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When reporters become the targets

On Tuesday, the organization Reporters Without Borders (known by its French acronym RSF) denounced the Turkish government for arresting it’s longtime representative in Turkey, Erol Önderoglu, on charges of “terrorist propaganda” a month after having taken part in a campaign of solidarity with pro-Kurdish media.

Propaganda film disguised horrors of Terezin

It\’s in the nearby city of Terezin that one of the most unique, if bizarre stories of the period can be found. And it\’s all captured in the grainy film produced by the Nazis.

Letter from London: ‘An English Tragedy’ is timely on stage

In an atmosphere of increasing British anti-Semitism and vitriolic anti-Israel rhetoric in the left-wing press here, the play we\’re about to see, \”An English Tragedy,\” couldn\’t be more timely. Written by South African Jewish playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood (\”The Pianist,\” \”The Diving Bell and the Butterfly\”), it is the story of John Amery, son of a Cabinet minister, who along with the infamous Lord Haw Haw made propaganda radio broadcasts for the Nazis that were beamed to England.

TV: Iran’s ‘Zero Degree Turn’ flips facts on Holocaust

A popular Persian-language drama on Iranian state-run television dealing with the Holocaust contains anti-Semitic and anti-Israel themes, Los Angeles Iranian Jewish activists have revealed. News publications, including The Wall Street Journal, have hailed the new show, \”Zero Degree Turn,\” as sympathetic to the plight of Jews during the Shoah, but Jewish experts fluent in Persian have analyzed the program more closely and have come to a different conclusion.

Beware the Finkelstein Syndrome

It is well known that some children of Holocaust survivors carry severe scars and wounds that actually manifest in peculiar psychological behavior. For two decades, I worked as a licensed family therapist, and I believe that some day soon there will be a formal psychological syndrome that would account for self-hating Jews like Norman Finkelstein. Perhaps the syndrome will even be named after him: The Finkelstein Syndrome.

Marlborough Defuses Anti-Israel Claim

A private girls\’ school in Hancock Park has defused accusations of anti-Israel bias in the wake of an English teacher\’s speech on the Mideast at an all-school assembly.

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