A 16th-century manor house that narrowly avoided demolition in the 1930s and which was where one of the Pilgrim Fathers spent his childhood has gone up for sale.
The debate scheduled to be held on 4 May in the French National Assembly on a resolution condemning the ‘institutionalisation by the State of Israel of an apartheid regime consequent upon its colonial policies’ has aroused outraged protests, roars of indignation and predictable accusations of anti-Semitism. These reactions can often be explained by an ignorance of the colonial reality of Zionism. Apartheid? How dare you? The president of the Republic himself has scolded those who ‘misuse (.)