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AN UNDERCOVER investigation byJewish News this week sheds light onthe anti-Semitic “lynch mob” active on-line, and details the extraordinary ease with which pro-Palestinian activis ts candescend into a world of hate.

Our reporter, who created fakeanti-Israel internet profiles to gain ac-cess to secret groups, reveals howanti-Semites connect with one an-other and feed off group members’anger, in a self-reinforcing “spiral of extremism”.

Crucially, our investigation also out-lines how the technology and algo-rithms underpinning social media tiltand “taint” search results towards theperceived political persuasion of the

user, showing how hate builds on hate.Moreover, it reveals how savvy blog-

gers manipulate this technology, with a“correlation between the level of venomand the likes/shares they receive”.

Describing this murky and “trulyfrightening” cyber Twilight Zone, ‘Mr X’reveals the anti-Semites’ source of“news” on Israel, the legal loopholesthey exploit and the use of ‘memes’ –images edited to affect emotion orridicule.

Brace yourselves for a cold, hard lookat those no longer able or willing tohear cold, hard facts about the Jewishpeople and the democratic State of Is-rael – and the mind-warping processesthat assist them.

Jewish News’ ‘Mr X’infiltrates the murky

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NEWS

ANGUS ROBERTSON says heis looking forward to visitingJewish institutions in north Lon-don after meeting communityleaders in Westminster.

Anti-Semitism and securitywere at the forefront of discus-sions with the leader of theScottish National Party in theHouse of Commons. Socialcare, education, and religiouspractise were also on theagenda, alongside the Middle

East peace process and thecampaign to delegitimise Israel,which Robertson and East Ren-frewshire MP Kirsten Oswald,whose constituency containsthe largest Jewish communityin Scotland, rejected.

The delegation – led by Jew-ish Leadership Council chair SirMick Davis – also featured theScottish Council of Jewish Com-munities Ephraim Borowski andother Jewish representatives.

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THE SCHOOL of Oriental and African Studies hasconfirmed it has taken disciplinary action against a“small number” of students following rioting duringan Israel Society event at King’s College earlier this

year, writes Justin Cohen.Police were called to the K ing’s campus as around20 anti-Israel protesters set off fire alarms, smasheda window and hurled chairs as former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon addressed an event that grabbednational headlines in January. A senior figure in theIsrael Society also claims they were assaulted.

An investigation found that protesters “crosseda line and should be held accountable” by a disc ipli-nary committee. Jewish News revealed in March that“sanctions” had been imposed on several individualsand that students from other London universitieswho were implicated in the disturbance were beinginvestigated.

Now a SOAS spokesperson has told Jewish News:“We have looked at the evidence provided by King’sCollege. Some of the students were identified asbeing from SOAS. As a result, we followed throughour disciplinary procedure,” adding that disciplinaryprocedures were confidential.

It comes two months after King’s College said“sanctions have been imposed by the disciplinarycommittee as a result of the misconduct hearing.These sanctions are a serious matter for all con-cerned but are confidential to the university andindividuals involved. We are therefore unable to pro-vide more specific details, as we cannot comment onindividual cases”.

The university’s disciplinary procedures includea confidentiality clause but sanctions can mean any-thing from a warning to suspension and expulsion.Action can also include a reprimand, payment fordamage, a fine payable to charity and communityservice.

The Board of Deputies’ president and vice presi-

dent condemned the actions as “violent annal”, while the the Israeli Embassy said it wasing and shameful”, reflecting the “fear thatcentred around hatred of Israel harbour”.

Following the incident, King’s College Action Palestine said they “categorically coany aggression that took place”.

THE RIGHT-WING candidate inAustria’s presidential electionhas conceded to his left-leaningrival.

Austrian Freedom Partyleader Norbert Hofer acknowl-edged defeat to Alexander Vander Bellen in a Facebook post in

which he also thanked his back-ers for their support.European Jewish Congress

president Dr Moshe Kantor toldJewish News : “While we aresatisfied with the result, there islittle room to celebrate the highlevel of support for someonewith such extremist views.”

Above: Protesters hold up a Palestinian flag. Right: Police at the event

SNP Robertson’s tour

Kirsten Oswald and Angus Robertson, centre, with Jewish community leaders

Austrian vote

TURKEY’S PRESIDENT RecepTayyip Erdogan has approveda new government, with aprime minister seeking tomend troubled ties with Israel.

Binali Yildirim, who is widelyconsidered to be Erdogan’smouthpiece, replaced anti-Israel premier Ahmet Davuto-glu this week and said:“We will increase the numberof our friends, and decreasethe number of enemies.”

Turkey and Israel have beennegotiating a diplomatic thaw.

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A PROPOSED code of conductpresented by Jeremy Corbyn toLabour’s ruling body has beendescribed as a “reasonable start-ing point”, writes Justin Cohen.

But the Jewish Labour Move-ment said it failed to address thespecific issues raised in recentweeks, amid a string of revela-tions about comments made by

party members about Jews,Zionists and Israel.The code of conduct was pre-

sented to the national executivecommittee by the party leaderlast week as part of a package of measures he had announced atthe height of the anti-Semitismscandal, but was only publishedyesterday.

Saying Labour would not toler-ate racism “in any form” inside oroutside Labour, the text says:“The party welcomes all whoshare our aims and values, andencourages political debate and

campaigns around the vitpolicies and injustices of

“Any behaviour or usguage which targets odates members of etreligious communities, oracism, including anti-Sand Islamophobia, ormines Labour’s ability paign against any form o

is unacceptable conducShami Chakrabarti, leading Labour’s inquirySemitism in the party, rapossibility of altering tposed code of conduct

JLM chair Jeremy Nsaid: “It’s a reasonablepoint but stops short of ing the specific themehave become prevalent weeks and months. We hwill be toughened up anbined with rule changescome a key part of thetoolkit in fighting anti-Se

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THREE PONZI fraudsters whoblew the £78million they stolefrom investors on Bentleys,

Porsches and yachts were jailedfor a total of 20 years this week.Spencer Steinberg, 46, Michael

Strubel, 54, and Jolan Saunders,40, claimed they had won a con-tract to supply electrical goods tothe Olympic Village ahead of the2012 London Games.

They said Saunders ElectricalWholesalers Limited (SEWL) alsosupplied goods such as includ-ing trouser presses and kettlesto major hotel chains.

But SEWL was just a shabbyhigh street electrical retailer ineast London – a “one man anda van operation”.

Steinberg, of Lodge End,Radlett, and Strubel, PrincesPark, Manor Royal, New South-gate, were both convicted of con-spiracy to defraud and were jailedfor six years and nine months andseven years respectively at South-wark Crown Court on Tuesday.

Saunders, of Almonds Av-enue, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, ad-mitted the same charge andacting as a company directorwhile disqualified and was sen-tenced to seven years in jail.

Judge Michael Grieve QC toldthem: “Over the four years, atotal of about £78million was

received fraudulently from some91 investors in ever increasingamounts. You did repeatedly,and over time, extract from themever mounting funds that werenecessary to feed the fraud andkeep it afloat. Amongst smallerinvestors were many who lostmore than they could afford.”

The judge conceded thatnot all investors had sufferedfinancially and said one had evenmade a £2m profit, which helpedencourage others to invest.

“It is in the nature of a Ponzischeme that there will be win-ners as well as losers when themusic stops.”

Judge Grieve told Saunders:“You are a confidence trickster of the very highest skill. The fraudthat was SEWL was your brain-child and it was you who was

able to convince almost everyonethat it was a business of tens of millions.”

Saunders was described as the‘lynchpin’ of the operation by the

judge before he was sent down.Judge Grieve told Strubel the

fraud financed his “lavish lifestyle”of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Bent-leys, Rolls Royce and a yacht.

“You fell or succumbed to thewealthy lifestyle and the admira-tion from your peers you thoughta wealthy lifestyle would bring.”

Strubel and Steinberg weresaid to have gained £2.8m and£1.8m respectively, while no figurewas given for Saunders’ profits.

Victims were persuaded toinvest hundreds of thousandsover two months so SEWL couldmeet urgent orders, then paidseemingly sky-high returns.

Participants were asked if theywould ‘roll over’ their investmentfor another two months whilethe trio used bogus accounts toimpress clients into parting withtheir cash.

Two investors parted with £2mafter being shown fake companyinvoices that showed they weresupplying the Olympic Village.

Others were fooled afterSaunders started using doctoredinvoices from the Park Plazachain of hotels that suggestedthey were a major supplier.

The trio were not investigateduntil the scandal of US investorand notorious fraudster BernieMadoff hit the headlines in 2008.

Prosecutor Sarah Forshaw QCsaid the trio raked in £79.5m ofinvestor cash and “lived the lifeof Riley”.

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A JURY HAS been toldthat “indecent images ofvery young children” werefound on the mobile

phone of a Jewish summercamp owner – and that hisco-owner asked witnessesnot to call police.

Tal Landsman, 26, was inSt Albans Crown Court thisweek to hear testimony fromformer LL Camps staff mem-ber Sandra Vicente.

She said she approachedLandsman after findingimages of naked three andfour-year-old girls on co-owner Ben Lewis’s phone.

The images, showing thegirls’ genitals, were allegedlytaken in the changing room.

Landsman, of CrambusCourt, Admiral Drive, Steve-nage, continued running thecamp until Ofsted shut itdown in August.

The jury heard Vicenteexplain that, after she raisedconcerns with him, Landsmansent her a message reading:“You need to promise methat this will not be spokenabout at camp or to anyone.”

Co-defendant Ben Lewiswas not in court, and prose-cutor Ann Evans told the juryto focus on Landsman, saying:“You may conclude that Tal

was extremely reluctaanything about the ition she had providemay think this is the hirresponsibility.”

Jurors heard how man said he would report about what haand suggested to that “it might just be Ben was going throug

Evans told the sevand five women of th“This trial is not conwith the guilt or innocMr Lewis, the focus deliberations is Mr LanWhat is not in disputewhat was found on Mphone were indecent of very young children

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It wasn’t long after I began to research theforces that align against Israel that I realisedI needed to connect with those who stand

on the other side. Not merely as a curious vis-itor into one of the public groups, but rather as a pro-Palestinian activist. I felt I would re-ceive a more reliable picture of the argumentstaking place, along with the added bonus thatthis would provide ‘invitations’ to upcomingevents. Thus ‘Mr X’ was created.

What I know now is that Facebook is trulyfrightening. In some circles, normal news out-lets, even ones that appear more hostile to Is-rael such as The Guardian or Independent , arealmost never quoted. Rather, a stream of ob-scure sites bring fodder for these groups.

Over one single 12-hour period, the follow-ing are the sites that provided ‘Mr X’ with his‘news’.

Be warned, some of these sites may not be‘safe for work’.

Facebook groups outdo themselves in theoriginality of their names. There are those likeEliminate the Elite, Worldwide False Flags andZionist Israel a Threat to Mankind .

The ‘threat to mankind’ group has 26,623members. In the more rancid arena of ‘secretgroups’, the gloves come off and almost any-thing goes.

The written introduction to these groups al-ways includes a disclaimer and a statementproclaiming that all racist or anti-Semitic com-ments are unwelcome and will be deleted.

So nobody fools themselves into thinkingthis is a ‘minor fringe’. Facebook is happy tolet you know how popular any specific term isat that moment:

Highly-active Facebook pages such as Israel is a War Criminal have more than 250,000likes. Browsing the ‘time stream’ regularly is ahorrifying and deeply disturbing influence. It

would have a profound effect on anyone.There is no humour, no humanity. Very few of

the people involved are posting anythingabout their personal lives at all. It is a cesspitof vile and extreme political activism.

The anger and hatred that comes from thoseresponding to the posts is palpable. There isno restraining hand, no moderating factor,each poster trying to outdo the other in regis-tering the level of their anger and the evilnessof the entity they hate.

It resembles a lynch mob from the MiddleAges, its members winding each other up until

the entire group is burning with an anger thatis desperate for an outlet.

Another source of ‘the drive towards extrem-ism’ are memes [see above picture montage].These are just a few seen in one 12-hour pe-riod. Despite their frequency, I have deliber-ately refrained from choosing the very graphicimages. It should be accepted that a vastamount (probably more than 25 percent of allimages that are posted), are graphic images of dead children that are intended to provokeanger, disgust and a thirst f or revenge.

For many years now, our internet experience

has been influenced by our own beHow much of what you see online is guyour own preferences is rarely fully und

Rarely are these ‘tainted’ results morsive than in the world of social media.

As the website builds a profile of wlike and what you do not, it begins tounique bubble around your online exis

This is what Facebook has to say asearch results: “Your friends, intereother connections affect the order of sults.” Which means when I search forI receive groups that are inherently pro

Jewish News’‘Mr X’ goesincognito into

the murkydepths of theanti-Semiticweb and findsa cesspit of

vile extremism

Virulent examples of the material appearing regularly on social media encouraging followers of the various groups to join the campaign again


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but when ‘Mr X’ does, he sees a completelydifferent list.

Part of this picture has been obscured tohide identity, but the results were not touched.The search request was simply for groups con-cerning ‘Israel’.

This may be a useful a lgorithm, one that re-fines search results so that we are not endlesslylooking for something of interest, but the trulydisturbing element of the search results is thatthey produce a list that is almost hermetically

sealed in one direction.They give the appearance that the other side

doesn’t exist.As a user, the message comes across that al-

most everyone agrees with you. It is a crueltrick played by the very instruments that werelauded as tools of enlightenment.

The second cruel trick is also algorithm-de-pendent. The more likes a piece receives, thehigher up the page it will move. This meansthat more people become exposed to extremearticles than moderate ones.

This, in turn desensitises the reader and hiscommunity will begin to like and share evenmore extreme material.

Because of the way the algorithm works, thisis exactly what they will then receive. It is a spi-ral towards extremism.

The authors of blogs and outlandish newssites are highly attuned to what works and whatdoes not. It cannot be long before they noticea correlation between the level of venom theyspit out and the likes and s hares they receive.

They must have learned long ago that amoderate piece that tries to accommodate theother opinion simply does not get passedaround at all.

How many of today’s commentators are ed-iting their articles with this in mind?

The final element in the drive towards ex-tremism and anti-Semitism occurs when ‘Mr X’leaves the social-media bubble.

In his virtual world, he is contained within aunit where everyone thinks like him. He is givenno alternative message and even if he searches

for one the results are deliberately skewed toconsolidate and entrench what he already be-lieves. Outside this bubble, he is confronted byan entirely different scenario.

When he turns to mainstream media (MSM),he finds nobody is talking about the so-called‘hot topic’ of the day.

He doesn’t think the Jews are the new Nazis,he knows it to be true. He is convinced Zionistsare committing genocide and ethnic cleansing,he has doubts about major world events such

as 9/11 and is suspicious that western forceshide behind ISIS.

Yet on TV, and in t he p rinted press, it is a llbusiness as usual.

The question then arises; how can this be? If ‘everybody’ thinks like him, if ‘everyone’ is talk-ing about Israel, how is this focus not reflectedin the printed press or on the TV news?

Given that he knows Facebook is a free plat-form where everyone can speak his mind, hecan begin to believe in a deliberate conspiracy.

Are there controlling elements in MSM that

are hiding the truth of ‘evil Israel’ from tlic? Surely it must be the Zionists them

As this occurs, social media becomonly forum to be trusted. Our user ishimself off entirely from the influence ofsociety and becoming immersed intonado of extremist thought.

If one of his friends doesn’t understais still posting the propaganda of the eis likely by this stage he will disassociate fr

It would be wrong to underestimatefect this is having.The darker Israel’s actions come to se

more intense the control must be to sthe news. The conspiracy becomes Jewtrol. Yet as some Jews such as BlumPappe and Barkan are ‘good guys’, thnew controlling disease in town – ‘Zand, in this way, anti-Zionism, become anti-Semitism.

Same disease, slightly different mecatching it.

In The Structure of Scientific RevoKuhn describes a scientist’s desperate ato maintain the integrity of a paradadding ever more outlandish new rules

The absence of mainstream media reof ‘Israeli genocide’ is an ‘anomaly’ thato be addressed. ‘Zionist media controbe true for the science to remain valid

Thus anti-Semitic anti-Zionism becointegral part of the science of opposin

Anti-Semitic anti-Zionism, therefore, ba required part of the global vision.

This issue is not restricted to Israel. Trump, Bernie Donald Sanders – thesesymptoms of a growing issue that is belled relentlessly through social media

Whole communities are being draggthe extremities, closing off their earsmiddle ground.

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Convicted conman found dA LONDON conman whostole £2million from his familyhas been found dead after ap-pearing to commit suicide.

Robert Miller is believed tohave ended his life in a hotelroom, leaving letters to hiswife and children.

The conman from Hamp-stead Garden Suburb stolefunds from his wife’s family’spension trust, after her fathermade him the agent to thetrust. His father in law, Mark

Spivack, who died insupported Miller afspent six years in prilowing a scandal in thewhich saw him convicstealing £20million wrector of a security firm

After Spivack’s deafraudster engaged scheme to trick his widgiving him millions.

A civil claim by the twas heard at the Royaof Justice in April.

A CHARITY set up in honour of a Jewish girl killed in a terroristattack in Israel and inspiredby her profoundly disabledyounger sister has launched aseries of children’s awardsrecognising acts of kindness,courage and achievement.

The Malki Foundation,named after Malki Roth, 15,who was killed in the SbarroJerusalem bombing in August2001, made the announcementthis week, to mark the charity’s15-year anniversary.

Organisers say Malki was apromising young musician and“dedicated to bringing happi-ness and practical support tochildren with special needs,”including her severely disabledyounger sister Chaya, now 21.

“The Malki FoundationAwards [media sponsored by

Jewish News ] will ceyoung people in the Uish community who ewhat Malki stood forsomething extra in thto support and encouraers, to make the worldter place,” said a spok

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POLITICAL DIGNITARIES gath-ered alongside generations of people saved as a result of the ac-tions of Sir Nicholas Winton to re-member and celebrate his life.

Home Secretary TheresaMay, MP for Maidenhead,

where Sir Nicholas lived, joinedCzech and Slovak officials at theGuildhall in London on whatwould have been Sir Nicholas’107th birthday.

Known as ‘Britain’s Schindler’,Sir Nicholas, who died last year aged 106, helped 669 mostlyJewish children flee Nazi-occu-pied Czechoslovakia on theKindertransport just before theSecond World War broke out.

His bravery was only madeknown to the public half a centurylater, when his family happenedupon an old briefcase in the attic

containing lists of children andletters from their parents.

Survivors from Israel, Americaand the Czech Republic attendedthe service alongside descen-dants of some of those who havesince died, to commemorate thelife of a man to whom they saythey owe their lives.

Among the rescued “children”to pay tribute was former Labour MP Lord Dubs, who was six whenhis mother put him on one of theeight trains taking young peopleto Britain. He said: “He could’vewalked away but he didn’t, and tohim many of us owe our lives.”

Sir Nicholas, known affection-

ately as Nicky by his family, liveda life full of “love, laughter,passion and commitment”, hisdaughter Barbara said.

Considering the families manyof the children went on to have,Sir Nicholas’ relatives estimate

somewhere in the region of 7,000 people were able to livebecause of what he did.

Dame Esther Rantzen, whose1988 That’s Life! programmebrought Sir Nicholas’ story topublic attention, recreated themoment he first met those he hadsaved. Addressing those at thememorial service, Dame Esther again asked those who felt theyowed him their life stand up.

Sir Nicholas’ son Nick said: “Itis his legacy to inspire and en-courage all of us to be actively in-volved in our own communities.”

A MUSLIM WOMAN whofound online fame for posting a selfie in front of far-right protesters inBelgium has apologisedto the Jewish communityafter it emerged she hadsent anti-Semitic tweets.

Zakia Belkhiri, 22, waslauded as “heroic” onsocial media last week for posting a photo of herself in a headscarf in front of an anti-Islam protest by

Vlaams Belang outside aMuslim lifestyle exhibition.

Days later, it was re-vealed that in 2012 shewrote: “Hitler didn’t kill allthe Jews, he left some. Sowe know why he waskilling them.” Two yearslater, in 2014, she wrote:“F****** Jews. I hate themso much.”

On Saturday, Belkhiriwrote: “My opinion manyyears ago was meant on

the zionist back then, thatspread hate instead of love so to all the other

jews peace be upon you!”Belkhiri added that she

thought “all Jews sup-ported the crimes of Israelbecause Israel claims itself to be the Jewish State”.

One angry user postedthe photo of Belkhiri, re-placing the anti-Islam pro-testers with concentrationcamp prisoners.

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ANOTHER UNIVERSITY hasvoted to disaffiliate from theNational Union of Students,weeks after the organisationelected an anti-Zionist head.

Hull University students optedto leave the NUS by 811 votesto 476, in a decision marked by

low voter turnout (fewer thanone-in-10 voted).

Hull now joins NewcaLincoln in severing links national body after cable disquiet from thoustudents led universitiesider their future associ

NUS president Maliatia attacked “Zionist-led

and described Birminghversity as a “Zionist ou

JUSTIN WELBY, the Archbishopof Canterbury, has condemnedrising anti-Semitism in Britainas “absolutely intolerable”and encouraged other faithcommunities not to give it,

or other forms of racism, “anyhospitality”, writes Jenni Frazer.The Archbishop was speak-

ing at a Lambeth Palace recep-tion for interfaith dialogue, thisyear showcasing the work of theNear Neighbours campaign.

Representatives of Christian,Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Zoroas-trian and Buddhist communi-ties, together with Jewishcommunity representatives ledby Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis,

joined Welby in a marquee i nthe grounds of the archbishop’spalace to celebrate the workthey have been doing through-

out the year.Simmy Wahnon and Shir Dor,

two 17-year-old students from Yavneh College in Boreham-wood, made a presentation onbehalf of the Catalyst Young

Leadership Programme, of which they are graduates.They admitted that, as prod-

ucts of faith schools whoseethos they admired, neverthe-less there was a tendency tolook inwards. Up until joiningthe Catalyst Programme, theysaid: “We did not have a singlenon-Jewish friend.”

Now Yavneh is supportingthem in setting up an interfaithsociety based at the school,and the pair – who admittedbeing nervous before meetingWelby – intend to continuereaching out to other faith

communities.Asked by Jewish News how

he would ask other faith com-munities to help in challenginganti-Semitism, the archbishop

said: “First, give it no hospital-ity. Hospitality is wonderful, butnot for anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred.

“Second, give considerablehospitality and welcome to

Jewish communities. You maydisagree with them on certainissues, you may have questionsto ask, but you start by earningthe right to disagree, byshowing your love, your con-cern, your welcome and your hospitality.”

Archbishop Welby – who untilrecently had believed he wasthe son of a Jewish father –indicated that he was likely tohave more to say on the issue of anti-Semitism in the comingdays. He spent time before thereception in a private meetingwith Chief Rabbi Mirvis.

Welby: Don’t give anti-Semitism hospitality

Warning: Archbishop Justin Welby

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A FORMER BBC chairman claimshe was banned from MuirfieldGolf Club for being Jewish.

Lord Grade told The Tele- graph golf is “full of anti-Semi-tism” and that he steers “clearof any clubs that have a repu-tation for being anti-Jewish”.

Grade said he was at the EastLothian club in the 1980s. How-ever, when the ex-BBC boss in-

formed Muirfield of hclub, Coombe Hill in Kupon Thames, which isfor having a predomJewish membership, thwas allegedly withdraw

When he asked ex-TV boss Sir William Brreason for the withdracording to Grade the re“You know why, Micha

Ex-BBC boss: golf ban over Jud

JEWISH GRAVES have beenvandalised in a “sickening act of anti-Semitism”.

Officers were called after 14headstones were knocked over and smashed at Blackley JewishCemetery in Charlestown, northManchester.

Police say the vandalism, dis-covered last Wednesday after-noon, was a deliberate andtargeted attack and will cause“alarm and distress” in the local

Jewish community.Chief Superintendent Wasim

Chaudhry from Greater Manches-

ter Police said the incident hadbeen recorded as a hate crime,and added: “This is a sickeningact of anti-Semitism, which we aretaking very seriously. I cannotbegin to get into the mind of someone who would commitsuch an atrocity. All decent mem-bers of the public recognise thata cemetery is supposed to be aresting place for people who havepassed away; a place of sanctityand dignity where families can

come and pay their respects.“So to have those graves des-

ecrated in such a disgusting anddisrespectful way will no doubtcause immeasurable anguishto the families and loved onesaffected. We will do everythingwe can to find out who is respon-sible and bring the full force of the law down on them.”

Police have stepped up patrolsand are appealing for anyonewith information to come forward.

SADIQ KHAN has joined mayorsfrom around the globe in signinga pledge to tackle anti-Semitism.

Backed by more than 150mayors from 30 European coun-tries and the 300 from every USstate, the pledge is part of theMayors United against Anti-Semitism initiative, originally de-veloped by the American JewishCommittee.

Khan, who was at the forefrontof condemning the scourge in

his own party during thecampaign, said: “Sadly, Londoners, anti-Semitvery present problem.

“As a British Muslim, stranger to discriminatprejudice. That’s why, afor all Londoners, I’m detto fight racism in all its fowill make challenging haa priority. I am proud to pledge and will encouramayors to do the same.”

Gravestones smashed at Manchester cemetery

One of the broken headstones

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UK NEWS UK NEWS WORLD NEWS

THE FOUR children of a Russ-ian-Jewish oligarch worth morethan $14.6billion [£10.2billion]had bad news last week: they’renot getting a penny.

Mikhail Fridman’s four kids,the youngest of which is 10

years old, will have to eown way, after he annthat he’d be giving histo good causes.

“I am going to transfmoney to charity,” cothe 52-year-old Ukrainia

AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN be-came Israel’s new defenceminister this week, after hissmall parliamentary blocstruck a deal to join PrimeMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’s

fragile ruling coalition.The leader of Yisrael Beit-enu, which draws supportfrom Russian-speaking Is-raelis, replaces respected for-mer chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon as Isra el’s secon dmost powerful politician.

Resigning last week, Ya’alon said Isra el had beenoverrun by “extremist anddangerous elements,” a warn-ing echoed by Ehud Barak,who said Israel was infectedby “seeds of fascism”.

Lieberman, a former foreign

minister known for upsetting al-lies, has been investigated for corruption after colleagues al-

leged that he made friends am-bassadors in return for thempassing him confidential infor-

mation about a police probeinto separate corruption allega-tions. He was found not guilty.

He is also adamantly op-posed to a two-state solution,

having previously

suggested “trans-ferring” Israel’sArabs out of thecountry.

Yet desp iteLieberman’s in-clusion this week,Netanyahu said:“I am committedto promoting thepeace process. Iam committed tomake every effortto reach an agree-

ment with the Palestinians.”• Editorial comment, p16

Moshe Yaalon says goodbye after Bibi’s government welcomed Avigdor Lieberman, inset

Lieberman named defence minister Auschwitz mug hid treasu

Kids miss out on dad’s £10bi

The mug found in Auschwitz that contained a ring and neckl

A JEWISH SURVIVOR of Dachau had anemotional reunion with a US soldier whowas among the first troops to liberate theconcentration camp.

Ninety-year-old Marcel Levy – incarcer-ated by the Nazis as a teenager – metSecond World War veteran Sid Shafner,94, recently in Israel.

Shafner is the last surviving member of the platoon that he says was among the firstAllied troops to reach Dachau – where atleast 28,000 died – in April 1945.

He met Levy, an Israeli grandfather-

of-eleven who was the only member of hisfamily to survive the Shoah, at an Israelimilitary base – the first time the men hadseen one another in person since 1995.

Shafner’s kindness saw the orphanedyoungster securing a job as a dishwasher – a small gesture, which Levy says savedhis life.

In tearful scenes recorded for US TV, hetold his liberator: “You know, everythingI have today is because of you. You savedmy life. Because you had the patience tospeak to me, to take to me.”

Dachau survivor and US liberator’s emotional reunion

Reunited: Sid Shafner, left, and Marcel Levy

A MUG discovered at Auschwitzand on display at the infamousdeath camp has been found tocontain hidden treasures.

Staff were conducting main-tenance on the artefacts atthe Auschwitz Museum whenthey discovered the humble

mug contained a false base –inside which a ring and neck-lace had been concealed,wrapped in canvas.

The piece is one of 12,000enamel kitchenware objects inthe museum’s collection.

Hanna Kubik from theAuschwitz-Birkenau State Mu-

seum said: “It was vehidden. However, duepassage of time, the munderwent gradual dtion, and the second separated from the mu

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SPECIAL REPORT

When Mark Sykes and FrançoisGeorges-Picot met in London andtook a pen to a map of the Middle

East 100 years ago this week, only one of them had ever been there. It was, some say,

as if the two were playing a game of Risk.Even if that’s an analogy too far, analysts arevirtually unanimous that the subsequent Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain –signed hastily in 1916 amid a world war – ill-defined a region, and consigned that region toits ill fortunes for the next century.

“Their lines are now falling apart,” says MiriEisin, a former senior officer in Israel’s military in-telligence now at the IDC in Herzliya. Eisin is oneof only a small handful of women ever to makethe rank of colonel in the IDF, and takes a hard-nosed view when it comes to Israel’s security.

“We all need to be on the same page: theMiddle East is going through enormous up-heaval,” she tells a UJIA delegation in Israel’snorth. Pointing to the map drawn by the Eng-lishman and Frenchman, she says: “The onlything [about the Middle East] that will stay thesame 100 years later is a photo taken fromouter space, and even then, Palmyra is beingerased.”

From Israel’s point of view, she says, the linesdrawn “are colonial lines, lands conquered bythe British and the French in 1917-18... This isour heritage, borders defined by somebodyoutside, not by the peoples of the MiddleEast”.

At least Sykes knew the Middle East, she saysof the son of Orientalists who

spoke Arabic. Picot hadnever been there.

“They took a map of the Ottoman Empireand divided it, before they’d even conqueredit, like they were playing a game of Risk.”

Alongside the French and British portions,Palestine – the Holy Lands – came under a sup-

posedly “international” section, the line drawnfrom Haifa (Acre/Akko) to Kirkuk, the heart of the Kurdish area, which may soon declare itself an independent state, and where Kurds are cur-rently leading the fight against Islamic State.

One hundred years ago, this was “a place, anation, a people, a language, a culture, withChristians, Jews and Muslims,” says Eisin, not-ing similarities with Israel.

But their mountainous homeland was di-vided between Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. “If Iwas Kurdish, and wanted to make a state-ment,” she says, “I’d declare Kurdistan thisyear, 100 years after it was wiped off the map.The Kurds existed in 1916, but they didn’t re-ally matter to the British and French.”

The 1916 lines began unravelling from thestart, say some, with early Zionists behind thefirst challenge. Last week, at a “lesson-learn-ing” conference in Israel held by the JerusalemCenter for Public Affairs (JCPA), Martin Kramer of Shalem College argued that Zionism hadone aim in the early part of the 20th century:to swap the Sykes-Picot Agreement for a Britishprotectorate in order to allow the Jewish proj-ect to flourish.

“The Balfour Declaration was the first at-tempt to unravel Sykes-Picot,” he says. “Israelwould never have been born if Sykes-Picot hadremained [in-place].” Former Israeli ambassa-dor Freddy Eytan says the region became oneof confrontation in part because of “the rivalry between

the US

and USSR, the control of natural resources, gasand oil, the arms race, arms supplies and free-dom of navigation in the Suez Canal” which“all prompted a power battle”. The centenary,he says, is “a reminder to avoid the naiveté and

mistakes of the past”.Prof. Efraim Karsh of King’s College Londonis even more scathing, and says the centenaryshouldn’t even be commemorated. “A celebra-tion of Sykes-Picot is misconceived… It had noimpact because it never came into existence.”

Alan Baker, former deputy director-general ofIsrael’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, agrees it is a“curious, even sad” centenary.

“The whole character of the region is chang-ing beyond all recognition. From Libya to Iraq,authority has collapsed. People are reaching for their older identities – Sunni, Shi’ite, Kurdish,even tribal. Sectarian groups, often Islamist,have filled the power vacuum, spilling over bor-ders and spreading violence.”

Moreover, the problems of the peoples of the region are so distinct from times past as tobe unrecognisable. “Half of the Middle East’spopulation today was born after 1990, after thefailure of the Israeli-Palestinian process,” saysEisin.

“You have to put it in perspective. Their her-itage isn’t the 1948 battles [for the State of Is-rael], as mine is. The challenges aren’t aboutrecognising Israel, or the Israeli-Palestinian con-flict, but about jobs, housing, water andgetting married so their family will letthem leave home. It’s a differentworld.”

No longer a game of Risk, then.

Above, The Sykes-Picot map; main, Frenc soldiers march into Lebanon during WWI

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EDITORIAL COMMENT AND READERS’ LETTERS


WHAT A BEWILDERING

ARRAY OF OPINIONS What has happened to Jewish News ?! Iopened page two of the issue of 5 Mayand there was a Brendan O’Neill columnentitled “Don't blame Corbyn for thismess” – a bizarre defence of the Labour leader in the wake of his party’s anti-Semitism scandal.

Brendan should have saved himself thetime (and the rest of us) by reading thearticle by Deborah Lipstadt on page 4:“We know anti-Semitism when we see it.”If it looks anti-Semitic and if it soundsanti-Semitic, it’s anti-Semitic!

Then on page 15 there was an articleby Jenni Frazer trying to somehowcompare the kindertransport with unac-companied child migrants currently inEurope.

But hold on, below her was an article

by Tim Farron, leader of the LiberalDemocrats, clearly feeling left out (as heis in most things), declaring publicly thathis party wants to be part of the solutionto anti-Semitism – as if he hadn’t beeninvited to contribute and wanted every-one to know he was available.

All anyone needed to do was to gostraight to page 16, where the pièce deresistance was editor Richard Ferrer giving a superb analysis of JeremyCorbyn that couldn’t have explained theissue any clearer or more accurately.

Russell BallenBy email

VISCERAL FEAR THAT DRIVES ISLAMOPHOBIAIn his letter [Jewish News , 5 May], GabrielWebber fails to note the semantic differ-

ence between the respective meanings of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.In the Concise Oxford Dictionary , anti-

Semitism is defined as “hostility to or prejudice against Jews” while Islamo-phobia is defined as “hatred or fear of Islam or Muslims”.

While no one in the West fears beingkilled by Jewish terrorists, many areapprehensive of such an attack fromIslamic extremists.

It is this visceral fear of terrorism thatdrives Islamophobia rather than hostilityto or prejudice against Muslims.

Alan Miller By email

WHAT A LOT OF OLD

NONSENSE IT ALL IS Left-wing activists have accused theGreater Manchester Police Authority of Islamophobia when participants on atraining exercise shouted “Allahu Akbar!”,inferring they were Islamic extremists.

I have a solution for future exercises inthis vein. The terrorists should be dressedas orthodox Jews who would shout“Muzeltov!” This will make the anti-Semites happy and will not offend theMuslim community, the Christians and allthe other faiths in this culturally-diverseland we now live in.

Jews will not be upset because weknow who the extremists are and realisewhat a lot of old nonsense this all is.

Martin GreenbergRedbridge

REFORM SHUL IS AREVELATION TO MEAllow me to thank Mr Sokolic [JewishNews, 5 May], for the information he

provided about the differences bOrthodox and non-Orthodox synag

After reading it, I have looked imatter in more detail. I have nowa reform synagogue and feel muchabout my moral and spiritual Jud

If it was not for you, I would ntaken such a step.

LaurenceB

LET’S DEFINE WHWE’RE TALKING ABORegarding your recent articles differences between anti-Zionisanti-Semitism, let’s try to agree odefinitions.

Zionism was a movement incorpWilsonian self-determination fothe dissolution of the Ottoman empire that ruled the Middle E

about 430 years until World War After the war, the League of gave Britain the mandate to restindigenous Jewish population Jewish national homeland wherhad been a Jewish presenceBiblical times.

What do we mean by “indigenoa general rule, an indigenous popmeans the people living in a before colonialism.

It is a group with a shared lanreligion, legal system, governmeature, holy sites and attachmespecific land.

In terms of Hebrews/Israelitethis would mean the shared language, shared Jewish religionJewish Law, shared 24 Biblical agricultural laws that apply onlyIsrael, a monarchy based on the of King David, shared holy sites

the Temple Mount, Cave of the Paat Hebron, ‘Royal David’s [Bethlehem], Sefas, Tiberia, etc.

An anti-Zionist denies the nation the right to its ancestralland. An anti-Semite believesshould be treated differently fother nationalities and religiontered among the nations, wevulnerable.

Anti-Zionists include Jewish groNaturei Karta and Satmar, who awmessianic era, and Christian grouawait the second coming.

JoseB

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Letters to the Editor

Sketches kvetches

By Paul Solomons www.daftoons.com

“How did your JW3 interview goDavid? I hope you didn’t swap

shirts at the end again!”

The loudest parting shot

Ya’alon could have firedPARTING SHOTS are often themost accurate – and deadly.Remember Iain Duncan-Smith’s resignation letter inMarch? The work and pensionssecretary and paid-up member of the Tory inner-circle penned itas David Cameron and GeorgeOsborne pushed their latestwelfare cuts, this time targetingthe disabled. “A compromisetoo far,” said IDS. Ouch.

Remember Baroness Warsi’swords in 2014, as the highly-regarded Foreign Office Minister quit Cameron’s government over its lack of reaction to Israel’sactions in Gaza? “Morally inde-fensible,” she said. Pow!

So it was last week in Israel,when widely-respected DefenceMinister Moshe Ya’alon resignedhis cabinet portfolio and seat inthe Knesset. The tough but prag-matic former IDF chief of staff said “extremist and dangerouselements” had “taken over Israel”. Bullseye.

Addressing soldiers, he later warned: “Even after the battle or the operation or the war, weneed to maintain our values andremain human beings.”

Everyone knew what hemeant. An IDF soldier who shotan injured Palestinian man in thehead in March as he layuntreated on the ground follow-ing an attack is being lauded asa “hero” by many in Israel.

Netanyahu called the soldier’sfamily to express sympathy.As defence minister, Ya’alon

criticised the soldier’s actions, asdid Israel’s most senior officers,but was then himself castigatedfor his insistence that the soldier stand trial. Suddenly, it seemedclear whose thoughts Netanyahuvalued the most.

Ya’alon’s words on departurelast week were designed as awake-up call, but it is far fromclear whether his intended recip-ients heard it, or – if they did –cared.

Those wondering what hemeant need only look at hisreplacements. Israel’s newdefence minister now seems tobe Avigdor Lieberman, andtaking Ya’alon’s Knesset seat isAmerican-born Yehuda Glick.

The latter came to promi-nence for leading religious Jewsup to a mosque complex onTemple Mount, where an uneasystatus quo prohibits Jews frompraying. His forays, one of whichsaw him arrested for breaking thearm of a Muslim woman,provoked the round of violencewhich began in September.

Lieberman, meanwhile, is nowIsrael’s second most powerfulpolitician. For those unfamiliar with this Russian-speaking politi-cian repeatedly investigated for corruption, he has questionedthe loyalty of Israel’s Arab citizensand called for the wholesale“transfer” of Israeli Arabs fromlarge areas of the country.

These two, one suspects, mayrepresent the tip of Ya’alon’s“dangerous extremist element”.Heavy hang his words. Theformer chief of Israel’s eliteSayeret Matkal commando unit,he is no softie, having spent 40

years killing Israel’s enemies, so itis remarkable that he now hesees her enemies as within.

His warning of “extremist anddangerous elements” havingtaken over Israel should be asloud as any parting shot thisformer soldier ever fired.

Sadly, it is unlikely to be asaccurate or as deadly.

THIS WEEKEND’S SHABBAT TIMES

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OPINION: RABBI MIRIAM BERGER AND MARK MAIERPINION: ALEX BRUMMER JAMES CARVER

DOUBTLESS IF Israel and the Palestinianswere able to reach a peaceful accommoda-tion, with the blessing of the internationalcommunity, Britain’s anti-Israel, anti-Semiticfringe would condemn it. The deal would beseen as an America/French imposed plotdesigned to entrench a colonial past. Sodeeply inculcated is the anti-Zionist narrativeon Britain’s left and in sections of the Labour Party shifting attitudes, deep seated preju-dices and ignorance will be impossible toshift.

Efforts, for instance, to point out that Israelis the most socially liberal society in theMiddle East, a polyglot nation where Arabrights (most of the time) are respected fall ondeaf ears. It is a description which fails to

chime with a malign world view. Nor do theyreally want to hear about human rightsabuses in Syria and Iran when they can focuson alleged misdeeds by Israeli soldiers.

Never mind that in Israel it is possible for chief of staff Yair Golan to speak on YomHaShoah of ‘intolerance’ and ‘fear monger-ing’ in Israeli society. And for military leadersto conduct full inquiries into all allegedmisdeed by members of the IDF. The intoler-ance of the anti-Zionist left is that it closes itsears to realities on the ground.

None of this is reason to dismiss peaceinitiatives from wherever they may come. The

cool relations between Israel and thePalestinians since the last talks broke down in2014 has been far from civilised. SinceSeptember 2015 Palestinian assailants havekilled 30 Israeli citizens and soldiers in morethan 300 attacks. More than 200 Palestinians,mainly alleged attackers, have been killed byIsraeli security forces say the Palestinians.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been distinctlycool to the President Hollande of France’seffort to breathe some life back into the peaceprocess in the Middle East with a conferenceof foreign ministers to be held in Paris.

The Israeli Prime Minister’s office isadamant that talks must be direct betweenthe parties Israel and the Palestinian Authorityand unconditional.

The surprise is that the US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been hands-off since his last peace initiative, wants to bethere. It is not clear why France is so keen onrevitalising the peace process. But PrimeMinister Manuel Valls, who has been in Israel,makes it clear that the status quo worksagainst the ‘Israelis, Palestinians and peace.’

He might add something else. The currentstatus quo does nothing to calm the anti-Israelrhetoric in Britain and Europe which breedsanti-Semitism in France and the UK and oftenenters the Jihadist rhetoric. One can under-stand Jerusalem’s reluctance to become

involved. It fears a stitch up, especially as thePalestinians are so enthusiastic about theFrench approach.

In spite of Israeli scepticism the initiative isgathering momentum. The return of theAmericans to the fray, the only intermediarytrusted in Jerusalem, must be regarded asplus. Relations between Israel and theObama White House have been a low ebb asa result of the Iranian nuclear deal.

The odds aren’t good but there is longhistory of American presidents, unencum-bered by the need to run for office again,looking for a foreign policy coup in the lastmonths in office. They have the time, energyand political incentive to secure a place inhistory.

The prospect of Avigdor Liebermann join-ing the government as defence minister might be seen as the death knell of construc-tive peace talks. Yet it is also worth remem-bering that the further right theadministration in Israel is perceived to be thebetter chance it has of carrying the Knessetand the Israel people with it.

It was, after all, Menachem Begin who deliv-ered Israel’s peace with Egypt that has nowsurvived four decades and countless changesin both countries. When it comes to Israel-Palestine one can never be optimistic. At least,however, there is at last some movement.

Alex Brumm

‘The intolerance of anti-Zionist left is t

it closes its earsrealities on the grou

City EdDaily M

No reason to reject peace

plan, wherever it is from

HARDLY A WEEK goes by in the EuropeanParliament without a group of MEPs organ-ising another taxpayer-funded Israel bash-ing event. The evidence is clear to anyvisitor by viewing the poster boards at theentrance and scattered around the build-ing, advertising MEP sponsored events onissues such as Palestinian unity, boycottingIsraeli goods and the like.

The EU lives by the old saying of “Don’tdo as I do, but do as I say”, specifically whenconsidering the episode shortly aftermy own election in 2014. The European

Parliament was voting on re-cognition ofa ‘Palestinian state’, yet when, just beforethe vote, I rose to highlight the EuropeanCommission’s reply to my own written ques-tion, which clearly stated that the EU hasno competency whatsoever to recognisenew countries (only nation states have thatprivilege), I was widely booed and shouteddown by a chorus of very angry MEPs fromacross the house, before the presidentignored my protest and proceeded withthe vote, regardless of the EU’s own legalability.

The EU professes to support a lastingMiddle East peace settlement, yet I’ve high-lighted both EU funding of the PLO, whichpays salaries to murderers, as well as how EUfunding of illegal Palestinian buildings in AreaC, is in breach of the Oslo accords, acting as

an obstacle to peace and expunging anypretence of the EU being an honest broker.

At the same time that EU member statesare putting up walls against friendly nations.Without irony, the EU expresses concernsabout Israel’s security barrier, which hassaved hundreds of lives: Israeli andPalestinian, Jewish, Muslim and Christian.

And then we hear little about the latest“European values study” finding that east-ern European countries are significantlymore hostile to Jews, or the joint threat webear from radical Islam. Have they learnt

nothing from centuries of European anti-Semitism, culminating in the Shoah, or indeed, their own despicable treatment of Holocaust survivors returning home after theSecond World War? It appears not.

The sad truth is that it’s hard to escape theconclusion – as we have recently seen withLabour’s anti-Semitism scandal – that thenew, thinly-disguised face of European anti-Semitism needs to be called out for what itis. Where are the angry voices, motions,demonstrations, and sanction calls againstoccupied Northern Cyprus (which the EU isseeking to recognise and adopt into theunion), or the myriad of repressive regimeson our doorstep?

But the irony doesn’t end there. Indeed,far from it. We are often hear extolled boththe European Union’s and European

Parliament’s democratic virtues and values,of how they profess to best represent theinterests of its 28 member states.

Yet it’s the very same inst ituti ons thatcontinue chastising Israel (and de facto,Judaism), that are blinkered by their ownpreformed opinions, from acknowledgingthat the best example of a functioningMiddle Eastern democracy is Israel itself.

Rather than sympathising with Israel’sopponents and neighbours, I’d suggest theprotagonists would be better off spendingtheir time realising that Israel is the example

which they should aspire to be – not theenemy they seek to destroy.Britain and Israel are, and always have

been, natural partners and allies. A Europeanforeign minister with a collective foreignpolicy, as laid out in the Lisbon treaty, meansthe EU dragging our own special relationshipin completely the wrong direction.

As a truly free and independent country,the UK can properly return to further strengthening our trade, security andcultural ties, unhindered.

As my many Jewish friends would say:“Please God by me”.

• James Carver sits on the EP Foreign Affairs committee.He is UKIP’s Commonwealth spokesman and Friends of Israel in UKIP Patron. See: www jamescarver org and JamesJimCarver

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peace settlement, yet aas an obstacle to

Israel is an example the EUshould follow, not criticise

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OPINION: RABBI MIRIAM BERGER AND MARK MAIER


OPINION: RACHEL LASRY ZAHAVI DR BEVERLEY JACOBSON

WHEN, ON the long Yom Kippur of 5775, myeldest daughter Talya [pictured with Beverley,right] was born having contracted a Group Bmeningitis and septicaemia, she rallied againstall odds and pulled through with the help of medical intervention, life support and Hashem’sblessing. She did, however, suffer extensive dam-age to her brain, which left her with mild quadri-plegic cerebral palsy, a severe visual impairmentand learning disabilities. Suddenly I found myself catapulted into the unseen world of disability.

Forty years ago, when I was growing up,derogatory terms such as “retard”, “imbecile” and“spastic” were common. Considered a scourgewith no place in society, young children with dis-abilities were sent to live in long stay hospitals, or

were hidden from view. Inappropriate handling,medication and therapies were applied in unsuc-cessful attempts to quell challenging behaviour.Life for these individuals was bleak and short.

It was against this background I tried to recon-cile my feelings for the innocent soul I had broughtinto the world. For months, Talya screamed inces-santly. I was told she would probably never interactwith me nor be able to do anything for herself. Thehopelessness was shattering. Fortunately though,unlike 40 years ago, institutionalisation was nolonger in vogue and so I had the option to battleon and, as a mother, one cannot ever give up.

Talya's early years passed in a blur – therapy,stimulation, frustration. Tentative attempts atnursery and school settings, and the all-too-fre-quent rejections. Medical consultations, assess-ments and form filling. Navigating local councilbureaucracy. Advocating. Negotiating. Tribunals

and legal challenge. Each transition became afight for Talya’s rights. It was a very draining andlonely path. And in the background was a youngalienated family with subjugated needs.

With time, things improved. From unexpectedquarters, support emerged. Talya became moremanageable as her needs were better under-stood. It was at this point that I emerged fromthe vortex and began to float. I had two desiressimmering. First, to reach out to those who weredrowning. Second, to educate every person whoaverted his eyes, whispered or pointed fingerswhen we drew near. It was these passions thatdrew me to work at Kisharon.

My experience at Kisharon has completelychanged my perception of disability. I now know

that, with the right support, an individual with alearning disability can take control of his or her lifeand achieve just about anything. I have been giv-ing back the hope that was shattered when Talyawas eight months and have begun to dream again.I am on a mission to ensure that individuals withlearning disabilities have equal opportunities andare able to develop their independence and livemeaningful and inclusive lives in the community.

My proudest moment yet was when Talya wasasked at her annual review in her final year of school what she wanted for herself and she stoodup and said: “I want to live independently andhave a job.” I knew then that my job was done.

Three years on and Talya, now 21, has movedinto a Kisharon supported living flat in Golders

Green. It has been the hardest thing ever to letgo, but she is thriving. She is making contacts of her own for the first time in her life and both em-bracing and being embraced by so many. Shehas a busy life: attending Kisharon’s College; shehas a job polishing silver and is soon to startwork at Roundtree Real Estate; then there isswimming, Slimming World, gym and piano les-sons. My heart swells when I catch sight of her going about her day in the community.

What’s next? As we move beyond this,Kisharon’s celebratory 40th year, with the con-tinued wonderful support of the community,we will provide outstanding accessible specialeducational facilities; we will unlock a supply of accommodation to meet demand; Talya willget a full-time job, as will all those with learningdisabilities who desire it. We will together re-move every constraint and live as equals.

Dr Beverl Jacobs

Chief ExecutiKisha

‘Life for those with learndisabilities used to be ble

I’m on a mission to ensthey live meaningful liv

Four decades helping those with

learning disabilities live as equal

REPORT CARDS tend to stir up quite a lot ofexcitement. For some, hard work and achieve-ments are validated. For others, neglect andpoor performance are laid bare. Whatever thecase may be, explanations are usually neededas grades alone rarely tell the full story.

So, as I looked out for Israel’s ranking in Unicef’slatest Fairness for Children report, I thought:‘Someone has a lot of explaining to do.’

According to the study, Israel has one of thehighest levels of socioeconomic disparity amongchildren from 41 EU and OECD developed coun-tries. In fact, the child poverty rate in Israel, as apercentage of the entire population, is higher than places such as Turkey, Chile and Mexico.

What about education? Ranked by how farbehind the national average low-achieving chil-dren are allowed to fall, Israel’s educationalachievement gaps in reading, maths and sci-ence is yet again one of the worst. More thantwice as bad in comparison with just about allother countries in the report.

I’ve spent the past 15 years working in the non-governmental sector addressing social issues,such as poverty, sustainable development andaccess to education and healthcare, with a focuson children’s rights and fulfilling their potential.

But what does poverty look like? The obviousexamples I’ve seen are in Africa, where babiesborn to HIV positive mothers in the most barrenof huts are at the mercy of a non-existent health-care system and are unlikely to thrive and survivebeyond age five. And in the far off corners of

South America’s rainforests, where entire villagesof vitamin A deficient children, at risk of goingblind, are struggling to cope at school on anempty stomach, because a well-balanced andnutritious meal is a luxury only few can afford.

Growing up in suburban Toronto, I would havenever imagined that dramatic cases could existat home. But acute poverty is often deeply hid-den away, overshadowed by a backdrop of brightlights and the modern miracles of a big, bustlingcity. It was only in my teens that I discovered thatthe prestigious and upscale downtown enclaveof Toronto’s Cabbagetown is side by side withone of the most densely populated corners of North America, Regent’s Park, where govern-ment subsidised sky scrapers house five to sixfamilies of refugees within each single unit. InLondon, a similar phenomenon exists in affluentboroughs such as Kensington and Westminster.

So, what is really going on in Israel? The trou-bling figures reveal so much and at the sametime, so little. How do we unpack the data,analyse and understand the indicators?

How do we make sense of it. And, more im-portantly, how do we respond?

My work with UJIA in the Galil has broughtme face to face with the poverty, disparity andinaccessibility referenced in the Unicef report.In Israel’s northern periphery, close to 45 percentof children are living below the poverty line,way above the already disturbing 27.5 percentnational average.

I often hear the argument that it’s the predica-

ment of the Arab and Charedi populations, whichare skewing the figures. Yet at a recent meetingof UJIA volunteers in Tsfat, Professor Dan Ben-David, a leading voice on this issue, clarified thateven when demographic data of both con-stituents are removed from the equation, Israelstill ranks alarmingly in most categories.

As I’ve learned over the years, there is noshortage of reasons, explanations and even ex-cuses, but from the perspective of the children,none of these really matter.

We need to focus on the questions: what canbe done? And what’s our role?

Non-governmental organisations, charities,the private sector and the academic commu-nity need to work together with the govern-ment to tackle the issues at all levels.

Diaspora communities are having a major im-pact – donations to UJIA fund projects acrossthe Galil, including early childhood centres,after-school tutoring and building upgrades,benefiting 15,000 young people every year.

Although the scale and scope of the workneeded can be daunting at times, I’m still reas-sured by Prof Ben-David’s closing remarks to usthat Israel is not a sinking ship. We can still actnow and change the course and our future for the better.

So, in five years, when the report cards comeout again, I hope we will see our collective hardwork and achievements validated by manymore Israeli children living a better life – a lifewe would want for our own children.

Rachel Lasry Zaha

‘From the perspective of children, none of the reaso

matter. We need to foon what can be do

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NEWS IN BRIEFREFUGEE CONFERENCE

To coincide with World Refugee Dayand the start of Refugee Week on20 June, the Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Group, in conjunctionwith The Council for Assisting at-riskAcademics, are holding aconference entitled Welcome toBritain? Refugees Then and Now .Held in memory of Rathbone, DameHelena Kennedy QC will be thekeynote speaker, and there will alsobe a talk from Barbara Winton,daughter of the late Sir NicholasWinton MBE. Tickets, which cost£20 and include refreshments and a

sandwich lunch, are available at:http://bit.ly/1NM3thO.

WJR & POLISH-JEWISH LIFEFifty guests of World Jewish Relief heard Jonathan Ornstein, executivedirector of the Jewish communitycentre in Krakow (JCC Krakow) andRobert Desmond, founder of RideFor the Living, talk about Jewishlife in Poland today. At the event,held at Edgware UnitedSynagogue, Ornstein said: “ThePolish Jewish community, once onlyseen as a place of loss and tragedy,is being welcomed back into theJewish world with open arms,largely thanks to the work andsupport of World Jewish Relief, our founder.”

KESHER’S TASTY CHOLENTTwelve cholents featured in thisyear’s Cholent Challenge at Kesher.Participants made recipes fromaround the world, with each tellinga story, such as Safta Flora’s Indianhamin, which evoked memories of Elan Mansur’s family’s travels fromIraq to the subcontinent and theLevinson family’s Hungarian cholent. Vegetarian cholents made aparticularly strong showing this year.Rabbi Simon concluded thecommunity-building exercise with ashiur on Halakhically Correct Cholent: What you Need to Know.

EMUNAH RAISES £2,200Bournemouth Emunah’s dinner raised more than £2,200 for Israel’sNeve Landy children’s home.Attended by nearly 150 guests,including Emunah director DeborahNathan, guests were shown anemotional film describing thecharity’s work in supporting childrenwith difficulties in Israel. Guestperformers the A-Sharp Trio madea welcome return at the event.

Eighteen young people celebrating their bar and batmitzvahs this year took part in a 10k sponsorewalk to raise vital funds for Jewish Care. The first event of its kind, the walkers set off at Jewish CarMaurice and Vivienne Wohl Campus in Golders Green and finished – via a stop at the Clore Manor Home in Hendon – at the newly-built Betty and Asher Loftus Centre in Friern Barnet.

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Ashley Blaker, the ‘only Charedi Jew inBritish comedy’, provided the laughs inhis stand-up show, ‘Ungefiltered’ to a sell-out crowd at Kinloss, in support of CampSimcha.

A group of 20 JFS students touredBloomberg, learning about the differentdepartments and work space of the worldleading finance company built by MichaeBloomberg, ex-mayor of New York City.

Flora Frank, together with herhusband Herbert, attended theQueen's Royal Garden Party asrecipient of the British EmpireMedal, in recognition of servicesto the Jewish community, whichhas included her running 33marathons for charity.

Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregationhosted a tea to celebrate two centenarians –Trudie Riseman and Gertie Dennenberg. SirDavid Amess MP, was the special guest, and thepair were presented with a 100th birthdaycertificate by the SWHC president.

ORT UK’S annual lunch, held atClaridge’s and attended by 178 frieand supporters, heard John Simpsostories from a 50-year career at theBBC, while honouring long-timesupporter Lady Irene Hatter.

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Leaders of theJewish Commu-nity Councilhosted a meet-ing with SchoolsMinister NickGibbs, as aresult of ongo-ing issues withOfsted concern-ing Stamford Hillschools. Theminister also vis-ited the NewBies Yaakov Girlschools.

Israel Relief Charity, Manna (MeirPanim UK)’s annual soup walk raised

£6,000. Media sponsored by JewishNews, 45 participants enjoyed a 10ksponsored guided evening walkthrough Jewish East End London.Manna executive directorGabriel Blauer said:“For the sixth year ina row we managed toattract new support-ers to our cause whohave raised a niceamount, which we willsend to Israel to ourtwo new after-schoolclubs in Sderot.”

More than 150 graduatesattended the GenesisProgramme formal grad-uation dinner at Od

Yosef Hai in Hen don. T henight of dining, musicand entertainment washosted by the director of the Genesis Programme,Rabbi Saul Kelly.

Jews and Muslims’ birthday celebration

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis addressed aLangdon members’ meeting at MaccabiHouse, Edgware, on their importance tothe Jewish community. Answering ques-tions from members, he said: “I’ve faced

many difficult questions at meetingsaround the country – these were the nicestI’ve encountered.”

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Manna’s soup walk raises £6k

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Southgate Progressive Synagogue’s new group– Lodge 15 – held its first event with specialguest Judge Rinder attended by 130 people.

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A record £1,007,500 was raised at Kisharon’sRuby Anniversary dinner at the Park Lane Hilton.21-year-old Talya Jacobson, whose mother is

charity CEO Dr Beverley Jacobson, decided tomake her maiden speech only that day. RabbiLord Sacks was the speaker and IsraeliAmbassador Mark Regev made a l’chayim.Hosted by Patrice Klein and Stephen Greenman,the event paid tribute to Kisharon’s visionaryfounder Chava Lehman, now in her 85th year and living in Jerusalem. Men supported byKisharon joined American rapper Nissim Black onstage, and Kisharon chairman Philip Goldbergannounced a new flagship social enterpriseopening in the autumn.

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The sight of a wheelchair-bound paraplegic playing hisbeloved golf is a sight to behold – and a view worth payingfor. Those were the thoughts of Beit Halochem supporters last

week, as they met at Hartsbourne Golf & Country Club toraise funds in aid of the charity. Joining them was Israeli war veteran Shlomo Ivgy, who was serving in the Golani InfantryBrigade when, in October 1974, a colleague’s stray bulletpenetrated his spinal cord while he was on a routine stretcher run. As a group of 100 keen golfers raised £80,000K for twospecial ‘Para golfer’ machines, he praised the charity, tellingthem: “You think life is finished but it isn’t. You get wounded,but you feel there is something there for you, making your dreams come true. Whatever you want is possible.”

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50.000 disabled veterans.

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Talk of food helped supporters of Jewish learning disability charityLangdon raise almost £500,000, as the organisation warned of“highly challenging times” amid government cuts. The event inWembley tarred special guest Michel Roux Jr, the doubleMichelin-starred chef, who spoke to 540 guests about the needto provide more employment opportunities for the learningdisabled. “Too often people can be written off,” he said.

“Everyone has potential. It’s just a matter of giving them thatchance.” Langdon chairman Jonat

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