Published: 17 November 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Dozens of academics oppose new controversial Yad Vashem chair (Jerusalem Post)
Renowned Jewish historian, Deborah Lipstadt, together with nearly 160 academics, historians, museum curators, Holocaust survivors and others have signed a petition
opposing the appointment of Effi Eitam as the new chairman of Yad Vashem.
Eitam is a former IDF brigadier-general and right-wing politician who has in the past made comments endorsing the forcible population transfer of Palestinians and has spoken in favour of blocking Israeli Arab participation in national politics.
The politicisation of Yad Vashem Is a symptom of a larger problem (Haaretz)
Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora ring the alarm about Netanyahu pushing radicals for key posts in global Jewish organisations. Could the Biden era stem the influence of Israel's ideological right?
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Photo: Hall of Names, Yad Vashem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
