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On Niels Bohr
THE MAN WHO BROKE REALITY: NIELS BOHR AND THE MAKING OF MODERN PHYSICSBy Philip Ball; The Bridge Street Press, 512 pp In 1998, Michael Frayn’s play Copenhagen opened to great acclaim on the London stage. It purported to elucidate a conversation between the great Danish scientist, Niels Bohr, and the German Werner Heisenberg, in the…
Russia’s Campaign in Europe
The activities of Iranian agents in Europe and Australia, often using third parties, are well known. These plots were mainly directed at Iranian dissidents and journalists who were living in the UK, and also at synagogues, which are the most obvious Jewish symbols in the diaspora. What is less well-known – albeit in the Jewish…
On Benjamin Moser’s ‘Anti-Zionism’
In the years 1897-98, three political movements were formed which fashioned the destiny of the Jews during the 20th century. The socialist General Jewish Labour Bund was founded in Vilnius in October 1897 and advocated cultural autonomy in the areas of the great empires in which Jews were concentrated. The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party…
Iran’s Campaign against Diaspora Jews
Shortly after midnight last Sunday morning, a local resident in an English country village outside RAF Fairford contacted the police to inform them that three white vans were parked near her driveway – and that she had seen masked men. Armed police arrived accompanied by sniffer robots on the lookout for explosives. Five Londoners in…
Weimar: ‘The Jew Republic’
‘Berlin has been defiled – shame on a people that considers itself among the world’s civilised’. This was the editorial in the social democratic daily, Vorwärts, commenting on a pogrom enacted in the city against the poor emigrant ostjuden (Galician Jews). This attack took place ten years before Hitler rose to power. Victor Sebestyen’s Weimar Germany: Death…
On Ed Miliband’s Speech
“The impact of settler violence and terrorism has been catastrophic for Palestinian communities. Settlement expansion and attempts to create irreversible divisions on the ground threaten peace, security and the prospects for a viable Palestinian state. Britain will not stand back and accept the destruction of a two-state solution.” So stated the new British Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband,…