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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
‘Like the candle that mocks the darkness’
Leon Rosselson’s song The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammed draws an illuminating parallel between nazi war crimes and Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, says Robert AH Cohen
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
A NAZI soldier smashes the head of Rivka, a seven-year-old girl wearing her new red dress in the Vilna ghetto in 1942.
An Israeli soldier fires a shell onto a Gaza beach and kills Mohammed, an 11-year-old boy playing football with his cousins in 2014.
In songwriter Leon Rosselson’s dream, Mohammed and Rivka take each other’s hand and “leave this world of war” together.
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As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
In search of political understanding, MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes a critique of anti-semitism as codified by the Israeli state
How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING