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Feb 19, 2021, 2:57 PM

How should we approach challenging Holocaust deniers?

Students on the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET)/UJS Lessons from Auschwitz Universities Project, visiting Auschwitz. Photo credit: Yakir Zur - via Jewish News

According to a recent opinion poll by Opinion Matters for the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT), more than 2.6 million, or 5% of all British adults, believe the Holocaust is a myth. The results of the poll point to a ”terrible worrying level of denial”,...

Feb 11, 2021, 6:19 PM

Death is called Covid-19 now

A masked woman passes by the Star of David outside a shul. Jewish communities have been disproportionately affected by the virus. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Jewish News)

I think I was seven or eight years old when I first heard the word “cancer”, or maybe then I became aware of it. I asked my mother what it meant, and she explained to me that it was a disease, in most cases fatal....

Feb 5, 2021, 5:38 PM

What about the whataboutery?

Argument (Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash via Jewish News)

A famous joke concerning whataboutery goes like this: When the Russians inaugurated their Moscow metro in 1935, they invited all the foreign correspondents. They were impressed by the high ceilings and spacious halls, the amount of marble, the candelabra and so on. The American correspondent...

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Dorian Galbinski is a journalist and a former radio producer in the BBC World Service, Romanian Section