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Trudy Gold
The Left, Jews, and Israel

Thursday 27.05.2021

Summary

A critical and insightful analysis of how Israel has been portrayed in the media, particularly in Russia, focusing on distortion and negative imagery which led to Israel becoming increasingly isolated, especially after the Six-Day War in 1967.

Trudy Gold

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Trudy Gold was the CEO of the London Jewish Cultural Centre and a founding member of the British delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). Throughout her career she taught modern Jewish history at schools, universities, and to adult groups and ran seminars on Holocaust education in the UK, Eastern Europe, and China. She also led Jewish educational tours all over the world. Trudy was the educational director of the student resources “Understanding the Holocaust” and “Holocaust Explained” and the author of The Timechart History of Jewish Civilization.

With the internet, we’ve lost any attempt at civility, because you’re not face-to-face with people, so you say things to people that are absolutely shocking. We need to get our best minds working on it.