GET THE FACTS The worldwide scourge of Antisemitism is largely based on misinformation, propaganda and lies. For example, did you know that the establishment of the State of IsraelDid you know that many Zionists are Christian, not Jewish? In fact the non-Jewish British politician, Lord Balfour, fought to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This further corrects the fallacy that […]
The following is an edited version of a letter signed by many Jewish writers 2 weeks after 7/10/2023 and published on social media. Bear in mind that this letter was written before the current conflagration in Gaza escalated to its current enormity as at 14 November 2023: ” We reject antisemitism in all its forms, including when it masquerades as […]
Note: this is part of a chapter from my completed manuscript, ‘Capriccio’, a fictional biography of Assia Gutmann Wevill, the woman who came between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath Smell of Burning Tel Aviv 1935 – 1946 You wore the sign of lightning to ward off lightning – Ted Hughes, Smell of Burning Assia’s memories refuse to leave her in peace that night. In her mind, she is a child again, back in Berlin, re-living the time when all her safeties had been stripped away. She remembers how, late one cold night, she and her parents and little sister board a train out of Berlin. Vati is carrying two huge suitcases with their most precious possessions. Assia and Celia each clutch their one permitted plaything: Assia a book of Grimm’s fairy tales, Celia a white fluffy rabbit. There’d been a tantrum when Celia’s first choice, an almost life-size teddy bear, was decreed too large to take with her. Assia feels the fear in the air, and hides under the carriage seat […]
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