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Oliver Sears

Oliver Sears

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I think of the hostages and their tortured families and weep for the broken generations in Gaza

Today is Yom HaShoah, the day when Israel commemorates the victims of the Holocaust on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. Seven...

06.05.2024 40

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Oliver Sears

The anti-Semitism I face, both blatant and casual, is almost exclusively Irish

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, the day we remember the point in history when large swathes of continental Europe decided to murder its Jewish...

27.01.2024 10

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Oliver Sears

Why are Jews around the world held to account for the actions of the Israeli government?

The past is gone. The past will come. Martin Heidegger’s enigmatic declaration says more about how the past eventually makes its presence felt in...

02.01.2024 10

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Oliver Sears

Anti-Jewish vitriol blossoms when Israel takes military action against Palestinians

As the Middle East seems to teeter on the edge of catastrophe, it is difficult not to feel like a frightened and disempowered spectator, looking on...

18.10.2023 6

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