‘Everybody who leaves eventually comes back or they end up in jail or rehab. They never make it out there.’ ibid. Luzer
‘Everything is controlled by the rabbis.’ ibid. Etty
‘We don’t talk about domestic violence … we don’t talk about sexual abuse.’ ibid.
‘The children are the community’s property.’ ibid. lawyer
Britain’s Jewish community feels under threat. And there’s a debate about what it means to be Jewish in Britain today. We Are British Jews I, BBC 2018
‘It’s real, it’s here and it’s now.’ ibid. Jew
When the state was created in 1948 it was acclaimed by Jews as a sanctuary from persecution, but it’s one that has come to be defined too by the conflict with the Palestinians. We Are British Jews II
One in five of Israel’s citizens aren’t Jewish. bid.
Sometime after the War a holocaust survivor dies and goes to heaven. When he gets there, God asks this man to tell a Holocaust joke. So he does. God says, That’s not funny. And the survivor says, Well I guess you had to be there. Confronting Holocaust Denial with David Baddiel, BBC 2020
I’ve never understood how the Holocaust could possibly be denied. But today, one in six people around the world believe it has been exaggerated or claim it never happened … I’m going to delve into the dark world of Holocaust denial. ibid.
The Nazis weren’t the only one manipulating truth about the Holocaust. Early in the War, the British were receiving reports of Nazi atrocities in Europe. But there was concern at the Ministry of Information – the Government Propaganda Machine – about how the public would react. ibid.
The authors of these pamphlets called themselves revisionists: self-styled maverick historians arguing against the established narrative of the Holocaust. ibid.
In her book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt accused British historian David Irvin of being a denier … Irvin was a rabble-rouser for Holocaust denial. ibid.
It is not important what the Gentiles say, what matters is what the Jews do. David Ben-Gurion
A Jewish state ... will serve as an important and decisive stage in the realization of Zionism. David Ben-Gurion
Founded in 1948 as a secular state by Jews but not exclusively for Jews, Israel is undoubtedly a Western outpost. But it’s a beleaguered one. Niall Ferguson, Civilisation: Is the West History? Channel 4 2011
Apathetical to what Judaism is about – Expressly forbidden in the Tora because we were exiled by God. We shouldn’t have a state. We should be living amongst all the nations, as the Jews were doing for two thousand years as loyal citizens – people who were serving God, emulating God and his compassion. Rabbi Yisroel Weiss, Jews United Against Zionism, Fox News interview
The accusation of anti-Semitism has been Israel’s most effective strategy in silencing dissent. Professor Robert Jensen
I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic. I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back. Isaac Asimov
This is the story of how MOSAD sent undercover agents into enemy territory to secretly repatriate the lost tribe of Israel. It’s one of the most daring rescue missions in the history of espionage. Damian Lewis: Spy Wars s1e8: Exodus, History 2019
Tigray region, Ethiopia: This ancient tribe of over 80,000 Jews were the descendants of those who had fled Jerusalem more than 2,500 years ago … in an enclave of around 500 villages … Operation Brothers: and smuggle their Jewish brethren from the refugee camp to the Sudanese coast. ibid.
Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Storyville: Final Account, Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor, BBC 2022
1In 2008 filmmaker Luke Holland embarked on a journey to find and interview witnesses to the crimes of the Third Reich. ibid. caption
Bernburg was one of six euthanasia centres in Germany and Austria. Approximately 14,000 individuals, regarded by the Nazis as ‘not worthy of life’, were murdered here. ibid.
Kristallnacht 9-10 November 1938: Some 1,400 synagogues and places of worship were destroyed. Over 7,000 Jewish properties and cemeteries were damaged. Many Jews were murdered. 30,000 were imprisoned. The event caused a major Jewish exodus. ibid.
I still have the smell of the crematorium in my nose. When you saw the smoke going up, like when you burn car tyres, then someone said, They have put some more in.’ ibid. survivor
You could see the smoke from the ovens. You knew what was going on. ibid. neighbour
With the war almost lost, the Nazi regime pushes to conclude the mass murder of European Jews. In 1944, in Nazi occupied Hungary, 430 Jewish people are sent to their deaths at Auschwitz. By the end of the Second World War, the Nazi regime will have murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish men, women and children. Rise of the Nazis s2e3: War, captions, BBC 2022
Tens of thousands of Jews were killed or tortured in Vespasian’s reign of terror. Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire IV: Rebellion, BBC 2006
This is the story of a man in Nazi-occupied Hungary who saved thousands of Jewish lives. Of a man who risked his life to negotiate face to face with the Gestapo. The story of Rudolf Kastner. Secret History s8e3: Last Train from Budapest, Channel 4 2000