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If Europe doesn’t accept Israeli sports teams, then where do they go?
It is hard to believe there are Times readers who do not engage with Danny Finkelstein’s brilliant column every Wednesday, but just in case such a person exists, this is a story he told in these pages on October 10, 2023. I’ll keep it brief.
In 1945, the Brünnlitz labour camp, in what is now the Czech Republic, was freed by a lone Russian soldier on horseback. He was also a Jew. The former prisoners — Brünnlitz existed to serve the armaments factory run by Oskar Schindler — were bewildered about their next move. Most pressingly, where to go? “Are there any Jews left in Poland?” they asked. The cavalryman replied he had seen none. He advised against moving east, then against moving west. “They
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