Silent voices in the once-free city of Odesa
On a journey through Ukraine, the Labour peer identifies the ancient tracks linking pogroms against Jews in eastern Europe to today’s massacres in Palestine and Israel.
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Maurice Glasman
Maurice Glasman is professor of politics at St Mary’s University, London, and director of the Common Good Foundation.
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