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Pope says anti-Semitism ‘fuse’ must not be allowed to burn

Pope says anti-Semitism ‘fuse’ must not be allowed to burn

GERGELY SZAKACS POPE Francis has called for vigilance against a rise in anti-Semitism, saying during a brief trip to Hungary this was a "fuse that must not be allowed to burn." The pope arrived in Hungary early for an unusually short visit underlining differences with his political opposite, nationalist and anti-immigrant Prime Minister Viktor Orban. More than half a million Hungarian Jews were killed in the Holocaust, which destroyed a once-vibrant culture across the country. Today, there are about 75,000 to 100,000 Jews in Hungary, the largest number in central Europe, according to the World Jewish Congress, with most of…
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Escalating Sinophobia in SA’s media

Escalating Sinophobia in SA’s media

IN “Seven Centuries of Slander”, an essay in the current issue of The New York Review, Sarah Lipton reviews two significant new books on the history of anti-Semitism. She concludes that they offer the same lesson: “The well of gullibility has to be primed through frequent repetition, especially with the backing of seemingly authoritative sources.” This places a particular responsibility on socially authorised forms of making public meaning, in particular those that, like the media and the academy, present themselves as operating in the public interest.  In South Africa, journalism, like the academy, is frequently animated by a strong sense of its own…
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