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Why I support BDS

My response to Alex Ryvchin’s <em>Speccie </em>article ‘Radio Gaga’

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

I’m writing this article with my Jerusalem travel notes on one side of my desk and a box of documents on the other. These contain my father’s family tree, Ashkenazi Jews from Berlin with a line to the acclaimed Jewish writer and philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn.

His most important work, Jerusalem, from 1783, was a radical tome challenging contemporary orthodoxies and promoting democracy and equal rights for Jews and, the separation of church and state.

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Cathy Peters is a freelance journalist and radio documentary & features producer

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