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THE CHIEF RABBI has called on synagoguesunder his auspices to do more to open theirhearts to gay community members in the wakethe murder of 49 precious innocents in the at-tack on a Florida nightclub, writes Justin Cohen.

Ephraim Mirvis insisted the Torah, while taking aclear position against homosexual acts, leavesus in no doubt about our responsibility to providea welcoming environment in our synagogues andbeyond for all Jews regardless of religious levelsor sexual orientation.

In his most far-reaching statement to date on

the issue, Mirvis said: After Orlando, we musttake a step beyond condemnation and open ourhearts and our synagogues so that no Jew feelspersecuted or excluded from the warm embraceof our communities.

It came after the worst mass shooting attack in

American history as ISIS-inspired gunman OmarMateen attacked the gay club in Orlando last Sat-urday night, leaving a further 53 people injuredbefore he himself was killed in a gun battle withpolice. Message of anguish, condemnation andtribute have poured in from around the globewhile vigils were held worldwide including an un-precedented show of support in Soho.

At a time of such anguish, it is difficult to ad-equately convey the depths of our moral revul-sion for an individual who was so motivated byhatred that it led him to mass murder, the Chief

Rabbi said.We must also be honest enough to recognise

that there are places where the scourge of homo-phobia persists, even in our own communities,and that is totally unacceptable, Where hate isreligiously motivated, he wrote, faith leaders carry

a particular responsibility to act.Welcoming the statement, Jewish gay

advocacy group Keshet UK said: ManyLGBT people and their families will becomforted to hear his position.

But saying many Jews still feel forced tochoose between their Jewish and LGBTidentity, causing untold suffering, the groupadded: It's time now to go beyond these goodwords and take action. The Chief Rabbihas met with Keshet UK to discusshow we can work together to

make our community more in-clusive. Every Jewish school,youth movement, synagogueand community group shouldnow do the same.

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Continued from page 1Reform Judaism, Liberal Judaism andthe Board of Deputies are amongthose to have condemned theattacks, widely described as Amer-icas worst ever mass shooting, and

declared solidarity with the US andthe global gay community. LiberalJudaism described the horror as anattack on all of us.

And in an apparent reference tothe Sky News newspaper review spatbetween journalists Owen Jones andJulia Hartley-Brewer over whetherthe attacks were homophobic or in-stead, as the latter suggested,against all humanity, Reform Ju-daism urged that the attack be ac-knowledged as a deliberate act ofhomophobic terror.

It also called for Jews to condemninstitutional prejudices and casualacts of disdain, as well as explicithomophobic and transphobic vio-lence.

Earlier, Senior Rabbi to Reform Ju-

daism, Laura Janner-Klausner, spokeon Radio 4s Thought for the Dayabout her gender non-binary child.

She described the attacks as closeto my heart and to my centralparental nervous system.

Her claim that religious people,especially clergy, were responsiblefor countering homophobia andtransphobia was echoed in the formof a re-tweet by Keshet UK.

Other Jewish individuals andorganisations offered their condo-lences to the families.

Jewish journalist Benjamin Cohen,chief executive of gay newspaperPink News, said there wasa continuum between feelings ofhatred for LGBT people and thisweekends sickening violence.

He continued: We can only hopethat the almost unanimous condem-nation of the attack will foster anenvironment where LGBT people canlive and prosper in a climate withoutfear.

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ISRAELS AMBASSADOR to theUN has been chosen to leadthe world body dealing withthe legal aspects of terrorism the first time an Israeli diplo-mat has been elected to heada permanent UN committee.

Western European stateswere among the 109 countriesto back Israeli envoy and formersettler leader Danny Danon forSixth Committee presidencyafter lobbying from the WorldJewish Congress and others.

Jewish leaders trumpetedthe diplomatic coup as offeringa glimmer of hope after yearsof berating the United Nationsfor its perceived anti-Israel bias.

WJC president RonaldLauder called it a significantvictory for Israel and a glimmerof hope while WJC chief exec-utive Robert Singer heralded

the historic achievement.The Sixth Committee de-

scribes itself as the primaryforum for consideration oflegal questions in the GeneralAssembly, dealing with issuessuch as terrorism, universal ju-risdiction, the protection of vic-tims of armed conflict and thelaw surrounding the use ofwater sources that span stateboundaries.

Danon is a controversial fig-ure. He opposes the creation ofa Palestinian state, and wasgiven the UN brief only afterBrazil rejected his nomination asIsraels ambassador in Brasilia.

Israel is a world leader in in-ternational law and in fightingterrorism, he said. We arepleased to have the opportunityto share our knowledge with thecountries of the world.

Israeli to head UNbody for first time

MEMBERS OF Londons Mus-lim community were welcomedto a synagogue last weekendto break their Ramadan fast.

More than 200 people fromIslamic, Christian and Jewishcommunities came together onSaturday night for the Big Iftarat West London Synagogue.

The annual initiative marksthe evening Iftar meal, whichMuslims hold to end their dailyfast during Ramadan.

Guests enjoyed a vegetarian

buffet and cake to celebrateShavuot and the Queens 90thbirthday, which coincided withthe event.

The project, now in its sec-ond year, was set up by inter-faith activist Julie Siddiqi toimprove community under-standing and relations.

WLS Senior Rabbi, Baroness

Julia Neuberger, praised Sid-diqi, who also founded SadaqaDay, the Muslim communitysequivalent of Mitzvah Day.

Neuberger said: I am proudmy community has embracedso wholeheartedly Julies in-spired idea of The Big Iftar,combining it this year withShavuot and Her Majesty theQueens 90th birthday, in cele-bration of the wonderful diver-sity of the United Kingdom.

This year, organisers renamed

the event The Big Royal Iftar inrecognition of the Jewish com-munitys celebration of theRoyal Shabbat for Shavuot.

Speeches were made byRabbi Helen Freeman and Is-lamic teacher and scholar RakinFertuga Cisse about fosteringdialogue and breaking downbarriers between communities.

Muslims welcomed atshul for Big Royal Iftar

ISRAELI LEADERS praised the resilienceof Tel Aviv, after life returned to normal inthe city following last weeks deadly attackat the Sarona market, when two Palestinian

gunmen killed four Jewish Israeli diners,writes Stephen Oryszczuk.As Tel Aviv residents returned to work and

even rallied to support the victims of theOrlando attack, the head of Israels militaryintelligence, Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said thecountrys response to last Wednesdays mur-ders sent a strong message to its enemies.

Autopsies have delayed some of thefunerals of the Sarona victims, including for-mer Special Forces soldier Ido Ben Ari,mother-of-four Ilana Naveh, university pro-fessor Michael Feige and 32-year-old MilaMishayev, who was waiting for her fianc.

One of the 16 injured, a 27-year-old manshot twice in the head during the attack,walked out of hospital this week with oneof the bullets as a souvenir. Assaf Bar, whois expected to ma ke a full recovery, still hasthe other bullet lodged in his skull.

The attack prompted a security crack-down, with increased raids on homes and

workshops in the West Bank, the withdrawalof travel permits for Ramadan, and IDFplans to demolish the homes of the two per-petrators in the town of Yatta, near Hebron.

The town is also home to the 16-year-oldwho stabbed a mother-of-six to death in herhome in January. His home has also beendestroyed.

Right-wing religious nationalists, many liv-ing in Jewish settlements in the West Bank,

were condemned for joining Hamas incelebrating the Tel Aviv attacks on socialmedia, joyous that the countrys cosmopol-itan heart had also been targeted.

Comments were posted welcoming thedeath of Arab lovers and leftists, as thesecular majority in the city is seen. Zionist

Union Knesset Member Merav Michone of many expressing disbeliesentiments. Addressing the commdirectly, she said: I refuse to beliyou think that Israeli women andeserve to be murdered in a terroeven if they are leftists.

Clockwise from top: The four victims of the Sarona market attack Ilana Naveh, Mila MMichael Feige and Ido Ben Ari. Above: relatives mourn Ben Ari at his funeral in Yavne

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FORMER SHADOW cabinet minister ChukaUmunna angrily insisted Ken Livingstone hadbecome a pin-up for the kind of prejudiceLabour was created to fight, as the formermayor stood by his claim Hitler supported Zi-onism under intense questioning from MPs.

Giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiryinto anti-Semitism, the former London mayorsaid he stood by the comments, and blamedembittered Blairites for forcing his suspen-sion from the Labour Party as part of a bid toundermine leader Jeremy Corbyn. He saidhe expected the review set up under ShamiChakrabarti to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism within the party to find that it in-volved only a handful of recent recruitsand was not a problem inherent to Labour.

But in his scathing summing up followingquestioning, Umunna told Livingstone: Byneedlessly and repeatedly offending Jewishpeople, you not only betray our Labour values

but you betray your legacy as mayor. Becauseall youre now going to be remembered for isbecoming a pin-up for the kind of prejudiceour party was built to fight against. Thats ahuge shame and it is an embarrassment.

Earlier, the president of the Board ofDeputies, Jonathan Arkush, told the Com-mons Home Affairs Select Committee thatLabours shift to the left under Corbyn hademboldened anti-Semites on the far left tovoice their prejudices. The election of aleader who is associated with the Palestine

Solidarity Campaign, with Stop the War, witha very hostile position on Israel, and someonewho has thought it appropriate to meet herein the democratic mother of parliaments withterrorist organisations whose stated missionin life is to kill as many Christians and Jews aspossible, has clearly sent the wrong sort ofmessage to some people, said Arkush.

He added: With the advent of a more left-wards tilt in the leadership of the Labour Party,some people feel that a space has beenopened up for them, or they feel embold-ened to say things which previously they feltthey couldnt say in polite society.

Arkush welcomed the the Chakrabarti re-view, but added: We are concerned that theimpression is being given by the leader ofthe Labour Party of a certain reluctance toaccept these issues. The impression we havegot is that every step taken has had to bewrung out of him by public pressure.

He said he had pressed Corbyn to acceptthat his earlier meetings with Hamas andHezbollah had been inappropriate andshould not be repeated, and was concernedthat the Labour leader had not yet done so.

Livingstone was suspended from theLabour Party in April amid a row over his re-marks about Hitler, which led to a confronta-tion in front of TV cameras with furiousLabour MP John Mann, whobranded him a Nazi apologist.

The former London mayor told

the committee the allegation was a lie andhe could have sued Mann over it. He said hehad been trying to calm the Bassetlaw MPbecause he seemed to be on the edge ofviolence and he feared Mann would takea swing at him.

Livingstone insisted he was right to say thatHitler had at one point supported Zionism asa way of getting rid of Jewish people fromGermany. He repeatedly told the cross-partycommittee he had been approached in thestreet by Jews agreeing he was right.

In a written statement, he said: Idetest racism and condemn anti-Semitism. Indeed my politicalcareer has totally opposed anysuch views concerning any re-ligious or ethnic group.

Challenged to offer anapology for his comments, hesaid: If I had said something

that was untrue and caused of-fence, I would have apolo-gised, but what I said wastrue. What caused offencewas a group of embitteredold Blairites running around

lying about what I said.

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SIR PHILIP Green has apolo-gised to the staff of col-lapsed retailer BHS, addingthat he will sort the firmsdilapidated pension scheme,which has a 571millionblack hole.

The Topshop billionairefaced MPs from the Businessand Pensions committees onWednesday, who are investi-gating the firms failure.

The Jewish businessmansaid: Nothing is more sadthan how this has ended andI hope... you will hear thatthere was no intent on my

part for anything to be likethis and didnt need to belike this.

I just want to apologise toall the BHS people who areinvolved in this and havebeen involved.

BHS collapse has left apotential 11,000 jobs at riskand a 571m pensions blackhole, with the schemes of ap-proximately 20,000 currentand former workers fallinginto the Pension ProtectionFund (PPF). But the tycoonvowed: We want to find asolution for the 20,000 pen-sioners. We still believe thatmoney into the PPF does notresolve it. The schemes are

quite complex, but froIve seen I would saysolvable, its sortable,sort it, we will find a and I want to give mances to the 20,0000 pers that Im here to so

He told the MPs thnow a light in the for the scheme andthat he had little to BHS pension trustetook the blame for trent state of the schemmy fault, he said.

Sir Philip has also cfor criticism for taking

in dividends out of tduring his 15-year owand selling it for 1 tobankrupt Dominic Cin 2015.

However, he claimethrough his Arcadiaempire, he had p600m into BHS afdividend payments.

He also defended of the Monaco taxto run his business, I dont accept that avoidance. I could hava lot more aggressivI probably was. Everyour company has mthe United Kingdom htax.

Green sorry over B

THE REDEVELOPMENT of Bushey Ceme-tery is on track for completion and consecra-tion by the end of 2017, religious leadershave said, leading to thousands of new bur-ial plots by the spring.

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and UnitedSynagogue president Stephen Pack visitedthe site, in Little Bushey Lane, this week, withMirvis describing it as a place of awe.

The overall cost of the project is 9millionand incorporated in the design are twonew prayer halls, which feature walls made

of rammed earth. These use highly-com-pressed natural materials clad with timberto store heat in the cold and stay cool in thesummer.

The high-profile delegation heard howthe sites environmentally-friendly approachinvolved water features and a range ofplants, leading Mirvis to say it was a placeof dignity and beauty, tranquility and awe.

He added that the sites developmentwas a vital mitzvah, while Pack said themulti-million pound project would be amost dignified and attractive cemetery thatthe whole community can be proud of.

Pack argued that the sites developmentwould help cater for the needs of the com-munity, saying: As mainstream OrthodoxJudaism continues to thrive in our commu-nities, we must ensure that this vital commu-nal infrastructure is in place.

Mirvis added that the developmenthighlights that for us, as Jews, it is of theutmost importance that we care for our de-parted loved ones.

Chairman of the US property committee,Peter Zinkin, said; The support of both theChief Rabbi and the president of the US forthis project illustrates how very important thisdevelopment is to us all. The new Bushey

Cemetery will be a key feature in the Jewishlandscape for years to come one which willprovide many thousands of people with a fit-ting resting place for their loved ones.

Referencing the biodegradable walls, USproperty services director Lali Virdee said:This is a visionary project which makes in-novative and creative use of natural materialsin a way that recognises the cycle of life.

Chief Rabbi praises 9m Busheycemetery as a vital place of awe

The Chief Rabbi with United Synagogue president Stephen Pack at the Bushey site

MPs TACKLE EU AT

BREXODUS DEBATEEDUCATION SECRETARY NickyMorgan and UKIPs Douglas Car-swell sparred over shechita andPalestinian terrorism at the JewishNews-J-TV Brexodus EU referen-dum debate on Tuesday night,writes Gabriel Pogrund.

Frontbencher and key Cameronally Morgan claimed there isabsolutely a guarantee that rit-ual slaughter will be safeguarded ifBritain remains in the EuropeanUnion, claiming a Conservative orany reasonable government wouldalways block such a move. A vetoon shechita, the MP for Lough-borough said, was too important

not to have.However, Carswell, UKIPs onlyrepresentative in Westminster,claimed religious slaughter nowrested in the hands of facelessbureaucrats in Brussels.

The former Conservative MP,who stepped down to join UKIPand won a consequent by-electionin his constituency of Clacton, alsoclaimed that the EU is responsiblefor backing legislation againstIsrael, such as the labelling ofgoods from the occupied WestBank. Labelling of such goods hasbeen enshrined in European lawsince last year.

Nine days ahead of the UKs

referendum over whether ornot it is to remain within theEU, Morgan affirmed Remainsview that influencing suchdecisions and being at the table was better than leaving.

Carswell, who grew up inUganda, drew applause from theaudience on several occasions;once referring to Israels status asan awkward riposte to the ideathat self-determination has had itsday; another when he recountedhis memory of Operation Entebbein 1976, when he was five.

On migration, he called forlimits and warned of asylum

seekers in Europe arriving inBritain after becoming citizens inother EU member states.

Morgan criticised Carswell forpromoting what she describedas a nasty and mean-spiritedviewon refugees.

The UKIP MP rejected such re-marks, but did not deny her sug-gestion that even youre betterthan party leader Nigel Farage onmigration the two Brexiteershave a notoriously fractious rela-tionship and are reported not tobe in regular dialogue.

Only last week, Boris Johnsonand Michael Gove made a majorjoint speech at Formans Fish

Island, near the Olympic Stadium,where Brexodus was held.

Carswell drew support from anaudience that appeared slightlymore pro-Brexit although he stum-bled on what Britains economywould look like outside of the EU.

Morgan said he had no answerto what the terms of trade wouldbe with Britain outside the EU.

However, he claimed there wasan honourable and honest casefor remaining in the EU but thatMorgan, who generally demon-strated less command of Israeli andJewish affairs, had not made it.

Both contestants accused the

other side of scaremongering inwhat was primarily a re-run ofRemain and Brexits key debatesahead of the referendum. Morganand Carswell similarly both in-voked their childrens futures intheir concluding remarks in thedebate, which was introduced byJewish News editor Richard Ferrerand chaired by Alan Mendoza ofthe Henry Jackson Society.

This week The Times reportedthat Britain is on course for Brexitafter a YouGov survey it commis-sioned recorded a seven point lead.A Guardian survey predicted a sim-ilar result by a slimmer margin. Editorial comment, page 12

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LON-DON has quashed a boycott,divestment and sanctions(BDS) motion in all but nameafter seeking legal advice andconceding its contents can-not be legally implemented.

The student union said themotion, which criticises Israelssystematic and institution-alised oppression of Pales-

tinians, will however remainofficial policy.

However, the union has de-cided that all of its practicalresolutions including boy-cotting Israeli goods and end-ing commercial relations withfirms involved in Israels occu-pation of the West Bank exceed its powers as a chari-table organisation.

The student unions boardof trustees reviewed the legis-lation with the help of a lawyerand confirmed such moveswould be illegal.

The volte face comes in thewake of a Jewish society cam-paign that included the IsraeliEmbassy and Jonathan Turner,the chairman of UK Lawyersfor Israel.

THE UKS foreign aid budget is acting as an in-centive to Palestinian terrorists, a Labour MP hasclaimed.

Joan Ryan said aid handed to the PalestinianAuthority (PA) is being indirectly used to pay pris-oners who have committed violent attacks against

Israelis during the bitter Israeli-Palestinian conflict.International Development Minister DesmondSwayne denied the claims, insisting money givento the PA funds specific civil servants, helping to

prepare for a government in the event ofa two-state solution.

But Ryan suggested the aid freesup extra cash within the PA to payconvicted Palestinian terrorists, in-cluding Taleb Mehamara, who tar-geted Israelis in a shooting attack.

Speaking during a debate onforeign aid spending in West-minster Hall, she said aidgiven to the PA was failingthe UKs scrutiny tests.

The Enfield North MP said:Let me give one example,the issue of the PAs payments

to convicted Palestinian terrorists. These are not, asone Dfid minister claimed in 2012, social assistanceprogrammes to provide welfare payments, insteadby operating a perverse sliding scale where you re-ceive more money the longer sentence you receive,

in some cases as much as five times the averagemonthly wage in Ramallah, they actually incentivisepeople to commit the most terrible acts of violence.

I simply dont see how that advances the causeof a two-state solution.

She added: The payments we makethe Palestinian Authority to make their pto prisoners.

Her complaints were echoed by Labouminister Ian Austin, who said the aid pawere in direct contradiction to the demand

international community.Swayne insisted British taxpayers does not fund terrorism and defended toughly scrutinised list of aid recipients.

He said: Our taxpayers money goes the Palestinian Authority so it is able tointo the government of a Palestinian stathat opportunity arises and we pay namservants for the provision of public servic

Ryan, who accused the minister of ignoring the matter, said the aid shouldpended pending an inquiry and aid insrected to co-existence projects.

Former international development Sir Alan Duncan complained that the in response to a petition questioning tfixed 0.7 percent on foreign aid sphad been hijacked by those who wdemonise Palestinians.

UCL turns down inoperable BDS motionLOUISE ELLMAN, the LabourMP for Liverpool Riverside, isone of five Jewish LeadershipCouncil vice presidents threeof them women whose ap-pointments were announcedon Tuesday.

The other women formingpart of the JLCs drive forgreater womens representa-tion are Karen Pollock and

Dame Helen Hyde, both promi-nent Holocaust educators.

Also joining the councilsboard are Dr Moshe Kantor,who has served as president ofthe European Jewish Congressfor nine years, and David Dan-goor president of the Boardof the Sephardi community.

Women still only make upfive of the JLCs 16-strong

board exactly equanumber of Lords serving

The appointments was boost to the councihas targeted women inship as a strategy prior

Discussing the appoinMick Davis, JLC chairmthe appointments woulseek advice from leadall walks of Jewish life

JLC appoints three women to vice president

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomes released prisoners. Inset: Labour MP Joan Ryan

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UK NEWSUK NEWSQUEENS BIRTHDAY HONOURS

SADIQ KHAN has hailed the long-timechief executive of the Jewish Lads andGirls Brigade after he become one ofthe youngest recipients of the OBE inthe Queens Birthday Honours list,

writes Justin Cohen.Neil Martin, Holocaust survivor Anita

Lasker-Wallfisch and theatre producerSonia Friedman can look forward to avisit to Buckingham Palace after being in-cluded alongside celebrities, politiciansand community activists in the list, whichcoincides with Her Majestys 90th birthday.

Martin, 37, chief executive of theJewish Lads and Girls Brigade for thepast 11 years, said he was truly hum-bled and still cant believe it afterbeing awarded an OBE for services toyoung people and interfaith relations.

I keep thinking of all the people whosupported me throughout my journeyand Im so grateful to them all, espe-cially everyone at JLGB and, of course,my family, he added.

Martin who said joining the groupaged 14 helped develop his confidence

has revolutionised the 120-year-oldorganisation, including expanding kosherprovision for the Duke of EdinburghsAward and pioneering the charitys Inter-faith National Citizen Service pro-gramme. He also chairs the Interfaith

Youth Trust and Yom HaShoah UK, play-ing an instrumental role in growing thecommunitys annual commemorationinto an event that over the past two yearshas brought thousands to Copthall Sta-dium to honour the six million murdered.

Khan told Jewish News: Im thrilledthat Neil Martin has been recognisedin the Queens Birthday Honours list.His work as chief executive of theJewish Lads and Girls Brigade, andInterfaith Youth Trust has made a dra-matic difference to the lives of many

young people.In my first official engagement asMayor of London, it was an honour toattend Yom HaShoah, the Jewish com-munitys annual Holocaust commemo-ration event, organised by Neil. He issomeone who has made it his missionto find innovative and proactive ways toencourage social integration amongLondoners and it is fantastic to see himrecognised in this way.

Martin, who was number three on

Jewish News 2015 Forty Under 40listof those shaping the future of Anglo-Jewry, added: I am so proud of theachievements of the entire JLGB teamas we strive to help thousands moreyoung people be prepared and suc-ceed in a global digital world by help-

ing them to reach their individualpotential and become the best possi-ble versions of themselves.

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived themost notorious concentration camp withthe help of her musical prowess and hasspent decades passing on the lessons ofthose dark years to young people inthis country as well as in Germany andAustria. She is honoured with an MBEfor services to Holocaust education.

After meeting her as part of the Holo-

caust Memorial Day Trusts MemoryMakers initiative marking the 70thanniversary of the liberation ofAuschwitz, broadcaster Stephen Fry saidhe had learnt three life lessons includingthat a lack of self-pity is among thenoblest of human attributes. The world

must also remain alert to the mad lan-guage that allows pitiless killing, the lan-guage that dehumanises both the victimand perpetrator, he wrote in an essayinspired by that meeting.

Offering her congratulations, OliviaMarks-Woldman, chief executive of theHMDT which has worked extensivelywith Anita said she continues to worktirelessly to counter Holocaust denial byspeaking publicly about her experiencesat Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Her

integrity, wisdom and strengthpeople around the world.

The Holocaust EducationaKaren Pollock, herself an MBEAs a cellist in the Auschwit

orchestra, Anita Lasker-Wallfian eyewitness to one of the Nacynical ploys the playing of a death camp. After the Holocadedicated her time to ensurstory, and that of millions of onever forgotten. We congratuon this richly deserved honour

Producer Sonia Friedman,theatre credits include The Mormon and Hamlet, picks upfor services to theatre, while thonour went to LoveFilm co-Saul Klein for services to busin

Seventy percent of all awardspeople who had undertaken outwork in or for their local comeither in a voluntary or paid cAmong them is Mohammedfounder and co-chair of the Jewish Forum of Greater Manch

Also among those recogniMalcolm Livingstone for serthe Jewish community in GlasgMichael Simons, 55, senior apsupport officer at the parliadigital service, who picks up for parliamentary service and sethe Jewish community in Sutto

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LABOUR ACTIVIST Rhea Wolf-son has revived her campaignfor membership of the partysNational Executive Committee.

Wolfson, the sole Jewish can-didate in the running to replaceformer London Mayor Ken Liv-ingstone on Labours governingbody, will seek the nomination ofa new constituency party afterfailing to win the support of

members in Eastwood, Glasgow.The former Oxford UniversityJewish Society chair missedout on the Constituency LabourPartys nomination after ex-Scottish Labour leader JimMurphy spoke out against hercandidacy.

She alleged Murphy arguedthat it would not be appropri-ate to nominate me due to myendorsement by Momentum,which he claimed has a prob-lem with anti-Semitism.

Wolfson herself was a victimof anti-Semitic abuse from on-line trolls after she announcedher candidacy.

Her lack of an endorsementfrom her home CLP appearedto have put a premature end toher campaign but the youngleft-winger now says she isconvinced of her chances ofsuccess.

In a Facebook message postedto her official campaign page,

she wrote: Last week, I wasunsuccessful in securing a nomi-nation from Eastwood, the CLPI grew up in.

Since then, I have beenoverwhelmed by the supportI have received from membersup and down the UK. This hasconfirmed for me the reasonswhy I first wanted to stand:to promote a positive andcredible democratic socialistagenda, and to empowermembers to fight for a moredemocratic party that candeliver change.

I have transferred my mem-bership to my other addressand will seek nomination frommy home CLP. If successful,I will be an officially nominatedcandidate for Labours Na-tional Executive Committee.

Wolfson revives campaign

A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR whohas spent his retirement sharingharrowing wartime experienceswith British schoolchildren is tofeature in a time capsuledocumentary designed to en-

sure the horrors of Auschwitzare never forgotten.

Zigi Shipper, 86, said he hasagreed to take part in the filmso the first-hand accounts of the

atrocities, which resulted in thegenocide of millions of Jewishmen, women and children atthe hands of the Hitler regime,remain long after he and thedwindling number of Holocaust

survivors are around to tellthem personally.

The Polish-born former shopworker, who lives in Bushey,regularly tours the UK to speak

to young people as part of hiswork with the Holocaust Educa-tional Trust (HET).

He has joined his film-makergrandson Darren Richman, 31,to produce 84303 the number

he was known by a vivid testi-mony of his childhood in theghetto, the Auschwitz-Birkenauconcentration camp, and theemotional liberation that will live

with him for the rest of his days.Shipper said: It is important

for me to speak to pupils. Whois going to speak for the peo-ple who did not survive?

I want young people to

know what racism and preju-dice can do to people and, ofcourse, hatred. After all, one ofthem might be prime ministerone day.

Shipper was sent tolive with his grandparentsshortly before war brokeout in 1939 upon his par-ents divorce. He wasplaced in the ghetto aged 10

and sent to AuschwitzBirkenau in the sum-mer of 1944. Details:

h t org uk

Shipper takes lead in time capsule doc

Back in the running: Wolfson

A PREVIOUSLY unseen self-portrait by Lucian Freud hasgone on display at the NationalPortrait Gallery.

The unfinished painting,which is thought to date backto the mid-1980s, is being ex-hibited alongside a selection ofdrawings from Freuds unseensketchbooks.

They have gone on displayafter the late artists estate left

them to the nation in lieu of in-heritance tax.

Lucian Freud Unseen, whichruns until September 6, showshighlights from an archive ofletters and 800 drawings

which date from the 1940s tothe 1990s.

Some studies on display areconnected to major worksbyFreud, including one sketch-book containing a drawing ofLady Caroline Blackwood whichrelates to the painters 1954masterpiece Hotel Bedroom.

Also on show are drawingscharting Freuds boyhood inBerlin and an illustration for the

cover of his daughter Esther-Freuds 1992 novel HideousKinky.

Freud, who died in 2011aged 88, was the grandson ofpsychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

This previously hidden self-portrait has gone on display in London

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THREE SWASTIKAS havebeen found daubed in aStamford Hill playground.

Neighbourhood watchgroup Shomrim posted amessage on Twitter showingthe vile symbols.

The Board of Deputies

Marie van der Zyl said: Thedaubing in a place where Jew-ish children study and play isan act of racism intended to

spread fear and alarhope the perpetratorsapprehended and mfeel the full force of th

AN INFLUENTIAL Essex rabbiwith responsibility for childrenhas added his voice to theongoing debate about theimpact the growing number ofJewish schools will have on

synagogues saying an annualshul visit should be on everyschools curriculum.

Rabbi Alex Chapper, theChildrens Rabbi at Ilford Fed-eration Synagogue, said thecommunity was missing anopportunity to link schoolsand shuls, and that rabbiscontributions in class oftenfelt like a mere token atcertain times of year.

He said it wasironic that he

welcomes more non-Jewishschoolchildren to the syna-gogue during the academicyear than Jewish children.

Chapper was speaking after aspecial report in last weeksJewish News

headlinedShul

Versus School.

He argued that parents arenot thinking about how theirchildren would maintain their

Jewish identity beyondschool.

For many parents,sending their children toa Jewish school is seen assufficiently providing for

the development of theirJewish education

and identity,

without considering that later inlife they may need to find this inother communal institutions.

He added: We are missing

an opportunity by not estab-lishing greater integration andconnection between schoolsand shuls.

Call to boost school-shul links

Pupils should make regular school visits to shuls, says Rabbi Chapper

Swastikas found in Stamford

FORMER CHELSEA footballmanager Avram Grant receivedhis Polish passport this week, fol-lowing years of researching hisfamilys heritage in the country.

Grant accepted his officialdocument as a Polish citizen atthe the Polish Embassy in Lon-don on Monday.

The coach said: Feeling Pol-ish comes naturally to me. My fa-

ther Meir was a Polish citwas born in Mlawa, near like my grandfather Agreat-grandfather Herscthe generations before t

Grants family ePoland for Russia at thethe Second World War, deported to Siberia.

His father lost both and five siblings while th

Grant gets Polish passpo

BIBLICAL PLANTS and herbssignificant to the Abrahamicfaiths were on show at the newHolocaust Memorial Garden un-veiled by Communities MinisterBaroness Williams at Edgware &District Reform Synagogue.

Organisers said the gardenhad been designed as a spacefor people from across the com-munity and from different faithscan come together to discussissues of concern and work.

Williams was shown the se-lection of symbolic plants, trees,flowers and shrubs including

olive trees, myrtle shrubs, salixalba trees, laurel bushes and abiblical herb garden.

She also met officials behindthe garden, which came aboutafter the community decided tohelp to fund the project.

THE LATE broadcaster and MPSir Clement Freud has beenaccused of abusing two girlsbetween the 1940s and 1970s.

Sylvia Woosley, who firstmet Freud when she was 10and later went to live withhim when her mothers mar-riage broke down, claims inan ITV Exposuredocumentarythat he molested her over

several years.A second woman

wants to remain anonalleged that the Liberacian also abused her aand raped her when s18. Freud, the grandpsychoanalysist SFreud, and brother oLucian, was born to GJewish parents.

JEWISH STUDENT Benji Fisherhas secured 40,000 fundingfor a website he hopes will be-come the Wikipedia of poli-tics.

Birmingham University un-dergraduate Fisher, 20, nowhopes online magazine JustDebate will cut through thenoise of political debate andoffer simple, impartial andquick news digests.

The website which pres-ents simple explanations forboth sides of contentious po-litical issues already employs

40 volunteer student journal-ists on campuses across theUK.

It has attracted the atten-tion of Facebook, the BBC andthe US Embassy, which invitedFisher to participate in BarackObamas question-and-answersession at Westminster TownHall.

Recent articles have offeredfresh looks at the EU referen-dum and the controversy sur-rounding new National Unionof Students president MaliaBouattia.

40k award for politics site

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AUSTRIAS INTERIOR ministersays he can imagine having thehouse where Adolf Hitler wasborn demolished, calling it thecleanest solution.

The Austrian governmentwants to expropriate the house in

Braunau am Inn on the Germanborder, where the future Nazileader was born in 1889, toensure it does not become aplace of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.

The Interior Ministry hasrented the house since 1972 toprevent its misuse, sub-letting itto charitable organisations.

The building has stood emptysince a care centre for adults withdisabilities moved out in 2011.

Interior minister WolfgangSobotka told ORF TV that theexpropriation was necessary.

He said: We have tried toclear up all possibilities forusing it and buying it with theowner, but with no results. Forme, a demolition would be thecleanest solution.

Sobotkas ministry describedthat view as his personal opinionand said it would have to beclarified whether the demolitionwas legally feasible, the AustriaPress Agency reported.

PORTUGAL WOULD win the2016 European Championships if the competition was basedon religious freedom rather thanfootball.

That is the conclusion of re-searchers who assessed all 24

countries fighting for the Euro2016 football championshipsnow being held in France.

England would not get passedthe last 16, according to data

from the Pew Global ReligiousFutures Project, but the CzechRepublic and Ireland would bothmake it to the semi-finals, whilehosts France would be knockedout at the group stages.

The study on religious free-

dom in predominantly-ChristianEurope, where only one-in-fivesay God is an important part oftheir lives, measured social hos-tility, government restrictionsand legal protections.

It also considered minorities,conversions and education.

Researchers found that Russiafared worst of the 24 competingnations followed by Turkey, oneof only two Muslim states in thetournament. The other, Albania,was second, and would there-fore lose to Portugal in the final.

Demolish Hitler birth house

Hitler was born here in 1889

Portugals Euro 2016 team

MYANMARS ONLY synagogue,in the former capital of Yangon,

has been celebrated with a blueplaque by the states historicalorganisation. The country, for-merly known as Burma, oncehad a thriving 2,500-strong Jew-ish community. For years, thebuilding has been kept in pris-tine condition by one family.

Myanmar

JEWISH LEADERS in Viennahave denied that they are nor-malising ties with the far-rightFreedom Party, after its candi-date almost won the presidentialelection in May. Reports hadsuggested that community lead-ers were discussing ways forparty officials to disassociatefrom neo-Nazis and their events.

Austria

A CONTROVERSIAL rabbi haspledged to bring 850 BrazilianJews to Israel by the end of2016. Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, ofthe International Fellowship ofChristians and Jews, made theclaim ahead of a church mega-tour. The Jewish Agency calledhis group parasitic for luringgullible olim with bribes.

Brazil

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SWISS JEWS have conda recent law to fine st4,000 for refusing to hands with teachers. It after two male Muslim strefused to shake handfemale teachers at a gradceremony north of Basel. Jews can also opt not tomembers of the opposite

Switzerland

AUTHORITIES IN Johannare facing pressure to exa 78-year-old Chasidic rIsrael, after he was arrestmonths ago following fouon the run around the Four women have cRabbi Eliezer Berland asthem while head of a yHe is currently in custody

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It comes after a Council ofEurope meeting last week toplan the preservation of Jewishcemeteries in towns and vil-lages once home to thousandsof Jews before whole commu-nities were decimated duringthe Shoah.

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leader, worried by the threatposed by the absence of Jew-

ish communities in these areastoday, and the lack of cemeteryboundaries or protection.

The German ambassador saidit was for the common historyof Europe and that his countryhad a special responsibility.

Israels former justice minis-ter Yossi Beilin argued the sitespreservation would contributeto education and tourism, andenhance the cultural and reli-

gious significance of the townsand villages concerned.

People in Israel and outsideare worrying about Jewishcemeteries in Europe, he said.The picture we have is of theirdisappearance. We call [on] youto contribute to our joint re-membrance.

Leaders will now cost theESJF European Jewish Cemeter-ies Initiative, the first pan-European effort to preserveJewish heritage. Dozens of

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EDITORIAL COMMENT AND READERS LETTERS


HUGE UNCERTAINTY

IF WE LEAVE THE EUI would like to comment on recent lettersabout next weeks EU referendum.Readers Martin and Anna Kaczynski areworried about Turkey joining the EU, butTurkeys human rights record alone willprevent it joining for many years.

That apart, both Greece and Cypruswould veto any application from Turkeyunless there was a settlement in Cyprus.I therefore feel it is mischievous to makethis an issue in the campaign.

Thomas Kovacs questions whether wein Britain will lose business in Europe ifwe leave the EU.

The idea that we would is not sharedby most economists, nor by many busi-nessmen. Both the CBI and the chambersof commerce recognise the dangers tothe economy from Brexit.

What is clear is that Brexit would befollowed by huge uncertainty.That woulddeter investment. It would also discour-age inward investment in Britain from theUS and Japan.

Over the past four years Japanesecompanies have invested 15bn in theirUK operations which between thememploy 140,000 people.

We should recognise that many of theproblems facing us today do not recog-nise national borders. This is not thecentury of national solutions.

We now pool sovereignty to secureinternational solutions to problems inca-pable of purely national solutions.

John MarshallMP for Hendon South [1987-97]

VESTED INTERESTS

AND THE BIG VOTELetter writer Jonathan Hoffman deliversa number of spurious reasons for remain-ing inside the EU, (Jewish News, 19May).

How has the EU fostered integrationand 70 years of peace in Europe? It isthe European people themselves, helpedby NATO and the UN, not the EU. TheEU has stoked up notions of war bygoading Russia over the Ukraine.

Where does Mr Hoffman get thenotion that the euro is a popularcurrency? Who says? It is a necessity forcommerce. The Eurozone is in a state ofmeltdown, and the Greek governmenthas been constantly bailed-out by EU(sorry, mostly our) billions of taxpayersmoney.

We pay about 350 million a week(gross) to keep the EU afloat!

Jewish voters have NOT been scaredinto voting for Brexit due to fears ofgrowing Islamisation.

It is the unelected EU commissioners(such as the Jewish Martin Schulz) whohave insidiously and relentlessly plannedto foster increased immigration fromIslamic countries to provide cheap labourfor large Jewish-owned multinationalcorporations financed by Jewish-ownedbanks.

That's one reason why the largeAmerican corporations want the EU tosign the Transatlantic Trade andInvestment Partnership (TTIP) agreementto give them more power.

The economists and securityexperts who say the UK is better offand safer in the EU are matched byanother set of experts who say we

should leave. These include formerheads of the secret services and govern-

ment advisers. Look what happenedwhen the Remain experts made fore-casts previously how wrong they were!

For example, they said Brexit wouldweaken the pound and the economy.Instead, the pound has risen in the pastweeks against the euro.

To remain in the EU would be just asmuch a leap in the dark because wewould still be faced by increased funda-mentalism, Middle East uncertainty andthe impact of Russia and China.

By remaining in the EU, the UK ispowerless to advance market reform, asMr Hoffman advocates, because we havebeen consistently outvoted by the otherEU members. Why would this change?

Our MEPs have no power to instigatenew laws, and we cannot control who welet into the UK. The only people andinstitutions who advocate that we remainin the UK are those with vested interestsfor staying on the EU gravy train.

This includes large corporations,universities, senior politicians and sadly many religious institutions. WatchBrexit the movie on You Tube (free) andyou will be shocked!

We must think of the future interestsof our country, and set our children freefinally from the stranglehold of EUtyranny!

Vote leave for democracy!

Dr David GutmannBy email

LEAVERS IGNORINGTHE DANGER TO JEWSMany correspondents to your paper whoadvocate leaving the EU seem blissfully

unaware of the dangers such a movewould create for Jewish communitiesboth in the UK and in the other 27member states.

First, there are dozens, if nothundreds, of EU-born Jewish spouses ofUK citizens living here, some for severaldecades. If they have not already appliedfor and received UK citizenship, they

might no longer have an automatto reside in the United Kingdom.

In effect they would be treatedthe same as other aliens and happly for citizenship and pass thsuch as knowledge of the consand the English language.

Second, the UKs Jewish organsuch as Shechita UK are helping the fight to retain vital religious psuch as shechita and bris milah thout the European Union.

The UK has the second largebest politically connected and infJewish community. Are we to aour fellow Jews in France, BelgiuItaly etc. to attacks on Judaism anmany small and powerless commto fend for themselves? Is this astance to take?

The UK is also a leader in thagainst the rise of anti-Semitic fparties in countries such as HGreece and Slovakia.

Last, there is absolutely no doucost of kosher food imported fromEU states would increase if wImport tariffs would mean highefor hundreds of products such as yogurts; French pastries; Dutch cPolish killed-meat products andwines. Steep price rises would even harder for poorer families ttain strictly kosher households.

Everyone should think very cwhat the dangers would be for EuJewry as a whole before castingthat could see the break-up of thtution that has helped to keep thin Europe since the dark days oWar Two.

No doubt a vote to leave woulead to a break-up of the Kingdom if the Scots were to volarge majority to remain.

Dr YaakHuddersfield Un

A POEM TO PERSUAYOU ON VOTING DIf you dare to vote leave

Youll never believeWhat bad things and horrors turn uIf you dont vote remainThen never againWill England regain the World Cup

If you vote to stayThen within one dayThe Messiah is sure to arriveRecession no more...Even if theres world warEveryone is bound to survive

Yet if leave dares to winThe sky will fall inBritain wont need its own roleSo vote Project FearAnd within one year

Youll become a Spaniard or Pole!

Elections will beDistant memoryCameron wont need porky piesFrau Merkel will ruleTurkish will be coolRemain and youll know you chose

Who cares if the NHS dies?We can all enjoy our French Fries!

MarvinSt

PO Box 34296, London NW5 1YW [email protected] referendum vote will

be a borderline decisionFOR ALL the swipes and jabs,scaremongering, one-upman-ship, duels and discussions of thelast few months, somethingsuddenly became apparent atthe Jewish News-J-TVBrexodusdebate between EducationSecretary Nicky Morgan andUKIP MP Douglas Carswell onTuesday night.

Forget for a moment about thefinancial Armageddon that Britainwill apparently hurl head first intoupon exiting the EU the likeli-hood of which seems to changeas much as our summer weather.

What this referendum reallyboils down to is the salient issueof immigration: its the burningtopic of 300,000 newcomers ayear that just wont go away.

For those who favour Brexit,the ongoing immigration crisislies at the heart of their argumentto take back British sovereigntyand stave off the dual threat ofIslamisation and rising support

for ultra-nationalist and extremistparties neither of which areparticularly tempting for the UKJewish community.

But so too is immigration atthe heart of concerns for thosewho wish to remain.

Without the arrival of newmigrants and as our citizensbecome wealthier and moreskilled who exactly will fill thegaps in the workforce?

And what of the fight againstterrorism? A Brexit could spelldisaster for fighting cross-bordercrime, shared intelligence and

the European Arrest Warrants.Each of us faces a profounddecision in just seven days time.Curiously, it seems the mostcompelling issue for many voterslies outside our own bordersrather than within.

If youre seeking furtherevidence that this is the case, justglance at the readers lettersopposite...

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OUR LAST CHANCE TOGET OUT OF THIS MESSColumnist Alex Brummer was absolutely rightto say that the EU was originally described(sold) to the UK public as solely a tradingarrangement, nothing else (Jewish News, 28April), definitely not as a security organisa-tion, as some letter writers have stated.

In fact, the government of the day, togetherwith most other politicians and academics,guaranteedat that time that there would be noloss of sovereignty or independence.

The absurd phrase pooling our sovereigntywas even used.

I was in the midst of a career in newspapersat that time and now keep screaming for news-paper, television, radio coverage of the day tobe shown so that the UK public can see andhear how it was lied to, conned (theres noother word for it) and misled, both intentionallyand unintentionally.

There must be many like me who believe wewere conned once and will not be connedagain. It is quite correct to say, as JonathanHoffman (Letters, 19 May) points out, that theEU has always fostered integration, whichmeans combining to form a whole, the verything we were guaranteed would neverhappen. Most people describe independenceas something to strive for and treasure in their

lives. But not for their country?Independence is entirely different from isola-

tion both for an individual and a country. Justlike now, the public wanted facts at the time,together with analysis from the so-calledexperts. Forget it! All the facts, comparisons,analysis can be interpreted different ways andprojected in different directions.

We have not fared as badly as some due toremaining outside the Euro, which, again, wewere warned would be catastrophic for us. The

profitability record of the EU has hardly beenconvincing over the past two decades andhopelessly damaging for some countries.

I believe I made the worst political mistakeon behalf of my family, present andfuture,when voting in favour of the EU.

It is old-fashioned thinking and in this tech-nological age conglomerates are out of date.

This may be our last realistic chance fordecades to disentangle ourselves from this

mess. We must get out now.Harry Levy

By email

WE SHOULD CONSIDERWHATS BEST FOR UKIn response to Mr and Mrs Kaczynskis harshviews on Turkey and the EU (Jewish News, 2June), I offer an alternative perspective.

The argument that Turkeys Muslim majority isa good reason to oppose it joining the EU isinconsistent, offensive and weak. AnotherMuslim state, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is also inthe process of joining, and has faced no oppo-sition due to its religious composition. Similarly,no-one doubts Albania or Kosovos Europeancharacter, despite their Muslim majorities.

While the security implications of a countrysharing a common border with Syria and Iraqare a strong argument against Turkish member-

ship of the EU, along with Mr Erdogansassaults on liberal values and democracy, theyare not Jewish issues. Rather, members of ourcommunity should vote on 23 June first andforemost in the interests of Great Britain.

References to the EU representing a continu-ity of Hitlers policies are simply fallacious andthe result of a rather poor understanding ofmodern history.

Daniel J. LevyBy email

AN UNACCEPTABLE ANDUN-JEWISH ARGUMENTRegarding Mr and Mrs Kaczynskis letter Packyour bags if EU vote is to stay in (JewishNews, 2 June), I am unsure whether I am moreoffended by their xenophobia, by their Nazicomparisons or by their complete ignorance ofthe constitutional structure of the EU.

As to the latter point, the UK has an absoluteveto to the accession of any new member state(including Turkey).

As to the former points, just imagine ifanyone wrote to the Guardian expressing afear about being swamped by Jews.

Targeting other ethnic and religious groupsand generalising them as extremists is unac-ceptable and un-Jewish.

And as to their argument that the EU is afulfilment of Hitlers dream, I dont know whichbit of the EU the Kaczynskis think Hitler wouldhave liked most

Among the choices are the Charter ofFundamental Rights, the legislation on genderand racial equality, the democratically-electedparliament. There are more examples.

Hitler would be spoilt for choice. What aridiculous comparison.

Gabriel WebberBy email

LEAVE BEFORE WE AREDRAGGED DOWN MOREWith younger generations in constant digitalcontact with each other all over the world,democratic Europe has become a safer place.

The EU continues to make many bad deci-sions, so we should choose to get out on 23June. Many of its members contravene the EUrules and ignore the human rights clauses. If the

EU was a company, its directors would becuted and the business dissolved. Leout before it drags us down still further.

Mike dB

EU IS CRITICAL OF ISRAAND ALSO HYPOCRIT

Government minister Theresa Viliers wasin Jewish News[9 June) pointing out EU of Israel. I would say its attitude is hyprather than just critical. Take, for examvote last year on a Palestinian state.

When recognition of Somalilanproposed, the EU deemed it beyond its tence and a case for national governmen

Yet not so in a case involving Israeendorsed a Palestinian state.

As a signatory to the Oslo Accords,could be expected to abide by these nevertheless, it built 17 Palestinian insin Area C strictly within Israels perv

The EU is a major contributor to Palfunds; it particularly favours supportingthat strive to undermine Israels authorit

It objects to Jewish occupation oflands in Judea and Shomron but ignoresviolations of international law when it coTurkeys occupation and ethnic clean

northern Cyprus, Moroccos occupation ern Sahara and the behaviour of China.Finally, following in the footsteps of th

ous regime in central Europe, the EU elabelling of Israel produce again, whereelse is subject to this level of scrutiny.

Because Israel is the nation-state of tand for traditional anti-Semitic reasons,is no friend of Israel.

Rabbi MenahemSouth London an

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OPINION: RABBI MIRIAM BERGER AND MARK MAIER


OPINION: JEMMA WAYNE, MOHA MMED AMIN OLIVIA WAYNE

SINCE THE awful, homophobic attack inOrlando on Sunday, the news agenda hasmoved on from Tel Aviv. But when I first heardabout the Sarona shooting last week, it was allI could think about. I was standing outside aradio station, getting ready to plug my newnovel, Chains Of Sand a fictional explorationof the most recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict and it felt horribly salient. Sarona, the culturalhotspot where the shootings took place,appears in the book. It is where a romancegrows, where a British Jew and an Israeli artistfind love. Where normal, ordinary Israelisgather to shop, and visit galleries, and eatpizza. In real life, I have taken my daughtersthere. Their cousins live nearby. It could havebeen them. It could have been us.

Amid the broad-brush conversations aboutpeace efforts in the region, or the usual scrutinyof Israel at the height of each conflict, this isa part of the struggle that is often forgotten.The part that thrusts real, deadly terror intothe lives of innocent civilians. It is the reasonfor the fence. The reason for the hatred. It isindefensible, unjustifiable terrorism, neverthe-less praised and extolled by Hamas.

Yet, even before there was time for a breathlast week, things grew more complicated.Already, within hours of the incident, permitsfor 83,000 Palestinians from the West Bank andthe Gaza Strip were suspended. This included204 relatives of the attackers, while the entirevillage where the gunmen were from went into

lockdown nobody allowed to enter or leaveother than for humanitarian or medical reasons.Perhaps this seems understandable.

There is certainly some pragmatism to it. Itmay well be the best chance to foil further po-tentially related attacks. And there have beenwarnings from Hamas to Israel to expect more,to expect worse, during the imminent holy daysof Ramadan.

But imagine for a moment it was a Birming-ham shooter attacking a London caf. Wouldwe lock down Birmingham? Or, lets be morespecific, more to the point imagine it was anIslamic extremist from a specific, Muslim-dom-inated housing estate. Would we deny move-ment to everybody on that estate? Would wedemolish the attackers family home?

Is that the plan in Orlando?It is hard to imagine that kind of collective

punishment happening in Florida, or in the UK.Because we have not yet, not quite, reached aplace at which the world consists of Us andThem. Our political exchanges may sometimessuggest the opposite, but I hope we stillbelieve that the sins of the father cannot be thesins of the son. (In Orlando, the father of thegunman has already been allowed his own,separate, voice.) And the sins of a man cannotbe carried by his whole village. Yet that is thenature of the Israeli occupation. And with everysuch injustice, another terrorist is born.

There is no excuse for what occurred in TelAviv last Wednesday. The murder of innocent

people is heinous and dreadful and devastat-ing. Watching it on the news, in a place I know,a place I love, a place I could easily have been,is frightening and gut-wrenchingly sad. But ifthere is ever to be a break in this perpetualcycle of conflict, we must at some point resistthe facile response of finger pointing.

Instead of holding each atrocity up as proof look, look what theydid, see, this is ourrea-son we must search for more ways for thegreat mass of ordinary peace-yearning people,on all sides, to unite against extremism. Crimesshould be punished, and criminals. Terrorismshould be fought, and terrorists. Discriminationshould be challenged, and those discriminat-ing. Not a whole nation boycotted. Not awhole people or faith blamed.

Bibi may, for a moment, hold some sympathyfrom a world that is increasingly exposed toand fearful of terrorist attacks in its own cities,against its own people. A sentiment painfullyillustrated by the Orlando massacre. And it isimportant that this element of the conflict is feltand understood. It is a real and oft understatedpart of the complex whole.

But if Bibi continues to fill positions of powerwith right-wing yes-men, and persists withinflammatory policies that ignore the frustra-tions of Palestinians, and most Israelis, thatsympathy wont last long.

Because soon well be back in Gaza, sendingmore bombs, killing more people.

And round and round we go...

From Tel Aviv to Orlando, lets

stop the facile finger pointingJemma Way

Bibi may hold sympafrom a world increasin

exposed to terroattacks... but it wont l

Journalist and aut

SIX YEARS ago, in a debate on Israel, I was sur-prised to be accused of anti-Semitism. That ledto me writing: When does anti-Zionism be-come anti-Semitism? which can be found onmy website, www.mohammedamin.comAs sev-eral high-profile people have recently been ac-cused of anti-Semitism due to social media ormainstream media comments about Israel, Ivebeen thinking about this question once more.

What is anti-Semitism?

There are some relatively well-established def-initions. The most recent is the working defini-tion adopted by the International HolocaustRemembrance Alliance (IHRA) on 26 May:

Anti-Semitism is a certain perception ofJews, which may be expressed as hatred towardJews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations ofantiSemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, towardJewish institutions and religious facilities.

The text above is identical to the working defi-nition devised around 2003 by the European Mon-itoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC).

When you read it closely, the entire definitionis contained in the first sentence. A perceptionis something that happens inside your mind. So,indeed, is hatred. Since we cannot read peoplesminds, we can only know that hatred existswithin a persons mind when it is manifested inwords and deeds, which is what the second sen-tence is about.

Accordingly, we are left looking for words(most commonly) or deeds (occasionally), which

provide evidence, sometimes overwhelming ev-idence, that the person hates Jews. If we findsuch overwhelming evidence, we can find theperson guilty of anti-Semitism. We are entitled todisregard the individuals protestation that theydo not hate Jews, unless the individual can offerequally strong evidence in the form of their otherwords or deeds. Mere assertions of not beinganti-Semitic will not acquit the individual.

The EUMC definition has always been con-troversial due to it providing, alongside its def-inition, a list of potential markers ofanti-Semitism, including several anti-Israel be-haviours. Some used the EUMC definition as ifthose possible indicators of anti-Semitism were

part of the definition and constituted proof ofanti-Semitism, regardless of context. The IHRAappears to have avoided that bear trap.

What is being anti-Israel?

There is an endless list of possibilities. As a math-ematics graduate, when faced with a continuousvariable, I always find thinking about the mostextreme possibilities a worthwhile aid to analysis.

At its mildest, being anti-Israeli could com-prise no more than daring to disagree with anypolicy of the Israeli government. I do not believethat anyone would attempt to contend that aperson falling in this category had provided ver-bal evidence of their anti-Semitism.

At its most extreme, being anti-Israeli couldinvolve expressing the view that Israel shouldbe militarily crushed with the entire Jewishpopulation being slaughtered. In this case, I

would expect all reasonable people to convictthe individual of having provided verbal evi-dence of their anti-Semitism. As one goesfrom the mild extremity, steadily ratcheting upthe level of anti-Israeli views, the greater thelikelihood that the individual hates Jews.

However, it is impossible to specify a particu-lar form of anti-Israeli words, whereby all milderversions are not evidence of the individual beinganti-Semitic while all stronger versions are suchevidence. The reason is that one is attemptingto determine the individuals mental state(does this person hate Jews?) and two peoplemay use the same words while having entirelydifferent mental attitudes towards Jews.

Further, for each individual one has to assessthe strength of any evidence for the defencethat would rebut an accusation of anti-Semitism.

Im not anti-Semitic but

Recently, after a public meeting, I was ap-proached by someone starting with these wordswho then gave me a tirade against Israel andagainst the behaviour of Jews throughout history.

The only conclusion I can draw from the per-sons words is that this individual hates Jews. Iam also not aware of any evidence in the otherdirection that would defend against a chargeof anti-Semitism.

However, I suspect this person was not con-sciously lying to me. Rather, they were insuffi-ciently self-aware to realise that what theybelieved about Jews constituted hatred. Sadly, Idoubt that the person is unique in this respect.

Mohammed AmCo-ch

Muslim Jewish Forum

Greater Manches

At its most extreme, beanti-Israel could involve

view that it shouldmilitarily crush

When is being anti-Israelevidence of anti-Semitism?


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INTERVIEWING A HOLOCAUST survivor wasnot something I ever thought Id do, particularlyin my main role as a sports journalist. But a strongsense of my religion, culture and history meantthats what I found myself doing for the docu-mentary 84303 the filmed testimony of ZigiShipper screened for the first time this week.

I spend more time than the average personin front of a camera because of my job as apresenter on Sky Sports News. However, whenI was presented with the opportunity to inter-view Zigi back in 2014 by his grandson DarrenRichman and film director Vaughn Stein, I im-mediately saw it as a privilege. I could incor-porate my professional skills with mycommitment to keeping the subject of theHolocaust in the collective consciousness sothat future generations never forget.

The experience was uniquely inspiring. Twothings struck me during the process of making

the film and spending time with Zigi.First, that despite the unimaginable horrorsof his youth, Zigi exudes a lust for life that manyyounger people would cast envious eyes upon.His warmth and unwavering belief in the inher-ent goodness of fellow humans was somethingthat will be permanently etched into my mind.Zigi harbours no resentment towards the per-petrators. He believes he was lucky to surviveand lives life with a positive outlook.

I met with Zigi on several occasions in thebuild-up to filming the documentary. Meeting

at his house, we would sit with cups of tea andnosh he always prepared and chat for hours.Often going off on a tangent to discuss football,his experiences with the England team, hisbeloved grandchildren and great-grandson.Then he would start talking about his youth andtime at Auschwitz. Zigi was always calm andmeasured as he recounted every painstakingdetail. Subsequent meetings involved me ask-ing lots of questions, delving deeper into hisstory, as we constructed the outline of the mainelements of the account we wanted to tell.

Filming took place over a weekend lastDecember at my old school, North London Col-legiate. We sat on a stage in an empty theatre,Zigi and I opposite each other under spotlights.And we talked. When Zigi started speaking, theenergy in the room was palpable. Everyone wasmesmerised. You could hear a pin drop.

There was utmost respect and wonder for this

man who had lived through horrific atrocities.His story is so harrowing, so fascinating, andso full of emotion: from childhood to the Lodzghetto; from the ghetto to Auschwitz; fromAuschwitz to a death march and, finally, the lib-eration. Unimaginable.

Despite being the target of the most visceralinstitutionalised hatred perhaps because ofit Zigi has one simple message: do not hate.Three words that resonate all the more power-fully when spoken by somebody who wentthrough what he did.

The second thing that struck me was theimportance of the project we had embarkedon. Our aim for this film was to protect the tes-timony of survivors. Zigi and others are thevoice of history, so it was important to ensurethose who had their lives taken can still havetheir stories heard. Hearing Zigi speak, andcapturing his story on camera, emphasised justhow essential this work is.

It is an overwhelmingly dark episode inhuman history. While speaking to Zigi, I realisedsix million is too big a number to properly men-tally digest. However, if you think of the six mil-lion as one individual with the usual ups,downs, twists and turns of life six million timesover, then it starts to look a little different.

This is what I learned talking to Zigi: the impor-tance of people hearing about the individualexperiences of those who lived through auniquely traumatic episode of our past.

It is wonderful that the Holocaust Educa-tional Trust helps survivors share their testi-mony with more than 100,000 students a yearthrough its outreach programme.

Making this film was a way for the wholecrew to do our bit to ensure that people nowand in the future can hear Zigis story and un-derstand how important it is that we remember.

Remembrance, after all, should be active. Itrequires us not just to learn but also to share whatwe have learned. I learned about Zigi Shipperand his story. I hope this film will help share it.

Zigis message is summed up

in three powerful little wordsOlivia Way

Despite being targetby the most visce

institutionalised hate, Zigmessage is: do not ha

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BREXIT WOULD cause an immediate recessionand the poor would pay. The pound, wages, con-sumption and GDP would plummet; cuts in wel-fare, pension, health and education would follow.In the long-term, the economy would continue tosuffer as we find ourselves locked out of the Eu-ropean market and global trade deals.

But this is about more than money. It would beexpensive, the Brexit argument concedes, but wewould be buying something priceless. Actually,the freedom, peace and democracy that we al-ready have is priceless and the Brexiteers are risk-ing everything for a mirage.

Europeans were once seduced by totalitarian-ism; and we Brits remember that the willingness ofAmericans to kill and die for us was decisive in themaintenance of our freedom. As Europe emerged,it built the EU to set in stone its renewed liberty andpeace. Southern Europe embraced human rights

and joined the European community; later, EasternEurope grasped democracy and the EU. As Yu-goslavia emerges from genocide it, too, reachestowards the EU. The EU is a machine for cementingformer slave peoples into democratic Europe.

With modernity, buying and selling became adominant way for strangers to relate to each other.Its

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