"I have now asked for the House authorities to conduct an investigation into how this decision was reached," said United Kingdom House of Commons Speaker Hoyle.
"The suffering of our hostages in Hamas' brutal captivity is heartbreaking," he said. "But comparisons to the Holocaust are a grave mistake."
Paintings at Yad Vashem depict childhood memories from Germany during the Holocaust.
We must be clear: Hamas does not take hostages. It takes human lives and reduces them to bargaining chips. Never again is now.
With a fast-moving plot, multiple characters, and frequent scene changes, staging this play is a challenge, particularly in the Khan Theater’s smaller space. But director Weisberg pulled it off.
Antisemitism has survived for millennia by adapting to the prevailing ideologies of the time. It has now adapted once again – morphing into historical theft.
'Queen Esther' follows a Jewish orphan's journey from Vienna to Maine to Jerusalem, marking his first work to directly engage with Israeli history through the story of a Holocaust refugee.
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