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Jul 13, 2022, 12:56 PM

Our partners in Ukraine show total commitment

Dozens of bodies wait to be buried at a cemetery in Bucha, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.

I’ve just returned from Kyiv, having taken an overnight train from Lviv. I was amazed that, despite three months of war, the train still arrived three minutes early. Kyiv was nervous when I got there after a barrage of missile strikes the previous day and...

Feb 10, 2022, 2:50 PM

A view from the ground in Ukraine

Territorial defense exercises amid the threat of a Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Military exercises for civilians in Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukraine has been in a state of frozen conflict for eight years. The incredible trauma many went through in 2014, the fear of further incursions, the displacement of a million people westwards, meant that all parts of Ukraine felt the brunt, either physically or psychologically....

Nov 26, 2021, 11:18 AM

After this week’s migrant tragedy, we must have a more compassionate approach

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by the RNLI, following a small boat incident in the Channel after 27 people died yesterday in the worst-recorded migrant tragedy in the Channel. Picture date: Thursday November 25, 2021.

It has been widely reported that so far this year almost 26,000 people have taken the dangerous journey across the channel trying to flee danger and reach UK soil. This is more than three times the number of crossings in 2020. Tragically, instances of people...

Aug 25, 2021, 8:25 PM

We must all do what we can to help those in greatest need

inistry of Defence handout photo of passengers disembarking a Royal Air Force Voyager after arriving at RAF Brize Norton from the Middle East. Boris Johnson and other G7 leaders have failed to persuade the US to keep troops in Afghanistan to continue evacuation efforts past the end of the month. Picture date: Tuesday August 24, 2021. via Jewish News

We have all been moved by the horrors unfolding in Afghanistan and the uncertainty of what it brings both in country and beyond. The failure of western powers to bring peace and stability to a nation ravaged by disaster is deeply depressing. The takeover by...

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Paul Anticoni is the Chief Executive, World Jewish Relief