Liam Hoare
By Liam Hoare
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The Schmooze Was Eichmann Trial ‘Most Important TV Event’?
More than almost any other event, it was the trial of Adolf Eichmann that, in 1961, brought the Holocaust into the public consciousness of the world. In both Europe and Israel, the trial marked the beginning of the end of a period, immediately after the Second World War, when the Holocaust was deliberately ignored and…
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Opinion Are 45% of Brits Really Anti-Semitic? Not So Fast.
British Jewish demand “Zero Tolerance for Anti-Semitism” at a London rally / Getty Images There it was on Wednesday, on the front page of The Independent. “The new anti-Semitism,” the headline read, and beneath it: “Majority of British Jews feel they have no future in the UK.” My interest was immediately piqued, not least because…
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Opinion What Tim Willcox’s Paris Question Says About BBC
BBC journalist Tim Willcox / Screenshot Tim Willcox’s question was heinous in and of itself. In the midst of a BBC interview with an Israeli resident of Paris and daughter of Holocaust survivors, who had been talking about Jewish suffering in Europe, the journalist ventured: “But many critics of Israel’s policy would say that the…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Susan Sontag’s Panned and Banned Israel Documentary
In October and November 1973, during and shortly after the Yom Kippur War, Susan Sontag travelled to Israel to make a documentary film entitled “Promised Lands.” The movie constituted a mere coda in the recent HBO documentary about her life and work, “Regarding Susan Sontag”, which as Gabe Friedman noted in his review “leaves out…
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The Schmooze PHOTOS: Warsaw’s Graveyard for Gravestones
All Photos: Liam Hoare The histories of the Jews of Europe can often best be gleaned not from monographs, museums, or synagogues, but from cemeteries. The details of the matzevot, or tombstones — the size and shape, location, condition, detailing, symbolism, text and language of the inscriptions — can be decoded to reveal not only…
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Opinion Why Britain’s ‘Palestine’ Vote Should Scare Israel
Demonstrators call on the British parliament to recognize ‘Palestine’ The British Parliament’s decision to back a motion to “recognize the state of Palestine,” by a margin of 274 to 12 votes, means nothing — and everything. Nothing, because the passage of this motion was a purely symbolic matter, close to but not really a true indication…
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Opinion In WWI, Jews Fought for Britain. So Why Didn’t Britain Fight for Jews?
“Britain has been all she could be to Jews” — a recruitment poster issued at the beginning of World War I reads — “Jews will be all they can to Britain: Join the special Jewish unit.” At the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, it was the policy of the established Jewish community in Britain…
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The Schmooze London’s Crusade Drama Falls Flat
Photo: Marc Brenner Is this the most ill opportune time to mount a “fantasia on the Third Crusade and the history of violent struggle in the Holy Lands”? That’s how the pompous, Kushner-esque subtitle of David Eldridge’s underbaked new play “Holy Warriors” would have it. London’s Globe Theatre might believe this is quite the coup,…
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