Jewish students who have been victims of antisemitism.

Minister of state for higher and further education, Michelle Donelan, said: “I am horrified by the very thought of even one incident of antisemitism on campus – it has no place within any of our world-leading universities.

“I will work hand-in-hand with the sector to take forward

Students protesting outside LSE

commitments agreed to today and ensure providers have the right tools to tackle this issue. Finally, I want to take this opportunity to urge those few universities yet to sign up to the IHRA [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance]’s definition of antisemitism to follow in the footsteps of many others and do so now. Without a universal recognition of antisemitism, we cannot hope for its abolition.”

UJS president, Nina Freedman, said: “It is great to see the Department for Education taking action on this incredibly important issue. Hopefully this summit will be just the first step in a collaborative plan to combat antisemitism in higher education.”

She added: “Antisemitism awareness training is a vital and effective tool for rooting out antisemitism in the higher education sector. We hope to empower as many people as possible to recognise and call out antisemitism where they see it in any form.”

Also making speeches were Queen Mary University’s head of diversity, Alex Prestage, and Nic Beech, the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University.

Attendees of the summit also pledged to work to increase even further the number of universities adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism.

Student representatives spoke of how criticism of Israel often turned into clear cases of antisemitism – and how a lack of education on the issue led to many students crossing the line from legitimate criticism of the Jewish state into Jew-hatred.

LET STUDENTS DEFINE THEIR TIME ON CAMPUS

BY SABRINA MILLER

JEWISH NEWS REPORTER

Government minister Nadhim Zahawi has met with Union of Jewish Students (UJS) president Nina Freedman, vice chancellors and other Jewish groups to discuss antisemitism on campus.

As a victim of on-campus antisemitism, it is so heartwarming to see those with power prioritising this issue. This government has repeat-

edly taken the time to listen to Jewish students directly as they recount their harrowing experiences While facing the wrath of David Miller and his Electronic Intifada minions, public support from Rob Halfon MP, then education minister Gavin Williamson and Christian Wakeford revitalised the student-led campaign against anti-Jewish hate.

The government rightly propped up young Jewish voices and listened to the needs of Miller’s victims.

Too often, this is not the case.

Over-excited communal organisations often overlook and undermine

the people they say they want to defend.

Some groups aggressively hijack conversations about campus life, speaking over and above the students who fight on the front lines. Instead of listening to those affected, these well-funded, antisemitism-fighting organisations impose their will onto Jewish students.

This is wrong. It is Jewish students, and Jewish students only, who can speak with candour and authority on the issue of campus antisemitism.

Despite what you may have been led to believe, almost all Jewish stu-

dents have positive things to say about their time at university – myself included.

Even though I experienced antisemitism in my final year, I still had an overwhelmingly brilliant time at Bristol University.

For me, Jewish campus life mostly consisted of questionable Friday night dinners and drunken club nights. Antisemitism represented such a small part of my life. Non-students, who suggest Jews cower in fear on campus on a daily basis, are wrong.

That is why this conference – which gives agency to Jewish stu-

dents and their elected leaders – is so vital. Now I am no longer a student, I recognise that I don’t have the authority to speak, as I once did, on the realities of campus life.

Instead, I humbly urge all to turn their attention to the next generation of student campaigners.

I hope Zahawi and other political leaders will listen to this generation and continue to fight anti-Jewish hate.

My experiences have taught me that, although universities aren’t always perfect, we must recognise how welcoming Britain truly is.

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Hidden Jews / AJR project / Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

I’ll nominate Albanians who saved my family as ‘Righteous’

by Jenni Frazer @Jennifrazer

A Serbian-born academic and consultant has pledged to nominate two Albanian brothers as Righteous Among the Nations for rescuing him and his family during the Holocaust.

Ichak Kalderon Adizes, in his memoir The Accordion Player, relates how he, his grandmother and his parents were hidden in an Albanian village for nearly two years by two brothers, Ali and Rajib Brahimi. The family pretended to be Muslim after a local qadi, or Muslim priest, had brought them there. They had previously been in the Monopol camp in Skopje, Macedonia.

But for many years Dr Adizes believed that neither the brothers, nor anyone in the village, knew that his family were Jews. His parents kept up the pretence, telling their protectors that they were ‘Bosnian Muslims’ who had different traditions of prayer from the villagers.

During one Ramadan festival, Dr Adizes’ father made the then seven-year-old go upstairs in their house so the family could eat. If he heard any movement from the Brahimi brothers, he was told to jump up and down to warn his parents. Devout Muslims fast during Ramadan.

In 1996, however, an Israeli TV company took Dr Adizes and his father back to Albania

After the war the family moved to retrace their steps of hiding and to Israel, where Ichak served in to reunite with the Brahimi the IDF. Moni took work as brothers and their relatives. a longshoreman in Haifa.

During filming it Ichak had learned to became clear that no play the accordion one in the village and armed with the had believed any of i n st r u m e n t , a n d the Adizes’ stories $50, he left for about themselves.

America and began Dr Adizes’ father, a stellar career in Salamon (Moni), business and conwas a flamboyant sultancy. character who Over the years, had acted as village from an unlikely doctor. His standard beginning, Dr Adizes treatment was to prehas advised prime minisscribe fresh air and sunters and presidents, including shine, though occasionally he Shimon Peres and Jimmy Carter. did perform small operations and help with childbirth.

Ichak Kalderon Adizes: He says writing his memoir was both difficult and “very theraThe Adizes family was territakes after his father peutic”, saying his father “was a fied of being betrayed to the Italian fascists who roamed the mountains. But during very tragic figure… he could not read or write, filming of the TV programme the Brahimi everybody put him down. The only one he had brothers revealed they had known all along the any authority over was me. So all his frustrations family were Jewish: the qadi who brought them settled on my shoulders. But I forgive him.”

Moni Adizes, says his son, “forgot he was a to the village had told them. They also knew Moni wasn’t a doctor — he was dyslexic and barely lit- Jew hiding from the Nazis. While for us it was the worst time of our lives, for him it was the erate — but let him continue with the pretence.

AJR to plant 25 of its 80 anniversary trees

by Sabrina Miller

best time of his life, because for once he was someone who mattered.”

A relatively small number of Albanians are honoured by Yad Vashem for saving Jews. Dr Adizes admits today that he had “failed” to nominate the Brahimi brothers in 1996, saying the paperwork required had defeated him. But today, aged 85, he says he will try again and will go to Yad Vashem in April (he has a home in Israel and in Santa Barbara, California) to provide the relevant testimony.

As the author of a book (to be published later this year) called The Accordionist, Dr Adizes still plays and owns three of the instruments. It was the accordion which kept him going during his early years in the States, playing on street corners and in restaurants for tips while he put himself through college. His central message, he says, is “Im tirtzu – if you want it, it will happen”. He smiles as he says he takes after his father, Moni, in “chutzpah — I jumped, I made things happen.”

Dr Stephen Smith, founder of the UK Holocaust Centre, said: “The courage of the Muslim families who took life-threatening risks to give the Azides family safety are truly inspiring. I am hopeful that the family that gave shelter to the Azides family is recognised for all that they did to give this family the chance to survive and thrive.”

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torically significant to the Jewish refugees who fled Nazism.

AJR chief executive Michael Newman said: “As well as helping to mark the heritage of our members and a place of historic interest associated with them, the planting of this tree enables the AJR to give back to and create a living legacy within the country that became home to the Jewish refugees.

“Britain’s native oak trees are in decline and new trees are desperately needed. We hope these 80 special trees will be appreciated by future generations and provide natural habitats for other native species for many decades to come.”

The Association of Jewish Refugees is to plant 80 oak trees to commemorate the 80th anniversary of its existence.

Twenty-five trees will be planted today, on Holocaust Memorial Day, with a further 40 planted to honour the thousands of Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi persecution.

The AJR – which provides social and welfare services to Holocaust refugees and survivors – hopes that the “80 Trees for 80 Years Campaign” will highlight the “enormous contribution” Jewish refugees have made to British society.

Michael Rosenstock, son of AJR’s founding secretary Werner Rosenstock, is funding a tree in Hyde Park to be planted on Holocaust Memorial Day. He has said: “My father, who was general secretary of the AJR for the first 42 years of its existence, would be amazed and humbled if he knew that the organisation was still going strong at the age of 80, with plenty to keep it occupied.”

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News / Islamophobia row

Community shows support for Ghani Community leaders this week expressed solidarity with Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani after she claimed she was sacked for being Muslim Ghani – who left as a transport minister in 2020 – made

headlines after accusing the party’s chief whip Mark Spencer of firing her because her “Muslimness” made colleagues “uncomfortable”.

In a statement early on Monday, Boris Johnson stated

that he is taking the allegations made by Nusrat Gani “extremely seriously” and has ordered the Cabinet Office to launch an inquiry into her allegations to establish the facts about what happened.

Ghani has worked with the community to raise awareness of the plight of Uyghur Muslims, persecuted by China. In October last year, she handed a petition to the prime minister signed by 150 parliamentarians, with Jewish News, saying China was committing geno-

Tory MP Nusrat Ghani

cide. She also tabled a motion in the Commons advocating sanctions.

Offering its support to the MP, the Board of Deputies tweeted: “We fully support Nus on this serious issue, and expect that there will be a proper investigation into the conduct of those involved.”

Director of the Antisemitism Policy Trust Danny Stone to expressed his “solidarity” with Ghani, adding that she has served the British public “with integrity and honour”.

He slammed Tory MP Michael Fabricant’s “disgraceful attack” on Ghani after

he told LBC that Ghani’s accusation of Islamophobia is false because “she’s hardly someone who’s obviously a Muslim”.

Stone responded: “When someone says they have experienced racism, we treat them with respect and investigate with due diligence. That is our British way.”

The government’s independent adviser on antisemitism Lord Mann, also conveyed support for Ghani, noting that she has a reputation for “integrity and honesty”.

I KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO BE ‘OTHERED’

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There have rightly been many messages of support for Nusrat. She has a long and robust record as an active and vocal campaigner against antisemitism and is especially deserving of attention.

But solidarity has to be more than kind words or tweets; particularly from the Jewish community. Just as the fight against antisemitism can’t be limited to Jewish voices, countering Islamophobia is not a fight the Muslim community

should shoulder alone. Active allyship requires us to counter discrimination wherever we find it. It isn’t easy to speak truth to power. It’s even more difficult to challenge something so awful that has come from within your political home.

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Sweet campaign / Wiley upset / Jami fundraiser / News

Lord Sugar says ‘you’re hired’ Rashford: I don’t to support synagogue refurb condone Wiley Lord Sugar has ‘hired’ members of Chigwell and Hainault Synagogue to support the refurbishment of the community’s building after recording an Apprentice-style skit to set the challenge, writes Jack Mendel.

The billionaire businessman and synagogue member challenged congregants to think of innovative ways to raise money – and match his family’s £600,000 donation to support the community.

In the Apprentice-themed clip, released ahead of this weekend’s fundraising drive, he says: “I’ve been hearing about the need to refurbish the shul and bring it up to standards for the 2020s.

“It’s been a workhorse for serving the community – but needs overhauling. It’s a big task, which is why I ask Kevin and Colin to set up teams – teams that will raise the remaining funds, needed to get this project done.”

The light-hearted video shows two teams from the synagoge arriving with suitcases, brainstorming ideas to raise money, including offering free cholent and kugel for each donation and selling lost property.

Synagogue chair Lindsay Shuresaid: “Behind the entertaining

Lord Sugar has recorded an Apprentice-style campaign video

film is a serious message: we have a huge amount to raise to transform our community for the coming decades and we need all our members to play their part.

“We have managed to secure a number of significant donations already and we’re asking the community to be as generous as they can this weekend.”

JAMI RAISES MORE THAN £1M FROM FIRST CROWDFUNDER A total of 350 teams campaigned for 36 hours to raise the sum as part of the Jami See Me, See Mental Health campaign.

The initiative was launched as

great charity”, while Jami chief executive Laurie Rackind said: “Mental health problems are on the increase and as a community we need to get better at recognising when people are struggling, understand what support is available, and for us at Jami to make sure that treatment and support are accessible to all who need us.”

“I would like to reinforce that I do not and will not condone discriminative language or behaviour of any kind aimed at the Jewish community or any other community.

“I truly believe that tackling antisemitism in and outside of the game requires a greater level of attention and should very much form part of the game’s anti-racism stance.”

The now-deleted picture depicts the stars posing and smiling next to the antisemitic rapper, in Dubai on Sunday.

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Staff at Jami celebrate the fundraiser

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Mental health charity Jami raised £1,227,698 from more than 5,000 donations in its first crowdfunding campaign, smashing its original goal of £1,000,000.

demand for its services increased by a third since the start of the pandemic. The charity also plans to expand its suicide prevention services and to launch a pilot programme that delivers early intervention to secondary school pupils.

Campaigner Countdown maths whizz Rachel Riley tweeted: “So nice to see so much support for this

Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford has said he does “not condone discrimination of any kind”, after he and teammate Jesse Lingard were pictured with racist rapper Wiley.

The England star was pictured with the musician, who caused outrage with antisemitic social media posts last year, while in Dubai this week.

He responded on Twitter: “A picture has been brought to my attention which I understand now, given context, could easily be misconstrued.

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News / JNF UK vote / TUC upset

Blue letter day as charity censured Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl noted that JNF UK chair Samuel Hayek has “still not retracted or apologised” for anti-Muslim comments he made in an interview last

month with this newspaper.

Confirming the Israel charity had been sent a letter of censure after Deputies voted by a “large majority” in favour of a motion calling for such action at last Sunday’s

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She added: “When you are unable to reject explicitly, antiMuslim bigotry, it undermines attempts to draw attention to, and combat, antisemitism from extremists in the Muslim community.

“The sweeping statement about the future of Jewish life in the UK is deeply insulting to the many thousands of activists and leaders whose ceaseless work has made our com-

Two-thirds of Deputies voted in favour of the resolution

munity a beacon of excellence in the Jewish diaspora.”

The letter was sent to trustees Hayek, Gideon Falter, Dr

Alan Mendoza, Gary Mond, David Berens, Laurence Julius, Timothy Kendal, Murray Lee, Belinda Oakland, Mandi

Waisman and Howard Wayne.

It confirmed that a resolution, proposed by UJS deputy Joel Rosen, had been passed after debate at the plenary by 133 votes to 75.

The resolution had said: “The Board of Deputies hereby censures the Jewish National Fund UK for failing to disavow the inflammatory and bigoted remarks of its chair Samuel Hayek.”

It noted how, after speaking to Jerusalem Post last month, Hayek told Jewish News British Jews were threatened

by Muslim immigration.

TUC opposes new UK-Israel trade deal The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has sparked anger by announcing it opposes the signing of a new UK-Israel trade agreement.

In a statement released ahead of a Westminster debate on UK-Israel trade negotiations, the union organisation said: “The UK-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement

has no binding safeguards for protecting human and labour rights, nor enforcement mechanisms or sanctions if there are violations of rights.

“The TUC’s position is that the UK should not be signing a new trade agreement with Israel and other countries that are systematically abusing human rights.”

Opening last Thursday’s debate, Tory MP for Harrow East Bob Blackman welcomed the government and foreign secretary Liz Truss’ commitment to deepen trade and security links with Israel.

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Unmasked serial troll could face jail for online Jew-hate gate, pursue those responsible and Activists fighting Jew-hatred through recover any losses. the courts have hailed a “gameCAA, which funded Kern’s legal changing” case in Peterborough action, said victims “usually have where an online antisemitic troll nowhere to go, because only rarely was unmasked and prosecuted, will the police track down the sender, writes Adam Decker. and the cost of private action is usuNicholas Nelson pleaded guilty ally beyond victims’ means”. It said to racially aggravated harassment the case set a precedent and “enabled without violence under Section 2 of us to identify the anonymous troll by the Protection from Harassment Act obtaining a special kind of court order 1997 for sending antisemitic meswhich… has never before been used sages to Jewish screenwriter Lee to unmask an anonymous abuser Kern, among others. sending antisemitic messages”.

Nelson, 32, sent messages Criminal proceedings were including emails from accounts that Nicholas Nelson ‘worked hard’ to escape detection brought after CAA’s court order idenhe “worked very hard to make anonytified Nelson. The defendant, from Against Antisemitism (CAA), used a Normous”. Victims of anonymous abuse typically struggle to get court orders wich Pharmacal Order (NPO), which Cambridgeshire, committed the offences forcing internet service providers to allows information to be obtained from during the period of a suspended jail term third parties who have become “mixed up” he was given in 2020 for similar offences. disclose account holder details.

Mark Lewis, a lawyer for Campaign in wrongdoing. It helps victims to investi- Sentencing is expected on 25 March.

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ACADEMIC HITS AT SUSPENSION A UK academic who defended a poster calling to “stop the Palestinian Holocaust” has been suspended, writes Jack Mendel.

Shahd Abusalama is no longer an associate lecturer of postcolonial media culture at Sheffield Some of Abusalama’s Twitter activity Hallam University, following social media posts which were investigated by the institution. The Palestinian-born academic shared tweets defending a first-year student, who had been accused of antisemitism after making a poster calling to ‘Stop the Palestinian Holocaust’.

Abusalama claims she is being “defamed and harassed” by Jewish News and other “Zionist publications”.

Sheffield Hallam University confirmed her suspension, adding that it had adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism and was “committed to ensuring an inclusive culture for all of our students and staff ”.

The Palestinian student, who was a faculty member of the media arts and communication department, said use of the word Holocaust “distracts attention from the Zionist practices of settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians”.

On Twitter last week, Abusalama said she was “being defamed and harassed by Zionist publications” and called for supporters to petition the university. She was approached for comment.

PINTER TRUST SET UP IN MEMORY OF LATE RABBI An organisation representing strictly-Orthodox Jews has been formed in memory of Rabbi Avrohom Pinter from Stamford Hill, who died from Covid in 2020, writes Stephen Oryszczuk.

The Pinter Trust, launched on Monday, is hosted by Interlink Foundation, and will speak on behalf of the big strictly-Orthodox communities in London, Manchester, and Gateshead, plus the small but growing community in Canvey Island in Essex.

A long-time Labour councillor and principal of Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls’ School, Pinter acted as “a bridge” to the outside world in his role as the Charedi community’s unofficial spokesperson, and senior rabbis say his death severed a vital link.

Rabbi Pinter died from Covid in 2020

The Trust’s chairman, Rabbi Avrohom Sugarman, said it would “seek to tell the story of the Charedi community in the words of the community itself” and “give people a greater understanding of who we are and our way of life”.

UK book chain ‘justified’ selling Protocols of Zion A leading book chain with 20 stores nationwide has removed from sale The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, after an outcry from Jewish leaders.

Blackwell’s took down the book from its website after criticism of the synopsis used to describe the racist forgery, which said it “neither supports nor denies the message”.

After hundreds of complaints on social media, and statements from Jewish

organisations, including the Board of Deputies, Campaign Against Antisemitism and Holocaust Educational Trust, the store said in a statement: “We have refrained from com-

menting publicly because we did not wish to give the oxygen of publicity to this title.” It said its description, which questioned whether it was a forgery “was an automatic feed from the publisher. It was neither written nor endorsed by us”.

It added it cannot “state in clearer terms [while] we believe the contents of this book are abhorrent. We also believe books should be available and not pushed underground”.

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‘English Jews: 330,000’ – we were all on the list

by Stephen Oryszczuk

Historians have said that the Protocol listing Europe’s 11 million Jews for extermination was still “largely unknown” outside scholarly circles, on the 80th anniversary of the Nazis’ Wannsee Conference.

Academics and authors lined up alongside the British government’s antisemitism adviser Lord Mann in a webinar ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day to describe how 15 senior Nazis, including Adolf Eichmann, planned the mechanics of the Final Solution.

Organised by the Henry Jackson Society and moderated by the society’s director, Alan Mendoza, the event featured the Deborah Hartmann, the Austrian director of Wannsee House, an hour’s drive from Berlin, which is now a Holocaust Museum.

Analysts say the increasing strength of Germany’s far-right movement only adds to the importance of museums and memorials designed to showcase the horrors the follow when such ideologies gain power.

The worldwide Jewish population in 1939 was about 16 million, with almost two thirds living in Europe. Of the 11 million Jews listed on the Wannsee Protocol, six million were killed. Fewer than 300,000 survived the camps and death marches.

Dr Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Paris, who also spoke on the webinar, said the Wannsee Protocol – a breakdown of 11 million Jews the Nazis had listed for extermination – was “largely unknown” to all but specialists and historians.

“The meeting at Wannsee on 20 January 1942 determined who would live and who would die – and I look at this as a very personal thing,” he told Jewish News before the event.

“I was born two weeks after VE [Victory in Europe] Day and grew up in London with a tremendous respect for water, meaning the English Channel, which was a stopping point.

“As a child, I knew that if Hitler had breached it, we wouldn’t have been around, because what happened on the continent would have happened here. Indeed, if you

look at the Protocol, it says ‘English Jews: 330,000.’ We were on the list.”

The list is split into two – A and B – with A listing places that were under Nazi control when it was drawn up, such as Bialystock in north-east Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, which is noted as “judenfrei” – “free of Jews”.

The other list, B, is of places that were not yet under Nazi control at the time, such as Ireland, Turkey, Serbia, and Portugal. The USSR is noted as having five million Jews, almost three million of whom were living in Ukraine.

Dr Matthias Küntzel, an author and political scientist who is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations, said the conference “imposed the death penalty on 11 million Jews in Europe… it’s written down”.

He added that “from an organisational point of view, this is the starting point for the worst mass A 1935 chart shows racial classifications under the Nuremberg Laws murder in history, therefore it’s necessary to remember the date and time in which that happened”.

The Protocol was found by US soldiers after the war. While about 30 copies were made, only one copy was discovered in the files of the Nazis’ foreign office. At his trial in Jerusalem, Adolf Eichmann confirmed that the Protocol was used and that he was responsible for drawing it up and sending it to other conference members.

“This list only contains Jews of Europe,” said Küntzel. “But some weeks before the Wannsee Conference, Adolf Hitler met the mufti of Jerusalem, they spoke about how to kill 700,000 Jews in the Middle East – so it wasn’t only the 11 million, it wasn’t only Europe.”

He said: “The Protocol is well known amongst historians, but in the broad public, it’s not very much known. The Wannsee Conference shows the impact of antisemitic ideology, so it’s very important to connect remembrance with current affairs.”

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Setting an example, part one – royalty It would have come as a surprise to no one who’s followed his relationship with the Jewish community – particularly his support for those who endured the horrors of the Holocaust – that Prince Charles, with wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was still happily chatting away when his latest engagement with survivors was due to wrap up on Monday.

The heir to the throne has long gone above and beyond when it comes to this dwindling community, and his initiative to immortalise seven survivors in paintings at Buckingham Palace is another example of his family’s pledge to keep alive the memory. It is a commitment that his son Prince William and daughter-in-law Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, have also adopted and run with, not least by the latter’s photography project which opened at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris this week. It’s hard to overstate the importance of their voices in an age when denial still exists, particularly in the online world.

... and part two – an England footballer

Also this week, and not for the first time, Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford set an example where others in the public eye – including those with far more years on the clock – have too often failed.

It was, for once, not for good reason that the goal scorer’s name came across our radar this week, but his response to a photograph emerging of him posing with antisemitic rapper Wiley showed the measure of the man.

Within hours he owned it, distanced himself from the rapper whose track record he’d apparently been unaware of and, pressed on Twitter, condemned his hateful statements.

He went further: “I truly believe that tackling antisemitism in and outside of the game requires a greater level of attention and should very much form part of the game’s anti-racism stance.” We couldn’t have put it better.

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Under attack from all sides I must wade into the Samuel Hayek debate and views shared recently by letter writers Richard Kafton and Daniel Anderson.

While Anglo-Jewry is not in a golden age, it is indeed in a perilous position – not only due to an influx of Middle Eastern immigration, but the alliance between them, the hard-left and of course the ever-present virtue signallers.

During the Gaza clashes last spring, I attended a rally outside the Israel Embassy. Despite admirable organisation and with free transport laid on, we only mustered some 4,000 people to attend – out of the UK population of 270,000.

The alliance, as described in the previous paragraph, seemed frequently to muster some 100,000 people to demonstrate at short notice – and, at one point, there seemed to be two or three such demonstrations a week.

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It’s striking that, while the Jewish communal leadership spent the last fortnight cancelling anyone who dares mention Islamic antisemitism, a British Islamist took a synagogue hostage.

We can be thankful that no victims were injured, but it’s certainly no thanks to the leaders of British Jews who would rather we never talk about these things.

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sides, with vulnerable people being abused in the streets. This is being fuelled not by just political Israel/Zionist bashing, but insidious reporting from the BBC, which loves to report on disturbances on the ‘Occupied Territories’, but omits to report on human rights violations in Iraq/Iran/Saudi Arabia Qatar/Syria, and describes terrorist organisations as ‘militants’.

I must record my admiration of the Community Security Trust, which keeps us protected, and the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which calls out and pick up from cases that the director of public prosecutions seems reluctant to pursue.

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Jonathan Kay, By email

Gary Mond of the Board of Deputies has resigned his position for having the temerity to speak the truth. This decision having been brought about by the Board’s general view is nothing new and, on this occasion, like many others, no doubt the truth hurts.

It is, and has always been, an organisation committed to not rocking the boat and, as far as confronting antisemitism is concerned, by adhering to a policy of stating “it’s just a drizzle” when the facts point to us having been “spat upon”.

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REASON FOR THE ‘OCCUPATION’ Fraser Michaelson misses the point regarding ‘the occupation’ and Palestinian intentions.

Israel controls the West Bank of the River Jordan simply because of the Palestinians’ continual refusal to accommodate a Jewish state anywhere. To Palestinians, all Israel is occupied territory.

The term ‘occupied West Bank’ will

be an irrelevance until the day comes, if ever, when there are Palestinians who will recognise Israel without qualification and are prepared to live in peace with it. Maybe then Palestinians will have their own state.

And it must not be forgotten that it would be on the land of Jewish biblical Judea.

Malcolm Factor, EN2

Bizarre understatement I would like to comment on a statement by Sebastian Rejak, acting director of the American Jewish Committee Central Europe, in last week’s Jewish News Podcast, entitled Losing Hope for Poland. “[The Holocaust is] definitely an important part of Jewish history, but I think it’s worthwhile to look at that history from a wider perspective and also appreciate the heritage of Polish Jewry.

“To you and me it seems obvious the Holocaust is just one chapter – a very important and very painful chapter – but there are other chapters in the history of Polish or European Jews so I think we should look at this through the lens of this wider perspective.”

I found the declaration that “the Holocaust is just one chapter – a very important and

painful chapter – but there are other chapters in the history of Polish or European Jews” to be a bizarre understatement in the extreme.

In any examination in which objective reason is employed, all the other chapters pale absolutely in comparison with the murder of six million Jews, including three million Polish Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Collaboration by Poles was a natural outgrowth of centuries of Polish antisemitism.

There is a connection to Polish history. The Holocaust is not an isolated chapter.

I was disappointed that host Michael Daventry did not challenge Rejak on this.Anticipating a response, a defence or rationale claiming context is a weak one indeed in this case. I believe an admission of error is in order.

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Dear Danny’s sudden death is a devastating loss to us all ALEX BRUMMER

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ommunity became ever more important to us in the pandemic.

No one I know has epitomised the community spirit in the past two Covid-stained years than my younger brother, Daniel, a stalwart of the at times fractured Brighton and Hove kehilllot.

His recent sudden death has not just been a devastating shock to my family, but stunned all the communities, social and commercial, in which he was involved. The outpouring of grief at his lavoyah at Brighton’s beautiful Meadow View Jewish cemetery, high up on the chalk South Downs overlooking the sea, was a measure of what was lost.

More than 150 souls and four local rabbis turned out to pay tribute to Danny, as he was known. The mourners came from far and wide.

This included my son, Justin, and his wife, who flew in on the red eye from Austin, Texas; Jewish and non-Jewish colleagues from the

Covent Garden antiques markets in central London, and my elderly aunt, Sussie, who, with my cousin Shindy, are both Shoah survivors.

I took calls from grieving former female friends from Israel and Australia. In the age of social media, details of family loss travel wide.

Daniel touched many lives. Amid the dozens of handwritten condolence letters I received (and as many online tributes), many make reference to his meticulous care and love for our late father, Michael. Daniel was his carer for the past decade or so of a wonderful life stretching for 103 years. This made Daniel’s death at threescore years and 10 even more poignant.

Danny did not just look after our father. He was the helper for all our elderly relatives in the Brighton area. For many years, he would be seen at Jewish Care’s Hyman Fine Home in Kemptown before Shabbat visiting a cousin of my late mother. He would come equipped with the JC (Jewish News doesn’t make it to Brighton), her favourite sweets and flowers.

Another cousin, Josephine, would allow Danny alone to transport her to medical appointments. And my late Aunt Rose, another

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THE OUTPOURING OF GRIEF AT HIS LAVOYAH WAS A MEASURE OF WHAT WAS LOST

Holocaust survivor and rabbanit, depended on Daniel for her medical appointments and kosher supplies from London.

When Covid-19 was at its worst, Daniel was hard at work in the Hove Hebrew Congregation meat kitchen on Holland Road, alongside the synagogue’s vice-president, Michele Cohen, preparing food for older and lonely members.

His considerable talents as a skilled maker of chopped liver, latkes and salt beef (honed in his earlier career as a kosher butcher and delicatessen proprietor) were put to use and it was Danny who personally made the deliveries. None of this was a chore. In our many conversations, he would recount the delightful

exchanges on the doorstep harking back to the glory days of Brighton Jewry.

He didn’t excel just in the kitchen. For as long as I can remember, he would be up on the bimah at Holland Road marshalling the calling up. He was also in charge of the Haftorah rota – a tough job in recent times, as the number of capable readers dwindled. When there was a hole in the rota or someone failed to show, he would fill it himself, helped by his mastery of Ivrit learned during a sojourn in Israel.

When Chabad called for someone to make up the minyan, Daniel would not only be there, but would collect other enrolled members from outside their nearby apartment blocks on Hove’s Grand Avenue.

In the difficult pandemic era, Danny was a member of that most sacred group of community servants, the chevra kadisha. One of his last tasks in this cause had been to divert himself from his work in central London to Stamford Hill to pick up a new consignment of kosher burial shrouds. It was an assignment completed without complaint or any foreknowledge of the tragedy that would shortly take him from us all.

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History’s warning must be heeded for Uyghurs OLIVIA MARKS WALDMAN

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oday is a day of solemn reflection and remembering the past. And it’s also a forward-looking day of action and concern for tomorrow.

Today, Uyghur Muslims in China are facing state-sponsored persecution. They are torn from their families, brutally forced to give up their culture and faith, imprisoned in camps, shaved, shackled, loaded onto trains, beaten, tortured, sterilised and denied all basic dignity and rights. Although there are many differences between the Holocaust and the current situation facing Uyghur Muslims, there are parallels too.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, the warning from the past should ring loudly in our collective consciousness. We must use our voices and personal experiences of the Holocaust to stand up for Uyghur Muslims. Because if not today,

then when? And as a people who know all too well what it’s like to be hated and persecuted for who we are, we surely simply can’t afford to look away.

In just a few days, Beijing will dazzle with the glamour of the Winter Olympic Games.

The horrific plight and suffering of the Uyghurs, in the meantime, continues – in the same country. In 1936, the world turned a blind eye to the ‘Aryans only’ policy across all Nazi German athletic organisations. And while a boycott was proposed by many in western countries, it never materialised and the opportunity was missed.

Today, our government – together with the US and Canada – is holding a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing games. This diplomatic boycott makes a point and sends a message; that in and of itself is powerful. We only have to think: what if the international community had managed to boycott the 1936 Olympics?

Would this have any effect on the tragic events we commemorate today?

And what can we do as individuals to speak up for the Uyghurs? Well, firstly, we can simply

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WE CAN PERSONALLY BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS TO SPEAK UP FOR THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS educate ourselves – make sure we don’t forget the pain of the Uyghur people as we carry on with our busy lives.

We can tell our children and continue teaching them empathy and showing concern for others. We can write to our MPs. We can personally boycott the Olympics – I, for one, will not be watching. We can organise events – Holocaust survivors often speak up about the treatment of the Uyghurs – to create opportunities for others to learn.

Jewish News regularly features the plight of the Uyghurs on their cover, with headlines such as ‘We are with you’, ‘Don’t be silent’ and ‘Chilling echoes’.

We can all use the platforms, talents and opportunities that we have – big or small – to be allies to Uyghur Muslims today.

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. One very simple action we can all do, today, is light the darkness. At 8pm, candles will be glowing in windows across the country and iconic buildings will light up in purple.

These candles will be flames of remembrance for the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust, millions murdered under Nazi persecution and recent genocides.

And they will be flames of solidarity with people today who face prejudice for who they are.

Your neighbours might ask you about your candle – tell them about the plight of the Uyghur people.

The UK 2022 Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony will be broadcast online at 7pm tonight, 27 January, on hmd.org.uk

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‘Muslimness’ claim is a shock to all minorities AKEELA AHMED

FOUNDER, SHE SPEAKS WE HEAR

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usrat Ghani’s allegations against Downing Street – that she was sacked as a minister because she was a Muslim, will come as a shock not just to Muslims, but to all religious and ethnic minorities. Her status as a “Muslim woman minister” making her colleagues feel “uncomfortable” is not the hallmark of an inclusive, democratic society.

There is no reason not to believe Ghani.

As a British Muslim woman, my worst fear is to be unfairly treated because of my faith and identity. Many British Muslim women from different walks of life routinely experience similar anti-Muslim discrimination.

All too often, however, Muslim women remain silent when they experience discrimination in the workplace or at school or university for fear of being penalised for speaking out..

Some reactions to Ghani’s revelations have shown these fears to be well founded. One MP said Ghani couldn’t have been sacked because

of her faith as she was not “obviously Muslim”.

Such gaslighting and denial is typical of discriminatory attitudes towards minorities.

Anti-Muslim hatred and prejudice is not determined by how much or whether the victim practises their faith or not. It is predicated on the racial bias of the person or structure causing or resulting in Islamophobia.

Having sat on and chaired the government’s working group on Anti-Muslim Hatred for ten years, it’s clear to me that despite some progress in dealing with Islamophobia, it’s not getting the attention it deserves. I believe that negative attitudes towards British Muslims are at an alltime high, as corroborated by recent research.

My own experiences of hate incidents in my daily life are a reminder of just how prevalent hate crime is – crime which is linked to negative media coverage, online hate and regressive attitudes. Ghani's allegations show that Islamophobia manifests at the highest levels in this country, causing damage to the career of a successful woman just because she is Muslim.

It’s time we had a grown-up conversation about Islamophobia that goes beyond party politics; an open discussion about the lived

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WHAT CAN BE DONE? LISTEN, AND STOP MAKING ASSUMPTIONS

realities of anti-Muslim hatred – based on evidence, not speculation, and focused on practical solutions, not just gathering data. We need to listen to British Muslim women, against whom more than 70 percent of anti-Muslim hate crimes are perpetrated.

Dozens of studies show that in nearly every aspect of their lives, many British Muslims experience prejudice based on their faith, often intersecting with gender, race, class, disability and sexuality. Structures and agencies that should have been dealing with Islamophobia have failed to address it for years.

So what can be done? One thing anyone can do is to listen to Muslim women in our own words and to stop making assumptions about us. I founded She Speaks We Hear to amplify

Muslim women’s voices and connect them to the public sphere. We recently launched a podcast so that people can listen to a range of diverse Muslim women in their own words.

Another is to speak up against Islamophobia when you see it, in any context. Because when one minority is victimised, all minorities are at risk from this mindset of divisive hate. Last summer I spoke out when a convoy of cars screamed antisemitic abuse in north London, and I received antisemitic abuse as a result.

Ghani's allegations vindicate those of us who have been saying, year after year, that addressing Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hatred needs urgent attention. But it can only be truly tackled if we come together as a country to stand against anti-Muslim hatred in all its forms, as part of our stand against all forms of racism and discrimination.

In these times of political uncertainty and economic fragility, community solidarity and interfaith relations are vital because, ultimately, we are stronger together.

• Akeela Ahmed chairs the independent members of the government’s working group on Anti-Muslim Hatred

Pete Newbon was unique and we’ll miss him terribly FIONA SHARPE

SPOKESMAN FOR LABOUR AGAINST ANTISEMITISM & A COMMUNITIES CONSULTANT WORKING WITH MINORITISED COMMUNITIES

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t is never easy to write a tribute. You spend far too much time gazing into the distance remembering things about the person you’re meant to be eulogising, the funny exchanges, the reason you were friends. Writing a tribute from an organisation, on behalf of a very mixed group of people, for someone who began as a colleague, is even stranger. And then add into the mix that most of us had never even met in real life.

But writing about Pete Newbon is an honour and a privilege. He was truly a unique individual. He was a fair and kind man. Levelheaded with the ability to calm the most volatile of sentiments.

Never one to give up a fight or to lose the point, he managed to go into battle in a respectful manner, always knowing where the line was. In a social media world in which many lose perspective and forget that they are engaging with another human being, Pete

always stayed focused and dignified, often steering the group back onto a steadier path.

He joined Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) in 2018, but had been an active fighter, challenging the rise of antisemitism long before that. He was proud of his Jewish identity and heritage; part of that was ensuring that antiJewish hatred was never tolerated.

Pete had an inherent sense of right and wrong, was always the gentleman, perhaps only to be expected from a man who lectured on romantic literature.

As a colleague, he quickly became a friend.

His open warm manner and his gentle humour made him a favourite with everyone. A quick scroll through social media in the past 24 hours shows literally hundreds of messages highlighting his kindness and generosity, sharing in our disbelief that our beloved Pete is gone.

LAAS is not a membership organisation; there are no joining fees, no obligations, just a desire to stand up and speak out against

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political antisemitism. But, for a small few, the directors and steering group, that commitment is much greater. We were lucky that Pete agreed to become a director in 2018. He was an integral part of the battle to ensure that Jeremy Corbyn was not elected as prime minister and the subsequent fight to return the Labour Party back to being a safe space for Jewish members.

His sharp intellect and historical referencing helped shape our strategy and kept us focused on what was really important.

Pete, like us all, was not just a fighter against antisemitism. He was a well-respected senior lecturer and academic, often posting what, for many of us, were obscure but perfectly apt, historical references to mirror current issues.

Romantic pictures and grotesque gargoyles often featured on his Facebook page.

But Pete, most of all, was a family man. His partner Rachel, and his three young daughters, were the focus of his life. So many of us were let in to snapshots of his family, enjoying hikes

IN A SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD IN WHICH MANY LOSE PERSPECTIVE, PETE ALWAYS STAYED DIGNIFIED

Fiona shared Pete Newbon's partner's post

and adventures, watching the girls as they grew up. There was barely a day without a new photo accompanied by a funny anecdote.

The joy he took in his family and shared with us all was clear to see. Above all else, they were the centre of his world.

We at LAAS will miss him terribly. We are still numb from the shock, disbelieving that we will never have another conversation or read his thoughts and opinions in our group chat.

We will miss his wisdom, his integrity, his humour. But, most of all, we will miss Pete Newbon – our colleague and our friend.

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Community / Scene & Be Seen

1 FRUITFUL EVENT

Forty girls from six schools assembled fruit kebabs for Jewish Care residents at an event organised

by Shabbat Walk, which encourages volunteering among young community members. The event, which celebrated Tu B’Shvat, included words of inspiration from Rabbi Dovid Tugendhaft. Chaya Richman, head of the madricha education programme, said: “It was a beautiful evening.”

And be seen!

2 CITY HERITAGE

Tour guide Ian Fagelson led nearly 60 walkers on a journey through the City of London with a focus on areas of significance to the community over the past 1,000 years.

The event raised £,1500 for Kisharon’s work supporting children and adults with autism and a wide range of disabilities. Ian Tate, Kisharon’s challenge events manager, said: “We are so thankful to Ian Fagelson, who so kindly did not charge for his time.

Participants told us how much they enjoyed the walk and, luckily, the weather was kind. Building on the success of this event, we are planning more walking tours in the future.”

The latest news, pictures and social events from across the community Email us at community@jewishnews.co.uk

3 TU B’SHVAT PARTY

Children at Etz Chaim Primary School in Mill Hill learned about the shemita year and invented their own new fruit as part of a party celebrating Tu B’Shvat.

4 KISHARON ACTIVITIES

The children at Tuffkid Nursery took part in fruit-themed activities, including creating a fruit shop where they exchanged fruit with toy money and credit cards for Tu B’Shvat.

They also learnt about juice by squeezing oranges and sang songs for the festival. At the Kisharon Noé School, pupils took part in activities including planting flowers and making fruit kebabs. Volunteers at Kisharon’s Childs Hill Library, people who attend Kisharon Adult Opportunities and those who live in Kisharon Supported Living marked the festival by planting fruit shrubs in the library garden. Sarah Sharlott, head of social enterprise and community development, said: “All the people we support and volunteers were thrilled to be outdoors and celebrating Tu B’Shvat.”

5 ETHAN’S APPEAL

Hundreds of personal care products were donated to support those in need following an appeal

by Ethan Seligmann to celebrate his barmitzvah. Marshall Hoffman, GIFT’s warehouse manager, welcomed the teenager from Edgware to the GIFT Hub, where his photo is now part of the site’s hall of fame. Ethan’s mother, Amanda, said: “Your warehouse manager was so lovely and said some beautiful words to Ethan for all he had done. It really added to the whole experience and made us all feel extra good. We hope to be in touch next year for my daughter’s batmitzvah.”

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WHO WHAT WHERE FILM

Sing 2

Still cute even when animated, Scarlett Johansson – the actress most favoured by Jewish men – is back as teen porcupine Ash in Sing 2. Koala Buster Moon has got another big show to put on and Ash is part of a lineup that should include reluctant lion rock star Clay Calloway, voiced by less reluctant rocker Bono. A new take on U2’s hit song Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, performed

by Cab and Ash (Scarlett sings, Bono does too), is worth the ticket price alone. You’ll enjoy it more than the kids.

Sing 2 opens tomorrow, Friday 28 January, at cinemas nationwide

TELEVISION

Big Bad Wolf

BE MY VALENTINE

Kosher-style romance

There’s a fine line between fiction and downright lies. Author Misha Defonseca discovered this when she wrote a Holocaust memoir that took the world by storm – until a fallout with her publisher revealed a darker truth.Misha’s audacious deception in the early 1990s is the subject of Storyville’s Misha And The Wolves this Sunday and it will fascinate and offend.

The Massachusetts Jewish community was certainly fascinated when Misha told them her compelling story of survival during the Holocaust, as she spent it ‘hidden’ in the house of a Catholic family, before running away to search for her deported parents. Walking east across Europe, befriending wolves, evading the Nazis – Misha’s story ran the full gamut, and local publisher Jane Daniel implored her to write the tale. Once it was complete, Misha became the celeb du jour as even Oprah came calling, but she suddenly became uncooperative and refused to go on TV. The resulting court feud between Misha and her publisher spurred Jane into delving deeper and the gripping documentary reveals the truth, lies, history and imagination, asking how and why we believe the stories we’re told.

Director Sam Hobkinson says: “Although I didn’t set out to make a Holocaust documentary, as it progressed, I realised that I was, in fact, making a Holocaust documentary. I was just making a different kind – a postmodern one, which is less about the terrible events themselves than it is about the cultural shadow they cast in journalism, the memoirs, the documentary films and everything that goes with it.”

Misha and The Wolves is on BBC Four on Sunday 2 February, at 10pm

HONOUR

It’s Magic!

Mazeltov to magician Henry Lewis who this week received an MBE from Prince William at Buckingham Palace for services to fundraising and charitable causes. Aged 102, Henry is honorary vice president of the Magic Circle and the oldest person to receive an honour in this year’s list. He was born in Hackney, one of eight children. Henry has perfomed magic all over the world, and these days entertains fellow residents at the Jewish Care home where he lives.

He says: “It was very nice to receive the honour.

When I was eight years old, I found a magic book in a pile of rubbish and that’s what got me interested in magic.”

The date 14 February started out as a Christian holiday with some attachment to a saint, but then Hallmark took it over. You’re unlikely to find a synagogue decorated in red hearts and Cupid’s arrows any time soon, but don’t let communal reluctance stand in the way of love.

Your partner will be expecting something on the day assigned for lovebirds, so why not blend the sentiment with some old-fashioned chutzpah to tell your dolly chops how much they mean to you? These are from Etsy and you’d better order now – you know there’ll be a broigus if the post doesn’t arrive in time.

Cards by OnceUponATeaCup, www.etsy.com

This Month In Jewish History...

By Jewish News historian, Derek Taylor

The Domus Conversorum was a house in Chancery Lane where Jews who converted to Christianity could live and enjoy free maintenance. It was

needed because, until 1280, all Jews who converted to Christianity forfeited their possessions to the Crown.

Henry III founded it in January 1232 on a site that later became home to the Public Record Office. In 1280 there were 97 inhabitants. A number of the converts achieved offices of state and the organisation was only abolished in 1891. The keeper of the Domus Conversorum was known as the Master of the Rolls – a royal title rather than a legal one. The home had two chaplains and the crown paid all the costs, which included pensions for the converts.

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Hungarian Geza Schein aged two who baked bread with her father and took it to the ghetto

Heinz Kounio was promised a good life until he became number 109565

István Bleyer was 14 when he was liberated from Auschwitz . In Canada, he became an architect and president of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre. He died in 1997 Polish-born Janek Mandelbaum survived five concentration camps and the murder of his parents and two siblings

Prague-born Jiří and Zdenek Steiner, who heard the front approaching and made plans

They called him Kola in Auschwitz, but he didn’t know how old he was or where he came from when he was liberated

Dagmar Fantlová, right, with her sister Rita, whom she never saw again

Dáša Friedová with her older sister, Sylva, who “only had good memories of the first nine years of my childhood”

Eva was deported to Auschwitz in May 1944 and was adopted in Poland after she was freed. She never found any members of her family

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Alwin Meyer has spent 50 years finding the children of Auschwitz. His shocking book is one everyone should read, he tells Brigit Grant

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lwin Meyer had no reason to be interested in the Holocaust. Born in Cloppenburg, Lower Saxony, six years after the war, as a child and then as a teenager, he heard nothing about the atrocities perpetrated by his countrymen. Not at home.

Not within his community. And not at school. This was not unusual, as the Shoah was a taboo subject and of no social concern in Germany until after the TV drama series Holocaust was screened in 1979.

Even now, students often don’t hear about the Holocaust in class until 10th grade and although some younger teachers are committed to sharing the history of Nazism and persecution of the Jews, its importance, in the curriculum and elsewhere, is considered “a constant see-saw between learning and forgetting”, as was described by Holocaust historian Saul Friedländer. But Alwin Meyer could not forget.

Not from the moment when, in the summer of 1972, at the age of 21, he visited Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim, Poland, and met former prisoner Tadeusz Szymański, who would shape the next 50 years of his life.

“What Tadeusz told me shook me to the core and filled me with deep shame and sadness,” says Alwin. “He described the murder of infants and children. The automatic murder of women carrying children and the killing of pregnant women by phenol injection, gas or beating. No pleading or begging had helped them. The largest group of children deported to the Auschwitz complex of 48 concentration and extermination camps were Jewish girls and boys. Germans had committed these crimes with unimaginable cruelty and I’d never heard about it until then.”

It would have been easy for Alwin to listen to Tadeusz and walk away. Young and a non-Jew, he had no connection to the story beyond his father’s service as a Wehrmacht soldier, so he had every reason to move on. But he couldn’t.

Instead, he returned to Berlin and sought out a bookseller he knew. “Together, we looked for titles that dealt specifically with the fates of the youngest inmates of Auschwitz, but there weren’t any. So I decided to find some of the children who had survived, in order to make their life stories public in Germany.”

Even Thomas Keneally had to be cajoled by Los Angeles luggage shop owner Leopold ‘Poldek’ Pfefferberg to write the story of Oskar Schindler, but the impetus for Alwin’s intention was all his own.

“I didn’t know whether it was possible or if I possessed the interpersonal skills to make the task I’d set myself a reality,” he recalls. “But I had to try.”

The proof of his efforts is Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz – a tome of 437 pages excluding notes and index – which tells the story of some of the 750 children and youths aged under 18 who were liberated in 1945.

From a few names given by Tadeusz, Alwin embarked on an exhaustive search that continued over decades to find

survivors, who in most cases had new identities and no living family. It was a process that took Alwin to Jewish communities, museums, town halls, synagogues and global memorial initiatives in multiple countries with one nagging question in his head: would the 11-year-old boy who emerged skeletal from Auschwitz or the baby born inside the camp agree to talk him as adults?

“Some were reluctant to let me into their lives and only agreed if Szymański was present,” he says. “Others were immediately willing, even pleased that a German born after the war was interested. They were almost always the sole survivors of once-large families and many spoke for the first time about a childhood in which death was always present and never natural.”

“Never forget your name,” said Anna Bocharova to her daughter Luda

Without prompts, Alwin can recall all of the stories he vigilantly recorded: the woman freed as a two-year-old who re-enacted camp scenes; the man liberated when he was four, who then refused to believe that people died from natural causes. “If he heard about a family funeral, he would ask his Polish adoptive parents, ‘Who killed her/him?’ He had seen humans murdered every day in Auschwitz.”

Immersed in this dark narrative for so many years “moved my heart and head”, says Alwin, whose skill as an empathetic historiographer was to introduce the children from the period when their lives were good. “They all talked about their initially happy childhood in many European countries, about the flourishing Jewish life in their city, often going back at least several centuries. They spoke of their schools and the friendships between Jewish and non-Jewish children.”

Alwin was also told about how much these children were loved by their parents, among them Polish-born Janek Mandelbaum, now 94, who survived five concentration camps and the murder of his parents and two siblings. The book is dedicated to Janek, now known as Jack, as he helped with the English translation of the book, in which we meet other

children, such as Heinz Kounio, the son of Salvator, who ran a photo supply shop in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. It was a city where Heinz was ‘promised a good life as a Jewish boy.’

Until he was 11 and became number 109565.

Dagmar Fantlová, who lived in the Czech town of Kutná Hora with her doctor father, mother, and younger sister Rita, remembers celebrating Easter and Pesach with relatives and neighbours. “The Jewish and Christian holidays were mixed up, because that’s how it was in those days,” she says. “During the Nazi era people said in surprise: ‘Dr Fantl is a Jew? We didn’t know.’” In Auschwitz, Dagmar, aged 15, was assigned for work by Dr Mengele, but her mother, then 42, did not want to leave Rita alone. Dagmar never heard from her parents or her sister again.

In a list reminiscent of Schindler’s, every name in the index corresponds to a tale of torture, suffering and loss.

Opening the book randomly takes courage, as the risk is to possibly be confronted with paragraphs detailing the murder of newborns by willing nurses, or mothers kicked to death by guards.

Only the photos of the surviving children allow the reader time to breathe, although Alwin found there were always moments of hope – even in Auschwitz.

His example of optimism seems a stretch, but it is provided by the Steiner twins Jiří (147743) and Zdeněk (147742), who were abused by Mengele and then assigned to carry water in the winter of 1944-45.

“They had to walk one kilometre with buckets and, one day, they heard the thunder of cannon fire far away. The children pressed their ears to the ground and heard the front approaching. They repeated this in the following days and weeks. They could not get enough of it, and were soon making plans – even though they knew their parents were dead.

They talked about soft-boiled eggs, fresh rolls with butter, clean shirts, leather shoes, feather beds and school. At such moments, the hope of being able to stay alive prevailed.”

“Never forget your name,” were the words Ukranian-born Anna Bocharova said to her daughter, Luda, when they were separated at Auschwitz, and Alwin chose to use them as the book’s title because he wants no one to forget all the others.

“The children told me, ‘No matter how far you try to run away, Auschwitz will never let you and your family go.’

“They entrusted me with their life stories so that I – and others – will continue to tell them. The task now in my country, where every Jewish school and synagogue has to be guarded by police, is practical solidarity with Jews, as many of us want them to have a safe and good future in Germany.”

As he has proved with his book, Alwin Meyer will do everything to fulfil that task.

• Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz

by Alwin Meyer is published tomorrow by Polity, priced £25 (politybooks.com)

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HERE’S ROCCO

With TV’s favourite legal eagle Robert Rinder as his owner, French Bulldog Rocco is ready to unleash Forgive me, but I’m keeping it short and… well, not so sweet in this column. While I appreciate that national Take Your Dog to Work day isn’t until 24 June, while pawing the web I spotted an entry on 17 January, #bluemonday, from a man called Gaby Laifer.

Mr Laifer was beaming on what is traditionally the most miserable Monday of the year because he had taken his dog to work.

“I just had the best day ever taking Belle to work with me today,” wrote Gaby. “All dogs from my company were invited to the office.” From what I gather, Mr Laifer is in marketing, which is a lot less rigid than chambers. But on 17 January, as I recall, a brisk walk and a pat on the head from the Judge was the sum of my day, which left me feeling #blue. Of course I barked nothing, because I’m not confrontational. I just hope he remembers to sort me out a shidduch on 14 February, when love is in the polluted air. Someone cute, fluffy and Jewish. Like Belle.

Until next time N’oubliez pas votre chien!

Love

Pet care

Rocco

Word has it that Two By Two Veterinary Centre in the heart of Finchley is where your dog, cat or hamster might fall in love. In the past few months, several Siamese have locked eyes through the grids of their cat carriers and the rabbits... well, you know what they’re like.

Living up to its name as a vet practice, Two By Two – is all about curing, so they’re more likely to recommend Malaseb shampoo for paw infections than Love Potion No 9.

But animals fall in love without any help from humans, as you’ll discover watching the documentary Animals in Love, better known by its racier French title, Les Animaux Amoureux. Directed by Laurent Charbonnier, this is an amazing visual exploration of the way animals of all kinds experience love and intimacy in their natural environments.

Available on YouTube, the music is by Philip Glass, who is regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century – and he’s Jewish.

For care, vaccines and health checks, visit www.twobytwovets.co.uk or call 020 3865 8905

Take a Bow Wow

Series 3 of Ricky Gervais’ After Life on Netflix counts dog lovers among its fans because of the compelling performance by female German Shepherd Anti, who plays Brandy, Tony (Ricky)’s dog. Though this is the last of After Life, Anti never wanted to be pigeonholed as a police dog, despite the acclaim for her work on Midsomer Murders, and she will soon be seen in the upcoming Dungeons and Dragons and Sherwood.

Yap App You don’t want to be meeting someone new who doesn’t like your old dog. Therefore it makes sense to look for a person who doesn’t mind Bailey or Gucci sleeping on the bed. So start your search for a mate who loves a mutt on apps and websites with four-legged focus. And do it soon, so your ma can see you under the chuppah.

Tindog America is a long way to go for a dog walk, but the echoes of Tinder are hard to resist. Created because of the huge uptake in dog ownership among single Millennials in the US, the app needs a bit of info about you and the rest about your dog.

Purrrfect Valentine Remember pets don’t eat chocolate, so think outside the litter tray and get them something kitsch you can kvell over for Valentines from the likes of Etsy.co.uk and similar. And, if the cat doesn’t like the kerchief, it’s a jazzy mask substitute.

Cat Valentine box, from £13.99

DogLoversDating.co.uk is a site for connecting dog lovers all over the UK. Sign up for free, create a profile and upload a photo, then start your search for that perfect Pug owner.

Woofr is a new doggy dating app where you can show off your Bichon Frises and arrange dates for them.

They need excitement, too, but as most people in the community have a Cava something, be sure to take the right dog home.

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SKI IN, SKI OUT

The Gradonna Mountain Resort surrounded by its chalets

with the family

Skiing enthusiast Caron Bluestone and her family spend a memorable week in an Austrian mountain resort

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ou can’t beat Austria for family skiing. With more than 400 resorts, the competition is fierce, so facilities and high standards come at a fraction of the cost of the usual suspects. A passionate skier of more than 40 years – even with my young ones in tow – I know my stuff and I abhor spending on sub-standard food in soulless hotels during school holidays. It’s vital to get it right first time.

We spent our week in Kals am Grossglockner in East Tyrol, a resort with a tiny village at the foot of Austria’s highest peak. Set in the Hohe Tauern National Park, a 2.5-hour scenic transfer from Salzburg, the Gradonna Resort and Spa is a destination in itself.

A hiking paradise in summer gives way to a veritable winter wonderland and the largest ski area in East Tyrol.

Our home, with friends – we ski each year with another family – was a cosy, luxurious chalet, set in the grounds of the Gradonna Mountain Resort. A fourstar superior ski-in, ski-out resort with a difference. Set in the forest, the hotel, with its exceptional spa and facilities, also offers a range of stunning chalets.

A hybrid experience where you really

can have the best of both worlds: your own space and freedom to choose when and where to eat. You can order in, order groceries or eat in the hotel.

The hotel also has a wonderful grocery shop where you can stock up on local foods, organic cheeses and anything you might need, at prices that are fair.

The Jewish princess in me has never been a chalet kind of girl – my mother always preferred a hotel over having to worry about catering or cleaning during our family ski holidays. Obviously, things have changed since those days, but some habits die hard.

At the Gradonna, though, we found our true ski nirvana. Not only can you ski to and from your front door, but you also have your very own ski room.

No pushing and stressing to get ready in the morning. Simply go downstairs where you will also find your own infrared cabin and washer and dryer.

Space galore for everyone’s outdoor paraphernalia and suitcases (Jews don’t travel light!). A luxury mountain home on the slopes. Bliss.

The chic cubic chalets are true delights of modern architecture.

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Above: Gourmet food at Gradonna Right: A restaurant with a view

blend seamlessly into the landscape, giving guests the feeling of a real connection with nature. Floor-to-ceiling windows bring in the outdoors, with breathtaking views of the mountains and the peaceful forest. Both bedroom floors, each with two double bedrooms and modern bathrooms, were separated by the living area. Perfect for sharing, with a full kitchen and enormous table on one side, comfy sofas and woodburning stove on the other, and a sunny balcony.

The hotel building takes pride of place on the sunny plateau, among its chalets. A formidable, modern, wooden construction that spans the mountain, it gives optimal views for all guests, wherever they may be. The outdoor spa pool steams invitingly in the snow and there is a zen-like indoor pool and separate children’s splash pool and water slide. The spa offering is all-encompassing and, as a selfLeft: Caron with family and ski instructors

proclaimed aficionado, although I had chosen a simple full-body massage and foot reflexology, was blown away by their quality.

Snow boots are a must. Given the altitude, you are walking in snow to and from the hotel. What I feared might have been an imposition was, in fact, exhilarating and much-needed after overindulging at every opportunity.

Food at the Gradonna comes with a high accolade; the restaurant is rated in the esteemed Gault Millau guide. Breakfast buffets are replete with fresh organic produce to suit every palate and diet, with fine dining and sumptuous spreads at night.

Oenophiles will love the cellar; children will adore their separate dining room.

Other features include a modern and inviting kids’ club, separate teenage area with outdoor climbing wall, plus a beginner’s ski lift. The Alpinsport Gratz ski shop is stocked with top quality equipment and everything you might need, from sunscreen to walking boots, and the service is fast and professional.

Skiing here has something to offer every level. I recommend lessons with Markus and his brilliant team at Ski School Kals – the instructors know the mountain inside out and are a joy to learn from. They truly go the extra mile to make a totally memorable week.

Children’s quality value skiwear can be bought from www.littleadventureshop.co.uk Caron used Halo for Covid tests; it offers fast, app-based results.

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ast year was a record one for Israeli start-ups, breaking ground in investment, new unicorns and exits. More than £18 billion ($25bn) was raised amid a rise in technology investments, to beat the previous record.

And the UK massively stepped up its stake in the ecosystem, with further growth expected this year through the help of the exclusive VC Club.

Launched a few months ago as a collaboration between the British Embassy in Israel’s UK Israel Tech Hub and law firm Taylor Wessing, the invite-only club could help the UK more than double its investment in Israeli tech in the next few years. The platform aims to create opportunities for VCs across the UK and Israel to discover new innovation trends and technologies, boosting bilateral trade between VCs and investors from both countries.

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Toby Coppel, Mosaic Ventures (UK VC)

VC Club member Toby Coppel, co-founder and partner at Mosaic Ventures (UK VC) and Idan Fisher, director of the UK Israel Tech Hub at British Embassy Israel, describe how the trade relationship between the two nations is changing for the better, with UK investors pushing to get to the Israeli deals first.

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Dame Louise Ellman has said the only promise made to her by Keir momentous decision Starmer ahead of her this week to rejoin was that he would Labour “continue to eradicate semitism” and make antithe party “a better place”.

Speaking to Jewish News at the party’s ence in Brighton, conferthe former Liverpool Riverside MP, flatly rejected suggestions she had been promised a place in the House of Lords to secure her sensational return to the party she quit two years ago over Jeremy Corbyn’s failure Ellman said: “I haven’t on antisemitism. been promised anything except that Keir will continue his mission to cate antisemitism.

That’s the only promise eradibeen given. I did I have speak to Keir after I made the decision to return.

I felt things were changing. I wanted to come back.

I was change. I’m back because waiting for the party to I feel that it is on to becoming electable the way again.”

Ellman, who was elected as MP for Liverpool Riverside in 1997, served as chair of the transport select committee for nearly a decade, having previously been leader of Lancashire County Council for 16 years.

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Q. Why do you think 2021 was such a great year for investment into Israeli start-ups?

A. Idan Fisher, UK Israel Tech Hub The year 2021 was a great year for tech.

As the pandemic progressed, it became apparent that tech was an extremely resilient investment. In many places, tech went from a ‘nice to have’ to an absolute necessity.

Areas such as telemedicine, which have been stagnant for years, jumped forward, simply because people wouldn’t, or couldn’t, attend clinics or hospitals.

The number one beneficiary of the tech segment is cybersecurity – not only are attackers becoming more sophisticated, but the fact that everything has moved online means attackers have many more vectors, and we have a lot more to protect.

Another area seeing a surge is within sustainability (food, energy and water). The climate crisis is here to stay – and the tech world is responding there aswell.

There is definitely an uptick in UK investment in Israel, and a strong appetite among UK investors to get more involved – in many cases it’s about who gets to the good deals first.

UK investors have massively improved their position over the past year, but we see potential for this stake to double over the following years.”

Q: In what areas of Israeli tech do you see the big opportunities for UK investment?

A. Toby Coppel, Mosaic Ventures Israel has historically had tremendous success in a broad range of sectors from semiconductors and medical devices to enterprise and consumer software. From Mobileye to Lemonade to Waze to Forescout, the range and types of innovation is truly impressive.

In terms of the UK, I usually prefer to take the perspective of the founder and why would they want to choose a UK investor – as a founder targeting the UK market, the most interesting sectors are likely to be fintech, healthcare and life sciences and enterprise software. If you look at recent early-stage investments by UK-based investors in Israel, there has been a strong trend in cybersecurity, machine intelligence tools and modern enterprise software, and I would expect this to continue, with companies such as AppsFlyer, Gong, SentinelOne, Snyk, Pagaya (fintech) and BioCatch.

Q. How do you see 2022 in terms of investment from the UK to Israeli start-ups?

A. Idan Fisher, UK Israel Tech Hub I see investment increasing. With the amount of capital residing in the UK, and the growth the UK ecosystem is showing itself, I believe UK investors can and should hold an eight to 10 percent share of the pie.

Statistics about investment in Israeli start-ups, according to a report by Start-Up Nation Central Start-ups raised £18 billion in funding between January – November.

In 2021, 33 privately-held technology companies joined the billion-dollar club, reaching a total of 53 Israeli unicorns.

The value of capital investments rose by 136 percent in equity funding over 2020, itself a record year with more than £7bn ($10bn) capital raised.

Funding in Israeli start-ups and companies was 71 percent more than the global average, and 78 percent more than in US companies.

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Bilateral trade / Business Q: How do UK and Israeli tech ecosystems complement each other?

A. Toby Coppel, Mosaic Ventures Both countries are very open economies with a global outlook on the world which is very compatible and complementary.

The UK hosts a large number of international investment firms with deep experience in supporting founders and helping them to scale across the world. It also has a deep pool of senior leadership talent in tech and is an attractive place to source experienced C-level and VP-level executives for Israeli start-ups.

Tel Aviv is a vibrant tech ecosystem with incredible entrepreneurial talent and tremendous technical skills, with the IDF as a strong training ground. It’s a match made in heaven.

Q. What can UK and Israeli entrepreneurs learn from each other? How do they differ?

A. Idan Fisher, UK Israel Tech Hub Traditionally, UK investors are deemed by Israelis to be more conservative, slower to move and more focused on market disruption vs tech disruption. This is massively changing, also owing to substantial foreign investment coming into the UK tech ecosystem. The UK is now the start-up hub of Europe – with 63 percent of money coming from outside, meaning UK investors are being influenced by their foreign counterparts. They are investing a lot more in deep-tech, and they are investing at higher valuations.

Israeli investors are generally more prone to risk taking. Strong points are deep-tech investing – with AI [artificial intelligence] investments encompassing half of all invest-

ments in Israel. Israeli investors are experienced in investing in deep-tech companies at early stages, placing lower emphasis on short-term profits and company balance sheets. They are also known for being extremely active in their portfolios’ business development.

What we are seeing over the past couple of years is that UK investors are becoming a bit more Israeli and Israeli investors are becoming more British. www.ukisraelhub.com/the-vc-club

The VC Club facilitates bilateral relationships between VCs and investors from both countries.

There are over 40 members.

UK VCS INCLUDE: • Playfair Capital • HSBC Ventures • Mosaic Ventures • Seedcamp • LocalGlobe • AXA Venture Partners ISRAEL VCS INCLUDE: • Hetz Ventures • Entrée Capital • Rhodium • Jerusalem Venture Partners • HP Tech Ventures • Israel Growth Partners

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BY RABBI STEPHEN DANSKY This week’s Torah portion deals extensively with the interpersonal laws between man and man. These laws deal with (among other things) the laws of damages, the laws of lending and borrowing money and the fines for thieves. They are in sharp contrast to the exalted and inspirational giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai by God to the entire Jewish people, which took place in the previous portion, Yitro. This discrepancy of topics begs us to think deeply about the connection between them.

Nachmanides tells us that, essentially, these interpersonal laws are not a separate subject, but an extension of the last of the 10 Commandments: ‘Thou shalt not covet’.

He asserts that these laws are necessary because, without them, people will not be able to control their desires for money and possessions that do not belong to them.

It is incredibly telling that of all the 10 Commandments, the Torah felt it necessary to immediately provide laws curbing our need to covet things that do not belong to us. It suggests there is a very deep value being addressed here.

In Genesis, we are told that man’s natural state of being is to ‘rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heaven’ – to have control and ownership over all that he or she sees. The need of ‘getting and spending’ in Wordsworth’s beautiful sonnet, The World is too Much with us, is an extension of this natural need for dominion and control. The problem with individual need is that it creates a dissatisfaction with the status quo, which in turn leads to people wanting what does not belong to them.

This is problematic because not only does it lead to thievery, it also denies the notion that God gives us everything we need in this world. Anything that is not ours is never meant to be ours, and desiring what does not belong to us will lead us to deny God’s sovereignty over the world. It is thus vitally important to focus on these interpersonal commandments as a way of ensuring our loyalty not only to one another, but also to God.

◆ Rabbi Stephen Dansky serves Cranbrook United Synagogue

Torah For Today What the Torah says about: Sharing stories with future generations

BY RABBI ARIEL ABEL As a young adult and a rabbi in 1990s Berlin, I asked Dr Gerhard Bader, a survivor of the Shoah who had witnessed his wife and children shot before his eyes in the street outside his home in Austria: “Could the Shoah happen again?” He responded emphatically: “Yes it could.”

Before it happened, we never could’ve believed it would. The Germans were so civilised. And yet it did. I don’t think it will happen again there, but somewhere else in the world… yes.

Dr Gerhard’s words ring in my ears as the most pronounced echo of the Torah’s existential warning against our people’s mortal enemies, namely, Amalek.

Midor, dor – from generation to generation – we must never let down our guard and must educate about what happened in that dark period in modern history.

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playwright of Holocaust-themed theatre, and I have been involved in community projects, using the arts platform as a way to promote education about the Shoah and the Second World War. On 8 May, Karen’s third play, Survival For Life, is being perfomed at Liverpool’s Princes Road Synagogue This is the true story of Mina Hecht Winik who, aged 11, fled Nazi-occupied Vienna, travelling through Gestapo-controlled Europe during the night on the Kindertransport train bound for

Rotterdam, where she took a boat for a new life in England.

I look forward to my role acting as Rabbi Aaron Kugelbrandt, with Cantor Edward Marks and the Princes Road Synagogue Choir featuring as Vienna’s Stadttempel Choir.

The most moving tribute to the Shoah is when such theatre echoes through the sanctuary of a synagogue. It embodies our enduring faith in a God who did not stretch His arm to save us from the inferno, and still, we are His people forever.

Utilising music and stories in theatre, films and documentaries is a powerful way of educating the youth and the general public with the message: ‘Never again’. ◆ Rabbi Ariel Abel CF LLM is a solicitor at Liverpool Legal, a legal practice in Liverpool associated with E Rex Makin & Co Solicitors

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‘It was easy to cross the Red Sea’

Progressive Judaism needs to answer some big questions

BY RABBI MARK GOLDSMITH It all seems so straightforward in Exodus Chapter 14:21-22. ‘Moses held out his arm over the sea and the Eternal drove back the sea….

The waters were split and the Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.’ This simple description is repeated twice more.

The Israelites would have been terrified by the approaching Egyptian charioteers coming to take them back into slavery, so they would have walked fearlessly right in to where the sea had been. That’s how the Bible tells it, but our Midrashim, fleshing out the story, are clear that it’s not that easy to even get people to save themselves.

There are many approaches wondering how it was possible to get the Israelites to walk to their own freedom. The best known is a hero narrative, Nachshon ben Aminadav, prince of the tribe of Judah and

therefore ancestor of King David, who walked right in on his own, up to his nose and, seeing his bravery, God parted the sea and the Israelites were inspired to walk forwards (Bemidbar Rabbah 13:4).

Less well-known but still very powerful is a community narrative – the women of Israel held their children by the hand and walked into the sea also up to their noses, distracting them with food (Shemot Rabbah 21:10).

Giving an assembly at Clore Shalom School on these two Midrashim, I asked the children to vote on which made most sense. They backed the second by a very large majority. The youngest members of our society were, it would seem, saying that in their eyes, the best way to face a challenge is together as a caring community.

◆ Mark Goldsmith is Senior Rabbi at Edgware and Hendon Reform Synagogue

BY RABBI SERGIO BERGMAN The Connections 2021 conference of the World Union for Progressive Judaism (WUPJ), held last year, was unlike any other conference held in the near 100-year history of our global extended family of Reform and Liberal Jews – and not just because it was conducted online.

What it showed me was how the Covid-19 crisis has changed the paradigm – how what we have seen taking place in society runs much deeper than swapping the conference hall for a Zoom screen. It also left us facing a big challenge – how to restart and rebuild our Progressive Judaism in the post-pandemic world.

The most important thing is that we do not stand still. We must not do things simply because ‘they have always been done this way’.

Reform means to re-form, or to give a new shape, and it is a process of constant evolution. We must learn together how to deepen the spiritual challenges of a Judaism faithful to

tradition and relevant to today’s context. To do this, we must answer some big questions.

How do we forge a new Zionism and give the Progressive Jewish diaspora a greater connection to Israel, and Israel a greater connection to Progressive Judaism?

How can we deepen and expand our education? Education is one of our defining values as a people, and it remains our primary tool for transformation. It’s not just about teaching our young people… it’s about learning from them, too. They can bring the

dynamism of change and creative rebelliousness that will push forward our actions in a way that is true to our values.

How can we save lives in the developing world like my own country, Argentina? Not just by donating money when there is a crisis, but by launching ongoing initiatives to bring about tikkun olam of the kind to which our movement and our faith has always aspired.

There are hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world who are unaffiliated and/or Progressive Jews in spirit and lifestyle, but are not members of our communities.

They will not find us. It is our job to actively try to give them a home in our Progressive Jewish family.

That work started at Connections and it is our mission to make sure it continues. ◆ Rabbi Sergio Bergman is president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism

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LEE SHMUEL GOLDFARB Qualifications: • Hands-on service, with full and personalised support for international transfers.

• Get the most out of your currency exchange with regards to pension income, when purchasing your first house in Israel or benefitting from an inheritance from aboard.

• UK leader in financial exchange and partner to brands such as St James Place and Hargreaves Lansdown with industry-beating Trustpilot score.

IAN GREEN Qualifications: • Launched Man on a Bike IT consultancy 15 years ago to provide computer support for the home and small businesses.

• Clients range from legal firms in the City to families, small business owners and synagogues.

• More than 18 years’ experience.

LISA WIMBORNE Qualifications: Able to draw on the charity’s 50 years of experience in enabling people with physical disabilities or impaired vision to live independently, including: • The provision of specialist accommodation with 24/7 on site support.

• Knowledge of the innovations that empower people and the benefits available.

• Understanding of the impact of a disability diagnosis.

CURRENCIES DIRECT 0786 0595 890 / 0207 847 9400 www.currenciesdirect.com/jn lee.goldfarb@currenciesdirect.com

MAN ON A BIKE 020 8731 6171 www.manonabike.co.uk mail@manonabike.co.uk

JEWISH BLIND & DISABLED 020 8371 6611 www.jbd.org Lisa@jbd.org

ISRAELI ACCOUNTANT

INSURANCE CONSULTANCY

LEON HARRIS Qualifications: • Leon is an Israeli and UK accountant based in Ramat Gan, Israel.

• He is a Partner at Harris Horoviz Consulting & Tax Ltd. • The firm specializes in Israeli and international tax advice, accounting and tax reporting for investors, Olim and businesses.

• Leon’s motto is: Our numbers speak your language!

ASHLEY PRAGER Qualifications: • Professional insurance and reinsurance broker. Offering PI/D&O cover, marine and aviation, property owners, ATE insurance, home and contents, fine art, HNW. • Specialist in insurance and reinsurance disputes, utilising Insurance backed products. (Including non insurance business disputes).

• Ensuring clients do not pay more than required.

HARRIS HOROVIZ CONSULTING & TAX LTD +972-3-6123153 / + 972-54-6449398 leon@h2cat.com

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ALIYAH ADVISER

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DOV NEWMARK Qualifications: • Director of UK Aliyah for Nefesh B’Nefesh, an organisation that helps facilitate aliyah from the UK. • Conducts monthly seminars and personal aliyah meetings in London.

• An expert in working together with clients to help plan a successful aliyah.

LESLEY TRENNER Qualifications: • Provides free professional one-to-one advice at Resource to help unemployed into work.

• Offers mock interviews and workshops to maximise job prospects.

• Expert in corporate management holding director level marketing,

NEFESH B’NEFESH 0800 075 7200 www.nbn.org.il dov@nbn.org.il

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DIVORCE & FAMILY SOLICITOR

TELECOMS SPECIALIST

VANESSA LLOYD PLATT Qualifications: • Qualification: 40 years experience as a matrimonial and divorce solicitor and mediator, specialising in all aspects of family matrimonial law, including: • Divorce, pre/post-nuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements, domestic violence, children’s cases, grandparents’ rights to see grandchildren, pet disputes, family disputes.

• Frequent broadcaster on national and International radio and television.

BENJAMIN ALBERT Qualifications: • Co-Founder and Technical Director of ADWConnect – a specialist in business telecommunications, serving customers worldwide.

• Independent consultant and supplier of Telephone & Internet services.

• Client satisfaction is at the heart of everything my team and I do, always striving to find the most cost-effective solutions.

LLOYD PLATT & COMPANY SOLICITORS 020 8343 2998 www.divorcesolicitors.com lloydplatt@divorcesolicitors.com

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THE JEWISH NEWS CROSSWORD 1

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WORDSEARCH

CODEWORD

The listed words that relate to Lake Garda can all be found in the grid. Words may run either forwards or backwards, in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction, but always in a straight, unbroken line.

In this finished crossword, every letter of the alphabet appears as a code number. All you have to do is crack the code and fill in the grid. Replacing the decoded numbers with their letters in the grid will help you to guess the identity of other letters.

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Business Services Directory HOUSE CLEARANCE

ANTIQUES

Stirling of Kensal Green

Top prices paid Antique – Reproduction – Retro Furniture (any condition)

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Please contact Gordon Stirling

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During the pandemic, we offer telephone and online counselling.

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JEWISH WAR VETERANS

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Jnetics is working to eliminate Jewish Genetic Disorders through screening in schools,university campuses and the Jnetics Clinic for young couples. We focus on 47 genetic conditions that are of higher prevalence to people of Jewish ancestry.

1 in 5 Jewish people is a carrier of at least one severe, recessive Jewish genetic disorder. Nowadays a ‘carrier couple’ can manage their risk of having an affected child, but only if they know their carrier status.

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Together we can ensure that no young couple will have to endure the heartache of giving birth to a child with one of the devastating genetic illnesses that Jnetics screens for.

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