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Feb 9, 2022, 1:10 PM

Why did Jimmy Carr’s audience laugh at his Holocaust joke?

Jimmy Carr

There has been much condemnation of Jimmy Carr. But maybe for the wrong reason. Carr’s joke drew on a reservoir of dark, dank prejudice. Should we be examining that reservoir more than the provocateur fishing in it? Was Carr trying to dredge up an uncomfortable...

Aug 11, 2021, 12:48 PM

Redefining Holocaust memorials for the post-survivor era

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick (right), holocaust survivor Sir Ben Helfgott and his grandson Reuben at Victoria Gardens in Westminster, London, celebrating the go-ahead being given to a Holocaust memorial. Picture date: Thursday July 29, 2021.

London’s new Holocaust Memorial will be like the latest Apple MacBook Pro. It will catch the eye, come with a slick operating system and offer incredibly powerful memory. It will advance the state of the art, helping to move Holocaust education way beyond schools –...

Jun 3, 2021, 11:45 AM

Join the dots between the Holocaust, anti-Jewish hate and anti-Jewish statehood

Demonstrators hold up banners at Tuesday's London demonstration, comparing Israel to Nazism (via Jewish News)

There is a solution to the brazen new anti-Jewish hate. It’s staring us right in the face. Whilst the school curriculum does not contain ‘antisemitism education’, it does have ‘Holocaust education’. It only covers the ‘what’ of the Holocaust right now. We just need to...

Dec 2, 2020, 5:30 PM

Shining light on race hate better shows our empathy

Quotation in the exhibition at the Florida Shoah museum (Via Jewish News)

I looked out of the window this morning and saw a black person. Then a white person walking & talking in French. Then a father and a couple of kids of Asian background on the way to school. And do you know what? I don’t...

Aug 1, 2020, 12:51 PM

Let’s create the MOBJOs

Wiley aka Richard Cowie Jnr. (Photo credit: Ian West/PA Wire via Jewish News)

No more wiles from Wiley, then. Or so we thought. Until The Voice gave his incitement fresh impetus. The takeout from the piece? Jews are The System. Jews are the music business. Jews treat black music talent like slaves. I should be such a slave....

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Marc Cave is Chief Executive of the National Holocaust Centre & Museum in Nottingham, UK