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Why Are U.K. Progressives Still Celebrating a Grotesque anti-Semite and Holocaust Denier?

When a publicly-funded community center hosted the Jew-hating Gilad Atzmon, it blocked anti-racists on Twitter who challenged the decision. For many on the U.K. left, the denial of anti-Semitism has become a reflex

Ben Gidley
Ben Gidley
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Ben Gidley

Last weekend, the small English city of Reading (population 156,000; Jewish population 355) was the site of a by Israeli-born jazz musician and Gilad Atzmon. After the venue from the local rabbi and local councillors, the by Reading Labour councillors and members of Reading’s Jewish congregation.

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