Leader of Britain’s largest Muslim charity quits after labelling Jews ‘grandchildren of monkeys and pigs’ and calling Egypt’s president a ‘Zionist pimp’ in anti-Semitic Facebook posts Heshmat Khalifa said Jews are ‘grandchildren of monkeys and pigs’ on Facebook Mr Khalifa described Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a ‘Zionist pimp’ After being confronted with the … Read more
Leader of Britain’s largest Muslim charity quits after labelling Jews ‘grandchildren of monkeys and pigs’ and calling Egypt’s president a ‘Zionist pimp’ in anti-Semitic Facebook posts Heshmat Khalifa said Jews are ‘grandchildren of monkeys and pigs’ on Facebook Mr Khalifa described Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a ‘Zionist pimp’ After being confronted with the … Read more
Jewish leaders have lifted strict rules prohibiting burials during Passover as the community is overwhelmed by coronavirus deaths, MailOnline has learnt. Normally funerals are not held during the first two days of the festival, which commences this evening. But the United Synagogue has ruled that rules will be relaxed to permit burials on the second … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Roxane Van Iperen (Seven Dials £18.99, 320 pp) When Dutch author and journalist Roxane van Iperen and her husband first glimpsed The High Nest, they fell instantly in love with it. A romantic, shuttered house tucked away in the woods 30 miles from Amsterdam, with friendly … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN TIME STOPPED: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER’S WAR by Ariana Neumann (Scribner £16.99, 368pp) In the opening pages of this beautifully written, heart-wrenching memoir of love and family and war is a detailed family tree of the author’s Czech heritage. It seems dauntingly complex as family trees often do, littered … Read more