As Jews celebrated the biblical holiday Sukkot, Hamas militiamen carried out a terrorist attack that would mark a turning point in history. The Islamist armed wing’s incursion was of an unprecedented calibre: the attack surprised Israelis by land, sea and …
Apartheid (‘separation’ in Afrikaans) is the name given to the system of racial segregation in South Africa and Namibia in force between 1948 and 1992. This regime was based on laws that discriminated against South Africa’s black and Indian populations. …
There is a recurring image that I can’t get out of my head: watching a film set in the Second World War, seeing the horrors of Nazism and hearing my mother ask herself: “How could someone do such a …
